Banana bread or Cake? - Indian bakery doing this with their feets.
Why are there so many videos of people making food on the floor and using their feet?
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I see sosososo many videos of people in India preparing food on a dirty floor and using their feet like the latest one I saw was them making papad and the lady was cutting out the circles with her bare feet lmao.
Who is recording these videos? And why are they letting them record? Who is sending the video out? It’s so embarrassing
They know these videos are going viral so of course they are going to keep making them. The last thing they care about is how it makes the country look to others. They just care about views.
Yeah, I have been living in Mumbai for the last 4 years and most street vendors I have seen have not ever used their feet. I'm pretty confident everyone here would be outraged by that. Now hygiene standards are not great. Even the cleanest places use the dirtiest oil and gloves are optional based on how they're feeling. But the worst also do not sell rat meat or cut meat with their toe nails (By far the most disgusting video I've seen. The video was also not in Mumbai, probably Lahore based on the accent and clothes but I'd wager that they'd have the same standards, being a big city there and all. It does seem that they're intentional though, either by vendors or the people recording them, idk).
I think they are posted because they go viral but is it the workers doing it? Surely it’s not the people actually selling it?? They not worried about getting fired?? Lmao just so much going on
Most of these stalls are owned and managed by the same person. No one's getting fired lol. At most, they might have to move their stalls if people complain, which is also not very possible as they're not exactly legal businesses.
Poverty pоrn basically, I’ve seen this all over TikTok and they are basically just circlejerking over how nasty and terrible India is. The comments are always the same - “hygiene is banned in India” or “looks like diarrhea” or something of that variety. There’s a few do-gooders like “hopefully this is a wake up call for Indians to have some dignity and self respect.”
It does admittedly chap my ass a little. I always tell people to not be bothered by social media info, but this gets me because it’s presenting the way that the poorest, least privileged, most uneducated and unfortunate people live, as though that’s the entirety of India.
If you look at FoodLoversTV (my favorite Indian food vlog channel) you can see these hole in the wall pedestrian places are still practicing good, reasonable methods and maintain a relatively sanitary environment. If you watch the Mark Weins types go through India eating all sorts of delights, it’s clearly a developing country standard, but it’s passionate, hardworking people who do their best.
Indias sanitization and hygiene practices need to improve, sure, but that’s like saying indias poverty and infrastructure needs to improve. Ya think? Of course it does.
But so does ours. 80% of America is a bad food desert where you can’t get a fresh local produce and anything beyond frozen, mass produced garbage. Our meats are trash fed hormone-laden monstrosities, our dairy is garbage, fruits are garbage, and corn syrup dominates our obesity-epidemic diet. And we troll a dude in India who’s cooking some street food with fresh vegetables or eggs, or making chat with things like fresh chilis, tamarind, onion, herbs, etc. Putting like 17 fresh vegetables into a pav baji mash, etc.
These people work hard to feed their own people fresh, cheap food that is tastier than our food. I’d eat a $2 street kebab roll any bad day, any city, any regional style, over some slimy ass $11 subway footlong with dessicated tomatoes and listeria lettuce.
India has several tiers of poverty - you get these people in rural areas or really rough urban areas, they don’t have money or education, they don’t have running water, and they are doing their best to make an honest living. They aren’t addicts or beggars or street urchins or criminals, they have an honest trade and they serve their community at price points their community can afford. But to you, that’s just a quick laugh and roast material.