I don’t think I’ve made a post on here about food, so here goes! 😃
I’ll go first…I just love eating uncooked pasta. It has such a satisfying crunch and the tomato pasta and wholewheat pasta are my faves! This has been a habit that I’ve had ever since I’ve had teeth and people are always surprised that I haven’t damaged my teeth doing this. I enjoy pasta cooked too!
Not me, but an ex-girlfriend. She would fill a bowl with potato chips (crisps to you Brits) and then pour ketchup all over and eat it like a bowl of cereal with a spoon.
This is why she’s an ex right
That and she couldn’t keep her mouth off another guy’s dick.
But mostly the chips thing, right?
Look, there are some things I can overlook in a relationship.
But eating a bag of lays with half a bottle of heinz ketchup poured on it? WITH A SPOON? 🤮
Honestly doesn’t sound like a good time, don’t think the ketchup would be enough to save his dick from the chips in her mouth.
If I could upvote this 50 times…
Kinda similar, I’ll finish off the shrapnel from a bag of corn chips with a spoonful or two of salsa in the salsa bowl. Spicy cereal, I guess?
This wins so far.
I like dipping meat sticks, preferably Peperami (brand here), into fruit flavoured yoghurt sometimes.
Jail!
Milk mixed with orange juice looks terrible but tastes like an orange creamsicle.
That’s a very popular drink here in the Dominican Republic, probably in Puerto Rico and Cuba too, you have to know the trick so the milk and orange juice mix well tho. It’s called “morir soñando” (which means “to die dreaming” in Spanish) look it up if you feel like to.
What’s the trick?
I honestly don’t know since I’ve never done it myself, would have to ask my mom or something.
Yeah dude, ask her.
Ask her
Yeah, it’s pretty good, especially in the summer time.
On topic for the thread, the way I make it has pretty much always gotten a “WTF are you trying to feed me?” look from Dominicans. Okay, more of an “Ay dios mío, este muchacho” eye roll and a “¿Qué es este menjunje que tu tá inventando allí?” from them, if I’m being honest. For the ones I’ve gotten to actually try it, though, they all agree it’s pretty good.
I have the usual mix of milk and orange juice, add in some sweetened, condensed milk, vanilla extract, and then I add jam/preserves instead of just sugar. I’m partial to cherry preserves, but if chinola jam were a thing I could get here, I’d probably just stick with that. Toss it in a blender with some flaked ice, and 30 seconds later, you’re that much closer to developing diabetes. Depending on the sort of night I’m having, I might toss in some spiced rum, too.
Add a little vanilla, and yeah, that’s a Creamsicle!
Or, blend frozen OJ, milk, ice, and a bit of vanilla extract and you’ve basically got an Orange Julius. (Do those places still even exist…?)
Top tip: add in some powdered sugar. In addition to adding some sweetness, powdered sugar has cornstarch in it which will act as a thickener making for a more unctuous mouthfeel
Mother of the groom gave an impromptu speech at the reception about how her son is like milk and orange juice. It was as meandering as it was long.
The groom looked like chunky vomit?
Quite the opposite, but maybe his mom feels like she just drank milk and orange juice when she sees her son? I suppose we’ll never know for sure.
Tinned fish on toast — mackerel or sardines. Criminally underrated dish
Actually that sounds awesome.
Can’t go wrong with spiced Nuri’s
I’d like to try that on a crunchy baguette.
But that’s not weird at all!
This is very much a regional food around here, but if you’re not from here, with previous generations from here, it will seem like a strange food: the banana sandwich. This is peanut butter, banana, and mayonnaise (Duke’s Mayonnaise for any proper Southerner). People are generally on board until you mention the mayonnaise. I get that it sounds weird but is actually really good.
I hear it called a Southern thing but don’t know if it’s just a North Carolina thing or extends farther across the South. It is definitely a thing, though. I remember years ago one of the larger news outlets posted a question on their Facebook page, asking if people sliced their banana into planks or circles for their sandwiches and it got hundreds of comments in response with people arguing for one option or the other. I’ve always been a circle person myself. I can see a theoretical appeal for planks in having less open space but am so used to circles that I’ve never quite figured out the logistics of cutting straight planks out of a curved banana.
It won’t be anytime soon, but I promise to try this. And if I remember maybe I’ll update.
I’m impressed at your willingness to try; almost no one does. I hope you like it!
I could get down with this.
I love banana + PB + bacon + honey.
Does Duke’s mayonnaise taste of mustard or is it bland fluffy oil like other American mayonnaises?
No mustard… Just regular bland fluffy oily stuff. But different brands of mayo are weirdly different, and some have cult followings.
