Food in whose name the worst atrocities have been committed

it filled me with sadness mostly.

an authentic, if unoriginal reaction

I will be just a bit globe-trottery douchey to point out that many regional cusines are very region-specific. There's a local French baker, for example, who bought a flour mill just so he could stop importing flour and mill wheat to his specifications, specs that didn't exist in the U.S. prior to that. What about the specificity of Norman apples or whatnot? As I've mentioned before translating seafood names from English to french is helpful but flawed inasmuch as the eponymous creatures can be quite different in different places.

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Asian Nachos
Crispy Fried Wontons Covered with Chicken in a Sweet-Hot Peanut Sauce. Topped with Wasabi Cream and Melted Cheese

would try

Local place has:
Crab Rangoon pizza
crab rangoon base, surimi, green onion, asiago and mozzarella, topped with crispy egg roll strips and sweet chili sauce

It is delicious

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I dunno, I haven't eaten at this place (yet), but the menu gives...pause

e.g.

La Pizza Mexicaine
Reblochon: Crème fraîche, Lardons, Reblochon, Fromage, Oignon

When I read the thread title I took "atrocities" to be meant literally rather than figuratively. My first thought was: roasted breast of passenger pigeon.

thinking of it that way, the French munching down dodos on Mauritius would also count

sugar

sugar! dlh otm x 1000

that pizza doesn't seem very mexican to me, but i don't see what's so shocking about it. am i missing an ingredient? its cream, cheese and onions, right?

Assumed that it was the total un-Mexicanness that made it weird. I kind of believe that non-French/non-colonial food in France is uniformly awful.

lardons = bacon, reblochons = ??

http://www.reblochon.fr/

(it's a kind of cheese)

Risotto surely

Caprese, nicoise, bruschetta too

Yeah it's just french takes on Mexican are nuts, like that's just a normal if sorta weirdish french pizza, what's it have to do with Mexican food

fair enough. would gladly eat this pizza tho!

Yeah it sounds good!

Worst pizza atrocity I ever experienced was when my hosts brought me to what I assume was a rather pricey "Western" restaurant in China. My best guess was that the chef had had pizza described to him once but he had never tasted or even seen one irl. It's not that it was inauthentic that bothered me (iirc the dough was sweet and the cheese was underneath the tomato sauce), more that it tasted really really bad.

Ordering pizza in Asia is a real game of Russian roulette ime. Had some perfectly decent ones there, but my god the bad ones are bad.

I'm eating the most disgusting 'sweet chilli chicken noodles' imaginable atm so I nominates that

thinking of it that way, the French munching down dodos on Mauritius would also count

Isn't this a misconception, and it was actually the animals introduced to the island (swine & cats iirc) that did for the dodo? Apparently they weren't very tasty.

the restaurant I linked to in the latest revive has duck fajitas which tbh sound amazing

xp you're right about extinction from what I've heard. but apparently our taxidermy models of the dodo (like in the Natural History Museum in London, and in the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution in Paris) aren't known to be accurate b/c all that made it back on the boats were skeletons, b/c the hungry French scientists ate their meat. so we don't know how the birds carried themselves, since we never got muscled birds.

not really sure where to put this

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it's german, so it fits on an atrocity thread very well

worst atrocities committed in the name of "dolls made out of tinned sausage"

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Hash brown nachos

Would eat.

I can't believe I spent a good part of my childhood thinking that canned pitted + sliced olives were the most gourmet delicacy ever.

That said, apart from the inferior olives, that looks tasty.

I would too and really it's the name that rankles.

that looks dope, but ewww black olives.

More canned black olives for me.

the local "irish pub" serves "irish nachos" over potato chips

Reminds me of a very similar, if probably superior, dish from the mission restaurant in san diego

PAPAS LOCO 8.50
Rosemary potatoes, grilled jalapeños, black beans, cheese, avocado slice and sour cream
With two scrambled eggs Add 1.75

Would still eat.

That sounds great

I want that right now

should be papas locas though smh

Place in noe valley does an 'Irish breakfast' which is close to a full English but has some kind of salsa. I don't think that's meant to be the Irish bit though.

i had "breakfast enchiladas" (chicken enchiladas w/ eggs and black beans on the side) yesterday and although i didn't eat most of the tortillas or beans, it was quite good.