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black pepper is a wonderful spice i'm glad it's one of the two i'm permitted to eat as a white person

it's so fragrant 💐

“[Salt's] pairing with pepper as table accessories dates to seventeenth-century French cuisine, which considered black pepper (distinct from herbs […]) the only spice that did not overpower the true taste of food.”

those monsters. the french must atone for their crimes

i'm not saying that french high culture has had an almost entirely negative impact on humanity. what i am saying is that—

i live in one of the bearnaise countries it's dire out here

it's illegal to be cool in france, they are responsible for a lot of the blandness of european food, and they still have the worst “post”-colonial relations of any european power, but they also have the tgv and nuclear power, and i'm british, so i can't say france's all bad

“everything becomes magical with bearnaise”. no it doesn't. that's not true. it's the most mid sauce ever