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yes, sure, food discourse can get salty sometimes, but take it from me as someone who has been known to intentionally start food discourse as a distraction from other, worse discourses: food discourse rarely gets THAT bad compared to so many others
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this. i think food as a topic is almost inherently less toxic because, unlike politics, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter what anybody else does for dinner... and from that flows even the arguments i've seen about food tending to be more lighthearted. "best potato chip" isn't important.
See that's a perfect example of when I pretend to get outraged. bsky.app/profile/joeh...
I'm routinely pretend to be serious about food discourse (eg. pretend outrage about favorites made the wrong way) but even *I* know better than to actually get mad about food preferences.