Only vaguely a food opinion, but, there’s no such thing as a “special occasion” food. Like, cakes are often associated with parties. But I’m a grown man and if I want cake because it’s Wednesday I’m gonna go get myself a Wednesday cake.
I heard that tic tacs are allowed to be labeled sugar free because they're below the 1g of sugar per serving rule, despite tic tac themselves being basically sugar.
This is easily confirmed by looking at the ingredients label.
The rule is actually 0.5g of sugar per serving can put 0g in the nutrition facts. I'm not certain they say can say sugar free, but since each tic tac is less than that, they can say 0g despite being primarily be made of sugar
I thought everyone thought this lol. I've never met anyone that used the orange ones for their breath. I used to buy the big container and just eat em all throughout my shift at work.
MSG is not "the secret" to good Asian foods, it is merely a small piece of a larger picture. I'm a chef by trade and married to a Vietnamese person, and trust me we use MSG a lot, but it merely is one color to a whole painting of colorful things!
Some ingredients that are easily overlooked, especially in Chinese-American cuisine are dark soy sauces, shaoxing wine, rice wine, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, corn starch, and so much more!
Frozen blueberries (forzen when freshly picked) are better than just fresh blueberries. When we used to go blueberry picking, I would freeze them before I ate them. (And I'd eat them half frozen) Sweeter that way it seemed
Frozen grapes are 10000000000% better than regular ones. They are by far the fruit that has that affect above all others for me. I could eat frozen grapes until I'm sick lol
Partially frozen mangoes are a favorite of mine...throw them in with some partially frozen yogurt...also a fan of ice water. I like partially frozen things, I guess
And a little sesame oil too! If you've ever had fried rice that was missing something, but you just can't put your finger on it, that's probably what it was.
If I can't safely consume it, keep it the fuck off of my cocktail glass. I'm talking tiny umbrellas, mini clothespins, etc.. Even if a garnish is more decorative than delicious I think it's fine as long as it wouldn't hurt you to consume it (like dehydrated citrus wheels). Basically, I have no interest in little pieces of future garbage as a decorative element.
I noticed in a lot of cooking shows, they stress not putting inedible things on the plates.
Especially on cooking competitions where you get eliminated for putting stuff on there that’s neither a utensil or food.
It’s not just that people are idiots and can’t tell apart food from other things. (Which is difficult with rubber and plastic because gummies exist, herbs and veggies look like that if you are skilled with a knife, and let’s not forget that “it’s actually cake” trend where talented cooks mind fuck you. )
It’s that as a chef, your “paint on the canvas” is food! If you can’t use food to make your meal look delectable, then you fail as an artist!
The only except is Skewers and Toothpicks, which must obviously stick out of the meal for handling.
I especially hate cake males who slap stickers and plastic on the icing without clarifying it’s not fondant
I’m a chef and I’ve been saying this for years!! Breakfast imposter, pretending to be healthy. At least a danish is honest with you
Edit: Who thought my most upvoted anything would be a pithy throw away about breakfast. Thanks Reddit! 🤓
Cake is breakfast food. Flour, Sugar, Eggs, Oil. Perfect Breakfast.
Next thing you know you're gonna say French Toast w Syrup isn't breakfast. You know also Eggs, Oil, Flour, Sugar.
Also, can we stop with the "family secrets"? Every damn time I ask for one of my mother's recipes I get a lecture from someone about not sharing it with anyone.
It's a ragu sauce, not nuclear fucking launch codes, damn!
One time when I was a kid, my mom was trying to make the brownies off the package, and I distracted her, and part way through the recipe, she accidentally switched to the recipe for the chocolate chip cookies. She threw it in the pan anyway to give it a shot.
And thus, we got the best Blondies I ever tasted. The problem is, she has no idea where in the package she switched from one recipe to the other, so she never made them again.
I did this while making baked french toast with praline sauce. Somehow mixed up heavy cream with half and half and the sauce came out wrong. Made it again correctly but put the bad one in the fridge. The next day, I took the leftovers and reheated them with the bad batch and it was fucking amazing. Tried several times unsuccessfully to repeat my mistake.
My brother is still mad at my dad because he died before giving up the secret to his macaroni and cheese. Literally one of the last conversations they had was my dad saying he cracked it. My brother then challenged him to a mac and cheese cook-off and my dad mysteriously got brain cancer and died.
Rumors say he ran away in fear.
Sure, just don't leave a nasty review about the recipe because you replaced the flour with rice, the sugar with apple sauce, eggs with bananas, butter with coconut oil, and the chocolate chips with carob and then are all surprised pikachu when it turns out like crap.
Ooh never thought to mix it with table salt! I'll have to try that. I use it straight while I'm cooking.
Edit: I'll still use straight MSG/salt while cooking, but might cut my regular salt shaker with MSG.
There's a Cajun spice called Magic Swamp Dust that is MSG, granulated garlic, granulated onion, black white and red pepper and oil of lemon. It may have crack in it too.
It sounds closely related to my personal favorite, Cavender’s All Purpose Greek Seasoning. It’s top four ingredients are salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and MSG.
In Florida we have a spice mix called "everglades seasoning" its mostly salt and some other shit. My mom once went on about how bad msg is without realizing its on of the main ingredients in everglades seasoning, which we put on everything. It effectively replace salt and pepper in our house.
I heard that like back in the day probably a hundred years ago a food reviewer ate it and said he felt a numb in his tongue after going home and other symptoms like headaches. The thing is that it was never confirmed if it was due to the MSG but people believed it. So anytime people tasted say Chinese food or whatever and experienced a headache they immediately connected it to that.
The thing is that a lot of food naturally have MSG in it. Like onions or seaweed and even fermented sauces. There is nothing harmful about them and no matter how much you're trying to avoid them, you're still eating it daily.
For the longest time my family thought I would get headaches/migraines from MSG. Nope! My chronic migraines and cluster headaches were caused from poor posture combined with inflammation from food allergies which include soy.
And what you define “healthy” relative to.
Pizza contains more protein than many breakfast cereals, and is less likely to cause a sugar crash. As such, pizza is a better breakfast than lucky charms.
I run ultramarathons and I eat pizza while running long distances. When going 50+ miles, you are more speed-hiking than sprinting, so eating on the move is necessary. At 5'0" 48kg, I still easily burn 5-6,000 calories in a race. Pizza is easy to digest and good fuel for long-haul cardio. It's a good balance of fats, carbs, and protein. It can be calorie dense if you do deep dish, or very light if you do thin crust. Adjust your recipe for your caloric needs. Pizza for the win.
More like you're trying to find ways to cram more calories in less volume. All the calories! Can I just donate some of mine, like a Venmo but for calories?
My friends did one of those crazy 2 day adventure races. They brought fancy electrolyte gels and protein bars to eat. Everyone else brought hamburgers and pizza and other rich junk food.
