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One time I talked to an acquaintance about why she hadn’t tried the best taco truck that I love that is literally next to her house. She was like ‘I’m from the Midwest, flavor is just not for me, I know I won’t appreciate it’ and I laughed so much and I appreciated her self-awareness.

I then interviewed her about her fear of flavor and grease in an ethnographic exercise. I told everyone back home about it, and it was like telling them about aliens.

She then told me about how her favorite taco restaurant is this place I would totally never go to, and I finally understood why those places exist. Something for everyone I guess.

She said ‘the lack of flavor is just very comforting for me’ and I was so amazed to hear that, because everyone I’d met til then is a flavor maximalist

@skinnylatte the. lack. of. flavor. comforting … I’m… I’m speechless.

That might explain British food.

@aulia these people tend to be Nordic descended tho. I don’t usually associate the Nordics with worse food than the UK, but there is something about suffering and food and not allowing yourself to enjoy anything that is very interesting. (I blame Lutheranism. Some Dutch and Germans are like this too)