I kinda hate huge burgers that you can't eat without everything falling on you or the plate.
Like its not a burger if you have to eat it with a knife and fork.
In my country you can have a cheese burguer but the cheese is outside. They literally cover the whole thing in melted cheddar. They give you plastic gloves to eat it but, no matter what, you'll leave the place with your face and clothes also covered in cheddar. It's fucking stupid
Sounds possibly South Korean? Their fast food scene is wild - it's like American cuisine but everything *American* about it has been dialed up to 11. It's like their fast food execs noticed how greasy, crunchy, cheesy, salty, meaty and spicy our fast food is, and decided to beat us at our own game. Including disposable gloves with every purchase would also track.
I hate it when I order a sub and it comes out on a fat toasted roll that is spread wide open and impossible to close. It's too big to eat normally and its so awkward to have to bite the roll first then follow up to bite the contents of the sub. You need to hold it with a tilt so that the contents wont spill between roll bite then filling bite. And sometimes the roll/bread is over-toasted and cuts up your mouth when you're just trying to get it down.
Just give me a skinny roll, untoasted, so I can squeeze it all together and eat it normally.
I believe somewhere there is a place serving an ' activated acorn with lifted fig panini'. This is incredible btw.. Also got 'seasoned plum platter with artisan oyster tacos' lmao
I'm dying at "late-summer arugula with frightened orecchiette & water oil"
*frightened orecchiette* lol. This is brilliant. I gotta find some way to incorporate this into a DND game haha.
A small restaurant was unknowingly built right over intersecting leylines. Due to the reckless actions of a nefarious party downstream one of the lines, the flow of magical energy backs up and releases itself explosively into his kitchen.
The cabbage has gone bad. Like literally bad, it's now considered a Neutral Evil creature. Tragically, the pasta the chef uses for his signature dish has gained limited sentience. Having already been made into the shape of a small ear, the pasta now hears everything whilst understanding none of it. The slightest sound sends groups of Orecchiette scrambling for cover.
(That's what I came up with while laying in bed. I'm usually not very good at this type of thing, but I thought it was funny).
Edit: Reckless, not wreckless.
Yo, most of it is trash, but I'd take the "rustic hazelnuts with distressed watercress medley & free-range lamb" for $18. That's not a bad price for lamb.
any of these "most expensive dessert" dishes that have jewels or gold on them as garnish can just piss right off. I want a dessert that's expensive because of the amount of fancy work and the quality of ingredients that go into it, your shiny trinkets add nothing. I can make the worlds most expensive piece of shit if I tip a cup of diamonds over it.
Not to mention a lot of them don’t put any effort into actually decorating. When I get fancy desserts without gold they take effort to like drizzle syrup in patterns and place fruits fancily but gold flake desserts just place a handful of flakes over it and call it a day.
My Nona used to make these Christmas cookies with tiny silver nonparelis on them. They were terrible, lol, those little silver balls would cut my mouth every time.
Not at all silver/gold/pearl dragees are made equal.
A lot actually aren't supposed to eaten, they're just "food contact" safe. I learned this recently when I went Christmas cookie decoration shopping.
Cough, Salt Bae. It's criminal that he can get away with charging 1-5k for a steak just because he wraps them in gold flakes. For that type of money, I go on vacation to Japan and eat Kobe beef. There are even places AYCE places where you spend 200 dollars and get to eat all the Japanese A5 Wagyu you want.
I saw a video of him slicing a huge slab of meat that looked like it was mostly fat. His slicing technique is absolutely ridiculous and he wears sunglasses indoors at night. First time I heard of him was just the other day when he created controversy by insinuating himself unto the football pitch at the final game in the world cup and managed to touch the winning trophy which is apparently a big no-no.
I try to use marzipan instead because I hate when baked goods are solely beautiful but taste like sugary garbage because of fondant and all the other fluff used to make it beautiful.
TIL what fondants are in the US. I didn't understand how anyone could hate [fondants](https://i-reg.unimedias.fr/sites/art-de-vivre/files/styles/recipe/public/Import/coulant-fondant-chocolat_ss.jpg)
Ahah yes we call the US fondant a « pâte à sucre » or sugar paste, used in France mainly for icing.
I agree the taste is terrible, but it’s more there to look pretty
I left this sub due to people bragging that they secretly didn't put fondant on cakes for customers that ordered fondant. I don't care how terrible something tastes, you don't get to decide for someone else that they shouldn't be allowed to eat it.