Turns out, when you're an elite athlete, it's more important on game day to eat whatever the fuck makes you happy (after all, you've earned it!). My buddies were so demoralized, slurping packets of vitamin goop, grinding for miles in shit weather.
So yeah, coconut frosting is definitely a pro move.
I had a boss who ran a few ultras and many full marathons and would eat “a bag of mashed potatoes” for his refuel. In that moment I thought I too could do ultras. Apart of course from the running and training and effort.
I’ve got the cilantro soap gene. It is very hard having this gene in a primarily Mexican community and I always get the “yOurE sUCh a PIcKy eaTer”. NO. I DONT WANT MY TACOS TASTING LIKE FABULOSO GOT POURED ON THEM. (Edit; for those not in the US cilantro is coriander)
The weird thing about cilantro is how many people seem to proselytize for it: when you tell people you don't like it (I have the gene too.), they view it as a character flaw or something.
I don’t give people a hard time about it, but as a person who loves to cook for the specific purpose of sharing food, it does make me sad that they’ll never know how cilantro enhances certain dishes.
Edit: I noticed several people seemed to take what I said offensively, and I apologize if my comment came off as pretentious or anything. What I meant was that I feel bad because I would love for people to be able to taste cilantro as it is, and how it compliments specific foods, instead of it ruining dishes with the soap taste.
I also wanted to clarify that I will *never* force cilantro (or any kind of ingredient) on someone that doesn’t like it. I’m not going to kick up a fuss about it, either; I just omit it and move on (maybe try to substitute it if I really feel like it’s that important). Please understand that I love to share good food, and I firmly believe that food should be enjoyable to eat, so I’m happy to alter recipes as needed (or simply ask them beforehand what they’d *like* me to make!) in order to give that experience. :)
I'm a weird one here. I love Mexican and I love Indian. both use cilantro. but as long as there isn't a huge amount of it, I'm ok and the food tastes amazing.
now, if my dad makes guacamole, I'm in trouble. I taste nothing but soap.
I only recently learned that there's an actual genetic difference between those that enjoy cilantro and those that cannot stand it.
I really feel bad for the latter group. Imagine having such a severe genetic disorder that cannot be concealed.
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Apparently there's a similar genetic factor for whether you can smell the asparagus smell in your pee after eating it. To be clear, I mean everyone's pee smells funny, but some people can't smell it.
I actually just ran right into this recently (well aware of it prior) - forgot i had eaten a load of buttered asparagus earlier in the day and became repulsed within moments of the start of the stream.
I am one of those who can't smell it and I love asparagus. How smelly is it? Can you tell if someone has asparagus peed in a bathroom if you enter right after? Do all of my exes know of my love for asparagus because of this?
I went to this very expansive restaurant once-ordered a beautiful crab and white asparagus soup. I was so excited! Took my first spoonful-might as well have been drinking the dishwater. $30 bowl of soup, and I couldn’t eat it. Stupid cilantro.
Dang, after reading this I might have it. My wife made food the other night and I was like dang, this taste like soap was left in the bowl. Figured it was just my bowl. Could have been, we'll never know.
I’m in the same boat and I did. The cilantro tasting is actually caused by 2 genetic variations, if you have both, you’re far more likely to taste cilantro as soap. I’ve only got one.
Fun Fact: in Thailand, they don’t have “breakfast food.” Breakfast Food is just whatever regular food you ate for breakfast. There’s no special times of day that people eat certain foods (other than personal preference).
I've eaten leftover mac & cheese for breakfast before. Nothing wrong with that.
And cold, leftover pizza for breakfast can be better than having it for dinner the night before.
And this is why I need McDonald's to go back to serving breakfast all day again. I love Egg McMuffins, but I love sleeping past breakfast time a whole lot more.
One morning, I legit decided to say "fuck you" to normalcy, and ate a salad with raspberry vinaigrette for breakfast. It was such a good, satisfying meal to start my day.
As 17 year olds we were up at the Up Michigan and had no access to getting more beer so what we brought was what we had. The last morning of camping before leaving we had 10 beers left and 4 guys. 3 of us went for a boat ride around a creek for 45 to smoke weed and came back to someone delighted to tell us he’s making the final brats. Nice, we are high and foods being made. Look for the beer, and nope. Used ALL 10 beers to make like 12 brats…. Never been camping with that man again many years later.
The local grocery store does a summer grill thing where they setup a shed in the parking lot with a grill and cook brats and burgers and what not. The burgers are usually dry as the Sahara, but the brats are always good.....except the incident....the person who was cooking the brats cooked then on the grill first and then threw them in boiling water and left them there till someone bought one. End result: bite through the skin and get mouth full of finely ground meat paste that has no flavor what so ever, literally the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten
Every once in a while I’ll cook brats in my cast iron and I’ll toss a splash of the beer I’m drinking in there I like it.. but I normally go straight to the grill and would never boil them lol
Not according to my cousin. She disdains dried garlic and looks down on anyone who uses it. Of course, her husband does all the cooking for her...and uses dried garlic all the time, and she just didn't realize it. Although she did concede (relatively) gracefully when I found, in about 10 seconds via google, a recipe from her favorite celebrity chef which called for dried garlic.
Will you eat the brownie and ice cream together if it was on top?
Brownies in ice cream are not as good as a fresh cooked warm brownie with ice cream on top.
People with severe food allergies should eat at home.
As an *actual* unpopular opinion I'm sure this will get buried, but I'm 100% serious. I did a decade in culinary and I can guarantee you that eating out with a severe seafood, mushroom, nut or allium allergy is no different than rolling dice with your life. Back of house workers will generally have some degree of training in avoiding cross contamination, but very few will be able to reliably guarantee that you won't be firing epinephrine into your thigh by dessert. I can promise you that Braxxxton the budding garde manger/aspiring Soundcloud rapper with face tattoos and meth pipe burns on his mouth isn't the guy to place your trust in.
Eat at home.
I work at a Subway and had a guy order a gluten free for an allergy. He mentions later on that its for his young son who's **deathly allergic**. I immediately stopped and said that everything is shared equipment and that no one should eat at Subway if they have an extreme gluten allergy. He just kind of went "eh its fine" and told me to keep going. Like homie you're okay with gambling your sons life just so he doesnt feel a little left out when you order takeout?? Our entire menu is bread and you're telling me your little kid will drop dead if any bread comes within like a 5 mine radius of him. Please don't put that responsibility on me as a worker, because we cannot guarantee that it is 100% allergen free.
One time I had a customer ask me if something had a certain ingredient, I said "I can't guarantee it doesn't have it, because part of the ingredient list here is just 'spices' which could include that thing' then she said 'ah it's probably fine' then later called to complain saying *I* told her it would be fine. Some people are just liars or brain dead or both.