Peanutbutter sandwiches with spicy, vinegar-based condiments instead of sweet ones. Mustard, cilantro chutney, peperoncini, that kind of thing. It’s fantastic.
I can see that. I like pb and cheese and I think some banana peppers would kick it up a notch
Pb+cheese??? Wtf?
Yeah dude my favorite is a slice of sharp cheddar but swiss or provolone also work for a more subtle flavor profile
As a lifelong practitioner of all things peanut butter, I guess I will try it! What’s the ideal ratio, 1:1?
I just do a normal pb sandwich amount of pb and then slap a slice of your cheese of choice!
I can kind of see it.
That one actually looks ok :o
What’s cilantro chutney? I’m picturing some cilantro leaves flavoured relish.
I’ll try with a mix of hoisin sauce and vinegar. With some cilantro leaves and crushed peanuts.
One of my fav sweet toasts is jam + extra hot sriracha. Have you tried it?
It’s a South Asian condiment, usually paired with tamarind sauce. It’s a bright green paste and fairly spicy.
Ok, tonight I’m making this with some pakoras.
drools
I give my kiwis a good rinse and sorta “scrub” their skin (is it called a peel on kiwis?)with my palms before I bite into them skin and all like am apple. I have had more than one person audibly gasp and ask me what the hell I’m doing when they see me eating kiwis that way.
The spoon and digging as a kid was fun, but as an adult the time lost to cutting and spooning kiwi flesh from its skin just isn’t worth it. And if a kiwi is properly ripe anyway the bitter skin actually contrasts the sweet fleshy insides quite nicely.
This is the objectively correct way to eat kiwis whether society is ready or not.
I am ready. You are ready. I think it’s time. We now eat kiwis with the
skinpeel still on.
I give my kiwis a good rinse and sorta “scrub” their skin (is it called a peel on kiwis?)with my palms before I bite into them skin and all like am apple. I have had more than one person audibly gasp and ask me what the hell I’m doing when they see me eating kiwis that way.
Cannibalism?! Oh my god why the heck would you treat New Zealanders that way?!
The skin on kiwis is high in oxalates, so if you are prone to kidney stones, be careful.
Well now I’m terrified. Am I about to be pissing gravel?
Oxalates and oxalic acid are common in a lot of different foods. Anything that has the little tart taste like arugula generally contains it. So its in a large number of fruits and vegetables a lot of which are delicious. As long as you are drinking liquids on a regular basis and aren’t eating something like Yellow Wood Sorrel daily which is super high in oxalic acid you will be fine.
Oh no not the yellow wood worrel! My favorite late night snack!
Jk. Thanks for the additional context. Yeah I did a little more research on the stuff and I am less worried now lol. I drink a lot of water every day and I only have things like kiwis on random occasions. Never a consistent thing.
I’ve been doing some native / foraged foods and they always have disclaimers about plants high in oxalates might cause kidney stones. They wild grown foods typically contain 10 to 100 times more concentrated vitamins, minerals and other both helpful and unhelpful components per ounce than traditional vegetables.
The real issue isn’t the kidney stones but that oxlatic acid is an anti-nutrient that stops the body from absorbing calcium. But there is not issue unless you eat in large quantities daily. It grows in my yard as a weed so I like to eat some of it while I am weeding. Its delicious and besides its anti-nutrient effect on calcium pretty healthy for you.
Sorry to scare you. I’m not by any means a doctor, but from what I understand it tends to be an issue more with people who are already predisposed. So it’s probably not something most people have to be too concerned about.
Unfortunately you put the idea in my mind so now I’ll never be able to enjoy a kiwi again lol.
I am petrified of kidney stones. It’s why I stopped drinking energy drinks almost entirely. Every time I drink one I am reminded of my doctor telling me that those drinks are dangerous to drink often and part of that is the significant increased chances for kidney stones.
I appreciate you letting me know though. Better to have knowledge and have it changed your habits vs being blissfully unaware all the time. Though being blissfully unaware does seem awful tempting these days…
It’s a peel
By the way, if you run a knife down the peel and cut into it around the kiwi and then again at a 90° angle, you can just peel the skin off. Very easy.
Yeah but all that work just for me to lose out on nutrients. I’ll just watch the thing whole.
There is a cheese in my country- olomoucké tvarůžky, which is in itself acquired taste.
But I made “Loštický zázrak” which is this cheese pickled in beer, as a homebrewer I used half fermented beer. So smelly cheese fermented with beer.
You can smell this concoction in whole house when the jar was opened, but the taste was amazing.
