Tradition and authenticity is bullshit.
Food from good ingredients prepared well matters more than if the cheese was stared at for two hours by the sheepwife of the mayor of Scrumthrorpeshireffield.
For example: Wine tasters were clear that French wine just tasted better than Californian wine. They were extremely convinced. Then they tried a blind test and hoo boy did everyone get pissed when they couldn’t tell the French wine was better without knowing it was French first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)
For example: Wine
I get what you’re saying, and it’s true, but “wine” is a horrible choice…
It can take five years for a vine to produce wine grapes. And even after they’re harvested, its a long process where lots can go wrong.
It wasn’t that people really thought no one could make better wine than France, it’s that no one else was consistently doing it yet. Everyone knew if Cali vineyards kept at it, they’d eventually level the playing field.
Most of the “outcry” about the result, was in France and made by the insanely wealthy people who owned the French vineyards
Not quite. French wine was diverse, with different regions producing the type of wine they did best.
California came along with marketing and convinced everyone wine should all be a heavy oaky drink that overpowers your food. They turned wine into McDonalds where it all tastes the same. Pretty sure Cali vineyards are owned by insanely wealthy people. Wine is just marketing now, people don’t want diversity, the want a big mac in every bottle.
You can pour cheap, bad wine into an expensive looking bottle and people will like it more. Marketing is pretty much all wine has going for it.
But it was a blind taste test by experts which showed that the best Californian wines could beat the best French ones, not marketing.
LOL…the opinions of ‘experts’ on wine has been debunked so many times.
Dude…those experts simply know how identify California wine and are paid to tell you it’s ‘better’.
The fact that people defer to experts to tell if they like a wine or not is very telling.
I could market Franzia to $200 a bottle with the right bottle shape and label, and of course natural corks, more bullshit.
Traditional and culture are good if you like the food as it was originally. Here in the us, too much ethnic food is Americanized, sometimes for the worst. After experiencing a few more authentic Chinese restaurants, I’ve come to realize the many I don’t like are because they’ve been Americanized. Badly. A lot more sweet, milder flavors, everything fried.
Its more important to enjoy what you are eating than it is to follow someone else’s food “rules”. Put ketchup on hotdogs, pineapple on pizza, smear wasabi on sushi, coffee with pasta.
Ah I see you are enjoying yourself. Would you care to know that you are, in fact, enjoying yourself incorrectly?
There is no joy to be had the way you are doing it. If there is, it is a fault in your character.
Ketchup and Mustard is hot dog glory. What ever the fuck I was served in Chicago had me searching for the meat
I love food bullies who get off on telling people how to eat and what they should like. The Chef was written for those people.
Car dependency is bad for food culture. It encourages massive chains and drive throughs and makes it harder for mom and pops to thrive
cold take my man
Good lol
If we are talking about cuisine, then mine is that intensely spicy food (e.g. Indian, Korean, Laos, etc.) is heavily overrated.
I prefer a taste bouquet of a carefully crafted meal. Hotness should be a nice touch, not a dominant agony. Food should not require a built tolerance to it’s ingredients in order to be enjoyed.
I like a small proportion of what I eat to be very very spicy. Not everything, and not every day. But sometimes it’s exactly what I want and some foods are so good that way. Lots of other flavors are sort of learned too - wine, bitter greens, there are foods I tried every year until I could like them (mango and raw tomatoes, and wines, also Swiss cheese) and I am glad I did develop a palate for them. Spicy I’ve always liked, only one of my kids was like that but all of them like it now.
I guess my hot take is that just because I like milk and/or sugar in coffee, doesn’t mean I don’t like coffee. Most people who like chocolate don’t like unsweetened baking chocolate and nobody is gatekeeping that like they do with coffee.
Those foods are good, not just because they are spicy, but because of their flavor profiles.
Spicy food challenges are doing everything to ruin spicy food for everyone. They focus entirely on heat, not flavor.
If you want a spicy hot challenge and only care about the heat, there’s pepper spray.
