I don't want to call things whatever name anymore. It's soup. It's not any special regional soup or name or anything, stop it, it's soup, anything else is specifics. Your NOODLE SOUP is not somehow more RICH or SPECIAL because it has an exotic name.
@errante you knew exactly what I was talking about lol, literally pho
@errante I just hate culinary gatekeeping and I see it a lot, a soup is a soup, and I hate the implication that someone cannot make a kind of soup properly if they don't know the history behind it.
you cant really make it without one of them
so you cant make it if you dont know how to make it or whats in it
like, you cant make a pho accidentally without using the technique to make pho. it just means you stumbled upon the technique by chance
@errante I understand your meaning, I'm very open minded usually about other cultures, but seeing people go on and on about their asian foods with the tacked on "a westerner couldn't possibly understand" and "westerners bullied me for my food", like a westerner can't make just as good pho or like a westerner can't make it because he doesn't have great grandmas 1,000 year old pussy sauce or something. It's never stated outright but it seems to be implied sometimes.
@errante I love asian foods, but I can not fucking stand the pretentiousness around them (as bad as the french) that has appeared suddenly and out of nowhere because of victim politics on instagram/facebook
becausr theyve used the same techniques
??????
this doesnt disprove my point