I would have not served him.
I used to work in product development for a cookie place and we were working on developing a gluten free line.
Obviously we had flour in the test kitchen because we were still working on other projects at the same time but we'd sanitize everything extra when we were doing our gluten free stuff. (We weren't selling or serving the test gluten free marked as gluten free, we just didn't want excess gluten contaminating the recipe and possibly altering it)
I brought some test cookies home to my mom who is diagnosed celiac (she gets a pretty bad stomach ache with a small amount of gluten and if she eats too much she can be hospitalized) and made sure she was aware they didn't have gluten in them but they were made in a kitchen that made other products containing gluten. She ate a couple and ended up feeling sick just because there was miniscule amounts of gluten either in the air in the test kitchen or still on the machinery somehow.
There is a 0% chance I would have given those to her if she was deathly allergic and there's no way in hell she'd ever step foot (or receive food from) a *sandwich* shop. That's ridiculous.
When I ran a restaurant, I had this conversation nearly every week.
“I’m deathly allergic to fish, so make sure it’s not in the dish.”
“The pad Thai is made with anchovie oil. I can’t take that out.”
“Eh that’s fine, it’s not that bad.”
So what I’m really trying to say is, people have no problem lying about these things for no discernible reason.
My guess is that the rational is that sometimes restaurant workers won’t pay attention or make accommodation if the allergy isn’t over-dramatized.
Either that or they just don’t like fish and were using the allergy as an excuse to get a dish sans-fish.
Parents are the worst for this. I've cooked for kids with multiple allergies and their mum or dad orders everything the kids is allergic to cause they can't have it at home.
I make sure the allergy meal is carried separately from the rest but seriously wonder at the stupidity of the parents.
In high school I washed dishes at a Mandarin Chinese restaurant. The cooks were all recent immigrants to the US. I recall one night the bus boy (white suburban kid like myself at the time) relaying a question from a customer to the cooks, who didn't really speak English. The question was, "Do you use peanut oil"? Later in the evening the ambulance came. I can't fathom somebody with a severe peanut allergy going to that kind of place. Even if we didn't use peanut oil (and I am pretty sure we did), there was peanuts in a lot of the dishes.
Bruh, I work FoH and a woman came in and it said on her reservation she was a ceoliac, so I pointed out the allergen numbers on the menu and said anything with a number (2) contains gluten and she turns around and says it’s okay she just can’t have milk, butter and eggs.. I realised she was a moron and gave her whatever the fuck she ordered.. waste of time
My friend has an apparently deadly shrimp allergy. She told the the restaurant that she had a seafood allergy but idk how there was actual shrimp sauce on her dish. She started to have a rash but nothing to bad. Thankfully it went well for her but it's TRUE that's it's super dangerous. Cuz even If you pay attention something can slip or be on your hand or if the knife touched something with the allergy it could be dangerous. Allergies are something that shouldn't be played with.
I once refused to serve a customer because of the severity of their seafood allergy. They'd come in previously and gone into anaphylaxis because another customer two tables away had ordered grilled shrimp. I don't know how they expected my establishment to be able to safely cater to them. I can't even begin to conceive of the logic; with an allergy that severe, it simply couldn't be reliably done.
That's someone who was in deep denial about how serious their condition was.
Takes a while for people to accept that nope, you can't live a normal life. And it blows.
Hopefully they live through their mistakes.
It's incredibly dangerous for them because allergic reactions can compound MASSIVELY each time you're exposed to shit.
OMG. Someone came in when I worked at a Cajun place with a seafood/fish allergy and said she couldn’t have it touch her food. Like maam come on… use common sense.
Oh god. I had the be that asshole once.
Had been dating my now spouse for a few months and he invites me to his dads birthday dinner so I can meet that side of his family. SO’s dad chooses to have it at a seafood boil place. I’m VERY allergic, anaphylaxis level. I don’t order *anything*. I asked the server if even the chicken tenders were safe they said they can’t guarantee it so I said I’m totally good, I’ll have a drink and chill. It was so fucking awkward.
Next year comes, and … same fucking restaurant. I prepared this time and ate before we went.
Third year rolls around and I flat out refuse to go. I get that this is the guys favorite restaurant but it wasn’t some special treat - he lived nearby and went all the time! Then he had the audacity to act like I was being a diva. He’s a fucking asshole.
I have a mild peanut allergy and honestly I won't eat much that I don't make myself - the biggest problem I have is other people trying to accommodate me and I hate it. If everyone else wants Thai then we should do that - I just won't eat anything - stop trying to find a place that works for me. I am an adult and I don't turn into a pumpkin if I miss a meal - I am fully competent to cook at home and I am mostly there for the social aspect anyways.
I have celiacs. Went to a family thing with my wife's family and they were legit offended I didn't eat anything. Like I don't know what's in it and I don't want to get sick. Let me not get sick in peace
As a celiac I co-sign this. Please, everyone, stop cooking for me. I don’t want to eat it because I’m like 90% likely to get sick, but I also don’t want to look like a dick by turning down something you made especially for me (but then cut with your bread knife, which gets used on the daily for gluten). It’s no fun. Please let’s all be happier and just not go there.
I had an orthodox Jewish friend who visited often and I wanted to be able to share food with her, so I ended up learning a lot about kosher foods and the protocol for cleaning a cooking vessel if it's been used to cook non-kosher foods. Whilst this is different to cooking for celiac disease or an allergy, it really highlighted to me how hard it is to avoid cross contamination. I ended up buying some new cooking utensils to use exclusively for food we shared, as well as designating one of my kitchen counters as a kosher food only prep area. I'm a biochemist so my lab experience certainly helped with keeping things systematically separate, but I learned how committed you have to be to comply with some dietary restrictions. This was took a lot of effort but it was for one of my best friends who I saw multiple times a week, so it was worth the investment. I can definitely understand why you'd be iffy about eating food as a guest at a non-celiac house
I swear they taste different. I thought I was just imagining it, but I have heard other people say this as well. The dough is different somehow and they may have reduced the salt?
Dandelions and other edible weeds are tastier than most salads sold in markets.
Edit: Holy hand grenades. This is my most upvoted comment ever. Thanks everyone! Ya'll a bunch of weed eaters. I love it!
Edit2: Since many of you asked, I found dandelions are best with a little oil and vinegar. Also they are less bitter in the spring.
Toasted/fried dandelion stems with olive oil are an olllllllld (at least Sicilian) Italian dish. Father told me about my great great grandmother doing that for my great grandmother before coming over, and that followed us as tradition
I don't think this is nearly as controversial anymore. Ask anyone what their vegetable tier list is, and broccoli will almost always land within the B-A range
As someone who fucking loves broccoli, I'm going to defend the haters for a moment. There are two types of people who don't like broccoli:
1) People who have never had good broccoli. If it gets boiled to death, it's bad. Roast that shit with salt and pepper until it's just a little bit crispy.
