Lobster is so so so overrated. 75% of the weight is shell. You could get tiger or argentinian shrimp for the same price per pound if not cheaper and you get 3 times more edible meat by weight.
I’m going for the jugular vein of this question and say - burgers. They’re like a BBQ staple that many people feel can’t go without.
I am not much of a burger person.
Crispy bacon.
Maybe it’s because I’m gay, but I like actually having meat in my mouth.
Preach.
Broccoli has very few ways of actually good preparation. Fuckoli is generally overrated and sucks ass. Pukeoli shouldn’t ever be streamed or boiled like some people do to this disgusting vegetable.
I also despise broccoli, but broccolini is much milder in smell and taste, and has a tender stem. If you can deal with asparagus, you may like broccolini.
Thanks for the idea, I’ll check it out.
Glad to (possibly) help!
McDonald’s - way too expensive for the quality and quantity.
Pork products (excluding bacon). I can’t stand the taste of ham, bologna, pork chops, etc. Hot dogs are okay but I prefer beef franks.
Mac n cheese. I like noodles, and I like cheese, but I don’t like them put together unless there’s a tomato based sauce in between.
Meatloaf. The taste and texture is off-putting.
Sushi , you pay a lot to eat possibly parasites
Don’t eat from a gas station.
But they’ll give me super powers
that’s men’s room egg salad.
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I’ve had lobster pot pie at 2 different places this year and thought both were amazing. No smashing required, and while lighter than a hearty shepard’s/cottage pie, they really hit the spot!
Also tried stone crab on our honeymoon this year, and though the shell lives up to its name, some things can be worth the effort!
If you get crustaceans out at a place, you can usually ask them to give it a few whacks in key locations with their big ass knives and then the bulk of the work is done for you.
Not a seafood fan. Somehow they sneak that shit into everything, like mayo.
I think it’s usually for those umami packed glutimates.
As someone with an aversion and allergy, Asian and Italian foods are the worst for hidden seafood. I have to be super careful even with “vegetarian” dishes. Why the fuck are anchovies and fish oil in everything?!?!?! To give examples, restaurants loooooove to put non-vegan kimchi in their veggie dishes, and Caesar dressing often has surprise anchovies
Mexico and Canada also love clam juice based cocktails for some reason. I love Micheladas but they never disclose whether or not they have clamato. Caesars are completely off the table for me.
if you’re a mobster, u eat da lobster If you’re deppert, eat pie of shepherd
Italian restaurant food. Why should I pay so much for spaghetti and meatballs???
Agreed. That’s why I always order something cool like gnocchi when I go to an Italian restaurant. It’s much harder to make that well at home.
if you have the right kind of potato, it’s very easy and it takes less time than most handmade pasta
Good point, but I don’t make handmade pasta at home either.
Pasta gnocchi come from a bag. Potato fresh gnocchi take work.
This is my opinion too! Basic Italian-American stuff seems really simple to DIY, so unless a place has some really killer house made sauce it always feels like such a ripoff. If I’m going out, I typically want something that is either too hard, laborious, or messy to make at home.
I ate Scott Conant’s lamb tagliatelle Ragu and it was really good. Fresh pasta hand made to order by a pro is worth it.
Italian food in USA is warm garbage. Everyone overcooks the pasta and puts on two much sauce.
Spaghetti and meatballs, the classic italian dish. If you’re american
The British came up with that one.
Pizza Hawaii.
Not because of the flavor,
but it should have been called Pizza Brazil.Bubble tea.
MacDonalds foods.
Pizza hut Pizzas.I think I might not be answering this question correctly.
I think it technically should have been called Canadian pizza but there’s already a canadian pizza (pepperoni, mushroom, bacon). Coincidentally, my go to pizza order is half Hawaiian and half Canadian.
That sounds like a pretty good combo pizza!
I was hesitant to have Hawiian pizza the first time, but I instantly liked it. I soon changed it up though to get bacon instead of ham so it adds crunch and smokiness.
Korean fried chicken sauce is also good on pizza.
Ya I’m not a big fan of the ham version, I usually have it with pineapple and bacon crumble/sausage
Is korean fried chicken sauce like the buldak ramen sauce?
