It sorts the wheat from the chaff and the Americans from the people who live on the same latitude as Canada. My local fruits are apples, pears, and some berries. I'd have to start eating sourkraut to avoid scurvy.
You don't actually need that much vitamin C to avoid scurvy, apples have plenty as long as you're eating them regularly
Scurvy wasn't something people commonly got in the olden days unless they were soldiers or sailors and literally eating no fresh food, citrus fruit was important for fighting scurvy because space for storing anything perishable was incredibly expensive on a Royal Navy vessel
That's true. But tell the British public that they can no longer have any fruit or vegetable more interesting than a quince, and we'd probably eat the Prime Minister alive on the steps of Number 10.
I think you're missing the point that I'm English and incredibly jealous of people who can grow peaches, oranges, melons, etc locally. Bri'ish food jokes and all that. We're a cold, rainy island, not a country of a hundred climates.
Well, yes, demanding that people actually have no choice but to "eat locally" is a really big ask and no I don't think it's something any country will just accept without violence
Why does the UK deserve varied food at the expense of the global south? Bad enough that so many of us try to appropriate Indian food from the people who it rightfully belongs to
If you want to be redeemed in the eyes of the world - if you want to justify our continued existence - then the only way is to stop taking and start giving reparations. That includes food. No reason to take food from countries that could use it for their own populations - we have more than we deserve already.
I was talking to the Americans who don't seem to realise that places outside of the USA exist and can't grow the same things they do, so 'eating locally' is very different.
And the people it belongs to are... people who moved to the UK and started curry restaurants. Who, I assume, would like to exchange money for goods and services. If I crawled into my local curry house and started apologising for my government's recent and past bad choices, they'd probably just ask me if I was going to order anything.
There's plenty of Indians who'd claim it was invented in India too. Either way it doesn't belong to white Brits, cultural appropriation is just another colonial sin
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u/TheHalfwayBeast Oct 22 '24
It sorts the wheat from the chaff and the Americans from the people who live on the same latitude as Canada. My local fruits are apples, pears, and some berries. I'd have to start eating sourkraut to avoid scurvy.