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Re:Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking by rfrey on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:44PM (#32270940)
It's because they're the very basic sauces that "give birth" to all the others. It's not because it's a sauce your mother used to make.
Re:Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking by wizofaus on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:00PM (#32271080)
Which is not what GP was suggesting...

Though personally it seems a silly thing to get hung up on. I'd be more worried about the fact that for many the archetypical professional cook/chef is a man, and in fact men make up something like 75% of those who choose such a career, when it's abundantly clear that there are zero biological advantages to being male as a chef.

Re:Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking by klipt on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:51PM (#32270999)
"Ancestor sauce" works fine for that and is less pointlessly gendered.
Re:Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking by smegsicle on Thursday July 28, 2022 @11:19PM (#32272786)
wouldn't that make it pointlessly ungendered? do you feel that gender is inherently bad?