CloutAtlas [he/him]

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Cake day: December 17th, 2020

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  • CANadian Oil Low Acid

    CANOLA.

    It’s an extra processed and flavourless version of 菜籽油caìzǐyoú or Indian brassica/mustard oils. The Chinese variety comes from a plant in the mustard family (brassica) that’s a cross between cabbage and turnip. The seeds of this plant (unfortunately named a word that’s censored) is high in fat and produces a flavourful oil with a high smoke point and is the backbone of Sichuan cuisine.

    They’re naturally relatively high in acidity which North American scientists deemed to be “unhealthy” in the 20th century (read: trade protectionism for American and Canadian crops).

    A study done on rats in the 60’s where they were fed 70% of their daily caloric intake in high acid oils produced a high degree of heart disease and so high euricic acid oils were banned in the US and most western countries. Canadians came up with canola, a processed version of the brassica oil with an oil with acidity acceptable under the new regulations and became the staple vegetable oil in the west. Later studies overturning these findings unfortunately never overturned these regulations.















  • You can tell these people have never worked in a kitchen in their entire lives, because brunch attracts the worst customers.

    Don’t send back perfectly good pancakes (w/ extra syrup) because you forgot to ask for the syrup to be on the side so you can film yourself pouring it on for Instagram.

    I’m here on a 10-12 hour shift while understaffed and you’re wasting perfectly good food, doubly so because you’re not gonna finish your plate and you’re too good to take leftovers home so half of it is going directly into the bin.




  • Progress is slow in certain areas, and people do get frustrated. Learning “oh things like this are actually not progressing at all or even regressing in the West” is cold comfort at best for most people. China has come a long way in terms of childbirth/injuries/infectious disease, and ofc infrastructure to increase access to healthcare for those ailments. And yet chronic illness, disability care and cancer are often left to Traditional Chinese Medicine or possibly be quite expensive (not by US standards, by a regular country’s standards).

    The article is actually really correct here:

    Chinese healthcare coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and infectious diseases is comparable to those in high-income countries, according to a 2023 paper published in the Lancet medical journal.

    The whole system is geared towards addressing what was killing the most people at the time the system was set up. Then life expectancy grew. A lot. What was responsible for mortality shifted. And then ofc the market privatisations.

    What was killing the most people before were preventable and curable diseases, infant mortality, death during childbirth, things like that. Which means treatment for chronic illness, cancer, things like that are lagging behind for a lot of people.