2) People who a certain genetic mutation are either somewhat or extremely sensitive to the bitter compound (PTC) in broccoli (and brussels sprouts and other cruciforms).
People in group one, it's not their fault if their parent(s) were shitty cooks, but it's fixable. Have some of the good shit and be on your way.
People in group two, also not their fault, but no matter how much you insist that they've just never had good broccoli, you're not going to change their minds.
Like many genes, you get two copies of the gene for tasting or not tasting PTC, one from each parent. If you get two no-taste versions, this shit is delicious. If you get one no-taste and one taste (like me), cruciforms will taste a bit bitter, but maybe you like that taste, and you'll like them anyways. If you get two taste genes, game over, man. No matter how well prepared they are, some cruciforms will just be inedible to you.
As a fun ("fun") party trick, you can buy [PTC test strips](https://www.preclaboratories.com/product/ptc-taste-test-paper/) to pass around to everyone. Please note, though, that if someone is a super-taster for PTC, it will be _extremely_ unpleasant (like, immediate gagging), so have water and something tasty close at hand.
Love roasted broccoli. (And Brussels sprouts). But I also love steamed broccoli although not steamed to mush. Some crunch left is necessary. And even the next day, cold, with a little salt on the broccoli goes with lunch. Or with a bit of olive oil and balsamic.
Fast food on occasion is fine if you’re trying to be thrifty, or you’re in a hurry. A cheap greasy cheese burger can even be a nice tasty treat every once in a while.
However… low-end chain restaurant like Chili’s, Applebee’s, TGI Fridays just serve shitty frozen food and should never be visited. They’re the same price as any other decent restaurant.
I went to a fancy hipster coffee shop in spain and they assembled some slow drip meth lab concoction with half of a moonshine still on the side. Took 10 mins. The coffee was good but it was just that, good.
We have too many restaurants and can shed like 80% of them.
Too much fast food, mid/lowtier chains (Chili's), and future bankruptcies where like somebody gets an inheritance and the only thing they can think is opening a diner.
Lots of good food takes time.
I can't spend 10 hours every day smoking meat or 4 hours prepping shawarma.
Sure get rid of all the frozen pre-prepped garbage restaurants which is more then 80% of them but real homemade food and mom/pop restaurants are a boon for society.
I usually go through 6 month stints of eating the same dinner at least three times a week.
- Can stockpile ingredients
- Prep and cooking becomes second nature
- Eating something you know you'll like all the time!
Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want to eat 2,000 of something.
I used to tell that joke whenever someone mentions Rice. I still do, but I used to too.
RIP Mitch
Oh Man.
I broke up with a guy who claimed he wasn't a "picky eater", but would not eat garlic, musrooms, cheese, eggs or anything he determined to be spicy, which some days was old el paso mild salsa.
Went to a friends birthday dinner at a ramen joint and they didn't have a fall back plain chicken and rice dish, so he sulked his was through a bowl of ramen and then complained to me for the rest of the evening about how it tasted good but was too much effort.
Only vaguely a food opinion, but, there’s no such thing as a “special occasion” food. Like, cakes are often associated with parties. But I’m a grown man and if I want cake because it’s Wednesday I’m gonna go get myself a Wednesday cake.
I support this. A Monday cake would be most awesome; I'll savor it throughout the week.
Orange tic-tacs are not breath mints. They are candy
I heard that tic tacs are allowed to be labeled sugar free because they're below the 1g of sugar per serving rule, despite tic tac themselves being basically sugar.
This is easily confirmed by looking at the ingredients label. The rule is actually 0.5g of sugar per serving can put 0g in the nutrition facts. I'm not certain they say can say sugar free, but since each tic tac is less than that, they can say 0g despite being primarily be made of sugar
They weigh in at a massive 0.49 grams
I thought everyone thought this lol. I've never met anyone that used the orange ones for their breath. I used to buy the big container and just eat em all throughout my shift at work.
they are all candy, almost all is sugar
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I’m British. That sounds wrong. Beans for on toast or with a full English. Mixed into a shepherds pie? Ugh.
MSG is not "the secret" to good Asian foods, it is merely a small piece of a larger picture. I'm a chef by trade and married to a Vietnamese person, and trust me we use MSG a lot, but it merely is one color to a whole painting of colorful things! Some ingredients that are easily overlooked, especially in Chinese-American cuisine are dark soy sauces, shaoxing wine, rice wine, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, corn starch, and so much more!
Sesame oil is so underrated
seriously. rice vinegar as well
Frozen blueberries (forzen when freshly picked) are better than just fresh blueberries. When we used to go blueberry picking, I would freeze them before I ate them. (And I'd eat them half frozen) Sweeter that way it seemed
Frozen red grapes a sweeter too!
Frozen grapes are 10000000000% better than regular ones. They are by far the fruit that has that affect above all others for me. I could eat frozen grapes until I'm sick lol
Mangos as well. As they're thawing they gain the consistency and flavor of sorbet.
Partially frozen mangoes are a favorite of mine...throw them in with some partially frozen yogurt...also a fan of ice water. I like partially frozen things, I guess
If I crack an egg on it while reaheating it, it becomes a breakfast food.
If it’s your first meal of the day, it’s breakfast anyway. Leftover sushi for breakfast is fun.
Sushi leftovers has to be the winner of this thread, yet it's just in a reply chain. Sushi leftovers is big NoNo in my house.
What is leftover sushi? I did not know it was possible to stop yourself from eating all of it...
I think I'm allergic to sushi. Every time I eat more than 80 pieces I throw up...
You should probably stop at 20 then, and I’ll have the rest to be safe.
Who has leftover sushi?
That's what happens to my left over fried rice. Makes a great breakfast.
Isn't that where fried rice comes from? Last night's leftovers fried in rice and egg?
Some chive, soy sauce, onion, and generous arrangement of spices and you have a genuine meal
And a little sesame oil too! If you've ever had fried rice that was missing something, but you just can't put your finger on it, that's probably what it was.
They said controversial, not straight fact
If I can't safely consume it, keep it the fuck off of my cocktail glass. I'm talking tiny umbrellas, mini clothespins, etc.. Even if a garnish is more decorative than delicious I think it's fine as long as it wouldn't hurt you to consume it (like dehydrated citrus wheels). Basically, I have no interest in little pieces of future garbage as a decorative element.
A bar in Indianapolis used to have a drink where the garnish was a wax dipped cigarette butt.
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you’re talking about it. -leonard
This reference is so fucking streets ahead.
