👋 Welcome to r/SecularFood - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

Hey everyone. I’m u/SpaceTrash1986, one of the founding moderators of r/SecularFood.

Welcome to the new neighbourhood.

This is a place for food without borders, sermons, purity tests or the usual internet committee meetings about what you're supposed to eat. r/SecularFood is India-centric, but the appetite is considerably less provincial. From beef to barramundi, from pork to pitha, from fish to phuchka, from kebabs to kimchi, from street food to grandmother’s kitchen, we’re here for the glorious, messy, occasionally obscene business of eating.

India is not one cuisine. It is a sprawling, argumentative, gloriously contradictory table of hundreds of cultures, communities, religions, regions and people, each convinced their way of feeding you is the correct way. Excellent. We like it that way.

What to Post

Post food. Post photographs. Post recipes, restaurant discoveries, family dishes, street-side miracles and things you found at the bottom of a market that looked suspicious but tasted fantastic.

Show us your Sunday lunch. Your midnight kebab. The pork curry your neighbour won't admit making. The fish your father bought because apparently the entire household needed to know he got the biggest one. The regional dish nobody outside your town has heard of. The spectacular failure that looked like food for approximately seventeen seconds because you were hungry in the
dead of night.

Talk about where it came from. Tell us the story behind it. Tell us why it matters.

And yes, "meat is food here". Beef, pork, chicken, mutton, fish, seafood, game: photograph it, cook it, argue about it, appreciate it. Vegetarian food is equally welcome. The point is not to establish a dietary hierarchy. The point is to eat well and be curious.

The Community Vibe

Think of this as a large, slightly unruly table where everybody brought something.

We don't care what god you pray to, don't pray to, or whether your only religious conviction is that the luchi should be properly puffed.

No communal food-policing. No purity contests. No tedious culture wars masquerading as culinary criticism. Disagree about recipes. Fight passionately over biryani. Defend your mother's cooking with the righteous fury of a Hangry Knight.

But leave the hatred at the door.

We're interested in food as culture, memory, history and pleasure, and in the wonderfully strange ways those things collide.

Be curious. Be funny. Be generous. If someone's eating something you've never seen before, ask about it before declaring it disgusting.

And for the love of everything holy, or gloriously unholy, don't put ketchup/mayo on everything and call it fusion.

How to Get Started

1. Introduce yourself below. Tell us where you're from and what you've been eating.
2. Post something. A photograph, a dish, a recipe, a market discovery, an old family food story whatever makes you hungry.
3. Tell a friend who appreciates food more than ideology.
4. Think you can help keep this beautiful mess running? We're looking for moderators. Drop me a message.

You're here early. There are no polished corridors, no velvet ropes and probably no moral policing inspectors in tights hiding behind the curtain.

Just food, photographs, stories, arguments, memories and the occasional plate of something spectacularly greasy.

Welcome to r/SecularFood.

Pull up a chair.

Bring your appetite.

And leave your dietary commandments at home.