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I’m calling it on the food

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Renamed · 04/12/2024 18:52

As perfectly normal food items such as chicken sandwiches and semi skimmed milk have been declared left wing, I am hereby making the divide

Left wing food = Food, including
bread
butter
cheese
milk
tea
coffee
WINE
all vegetables, grains and pulses and their products
all cooking oils
fungi
fruit
salads (obviously)
pasta, rice, cous cous etc
nearly all the meat
nearly alll the booze.
and fish

Right wing Food:
Foie gras
600 year old whisky
Human growth hormones
the skin of a newly born badger
the last coelacanth
laboratory grown crisps obtained by entering a life long contract with Elon Musk
and they can have parsnips

OP posts:
TeachesOfPeaches · 04/12/2024 21:12

Regulation scotch egg and a pint = right wing

Fabulouslyunfabulous · 04/12/2024 21:12

Semiramide · 04/12/2024 19:20

So how does this work…… these German breads would surely be considered artisanal in Britain - but in Germany they’d just be normal bread…?!

It’s foreign so can’t be right.

Fabulouslyunfabulous · 04/12/2024 21:10

Surely fox burgers should be added to right wing.
English breakfast while abroad is also right wing.

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 21:06

Turnip = Right wing
Celeriac = Left-wing

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 21:05

Elsvieta · 04/12/2024 20:30

How do we categorize Ozempic?

I was going to say an equal opportunity. Centrist. But I think it's left-wing

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 21:04

Semiramide · 04/12/2024 19:20

So how does this work…… these German breads would surely be considered artisanal in Britain - but in Germany they’d just be normal bread…?!

Foreign. Brown looking. Definitely left-wing in the uk

Elsvieta · 04/12/2024 20:30

How do we categorize Ozempic?

GoldenLegend · 04/12/2024 20:00

user1471453601 · 04/12/2024 19:12

The far right appear to have gone a bit crazy. Chicken sandwiches woke? Daily Mail.

Skimmed milk "left wing" Farrage.

Crazy I tell you.

'appear'? 'a bit'?

coughing fit

GoldenLegend · 04/12/2024 19:58

Semiramide · 04/12/2024 18:57

Right wing Food:
... and they can have parsnips

No no no!!! I'm left wing and I want the parsnips!!! 😇

You can have mine. Please do. Also the Jerusalem artichokes.

Georgyporky · 04/12/2024 19:34

Semiramide · 04/12/2024 19:21

But what about champagne socialists??

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Hmm...

Drinking Black Velvet is a problem then.

Although it's one of the silliest drinks known to womankind.

zaffa · 04/12/2024 19:30

Merrymess · 04/12/2024 19:29

The right wing can have celery and bananas.

Not bananas!

Merrymess · 04/12/2024 19:29

The right wing can have celery and bananas.

zaffa · 04/12/2024 19:27

Yerroblemom1923 · 04/12/2024 18:56

WHO has declared milk and chicken sandwiches Left Wing? I would've thought most of us Lefties were veggies and vegans? Have I missed something????

Daily Mail and Nigel Farage

MirandaBlu · 04/12/2024 19:22

Taste aside, salmon's actually at an interesting (if you like that sort of thing) intersection of available fresh, not too disruptive of the environment, semi-durable (you can spot it at a "use today!" discount and take it home and still keep it in the 'fridge for one or two days, plus it freezes beautifully) and really healthful. Pretty egalitarian food, IMO.

It's interesting to see how a lot of fish and seafood has switched political-social-economic "sides" over time; just for example oysters used to be a working class staple, before they were overly farmed and manufactured scarcity made them seem "exclusive".

AloneLike · 04/12/2024 19:22

Slawbans · 04/12/2024 19:13

Salmon ( and Sturgeon) ..shouldn’t be in this list at all. On a separate table ..independent ,,

Tinned salmon is deffo right wing though.

Semiramide · 04/12/2024 19:21

Georgyporky · 04/12/2024 19:19

Cheese & Wine parties are right-wing.

The Lefties have Beer & Sandwiches. (Or vodka & vodka.)

But what about champagne socialists??

Snorlaxo · 04/12/2024 19:21

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 19:12

Definitely left wing

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Snacking on some peanuts with your beer or to defy a request not to eat nuts because of an allergy sufferer are the exceptions.

Semiramide · 04/12/2024 19:20

So how does this work…… these German breads would surely be considered artisanal in Britain - but in Germany they’d just be normal bread…?!

I’m calling it on the food
AloneLike · 04/12/2024 19:19

I'm going to say curry is centrist, unless it's chicken tikka masala which is right wing.

Georgyporky · 04/12/2024 19:19

Cheese & Wine parties are right-wing.

The Lefties have Beer & Sandwiches. (Or vodka & vodka.)

Snorlaxo · 04/12/2024 19:17

Sharing food like Tapas and buffets are obviously left wing as is all foreign food except wine. Whisky from Scotland is also an exception.

If it can be shot in a hunt then it’s right wing - deer etc I assume that Road Kill isn’t really a thing in the UK

Vegan food like tofu and fake meat are definitely left wing

Semi skimmed (green top) and Skimmed (red top) are left wing. Full fat (ideally not pasteurized ) is right wing.

I obviously mean all this in jest.

noblegiraffe · 04/12/2024 19:16

Anything gluten-free is woke.

Right wing is the Great British Fry-Up

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 19:16

Yerroblemom1923 · 04/12/2024 18:56

That was who in capitals, not the World Health Organisation - I have no idea what they say on the matter!

I did initially think you meant the World Health Organisation. Then I realised you just have a right-wing keyboard or autocorrect

Slawbans · 04/12/2024 19:13

Salmon ( and Sturgeon) ..shouldn’t be in this list at all. On a separate table ..independent ,,

Aroastdinnerisnotahumanright · 04/12/2024 19:13

A few more:

Left
Vegan scones at a national trust property
Anything Jamie olivier

Right
Raw milk
Wetherspoons

Surely many more...