Struggle session: french people have good food (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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look I don't have enough wifi to look up electoral results and french people won't talk to me, but some of the meals I've had in alpine refuges this week have been the best meals I may have ever had

I am also so wine-drunk and so exhausted from being the fastest hiker I have encountered on the TMB. These may influence my opinions

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[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

I could be wrong, but the French people I've met have been the most resistant to going vegan than any race I've even met. It's like all the pigeon and frog and goose they're eating causes them to be unable to eat tofu.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of this [cw: mention of f*sting]

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

oh, you did not mean fasting lmao

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

I didn't even think of that

Dead laughing now agony-consuming

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

I'd rather fist than fast, tbh

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

I thought the same

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

I've met plenty of Spanish people who seemingly can't comprehend that chicken isn't vegetarian.

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Can confirm, vegans are an ultra minority here.

One explanation that I find interesting is that all the people who have the right mindset to go vegan in the US do find animal products that are produced by actual farmers in France. In the US that's impossible from what I know. So basically if you hate cruelty you can buy chicken at the local farmer so you know they had an ok life before slaughter.

I know that veganism has a definition of animal rights that go beyond "ethical farming" but veganism is also least present in the countries where people are actually confronted with animal death for consumption at an early age. The state of the USian food industry makes it so much more obvious to just cut animal products because they're all produced so horribly

[-] Ossay@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Americans worship the constitution, europeans worship their local cuisine. it's dumb but everytime i talk about veganism to someone here they act like i'm talking about bombing their hometown shrug-outta-hecks

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

everytime i talk about veganism to someone here they act like i’m talking about bombing their hometown

Yeah that's pretty insane. And, tbh, I have my personal philosophical disagreements with anti-speciest morality, but politically, big support to vegans against reactionary carnists and for trying to save humanity from climate disaster