I've seen a lot of videos hyping up African food, so I tried it myself. Honestly, I didn't find it that impressive, but people online talk about it like it's the next big thing, like the second coming of pizza/sushi. Why is that?
>>21999248You know why
>>21999269You are right, probably they don't want to sound racist, but it still raises the question of why everyone keeps up appearances as if no one has even tried to challenge it? The restaurants seem to open, so they must have some clients
>>21999248Which specific African cuisine did you try? I think Ethiopian sucks but I have had Liberian, Ghanian and Nigerian food and there is good stuff in all of those. I liked jollof rice and this soup which had a base of greens and smoked fish, not sure what it was but it was Liberian.
>>21999299I just looked up the soup and it was called Pepper soup. Was breddy gud
it's earthy and spicy sure but this isn't refined as eg. southeast cuisine*they're kinda doom to fetishise their poor-slop dish instead of more elaborate stuff. Upper-end economy create upper-classes/bourgeois consumers who seek refined food, which develop cooking art and more sophisticated recipes (most african countries have been decimated by wars, poverty and exploitation for decades if not centuries, while their elites were essentially educated abroad and mostly living western way of life).Stick to south asia and indochina for good exotic yum-yumAnd by *they, I mean subsaharian countries AND western "globohomo" cooking influencers who try to hype these meme foods
>>21999248>I've seen a lot of videos hyping up African food,I have literally never been recommended african food videos and 90% of my feed on YouTube is cooking shit. I think you are just making this up, and I think you are the same person who makes all the other african food threads because you obviously want to talk about black men.
>>21999248well, the tried and true can't be trendy if it's good and has been good since forever. SOMETHING new has to trend up at some point eventually, even if it isnt good. Thats where african food comes in
>>21999284kys
>>21999730nta but sometimes the algorithm coughs up some weird shit, for some reason youtube thinks I'm fascinated by arrest videos, no matter how many times I tell it "not interested" or "don't recommend" it's a never ending onslaught of ENTITLED KAREN PULLED OVER YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
>>21999757>>21999730Mine recommends me opera and classical. It occasionally gets me angry, especially countertenors attempting the Aria of the Cold Genius from Purcell's Ring Cycle. It's not even a particularly difficult piece but they either try to rush it because their voices aren't actually trained for sustained falsetto (so why are they trying this aria, the dumb cunts) and getting it over with quickly helps or they simply can't do a decent falsetto at all to begin with. At least Edson Cordeiro can do a falsetto but fuck me, his attempt at the aria is abysmal because of the tempo.
>>21999248Because black people. I enjoy African food. It can be pretty good, but for the most part it's just the shitty version of middle eastern cuisine.
>>21999248Yeah I made western hemisphere food the other day and it wasn't as good as people made it out to be.
>>21999767But you probably actually like opera and classical. I get a lot of stuff that I genuinely do like, the music recs are uncanny, but there must be some genre that I like that has a massive fanbase overlap with the "women getting arrested" genre. I'm guessing it's probably the gun stuff because of all my YT interests, that one probably has a lot of single male fans who hate women
Actually, after typing that out, I think it's probably just cops. Because it's way more specific than woman hate, it's "women getting arrested" (and sometimes getting roughed up), a run of the mill woman hater would probably be more into men's rights type content, right? But cops love guns and they love "muh authority" and they're well known for beating their wives. I solved the puzzle, yay!
>>21999248What did you try?
>>21999248>I've seen a lot of videos hyping up African foodNo you haven’t.
>>21999757It's because the rest of your viewing habits is making it clear that you hate women. Not a mystery dude.
>>21999299>Liberianweren't they cannibals?https://www.trcofliberia.org/press_releases/156.html
>>21999248>second coming of pizza/sushi.No way in hell, and I say this as somebody who really likes the spicy sloppa + injera.
>>21999870That was my point. Actually a better point would be as follows: I watch things that influenced the algorithm so now the vast majority of what I get fall into three categories: opera pieces, woodworking or survivalism. Because survivalists assuredly have a lot of crossover with conspiratards, I get some conspiracy nonsense, too, but the majority is still opera and classical with some woodworking and survivalism peppering the suggestions. So something you're interested in is like my survivalism interest in that it's not directly related to cops beating women but is an interest shared with a group to which you do not belong who also happen to like watching women getting beaten by cops. That's my best guess for why you're getting those recs.One of my favourite suggestions was of a video of Elena Mosuc performing as The Queen of the Night in a modernised version of Die Zauberflöte After she finishes telling Pamina to murder Sarastro, she disappears into a fucking refrigerator, much to the audience's bewilderment. Pamina then opens the fridge to see where the fuck she disappeared to only to find it empty, much to the audience's amusement. An operatic first: Mosuc is the first soprano to be literally fridged in an opera.Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzVWVSlsd7c
>>22000278It was some damn good long-pig
>>21999875>>22001119I used to get political ragebait that switched sides depending on the last unrelated topic I watched (after a history vid it was right wing, after an art vid it became left wing). My guess is you got put in the category of potentially pro cop and it is now trying to goad into that political box.
>>21999248is there anything unique about African food? all the ingredients in their recipes can be found in other parts of the world
>>22001156That can be said for most places today unless they're very isolated. I really like African peanut stew and the closest thing to that is probably satay sauce but it's still not the same. I don't really know how many other places make something similar but I haven't seen much of it. I also really like the texture of okra, other than gumbo I don't know many similar dishes. It still seems pretty popular in some parts of Africa to make stews with okra which has a unique texture.
>>22001156>all the ingredients in their recipes can be found in other parts of the worldThat's not even remotely true.When's the last time you say a recipe call for honeybeans, sheeto, sumbala (solid "African soy sauce" made from locust beans), peeled melon seeds, human flesh, African groundnut (yes, it's actually its own thing and entirely unlike new world peanut), uzazi, grain of paradise and more.
>>22001156>all the ingredients in their recipes can be found in other parts of the world That's not true. There are shitloads of rare-ass ingredients which can only be found in Africa, and that is in fact their cuisine's major weakness.
>>22001203Had he said it about Haitian cuisine, I'd agree. There's a single ingredient, djondjon, a mushroom that can only grow in Haiti, that's not used anywhere else and it's so central to Haitian food that they make stock cubes of it for Haitians living abroad.But African cuisines have numerous ingredients that are used only there and several that originated with them but are enjoyed internationally now.
>>22001194>human flesh Topkek. But yes, you have stuff like bitterleaf, waterleaf, aidan fruit, okazi leaves, wild mango seeds etc.
>>21999248>African foodMosquito burger washed down with Black Booster. Now that's cuisine.
>>22001250for me it's wesley snipes as blade who went to africa to make gin after killing all the vampires
>>22000180>It's because the rest of your viewing habits is making it clear that you hate women. Not a mystery dude.
>>21999299>I think Ethiopian sucksThat's unfortunate. I love Ethiopian food. Maybe you just haven't been to a decent Ethiopian restaurant? The coffee they make is especially fantastic. Though only a handful of the places I've been to actually serve the coffee since I've been told it's hard to find.
>>22001364>the coffee… is hard to find?Maybe I've seen what you're taking about. Go into more detail.