Reminds me of Spanish ‘Manchego’ cheese. It’s a semi hard gourmet cheese in most commercial places and it has a slight strong flavour. During a holiday once in the south of Spain, we went searching for authentic Manchego cheese in the Sierra mountains of Andalusia. The cheese we found was a very strongly flavoured hard cheese that was the consistency and taste of hot weathered plastic. Strangely enough, combined with strong Spanish onion slices and it was delicious … and then mixing it again with strong Chorizo sausage, specifically the ones they make in the mountains which taste like well worn and sweated gym socks and it was a whole other thing to get accustomed to.
Mustard with Poutine. That stuff is amazing
Mine is an ‘everything’ poutine … it depends on who makes it and where you get it … but up in some northern Ontario towns and highway places its usually a base of fries topped with fried onions, fried peppers, corn, peas, cooked diced carrots, hot peppers, jalapenos, ground beef, bacon bits, ground sausage, fried steak strips, pulled pork, two or three types of cheese and cheese curd smoothered with lots of hot gravy. If the place is good and generous, they layer it by placing a few fries, then the toppings … the repeating it one or two more times.
I’m sorry…mustard with poutine, or poutine with mustard.
The way it’s written it looks like mustard in the main item and you add a bit of poutine to it.
That actually sounds pretty good!
PB&H.
Peanut butter and honey instead of jelly.
I still eat this. It’s far superior IMO
Totally did this as a kid. Also peanut butter and maple syrup.
Haven’t tried that, but it sounds like it might be worth a bite.
I used to have this as a kid, but with very thinly sliced apples in there as well. Damn now I kind of want one.
This is some serious gourmet shit
On caraway seeded rye
Honey on a toasted rye is great.
Hell yeah, my dad used to send me to school with PB&H on that uranium yellow potato bread.
Balut
Just kidding, don’t Google that
Couple weeks ago my friend brought a balut into a bar and did a balut bomb (cracking it into a pint of beer and chugging/swallowing it)
We all almost puked
I’ve had it. The flavor was very good - like imagine a hard boiled egg that tastes like roast duck - but the texture, eeehhhh…
Slight cartilaginous crunch?
Yeah, crunchy in spots. Also at one point I bit into a little sack of liquid that kind of popped in my mouth.
I’m picturing something like eating the bones at the end of poultry wings. It sounds eatable.
I want some roast flavoured eggs now :c
The flavor is very good!
This is something I’d try if I had the occasion.
Dry sandwiches. I don’t like most condiments on anything that I eat cuz I think it ruins the flavor. Most condiments are overpowering and just make food taste like condiments. Don’t put them on anything. Not hotdogs, burgers, or sandwiches. The only exception I make is hot sauce.
This one might be a little different.
I eat only once a day, but it’s a big one, right before bed.
When I order takeout from… say my favorite burger place in town, usually a double cheeseburger, I ask that they apply no mayo, mustard nor ketchup, as I will reheat it all on the air fryer/toaster oven then apply condiments, don’t want the bread to be getting soggy for hours before dinner.I also tell them to put the lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles on the side, for the same reason. I bring my own reusable containers for the separate things, to create no plastic/styrofoam waste. That includes tiny ones for the dressing and for the runny cheese for the fries.
Which reminds me of the fries - back home, hours later, I will refry them for a minute or two, they come out almost as good as new.
But this all being home, I can also play around with the burger. Such as stuffing it with a full onion, thinly sliced and caramelized on low heat with olive oil, pepper and a dash of Lawry’s seasoned salt. Maybe also sliced mushrooms sautéed in butter. I’ll also add a few extra slices of yellow heirloom tomato.
One last thing: while the onions are caramelizing on the toaster oven, I’ll also put another tray with a handful of asparagus in olive oil, pepper and garlic salt.
Like a friend described it, I like tuning the burger!
As in “car tuning”, custom burger mods.How the hell you gonna work like that and not just cook your own patty?!
Yea at that point just cook it yourself lol
This was an excellent read. Thank you.
Boiled peanuts!
Now that’s the first time I’ve ever heard about eating peanuts boiled!
It is a big thing in the southern US. They’re really tasty.
Yes, they are super tasty! My parents grew up in the state of Georgia. But I moved to California as an adult and no one here has even heard of them. I get strange looks when I make them (homemade is best!) but I force people to try them and I’ve never had a single person or walk away impressed.
Now you probably mean this in the American way, but omfg boiled masala peanut salad??? I could eat that shit for days and never get sick of it
I do mean it in an American way but also boiled peanuts masala salad sounds right the fuck up my alley.
If you ever get the chance, do try it. It’s an incredibly refreshing and pleasant dish
Super common in Vietnam. And from I’ve learned from Stephen Colbert also common in the south.
Oh how I love boiled peanuts. I eat the shells too.
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