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[beardedmrbean]

The "Soup is a Nazi Meal" article is just...we did it we finally got to actually "Hitler ate sugar". Parody has become reality.

I was too giddy about making a solid quip to remember to actually look it up, really hope I didn't get a poes done to me. Neglecting my title of 'guy that's really annoying because he keeps fact checking things'

We're about to find out together.

We've got a real article with headline, Atlas Obscura so could go several different ways from here.

TL:DR; it's not soup and stew are nazi foods, therefore you are a nazi if you eat these things.

Actually kinda wholesome if you remove the whole nazi thing from the equation. Also fascinating so I'm including the full text.

On October 1, 1933, Germans sat down to an unusually frugal Sunday lunch. For decades, even centuries, the norm had been a roast dinner, usually characterized by a great, bronzed hunk of animal, flanked by potatoes. This was the crowning glory of the week—a meal to be savored and celebrated. But that day, nine months after the Nazis first came to power, Germans ate simple, inexpensive food. Some ate Irish stew; others steaming pots of pea soup, made with Speck and dried beans. Another common dish was macaroni Milanese, a stodgy predecessor to mac and cheese flecked with a confetti of rosy ham. All these dishes had three important things in common: They were inexpensive; they were made in a single pot; and they had been officially sanctioned by the Nazis.

This was the Eintopfsonntag campaign—a Nazi push to make German families eat one-pot meals. Eventually, it would endure well into the Second World War and popularize these stews, soups, and pilafs in Germany for generations to come.

The impetus was an annual charity drive, the Winterhilfswerk, run by the Nazis to feed and clothe veterans and the poor throughout the winter. Wealthier Germans were expected to pitch in as much as they could, but actually getting people to cough up cash had proven challenging. So, in October 1933, the Nazis developed a new campaign centered around these one-pot meals.

On the first Sunday of every month, they decreed, every German family should replace their traditional roast with a thriftier one-pot meal—an Eintopf, from the German ein Topf, or “one pot”—and set aside the savings for the charity drive. On those Sunday afternoons, collectors around the country knocked on doors to recuperate the money. Even families who didn’t want to cook were expected to join in: Restaurants were legally obligated to offer appropriately inexpensive Eintopf meals at a reduced rate on the designated Sundays.

At least initially, Eintopfsonntagen were quite popular. People seem to have enjoyed the challenge of finding meals that fit the bill, and the campaign raised hundreds of thousands of Reichsmarks for charity.

Its popularity was aided by extensive government efforts. As gatekeepers to the German kitchen, housewives and mothers were especially targeted. In time, a whole genre of cookbooks for these kinds of recipes appeared, bolstered by suggestions in magazines and newspapers for one-pot meals. Sauerkraut with lard and broad beans was a classic example—traditional, inexpensive German food that used scraps of meat to canny effect. The government even released children’s books about Eintopf and promotional photos of Adolf Hitler sitting down to a steaming pot of stew. The message was clear: Everyone is doing this, and participation is a national obligation.

In fact, while Hitler officially supported the campaign, he probably did not participate privately. By 1937, he was known internationally as a vegetarian, and had likely been eating a mostly plant-based diet for some time. While Eintopf meals were occasionally meatless, they often featured some bacon or beef. On top of that, Hitler vacillated between preferring a raw diet—he blamed cooked foods for cancer—or extravagant vegetarian meals, occasionally set off with spoonfuls of caviar. Eintopf recipes, on the other hand, were plain, stodgy, and always served hot.

But charity and thrift do not fully explain the Nazis’ zeal for one-pot meals. There was an equally important allegorical element: A single pot meal was democratic and accessible, blurring class lines and undermining bourgeois eating culture. All across the country, Nazi propaganda materials theorized, people of the same race would eat the same diet at the same time: common sacrifice for a common purpose. More than that, writes Alice Weinreb in Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany, “Cooking in ‘one pot’ (ein Topf) was supposed to symbolize the Nazi creation of ‘one people’ (ein Volk), the crafting of a delicious casserole by combining diverse ingredients analogous to the uniting of the various native German peoples into a single and self-sustaining whole.” (Of course, this so-called diversity—Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon—was as limited and homogenous as many of the suggested dishes.)