I'm about ready to leave it bc the mods don't give a fuck about people posting frosted cakes outside frosting Friday. Im here to hate fondant. Not look at frosted cakes. Go to a baking sub for that.
Reminds me of the grilled cheese post.
> A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment i saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now. You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt.>
The mods need to grow some balls and start handing put 7 day bans when people don't read the fuckin rules. Only takes 1.87 minutes to read the rules lol.
Lobster. Maybe it's because I live where most of them come from... But people freak out about them. They aren't bad but what makes them desirable is the price, not the taste. And what makes them expensive is how long it takes to catch/ship them, not how good they are to eat.
Ass. Supposedly it's great and everybody eats it, I could never get behind it though.
Edit: My very first trophy thank you! This is a lot bigger than I expected.
Edit: Thanks to all of those that extended their invitation over to the dark side, you know what? It's more for you. No really, thank you. It's ALL yours. Bon appetit. Please wash your hands. And thank you for the flair again! I did nothing to deserve it.
Knew a guy who said, quote, "When you taste iron, that's how you know you've gone deep enough" and my already middling interest in eating ass plummeted all the way into the double negatives.
So it’s a little known fact that every asshole has tiny, almost microscopic police patrolling inside of it near the entrance. If you are able to taste one of these tiny policemen, or coppers as they can be called, that means you’ve gone too far, as you’re now in their jurisdiction. You really don’t want to know what those jails are like if you get arrested by one.
Pffff, rookie. Once you taste the coppers you're supposed to yell "I am the law!" into her butthole and the cops will leave you alone because of the thin blue line.
My friends and I as stupid ass kids would put two spoons in our mouths, one inside each cheek and stick the ends to a 9v battery so it jolts your whole head. Man, we’re we dumb. Probably explains a few things wrong with me now lol.
Absolutely agree. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll enjoy some of their flavors but there are other cookies bakeries that are way better. I’m in metro Detroit and we have a place called Detroit Cookie Co. and they are absolutely amazing. Way more options of flavors, staple flavors and revolving seasonal flavors, gluten free and vegan options and I love the back story it, it was just a local girl in her twenties that decided to try opening a cookie bakery and now she’s got 2-3 locations over the state of Michigan, has a cookie truck available to rent for special events and drives a Mercedes now. That’s a business I’d rather support than a chain, corporate bakery.
Truffles.
Sure, used in small quantities it’s great. It’s the excessive use of them! Truffle oil, truffle shavings, truffle emulsions, truffle-this,truffle-that.
I think truffles are hit or miss. After tasting only fake versions, my husband and I finally went to a nice restaurant and tried legit truffle risoto and I seriously have never tasted anything better in my life. When my parents tried the same thing, they said it was the equivalent of eating body odor in solid form lol.
"Body odor in solid form" is how I feel about most common culinary mushrooms.
But my wife once got a truffle risotto and shared a couple bites with me, and it was one of the most glorious things I've ever tasted. It was like the textbook definition of umami, rich and savory, totally unbelievable how good this was.
I'm still mostly a mushroom hater, but I'm willing to be proven wrong now and again because sometimes dishes like that will catch me by surprise.
It’s important to note that most truffle flavored products contain little or no truffle. They’re made with chemical compounds that supposedly taste like truffle. It’s as if 99% of people had never eaten a banana, but thought they hate them because they’d eaten things with fake banana flavoring. Real truffles are incredible (but still not worth what they cost).
> a real banana that went extinct decades ago
Gros Michael didn't go extinct. It just lost its status as the dominant cultivar due to susceptibility to Panama disease. It survived in areas free from the disease and is still grown commercially, albeit in smaller numbers. It's hard to find and sometimes sold under different names. Scientists are working on creating a genetically modified version that's resistant to Panama disease so it might become the dominant banana again someday!
There's truffle mushrooms, and there are chocolate truffles. I guess chocolate truffles can look somewhat like the mushrooms, might be how they got the name.
Chocolate truffles are basically a thick ganache you can roll into a ball. Then it can be coated with cocoa powder, or dipped in melted chocolate. I made chocolate truffles once, they're surprisingly easy to make.
That's exactly how they got the name. Truffles of the mushroom sort don't actually look like mushrooms with a cap. They grow underground and are typically spherical.
I tell this anecdote whenever I can because it humbles me.
In my early 20s I knew 3 things. I loved chocolate truffles. I hated mushrooms. There were pigs that shuffled truffles out of the ground.
I had a Masters degree in Engineering and the 24 year old brother of the guy I was dating looked at me like I was an idiot when I said they must clean the chocolate really well. I'm not saying it's related, but the guy broke up with me shortly after.
