I wanna be like most girls

she/her || queer af || just crack bad jokes, make each other happy, and spread the gay agenda

[pointnclick]

sometimes i scroll on here without even reading any posts. i just want to feel the smooth movement of the dashboard beneath me like a lithe speedboat cutting through surf

[hymnostic]

anyway can we talk about andy samberg's reaction to portrait of a lady on fire

[mysharona1987]

[scholarlyapproach]

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

[askmace]

They did the same to brisket.  You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply.  And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month.  And it was tasty.  I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.

Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently?  You guessed it.  Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.

[auroraluciferi]

Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.

Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

LMAO. Wait.

[thegrimmlovely]

Anyone else’s eye twitchin?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.

[shitonthesewallsray]

[notourz]

[athenadark]

Oysters were another too poor to be eaten food, they were almost a waste product of the river pearl industry and were sold in London as cheap as it got, in the winter months oysters were one of the main sources of protein in workhouses. Now they’re a “delicacy”

[dr-archeville]

Same thing’s happened to bacon over the past 15, 20 years or so.

[mae-martin]

I’ll do what I can to get you to totally drive his name out of your mind and replace it with another one. That’d be…? Mencía.

[avadcniels]

Well, she’s had her fair share of adventures, yes.

[tallahasseemp3]

even past the fact that putting fan content behind a paywall would be copyright infringement it’s literally depressing that everywhere online you’re encouraged to monetize your hobbies until there’s not a single thing you do that isn’t a side hustle. like it’s truly so soul destroying that we live in such a capitalist hellhole that you can’t create stuff for yourself anymore because it’s a missed opportunity to make an extra $4 a month and how dare you not want to produce labor every day of your life in exchange for money

[exai]

i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

[lovejacobperalta]

Fleabag (2016-2019)

Man... how much I loved this show

[stevenrogered]

Never Have I Ever 2x07 “…begged for forgiveness”

[nicholasnelsons]

okay ben this, paxton that, whatever whatever, but the most important relationship of this show?? devi and her mom. they had so much growth this season and the look on nalini’s face when devi called her the best mom ever was honestly one of my favorite moments of the show. devi immediately apologized when she felt like she stepped out of line with her mom and dr. jackson and nalini stepped up and apologized when she knew she hurt devi. they still had their highs and lows this season (as mothers and daughters do) but their relationship is improving for the better it’s just really heartwarming to see the change happen.

[noahwhyle]

this is what dreams fanfics are made of

[benjamingross-archive]

🤐😔

[girl-looking-out-window-deactiv]

Devi's flirting territory.

NEVER HAVE I EVER

[benjamingross-archive]

Truly haunting 😔😬

I'm sorry I'm a memelord and guarantee that there will be more where these came from

[girl-looking-out-window-deactiv]

Never Have I Ever: 2x01

[shesmydoct0r]

NEVER HAVE I EVER // 2.07

Kamala, you’ve been wronged and it’s okay to demand it be righted. Everyone thinks Asian women will take all kinds of crap, and like, bow and hand them a cup of tea or some shit. You can’t let them.

[shesnake]

the concept of charging people to see gifsets made on non-genuine software from torrented movies…..

[shesnake]

adobe and disney will shut tumblr down within weeks