Looking at the Buldak Original ingredients list, it looks like many of the same ingredients, but in reverse proportions.
Buldak has a lot of chicken flavoring/bullion to make the chicken flavor (dak=chicken) and a lot of pepper flake to make it hot (bul=fire) and then soy sauce and seasoning.
The fried chicken sauce doesn’t have the chicken flavor since it’s intended to go on actual fried chicken, and I don’t make it super hot. It’s a little more earthy and a little sweet.
I use a decent scoop of gochujang paste (lower heat level), a nice amount of minced garlic, a splash rice vinegar, a tiny blep sesame oil and some sesame seed, and then honey or brown sugar to taste, then soy sauce to get it to a nice dipping sauce consistency.
I don’t measure it, I just make it for making fancy pizza, so I eyeball it in a ramekin and then drizzle as desired on pizza.
The thing is, it makes people think pineapples originate from Hawaii.
When in reality they come from under the sea. I watched a docuseries about it.
Almost all fast food.
It’s hot candy.
The bread in fast food always is so sweet. Like having two donuts around your burger.
I don’t like the food and what it stands for. But most of all i hate that you can tell that you are close to a McDonald’s, just by the amount of McDonald’s garbage on the floor, that gets more and more when you get closer. I guess it takes a special kind of person
Lobster and crab was poor person food back in the day, then it switched for some reason? You figure it out?! Bottom dwelling scavenger bugs from the ocean are now en vogue?
Land cockroaches are taboo now…,
Animals. We are fucking herbivores. Every herbivore has a basic capacity to consume meat because every herbivore is MADE OF MEAT. If their bodies could not perform catabolism, they would not be able to live. Your body literally digests itself when cells die. But we are not adapted to eat meat except for survival in times of famine. The more meat a human eats, the younger they die, and the more major diseases they experience. THAT’S A FUCKING HERBIVORE.
Not even to consider that the animals we eat are vulnerable individuals whose very creation was an act of abuse. It is wrong to create an intelligent creature and then force it into a situation where it is dependent upon you for its survival. It is wrong to force an intelligent creature to become pregnant and bear a child. It is wrong to take children from their parents for financial gain. It is wrong to murder vulnerable individuals who are not a threat and do not want to die. Every step is wrong, and not just a little bit, these are some of the worst things you can possibly do to another individual. And most people do it several times a day, without giving it any thought at all. It fucking destroys me.
French food (I assume because everything French seems “fancy” for whatever reason, maybe because they’re a bit more “civilized” than the Anglo-Saxons? lol) is undeservedly hyped up, right? Or is my palate too underdeveloped to taste the complexities of French cuisine?
The problem is that French food in the Anglosphere has literally been the fancy food since 1066. That’s why English has 2 words for every meat: the germanic peasant word and the french nobleman’s culinary word (cow-beef, chicken-poultry, deer-venison, sheep-mutton, swine-pork, etc).
Being the default “fancy” food is going to do damage to any cuisine as the purpose becomes more about fanciness than tasting good or being what people from the place actually eat.
For another example, look at American Italian food. In a lot of small towns, Italian restaurants are the de facto fancy restaurant . It’s basically made it so that Italian restaurants in much of the US are either way too expensive and fancy or they’ve gone the opposite route and just overcharge for really basic pasta with sauce (olive garden).
I used to agree, then i went to a couple of French restaurants and started thinking of them as the same as Mexican, Italian, etc. - Ok to go for breakfast or lunch; it doesn’t have to be white tablecloth anniversary dinner for $100. French is fucking delicious! I didn’t know i needed 4 kinds of onions in my soup, but holy crap it’s good! Great bread, sandwiches, omelettes, …
Lowkey I think pizza is a bit overrated.
I mean it’s still good, but there are better foods.
I go a step further and usually just attempt to veto Italian if “where do we want to eat” is brought up.
Again - it’s good - and I’ll eat it. But cmon.
I could eat Italian food, as in actual Italian or Americanized Italian food (not Olive Garden), for my entire life. S-tier cuisine.
Yes, agreed. My comment is in reference to specifically American pizza.
We talk the world how to eat!
“Talk”? Did you mean “taught”?
