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This argument reminds me of why poor people put ketchup on steak. With very low grade meat, it doesn't really have any good flavor to it. You have to cook it well done to make sure it's not literally dangerous, and if you just eat it bland, it tastes like crap. So, ketchup gives it a bit of a zing and you can move on with your life.
Walmart has all those spices because walmart meat is ultra low quality. Now, if you go to a farmer's market, or go to a place that cooks fresh meat, you will realize you basically don't even need anything besides the ground beef. You'll figure out very quickly that turning that ground beef into a burger is just a bit of luxury decoration for how good the actual meat is.
What a lot of these black people are admitting is that they are so used to eating garbage quality meat that they don't know that real meats don't need much else.
Crazily enough, she's not far off. It's not a racial taste, it's a poverty taste that you are currently adapted to.
Haha yeah I used to go to the WalMart by my work to pick up certain things. They sell all their produce a lot, so it's easier to get fresh produce there than my more friendly, smaller store. But you never buy meat there.
I've found that more expensive grocers tend to play the game where they put cheap produce right up front in the store to get people in, so they hopefully by more expensive goods elsewhere in the store. Walmart isn't really that cheap when it comes to produce anymore. I love going to the Farmer's Markets because they undercut Walmart by 50%, by accident.
Frankly, it should really tell you how fucked up the economic incentives are for our economy and farmers, especially with regulations and subsidies, when Walmart sells produce from different continents to put them in front of you for (let's say) $5 an item; and the Farmer who literally grows that shit on the side of his house and walks it into his store front that's 20 feet away charges $2 for it.
Two things are happening, the government is bankrupting us to make that $5 item at Walmart be made at the largest scale possible using slave labor, and is then also bankrupting the farmer for making his item as expensive as possible because the transportation cost of the Walmart item should add way more cost than that when the farmer has no cost in transportation.
If we removed government intervention, I'd bet you the Walmart item would cost $500, and the Farmer's Item would cost 10 cents.
But why does Trump put ketchup on steak?
That is a good question, he has a lot of lower class tastes (like his affinity for McDonalds, and professional wrestling). Unfortunately, I don't have an answer. My only guess is that he must have liked "poor people food" as an acquired taste growing up, rather than eating caviar.
I wonder if it has something to do with the culture of New York City that always kind of celebrated the "working class" nature of the city where even Wall Street Bankers would still go to food stands and food trucks to get lunch.