Reveal Your Uncool Culinary Beliefs Here

Skittles are the gateway to Fentanyl

You can get perfectly good bagels anywhere in America now.

I like velveeta

It's fine to order your food mild

I kind of like industrial cheeses like Kraft American and Polly-O

McDonald's fries are good

― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:15 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

all bougie fries worth a damn are attempting to recreate mcdonalds fries so i'm pretty sure this is a widely held opinion among the pros

“small plates” and “share plates” are just bougie excuses for not giving me a normal amount of food

winco fried chicken is great & cheap

cold leftover spaghetti sandwiches rule (homemade spag bol is good for this but canned spaghetti is best)

pomegranates are better as juice & artichokes are better in jars - too much work in their natural state

eating slices of Kraft American cheese singles one at a time is awesome

ok one i actually believe is small plates and share plates are an excuse for the restaurant to run their service like shit and not course out the meal properly

i actually have a friend who we like to share a little of each of each other's food but tbf that doesn't actually require serving mini-meals that cost $9, you can just share full entrees.

Burger King is better than McD's

the food, sure, but all of the actual buildings themselves are awful near me. also all of them have "You Rule" written on the marquee, is that like the new slogan?

i'm happy that we have a Jollibee here now, hope it's as good as the one in Manila

Midwest pizza styles, particularly Chicago deep-dish and Detroit-style buttery crust, are streets ahead of New York styles.

Same with midwest IPAs (especially St Louis) vs. their northeast cohorts.

ok now hold up

request thread title change to “Reveal your UNCOOLINARY Beliefs Here”

as you were

well made tiki drinks are amazing

white bread is generally better than whole wheat

pomegranates are better as juice

pomegranate molasses >>>>>>>>>> pomegranate juice

everyone likes tiki drinks

I confess that I will totally eat soup out of a bread bowl, then I will fucking eat all the bread that used to be a bowl.

its a waste if you dont!

Like, I would totally bust a move on a Panera French onion soup in a bread bowl right now. #sorrynotsorry

Damn

french onion soup is gross there i said it

soggy bread is a crime against nature

it's ok. it's never very good bread.

I will choose almost anything edible over creamy soups or western cream sauces.

i dunno if i love anything as much as i love a ballpark brand boiled hotdog

Church's Fried Chicken (which I haven't had in 20 years) was real good, precisely because it tasted exactly like the old Swanson's TV Dinners.

Have realised that I and my wife have the culinary tastes of people in their 90s (we are both 43) - sweet sherry, cream liquers, wafer biscuits, rum baba, pork scratchings. even our kids have picked up our taste for Brussels sprouts and haggis.
but now I realise that this isn't about tastes, it's beliefs, hold on, got some of those too.

Best, most neglected flavours for things: mint, pear. I will find French import shops to buy mint cordial every summer, and will always get a pear ice lolly if it's ever available

Ok, thought of one. Every chain restaurant/bakery in the UK is bad. including bakeries because Greggs, there is nothing good in there, nothing. Their pizza is an absolute crime. I honestly don't know why nobody seems to have noticed.
Since moving back to the UK in 2016 I have tried every chain restaurant, think the worst is Itzu, but all were some shade of bad.

Itsu, it's called, sorry.

I used to like the Itsu brand udon noodle pots when they had chunkier noodles, but then they decided to change what didn't need changing. Their seaweed thins are nice though, but too expensive.

if I were to pin down what I don't like about it:

* UK Asian fusion restaurants are always bad, putting very different kinds of food together in clumsy, insulting ways
* "Heathy" focus means piling up dishes with cold edamame beans and uncooked carrot, and not adding any salt or msg, nothing tastes of anything at all.

Ok, thought of one. Every chain restaurant/bakery in the UK is bad. including bakeries because Greggs, there is nothing good in there, nothing. Their pizza is an absolute crime. I honestly don't know why nobody seems to have noticed.

they've noticed but they like it. ppl fetishise bad food here.

most of the things i make with garlic are just as good with garlic i can keep in my fridge. i have tried it both ways (fresh/jar) and this is the way that works for me if i want to actually make my own food, which i do. no one has ever complained about it either.

depending on what type of garlic you have, (I am obv biased but Californian is generally better than Chinese imports) refrigerated garlic is great, and is what I use. I generally get CR crushed, but if I was doing more cooking, I'd have a jar of crushed and a jar of minced for different things.

Church's Fried Chicken (which I haven't had in 20 years) was real good, precisely because it tasted exactly like the old Swanson's TV Dinners.

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, March 23, 2023 10:48 PM (yesterday)

I drive by a Church's Chicken regularly and it smells great in an uncool way

Italian food is fake.

https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b64c

Small plates is just how it goes in a lot of parts of the world that don't have the starter/main/dessert structure of European food (not an uncool opinion, just following up on this).

Actual uncool opinion: Pret's stuff is fine as long as you're not in a situation where you have to eat there on the reg.

Bag salads are good.

French food in general is highly overrated (and completely futile if you don't eat meat). Talking about restaurants here, maybe French family meals are culinary delights.

I want to get a coke spoon necklace and fill it with white pepper for emergencies

around 2000 whenever I took a trip to London I actually looked forward to eating at Pret, I would have the coronation chicken sandwich, it had decent not-half-frozen bread, well-seasoned chicken, raisins, mayonnaise and nothing else. now if I go in there they have nothing I want to eat, all the sandwiches are half-frozen clammy slivers of bread with layers of salad leaves and no condiments to be found anywhere inside, just like everywhere else in London with their sad fridges full of sad sandwiches. I will say that their delivery service seems to be a little better for some reason.

Going to town and buying a Pret sandwich for lunch felt super sophisticated when I was 16. Sadly now I am 45.

Steak is bad and one-note. No combination of flavors, seasonings, or textures, just dumb beef flavor. And when cooked 'properly', the texture is kinda gross too. So not worth the price of the ecological impact.

An open faced peanut butter sandwich is superior to a flip over or one made of two pieces of bread.

i dunno if i love anything as much as i love a ballpark brand boiled hotdog

lol I ate this exact thing far too often in high school (1980s). Also ate loads of Steak-umm sandwiches.

Trying to think of a contribution though, this is kinda hard.

Every once in a while I will eat a food that I loved when I was a kid, and it's just unpalatably bad.

In about 1986 my mother got a job that had her commuting home too late to cook dinner, so we were all on our own. We ate Steak-Umms, Chicken Rondeles, freezer food. I have fond memories of that time but I can't really reconnect with the food.

Like, au gratin potatoes from a box used to be a treat. I made them last year, for nostalgia, and almost gagged. Chunky sirloin burger soup has these hilarious tiny burgers - with grill marks! - but is actually terrible.

1980s processed food felt like a miracle at the time, but compared to the many many things we can make now - with fresh ingredients - just as fast? No comparison.

Like, it doesn't take any longer to make an actual stir-fry or pasta than it does to microwave a TV dinner. I can make a real soup in the same time it takes to heat up a canned soup.

I hated guacamole as a kid, thought it tasted like diarrhea.

in my mid-20s, I realized I liked it. in my 30s, I fell in love with it.

last year, I brought a mediocre brand of it to a party and did not care for it at all. since then I haven't enjoyed it once - even when getting good, quality guacamole.

I know palettes change over time but idk if it's that or if that one off brand classically conditioned me, but wtf, it wasn't that long ago I was munching on a $13 gigantic guac appetizer in San Juan nightly on my company's dime and being addicted to it.