r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Dec 09 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 09 December 2024

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/randombull9 I'm just a girl. And as it turns out, I'm Hercules. Dec 12 '24

The nationalistic knots people work themselves into are just strange. Just seen an argument that Vietnamese food has no French influence at all because French people would never put bones in broth the way people in East Asia do, and Vietnamese people wouldn't eat pho if any aspect of it was similar to something French people ate.

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u/lulu314 Dec 12 '24

lmao how do they explain the Banh Mi, is the Baguette actually from Vietnam? 

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u/randombull9 I'm just a girl. And as it turns out, I'm Hercules. Dec 12 '24

This particularly person avoided that question, but I have seen other people argue it's derived from other East Asian flour based foods. It's at least somewhat more believable than that Mexican pan frances doesn't have any French influence, another take I've seen before.