To take part in Eintopfsonntag, Germans had to experience deprivation for the good of the collective—a common, unifying Nazi theme. In a 1935 speech, Hitler castigated those who did not take part or give as much as they could to the Wintershilfswerk: “You have never known hunger yourself or you would know what a burden hunger is,” he said. “Whoever does not participate is a characterless parasite of the German people.” Those who greedily refused a day’s abstinence were said to be “stealing” from the collective. As one regional report put it, “Just as faithful Christians unite in the holy sacrament of the Last Supper in service of their lord and master, so too does the National Socialist Germany celebrate this sacrificial meal as a solemn vow to the unshakeable people’s community.”

What went into the country’s pots was equally symbolic. Eintopf recipes favored indigenous ingredients—root vegetables, dried fruit, German pork—and Nazi nutritionists claimed that the best way to nourish the Aryan body was through a racially appropriate diet. In practice, this meant German-grown potatoes and produce. One officially sanctioned cookbook was entitled: “Housewives, Now You Must Use What the Field Gives You! Healthy, Nourishing Meals from Native Soil.”

The aesthetic of Eintopfsonntag similarly drew from a kind of manufactured nationalist nostalgia. Outside of certain northern regions, Eintopf meals had not been popular before the campaign, and the word was unheard of before 1930. Yet publicity campaigns included sentimental images of one-pot meals, eaten in the trenches of the First World War, and rosy-cheeked peasant families tucking into bowls of stew. In the simplicity of an Eintopf meal, Nazis presented a romantic, bourgeois view of some radical, agrarian future.

Over time, however, people grew disillusioned with the campaign. The rich wanted their lavish roasts back, and the poor resented the loss of income. In the underground press, countercultural cartoons criticized the Eintopf obligation. “Which Eintopf dish is the most widespread in Germany?” asked one. The answer: Gedämpfte Zungen. Zungen means “tongues,” and Gedämpfte means both “steamed” and “silenced.” Eventually, amid the chaos of the Second World War, the campaign petered out.

In the end, however, Eintopfsonntagen proved more consequential than the Nazis likely anticipated. More than 80 years later, Eintopf dishes remain popular in modern Germany, and the word is still commonly used—though with scarcely a thought to its strange, racially charged origins.

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Long I know

Funniest thing I can come up with this is how it actually mirrors a lot of left wing policies and ideas, I wouldn't use them in any kind of attack on things but looking through there and seeing how I can connect "Meatless Mondays" to nazi germany tickles me.

Got the buy and produce local bits there, for the better of the collective talk, some other stuff in there too.

Gonna be able to point some stuff at the right wing too, traditional values and all that jazz.

almost like pigeonholing people and ideologies is a bad idea

and now I want chunky soup

#itsgeauxtime

[bentosandbox]

Salty asks 14 and 23?

14. unpopular opinion about your fandom

what even are the popular opinions though.... that mlynar sucks?? LOL i think he's kinda goofy

Oh if I can talk about CN a little people didn't seem to like the Ling skin but I like it a lot lol

23. unpopular character you love

EARTHSPIRIT MY BELOVED...

#bentoask #itsgeauxtime

[hawkeyedflame]

Pictured: Local woman being normal about getting into a ship again, 2022, colorized

i think you're lowballing how many times it's been tbh

#itsgeauxtime

[corhore]

The Justice League cartoon had a joke like that. Giganta asked superman "you wouldnt hit a lady would you?", superman pauses for a sec, then Diana just swoops in and clocks her saying "I WOULD!"

Thats funny. 

#itsgeauxtime

[werewolf-cuddles]

Who's Lily Orchard and what did she do?

Short version: She’s some asshole on YouTube that treats pretty much everyone around her like shit, backstabs her former friends and acquaintances the second they stop taking her shit, and has a reputation for plagiarism.

Even shorter version: She’s an asshole

#itsgeauxtime #and i used to actually like her #then her behavior in late 2016 effectively shattered the pedastal

[fierceawakening]

Lime, blue

I feel complimented.

