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!

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."

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

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.