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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Food</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="hates.html" title="Things Hackers Detest and Avoid"/><link rel="next" href="politics.html" title="Politics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Food</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hates.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="politics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="food"/>Food</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan,
and Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely
<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">déclassé</i></span>). Hackers prefer the
exotic; for example, the Japanese-food fans among them will eat with gusto
such delicacies as fugu (poisonous pufferfish) and whale. Thai food has
experienced flurries of popularity. Where available, high-quality Jewish
delicatessen food is much esteemed. A visible minority of Southwestern and
Pacific Coast hackers prefers Mexican.</p><p>For those all-night hacks, pizza and microwaved burritos are big.
Interestingly, though the mainstream culture has tended to think of hackers as
incorrigible junk-food junkies, many have at least mildly health-foodist
attitudes and are fairly discriminating about what they eat. This may be
generational; anecdotal evidence suggests that the stereotype was more on the
mark before the early 1980s.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hates.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixb.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="politics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Things Hackers Detest and Avoid </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Politics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>