Did you read the article? Where they talk about fiber being for keeping the gut clean and most people not getting as much as they’re supposed to?

Do you think theyade these recipies or tips up from scratch? They’re all things that people eat and usually have for a long time.
By the rationale you seem to be using, there’s an ultierior motive to teaching people how to cook potatoes. After all, it’s unpleasant to eat until you cook it. Just like a watermelon rind is unpleasant to eat unless you pickle it. Just like squash seeds are gross unless you roast them like sunflower seeds.

it’s using fresh veggies in the first place.

Quite. And part of that is teaching people what parts you can and can’t eat.
Saying they’re trying to get people to eat garbage when the tips include eating my favorite part of broccoli just doesn’t land.

You’re seeing a class war narrative where I think it’s just a low effort report on a research paper and an attention grabbing headline and image.

Lack of culinary education? It’s a significant driver of multigenerational health and dietary inequity. Poor people in urban areas have neither the time nor resources to cook properly, so they don’t. Then their children don’t learn, and the cycle gets worse. Obesity rates rise, health deteriorates, and the costs to manage that go up, making it harder and harder to break the cycle.

At least where I am, access to a variety of animals and vegetables is out of reach for those in poverty, and no one ever taught them what to do with them anyway.
So you end up with people eating mostly kraft macaroni, hot dogs and canned beans, cooked in a peeling Teflon pan and garnished with ketchup to taste. Or maybe you have money, so you mostly eat takeout.

It’s why adult cooking classes are a thing that targets “entry level”, like how to cook eggs (the easy ways) or cut an onion, and food banks offer classes in how to cook the food they’re giving you. A potato is useless as food if you do not know how to cook a potato.

What am I turning or twisting? If it’s not worth the time to discuss, why were you here in the first place?

I think it’s worth discussing people diluting the concept of class war by calling random things class war.

Nope. I meant they were both under and over estimating. I would have said “you both are …” Otherwise.

Are you saying that saying someone is creating a spurious class war narrative out of something benign is wrong to comment on because of class war and genocide?

I’m honestly asking: did you reply to the wrong comment in the thread? You’re not the person I replied to.

Otherwise I’m not sure I understand what you mean.

A lot of people don’t eat the broccoli stems. Broccoli is the floret, so they just eat the pretty part. Same as how some people don’t eat the skin on their potatoes because that’s the dirty part.

I’d try the melon rind purely because it’s different than it sounds: it’s not a bowl of watermelon rind. You remove the green part and then pickle it. Given what pickling can do to change a cucumber texture I’d be open to trying it. That being said, I’m not a huge fan of pickles, so most likely it’s capped at a pretty low score for me.

And that’s part of why I’d push back on the culture war angle. Many of these are not things we’ve found distasteful since time immemorial. Roast squash seeds are sold in stores. Pickled watermelon rind is a southern food. Banana peel curry is well prexisting in southeast asia.
If you look at it from the angle that you received the broccoli stem information, but remember that each item has someone out there saying the same thing, it’s a lot less solidly “normalizing eating trash” and more “clickbaity news headline - eat more fiber”.

I meant more that the article doesn’t seem relevant to class war unless you’re already choosing to look at it that way.

How does a wealth tax increase my dietary fiber in a meaningful way that “eating more than the broccoli floret” doesn’t?

I don’t agree with that interpretation. It’s literally “people should be eating more fiber at the same time they’re throwing away a lot of fiber”.
Poor people aren’t scraping the food stores for dietary fiber or fretting about how they’ll afford a modest reduction in the long term risks of certain forms of colon disease.
For goodness sake, one of the tips is to make roast squash seeds. That’s not eating the unpalatable part, people buy those.

It’s not “eat like the poor” it’s “cook like a restaurant”. That thing you don’t need for this recipie is great for this other one.

I think you are both under and overestimating how much people know about cooking. People will trim off the better tasting parts of food and throw it away because it looks funny or isn’t there at a restaurant.
It looks funny because living organisms don’t have a lot of clean, straight lines and are often squishy and lumpy. The restaurant removes it because it’s too variable to cook without attention that’s too expensive to give, it’s too small for sale, or it simply messes up a clean presentation. So instead it gets quickly cooked and eaten by them, taken home by the chef, or added to soup or broth.

Being terrible at cooking and kitchen management cuts across economic lines.

I mean, if you start at class war it’s definitely noise. If you’re starting at diet and lifestyle it’s just a clickbaity headline for “people often consider nutritious parts of food to be scraps”.

It’s basically a step past telling people that the skin on a potato tastes fine and has vitamins, so try eating it when you make a baked potato, or leave it on when making soup".

I’m not sure I could do watermelon rind, but I legitimately like pineapple core, and I know some people who roast the squash seeds and absolutely love em, like big sunflower seeds.

Not always. It’s better to say that “military grade” means “very specific standards”.
That also happens to translate to cheap pretty often, but that’s because someone in 1943 wrote the specification for The Standard Tube Sock and ordered 7,500,000,000 pairs to be delivered over the next century. Since it’s precisely specified you know exactly how much you can skimp.
Add that to the trillion pages of compatability requirements and you’re basically never updating anything.
Like how switching lightbulb brands at a nuclear power plant is hard because you need documentation demonstrating that the plastic in the led won’t become a hazard in a radioactive incident.

Surely you’re trolling.

You do understand that there’s such a thing as “context”, and “teaching”?

“You’re in charge of game night” is quite different from “I am now going to murder you”.