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They closed down, a little over 10 years ago, after 20 years in business.If that's a store owner's sales pitch, I would not be surprised to learn they are have trouble staying in business.
They closed down, a little over 10 years ago, after 20 years in business.If that's a store owner's sales pitch, I would not be surprised to learn they are have trouble staying in business.
One of my snarkier friends suggested that the reason for the re-branding might have something to do with "alphabet soup" acquiring culture war connotations that soup-makers might prefer to avoid. I was going to dismiss the notion but some poking around shows it may have been at least partially co-opted as a dog whistle for LGBTQA+ so...maybe? If that's the reason I'm not happy about it.
I tried it with my dog once, and it definitely upset his stomach. He kept leaving little messages around the house.The same research informed me that you should not feed alphabet soup to your dog, although the shape of the noodles has nothing to do with it and they might even be more easily digested than longer traditional noodles. It's the garlic, onion, salt, colorings and preservatives that are bad for them. You'll have to either have to come up with a dog-safe home recipe or use another method to teach your dog to read.
Yeah, just in general dogs and human foods don't mix well. Even when they like the taste it's often bad for their inner workings. Easy to forget that just because live with us their digestive systems are very different, especially when they're begging.I tried it with my dog once, and it definitely upset his stomach. He kept leaving little messages around the house.
I was stunned when I read this, so I did a bit of poking around myself. Alphabet Soup is a metaphor for the abundance of abbreviations or acronyms that dates back to at least a far as FDR's alphabet soup of agencies of the New Deal. It also doesn't seem to necessarily be negatively used when applied to the LGBTQA+ community.One of my snarkier friends suggested that the reason for the re-branding might have something to do with "alphabet soup" acquiring culture war connotations that soup-makers might prefer to avoid. I was going to dismiss the notion but some poking around shows it may have been at least partially co-opted as a dog whistle for LGBTQA+ so...maybe? If that's the reason I'm not happy about it.
Yeah, I've seen it used to refer to government agencies as well, but typically in a pejorative sense.So, I have definitely seen "alphabet people" or "alphabet soup people" used pejoratively.
I will say that "alphabet soup", when used to complain about LGBTQ+ people, or even the proliferation of different identities within that community, definitely reads as a homophobic dog whistle.
That's not to say that there's not plenty of other use cases for the term, most of which can be said to be value neutral (though I'd argue that the term itself is inclined negatively), but I've very rarely, if ever,seen the term used positively (or even neutrally) to refer to queer people
That book by Bach that @Maxperson mentioned seems to indicate it isn't wholly seen as negative but yeah, I can see grounds for being cautious about usage to avoid misunderstandings.That's not to say that there's not plenty of other use cases for the term, most of which can be said to be value neutral (though I'd argue that the term itself is inclined negatively), but I've very rarely, if ever,seen the term used positively (or even neutrally) to refer to queer people
I've mostly encountered that in reference to intelligence agencies (US and otherwise) and it was definitely derogatory in those cases, but espionage in general tends to invite criticism on ethical grounds, so no surprise there. The US ones also get called three-letter shops/people sometimes, for obvious reasons.Yeah, I've seen it used to refer to government agencies as well, but typically in a pejorative sense.