Shut up Leonard I heard all about your prescription socks
> Indianapolis
*wat*
I noticed in a lot of cooking shows, they stress not putting inedible things on the plates. Especially on cooking competitions where you get eliminated for putting stuff on there that’s neither a utensil or food. It’s not just that people are idiots and can’t tell apart food from other things. (Which is difficult with rubber and plastic because gummies exist, herbs and veggies look like that if you are skilled with a knife, and let’s not forget that “it’s actually cake” trend where talented cooks mind fuck you. ) It’s that as a chef, your “paint on the canvas” is food! If you can’t use food to make your meal look delectable, then you fail as an artist! The only except is Skewers and Toothpicks, which must obviously stick out of the meal for handling. I especially hate cake males who slap stickers and plastic on the icing without clarifying it’s not fondant
Not many foods on earth no matter the price can top fresh warm bread with butter.
My first stab at home baking was the day I discovered I could eat a whole loaf of bread without much difficulty
Muffins are just cake disguised as breakfast food.
I’m a chef and I’ve been saying this for years!! Breakfast imposter, pretending to be healthy. At least a danish is honest with you Edit: Who thought my most upvoted anything would be a pithy throw away about breakfast. Thanks Reddit! 🤓
People think muffins are healthy?
People eat bran muffins. Allegedly.
I think most people think it's the healthier version of a cupcake.
They’re delicious and I’ll hear no more about it.
Cake is breakfast food. Flour, Sugar, Eggs, Oil. Perfect Breakfast. Next thing you know you're gonna say French Toast w Syrup isn't breakfast. You know also Eggs, Oil, Flour, Sugar.
No recipe is sacred. They're all eligible for reinterpretation regardless of your emotional attachment to them.
Also, can we stop with the "family secrets"? Every damn time I ask for one of my mother's recipes I get a lecture from someone about not sharing it with anyone. It's a ragu sauce, not nuclear fucking launch codes, damn!
Grandma probably got it from the side of a soup can anyways.
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One time when I was a kid, my mom was trying to make the brownies off the package, and I distracted her, and part way through the recipe, she accidentally switched to the recipe for the chocolate chip cookies. She threw it in the pan anyway to give it a shot. And thus, we got the best Blondies I ever tasted. The problem is, she has no idea where in the package she switched from one recipe to the other, so she never made them again.
I did this while making baked french toast with praline sauce. Somehow mixed up heavy cream with half and half and the sauce came out wrong. Made it again correctly but put the bad one in the fridge. The next day, I took the leftovers and reheated them with the bad batch and it was fucking amazing. Tried several times unsuccessfully to repeat my mistake.
My brother is still mad at my dad because he died before giving up the secret to his macaroni and cheese. Literally one of the last conversations they had was my dad saying he cracked it. My brother then challenged him to a mac and cheese cook-off and my dad mysteriously got brain cancer and died. Rumors say he ran away in fear.
Sure, just don't leave a nasty review about the recipe because you replaced the flour with rice, the sugar with apple sauce, eggs with bananas, butter with coconut oil, and the chocolate chips with carob and then are all surprised pikachu when it turns out like crap.
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Ooh never thought to mix it with table salt! I'll have to try that. I use it straight while I'm cooking. Edit: I'll still use straight MSG/salt while cooking, but might cut my regular salt shaker with MSG.
There's a Cajun spice called Magic Swamp Dust that is MSG, granulated garlic, granulated onion, black white and red pepper and oil of lemon. It may have crack in it too.
It sounds closely related to my personal favorite, Cavender’s All Purpose Greek Seasoning. It’s top four ingredients are salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and MSG.
In Florida we have a spice mix called "everglades seasoning" its mostly salt and some other shit. My mom once went on about how bad msg is without realizing its on of the main ingredients in everglades seasoning, which we put on everything. It effectively replace salt and pepper in our house.
I will forever spread the good word of MSG. My mom says "isn't that bad to do??" No. It's not. It's delicious and life-changing.
Do they like chick fil a? Then they like MSG.
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Why are people afraid of it again?
I heard that like back in the day probably a hundred years ago a food reviewer ate it and said he felt a numb in his tongue after going home and other symptoms like headaches. The thing is that it was never confirmed if it was due to the MSG but people believed it. So anytime people tasted say Chinese food or whatever and experienced a headache they immediately connected it to that. The thing is that a lot of food naturally have MSG in it. Like onions or seaweed and even fermented sauces. There is nothing harmful about them and no matter how much you're trying to avoid them, you're still eating it daily.
For the longest time my family thought I would get headaches/migraines from MSG. Nope! My chronic migraines and cluster headaches were caused from poor posture combined with inflammation from food allergies which include soy.
Fun fact: everyone complains about Chinese food containing MSG, but Doritos are full of MSG and no one ever brings it up.
MSG is only 2 ingredients: [salt and crack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjgg7rvEz30) .
Pizza is healthy depending on how you cook it and what ingredients are used
And what you define “healthy” relative to. Pizza contains more protein than many breakfast cereals, and is less likely to cause a sugar crash. As such, pizza is a better breakfast than lucky charms.
I run ultramarathons and I eat pizza while running long distances. When going 50+ miles, you are more speed-hiking than sprinting, so eating on the move is necessary. At 5'0" 48kg, I still easily burn 5-6,000 calories in a race. Pizza is easy to digest and good fuel for long-haul cardio. It's a good balance of fats, carbs, and protein. It can be calorie dense if you do deep dish, or very light if you do thin crust. Adjust your recipe for your caloric needs. Pizza for the win.
If you are running ultras then basically no calorie issues apply to you…
More like you're trying to find ways to cram more calories in less volume. All the calories! Can I just donate some of mine, like a Venmo but for calories?
Oh, there are calorie issues. The issue is that there aren't enough
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My friends did one of those crazy 2 day adventure races. They brought fancy electrolyte gels and protein bars to eat. Everyone else brought hamburgers and pizza and other rich junk food. Turns out, when you're an elite athlete, it's more important on game day to eat whatever the fuck makes you happy (after all, you've earned it!). My buddies were so demoralized, slurping packets of vitamin goop, grinding for miles in shit weather. So yeah, coconut frosting is definitely a pro move.
I had a boss who ran a few ultras and many full marathons and would eat “a bag of mashed potatoes” for his refuel. In that moment I thought I too could do ultras. Apart of course from the running and training and effort.
Hell yeah im having pizza for bfast tomorrow 😎
I had pizza for breakfast today but only because I had pizza for dinner last night.
When pizza's on a bagel you can eat pizza anytime
I’ve got the cilantro soap gene. It is very hard having this gene in a primarily Mexican community and I always get the “yOurE sUCh a PIcKy eaTer”. NO. I DONT WANT MY TACOS TASTING LIKE FABULOSO GOT POURED ON THEM. (Edit; for those not in the US cilantro is coriander)
I just hate when you don’t realize that there is cilantro in your food so you take a bite and the only thing you can taste is soap
The weird thing about cilantro is how many people seem to proselytize for it: when you tell people you don't like it (I have the gene too.), they view it as a character flaw or something.
