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Its more associated with things you agree with that are controversial and even self admittedly ridiculous.

An example would be:

"I think you should be able to shoot sales people for ringing your doorbell"

"Based"

> a specific online subculture slang

But what online subculture? A cringe subculture? Isn't something that is positive to a cringe subculture cringe to everyone else?

more like "unapologetic" I think? also I think somewhat coopted by right wing folks more recently.

Would that explain why the list of recipes is almost entirely noon-vegetarian?

Being vegetarian is somewhat cringe, yes, especially if you conspicuously bring it up a lot.

Then again, there have been based vegetarians! So go and contribute your recipes!

I wouldn’t read that much into it. Depending on the origin of the author it might be that not eating meat is just not common.