Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27340559-20181103222915/@comment-34573172-20181104015642

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of food struggles. Kebab and Cram, Lembas and Man Flesh, Miruvor and Orc Draught, Apples and Plums, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a culinary reconstitution of eating at large, or in the common ruin of the contending foods. In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of foods into various groups, a manifold gradation of nutritional rank. In ancient Gondolin we have Apples, Bread, Potatoes, Leeks; in the Second Age, Cake-Like Food, Melon Soup, Banana Bread, Pears, Cherries, Olives; in almost all of these foods, again, subordinate gradations. The modern Kebab-dominated society that has sprouted from the ruins of Cram-dominated society has not done away with food antagonisms. It has but established new food groups, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.