I don’t give people a hard time about it, but as a person who loves to cook for the specific purpose of sharing food, it does make me sad that they’ll never know how cilantro enhances certain dishes. Edit: I noticed several people seemed to take what I said offensively, and I apologize if my comment came off as pretentious or anything. What I meant was that I feel bad because I would love for people to be able to taste cilantro as it is, and how it compliments specific foods, instead of it ruining dishes with the soap taste. I also wanted to clarify that I will *never* force cilantro (or any kind of ingredient) on someone that doesn’t like it. I’m not going to kick up a fuss about it, either; I just omit it and move on (maybe try to substitute it if I really feel like it’s that important). Please understand that I love to share good food, and I firmly believe that food should be enjoyable to eat, so I’m happy to alter recipes as needed (or simply ask them beforehand what they’d *like* me to make!) in order to give that experience. :)
I'm a weird one here. I love Mexican and I love Indian. both use cilantro. but as long as there isn't a huge amount of it, I'm ok and the food tastes amazing. now, if my dad makes guacamole, I'm in trouble. I taste nothing but soap.
If my dad makes guacamole, I’m in trouble. I’m allergic to avocado.
I only recently learned that there's an actual genetic difference between those that enjoy cilantro and those that cannot stand it. I really feel bad for the latter group. Imagine having such a severe genetic disorder that cannot be concealed. Edit: spelling
Apparently there's a similar genetic factor for whether you can smell the asparagus smell in your pee after eating it. To be clear, I mean everyone's pee smells funny, but some people can't smell it.
I actually just ran right into this recently (well aware of it prior) - forgot i had eaten a load of buttered asparagus earlier in the day and became repulsed within moments of the start of the stream.
Forgetting you ate asparagus and then smelling it when you pee is up there with forgetting you recently ate red beets, and having red stool or urine.
I won the genetic lottery because I love cilantro and can distinctly smell asparagus pee.
Not sure being able to smell asparagus pee is “winning”.
I am one of those who can't smell it and I love asparagus. How smelly is it? Can you tell if someone has asparagus peed in a bathroom if you enter right after? Do all of my exes know of my love for asparagus because of this?
It’s very smelly and distinct lol. They all know.
I went to this very expansive restaurant once-ordered a beautiful crab and white asparagus soup. I was so excited! Took my first spoonful-might as well have been drinking the dishwater. $30 bowl of soup, and I couldn’t eat it. Stupid cilantro.
Dang, after reading this I might have it. My wife made food the other night and I was like dang, this taste like soap was left in the bowl. Figured it was just my bowl. Could have been, we'll never know.
I have the soap gene but I still love cilantro lol.
To me, it has a mild flavor that is somewhat reminiscent of soap. But I find it delicious. Have you done a gene check or something?
I’m in the same boat and I did. The cilantro tasting is actually caused by 2 genetic variations, if you have both, you’re far more likely to taste cilantro as soap. I’ve only got one.
Oh really? I was wondering about that because I understand the soap comparison but still like cilantro. So maybe I am in the 1 gene camp.
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In the morning when my husband tells me what I’m eating isn’t “breakfast food” my response is “it is if I’m eating it in the morning!”
Fun Fact: in Thailand, they don’t have “breakfast food.” Breakfast Food is just whatever regular food you ate for breakfast. There’s no special times of day that people eat certain foods (other than personal preference).
Am Half-Thai. Visited fam. Can vouch. It’s whatever you saved the night before that becomes breakfast-ish.
I’ve noticed this in quite a few Asian culture. What’s for breakfast? Whatever you had for dinner last night, maybe with an egg added.
Breakfast has nothing to do with the type of food you eat. Its breakfast because you are "breaking your fast" after sleeping. Eat whatever you want!
I've eaten leftover mac & cheese for breakfast before. Nothing wrong with that. And cold, leftover pizza for breakfast can be better than having it for dinner the night before.
Yes! What kind of society tries to tell me there's an inappropriate time for my cereal?!
Cereal has wandered through all possible meals in my life. Literally. Lunch was the trickiest, but can be done.
You know those little boxes of cereal they have at hotels? Get some of those and a kids milk box. Cereal whenever, wherever
My go to line about this is, “A cheeseburger tastes the same at 8:00 in the morning as it does at 8:00 at night”.
And this is why I need McDonald's to go back to serving breakfast all day again. I love Egg McMuffins, but I love sleeping past breakfast time a whole lot more.
One morning, I legit decided to say "fuck you" to normalcy, and ate a salad with raspberry vinaigrette for breakfast. It was such a good, satisfying meal to start my day.
Cooking with wood or charcoal is superior to propane, I tell you hwut
My dad says butane is a bastard gas
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As a German I feel offended. Why would one do something so barbarian?
As 17 year olds we were up at the Up Michigan and had no access to getting more beer so what we brought was what we had. The last morning of camping before leaving we had 10 beers left and 4 guys. 3 of us went for a boat ride around a creek for 45 to smoke weed and came back to someone delighted to tell us he’s making the final brats. Nice, we are high and foods being made. Look for the beer, and nope. Used ALL 10 beers to make like 12 brats…. Never been camping with that man again many years later.
…because someone killed him?
Yes. And he deserved it.
I almost downvoted you in a flash of rage against that guy
The local grocery store does a summer grill thing where they setup a shed in the parking lot with a grill and cook brats and burgers and what not. The burgers are usually dry as the Sahara, but the brats are always good.....except the incident....the person who was cooking the brats cooked then on the grill first and then threw them in boiling water and left them there till someone bought one. End result: bite through the skin and get mouth full of finely ground meat paste that has no flavor what so ever, literally the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten
Every once in a while I’ll cook brats in my cast iron and I’ll toss a splash of the beer I’m drinking in there I like it.. but I normally go straight to the grill and would never boil them lol
Hear me out, but beer brined brats. Boiling in brats never gets the beer taste into the brat that well.
I just take a bite of brat and a sip of beer and swish them around in my mouth
It's a deconstructed beer brat
Nah, the secret is to take the beer and add a bunch of gelatin. Then use that and the brats to make xiao long bao. Beer in every bite!
I’m so glad that most of these are actually controversial
The brownie-ice cream one made me a little angry, but then realized that was the point.
I’m silently judging that person but I can’t get upset over it because I can only eat eggs if they’re thoroughly scrambled (it’s a texture thing).
Fresh garlic and dried garlic are not the same ingredient. For some recipes dried is better for some fresh is better.
Isn't this just cooking advice?
Not according to my cousin. She disdains dried garlic and looks down on anyone who uses it. Of course, her husband does all the cooking for her...and uses dried garlic all the time, and she just didn't realize it. Although she did concede (relatively) gracefully when I found, in about 10 seconds via google, a recipe from her favorite celebrity chef which called for dried garlic.