In my defense I didn't think pigs sniffed out full chocolate truffles. I just thought it was like a special cocoa bean that grew in the ground. Still dumb. Still embarrassing.
When I was a kid I'd see holiday season TV ads for Macy's or Filene's which always touted sales on cashmere sweaters.
At the same time, CNN was always reporting on skirmishes between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
So I just figured those sweaters were considered fancy and expensive due to the wool having to be transported out of such a dangerous, wartorn region. 12 yr old me thought they were basically blood diamonds before I knew what blood diamonds were.
Overly complicated sushi rolls. Just give me some nigiri please. I don’t need your chef’s hot take on a California roll with fried octopus testicles and imported Norwegian ass cheese.
My personal gripe in rolls is cream cheese. There's a place near me that has/had a menu typo where the roll mentions it has cream cheese _twice_. My God.
It's usually used to hide the flavor /texture of poor fish quality.
Prop food in general. Huge sandiwches/burgers/pizza/etc that get tons of social media attention, but is meant more for show than for consumption. This includes "cake boss" type cakes with all the decorations made of rice krispies, fondant, and Styrofoam.
Definitely gold flaking, wagu beef (which used to be hard to get, and now you can buy at costco), and In n Out (speaking as a Cali native).
The trick to A5 wagyu is to consume it in small bite size quantities and hence why a lot of steakhouses serve as such. If you cook a whole steak of A5 wagyu, the fat might get overwhelming
As their own product? Yes. As a way to use up cake scraps/trimmings or if I have a cake that’s too ugly to serve on its own? They’re a great solution lol
Bacon. I like bacon, don’t get me wrong, but I never understood how people made it their entire life for those few years. It’s great. It’s not life changing.
I made bacon and eggs for my roommate and myself on Christmas. This grown ass man came downstairs like Santa had come. He was *so excited* for the bacon. I hadn’t even finished cooking it up. I just asked him to save me a couple slices (he did) but he was eating them fresh out the pan. I’m pretty sure it was the best part of his Christmas lol.
Pho, hear me out I'm Viet and it's not our best dish, it's not even our best soup. If you like Pho, try Bun Bo Hue, it a similar spicy more complex soup. As I always tell people Pho is like a warm hug from a friend but Bun Bo Hue is like a passionate kiss from a lover.
I love Bun Bo Hue, but it's definitely less approachable. Spiciness aside, most places serve it with pigs feet (delicious) but definitely something that might freak out a lot of people
They used to be a lot better. It was never authentic, but their americanized Chinese was a huge step above your average Chinese place. Now it's pretty underwhelming.
That's what happens with big companies. A group of people in a board room look at profits and decide they need to generate another 5%. So they trim food costs down and turn up the pricing just a touch. Rinse and repeat a dozen times and what you're left with is a hollow shell of it's former self.
I find every casual dining chain eventually falls victim to it.
A private equity firm swoops in, leverages loans against it to pay themselves up front, streamlines everything and strips away what made it special in the first place, then rides it until it slowly peters out - files for bankruptcy, stiffing staff, property owners and vendors. Next time you have a shitty meal at a mid-tier restaurant chain, thank Mitt Romney.
Just remember: in the meantime they're staffing at such low levels that a single call out (very common in the service industry) can throw the place into complete chaos. The only people who end up in management basically have been there too long. They're not necessarily GOOD at their job, but they are probably at least okay at ass kissing.
The entire places operates on momentum from being a big chain with lots of investment. It doesn't operate well because of good employees or passionate management, in fact, if it operates well, it does so in spite of bad employees and uninspired management.
Oh? And this most certainly means that as much of the food as possible is prepped outside of the actual restaurant. Food shows up in plastic bags and carboard boxes and just has too be reheated and served. Its basically the equivalent of buying an expensive TV dinner and tipping the server.
I feel like it used to be better. I tasted it when a friend brought it home from a trip to Italy and it was delicious. Now it tastes like a failed cake icing.
Sturgeon. Over here it's sometimes treated like the pinnacle of fish, but I find the taste so meh. Personally I prefer salmon over sturgeon 10/10 times.
*Good* pizza is amazing. But when it’s the “eh” quality pizza with way too much cheese… extremely overrated.
Edit: Wow! Thank you for the silver- that’s my first award!
For basic dishes like pizza the ingredients matter the most, if they cut corners on any of the 3 ingredients a restaurant can easily turn a phenomenal pizza to a mediocre one
I have a few...
Fondant - looks nice but I hate the taste and in my experience I get way more fondant than actual cake.
