@pfau@lionel_trolling I think it's extravagance we draw back from. If anything our archetypal stodge is classic comfort food. But we do like things that taste good. Huge popularity of Indian food - flavourful, challenging - but seen as man-of-the-people stuff and thus gets a pass.
I’m an immigrant who’s lived and worked in the UK for 16 years. I have a North American accent and I’m white.
I’ve never once been told to ‘go back’ to my ‘shithole country’ or to ‘stop stealing jobs from British people’.
You’re not concerned about immigration. You’re racist.
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