*sips* Sin soup -Adam Driver
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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A Buddhist nun on a netflix food show I once saw claimed that Buddhists invented kimchi because of this prohibition against alliums. Which sounds believable because following the letter but not the spirit of the law is a common refrain in various religious communities all around the world. For reference look at the catholic church classifying beaver as a fish so you can eat it during lent. So I really hope the kimchi story is true. But I haven’t looked into it.
One of the oldest texts in Buddhism is a list of games that Siddhartha didn’t like. It’s like if you founded a major world religion and people found a list of ships you don’t like
Imagine being french or italian and having to live as a buddhist, a fate worse than death.
I’d take being a flea. I’ll get on a dachshund and be a proponent of flat dog theory.
One monk was on low-FODMAP for IBS and decided to make it everyone else’s problem.
Reincarnated as a flea sounds like an anime title
This sinful soup reminds me of the sinner’s sandwich from Deadly Premonition, which consists of turkey, strawberry jam and cereal. Agent York described it as a “self-inflicted punishment to atone for past sins”
could be worse could end up as a preta who has to eat litter faeces for a thousand years
I would like to thank religions for giving random foods the same treatment that states give to drugs. The prohibition really elevates the experience: I’m not just eating a pork sausage, I’m a daring rebel offending two religions at once (maybe more, because I’m doing it in a suggestive way).
As much as I don’t go for religious dietary restriction, that one makes sense to me for the sake of everyone else in the room.
Honestly all of these give me a stomach ache maybe I should join lol
Bruv really hated alliums 💀
I ate some soup and became the antibuddha
Reincarnated as Flea? Cool, I’d love to be able to play the bass
There’s quite a few ancient legends and myths that really just boil down to “don’t fuck with the monks” and seem pretty self-serving because many of them were recorded and shared by monks.
you’d think that people opposed to simple pleasures would enjoy the foods that hurt your mouth
If you think about it though, fleas have a great life. Food everywhere, it’s all dine and dash and then hang out with your buddies.
We need to make a beverage that sends you to hell, or be a sin in most religions. We need to make this a broth, add a dash of human semen, and a bit of an alcoholic spirit. All of the ingredients are stolen. This would send you to hell or be a major sin to make/drink in Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Mormonism, and most sects of Christianity. Are there any improvements I can make?
They believe those foods slow the senses or chakras (something like that). It is also found in Hinduism. It’s sort of like… being drunk on a microscopic level or something from what it sounded like to me.
Oh boy, im going straight to a bacteria…
I think those foods are supposed to block up your Qi
buddhists really hate alliums i guess.
um?
as someone with an allium allergy — LOL.
They would fall under the category of Rajasic foods. The other two being Sattvic and Tamasic.
I heard about 20 years ago (so not sure if it’s still relevant today) that some vegetarians had issues saying they were vegetarian in Buddhist countries because they’d get dishes with no onions, garlic, or chili peppers but that did include small amounts of certain types of meat (fish maybe? Or maybe meat broth but no flesh?).
I tried this out during my Buddhist phase. It’s because those foods stimulate desire/hunger. It did make my food more bland. I think that’s the point.
The good thing about being reincarnated as a flea is that it won’t be long before you can spin the wheel again
Forbidding food unless they’re proven to be dangerous is something I could never get behind. Puffer fish I understand, consuming it kills you unless prepared by a trained chef, but what’s so bad about, say, pork, if it’s properly cooked?
The invented reason behind Buddhists and similar religions like jains not eating stuff like onion is that while you can pick a fruit or trim a leaf from a plant, if you eat the root or bulb, it kills the plant. Since they claim to believe in reincarnation, they say “you could be that onion in the next life, so treat it as you would wish to be treated.”
The practical reason, like all food taboos that are not tied to the substance actually being poisonous, is to get your followers not to eat lunch with the other guys in the common area. All humans eat, so breaking bread with a person is a good way to make friends with them. If you want to keep your followers insular, say the harmless thing the other guys eat is bad and they shouldn’t hang out together
MMMM GIMME THE SAMSARA SOUP
So cute!!!111
Meanwhile your democracy dies
So they banned all allium?????? That is the common flavor base of nearly all cooking the world over!
Lol last time this post came up, way too many people said guys loved being golden retriever boyfriends. Very unnerving to say the least, especially when the golden retriever boyfriends come in saying ‘i just love to help’. Like bro we all do, but i ain’t fixing a garage at 3am gang