Just a personal opinion but I always find it strange to have food and culinary threads in Cafe Society. Would it not be preferable to have a forum just for cooking related threads and another for media related threads (tv/movies/books etc)
I believe the Board Sachems like to encourage intermixing of different, yet compatible, topics, in order to foster serendipity of stumbling across threads that you were not looking for but end up enjoying. It also helps to avoid just becoming a database of information, of which there are already plenty.
You’ve been here coming on six years and never noticed this before? I think the snark X Y graph is a parabola. For newbies it’s rite of passage to see if they will pass muster. It then tapers off for a couple of years then picks up again the longer you are here, just because you should already know.
Oh, please. You don’t think it’s kind of funny that you don’t want food related threads in a form called "Cafe Society? Have you had your sense of humor checked by a professional lately?