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Mint jelly is gross but mint sauce on lamb is my favorite (it’s mint, vinegar, sugar). Trader Joe’s usually has New Zealand lamb.

Someone take me to the Cheese Board (then across the street for a drink)

― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, March 1, 2018 2:15 PM (nine hours ago)

Cesar, the tapas restaurant that is across the street from the Cheese Board, does have excellent drinks (and food), but I wasn't aware you were familiar with the gourmet restaurant scene in North Berkeley?

Aside from fancy small ranch stuff I don't think I've seen lamb that isn't from Australia or NZ, it's not really a commodity meat in the US.

I love lamb when other people cook it but I have had fuck all luck preparing it well for myself. Even going heavy on the fat trimming with shanks or boneless legs it usually comes out greasy. I've decided to just cede it to a couple of local Lebanese restaurants. Their tabouli is way better than what I can make for myself anyway.

not liking any even vaguely normal food is shameful and embarrassing and you should stfu about it and ppl who have refined their palate to the point of finding normal food disgusting are hideous monsters who are to be shunned.

BINGO

this def applies to turning your nose up at fast food/junk food as if it's inedible too

this thread has reminded me i haven't made lamb saag in a while, an oversight i intend to rectify as soon as i can dig my way out of the snowdrifts in front of my house and make it to the shops

it's def the meat that makes me feel guiltiest when i eat it tho cuz baby sheep are cute as hell

so cute, so delicious ;_;

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/de/29/1d/de291d2d1ddb75f63e644dc9e4c68c27--smiling-lamb-keep-smiling.jpg

Xxxp It's all part of treating food as a proxy for class / values / health / dieting / coolness rather than treating it as food.

Can't stand all these "gourmet burger restaurants" that have appeared recently, just apparently to add the veneer of respectability to eating junk food, if you want to eat it then it's a quarter of the price and basically the same at burger king.

cue stream of burgsplaining about how it really really isn't

Receiving his “frothy coffee” in Pontypridd’s Prince’s cafe, Owen Smith stopped mid-sentence to express some amusement. “I tell you it is the first time I have ever been given little biscuits and a posh cup in here,” Smith said, looking up at the owner David Gamberini, as his order was placed on the table. “Seriously, I would have a mug normally,” the MP added, examining the refreshments in front of him.

i had a lamb rogan josh in a Spoonies last night just to wrap this all together

rip owen smith, heaven needed a centrist frothycoffeepologist

don't make me post the latte-munching thread

the latte-munching thread is an extremist stance in the other direction and equally reprehensible, the point of that and performative foodie-ism being this gauche strained othering of perfectly normal things that are normal to eat and pleasant

like mint jelly

*minces triumphantly off to the american politics threads, to solve THEM*

Lemonjelly was popular for a while but i did not like them ever nope

I say mint and mint jelly suck and its like suddenly we can’t eat mayonnaise anymore

they sell yummy lamb right up the street from my house.

http://leydenglenlamb.com/index.cfm

western mass/vermont good for small farm meat. they have great meatshares here.

there is a hipster butcher shop in northampton now that has ridiculously good local stuff.

http://www.suttermeats.com/p/local-meats.html

mmmmm local meats

http://www.myfconline.com/character_avatars/78291_67387.jpg

hipster butcher shop

Lamb. Pfft. SO last season. Lately I've been really excited about an obscure cut of zebra shoulder; you probably haven't heard of it.

Pfft you're about twenty years late on the white stripes posing m8

every mfer on this thread talking about cheese better have a real controversial opinion they're saving up for after this dairy bullshit

"gourmet burger restaurants"

oh man, not even "gourmet," but there's a stretch of road in the suburbs here that has the most chains moving in per square mile in the metro area and there's a Five Guys, Fuddruckers, and Red Robin within three blocks of each other, with a local burger chain a few blocks away and a "gourmet" local one in the mall just beyond that

how many fucking hamburgers do you normy asses need

The world is overpopulated and the deaths of a few million here and there, grouped by a particular characteristic or not, is no great harm

ty

‘a few million’ get a load of this milquetoast over here, billions or gtfo

:-/

tsunami wiped out how many again?

300,000 (and we’re still whining about 9/11)

for a moment i thought it was 300 mil

well it’s only an order off

Cheese is a more interesting topic than anyone's opinion on anything including cheese

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution

I won't accept "overpopulated" until all of Europe and North America has the density of Hong Kong + entire cities on floating offshore platforms.

death list: everyone currently falling from a high window, everyone who's just about to be hit by a train

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution

― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:41 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh it's never the one you want

ice-nine no doubt

who needs to wait for global warming? not americans, by gum!

"Total U.S. Drug Deaths* - More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2016, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids--nearly double in a decade."

By drugs tho tbf not by gum

even more in 2017, i think.

all i'm saying is this country is doing its part to control population growth. and its not easy when you are a big rich country either! you have to try even harder to find ways to die in big numbers. but with guns and drugs we are on the right path.

hipster butcher shop

_To Serve Hipster_ coming soon

also, see ya at the rib shack...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for approximately 800,000 deaths in the United States (US), or one out of every three deaths. Among Americans, an average of one person dies from CVD every 40 seconds. Coronary heart disease (CHD) accounts for the majority of CVD deaths, followed by stroke and heart failure.

If twasnt that it'd be something else.

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution

― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, March 2, 2018 7:41 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i irlold

hipster butcher shop

_To Serve Hipster_ coming soon

― Hunt3r, Friday, March 2, 2018 8:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

slaughter your own animal - open 9am to 11am!

Cesar, the tapas restaurant that is across the street from the Cheese Board, does have excellent drinks (and food), but I wasn't aware you were familiar with the gourmet restaurant scene in North Berkeley?

― sarahell, Friday, March 2, 2018 7:27 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gourmet? Not sure more applicable than ghetto, but quite suitable for gourmandizing, though I've never been willing to do more than observe the line. I wasn't aware you were familiar with my levels of familiarity.