I must have hurt @SpikeTalon’s feefees. I’m apparently blocked. That’s one way of avoiding dealing with me. Good riddance.

Oh my goodness, according to folks like that just you merely questioning their motives makes you a racist. In this case, you get bonus racist points if your pantry is organized and well stocked, lol.

My pantry is organised because I'm autistic and like to know items are in their right and logical place.
I am certainly not racist.

When an article says “According to the Daily Wire…” it is automatically suspect because Ben Shapiro. I see you are trying to fulfill your conservative outrage quota for the day.

The actual article is hyperbolic in places but isn’t simplistically reducing “pantry porn” to racism alone.

[theconversation.com]

It is a ridiculous trend. A throwback to the “upstairs/downstairs” classism of yore. “In the late 1800s, the butler’s pantry emerged as an architectural trend among high society. This small space, tucked between the kitchen and dining room, was a marker of status – an area to hide both the food and the people who prepared it.”

The untermenschen had to strive in keeping up with the Joneses. Conspicuous consumption and all that jazz. Now walk-in pantries are a thing. Great for architects and real estate agents. And one needs to buy a bunch of designer crap to show off their surplus storage. The pandemic sparked this hoarding bonanza.

Commodification meets OCD: “Influencers film themselves shopping for supplies, prepping food, refilling containers, and organizing their pantries – often coupled with hashtags like #pantryrestock, #pantryASMR, and #pantrygoals. They transfer dry goods from the store-bought bags into matching glassware; they stock the home coffee bar with coffee pods and flavored syrups; they refill stackable bins with single-serving snacks; they create multiple types of ice cubes – each with its own dedicated freezer section. Much of this pantry porn is performed against a backdrop of rhythmic ASMR-inspired clinks, glugs, snaps, rips and thunks that appeal to viewers’ pleasure centers.”

And also: “Minimalism once represented a countercultural lifestyle rooted in anti-consumption: Use less, buy less, have less.

But if pantry porn is any indication, the new minimalism means more is more, as long as the more is not messy. Consumers don’t need less, they need more: more containers, more labels, more storage space.

Storing spices in coordinated glass jars and color coordinating dozens of sprinkles containers may seem trivial. But tidiness is tangled up with status, and messiness is loaded with assumptions about personal responsibility and respectability.”

Ridiculous attention to detail indeed. Who the hell does this stuff? I’m not on ChiCom TikTok to witness this spectacle thank goodness.

So there’s far more food for thought contained in the actual original article than your reflexive antiwoke snark would entail.