BigLilacs' Apiary

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A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

[prospitianescapee]

"White People Food" Is Trending in China, Thanks to This Guy

After a British man went viral, everyone's trying the "dry lunch" craze—aka eating a sandwich.

Strange things are happening over on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. A video of a middle-aged British man assembling the ham and tomato sandwich he will have for his lunch has been liked more than 12 million times.

“Is this real??”, one commenter demands to know. Another watches the butter being smeared onto his brown bread and suggests: “This is what it feels like to die."

Videos of “Keith” leaning over his chopping board are posted by his wife—who is from North East China—almost every day. Some days, he’s making avocado toast. Others, it’s smoked salmon or scrambled eggs on toast. The meals have become known as “Dry Lunch,” and are sparking a wave of outrage, confusion, and morbid curiosity in China, with hundreds of thousands of people making staple Western bread-based dishes and posting them online, to a response that is equal parts opprobrium and disbelief.

According to Yaling Jiang, a Chinese journalist living in the UK, there are two key elements of a dry lunch: The temperature—cold—and the presence of some kind of bread. Beyond that, the parameters are pretty loose. “Anything can be a dry lunch, as long as it’s in an open-sandwich form, looks healthy-ish, and is seemingly unappetising,” he says. Dry lunch, Jiang explains, is less defined by what it is than what it isn’t—namely “anything that’s either nourishing or tastes good.”

It’s not the first time millions of Chinese people have spent time pointing and laughing at the meals eaten in the West. In June last year, “báirén fàn” (AKA “white people food”) started trending among Chinese workers—who flooded social media with cold, spiceless dishes as a form of self inflicted suffering. “The spirit of ‘white people food’ is that it’s supposed to be NOT enjoyable,” one TikTok user explained. “The point of the white people’s meal is to learn what it feels like to be dead, but I’ve taken two bites and it was so bad it made me realize how alive I am,” another user wrote on Weibo.

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[sillybro]

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[violet-hady]

Reblog to tell the person you reblogged it from that they are really cool.

[wolfertinger666]

the mouse store.

[cybervom1t]

new compliment just dropped

[bungerc0re]

[homunculus-argument]

I put the cons in consciousness and the war in awareness. The devil may be in the details but I'm the imp in implication. Above all else I am extremely annoying.

[crystaljackal]

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[lycanl0ser]

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[clannfearrunt]

Happy anniversary to the rumor coming out about does Bruno Mars is gay

[muzzlesbian]

nice outfit LOSER!!! 2001 called, they

[muzzlesbian]

hold on.

[muzzlesbian]

oh my god

[demilypyro]

rip FF you were created as a genderless being but adopted a female identity for yourself and then presented as female for the rest of the show and it was awesome. even when your human body died you maintained your female presentation. and when you fully passed away, even your metaphysical spirit form was a woman. you spent your last scene talking about how great it was to find your identity for yourself and to be so sure that you were you. and people will still misgender you. don't worry miss FF i saw your gender. you're so fucking transgender. you're one of us. i claim you

[iwilleatyourenglish]

"sometimes you absolutely ARE required to do things in life for the good of other people, even if you hate it" loud incorrect buzzer noise

pure individualism is a disease that kills communities, isolates individuals, and leads to things like the anti-vax movement.

you are not so important that you aren't bound by social responsibility and decency.

others are not so insignificant that they don't deserve help and sacrifice.

[cowbot-lumberjane-deactivated20]

My weather app gets all these terrible fake ads and this one is the funniest ive seen to date. @mousegirlheart care to weigh in?

[wowhead]

Never been touched by a man or woman and to top it all off my pussy doesnt even work. Dollar store charcuterie board for dinner