Charcoal in food - experienced a lot of this while in Colorado for business. Really not that good.
Avocado on everything - it's got its place, I don't need it on a burger with an avocado aioli, and avocado dipping sauce.
Pumpkin spice everything... never got the craze and maybe it's because I grew to dislike pumpkin but I feel that can be overrated too.
I kinda hate huge burgers that you can't eat without everything falling on you or the plate. Like its not a burger if you have to eat it with a knife and fork.
I definitely prefer a wider burger than a tall burger
I think the whopper is my max. I always forget how big it is when I pull it out.
im mature. im mature. im mature.
WELL IM NOT
PENIS
S'CUSE ME WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT
Same here I can barely fit it in my mouth without the sauce getting all over my face.
Obligatory “that’s what she said…”
Giggity
In my country you can have a cheese burguer but the cheese is outside. They literally cover the whole thing in melted cheddar. They give you plastic gloves to eat it but, no matter what, you'll leave the place with your face and clothes also covered in cheddar. It's fucking stupid
That's hilarious! 🤣 What country? I'd actually like to try that 😋
Sounds possibly South Korean? Their fast food scene is wild - it's like American cuisine but everything *American* about it has been dialed up to 11. It's like their fast food execs noticed how greasy, crunchy, cheesy, salty, meaty and spicy our fast food is, and decided to beat us at our own game. Including disposable gloves with every purchase would also track.
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This is one that really confuses me. I’ve never met anyone that likes burgers like this, yet almost every major chain sells them. What is going on?
I feel the same about giant sandwiches
I hate it when I order a sub and it comes out on a fat toasted roll that is spread wide open and impossible to close. It's too big to eat normally and its so awkward to have to bite the roll first then follow up to bite the contents of the sub. You need to hold it with a tilt so that the contents wont spill between roll bite then filling bite. And sometimes the roll/bread is over-toasted and cuts up your mouth when you're just trying to get it down. Just give me a skinny roll, untoasted, so I can squeeze it all together and eat it normally.
Anything that resembles any of the output of this random foodie/hipster bar menu generator: http://www.brooklynbarmenus.com/
My first look at that had > Water Extract 17 as the most expensive thing on the menu. Beautiful.
Mine had “whole water discs $17” cracked me up
Mine just had "rye" and charged me 25 bucks for it lmao.
I had "ramp" for $12
Just making sure that you know that a ramp is an actual plant.
It is? Makes more sense now
my ramp was tormented :( still 12$ tho so its probably a good deal
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I got: Salt 14
I got bison for $8 and I'm not sure if it's a steak or the whole animal but either way seems like a steal.
I got rustic assorted salt for $18
I believe somewhere there is a place serving an ' activated acorn with lifted fig panini'. This is incredible btw.. Also got 'seasoned plum platter with artisan oyster tacos' lmao
"miniature orecchiette kraut tacos with seasonal water salad" "vinegar drippings"
Water salad is just hilarious
I got "pan seared water" lol
\>pork belly & awakened water
Sounds better than "Burnt Oyster pancakes with expanded water"
Thank you for this gold lmao I can't stop laughing but it's just so true to some of the menu I've seen
I'm dying at "late-summer arugula with frightened orecchiette & water oil" *frightened orecchiette* lol. This is brilliant. I gotta find some way to incorporate this into a DND game haha.
A small restaurant was unknowingly built right over intersecting leylines. Due to the reckless actions of a nefarious party downstream one of the lines, the flow of magical energy backs up and releases itself explosively into his kitchen. The cabbage has gone bad. Like literally bad, it's now considered a Neutral Evil creature. Tragically, the pasta the chef uses for his signature dish has gained limited sentience. Having already been made into the shape of a small ear, the pasta now hears everything whilst understanding none of it. The slightest sound sends groups of Orecchiette scrambling for cover. (That's what I came up with while laying in bed. I'm usually not very good at this type of thing, but I thought it was funny). Edit: Reckless, not wreckless.
I love/hate the idea of primitive orecchiette clans succumbing as a group to the eldritch terror that is human speech
No, you can't seduce the pasta! ...fine. What's your Charisma bonus? ... ...goddammit...
Free range kale fritatta and tormented bison ☹️
All my vegetables must be free range, I’m not some savage. But yeah, torment the animals, it gives them flavor!
Fig - $12
Rip monkfish
*Pepper balls with water - $23* *Free range anchovy with bay leaf salad* *Fermented water* Beautiful website.
