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Food
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Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan, and
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Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely dclass ). Hackers prefer the
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exotic; for example, the Japanese-food fans among them will eat with gusto
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such delicacies as fugu (poisonous pufferfish) and whale. Thai food has
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experienced flurries of popularity. Where available, high-quality Jewish
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delicatessen food is much esteemed. A visible minority of Southwestern and
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Pacific Coast hackers prefers Mexican. For those all-night hacks, pizza and
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microwaved burritos are big. Interestingly, though the mainstream culture
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has tended to think of hackers as incorrigible junk-food junkies, many have
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at least mildly health-foodist attitudes and are fairly discriminating about
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what they eat. This may be generational; anecdotal evidence suggests that
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the stereotype was more on the mark before the early 1980s.
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