I know everyone scoffs when people throw around the phrase 'left unity', but it's something that I actually believe in and I hate to see things break down between honest-to-god leftists. That being said, there are some opinions I've seen tossed around here that I can't fucking stand. I'm really not trying to start a struggle session here, but this is just something I need to get off my chest. If you eat a pickle after 12pm, but it's the first thing you've eaten that day, it still counts as a "breakfast pickle". A lot of people work night shifts or just wake up later, it's absurd to have such rigid standards for what constitutes a breakfast pickle or not. These pickle purity tests are alienating people who just want to have a breakfast pickle at 12:30 or 1:00pm without being scolded for being "bad leftists".

I'm not trying to go overboard here; I understand that eating a pickle at 4pm, even if it's your first meal of the day, is still an "afternoon pickle". I just don't think it's fair to limit breakfast pickle hours to before 11:59 am.

I will also concede that if you have a cup of coffee or tea, and then eat a pickle later, it doesn't qualify as a breakfast pickle. You had coffee for breakfast, then you ate a pickle; that's not the same as eating a breakfast pickle with your coffee obviously. But if you have your first cup of coffee and a pickle at 1:30 in the afternoon, I think it is completely reasonable to consider that a breakfast pickle.

Anyways, if the mods want to ban me or whatever, fine. I've said my piece.

    • Woly [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Oh, of course you immediately fall back on the No True Breakfast fallacy. Ridiculous pickle erasure.

        • Woly [any]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Hitler also shot meth into his ass but no one's getting on my case about that 😤

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      More so-called "socialists" regurgitating State Department propaganda :stalin-stressed: why don't people like you ever show support for Actually Existing Breakfast

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        THANK YOU! God this whole argument is ridiculous to me. Break down the word for fuck's sake, "break, fast". You're going to tell me that if I go on an all night bender and can't sleep because I took a hit of acid at 1:00 am, then I meet some friends for eggs benedict in the morning, they're having breakfast but I'm not? I didn't eat the whole night on account of the acid, this is my first of three meals that day... It's breakfast.

    • Woly [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I’ve also found that the early Romans had the best traditional breakfast: bread, cheese, olives, nuts, cold meat, and wine.

      AKA the "I'm going back to sleep in 20 minutes" breakfast

  • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think I have experienced literal fear imagining a pickle with my morning cappuccino. Actual cold sweats.

    What kind of leftist does that make me?

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    True left unity: any pickle, any time of day, whatever you call it....

    I'll fucking eat it. I love pickles.

    • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I love pickles too, they’re delicious. The perfect food.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    please don't have coffee for breakfast, you need something more substantial

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    pickles are a phallic food choice and i have no option but to report you to the police

    sorry comrade :volcel-vanguard:

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Break

    Fast

    Pickle

    ...

    Three words that I never thought I would hear together, in that order, in my entire life.
    I can now die, knowing that I've seen all that there is in the universe, and at peace.