But super spicy hot foods should be intentionally made to also taste great. The challenge he should be the allure of the spicy food conflicting with the pain it puts you in. If you’re gonna struggle with the heat, you should be equally tempted by the taste.
Da Bomb, for example, is a fucking abomination and shouldn’t ever have stayed in business, nor be promoted by Hot Ones.
For some of us who like spice, it can be tough to get that across. “No heat challenge, but spice it like it should be. Spice it as if I weren’t white”
You can just say you don’t eat cilantro. You don’t have to lie about it being an allergy.
A lot of people I know who say this do it because of the soap gene thing, if they don’t make it clear then it will have cilantro in it anyway and then their food tastes like soap.
Look, sniff, and only then taste if you didn’t detect anything. Do it with totally fresh stuff too so you learn what That’s supposed to be like.
That’s why your mom had “the nose”. Learn to use your senses.
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Average American inland “seafood” is garbage. You have access to the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Florida Keys, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, and hundreds of thousands of lakes and rivers, yet the top fish dish 100+ miles from a shore is usually catfish fresh out of a polluted sewage overflow ditch or farmed shrimp/crawfish fed on subsidized cornmeal.
I saw a great sign at a seafood market once that read “If it smells like fish, it’s not fresh fish”. I can personally guarantee you that you cannot find good quality, fresh seafood in the USA unless you live within travel distance of a shore where you can find a local market or restaurant that sells their catch of the day.
Catfish is not good quality fish. It’s a trash bottom feeder that does an excellent job of cleaning waterways. Stop eating it and claiming the flavor is unmatched, I can taste the Monsanto runoff.
I used to be a picky eater.
The older I get the more I can’t stand picky eaters.
I was wrong when I was a picky eater.
It’s so annoying. People base whole chunks of their personality on not liking tomatoes or cilantro or whatever. Grow up. Pathetic.
I used to be picky too, I learned it from my mother. At some point I realized that if a restaurant is serving it, that means people are buying it, and its worth trying. It turns out that most food is delicious, even if I think its a little weird at first.
Exactly! If millions of people are eating something, then it probably tastes good! You just haven’t really tried it yet.
You’re not a special unique flower because you don’t like something. You not liking avocados doesn’t make you more interesting, it makes you boring.
Respectfully, wtf is “food culture”? Is the fascination with taking food pics for Insta and going to popular restaurants you see on TikTok that have great decor and selfie backgrounds? I think it’s ridiculously performative and for silly people.
If you meant “what are your hot takes about food?”, then idk, I think I have pretty lukewarm ones, lol (“Chinese > Italian > Indian” for popular cuisines around the world, for instance).
Food culture is the way people act and think about food, the way it should be prepared and served, as well as enjoyed.
My british partner has shown me, british food isnt all disgusting, but defenetly has its fair share of disgusting dishes (atlesst to my taste). Fish head soup for example
people in western countries look like like bowling pins when they hit 40 because their eating habits are fucking intense
Uh, pro tip for the budget constrained:
Buy some packs of instant ramen.
Get a rice cooker.
Get a rotisierre whole chicken.
Get some mixed leafy greens, or bean sprouts.
(Optional) Get some kind of ramen seasoning.
(Optional) Get some kind of seasoned oil meant for noodles.
Water into pot.
Carve off or even just tear off some of the chicken, put in pot.
(Optional) Add seasoning / seasoned oil.
Turn pot on, bring to full boil.
At full boil, add in instant ramen for about 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes, turn pot off, stir a bit, add in veggies, stir some more, re-cover pot for another 5 minutes.
You now have hot pot.
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Oh, this was supposed to be hot ‘takes’ not hot pot.
Oh well, you have hot pot.
also balut looks tasty mfs just have no class
I tried balut in the Philippines. Definitely something you should try at least once.
It’s just another food that people eat everyday that someone tried to make sound scary. Not sure why people do that.
When I was a kid they told me that Koreans eat cabbage that they bury in a jar in their backyard for a month. OH MY GOD SCARY.
Now I eat kimchi 2-3 times a week.
