Slop.

This is just a more extreme version of those Chapo episodes where Felix will suddenly ask a question after not saying anything for 45 minutes.

western food is pretty annoying to make, you have to go to specialty stores to buy stuff like sundried tomatoes and parsley. how many days of the week would you want to eat western food anyway, like seriously could you eat standard western food like new orleans chicken wings, or white sauce italian noodles more than once per month? their food is not like normal people food

He never officially quit the pod as far as I'm aware. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure she implied that he completely ghosted her just like everyone else? So it wouldn't surprise me if she still thinks of him as the cohost and would let him seamlessly return if he wanted to lol

It kinda implies to me that he's still working on it in some capacity.

He's always the cohost in her heart?

Virgil's been on every single episode, he's just off camera nodding silently.

you can make vegan fish sauce

"Everything But the Bagel seasoning used in place of sesame seeds"

I'm sorry, but this has to be a crime in some country in Asia.

Red curry paste

thats about it.

chinese holy trinity is ginger, garlic, and green onions.

maybe add

• soy sauce
• hoisin sauce

with all these sauces you can make a ton of chinese recipes or just experiment and make stuff you find good. asian cooking is a lot of that. taking what you got and making something you find tasty

Dark and light soy, Shaoxing wine, chilli bean paste/doubanjiang, black rice vinegar, gochujang. I cook loads of asian food, its so good because most use very similar ingredients that are either shelf stable or will keep in the fridge for ages. Also i do a home made chilli oil which is a great staple to have in the cupboard.

Tom Yum paste is pretty much the antithesis of that twitter arguement, you can literally throw it in water and make a fairly decent instant soup. Theres lots of actual dishes you can make with it but tbh my most common usage for it is just to improve some lazy ramen.

Mirin, soy sauce, and Sake are the base of a Teriyaki sauce.

And those, plus a dashi (a stock made of kombu and Smoked/fermented fish flakes. Or shitake mushrooms instead of fish, if you're vegan) make up the base of a ton of Japanese dishes.

On the Chinese side of things, you can't go wrong with a chili crisp, or a Tobanjian

That baby has a man's face 'cause his parents spiked his milk bottle with fish sauce. I'm using that Red Boat out of Vietnam but would cop the Soviet fish sauce if I saw it. Big bonus points for having a logo that features your product's logo recursively to infinity.

There is a struggle session.

I don't think it's really racist (beyond apparently not realizing that many of these ingredients are usually staples in their respective cuisines and she only needs to buy so many to cook one dish because it's the first one she's cooked, and it's not something specific to Asian food), but in the replies she categorizes any dish with a sauce as complicated so it's definitely ridiculous.

Yeah I don't know who any of these people are but she spoke to my experience as a manchild learning to cook in his twenties. There were lots of recipes where if I didn't have the staple already I'd be scared of it. The longer the list, the less likely I was to try it.

I'm a great cook now but I related to this exchange, and I really don't know who these people are so I can't defend any other of their takes.

After departing Chapo Trap House, where he was one of the original hosts, Virgil Texas went on to co-host the Bad Faith podcast with Briahna Joy Gray (who herself was press secretary for the Bernie Sanders campaign). After allegations that Virgil had groomed a teenager via DMs surfaced on Twitter, he vanished from the face of the earth and was never heard from again. Nobody has ever addressed it, and he's still technically a co-host of Bad Faith, despite having done like two episodes and then disappearing. Chapo also never addressed any of it, but announced his departure via a written statement that was very polite and boilerplate, then never spoke his name again. It was all very weird, and the allegations were never resolved as far as I know.

New people also keep showing up to the argument, and so they miss all of the context, and do things like criticize things she didn't say, or give criticisms that she already addressed.

Like one of her very first food posts that started this long chain was recommending making rice in a cheap rice cooker.