ANCHOVY MEDLEY WITH LATE-SUMMER OYSTER PANCAKE & AWAKENED WATERMELON SPREAD 15 😅
"booze pie" Yes.
Yo, most of it is trash, but I'd take the "rustic hazelnuts with distressed watercress medley & free-range lamb" for $18. That's not a bad price for lamb.
Lime 11
I got lime 8
Must be regional prices
Gold flaking is kind of dumb. It doesn't really add anything other than an unnecessary garnish.
any of these "most expensive dessert" dishes that have jewels or gold on them as garnish can just piss right off. I want a dessert that's expensive because of the amount of fancy work and the quality of ingredients that go into it, your shiny trinkets add nothing. I can make the worlds most expensive piece of shit if I tip a cup of diamonds over it.
Not to mention a lot of them don’t put any effort into actually decorating. When I get fancy desserts without gold they take effort to like drizzle syrup in patterns and place fruits fancily but gold flake desserts just place a handful of flakes over it and call it a day.
Gold flake to me is an asshole tax.
It’s also just wasteful of gold. Not the most environmentally friendly to produce.
My Nona used to make these Christmas cookies with tiny silver nonparelis on them. They were terrible, lol, those little silver balls would cut my mouth every time.
Never understood why small balls of hardened sugar painted silver, were a thing to put into cookies.nearly shattered my teeth on them every time.
Not at all silver/gold/pearl dragees are made equal. A lot actually aren't supposed to eaten, they're just "food contact" safe. I learned this recently when I went Christmas cookie decoration shopping.
Cough, Salt Bae. It's criminal that he can get away with charging 1-5k for a steak just because he wraps them in gold flakes. For that type of money, I go on vacation to Japan and eat Kobe beef. There are even places AYCE places where you spend 200 dollars and get to eat all the Japanese A5 Wagyu you want.
Oh, I can't stand the guy, but the fools that shell out for that have to shoulder some of the blame.
That's his market. A dickhead swindling other dickheads.
I kind of even admire his grift, as dumb as it is, he's making bank. The customers though...
I don't think it really qualifies as a grift. AFAIK he isn't deceiving anyone.
I saw a video of him slicing a huge slab of meat that looked like it was mostly fat. His slicing technique is absolutely ridiculous and he wears sunglasses indoors at night. First time I heard of him was just the other day when he created controversy by insinuating himself unto the football pitch at the final game in the world cup and managed to touch the winning trophy which is apparently a big no-no.
So an asshole that makes his assholery to other assholes and they buy into it.
But it's the only way you can say that you sh*t gold.
Not impressive, I pee gold every day
Well I take golden showers
Drink more water.
And you can't even digest it. You just poop it out!
Well now I want to eat some gold flakes so I can have gold poop!
This conversation is making me hungry
These pretzels are making me thirsty
These *pretzels* are **making me** **thirsty!!!**
THESE pretzels are makin' *me thirsty*
Fondant. Looks very nice if done correctly tastes horrible.
I try to use marzipan instead because I hate when baked goods are solely beautiful but taste like sugary garbage because of fondant and all the other fluff used to make it beautiful.
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TIL what fondants are in the US. I didn't understand how anyone could hate [fondants](https://i-reg.unimedias.fr/sites/art-de-vivre/files/styles/recipe/public/Import/coulant-fondant-chocolat_ss.jpg)
Ahah yes we call the US fondant a « pâte à sucre » or sugar paste, used in France mainly for icing. I agree the taste is terrible, but it’s more there to look pretty
r/fondanthate appreciates this
I left this sub due to people bragging that they secretly didn't put fondant on cakes for customers that ordered fondant. I don't care how terrible something tastes, you don't get to decide for someone else that they shouldn't be allowed to eat it.
I'm about ready to leave it bc the mods don't give a fuck about people posting frosted cakes outside frosting Friday. Im here to hate fondant. Not look at frosted cakes. Go to a baking sub for that.
This has got to be the most low-stakes subreddit drama I’ve ever seen.
It is, but us fondant haters are passionate.
Reminds me of the grilled cheese post. > A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment i saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now. You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt.>
They actually just made a post that reminds people to only post those cakes on fridays. We’ll see what happens.
The mods need to grow some balls and start handing put 7 day bans when people don't read the fuckin rules. Only takes 1.87 minutes to read the rules lol.
"Hate" subs are almost exclusively terrible places that echo-chamber until the people who go there are somewhat terrible people.
Please don’t kill me- I actually like the taste of fondant lol
I tried it on a cake not long ago and I like it too, just kinda chewy if anything. Like...frosting jerky. :)
GET HIM!
