>You perceive arrogance because you do not care. I care – a lot. You are ignorant compared to me with regards to food. This is not a personal insult – it is simply true. I have been a chef for 14 years. I have spent those years researching, cooking, eating and learning about foods. I have spent 14 years training my pallet – much like a wine aficionado. Food is my life. I eat at a restaurant at least once a month, and normally once a week (unless im particularly skint) and i dont fucking cheap out on Rosso[1] . When i attempt to argue against something you enjoy it causes you to feel belittled, thus you perceive my passion as arrogance. Particularly when it comes to something like food, because we all have such strong personal preferences about it, it is very easy to feel personally insulted when someone decrys your favorite stuff.

>Im not sure where you got self importance from. I mentioned i was a chef, in order to lend some credence to my claims. A firefighter arguing about string theory has far less credibility than a physicist, does he not?

>Nothing i said was incorrect. Mämmi is literally rotten (aka fermented) porridge. Its production and ingredients are directly related to producing beer, and it is a cousin to Vegimite and Marmite with regards to how its made and Finland literally is made fun of by the outside world for its food. Hell, even real Finnish chefs hate Finnish food (And i mean chefs, not cooks – although in Finland there is no oficial distinction between chef and cook. There is just “Kokki”. I did my chef schooling in Australia, where becoming a chef, rather than a cook, is actually difficult and not just something that you do because you couldnt think of anything else to do after school ended, like so many finnish cooks do).

>I do not argue with people about art, because i do not understand it. I accept that there is good art and shit art and i accept that even if i like something, it can still be “shit art”.

>If you like mämmi – thats fine. That doesnt change the fact that it is shit. Compare mämmi to any French dessert and there is no way a sane person could say that mämmi is better. Even disregarding taste, the other desserts win in both smell, appearance and skill required for preperation…… Shit, in order to make mämmi edible most Finnis pour french fucking pouring custard (aka vaniljakastike) all over it anyhow!!!