Just complaining: people who food shame

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: just complaining: people who food shame.

Adeline (nickname: Eddie) loves food, a lot and often, both at home and out. Now, that often goes well, but sometimes it doesn't. In the series Eddie's eating annoyances, you read about the latter. This time we have to talk about people who food shame All the food is for you.

If anything ruins my appetite, it's people who food shame. Not because I feel addressed, but because I just don't understand people who have opinions about others' eating. Food is definitely in my top three favorite things in life. I suspect there are many people around here who share my opinion. So why ruin that pleasure by being complicated or unkind about food?

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By the way, it's not just the shaming of your eating habits. No. It's also downright unpleasant when someone snickers because you pronounce something wrong. If the whole world says bruuussssjetta I won't blame you for not calling it a bruuskétta. What does it matter? It's still delicious. Or those types who crack a lobster superciliously while you'd rather grab a hammer. As if you learned that in elementary school?

If only they had thrown in a lesson on how-it-actually-should-be, because what a hassle. Eating with chopsticks, that's another thing. In Japan, they eat sushi with their hands, let's remember that when someone nervously picks up those chopsticks. Much more sympathetic.

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And people. Let one thing be very clear: a snack dipped in bubbling fat is regularly a 10 plus. Just think of that bitterball on a sunny terrace or a cheese soufflé at night after partying. Or what about that croquette when you have an impressive hangover? If someone ever turns their nose up at that, I feel tempted to give it a little tap. Although I would never do that, because that's almost as violent as the food shame self.

I once had a heated argument with someone at the lunch table who openly commented on my layer of butter under the peanut butter. They even made a profitable variant of this flavor combo in America, but that's beside the point. I find these layers on a white (!) sandwich so delicious that I'm willing to argue about it.

And I don't miss a chance to publicly shame a food shamer. It will teach them, damn it, to be a bit complicated about someone else's food.

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