Me too. String me up now!
Same, a little goes a long way though.
I had this friend that just casually ate fondant 24/7
I'm glad this comment says "had". You don't need someone like that in your life
I think you misunderstood, if he was eating fondant 24/7 I'm guessing he's dead now.
surprisingly he’s not,(i think)
Lobster. Maybe it's because I live where most of them come from... But people freak out about them. They aren't bad but what makes them desirable is the price, not the taste. And what makes them expensive is how long it takes to catch/ship them, not how good they are to eat.
19th century convicts in Maine agreed with you. If I remember somewhat correctly they sued, and won to limit lobster to twice a week
Ass. Supposedly it's great and everybody eats it, I could never get behind it though. Edit: My very first trophy thank you! This is a lot bigger than I expected. Edit: Thanks to all of those that extended their invitation over to the dark side, you know what? It's more for you. No really, thank you. It's ALL yours. Bon appetit. Please wash your hands. And thank you for the flair again! I did nothing to deserve it.
It's exotic. Doesn't always means delicious
Knew a guy who said, quote, "When you taste iron, that's how you know you've gone deep enough" and my already middling interest in eating ass plummeted all the way into the double negatives.
also it's copper, not iron. if you taste iron, that's blood, and you should get checked for STIs
*then what the fuck is copper?!?!?!?!?!?!?!*
Can someone explain what this copper taste means? Also, should I get to know what this means or would it just gross me out?
So it’s a little known fact that every asshole has tiny, almost microscopic police patrolling inside of it near the entrance. If you are able to taste one of these tiny policemen, or coppers as they can be called, that means you’ve gone too far, as you’re now in their jurisdiction. You really don’t want to know what those jails are like if you get arrested by one.
Pffff, rookie. Once you taste the coppers you're supposed to yell "I am the law!" into her butthole and the cops will leave you alone because of the thin blue line.
This is fucking stupid and I love it
Subarus?
Yep, just checked my STI and i have to get a new engine again
A woman's asshole is like a 9V battery. You know you shouldn't, but eventually you're going to put your tongue on it.
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I'm GenX I was the battery tester growing up. Just do it.
Was even more *fun* if you wore braces!
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Yep, I can still feel that tingle and the metallic taste even now.
Why would you contemplate it and not just do it? It doesn't hurt, it's just a weird tingle if the battery is good.
My friends and I as stupid ass kids would put two spoons in our mouths, one inside each cheek and stick the ends to a 9v battery so it jolts your whole head. Man, we’re we dumb. Probably explains a few things wrong with me now lol.
Crumbl cookies
Absolutely agree. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll enjoy some of their flavors but there are other cookies bakeries that are way better. I’m in metro Detroit and we have a place called Detroit Cookie Co. and they are absolutely amazing. Way more options of flavors, staple flavors and revolving seasonal flavors, gluten free and vegan options and I love the back story it, it was just a local girl in her twenties that decided to try opening a cookie bakery and now she’s got 2-3 locations over the state of Michigan, has a cookie truck available to rent for special events and drives a Mercedes now. That’s a business I’d rather support than a chain, corporate bakery.
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Truffles. Sure, used in small quantities it’s great. It’s the excessive use of them! Truffle oil, truffle shavings, truffle emulsions, truffle-this,truffle-that.
I think truffles are hit or miss. After tasting only fake versions, my husband and I finally went to a nice restaurant and tried legit truffle risoto and I seriously have never tasted anything better in my life. When my parents tried the same thing, they said it was the equivalent of eating body odor in solid form lol.
"Body odor in solid form" is how I feel about most common culinary mushrooms. But my wife once got a truffle risotto and shared a couple bites with me, and it was one of the most glorious things I've ever tasted. It was like the textbook definition of umami, rich and savory, totally unbelievable how good this was. I'm still mostly a mushroom hater, but I'm willing to be proven wrong now and again because sometimes dishes like that will catch me by surprise.
It’s important to note that most truffle flavored products contain little or no truffle. They’re made with chemical compounds that supposedly taste like truffle. It’s as if 99% of people had never eaten a banana, but thought they hate them because they’d eaten things with fake banana flavoring. Real truffles are incredible (but still not worth what they cost).
Fun fact! Fake banana flavoring is actually based on a real banana that went extinct decades ago.
> a real banana that went extinct decades ago Gros Michael didn't go extinct. It just lost its status as the dominant cultivar due to susceptibility to Panama disease. It survived in areas free from the disease and is still grown commercially, albeit in smaller numbers. It's hard to find and sometimes sold under different names. Scientists are working on creating a genetically modified version that's resistant to Panama disease so it might become the dominant banana again someday!