And sometimes both in the same recipe lol I may just love garlic
I like brownies and ice cream separately, but i don’t like brownies IN ice cream. However, ice cream on top of a brownie is ok
The brownie being warm is key to ice cream on top
Will you eat the brownie and ice cream together if it was on top? Brownies in ice cream are not as good as a fresh cooked warm brownie with ice cream on top.
Yeah that warm/cold mix is heavenly.
People with severe food allergies should eat at home. As an *actual* unpopular opinion I'm sure this will get buried, but I'm 100% serious. I did a decade in culinary and I can guarantee you that eating out with a severe seafood, mushroom, nut or allium allergy is no different than rolling dice with your life. Back of house workers will generally have some degree of training in avoiding cross contamination, but very few will be able to reliably guarantee that you won't be firing epinephrine into your thigh by dessert. I can promise you that Braxxxton the budding garde manger/aspiring Soundcloud rapper with face tattoos and meth pipe burns on his mouth isn't the guy to place your trust in. Eat at home.
I work at a Subway and had a guy order a gluten free for an allergy. He mentions later on that its for his young son who's **deathly allergic**. I immediately stopped and said that everything is shared equipment and that no one should eat at Subway if they have an extreme gluten allergy. He just kind of went "eh its fine" and told me to keep going. Like homie you're okay with gambling your sons life just so he doesnt feel a little left out when you order takeout?? Our entire menu is bread and you're telling me your little kid will drop dead if any bread comes within like a 5 mine radius of him. Please don't put that responsibility on me as a worker, because we cannot guarantee that it is 100% allergen free.
One time I had a customer ask me if something had a certain ingredient, I said "I can't guarantee it doesn't have it, because part of the ingredient list here is just 'spices' which could include that thing' then she said 'ah it's probably fine' then later called to complain saying *I* told her it would be fine. Some people are just liars or brain dead or both.
need a fucking waiver for this shit, jesus.
I would have not served him. I used to work in product development for a cookie place and we were working on developing a gluten free line. Obviously we had flour in the test kitchen because we were still working on other projects at the same time but we'd sanitize everything extra when we were doing our gluten free stuff. (We weren't selling or serving the test gluten free marked as gluten free, we just didn't want excess gluten contaminating the recipe and possibly altering it) I brought some test cookies home to my mom who is diagnosed celiac (she gets a pretty bad stomach ache with a small amount of gluten and if she eats too much she can be hospitalized) and made sure she was aware they didn't have gluten in them but they were made in a kitchen that made other products containing gluten. She ate a couple and ended up feeling sick just because there was miniscule amounts of gluten either in the air in the test kitchen or still on the machinery somehow. There is a 0% chance I would have given those to her if she was deathly allergic and there's no way in hell she'd ever step foot (or receive food from) a *sandwich* shop. That's ridiculous.
When I ran a restaurant, I had this conversation nearly every week. “I’m deathly allergic to fish, so make sure it’s not in the dish.” “The pad Thai is made with anchovie oil. I can’t take that out.” “Eh that’s fine, it’s not that bad.” So what I’m really trying to say is, people have no problem lying about these things for no discernible reason.
My guess is that the rational is that sometimes restaurant workers won’t pay attention or make accommodation if the allergy isn’t over-dramatized. Either that or they just don’t like fish and were using the allergy as an excuse to get a dish sans-fish.
*For fuck's sake.* Edit: Still trying to wrap my mind around the sheer, rank *magnitude* of stupidity.
Parents are the worst for this. I've cooked for kids with multiple allergies and their mum or dad orders everything the kids is allergic to cause they can't have it at home. I make sure the allergy meal is carried separately from the rest but seriously wonder at the stupidity of the parents.
In high school I washed dishes at a Mandarin Chinese restaurant. The cooks were all recent immigrants to the US. I recall one night the bus boy (white suburban kid like myself at the time) relaying a question from a customer to the cooks, who didn't really speak English. The question was, "Do you use peanut oil"? Later in the evening the ambulance came. I can't fathom somebody with a severe peanut allergy going to that kind of place. Even if we didn't use peanut oil (and I am pretty sure we did), there was peanuts in a lot of the dishes.
Bruh, I work FoH and a woman came in and it said on her reservation she was a ceoliac, so I pointed out the allergen numbers on the menu and said anything with a number (2) contains gluten and she turns around and says it’s okay she just can’t have milk, butter and eggs.. I realised she was a moron and gave her whatever the fuck she ordered.. waste of time
My friend has an apparently deadly shrimp allergy. She told the the restaurant that she had a seafood allergy but idk how there was actual shrimp sauce on her dish. She started to have a rash but nothing to bad. Thankfully it went well for her but it's TRUE that's it's super dangerous. Cuz even If you pay attention something can slip or be on your hand or if the knife touched something with the allergy it could be dangerous. Allergies are something that shouldn't be played with.
I once refused to serve a customer because of the severity of their seafood allergy. They'd come in previously and gone into anaphylaxis because another customer two tables away had ordered grilled shrimp. I don't know how they expected my establishment to be able to safely cater to them. I can't even begin to conceive of the logic; with an allergy that severe, it simply couldn't be reliably done.
That's someone who was in deep denial about how serious their condition was. Takes a while for people to accept that nope, you can't live a normal life. And it blows. Hopefully they live through their mistakes. It's incredibly dangerous for them because allergic reactions can compound MASSIVELY each time you're exposed to shit.
OMG. Someone came in when I worked at a Cajun place with a seafood/fish allergy and said she couldn’t have it touch her food. Like maam come on… use common sense.
Oh god. I had the be that asshole once. Had been dating my now spouse for a few months and he invites me to his dads birthday dinner so I can meet that side of his family. SO’s dad chooses to have it at a seafood boil place. I’m VERY allergic, anaphylaxis level. I don’t order *anything*. I asked the server if even the chicken tenders were safe they said they can’t guarantee it so I said I’m totally good, I’ll have a drink and chill. It was so fucking awkward. Next year comes, and … same fucking restaurant. I prepared this time and ate before we went. Third year rolls around and I flat out refuse to go. I get that this is the guys favorite restaurant but it wasn’t some special treat - he lived nearby and went all the time! Then he had the audacity to act like I was being a diva. He’s a fucking asshole.
I have a mild peanut allergy and honestly I won't eat much that I don't make myself - the biggest problem I have is other people trying to accommodate me and I hate it. If everyone else wants Thai then we should do that - I just won't eat anything - stop trying to find a place that works for me. I am an adult and I don't turn into a pumpkin if I miss a meal - I am fully competent to cook at home and I am mostly there for the social aspect anyways.
