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It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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I always thought that this was because you can't really copyright a recipe, but your spiel about how the hubs love cheese or whatever is where your copyright lives
I thought it was mostly for the purposes SEO because if you use enough nouns and adjectives by writing an essay or a short story then Google will naturally preference it in its search results.
Back in the day sometimes people used to dump SEO key terms at the bottom of a page back when crawlers used to be less refined so you'd see a list of nouns and adjectives related to the topic at the end, or they might be put into 1pt font or white font on a white background. Obviously as things developed crawlers would ignore this SEO stacking technique in favour of actually legible text written in sentences rather than a thesaurus dump, hence why people write short stories these days.
This doesn't explain why the stories come before the recipe instead of after.
Because that way heuristics show your readers "reading" that bullshit instead of just grabbing the recipe and fucking off, which means advertisers see your site as more likely to drive engagement and pay more for ad space. Those sites exist to be blank banners to shove ads onto, any actual material of worth is incidental.
And you can put more ads on the page during paragraph breaks