rant · moment 5 of 19
House-Made Condiments, Startup Culture, and the Rigged Game
from Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine) · #111
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minRiffing on trendy vegetable-centric dishes and artisanal mustard startups, they extend into a broader rant about the rigged nature of success, inherited wealth behind startups, and whether socialism (including a literal 'food socialism') could help.
- 10:13Comparison is the theft of joy.
- 10:25Tim on vegetable-centric dishes and men with vaginas becoming mainstream.
- 10:40Meat tastes better than vegetables, and that's not really about masculinity.
- 11:01House-made condiments are the new trend people get excited about.
- 11:17Everyone's making mustard or mayo because they couldn't be lawyers and the American dream is dead.
- 11:33Startup culture: three 24-year-olds claim they're disrupting mayonnaise, but mayonnaise was already fine.
- 11:50Tim on the chicken soup delivery startup—always someone with rich parents making it sound like a great idea.
- 12:10The game is rigged, and there really aren't that many great ideas anyway.
- 12:46Tim describes the diversity of human capability: some brilliant, some like them, some think they're hawking.
- 13:11Tim pitches food socialism—everyone gets a meal, everyone gets a breakfast.
- 13:32Tim's been shit on for pitching free breakfast, despite his history of criticizing everything.
startup culturemayonnaise industrysocialism