So the husband and I have been vegan for two years now (January 1, 2020) and we are very much vegan for the animals, but my husband has always tried to push us to be healthier as well. We are both fairly healthy, we travel a lot and try to get small kitchens wherever we are so that we can cook (mostly lentils and pasta...).
I am very much a r/ShittyVeganFoodPorn person, I like junk food at minimum 2-3 times a month. But in a bid to keep my husband from buying his own groceries (we like to cook together), I've agreed to eat healthier in the new year. This also goes well with wanting to stop eating from shitty PB companies as much as possible, at least while in the US. We haven't bought any Impossible since learning about testing on rats, and more recently stopped buying Beyond, and using this spreadsheet, I've written down the companies that are all vegan, and the companies to avoid. This makes it more difficult to have easy junk food nights (we spent several months last semester eating a lot of Gardein ultimate chicken and fries), which in turn means we will likely be healthier.
Again, always vegan for the animals, but being healthier and avoiding animal-exploiting companies is never a bad idea. So what I'm looking for now are accessible, easy-to-follow vegan social media pages/cooks that mostly cook whole foods, but nothing pretentious. No pages full of buddha bowls or smoothie/acai bowls. We like to experiment with foods from all over the world (love Indian, East Asian and SE Asian foods, Mexican, you get it), but we also are not super good at any of it yet. We are preferential to beans, southern American foods, Caribbean and Latin-Caribbean. Those tend to be cuisines we are better at cooking, too. Also, any ideas of pages with mostly healthy recipes that are also easy? My work schedule for this semester sucks and I am always exhausted, and my husband likes to cook but when left to his own devices, he lives on hummus, bread, and soy milk.
Heading to Denver in October of 2022 and looking for recommendations for unpretentious but good food in the city. No interested in chains or fast food. I want those only in Denver, unique places. Not looking for fine dining, just the average price range
/r/filmdiscussion is what I made. I'm sure it'll flop, but we'll see. Basically, some film fans miss IMDB forums.
This is a stab at a new sub considering /r/movies, /r/truefilm, /r/boxoffice, and /r/criterion don't really act like a clearinghouse for diverse and varied film discussion of any type or genre of film.
So here we go... in lieu of the specific film centric discussion of IMDB being gone, hopefully we can take off.
I am seeing people disappointed about film conversation, especially in that disparate and varied blogs are carrying some of the best conversation on cinema. There's a few clickbait driven journalism sites, then there's real film sites like Ebert that don't allow conversation... or IMDB who killed the forums. It's shocking there's no "solid" option or goto place for film discussion... even Letterboxd doesn't encourage conversation.
I love them all, but:
r/movies is too big and broad to consistently have in depth conversation, and although I love r/truefilm, it's a bit pedantic and specialized, sort of film school hipsterism (I'm easily part of that). r/boxoffice makes it clear it's an economic focused sub that couldn't care less about the films or narratives. r/criterion seems to be people posting pictures of physical media, tho it's meant to discuss films.
So why is this? Why do people who love all sorts of films not have a place to speak about them. I'd love to talk about the 2014 Robocop or the Total Recall remake "seriously", or talk about "The Void", "Freaky" with Vince Vaughn, or John Cena's hilarity in "Vacation Friends", amongst stellar classics... my wife FINALLY watched Citizen Kane the other night, and was blown away. I would LOVE to talk about narrative devices, or something as silly as a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 film, like Mitchell. I'll post this around, and see what happens. I'm busy so mods would be welcome. Hope this happens. Cheers all you film fans.
Visiting from the US. Have had Nandos on the low end and I’m curious what sort of places I could get more hole in the wall types of food at a high level.
My favorite food cities I’ve been to are Chicago (lived in that one for 3 years) and Mexico City
I love hole in a wall pizza and Mexican places (but I am generally fit and healthy) and I’m curious where I could find things with a South African flair that aren’t necessarily French inspired and so forth. Don’t get me wrong, I DO want to try at least one bougie high end place that serves small plates and the like
New to the area and looking for a bar or pub that’s well attended on Fridays and Saturdays that isn’t crazy expensive.
Any ideas how to moderate this? I had no idea the "concept" of a sub like this would be so well received, and if this was to really grow, I'd need mods as I'm too busy a dude.
Any thoughts on rules, vs the wild west?
This was a complete knee-jerk reaction to missing IMDB forums, but those sorta died due to a total lack of moderation.
I hadn't known about that flicks sub prior to this, and as people mention it, most people seem to hate it... so why did that sub not stay in the middle ground between /r/movies and /r/truefilm....
I'd no idea so many people would 100% enthusiastically agree a sub like this is important, but how do we make it successful? It's all fake internet points, and someone in true film even said "You're competing with flicks" and that's hilarious... "competes"? lol
But how should a sub dedicated to discussing any and every movie, with a focus *NOT* being IP like /r/movies... exist, and make people happy?
Discuss away!
At the risk of sounding cliche, Ebert is my all time favorite film critic. I still remember tuning in weekly to catch his latest reviews, and it was one of the highlights of my week as silly as that sounds. His writing just had this "everyman" quality that made me understand filmmaking on a more fundamental level.
And he never seemed pretentious. I didn't agree with him on everything, but I never got the impression that he felt he was "above" certain films. At the core of it, he simply just loved the medium. It could be a serious drama or it could be a silly film, but he always seemed to appreciate both the depth and the spectacle. He gave superhero films more 3.5/four stars than his contemporaries because he often felt satisfied being entertained rather than just moved with emotion.
And I simply appreciated his optimism. One of his most infamous reviews was about Freddy Got Fingered.
> "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels..."
However, in a later review of the film Stealing Harvard, Ebert references Tom Green and Freddy once again saying:
> But the thing is, I remember "Freddy Got Fingered" more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing.
Unfortunately, this hasn't happened (as of yet), but I always enjoyed his positive outlook on filmmaking in general.
He was simply the best at what he did: using film criticism in a way that resonates with an audience unlike anyone who came before. Or aftee that matter.
Just a conversation starter. I’ve been on somewhat of a instant ramen study for awhile. I think I have ADD and as such I tend to hyper focus on things, instant ramen as of late. I’ve been spending 20-30 bucks a week on various types for the past year or two. I actually don’t care for restaurant ramen, only the little squares (or disc) of flavor dynamite. Something I’ve found is I don’t really care for the higher end stuff. Straight noodles with silky tonkatsu broths are normally something I’ll pass on but the same goes for basic stuff like Top Ramen (although I’d choose the latter any day). Basically what I’m saying is the best instant stuff, IMO, is somewhere in between. Like Nissan Demae or Pado Namja Ramen. Just strikes me as odd how compartmentalized my taste are. Anyway, just throwing out some discussion material instead of another picture of whatever bs I’m eating atm (Paldo Kokomen in case you were wondering)
