Your Culinary Hot Takes
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Taco Bell is fast food. I highly doubt anyone wanting "Mexican food" considers Taco Bell an authentic option, so comparing it thusly is an unfair comparison. Like McDonalds, it survives on its convenience and accessibility, not the objective quality of its food.
Yes, it does. Never understood why pineapple on pizza gets such a bad rap. It's a classic "salty and sweet" combination; I'm convinced anyone who complains about it hasn't tried it, and the aversion is purely out of ignorance/inexperience.
Unfortunately, I've met people that dumb that considers Taco Bell authentic Mexican. And these people aren't dumb hicks or rednecks either. Inconvenience is all they're barely good for at this point.
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I've never met such a person. I have met people who wanted Mexican food, but didn't feel like driving past the dozen Taco Bells between themselves and authentic Mexican cuisine at an actual restaurant. If you know anyone who feels Taco Bell is "Mexican food," please give me their name, address and business hours, and I'll be glad to swing by and slap some sense into them.
I meant to ask: what's your take on cookies n' cream ice cream (Oreos being a key ingredient,) and if you say you don't like it, you're objectively not human.
I've never had it. Honestly not much of an ice cream guy anyway.
When adulting shoots off the scale. I'm 41, and if ever you find me not finding the time for some cookies 'n cream or cookie dough ice cream, put me down like a broke-legged horse. Try cookies 'n cream ice cream, and if you're not smiling after the first bite, have yourself institutionalized; I'll front the bill (not too fancy a place, though; I'm thinking a Motel 6 where the only care you'd received would be a wake up call; I ain't Daddy Warbucks.)
Most meat that isn't beef tastes just like beef and not worth killing the animal for. I've had llama and capybara and there's nothing to the taste. I'm happy if we just slaughter pigs and cows.
There is nothing wrong with your basic fastfood burgers and joints. I live in Chicago so I have access to plenty to top tier places and I do enjoy them and partake in heavenly flavor.
But sometimes I just want a McDouble, a Whopper and Little Ceasars despite knowing I have access to superior options if you will. Plus the pepperoni in the crust at Little Ceasars I would marry it if I could.
But sometimes I just want a McDouble, a Whopper and Little Ceasars despite knowing I have access to superior options if you will. Plus the pepperoni in the crust at Little Ceasars I would marry it if I could.
For myself? Gordon Ramsay scrambled eggs aren't very good. There was a period in my life where I would make breakfast in sight of other people who would critique me for not using his method after he did the thing on his youtube channel or whatever. Thing is, I can make eggs his way just fine - its not like its a particularly difficult recipe, just a technique thing for the most part. I just don't like custardy eggs, and I'm fat enough without also adding calories via creme fraiche to my already questionably healthy eggs. I really do prefer them diner scrambled.
There's actually an interesting discussion on that, introduced to me by the guy who invented Cheez Wiz in a book I was reading that included an interview with him oddly enough. Fun fact: he was upset about them removing the last bit of actual cheese from Cheez Wiz, because he felt that real cheese made it classy. Its the issue of adding cheap cheese to stuff so you can put it on the label, but it adds very little flavour and a lot of calories. There was a bit discussing how specific cheeses are meant to be eaten by themselves in specific ways that I thought was interesting. Dude had a whole cheese shelf with like a hundred bucks of different fancy cheeses to sample from.
Because it's disgusting. You should be ashamed for discussing something so revolting in a food thread! And I have tried it, my father is a fan of it and he... no I can't go on, the memory is too traumatic.
If you want to see crimes against food, cheese, and god, look up Chef Club videos.
Oreo cookies are great. The stuffing makes them worse
Can we just admit the Epic Bacon phase was a weird bit of mass psychosis?
Oreo cookies are great. The stuffing makes them worse
Can we just admit the Epic Bacon phase was a weird bit of mass psychosis?
Oreo stuffing is great, it's the cookies that are bad. If I could just get a package of oreo stuffing I'd eat it straight.
If real ground beef ever gets too pricey, skip the over-processed meat substitutes and just give me a grilled portobello on a bun already.
I'm not vegan or even a vegetarian, I just think it's not worth the effort to get slightly-above-junk food to taste 'close enough' to some other slightly-above-junk food.
On the other hand, imitation food for expensive food I'm all for. Passable fake caviar, crab, and black truffles are all fine by me.
I'm not vegan or even a vegetarian, I just think it's not worth the effort to get slightly-above-junk food to taste 'close enough' to some other slightly-above-junk food.
On the other hand, imitation food for expensive food I'm all for. Passable fake caviar, crab, and black truffles are all fine by me.
They have fake caviar?
*Googles it*
Gross. I mean, REAL caviar is gross, but that they make FAKE stuff? Gross.
So I discovered you can deepfry butter and now I am a changed man.
(simple recipe is you take a stick of butter, freeze it, coat it with a thick batter, deep fry it and top it with cinnamon and powdered sugar)
I am researching what else you can deep fry like that. I wanna attempt this with bone marrow since it's like butter but better.
(simple recipe is you take a stick of butter, freeze it, coat it with a thick batter, deep fry it and top it with cinnamon and powdered sugar)
I am researching what else you can deep fry like that. I wanna attempt this with bone marrow since it's like butter but better.
I mean people have been deepfrying ice cream for a while now. The question is, why would you want to deep fry butter??
As a non-American the first time I saw what chicken fried steak was I was wildly disappointed. Like I don't know what I expected but I like those 3 words and the reality was like the worst possible outcome.
OT: Burgers aren't fancy. Fuck off with that shit. Give me some cheap fatty beef, fry it and put it on a bun with pickles and cheese. If you give me a burger that is like half a foot tall with an entire slice of tomato that's the same diameter as the patty I will come after your family.
OT: Burgers aren't fancy. Fuck off with that shit. Give me some cheap fatty beef, fry it and put it on a bun with pickles and cheese. If you give me a burger that is like half a foot tall with an entire slice of tomato that's the same diameter as the patty I will come after your family.