• absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Its fascinating to see that a chinese state controlled app has the power to potentially destabilize small economies. Also fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.

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      2 months ago

      You’re making it sound like it’s a bad thing people are being influenced to eat healthier. Not to mention, the title is kinda clickbait.

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      SFG’s marketing director said that as things stand farmers in Iceland are not managing to keep up with surging consumer demand, but said she hopes supply will be back to normal “in a week or so”.

      Wow, sounds serious.

      Ms Sveinsdóttir from the SFG also expressed some scepticism, suggesting other factors were at play. Some cucumber farmers replace their cucumber plants at this time of year, which are not yet producing large amounts, she said.

      In addition to this, schools are returning from the summer holidays, which puts additional pressure on supplies.

      “Everything is happening at the same time,” Ms Sveinsdóttir observed, but said the social media trend remained one of the main contributing factors.

      “This is the first time we have experienced something like this,” Ms Sveinsdóttir said, adding that had the TikTok trend become popular earlier in the summer, “when the [cucumber] production was in full blast” and the shortage would not have been noticeable.

      Wow, the Chinese propaganda is so sophisticated! They must have known about all these factors in advance to be able to minorly inconvenience people who want a salad for a whole week. 🙄

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      2 months ago

      those fucking chinese-affiliated influencers and they’re ability to make people eat cucumbers! what’s next, destroying society by tricking the youth into having a little cream cheese on their toast?

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      2 months ago

      People buying cucumbers doesn’t show any potential for destabilizing an economy.

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      2 months ago

      I’d blame people who blindly follow influencers. If it’s not influencers, they just follow the next stupid things. Ads they see on tv, nigerian princes, nft’s, you name it.

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      2 months ago

      fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.

      Given linguists are wont to confirm that English (d)evolves based on what’s popular, essentially vapid influencer famewhores are driving the evolution of English, and no one with a brain cell. So if you wanted to know why ‘emails’ is wrong as a noun, instead of a lesson on uncountable mass nouns we get “lol, 3 trafficks today, smash that ‘like’ button”.

  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Seems not so much a “tik-tok problem” but example of a 21st century fad.

    Fads, crazes, etc. have come and gone. Something able become a nationwide fad overnight is a product of the internet.

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    2 months ago

    The article seems to be saying that despite some blaming TikTok, local experts are saying it’s not all because of TikTok.

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    2 months ago

    As someone who doesn’t use TikTok and was under the impression that it was a young person’s game, I did not expect the “trend” involving a notoriously phallic vegetable to be a recipe.

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    2 months ago

    And here I am with cucumber plants that have been going crazy and more than my wife and I can eat or preserve.

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      The TikTok trend is roughly as follows:

      • smash a cucumber and cut in chunks
      • add salt, mix and put in the fridge for a while to remove some water from the cucumber
      • rince
      • make a sauce with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, fresh ginger
      • add some topping, like green onions, sesame seed, wakame seeweed, pepper flakes, cilantro, crushed peanuts or whatever you like
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        smash ? like, slap the wall with it ? I can’t picture what this means (thanks for the recipe)

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          Maybe smash isn’t the right word (I’m not a native English speaker).

          You put the cucumber on a cutting board, lay a large knife flat on it and strike the flat of the blade with the underside of your fist.

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            Maybe smash isn’t the right word (I’m not a native English speaker).

            You had it right. Someone else forgot their ephemeral slang isn’t the only way a word can be used.

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      2 months ago

      Cut cucumber in thin slices and put in a bowl. Mix the following: 2 tablespoons of water 2 tablespoons of vinegar (preferably apple cider) 1 tablespoon of sugar 0.5 teaspoon of salt 0.25 teaspoon of pepper

      Pour it over the cucumber slices and leave it alone for 10-15 minutes.