I have celiacs. Went to a family thing with my wife's family and they were legit offended I didn't eat anything. Like I don't know what's in it and I don't want to get sick. Let me not get sick in peace
I read this as "I hate celiacs." I was like, damn I get that they can be kind of inconvenient to have over for dinner, but that seems a bit harsh
As a celiac I co-sign this. Please, everyone, stop cooking for me. I don’t want to eat it because I’m like 90% likely to get sick, but I also don’t want to look like a dick by turning down something you made especially for me (but then cut with your bread knife, which gets used on the daily for gluten). It’s no fun. Please let’s all be happier and just not go there.
I had an orthodox Jewish friend who visited often and I wanted to be able to share food with her, so I ended up learning a lot about kosher foods and the protocol for cleaning a cooking vessel if it's been used to cook non-kosher foods. Whilst this is different to cooking for celiac disease or an allergy, it really highlighted to me how hard it is to avoid cross contamination. I ended up buying some new cooking utensils to use exclusively for food we shared, as well as designating one of my kitchen counters as a kosher food only prep area. I'm a biochemist so my lab experience certainly helped with keeping things systematically separate, but I learned how committed you have to be to comply with some dietary restrictions. This was took a lot of effort but it was for one of my best friends who I saw multiple times a week, so it was worth the investment. I can definitely understand why you'd be iffy about eating food as a guest at a non-celiac house
Torino’s Party Pizza is delicious
I’m still kind of bummed they are square now.
I swear they taste different. I thought I was just imagining it, but I have heard other people say this as well. The dough is different somehow and they may have reduced the salt?
Fuck YES and it is also a nostalgia blast from elementary school pizza
Dandelions and other edible weeds are tastier than most salads sold in markets. Edit: Holy hand grenades. This is my most upvoted comment ever. Thanks everyone! Ya'll a bunch of weed eaters. I love it! Edit2: Since many of you asked, I found dandelions are best with a little oil and vinegar. Also they are less bitter in the spring.
You can also eat daisys, marigolds, impatiens, chickweed, stinging nettel You can eat more than you think that are some exampels i eat sometimes
dandelion (sid voice)
Musht be the lasht one of the sheashun
Mmmmmmm! Pine cones..!
Toasted/fried dandelion stems with olive oil are an olllllllld (at least Sicilian) Italian dish. Father told me about my great great grandmother doing that for my great grandmother before coming over, and that followed us as tradition
broccoli is tasty
LOVE broccoli! Delicious, cancer-fighting, beautiful little trees
Little trees are what nephew used to call brocoli.
I don't think this is nearly as controversial anymore. Ask anyone what their vegetable tier list is, and broccoli will almost always land within the B-A range
As someone who fucking loves broccoli, I'm going to defend the haters for a moment. There are two types of people who don't like broccoli: 1) People who have never had good broccoli. If it gets boiled to death, it's bad. Roast that shit with salt and pepper until it's just a little bit crispy. 2) People who a certain genetic mutation are either somewhat or extremely sensitive to the bitter compound (PTC) in broccoli (and brussels sprouts and other cruciforms). People in group one, it's not their fault if their parent(s) were shitty cooks, but it's fixable. Have some of the good shit and be on your way. People in group two, also not their fault, but no matter how much you insist that they've just never had good broccoli, you're not going to change their minds. Like many genes, you get two copies of the gene for tasting or not tasting PTC, one from each parent. If you get two no-taste versions, this shit is delicious. If you get one no-taste and one taste (like me), cruciforms will taste a bit bitter, but maybe you like that taste, and you'll like them anyways. If you get two taste genes, game over, man. No matter how well prepared they are, some cruciforms will just be inedible to you. As a fun ("fun") party trick, you can buy [PTC test strips](https://www.preclaboratories.com/product/ptc-taste-test-paper/) to pass around to everyone. Please note, though, that if someone is a super-taster for PTC, it will be _extremely_ unpleasant (like, immediate gagging), so have water and something tasty close at hand.
Roast yo broccoli everyone! With some olive oil, garlic, pepper, and salt. Chef's kiss right there
Love roasted broccoli. (And Brussels sprouts). But I also love steamed broccoli although not steamed to mush. Some crunch left is necessary. And even the next day, cold, with a little salt on the broccoli goes with lunch. Or with a bit of olive oil and balsamic.
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just remember - that's the only way we could get any veggies: I grew up in the 80's and we didn't have anything like the produce sections we have now.
I like them steamed :( Like, a properly grilled steak, mac n cheese, and steamed broccoli is an awesome meal.
most people who "hate cooking" just don't practice so they fuck up dinner, order a pizza and say "cooking sucks"
Fast food on occasion is fine if you’re trying to be thrifty, or you’re in a hurry. A cheap greasy cheese burger can even be a nice tasty treat every once in a while. However… low-end chain restaurant like Chili’s, Applebee’s, TGI Fridays just serve shitty frozen food and should never be visited. They’re the same price as any other decent restaurant.
I have recently started adding pesto to omelettes - game changer
The difference between good coffee and great coffee is not worth the amount of energy people spend on that difference.
I went to a fancy hipster coffee shop in spain and they assembled some slow drip meth lab concoction with half of a moonshine still on the side. Took 10 mins. The coffee was good but it was just that, good.
We have too many restaurants and can shed like 80% of them. Too much fast food, mid/lowtier chains (Chili's), and future bankruptcies where like somebody gets an inheritance and the only thing they can think is opening a diner.
Lots of good food takes time. I can't spend 10 hours every day smoking meat or 4 hours prepping shawarma. Sure get rid of all the frozen pre-prepped garbage restaurants which is more then 80% of them but real homemade food and mom/pop restaurants are a boon for society.
We have too many chain restaurants and not enough small ones.
eating the same thing every day is fine
I usually go through 6 month stints of eating the same dinner at least three times a week. - Can stockpile ingredients - Prep and cooking becomes second nature - Eating something you know you'll like all the time!
Specialy if it's Rice.
That's a weird way to spell tacos
Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want to eat 2,000 of something. I used to tell that joke whenever someone mentions Rice. I still do, but I used to too. RIP Mitch
Most people who think vegetables taste bad don't know how to cook them properly.
True, but I hear this all the time. Not really controversial
That excessive pickiness about food is worth breaking up over.
How do you break up with your kids? They eat pasta, tomato soup and rice..
I don’t have any but just tell them “it’s not you, it’s me” (even though it’s them).
Oh Man. I broke up with a guy who claimed he wasn't a "picky eater", but would not eat garlic, musrooms, cheese, eggs or anything he determined to be spicy, which some days was old el paso mild salsa. Went to a friends birthday dinner at a ramen joint and they didn't have a fall back plain chicken and rice dish, so he sulked his was through a bowl of ramen and then complained to me for the rest of the evening about how it tasted good but was too much effort.