Food crimes

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Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

DCUM pre-Thanksgiving has many turkey defenders.

DCUM post-Thanksgiving: The "what's your favorite thing you ate during the holidays" questions, I don't recall 1 response for Turkey, or thanksgiving food for that matter. I don't get why people eat stuff they would not normally eat because the food brand marketing department told them its "traditional". Eat the prime rib twice. You'd rather eat that anyway.

I like roasted turkey. I always buy one on sale after the holiday. But then, there are a LOT of people who don't know what they're doing, and make them tough/ gamey/ dry. Then they try to blame it on the bird, not on their own lack of skill.

There are just so many better options for meat. I was recently at a 3 Michelin starred restauarant and one of the 16 courses was a riff on Thanksgiving dinner. It was...ok
By all accounts it was juicy, salty, and succulent in every way and I think the chef is fairly skilled to get those stars. Still...it's turkey.

[Anonymous]

Speaking of prime rib, my unpopular food crime opinion is that it’s heinous to eat a piece of flabby mushy rib roast when perfectly seared rare ribeye steaks could be had.

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Canned frosting is a food crime . Tastes like plastic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

Why not eat a horse instead??

Biggest food crime is whatever is served in US in the name of veggies.
Mushy cauliflower, boiled cabbage...sweated onions...yuck.

Who has enough people over for Thanksgiving to justify cooking a horse?

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Anonymous wrote:Pillsbury veggie pizza where you piece together crescent roll dough like a pizza, then mix sour cream and mayo for the sauce, then top with RAW broccoli, carrots, and bell pepper. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Mom thought everyone loved this but the truth was even the dog wouldn't eat it.

That is not a crime and is the first to go at our parties. You need to season the sauce.

+1. Also, the base is cream cheese and sour cream, not mayo. Ranch mix is good in it. And no cheddar cheese.

How do you know what my mom made???

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Anonymous wrote:Cheese and seafood mixed. No thanks.

Mmmm tuna melts

Same. I will say, that's the only application of cheese to seafood that I like though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

DCUM pre-Thanksgiving has many turkey defenders.

DCUM post-Thanksgiving: The "what's your favorite thing you ate during the holidays" questions, I don't recall 1 response for Turkey, or thanksgiving food for that matter. I don't get why people eat stuff they would not normally eat because the food brand marketing department told them its "traditional". Eat the prime rib twice. You'd rather eat that anyway.

Who exactly is making prime rib for Thanksgiving, feeding an army? At $25-$30 a pound, I couldn't serve that at our family Thanksgiving. I think that is why turkey is the main meal - you are feeding so many people, and the bird is cheap!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

DCUM pre-Thanksgiving has many turkey defenders.

DCUM post-Thanksgiving: The "what's your favorite thing you ate during the holidays" questions, I don't recall 1 response for Turkey, or thanksgiving food for that matter. I don't get why people eat stuff they would not normally eat because the food brand marketing department told them its "traditional". Eat the prime rib twice. You'd rather eat that anyway.

Who exactly is making prime rib for Thanksgiving, feeding an army? At $25-$30 a pound, I couldn't serve that at our family Thanksgiving. I think that is why turkey is the main meal - you are feeding so many people, and the bird is cheap!

Turkey is the main meal because it was marketed to be the main meal

https://thecounter.org/thanksgiving-turkey-advertising-origins/

There are plenty of better options at that price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

Why not eat a horse instead??

Biggest food crime is whatever is served in US in the name of veggies.
Mushy cauliflower, boiled cabbage...sweated onions...yuck.

Who has enough people over for Thanksgiving to justify cooking a horse?

You could save half of it in your freezer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheese and seafood mixed. No thanks.

Mmmm tuna melts

Same. I will say, that's the only application of cheese to seafood that I like though.

Salmon and sour cream on a bagel is pretty good. Yes, sour cream is a cheese.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yellow mustard.

Oatmeal raisin cookies. Not only are they awful, they tease you because from a distance they appear to be chocolate chip.

Yellow mustard exists for Philly pretzels.

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Anonymous wrote:A true food crime: may I present the "Chicago Spicy Bowl":
Pickles, jalapeños, sausage, pickled eggs, juice from the above, sprinkled with the seasoning packet from Ramen noodles, drenched in hot sauce, served over cheddar and sour cream Ruffles. Sold on Facebook marketplace. Mm mm good!

Sounds like an "all these things are about to expire so let's eat them together for lunch" bowl.

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Anonymous wrote:Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

Why not eat a horse instead??

Biggest food crime is whatever is served in US in the name of veggies.
Mushy cauliflower, boiled cabbage...sweated onions...yuck.

In my imagination, the native Americans chose it for the mythic first TG feast because they didn't want to share the good stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

DCUM pre-Thanksgiving has many turkey defenders.

DCUM post-Thanksgiving: The "what's your favorite thing you ate during the holidays" questions, I don't recall 1 response for Turkey, or thanksgiving food for that matter. I don't get why people eat stuff they would not normally eat because the food brand marketing department told them its "traditional". Eat the prime rib twice. You'd rather eat that anyway.

Who exactly is making prime rib for Thanksgiving, feeding an army? At $25-$30 a pound, I couldn't serve that at our family Thanksgiving. I think that is why turkey is the main meal - you are feeding so many people, and the bird is cheap!

I make a whole tenderloin, about 8-9 pounds, for anywhere from 8-10 meat eaters. It's a holiday meal, I can splurge.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Biggest food crime is Thanksgiving Turkey. Such a terrible tasting bird!

DCUM pre-Thanksgiving has many turkey defenders.

DCUM post-Thanksgiving: The "what's your favorite thing you ate during the holidays" questions, I don't recall 1 response for Turkey, or thanksgiving food for that matter. I don't get why people eat stuff they would not normally eat because the food brand marketing department told them its "traditional". Eat the prime rib twice. You'd rather eat that anyway.

Who exactly is making prime rib for Thanksgiving, feeding an army? At $25-$30 a pound, I couldn't serve that at our family Thanksgiving. I think that is why turkey is the main meal - you are feeding so many people, and the bird is cheap!

“Prime rib” is how we colloquially refer to a rib roast. It’s not typically actually prime grade, and usually goes on sale around the holidays. I paid $6.99 a pound this year. Still more expensive than turkey but not $30 a pound.