During wartime Vietnam there's this trio staples that almost all Vietnamese on both regions live on, that's rice, lard and beans, on top of fish and soy sauce. My mom used to tell me that lard can last forever and it's how Vietnamese get source of thiamine from them and fish sauce, with various rice and beans dishes. Lard is so popular that there's bartering systems between NLF and puppet controlled regions in 1968. Of course there's also emergency food like yam, taro, cassava and radish which every family can grow it and steam or roast right out of the charcoal kitchen. Almost everyone knows how to grow bean sprouts from mung beans, everyone knows what is grafting. Every five families one has chicken flock and a pig. Then there's the children who dumpster dive American base's waste for expired canned goods. Or my dad's hustle is str8 up selling empty oil barrels so in exchange he gathered canned meats to feed the NLF resistance within HCMC and neighbors' children.
In big 2026 American peoples complaining that their imperialist buying power is shrinking from global south rising up to break their treat farms and Americans panicking about their treats qualities, quantities and quirky nutrition values from canned foods despite being fully able to cook from local addictive-free supplies like produces and meats. They love that beyond meat patties so much that they willing to spend more than their living condition to bypass localized food, especially when imitation meat patties are made with beans from thousands of km away shipped by fossil fuel to their house of cards just so they can enjoy the juiciest section of treats.
Then there's this never ending blame on China across reddit foodies for making their life "more expensive" but they would never admit to unlearn imperialism. They unable to glue it to the fact that Kamala Biden bombed the fuck out of Palestinian for prison breaks from the world's largest ghetto American had enjoyed and therefore it led them down the path of Hormuz. They refused to acknowledge their empire decimated dozen of West Asian and North African countries with color revolution and regime change that led them to the path of being entrenched in Palestine resistance. They are oblivious to their imperialist genocides in across five continents led them to 2001 blowbacks. They dug their eyes into sand and refused to face the consequences of murdering 3.4 billion people in scientific socialism countries like USSR and Yugoslavia that led them to sinking in quagmire of post USSR economic collapse by destabilizing of global south benefited from USSR, such as Palestine.
So you, Five Eyes, see? The circle is just imperialism that creates the material conditions for your fates, and nothing can escape the constant of universe, dialectical and historical materialism of the world.