#itsgeauxtime

[parisiangiraffe]

Y'all aint need no filter to look cute what you talkin about

Thank you :*)

I meant a Ruby type of cute, LMAO

#itsgeauxtime

[scribbleofstars]

I think I've done an OW ship request before but its a request so nice I may as well do it twice I'm a guy, 6' tall with short dark hair. I'm straight, strong preference for more assertive, take charge kind of girls because I am indecisive af. I'm very introverted, a real homebody. Except when I really like someone, then I always want to be around them. I think I'm funny, I'm a romantic sap, prefer to plan everything out instead of go with the flow. See knives as the height of romantic gifts.

Absolutely, I ship you with....

Ashe! A few reasons why:

You are indecisive and wanting someone to take charge you say? Don’t worry, Ashe has that covered.

She may be the badass leader of a gang, but when she’s at home she honestly just wants to chill out and like, watch a movie or something.

She might not exactly laugh at your jokes, but she does find them funny. She has a rep to keep up ok.

She would secretly really appreciate your romantic aspects, since she may not be the most romantic person in the world....which is mostly due to her being busy running a gang.

You can gift her a knife, she will gift you a gun. And yes it’s personalized and very pretty and also probably super expensive, that's her way of saying she appreciates you.

#asks #answered #itsgeauxtime #Ashe #overwatch #overwatch ships #overwatch matchups #Matchups #ships

[quincymaru]

Martha do me a favor. Look up captain Mizuki from OPM

wow what a WIFE i love her

#maru speaks?! #maru answers?! #itsgeauxtime

[the-heart-alchemist]

8

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK! :D

I ended up reading Rush by @mikotyzini ! It’s great! Go read it! 

https://soundcloud.com/fairytailrobyn/ask-meme-8

#asks #thanks for the ask! #itsgeauxtime

[beardedmrbean]

What happened with Blue? If you dont mind my asking

He died, not at liberty to say how but I will say it wasn't violent. No assaults or anything like that, nothing criminal.

Also to be 100% clear, it was not intentional this wasn't a suicide. Guy was stressed out by work to kingdom come I've got the chats to prove it but that had nothing to do with anything in relation to this.

He was a good friend, still keep almost sending him posts of weird cars and other different random stuff.

Sucks, I miss the guy like mad. I'm glad his brother reached out to his discord group who reached out to me and let me know. Not a fun weekend not being able to mention it till his brothers post went up. Had one person I told because I'd have lost it if I didn't have them, she wasn't gonna say anything to anyone either, she helped me stay sane for that tho.

He was a great guy

#itsgeauxtime

[icameheretowinry]

tagged!

tagged by: @vrakali

rules: tag 10 followers you want to know better

name: nikki

sexuality: straight, aroace spec 

hogwarts house: ravenclaw

cats or dogs: dogs! i love my boy!

current time: 11:32pm

favourite animal: dragons (didn’t say it had to be real fam)

when i made this blog: july 2016 (almost 4 years ago!)

reason for url: ... it’s a really bad pun of “i came here to win” but win is replaced with winry

tagging: @itsgeauxtime @roses-fandom-mess @mysticxalchemist (bruh i’m too tired to tag 10 people who do you take me for)

#got tagged #nikki speaks

[hawkeyedflame]

Hughes figured out the entire transmutation circle plot before anyone else, with like half the information. He is not a himbo and I will not tolerate such slander

you get it

#itsgeauxtime

[dangerousbride]

Dominating (verb) or dominating (adjective)?

Dominating (verb)

#i didnt even consider the second option when i reblogged it omfg lmao!! #itsgeauxtime #answered

[mai-artwork]

@itsgeauxtime an Oni girl

@dastump an elegant lamia

@neo-uber-dan A cute lil harpy

#monster girls #oni #lamia #harpy #sketches

[parisiangiraffe]

✏🌚🔪

✏️ - I want to message you but I’m terrified of the mortifying ordeal of Being Known

🌚 - You’re my secret crush/I’d totally date you

🔪- You could stab me and I would probably just say thank you????

aprheaprhap Thank you!! But I wouldn’t stab you :*( And you’re already known!! I remember your url/username/whatever you’d call this these days

#itsgeauxtime