Left Twitter Is At War Over Charcuterie

Twitter is no stranger to food debates, but rarely are they as tied into the proletariat revolution as this week's bizarrely passionate debate on charcuterie.

It all started when Twitter user @cheesybeaver tweeted, "made a charcuterie board for lunch." It's a good looking board. It has prosciutto, bread, nuts, pickles; overall, a very satisfying-looking lunch. Good work, @cheesybeaver!

Made a charcuterie board for lunch. pic.twitter.com/eEwJEYR3eO

— anjelloca houston (@cheesybeaver) August 2, 2020

But for some users, the picture was of much more than a charcuterie board. It was instead a declaration of class betrayal. A Twitter user snarkily commented, "What rich people eat, I guess," and hell broke loose. @cheesybeaver responded, "This is the kind of shit I fucking hate. I grew up on food stamps in the projects… With the deals, bulk shopping and baking at home, this cost less than $20."

This is the kind of shit I fucking hate. I grew up on food stamps in the projects. I worked my ass off for every penny I have, which isn’t a lot, and which supports me and my parents. Don’t judge me.With the deals, bulk shopping and baking at home, this cost less than $20. pic.twitter.com/Xkc6Qlhm7s

— anjelloca houston (@cheesybeaver) August 3, 2020

Thus set off one of the more inane Twitter debates in recent memory: is it bourgeois to enjoy charcuterie? Most people said no.

I'm not letting y'all media socialists take away my brie and prosciutto. Y'all better stay over there with your little articles and podcasts and leave my charcuterie out of this.

— Brandon (@blgtylr) August 3, 2020

Lunchables are a charcuterie plate. The KFC Double Down is chicken cordon bleu. Shit on a shingle is biscuits and gravy. Don't be an asshole about food unless you're ready to actually just be an asshole about class signifiers!

— Helen Rosner (@hels) August 4, 2020

the reason that people think a perfectly ordinary charcuterie plate (which can be purchased for $20 or less at Aldi) is bourgeois is because rich people attempt to make poor people’s food An Overpriced Thing all the time, especially in the US

— jes skolnik (@modernistwitch) August 4, 2020

Who is trying to cancel charcuterie lmao

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) August 3, 2020

The charcuterie tomfoolery was widespread enough that the Daily Dot and Vice weighed in, the latter of which made an impassioned defense for the working-class history of the noble charcuterie.

And that's the story of how charcuterie became the center of a heated leftist debate on Twitter for two full days. The moral of this story is: never tweet, ever.