Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, I never said it doesn’t. Just that it is not a centerpiece of the culture. The fact that Americans have a big Thanksgiving dinner once a year isn’t comparable to the approach that the French/Italian/Greek/most Asian cultures have towards food on a daily basis

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said:

      food is just nutrition

      I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said)

      I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It’s a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I’ve always wondered if any real culture fit that.

      Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.

      I understand what you mean now. I’m just disappointed.

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      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is for like 350 days a year yeah. Eating take out food in front of the TV/PC doesn’t count? There’s someone else sharing their experience of Brits just “eating” those liquid protein shakes every day, that seems pretty close too. Of course, cultures are not homogeneous, and you can find Italians that drink protein shakes and Norwegians that are really into cooking high-quality ingredients for others. I’m not sure if you were picturing a country where everyone eats pills or what

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      • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.

        Yeah, but one can view that cultural tradition and conclude that their culture does not value the deliciousness of food as much as some other cultures.

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