Unpopular Opinion
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- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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My brother in owning tastebuds... On all cooking shows/challenges/etc, they always do side by side comparisons - which is the best tomato sauce? Blindfolds, side by side comparisons... You know why? Because NO ONE would be able to compare a sauce from today to a sauce from when we filmed last week, much less FOUR YEARS AGO.
This is a pet peeve of mine as my irl community is filled with vegans/vegetarians and I hear shit like this ALL THE TIME.
"No trust me it tastes exactly like XXXX"
"When's the last time you had XXXX?"
"Highscool"
long sigh
Yeah, not to rag on vegans or vegetarians, but their palates are fucked from not eating certain foods for years. We’ve had friends take us out to “the best places in town” and they were raving while eating and it was bland garbage, my wife and I could barely stomach it. When you eat tasteless food for years your body tricks you into thinking that it has the same flavor because you wouldn’t want to live otherwise.
Like, my MiL thinks that salt makes food taste bad. SALT. She hardly uses any in her cooking and only does because we complain that she doesn’t use salt.
No salt (unless for health reasons) is some crazy fucking work lol