Pizza is probably my favorite food - you can buy/make it 5 times and have 5 totally different things- different crusts, different toppings, dinner, breakfast, dessert, … For the last year i have been stuck on prosciutto and fig. When we do pizza night we make 4-5 different ones and i save that one for last because it’s so good.
Fig & Pig pizza is so awesome! Sweet, salty, and carby! 🤤
Prosciutto and fig sounds like some real I-Talian shit.
I could go for that. I’ll have to give it a try next time I make some za.
I also really like pizza. I just think it’s a bit overhyped. Haha
Prosciutto wrapped cantaloupe is awesome.
Also weird to me that you’re expected to do all the work to consume the lobster too.
I think canned soup is overrated. The nutritional value is surprisingly low. Salt is high. And when I’m looking for something vegan, I figure soups are an easy genre for option. Nope. Everything has some milk product added to it.
Canned soup is rated?
Yeah, a solid threeve/ ten.
I keep some canned soup for emergencies but everytime I make soup from scratch I like to fill a mason jar or two and keep it in my freezer for a healthier emergency meal
Do you have a secret for freezing it without cracking the jar?
I use bernardin and ball mason jars because they’re thick enough to hold up to the temps. Grocery tomato sauce jars typically crack after a couple times. Most importantly I let the broth cool to about room temp before I pour them in the jars then I put the jars in the fridge for a few hours/overnight before I put them in the freezer.
It’s the way water expands when it freezes that is the problem. It is surprising to me that Mason jars can withstand that. But if works, that trumps theorizing.
Other than leaving headspace I guess I forgot to mention I only use widemouth jars so they don’t have the shoulders which could be an issue with expansion
I also wonder if some things in something like a soup might make the liquid expand less than pure water. Anyway thanks for the tips I may try this!
Lobster High Pressure Processing
Text Article if you don’t want to watch a video, also has more details
There are now machines that will remove the lobster meat from the shell without cooking it, so you can have 100% of the edible stuff with no shell bits.
It comes at a premium, but if speed and a hassle free experience are what you’re after, the tech exists!
Hot damn. Imagine getting executed by high pressure chamber, kind of gnarly
We come up with some particularly interesting ways to execute lobsters, that’s for sure. I’m not sure we dispatch any other food animal in so many ways.
Whoa. I appreciate that your provided a non-video option. As arthropods I’m hoping lobsters are on the low end of perceiving suffering and death, but I still found that hard to watch. The tech isn’t even that gruesome, I just find it hard to watch industrialized slaughter of anything in animalia (Disclaimer: still haven’t been able to go 100% vegan)
It is somewhat disturbing as a concept. Industrialized slaughter has heavy implications from how we treat our environment and even each other. The tech’s simplicity makes it more disturbing to me. It’s not something elaborate or really man-made, it’s a harnessed form of nature. Basically a contained version of what happened to those people in that sub to the Titanic.
Lobsters don’t have brains in the same way we do, they have nerve clusters distributed through their segmented bodies. As such, it’s likely we will never understand what they experience.
There’s a ton more data and history here (Wikipedia: pain in crustaceans). I’m glad we as people continue to question the ethics of animal consumption. We have more food options than most other animals, and we can take advantage of that if we wish to.
I do like that it reduces food waste, because I do think if we are killing animals, we should at least make full use of them.
Agreed on all fronts. Thanks for the info!
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Avocado is fine, but its not something I seek out to eat. If its included in a dish or in a meal, I’ll eat it, but I don’t find it especially enjoyable. I’m even a big fan of most fruit and veg, but avocado its kind of forgettable if you ask me. I do like cooking with avocado oil though for its high temp usage and health benefits, but I don’t really find the flavor of the fruit in the oil.
What about in California rolls and fresh guac?
I like a California roll, and I like that its all veg and grain, so I’ll choose it when thats what I’m looking for, but there are many other rolls I like more. The avocado isn’t a selling point except that its not meat or dairy and there are times I’d don’t want to eat either of those.
Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.
Fair enough; thanks for replyin’!
The best thing that can happen to avocado is to be turned into guacamole. I’m like you when it comes to avocado, could take it or leave it, but I go nuts for guac.
It’s really good to throw in a smoothie. But also kind of a waste
Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.
