What's your controversial food opinion?

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I didn't read the whole thread so this might have already been mentioned, but...

I can't stand pumpkin spice anything. Oof. I hate the seasonal items around this time of the year because it's literally only pumpkin spice. Go into Trader Joe's, and it's everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Cheeseburgers at most places are far too big. It's annoying trying to eat something I can't even fit in my mouth.

+1

I can’t stand the way some places make big, “gourmet” burgers. Just give me a crispy little patty from off of a flattop grill, top it with boring American cheese, the usual basic toppings, a soft regular hamburger bun, and I’m a happy camper! Take your truffle-Brie burger on brioche and get outta here.

+1

It's a cheeseburger, not an art.

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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.

I KNOW.

But think about trying it sometime. It's not what you would expect at all.

[Anonymous]

Cooked beans and lentils look like baby poop.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m bored of Thanksgiving food

Totally. I've hated it since I was a kid. It's all just super boring and bland, and yes I have been "challenged" by people who swear THEIR traditional Thanksgiving food isn't bland. It all is. I hope their are some decent sides or opt out altogether by traveling over Thanksgiving somewhere where they don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

Some of the dishes can be bland, for sure. But tell me what is "bland" about, say, roasted brussels with pancetta, good olive oil, balsamic glaze, and fresh parm.you may not like it, but you can't lazily say it is bland.

That sounds fine and all, but it is also similar to something I routinely make so it is not in any way special. That's like a Tuesday night side dish so nothing to get excited over.

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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!

I've had Thanksgiving prepared by multiple professional chefs and...even done your way? It's a boring meal. Like a PP said, if it were so awesome, why don't we eat this stuff multiple times a year? Why don't we order it out routinely at restaurants? Because it is boring, boring food. Nothing you listed above sounds at all appetizing to me. I'd eat the kale salad, pickled vegetables, and maybe a turkey wing and be like, "uh, ok. That was fine, which is about the best you can expect from Thanksgiving."

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Anonymous wrote:
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!

I've had Thanksgiving prepared by multiple professional chefs and...even done your way? It's a boring meal. Like a PP said, if it were so awesome, why don't we eat this stuff multiple times a year? Why don't we order it out routinely at restaurants? Because it is boring, boring food. Nothing you listed above sounds at all appetizing to me. I'd eat the kale salad, pickled vegetables, and maybe a turkey wing and be like, "uh, ok. That was fine, which is about the best you can expect from Thanksgiving."

No, we don't order it at restaurants because:
1) The whole point of having something only on holidays makes it special.
2) The whole point is using family recipes (I'm sure professional chefs make better versions, but they don't make grandma's version)
3) the food is starchy and fatty and again, two-times-a-year-only
4) I don't order restaurant food that I can easily make at home; I save restaurants for sushi, soufflé, risotto, fresh oysters, flambé, authentic Mexican, authentic Japanese...

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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.

Why would the PP think that? because the other PP said that 99% of the hash browns she eats are at restaurants that don't know how to make hash browns correctly. Those places typically aren't subscribers to the mustard of the month club from the National Mustard Museum.

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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.

Really? You believe the broth ramen you get at a decent ramen place is made from a powder?

That isn't so much controversial as stupid.

[Anonymous]

Groceries stock deli turkey meat, deli, roast turkey, and raw turkey breasts and legs year-round. Not to mention ground turkey meat. Know why? People like turkey.

It's cool if you don't, but you don't get to act like people don't eat turkey year-round just because they only deal with a whole bird once or twice a year.

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Anonymous wrote:Filet mignon is not the best cut of steak.

Yes!

This should not even be controversial but it is.

I don’t see the appeal of ribeye. Much prefer filet or ny strip.

[Anonymous]

“Normal meals” for breakfast are awesome.

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Lunch is a useless meal.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicken and turkey—no matter how they’re prepared—are disgusting.

My sister wouldn't eat chicken because she could see the anatomy.

Also re: eggs she said "who wants to eat an abortion?" (she was absolutely pro-choice)

[Anonymous]

Bland food is just FINE.

I like to explore and experiment with food and master new cooking methods and such but I also like to just fall back sometimes to some of the food I grew up with. Last night it was pot roast, melt in your mouth meat and grave and potatoes and carrots and onions and celery.

As for Thanksgiving, don't put ANYTHING in your cranberry sauce except cranberries and sugar. You can add citrus in your cranberry bread.