• Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.

    Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.

    • valtia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Some were, but generations of cultural genocide, land theft, and economic pressures meant that many domesticated crops and practices were lost. For example, it was illegal in many places for indigenous americans to eat any “indian” food or to grow, hunt, or collect any of their traditional foods. They were forced to work for low pay and spend money to buy western foods, or they were forced to stay on reservations and rely on federal food programs

  • Aganim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    If only onions and the like didn’t give me such gutwrenching cramps, love the taste, but partaking in anything containing onions, leek or too much garlic just isn’t worth the aftermath. ☹️

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    19 hours ago

    I had an Indian guy tell me Indians have been eating chilies for thousands of years and that’s why they can tolerate spicy food more than Americans. I told him chilies come from the Americas, aren’t native to India, and only arrived after the Columbian exchange. The guy nearly wanted to fight me over it, insisting that chilies are native to India.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    18 hours ago

    All cuisine from all countries restarted 500 years ago. Korea didn’t have chili peppers, Russia didn’t have tea or potatoes, no one had coffee, it’s amazing how much of our cultural identity is firmed up after a few generations.

    • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I’d also argue us in the Old World didn’t suffer without cranberries - we always had the similarly delicious Vaccinium vitis-idaea.

    • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      11 hours ago

      The bamboo you can see in Spain is the American one and now that I think about it, to call it bamboo it’s a relatively recent thing, thirty years ago it was most commonly known as american cane.

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    31·
    19 hours ago

    But they were all deceived. For another plant foodstuffs was made. One Allium to rule them all, One Allium to find them; One Allium to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      64·
      16 hours ago

      I hate onions. All of a sudden My pasta started tasting like shit and I couldn’t figure it out. I was gagging. Turned out they changed the recipe of My store bought toscana. They added onions. Fuck onions.

      • Apepollo11@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        I wonder if I’ve got the same kind of thing. I love onions but absolutely hate leeks. They taste like the smell of stale urine.

        I’ve never understood it - I know they don’t taste like this to other people. I like the other edible alliums, but leeks taste uniquely awful.

        I keep trying them every few years hoping that my tastes have changed, but they haven’t until this point.