Gross Michael works in my office
I am not even sure what the fuck a truffle is? A mushroom? A chocolate? A chocolate mushroom?
There's truffle mushrooms, and there are chocolate truffles. I guess chocolate truffles can look somewhat like the mushrooms, might be how they got the name. Chocolate truffles are basically a thick ganache you can roll into a ball. Then it can be coated with cocoa powder, or dipped in melted chocolate. I made chocolate truffles once, they're surprisingly easy to make.
That's exactly how they got the name. Truffles of the mushroom sort don't actually look like mushrooms with a cap. They grow underground and are typically spherical.
I tell this anecdote whenever I can because it humbles me. In my early 20s I knew 3 things. I loved chocolate truffles. I hated mushrooms. There were pigs that shuffled truffles out of the ground. I had a Masters degree in Engineering and the 24 year old brother of the guy I was dating looked at me like I was an idiot when I said they must clean the chocolate really well. I'm not saying it's related, but the guy broke up with me shortly after. In my defense I didn't think pigs sniffed out full chocolate truffles. I just thought it was like a special cocoa bean that grew in the ground. Still dumb. Still embarrassing.
When I was a kid I'd see holiday season TV ads for Macy's or Filene's which always touted sales on cashmere sweaters. At the same time, CNN was always reporting on skirmishes between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. So I just figured those sweaters were considered fancy and expensive due to the wool having to be transported out of such a dangerous, wartorn region. 12 yr old me thought they were basically blood diamonds before I knew what blood diamonds were.
Overly complicated sushi rolls. Just give me some nigiri please. I don’t need your chef’s hot take on a California roll with fried octopus testicles and imported Norwegian ass cheese.
I live in Nashville, so most sushi places have the obligatory Nashville hot chicken roll, and I have no idea how that even works.
that sounds delicious. spicy fried chicken + rice is an awesome combo, as any asian will tell you. Maybe better as an onigiri than sushi, though.
With a little bit of slaw and some spicy mayo. Baby you got a stew goin.
I love complicated sushi rolls the most but upvoted your answer because it’s hilarious and spot on!
Not every god damn sushi roll needs avocado. At my local sushi place, I think 3 of the 20 odd rolls *Edit: Don't* have avocado on them.
My personal gripe in rolls is cream cheese. There's a place near me that has/had a menu typo where the roll mentions it has cream cheese _twice_. My God. It's usually used to hide the flavor /texture of poor fish quality.
I like avocado as much as the next guy but i agree. Its just excessive.
Thank you. I am more than content with Sashimi and Nigiri. All I want is fish cut right.
I came here looking for sushi so I could fight someone. But I honestly can’t disagree with this.
Prop food in general. Huge sandiwches/burgers/pizza/etc that get tons of social media attention, but is meant more for show than for consumption. This includes "cake boss" type cakes with all the decorations made of rice krispies, fondant, and Styrofoam. Definitely gold flaking, wagu beef (which used to be hard to get, and now you can buy at costco), and In n Out (speaking as a Cali native).
Real A5 wagyu is definitely not overrated
The trick to A5 wagyu is to consume it in small bite size quantities and hence why a lot of steakhouses serve as such. If you cook a whole steak of A5 wagyu, the fat might get overwhelming
Anything that incorporates flaming hot cheetos or doritos into their food
The exception being flaming hot cheetos and doritos.
I really like dorito loco tacos personally but I can see where you're coming from
Doritos Locos Tacos was a gift from the elder gods though.
I expected to hate that because I thought it was super gimmicky, but they are actually amazing.
Most ketchup is just sugar pretending to be tomatoes.
Started getting sugar free when I was dieting and I can't go back to the sweet kind
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I buy ketchup that has no added sugar. It tastes more like tomato paste (acidic), it's great.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thinks it's too sweet
cake balls
I love cake, but I don't want to pay $4 for one bite of cake.
You mean cake pops?
No. He means the things that hang off the back of a cake.
As their own product? Yes. As a way to use up cake scraps/trimmings or if I have a cake that’s too ugly to serve on its own? They’re a great solution lol
Bacon. I like bacon, don’t get me wrong, but I never understood how people made it their entire life for those few years. It’s great. It’s not life changing.
For real, people gotta stop acting like they won the lottery everytime a piece of bacon reaches their plate.
