Controversial Food Opinions - The Béchamel Test

but cold cake & icecream is specifically a nonstarter for me

if you’ve got a belly for cake AND ice cream then your slice of cake is too small

I have never been served cold cake with ice cream, but that sounds sort of wrong. I guess you don't like ice cream with jelly.

not really unless i can mix them together & make icecream & jelly mush

…ice cream with jelly?

OMG I love cake sooo much, I could literally eat all the cake in the world. I'm basically the cake monster. get in my belly!

Jelly as in jello. Kids party favourite in the UK, no adult would be seen eating it

…ice cream with jell-o?

I had no idea that was even a thing!

I mean, it's basically a kids version of a trifle I guess. But trifle is the worst pudding anyway, so it has no sympathy from me.

Who the fuck puts jello in a cake

Nobody as far as I'm aware

I really love trifle, but maybe because I am not british.

Looks too fancy for me

I’m a pie guy

Simple

There is nothing fancy about a trifle. Just horrible wrong nasty ladyfinger biscuits soaked in sherry, instant custard, tinned peaches and spray cream with sprinkles.

i want piiiiiiie

Oh and jelly(o) of course

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My first ever Wigan Kebab... steak Holland pie in a barm... here we go #Veganuary pic.twitter.com/UullFMnwqa

— David Blake (@David8Blake) January 4, 2018

xpost, ok maybe I have only had bourgie trifle because what you describe is not what I have had.

ew ew ewwww

*so* gross! OMG

get in the sea, pie-bap

Can we ban imago again already

I am heading to The English Seaside in a couple of weeks and look forward to puddings and pies of all sorts

So much to catch up on.

On Ramen, dipping is definitely the way to go so tsukumen for me. Although faced with the choice between ramen and good soba, then soba every time. Good soba has to be high buckwheat content or what’s the point.

I don’t really eat rice at hope due to low carb dieting but, in China or Japan I eat much more and love it. On my most recent trip I ate more brown rice and rice and beans than I have before. Japanese rice and beans or the Taiwanese/Japanese rice with beans and grains like sorghum is wonderful. Ochazuke and bubazuke ftw, btw.

I will defend trifle to the death but it has to be well made, lots of booze, fruit and ridiculously rich custard. If you are going to chill custard then it needs to be slightly over sweet when warm. Jam in the trifle sponges. Jelly does not belong in Trifle, why would you spoil something so wonderful with flavourless plastic.

On the cake question - of course no ice cream with cake or cream for that matter, cake ought to stand up on its own. Custard, ice cream and cream belong with pies and tarts.

Jello is bone and animal hide gelatin foolio

OMG f# you are such a negative ninny! i ain't goin' nowhere, darlin' *snaps fingers*

Yeah, the trifle I have had has been magnificent.

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i've been snacking on some amazing sassafras-flavored gelatin gummies this week but i think in the future we're going to try and move to the vegan/kosher/halal gelatin for making such things

I feel like the should start offering pot gummies on flights.

I got a bento box yesterday for lunch. I ate half of the rice. I was very proud.

is it a controversial opinion that prime rib is terrible? it's my opinion.

I kind of think 80% of what people think is well cooked meat is terrible.

yeah I think I've had really good steak like one time ever, and it's not for lack of trying (or spending). & it was at a professor's house, not even at a resto! ok maybe once at a resto in Marseille.

I like meat "in" things but not really as a main dish.

I enjoy prime rib on rare occassions but it's too expensive

Overcooked meat is as bad as past al dente pasta for me. I think I like most of my food on the way undercooked to raw side.

Or unless it's brisket or something like that that needs to be dripping off the bone. I need to go find some brisket now.

re. meat that is not controversial I think?

I hate undercooked rice, the crunchy core disgusts me

All of rice is disgusting. There is no saving it. Although I do like rice pudding. I used to eat uncooked oatmeal as a kid with just a little milk.

German, American and Asian types of link sausages are generally disgusting as well.

dang I love lap xuong but I'm the only one in my family who does
I don't know what american link sausages are, as opposed to like hot dogs?

American link sausages are likely bastardized versions of italian, polish, german etc. And then those weird sausages that they put in a spiral with skewers keeping them together so you can put it on the grill? I think there is a word for those?

There is definitely an emoji for those

ok I don't know those, maybe it's an east coast thing? the sausage I got in the dumb midwest was generally as on par with what I get in central Europe. (I don't think French sausage types really exist in the usa, just maybe louisiana versions which are quite their own thing)

Oh they are called sausage rings. blech.

Scottish Lorne sausage ftw

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I used to buy frozen lorne sausage as it was easily the cheapest meat available at asda circa 1998

Is that spam

looks delicious!

I would eat that.

And then those weird sausages that they put in a spiral with skewers keeping them together so you can put it on the grill? I think there is a word for those?

I think these are basically Italian? I mean the quality depends on the meatcutter or company that made them but generally I think the spiral form is an Italian thing.