I’m curious where this “white people don’t use spices” thing comes from. I can’t remember that ever being a thing growing up in rural white people country. Even if it was just that Lowry seasoning stuff, unseasoned food sounds completely alien to me.

Ironically, in my family, the one person incapable of handling anything spicy is my youngest kid. He was raised in a Japanese daycare, so he’s much more adjusted to Japanese food. He finds everything in the US “too spicy.” Which is often frustrating for me as a cook.

It’s so weird to me because everyone I knew growing up was poor as fuck in a food desert, and often the only thing you could do to make dinner interesting was to pour a half a bottle of some dollar store spice blend or another onto a bunch of cans of whatever and boxed pasta.

I’m seeing a trend here that a lot of very poor people had spice and hot sauce heavy upbringings like I did. But more middle class whites, which I had no real experience with growing up, apparently do not.