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Are you referring to other info here? Because I don't consider 1979 to be just a bit after the baby boom, which started in 1946.

I thought banning was a left thing ?
I thought u we’re against regulation and yet u believe banking isn’t a form of extreme regulations ?

Paradoxe lucioles at its best .

How ****ing dumb do you have to be to ban a product that could revolutionize our food production process and make something that would prevent trillions of animals from suffering, and it will be tastier, healthier, and less expensive, because you’re a ****** that will shoot yourself in the dick to own the libs?

You have to be really stupid, which the right is.

And no, their logic is actually that the meat lobby wants to ban a competitor that would absolutely destroy them in a free market, like they always do, because they are demons.

Banking -> banning instead …

I always believe taxing is always better then banning .
U do something unhealthy, well at least society benefited from high taxes to cover some expenses of the unhealthy action .

But good old fascism from Luciom , kill or ban something he doesn’t like !
True democracy and freedom !

You think the fertility rate would rise now that men can have babies

And can we stop with this women having babies its Birthing Person

they were 40-44 in 1979, 1979 is when they got asked if they ever had children and so on.

so they were fertile in full baby boom (1946-64) and a bit later.

The UK is not doing this.

The exodus out of California 1991-2021, mapped

trying to get an average american who's never lived in asia to eat pork belly not in bacon format has been an impossibility for me (and i do recall how it took a while for me to cave and go from actively avoiding to tolerating to loving)

I really worry about the type of people you spend time with, rick

all jokes aside, majority of my friends donated the max to kamala, have advanced degrees, and use summer as a verb

they are hypochondriacs who wonder about the pfas level of a nalgene water bottle, will refuse to eat a meal if cooked in cast iron, won't allow their children to eat freshly picked strawberries if it took over an hour to get back from the farm (no seriously that has happened 'but they probably went bad without being refrigerated during that time') and take their children into the doctor if they have a bug bite which is still visible after 48 hours

adventurous is the opposite of them, try as i might, a big thing i do whenever i visit friends across the country is find the authentic ethnic stuff and treat them to meals like this pork belly

i've long since learned it's 50/50 if they'll eat more than a bite and while i'll still order it, i know i need to load up on "safer" options they are more likely to want

absolutely love it when the friend has lived abroad because then i know we can really go for it

also, people who post on a gambling forum are by nature going to be far more adventurous eaters than average - i think your time living in vegas etc has given you a skewered perspective of people because you are repeatedly shocked by things that are pretty standard suburban vanilla experience

I guess I don’t view any of those as vanilla experiences and more as personal eccentricities.

It’s not very usual for people to be scared of cast iron pans or strawberries going bad in an hour or their dogs learning about gun violence…

And I’m not sure I totally buy into the living abroad thing either, but I won’t nitpick it. I love an adventurous eater.

This works both ways.

There are plenty of super closed minded conservatives who are just as fearful-- people who won't eat from Mexican food trucks-- people afraid of swimming in natural pools, people afraid to travel or try new things.

I don’t think politics has much to do with one’s individual palate, but what do I know

Conservatives tend to be more close minded. It's pretty definitional.

Jordan Peterson and others have done a lot of research on the intersection of personality and politics. The data is pretty strong that politically left leaning persons are generally more open to new experiences, which I would assume would manifest in being more open to eating exotic food.

And like Luckbox says, anyone who doesn't subscribe to complete blank slate theory of personality should intuitively deduce this to be the case even without being familiar with the research.

In Latin America they eat chicharrón which is fried pork belly and it can be super hit or miss but when it's good it's incredible. It's probably more not good than good unfortunately so I don't order it much but I had it at a place that specializes in it once and it was one of the best meals I've ever had...but it's usually too crunchy or too fatty and it's just hard to get right.

I don't think I'd ever had it before until having it in Medellín but now I'll order it from time to time at asian restaurants when I see it.

It was the asian style from an asian place

I was going to bring up chicarron but looks like luckbox already covered it

Bacon style pork belly is my favorite though. When done right its perfection

There is still plenty of food I'm not eating.

I finally did try chicken hearts while in Brazil and they were fine but the first time they were offered to me I was like "nah no thanks".

Not a fan of lingua at all. Have never tried chicken livers or gizzards ever although my mom likes them.

I wouldn't eat insects.

La Lenguaaaaaaaa

Big fan of lengua and barbacoa

I'll try most anything once. There isn't much food that I don't like but I haven't traveled in many of the more questionable culinary locations. Probably wouldn't catch me eating Indian street eggs for example

when you have no financial limitations, you find a lot of new things to fret about

for us hoi polloi, pretty much all of our decisions are grounded by financial constructs that guide us into a very narrow decision tree and it'd shock you how much someone who grew up not ever thinking about money would find the most absurd things to worry about - because they can afford to worry about it

things like hearing their dog bark when they leave the house something everyone deals with and puts out of their minds - but for them hiring a dog walker is an insignificant cost so they employ a dog walker to come by 2x a day

having enough money to pay for a dog walker come 2x a day where the cost is a rounding error compared to your overall wealth means you will learn to worry and fret about silly things like "will my dog be ok if i am gone from the house for 8 hours"

that was not my intention - just you seem to want to know more about the background of my friends who you refuse to believe exist so i thought it was helpful background info for you

i would agree that conservatives are less likely to eat exotic foreign stuff - but far more likely to eat exotic american things like alligator, venison, etc because it's a "mark of manliness" that they seek - their equivalent of walking around with an npr tote bag

Venison and alligator aren’t exotic either, they’re just local cuisine from specific regions imo (notably conservative regions)