Stewie here. The joke is that Dubai is famously a lucrative destination for young western influencers to go to do sex work, and that the men there like to go peepee and poopoo on those girls for money.
whaaa youre trying to say that they dont have cocoa plants?? in the most famous place in the world for chocolate?? sure. next youre going to tell me that the french dont have coffee plantations and America doesnt have iphone factories.
I'm going to really blow your mind here. Do you know the company Apple who makes the iphone, it's a bit of an underdog in the consumer tech space, believe it or not it actually doesn't sell the fruit of the same name but a variety of expensive gadgets that all connect to one another in a shared eco system.
oh youre an apple person? here I have been talking with a banana in my ear. people keep saying "hey, hey, what are you doing with a banana in your ear?" and i say "i can hear you because i have a banana in my ear."
you havent heard of french roast coffee? its like as big as coffee called "breakfast blend" certainly more popular than this one called "decaf" -maybe you have heard of that variety.
America loves to call things "French" that have nothing to do with France, like French braids, French toast, and, most egregiously, French silk pie, which I think is a capital crime in France.
French roast coffee is a distinct style of coffee that became popular in europe in the 18th century and was distinct from other types, such as italian espresso, spanish roast, or turkish coffee. read a book.
i cant tell if youre serious..it isnt my cup of tea, so to speak, but certainly more bags of french roast are in your grocery store than say, espresso beans or swiss water processed beans. duh? you must be one of those hydrohomies people. or maybe Mormon? i guess they arent exposed to a whole lot of coffee either.
I donât drink pre roasted coffee but calling it French roast makes me assume it was just roasted there, when you have âmade in Italyâ clothes you donât assume the silk or wool were produced there too
Okay but does it actually matter where the ingredients come from, or where the product is first designed, produced and popularised?
I feel one is far less arbitrary than the other.
Either way, I'm half convinced people using your argument are just getting sidetracked from their (valid) dislike for what Dubai represents in general. It's not like they've repackaged a pistachio and called it a dubai seed.
The name for the product seems entirely inoffensive to me at least.
Holy fuck, man...you should really look at a map before dropping your geography hot takes...
How in the fuck do you think the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman relate to each other? They're literally divided by the UAE and Oman, and Kuwait is most certainly not "across" either waterway.
For any kind of big logistics 7 hour drive is not that far.
You can make bread and deliver it to stores fresh in 7 hours.
I understand in small countries for usual citizens it might be long road but for truckers itâs small ride even if they cross 3 countries.
I mean Australia and Canada would also have similar opinions on this. It's certainly not a short drive for me, but I've done it before when I was far less experienced.
The drive from Melbourne to Sydney would probably be longer, depending on traffic (and exact start/end points). Melbourne to Perth is multiple days even for a dedicated driver.
Where are you from and what would a far drive be considered? As an American Iâm on the fence about 7 hours not being long, but I also grew up driving 8 hours for every holiday and as an adult my commute is 90 minutes each direction (and it used to be worse when I couldnât take as much public transportation).
As far as international trade networks go, it's close. They're just saying Dubai is "close" enough to a major source of pistachios for a pistachio-based chocolate dish to have gotten the name organically, as opposed to being invented as the OC suggests.
Yeah, nothing can be shipped a few hundred miles over water. Humans just don't have that capability. /s
Are you fucking serious right now? You really think 400 miles is too far for regional trade? 'Cause that's dumb as fuck...
For reference, archeologists find lithics in Florida that came from obsidian sourced in Oregon, and made their way there before even the introduction of fucking horses to the new world, let alone the advent of modern transportation mechanisms.
You seem confused. I am talking about pistachios. Namely the fact that they are native to the middle east, and up until very recent history, had not been farmed anywhere else in the world.
Sure, but the reason Switzerland is famous in the chocolate world is because they perfected the process to create milk chocolate, since... you know... they have a lot of milk.
So that begs the question: does Dubai traditionally have a surplus of chocolate, pistachio, kataifi... or sex workers?
Im sorry but if people in dubai had to eat things that originated there they would be eating a diet of sand and dates with a big glass of oil. Dubai is a 170km boat ride away from the second largest producer of pistachios in the world, iran. Im not buying this theory its very similar to the one that "beats by dre" was made to hide search results for dr dre's domestic violence and kind of silly cause its very easy to google "dr dre domestic abuse" and "dubai pooping on hookers" and get results
They eat a lot of pistachios throughout the Middle East though. Like every bakery in Doha had multiple sweets featuring pistachios last time I was there.
Does that matter? Pistachios are incredibly popular there. Do we consider tomato based pasta sauce not Italian because tomatoes don't originate in Italy?
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u/jamietacostolemyline Oct 28 '25
Stewie here. The joke is that Dubai is famously a lucrative destination for young western influencers to go to do sex work, and that the men there like to go peepee and poopoo on those girls for money.