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I’m calling it on the food

94 replies

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:
TinklySnail · 04/12/2024 18:53

WTF are you on about?

HumphreyCushionintheHouse · 04/12/2024 18:53

If you give the right all the sprouts, YANBU.

SatansBobbleheadedDashboardOrnament · 04/12/2024 18:54

I'm not playing. It'll take ages.

Octonaut4Life · 04/12/2024 18:55

Surely gammon ought to be on the right wing list...

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????

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!

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!!! 😇

SofandaCox · 04/12/2024 18:57

i think we can divide it more. There are deffo cuts of meat and fish I’d consider more right wing than left wing.

Renamed · 04/12/2024 18:58

In the last couple of days on here, I’ve seen that an article in the mail or Telegraph said chicken sandwiches are woke, and Nigel F has denounced semi skimmed milk. So be it. We’ll have the food

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Gingernaut · 04/12/2024 19:00

@Yerroblemom1923

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 19:05

I'll bite.
Bread is only left-wing if its artisanal and/or 72 hour sourdough bread. Milk if its vegan/plant based. Organic cow milk is center left. Meat only if its sustainable venison or rabbit. And the occasional organic. Pasta only if its handmade or made by hand in some vague Italian village made from near extinct durum wheat

Renamed · 04/12/2024 19:06

SofandaCox · 04/12/2024 18:57

i think we can divide it more. There are deffo cuts of meat and fish I’d consider more right wing than left wing.

I don’t think we need to divide it up, the message is clear. Food is inherently left wing, it’s subversive, it introduces dangerous concepts into your very system.

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MissyB1 · 04/12/2024 19:08

I'm placing Salmon as right wing - mainly because I don't like it!

HeartOfChocolate · 04/12/2024 19:10

What about nuts and seeds?

Renamed · 04/12/2024 19:11

MissyB1 · 04/12/2024 19:08

I'm placing Salmon as right wing - mainly because I don't like it!

Ooh, let’s not pick and choose - if this is going to be the next stupid culture war I say we go all out. Food is ours.

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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.

NautilusLionfish · 04/12/2024 19:12

HeartOfChocolate · 04/12/2024 19:10

What about nuts and seeds?

Definitely left wing

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...

Slawbans · 04/12/2024 19:13

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

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

noblegiraffe · 04/12/2024 19:16

Anything gluten-free is woke.

Right wing is the Great British Fry-Up

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.

Georgyporky · 04/12/2024 19:19

Cheese & Wine parties are right-wing.

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

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