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[Werewolf Jones]

Then why is everyone in Dune white?

 

[Tranquil]

Deep.

 

[Cunth]

You sunk my battleship

 

[DESTROYA]

Synthetic weed makes everyone crazy.

 

[haxan7]

Deep.

deep like hamster weiners

right Rentahamster

 

[nush]

 

[Rentahamster]

deep like hamster weiners

right Rentahamster

You're being very generous

 

[J-Roderton]

Fine question.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

White people crossed oceans to get spicy bois.

 

[triplestation]

good point

 

[DESTROYA]

good point

Where you been man !? I missed you but no homo.

 

[Taxexemption]

I read Dune once. I thought it was good but there were parts I didn't completely understand, particularly about some of the weird/futuristic drugs that existed. I wish they would make a modern RPG that goes in depth.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Arrakis needed to get COLONIZED after all.

 

[CrapSandwich]

Salt actually used to be a very rare, expensive luxury, and yet here we are now, cracking jokes about spice, not for a moment thinking about the billions of humans who never had any. Please, pour some spice out for our beforebears next time you grab that salt shaker. Take a moment of reflection the next time you scoop some MSG into your bowl of soup. While we now take spice for granted, it was not always so available and we are quite fortunate to live in this spice rich time and place.

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Stop! The balance of the Universe must not be disturbed.

 

[Goro Majima]

Aren't the Fremen usually portrayed as more Arab/Mediterranean? Still anthropologically white but the kind that stereotypically like spicy foods instead?

 

[Aggressive Carrot]

 

[The Pleasure]

White people crossed oceans to get spicy bois.

Salt and pepper is the lamest of spices. Chyna played you again by telling you they were amazing.

 

[Happosai]

Read the book ages ago and couldn't tell where they referred to any particular race. The 1984 movie was pretty white but I'm guessing you mean something else. What race is this thing from the 84' Dune?

 

[Yoboman]

Read the book ages ago and couldn't tell where they referred to any particular race. The 1984 movie was pretty white but I'm guessing you mean something else. What race is this thing from the 84' Dune?

Race? I thought that was Maragret Thatcher

 

[MetalAlien]

I like the burn.

 

[Halo is Back]

Mo hotter Mo better

 

[Grinchy]

When you live in a poor country and have to eat rat meat, you need heavy spices.

 

[Kadayi]

When you live in a poor country and have to eat rat meat, you need heavy spices.

Tell your sister to use a douche?

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Salt and pepper is the lamest of spices. Chyna played you again by telling you they were amazing.

Actually they are amazing.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Then why is everyone in Dune white?

Dune has sweet and salty spice too.

 

[Birdo]

The fremen live underground. Black fremen would all be unhealthy from lack of Vitamin D (Like they are in northern Europe).

 

[Pagusas]

Read the book ages ago and couldn't tell where they referred to any particular race. The 1984 movie was pretty white but I'm guessing you mean something else. What race is this thing from the 84' Dune?

obviously a white dude playing an Asian.

 

[lock2k]

Who said white people can't handle spices? lol

I have a collection 40+ peppers including the all the strongest ones. Shit is addictive.

 

[Nymphae]

Stereotypes = bad unless it takes white people down a peg. This one isn't even true yet it's fairly common to hear.

 

[Richard Packer]

I always thought that's why they love pizza so much. If you ate nothing but bland food your whole life a little oregano must be mind blowing.

 

[bender]

What is Dune?

 

[Ballthyrm]

Then why is everyone in Dune white?

It's hard to get a tan while wearing a stillsuit.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

Salt and pepper is the lamest of spices. Chyna played you again by telling you they were amazing.

Salt is the single most important condiment.

 

[West Texas CEO]

What is Dune?

Hillary Clinton's vagina.

 

[DeafTourette]

Salt actually used to be a very rare, expensive luxury, and yet here we are now, cracking jokes about spice, not for a moment thinking about the billions of humans who never had any. Please, pour some spice out for our beforebears next time you grab that salt shaker. Take a moment of reflection the next time you scoop some MSG into your bowl of soup. While we now take spice for granted, it was not always so available and we are quite fortunate to live in this spice rich time and place.

You're actually not far off from the truth...

My name is Becky, and this is my potato salad

White people's unseasoned food isn't just an internet meme. It's a centuries-long obsession.

qz.com

By the 1600s though, the European market for spices had leveled out, and they had become, generally speaking, widely affordable.

Once spices became common, nobles decided they reflected middling taste. To distinguish themselves from the baser appetites of the masses, the upper classes embraced a new essentialism, demanding that food taste like itself. Instead of cooking meat in sauces layered with spices and herbs, rich Europeans started cooking meat in meat stock and meat gravy to make it taste even meatier. Classic French hotel cuisine relied upon stock, butter, and cream-based sauces and English manor house cookery favored giant, unspiced joints of meat turned on spits (sometimes, bizarrely, turned by kitchen dogs).