beef wellington is just a corn dog from different socioeconomic background followed by pictures of the two

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[–] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That corn dog is already from a different socioeconomic background, all my corn dogs have looked like this

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I don't think about beef Wellington enough to have ever made this connection, but it's not wrong.

    Is beef Wellington perceived as a genuinely posh thing? It feels more old and crusty to me, right? Like 1960s aspirational middle class, rather than genuinely rich bougie stuff. A thing for the kind of people that thinks of sushi as "exotic".

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would say that the classic version with beef fillet, prosciutto, and morels is more of an upper-class dish, as the ingredients are expensive and it is time-consuming to prepare.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So was my grandma's Christmas dinner menu.

    See, it's the intricacy that makes it feel outdated and aspirational to me. It carries that mid-20th century stink of aspirational shows of status based on domestic labor.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Oh, yes, definitely.

    In my home country (Germany), there is a cake called Frankfurter Kranz that definitely expresses this sentiment as well: maximum butter!

    This cake was especially popular right after World War II because people wanted to show that they had enough again to not only survive, but also to lavish.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Beef Wellington made right is delicious, but it's just another recipe. I have to argue against the corn dog parallel, however, because Wellington is made from a whole piece of meat, not a sausage. It's still definitely only fancy if you are the type that finds sushi exotic.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    1960s aspirational middle class

    That's still a higher social class than what the corn dog represents, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    For you, maybe. Corn dogs are movie food where I come from.

    Pastry and beef is grandma food. American street food is foreign and exotic and hip by comparison.

    I mean, it was in the 20th century when all these perceptions settled in, which is why I have it mentally filed alongisde shrimp cocktails and aspic.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It is wrong. One is made with a beef fillet, the other with a tube of pureed pig slaughter waste.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    That’s a corndog bleu.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I remember the first time I had beef wellington as a kid, not knowing what was in it and thinking oh it's just a long meat pie, then being incredibly confused why the first bit of meat I got to just kept on going

    Man I want some now, might have to make one

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    But what about sausage rolls?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Corn dog is just hotdog with a identity crysis.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Both can also be used as a deadly weapon

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Notice that the Beef Wellington hasn't gotten the shaft.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Are we French Canadians the only ones to call corn dgs "pogo". I'm aware it's a brand but that the only word for it here.

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