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Fun fact: this is a theory of mind deficit! Kids around this age don't have a good grasp on what other people know or how they come to know it. A simple example would be a kid talking to grandma on a voice call and saying "I'm looking at this," without clarifying what "this" is because it doesn't occur to them that grandma can't see it.

For most of their lives, the child's parents have known everything about anything they do. They seem omniscient. So when the kid first goes off to school, they just assume their parent will know everything they did during the day.

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The nature of the immigrant is any food they make is inauthentic, neither "authentic" food from their homeland nor "authentic" food from where they live. This is of course, not xenophobic in the slightest.

I think about this every time I see someone pretentiously going on about where a food ackshually came from because immigrants are never fucking good enough. If you do this I fucking hate you. Apologize to every immigrant immediately or face my wrath.

I promise your culinary experiences will only improve if you start to consider immigrant foodways as valuable traditions in their own right. Immigrants devising ways to make food they like using what they find available in their new homes is one of the greatest examples of how humans express love through food.