Things rude houseguests do, a vent:

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Anonymous[b wrote:]For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply[/b].

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

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I love lasagna but come on - that is not an $80 dish. It just isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

Nobody is forcing you.
When we have holidays dinners, we have turkey, ham, chicken schnitzel, meat kabobs, cabbage rolls. Plus, salads, cannelloni, rice, veggies, potatoes, marinara sauce, gravy, stuffing, breads, etc....actually more than what I listed.

Plus about four desserts to choose from.

So you don't have to eat lasagna.

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?

Well, Cafe Milano is garbage so...yeah. They should be at Casa Luca.

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

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Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

Meaning it ain't Prego. And you can't buy it for sale for 50 cents, which throws the whole $8 lasagna algorithm off

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Anonymous wrote:Needing two people to put the baby to bed - you deserve being robbed of leftovers

I had a C-section two weeks ago and still am not back to 100%, so fuck you.

Sounds like you need a nap.

Why were you hosting Thanksgiving 2 weeks after a C-section?

It's better than forcing the great grandma to do it because nobody else offers.
Poor granny.

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?

Well, Cafe Milano is garbage so...yeah. They should be at Casa Luca.

Please provide us with a list of places that someone can appropriately spend their money so you won't be offended.

Dinner at Golden Corral for everyone!

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

Meaning it ain't Prego. And you can't buy it for sale for 50 cents, which throws the whole $8 lasagna algorithm off

What if one buys a can of San Marzano tomatoes for about $4-5 and makes her own sauce? Mind blown.

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Has there ever been another thread that got THIS derailed -- and stayed that way?

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

Meaning it ain't Prego. And you can't buy it for sale for 50 cents, which throws the whole $8 lasagna algorithm off

What if one buys a can of San Marzano tomatoes for about $4-5 and makes her own sauce? Mind blown.

What if they want to buy the premade, preseasoned tomato sauce that they love?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?

Well, Cafe Milano is garbage so...yeah. They should be at Casa Luca.

Please provide us with a list of places that someone can appropriately spend their money so you won't be offended.

Dinner at Golden Corral for everyone!

Eating at Cafe Milano for anything more than people-watching is offensive to my tastebuds

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?

Well, Cafe Milano is garbage so...yeah. They should be at Casa Luca.

Please provide us with a list of places that someone can appropriately spend their money so you won't be offended.

Dinner at Golden Corral for everyone!

Eating at Cafe Milano for anything more than people-watching is offensive to my tastebuds

So Golden Corral then, right? Or maybe Ci-Ci's pizza? I bet you can get an $8 lasagna there!

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

Meaning it ain't Prego. And you can't buy it for sale for 50 cents, which throws the whole $8 lasagna algorithm off

What if one buys a can of San Marzano tomatoes for about $4-5 and makes her own sauce? Mind blown.

What if they want to buy the premade, preseasoned tomato sauce that they love?

Because homemade sauce is much, MUCH better. And less expensive. Win-win.

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Anonymous wrote:1 lb of organic laura's 90% ground beef ~ $8.00
1 box barilla lasagna noodles ~ $1.50
1 jar rao's sauce, often on sale at giant for ~ $6
1 bag shredded organic moz cheese ~ $4
1 container organic ricotta cheese ~ $5
1 cage free brown egg ~ $0.30
1 container grated real parm cheese ~ $6
1 bag organic spinach ~ $3

Total = close to $35

I'd say the $80 and $8 posters are both off by a bit . I also now realize that a pan of lasagna is more expensive than I realized.

One lb of ground beef won't make a large tray. You need at least 50% more ingredients. ONE egg?
How many people are you feeding, four?

+1

Also, I personally, and i am not the poster who originally posted about the $80 lasagna, but I only use bufalo mozzarella. If you want to use REAL parmesan, that is significantly more expensive than the fake American stuff (you could never buy it for $6) with all the accordant health benefits of being made in Parma Italy with centuries old techniques and grass fed cows. To me, it's 100% worth it to spend extra for the better taste, texture, and health.

You also didn't add in fresh basil, which I always add to my lasagnas.

But what I can't fathom is why anyone is bothering to make "fancy" lasagna. Lasagna, che schifo. It would be like making "fancy" sloppy joes. This is not an elegant Italian meal by any stretch. Spend your money making crespelle fiorentina, not lasagna. Lasagna is for i cafoni.

So you've never had the Bernaise Burger at J.G. Melon's then. Never spent money on a cupcake from a nice bakery? Never had a real neapolitan pizza that costs more than Dominos?

There are lots of simple, humble foods that taste better when you have higher quality ingredients. In fact, i would argue that in many ways, using the more expensive ingredients gives you a truer food to what the original recipe intended, because whole foods tend to cost more than the mass-made, watered down crap on most of the grocery shelves. I personally will pay more to have a product that I know is healthy and good and the ingredients aren't a list of chemicals I don't recognize. I think it tastes much better too.

This was my first post in this thread (I am not the $8 pp). I was just pointing out that I don't think lasagna can be "fancy." Can it be well made and delicious? Certo. But I would never serve lasagna as a "fancy" dish. Especially not to any Italians.

No, I wouldn't either. But since I am gluten free, my lasagnas that I made for myself, during college when I was broke and using the cheapest materials I could find (aka, cheese I would never use now that I am a grad) still ran me about $35 a pan (not for a large pan either). I use a very high quality tomato sauce, per my mom's recipe (who also raised us eating healthy). I don't consider it a fancy food, I just think when you are buying nice food that's not mass produced, you have to expect to pay more. The idea of an $8 lasagna is patently absurd to me.

Gluten free noodles are all over the place now and they are not expensive. Homemade sauce is delicious but not necessarily expensive.

The brand I use is about $10. I don't make the price. It's the brand I grew up eating and a very respected one. I'm willing to spend $10 for my jar of marinara sauce, why do you care so much?

Also, I don't use gluten free noodles. I generally use some kind of vegetable/fruit, either zucchini, eggplant, or spaghetti squash.

You know that you should send away for coupons and buy that sauce on sale, right? You could make much better at home and for less money.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. A respected tomato sauce?

Meaning it ain't Prego. And you can't buy it for sale for 50 cents, which throws the whole $8 lasagna algorithm off

What if one buys a can of San Marzano tomatoes for about $4-5 and makes her own sauce? Mind blown.

What if they want to buy the premade, preseasoned tomato sauce that they love?

Because homemade sauce is much, MUCH better. And less expensive. Win-win.

And people like what they like. And you don't get to dictate how they cook. I know that kills you.

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Anonymous wrote:Has there ever been another thread that got THIS derailed -- and stayed that way?

No. This thread officially now sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?

Well, Cafe Milano is garbage so...yeah. They should be at Casa Luca.

Please provide us with a list of places that someone can appropriately spend their money so you won't be offended.

Dinner at Golden Corral for everyone!

Eating at Cafe Milano for anything more than people-watching is offensive to my tastebuds

So Golden Corral then, right? Or maybe Ci-Ci's pizza? I bet you can get an $8 lasagna there!

You can easily find some good lasagna for closer to $8 a plate than $80. No one charges that much for lasagna, only the $80 pp spends that kind of money on a basic pasta dish.