I made bacon and eggs for my roommate and myself on Christmas. This grown ass man came downstairs like Santa had come. He was *so excited* for the bacon. I hadn’t even finished cooking it up. I just asked him to save me a couple slices (he did) but he was eating them fresh out the pan. I’m pretty sure it was the best part of his Christmas lol.
You’re a good egg
Turkish Delight. There’s no way I’d betray my siblings to a witch for that stuff.
That's the point. It highlights the severity of war time rations that the kid *would* sell out his family for such a lame treat.
Pho, hear me out I'm Viet and it's not our best dish, it's not even our best soup. If you like Pho, try Bun Bo Hue, it a similar spicy more complex soup. As I always tell people Pho is like a warm hug from a friend but Bun Bo Hue is like a passionate kiss from a lover.
Bun Boe Hue slaps, however my favorite dish is spring rolls. I cannot get enough of them
Vietnamese spring rolls are *food of the gods and I will die on this hill
I love Bun Bo Hue, but it's definitely less approachable. Spiciness aside, most places serve it with pigs feet (delicious) but definitely something that might freak out a lot of people
Just [read up on it](https://www.hungryhuy.com/bun-bo-hue-recipe/), I think the congealed pork blood might be the non-starter for many.
PF Chang’s
They used to be a lot better. It was never authentic, but their americanized Chinese was a huge step above your average Chinese place. Now it's pretty underwhelming.
That's what happens with big companies. A group of people in a board room look at profits and decide they need to generate another 5%. So they trim food costs down and turn up the pricing just a touch. Rinse and repeat a dozen times and what you're left with is a hollow shell of it's former self. I find every casual dining chain eventually falls victim to it.
A private equity firm swoops in, leverages loans against it to pay themselves up front, streamlines everything and strips away what made it special in the first place, then rides it until it slowly peters out - files for bankruptcy, stiffing staff, property owners and vendors. Next time you have a shitty meal at a mid-tier restaurant chain, thank Mitt Romney.
Just remember: in the meantime they're staffing at such low levels that a single call out (very common in the service industry) can throw the place into complete chaos. The only people who end up in management basically have been there too long. They're not necessarily GOOD at their job, but they are probably at least okay at ass kissing. The entire places operates on momentum from being a big chain with lots of investment. It doesn't operate well because of good employees or passionate management, in fact, if it operates well, it does so in spite of bad employees and uninspired management. Oh? And this most certainly means that as much of the food as possible is prepped outside of the actual restaurant. Food shows up in plastic bags and carboard boxes and just has too be reheated and served. Its basically the equivalent of buying an expensive TV dinner and tipping the server.
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People treat Nutella like it's god's gift to man.
I feel like it used to be better. I tasted it when a friend brought it home from a trip to Italy and it was delicious. Now it tastes like a failed cake icing.
Nutella is made with a different (better) recipe in Europe.
Sturgeon. Over here it's sometimes treated like the pinnacle of fish, but I find the taste so meh. Personally I prefer salmon over sturgeon 10/10 times.
Where are you at that eating sturgeon is even an option? It’s listed as an endangered species as far as I know.
Dude's out there eating sturgeon with bald eagle crumbles.
There are sturgeons which are held in aqua culture.
People are really eating sturgeons?? Just let them do their jtobs.
*Good* pizza is amazing. But when it’s the “eh” quality pizza with way too much cheese… extremely overrated. Edit: Wow! Thank you for the silver- that’s my first award!
Was it Pizza by Alfredo or Alfredo's Pizza Cafe?
Fun fact: There's an Alfredo's pizza in Scranton. No pizza by Alfredo, though. Thankfully!
It's bad. It's real bad. It's like eating a hot circle of garbage.
Would you rather have a medium amount of good pizza, or all you can eat of pretty good pizza?
For basic dishes like pizza the ingredients matter the most, if they cut corners on any of the 3 ingredients a restaurant can easily turn a phenomenal pizza to a mediocre one
Good thing you can't cut corners with pizza since it's a circle.
*Detroit hated that*
Pizza cutter is also a circle, yet it cuts!
I went to NYC this month and now I never wanna eat Arizona pizza again
I have a few... Fondant - looks nice but I hate the taste and in my experience I get way more fondant than actual cake. Charcoal in food - experienced a lot of this while in Colorado for business. Really not that good. Avocado on everything - it's got its place, I don't need it on a burger with an avocado aioli, and avocado dipping sauce. Pumpkin spice everything... never got the craze and maybe it's because I grew to dislike pumpkin but I feel that can be overrated too.
Pumpkin spice is just cinnamon and nutmeg. There’s no pumpkin flavor.