What's your controversial food opinion?

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Anonymous wrote:Soup is for frumpy old ladies .

I hate the annual soup threads or the proclamation that someone is cozying up with a warm cup of soup. Sure- with a pile of cats and stack of magazines.

Well it is controversial because it sounds nice to me. Plus a nice book and a fire.

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Soup is for frumpy old ladies .

I hate the annual soup threads or the proclamation that someone is cozying up with a warm cup of soup. Sure- with a pile of cats and stack of magazines.


Well it is controversial because it sounds nice to me. Plus a nice book and a fire.

....and a bunch of cats.

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Anonymous wrote:Mustard is so much better on potatoes (e.g. hash browns) than ketchup. Ketchup is for children.

yes!

If you need to put *anything* on your hash browns - mustard or ketchup - you've made them wrong. Good lord.

Exactly what I was thinking. You shouldn’t need to douse your potatoes in condiments. Also, hash browns slathered with mustard just sounds nasty.

False. Not all hash browns are created equally. I don't know about you, but I make maybe 1% of the hash browns I eat. The others are ordered in a restaurant and sometimes condiments are absolutely required.

Don't fear the mustard.

Well what kind of mustard are we talking here? Because if you’re talking about taking perfectly good hash browns and putting French’s yellow mustard on them...my god, PP.

Different PP.

Why would you think that? You must not have ever attended the National Mustard Museum.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I’ve been to the Mustard Museum.

If you’re the poster talking about simply dipping your tines in a lovingly-made dill mustard - I will concede that may enhance a plate of greasy diner hash browns.

[Anonymous]

Ramen restaurants don't offer any better ramen than I can make at home with some Top Ramen and "stuff" added on top. ITS THE SAME THING.

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I think fish tastes awful. Is this controversial?

Also, not a fan of the texture of steak

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Anonymous wrote:Most (not all) people with weird diet restrictions (GF, vegan, etc.) are really just masking their eating disorder.

I disagree with this. Most vegan, GF people I know have good reasons.

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Peanut butter is disgusting! You can only like it if you grew up with it. It escapes me why anyone thinks it is awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter is disgusting! You can only like it if you grew up with it. It escapes me why anyone thinks it is awesome.

Consider trying a nice fresh natural peanut butter lightly spread inside a sharp cheddar quesadilla.

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Anonymous wrote:Mustard is so much better on potatoes (e.g. hash browns) than ketchup. Ketchup is for children.

yes!

If you need to put *anything* on your hash browns - mustard or ketchup - you've made them wrong. Good lord.

Exactly what I was thinking. You shouldn’t need to douse your potatoes in condiments. Also, hash browns slathered with mustard just sounds nasty.

False. Not all hash browns are created equally. I don't know about you, but I make maybe 1% of the hash browns I eat. The others are ordered in a restaurant and sometimes condiments are absolutely required.

Don't fear the mustard.

Well what kind of mustard are we talking here? Because if you’re talking about taking perfectly good hash browns and putting French’s yellow mustard on them...my god, PP.

Different PP.

Why would you think that? You must not have ever attended the National Mustard Museum.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I’ve been to the Mustard Museum.

If you’re the poster talking about simply dipping your tines in a lovingly-made dill mustard - I will concede that may enhance a plate of greasy diner hash browns.

Babygirl, get yourself some crackin' good hashbrowns and try out a little of the dill/lemon/capers one on the side. Marvelous.

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Anonymous wrote:Ramen restaurants don't offer any better ramen than I can make at home with some Top Ramen and "stuff" added on top. ITS THE SAME THING.

The best ramen I've had was at Narita Airport called Tomita Ramen.
I highly doubt that could be recreated at home with instant anything.

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Panera is disgusting and 2-3x overpriced. A toddler could make that bland half-ass crap they serve.

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Thanksgiving foods do not work together. It really is the worst meal of the year. A professional chef can not make this combination of food work.

This isn't even that controversial because I know so many people who agree. Every year the non-traditional dishes like pumpkin sage ravioli, great spinach salad, tasty appetizers and ham is all gone and there are mountains of left overs of turkey, gravy and stuffing. Every year, the host has to put out the same foods that most of the family doesn't like because one or two porker relatives wants to pack a plate with turkey, stuffing, potatoes and drown it in gravy and then giggle while filling up Tupperware with this gloopy mess.


I don’t understand why the combination is so objectionable:


Turkey
Potato
Green beans
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

Plus whatever extra sides. What doesn’t go?

These are all very, very bland foods and its very starchy, heavy with very little variation in textures.

I guess it depends on how you make them...
Bland and starchy with no variation in texture is not how I do thanksgiving.

Dry brined turkey with crispy skin
Garlic mashed potatoes
Crisp tender green beans with almonds
Turkey gravy and mushroom gravy
Citrus cranberry conserve

I also add several other sides depending on my mood that year, including a simple massaged kale salad and pickled vegetables. Nothing seems all that starchy except mashed potatoes. If you have mushy bland flabby skinned turkey with overboiled potatoes, gloppy jar gravy, gloppy canned cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and boiled to death green bean baked in casserole, then yeah. But thanksgiving has changed since we were kids I think!

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Thanksgiving foods do not work together. It really is the worst meal of the year. A professional chef can not make this combination of food work.

This isn't even that controversial because I know so many people who agree. Every year the non-traditional dishes like pumpkin sage ravioli, great spinach salad, tasty appetizers and ham is all gone and there are mountains of left overs of turkey, gravy and stuffing. Every year, the host has to put out the same foods that most of the family doesn't like because one or two porker relatives wants to pack a plate with turkey, stuffing, potatoes and drown it in gravy and then giggle while filling up Tupperware with this gloopy mess.


I don’t understand why the combination is so objectionable:


Turkey
Potato
Green beans
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

Plus whatever extra sides. What doesn’t go?

These are all very, very bland foods and its very starchy, heavy with very little variation in textures.

They make the perfect sandwich though. An angel biscuit weekend mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, turkey, and stuffing. It's the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Soup is for frumpy old ladies .

I hate the annual soup threads or the proclamation that someone is cozying up with a warm cup of soup. Sure- with a pile of cats and stack of magazines.

I'm still in my 30's but this sounds pretty nice.

Oh, yes. Make it a murder mystery and splash some bourbon in the tea.

With a Victorian sponge topped with Harrod’s ginger creme for pudding.

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Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter is disgusting! You can only like it if you grew up with it. It escapes me why anyone thinks it is awesome.

Consider trying a nice fresh natural peanut butter lightly spread inside a sharp cheddar quesadilla.

Ew WTF?? Now that is controversial.