Fox news: “ThE LiBeRaLs ArE tAkInG yOuR PsYcHo ReD SaUcE!”
“Fight the liberals oppression, take PCP!”
All hail red 40!
For some reason the way the breading on these things looks weirds me out. They look like little newborn rodents or something… Makes me think of the “Poplers” episode of Futurama.
Those came to my mind immediately, too!
They look like fried bits of tumors or something. Too round, too smooth. Like those gross cancer pigs in The Outer Worlds.
You’re gonna shit your pants if you ever see tempura
Eaten plenty of it. Don’t really enjoy the extra smooth way they look compared to more crispy looking tempura and many other frying techniques.
You just made it more appetizing to me by comparing them to popplers. Every time I watch that episode I wish I could enjoy a poppler at fishy joes… They make it look so good.
Notice how people are always quick to be suspicious of Chinese food but we don’t see the same treatment of all the various “normal” products people regularly consume that contain red dye 3 (like pez, strawberry milk, etc.).
ETA (Edited to Add): see Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, for example:
The controversy about MSG is tied to racial stereotypes against East Asian societies.[25][26][27][28][29] Herein, specifically East Asian cuisine was targeted, whereas the widespread usage of MSG in Western processed food does not generate the same stigma.[30] These kind of perceptions, such as the rhetoric of the so-called Chinese restaurant syndrome, have been attributed to xenophobic or racist biases.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
Food historian Ian Mosby wrote that fear of MSG in Chinese food is part of the United States’ long history of viewing the “exotic” cuisine of Asia as dangerous and dirty.
