>>1529326I never shat on anyone for liking gourmet or elaborate food. I shat on anons for misunderstanding Abbey then shitting on him for that misunderstanding.
The problem with "stop liking what I don't like" is that I can easily use that argument to defend murder, rape, pedophilia, genocide, pollution, anything fucked up and harmful to people, society or nature that I don't like. I must be some asshole committing a thought crime by not liking what they like and calling them out on it, right?
I'm at the risk of generalizing here, "the kind of people who think gourmet cooking is important" are the kind that never goes /out/ because they are too busy getting wealthy from industrial and economic practices that harm or destroy nature. For many of them, gourmet cuisine is a sign of status and wealth, and going to gourmet restaurants or hosting elaborate dinner parties is used to signal that to others. They tend to be vapid and shallow human beings with no awareness or regard for anything outside of their immediate surroundings or their own banal cravings and insecurities, and if they do provide some public service it is usually just a display to virtue signal.
If you are going to call someone an asshole for the wrong reason, you are the asshole.
But I guess after reading
>>1529591 I'm over it. I should have known that "gourmet" in the US means regular cheese instead of processed cheese. Gourmet refers to the highest tier of food preparation for purely aesthetic reasons, not whatever is the one tier above what you normally eat. Think Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, not your local mom&pop bistro. Think Haute cuisine, not hot chow. Think paying a 1000% plus premium on the base ingredients because someone has to foot the bill for the air shipping of rare exotic ingredients and the fancy decor and service.
That's what gourmet food is and represents, whatever you anons cook while /out/ is not gourmet, even if you like it.
Anyway, enough autistic screeching for today.
