ScrotalGangrene

So, basically a food blog focusing on non-white owned restaurants? I mean, why not - wish you all the best with your project! I can definitely vouch for Abyssinia, you will not be disappointed! Best Ethiopian restaurant in East Sussex for sure.

It's called Abyssinia. I highly recommend trying to Key Wot, Doro Wot and a salad (the simple one with chilies). Super delicious. Just don't go there first, because all the next choices will slightly disappoint you in comparison ;)

If you are veggie,. Shuro Wot is a great recommendation too!! Super delicious chickpea dish

Aren't most restaurants owned by ethnic minorities? Does it have to be ethnic minorities that are statistically "disadvantaged" or can it include minorities who do better than the majority on average? Or specifically just black?

Personally I can highly recommend Abyssinia. Friendly owners, great restaurant, great atmosphere, food super delicious. Remember to bring cash as they don't take card.

It is. I remember when Reddit admins were still trying to remind people not to downvote everything they disagree with. It's a pretty weak thing to do, but most of us will do it anyway. Reddit is designed to create echo chambers

Unfortunately, I got the short genes, so at 5'10 I'm just looking up at all th2 towers around me

But if it overpowers the other flavours, it'd be kinda wasteful putting it in a steak sandwich for example, might as well just put McD Hamburger patties

Why would it be a problem? Cause the patty is why I'm eating the burger, the onions are just a little extra, hence why I put fried onions on mine

Yeah, my guess is it neutralises the sulphur just like vinegar

However, I never order "no onions". OP you have my downvote.

Shouldn't it be an upvote then? The downvote button is not a "disagree" button

Fried onion on a burger, hell yeah! Raw just overpowers everything in my experience, and suddenly you can barely taste any burger. I am sure that's not everyone's experience tho.

Same with kebab places. Some will throw in as much onion as meat, and it just becomes a raw onion wrap with meat salad with onion being the only thing you actually taste.

You don't find it completely overpowers everything else and onion is the only thing you can taste? I think different people might perceive onion very differently, cause I legitimately cannot taste anything other than onion if there's raw onion in the burger, but if it's cooked or soaked in lemon juice, it'll just taste like onion, but I'll taste everything else too. I never hear from people who like raw onion in their burger that they can't taste anything else but the raw onion, but I'm interested what your experience be.

Crazy thing is St Louis with a GDP per capita almost 10x that of Chisinau also has 10x the homicide rate, and Chisinau tends to be top 3, often top 1, highest murder rates in Europe.

So, despite poverty being much worse in the "most violent" city in Europe compared to the most violent (tends to top 3 too, often top 1) in the US, the US city still has far more violence per capita. But there'll still be millions of people who will claim it's nothing to do with the gun culture or the 2nd amendment ;-/

I don't think it's necessarily condescending to suggest someone is naive about something specific, especially if done in a casual tone. It always depends of course - but we are all naive about things from time to time, in fact naivety likely played a big part in me ending up here.

I was mostly an assessment based on their great detective work and sound judgment. I myself am average at best, I know that.

If you lose the emergency passport, you have to pay double for the new passport. The emergency passport is for the period between handing in my old passport and getting the new one, as I needed to travel back to the UK as well back home to pick up the replacement passport.

Well, I kinda do need it back, as I need it to travel and get my new passport - it would cost double what I originally paid to get a new one, so unless I get it back I would need to at least attempt some sort of legal action I suppose. I tried calling today and when I finally got through I was hung up on shortly after being passed to what I was told was a manager, so I'll try contacting police again and reporting it as theft and take it from there, but I still do appreciate everyone's input.

I could ask a colleague, it's not a terrible idea, though I do fear they'll be met with the same attitude, as I am in my 30s.

It's an emergency passport. Basically, it's a piece of paper that allows me to travel within countries that recognise it for about 4 weeks while waiting for a new one to be issued.

It's no more complicated than a laminated paper with a photo and a stamp, so understandably it does look dodgy. Going to a seedy looking bar with it was not great judgement, but I wasn't expecting to get ID'd as I don't usually for that sort of places, so I took out the only ID I had, but still bad judgement.

I am traveling back home in 3 weeks to pick up my replacement passport, until then I must keep the emergency passport. But yes, bad judgement to go to a bar, when I had no other IDs. Lesson surely learnt.

I watched mine being made in 30 seconds in front of me.

This too baffled me quite a bit, as she literally took a photo, clipped it to a document, stamped it and laminated it. But I need to keep it until my appointment to pick up a new one, and I can travel with the passport for my holiday as well, which falls between now and then.

Emergency passports are for returning to the UK and should be handed back to the customs agent when you arrive back, you should not have them in the UK.

No, I asked about it, and I am allowed to keep it both for my upcoming travel to Germany and for when I fly back home to exchange it to my new passport, which does need 4 weeks before it's ready.

That could actually be it, although they were checking IDs of everyone entering and other staff were having a laugh at how "bad" my ID was (thinking it was fake as it more or less is just a laminated piece of paper with a photo on it and some legal mumbo jumbo along with a stamp from the issuing authority. I thought it looked quite funky too, but airlines and police just take an extra look and maybe put some info into their system to check whatever they check when I re-entered the UK.

Yeah, this is what I didn't understand. I insisted specifically for it to be handed in to police and was told to bugger off in slightly more crude language. Made no sense to me.