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The 22yo cook in this story? It me! (I did uncook the carrots for fam pretty bad). https://trib.al/xpX0n27
Idk this was a long time ago, and for me, reads as much as a condemnation of the culture at the time as it is of Dave himself. It’s certainly not absolution and I can’t speak on what working at momo is like today. For me it was a time of extremes, incredible highs and lows.
I worked like a dog in NYC but I put a lot of that on myself. And I started and maintained some really important relationships in my life. I also got a lot better at cooking. I also was traumatized in ways that took a long time to unpack.
I was afraid if Dave for a long time. But him and I started talking again a few years ago, and especially in this last year had some very frank and honest conversations - I’m not going to cape for the guy, he’s done real harm and caused real pain.
But, at least with me, we’ve crossed a lot of bridges and done a lot of processing and are in a better place. There no roadmap on how to account for or redeem yourself for participating in a exploitative system.
But when I talk to Dave now I hear a human and see the capacity for humans to change. I hope he keeps doing that work - it’s private, there’s no laurels, and it takes time and sacrifice - but it’s incredibly important.
I will say something that fucking irks me are the spicy takes saying “omfg what a monster” from the general public - dude that was the entire industry and none of y’all gave a flying fuck about any of us back then. And covid has shown that 95% of y’all still don’t.
“undercooked” ugh scalp me
Also lol I just realized I used “it me!” wrong because it was actually me. Ah joys of being old.
