What's your most controversial food opinion?

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Anonymous wrote:95% of salads are inedible trash

Can you explain this? What in the salad is trash?

NP. So many places use iceberg lettuce, sad, pale tomatoes, limp carrots, and gloppy, dead-sweet dressings. When a salad is done right, it’s superb, but that’s like 5% of restaurant salads.

Where are you eating? I can't remember the last time I had a salad like that, and it was probably on a plane.

Pretty much everywhere. Agree with PP, usually a big bowl of bitter tasteless lettuce. Maybe a flavorless tomato slice and carrot thrown in. A cucumber slice if you’re lucky. Oh and onions , sometimes lots of onions since they are cheap. Add in a side of watered down dressing....bleh.
If you know a restaurant with amazing salads do tell!

How can something be both bitter and tasteless?

I don’t know but they’ve managed to do it!

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Anonymous wrote:Food in Italy is way overrated. Everyone raves about how great it is. Its fine and even good, but not particularly special.

+1. I don't dislike it myself, but I don't think there is an Italian restaurant on Earth, in or outside of Italy, that is worth going out of your way for.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty convinced farmers markets are scams and they all lie about the origins of whatever they’re selling.

Not at all. I have a family member who sells his family farm's produce at DC area farmer markets. They work *very hard* and are very passionate about growing their produce without pesticides. Their farm is in Maryland and he visits his friends' farms (who also sell at market).

Also, you can just tell. Produce is super fresh and tastes amazing. It is prohibitively expensive to feed our family of 6 though.

Your family member is one person. Many, many farmers' markets are scams aimed at bilking rich, gullible people out of their money..

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Anonymous wrote:Chocolate is boring. It appeals to kids and others with simple pallettes.

Palates.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids shouldn't consume sugar drinks like apple juice, Capri sun, soda, Gatorade, etc.

I don't think this is controversial at all--almost every mother I know thinks this.

Most mothers feed their kids sugar drinks daily.

What about fathers?

Ii saw a father in a food court with a couple little kids around dinner time. They were drinking Coke and french fries. I wonder what bedtime was like after that.

Bedtime was fine, because even if the soda did have sugar in it (did you take a sip?), the old trope of "sugar makes kids hyper" has long been scientifically debunked.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not difficult to cook basic food, or that time consuming. No more time consuming than going to eat out or do takeout. People need to meal plan for the week, enjoy leftovers, and keep it simple and healthy. I raised two children and worked ft. But was able to still get basic meals on the table every night. I'm not saying it was always easy. But people make cooking more complicated than it needs to be. Fresh ingredients go far and you can keep recipes simple when your ingredients are simple and fresh

BS. Takeout takes five minutes. Please provide the recipes for multiple meals where all the prep, cooking and serving take under five minutes. Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous wrote:Fake meat. What is that stuff? If you prefer to not eat meat, I totally understand. Choosing fake chicken nuggets is crazy.

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You may not like or understand it but no, it isn't "crazy"

Nasty. "Impossible" fake meats are like voluntarily eating a kitchen sponge.

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Those cheap ramen noodle packs are so good.

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Anonymous wrote:95% of salads are inedible trash

Can you explain this? What in the salad is trash?

NP. So many places use iceberg lettuce, sad, pale tomatoes, limp carrots, and gloppy, dead-sweet dressings. When a salad is done right, it’s superb, but that’s like 5% of restaurant salads.

Where are you eating? I can't remember the last time I had a salad like that, and it was probably on a plane.

Pretty much everywhere. Agree with PP, usually a big bowl of bitter tasteless lettuce. Maybe a flavorless tomato slice and carrot thrown in. A cucumber slice if you’re lucky. Oh and onions , sometimes lots of onions since they are cheap. Add in a side of watered down dressing....bleh.
If you know a restaurant with amazing salads do tell!

I'm thinking Red Lobster salads and even Olive Garden (although I love the dressing). I don't eat at those restaurants anymore. Usually those salads are the side salads. I honestly cannot remember a restaurant that served me that type of salad.

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Anonymous wrote:Food in Italy is way overrated. Everyone raves about how great it is. Its fine and even good, but not particularly special.

+1. I don't dislike it myself, but I don't think there is an Italian restaurant on Earth, in or outside of Italy, that is worth going out of your way for.

OMG. That IS controversial!

Most touristy restaurants in Italy are pretty average, but I can still taste this squid ink pasta I had in a little hole in the wall in Treviso…divine.

Pro tip: if the menu includes French fries, move on.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty convinced farmers markets are scams and they all lie about the origins of whatever they’re selling.

Not at all. I have a family member who sells his family farm's produce at DC area farmer markets. They work *very hard* and are very passionate about growing their produce without pesticides. Their farm is in Maryland and he visits his friends' farms (who also sell at market).

Also, you can just tell. Produce is super fresh and tastes amazing. It is prohibitively expensive to feed our family of 6 though.

Your family member is one person. Many, many farmers' markets are scams aimed at bilking rich, gullible people out of their money..

Yeah I can tell fresh, local vegetables and fruits from 10 paces. Raised in the country. The farmers markets I have been to are legit. But I don't go to richy rich places so maybe that's the difference

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty convinced farmers markets are scams and they all lie about the origins of whatever they’re selling.

Not at all. I have a family member who sells his family farm's produce at DC area farmer markets. They work *very hard* and are very passionate about growing their produce without pesticides. Their farm is in Maryland and he visits his friends' farms (who also sell at market).

Also, you can just tell. Produce is super fresh and tastes amazing. It is prohibitively expensive to feed our family of 6 though.

Your family member is one person. Many, many farmers' markets are scams aimed at bilking rich, gullible people out of their money..

Proof? Or is this pure speculation?

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Anonymous wrote:Food in Italy is way overrated. Everyone raves about how great it is. Its fine and even good, but not particularly special.

Blasphemy. Stand there in your wrongness and be wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Food in Italy is way overrated. Everyone raves about how great it is. Its fine and even good, but not particularly special.

Blasphemy. Stand there in your wrongness and be wrong.

DP. I think it is VERY easy to have mediocre meals in Italy. It is not just the touristy areas- just like here, some restaurants are better than others. I think people make the mistake of not ordering a region’s specialty and are disappointed. As an Italian-American with a palate blown out from Western excess and spices, I found many dishes bland.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids shouldn't consume sugar drinks like apple juice, Capri sun, soda, Gatorade, etc.

I don't think this is controversial at all--almost every mother I know thinks this.

Most mothers feed their kids sugar drinks daily.

What about fathers?

Ii saw a father in a food court with a couple little kids around dinner time. They were drinking Coke and french fries. I wonder what bedtime was like after that.

Bedtime was fine, because even if the soda did have sugar in it (did you take a sip?), the old trope of "sugar makes kids hyper" has long been scientifically debunked.

Caffeine is the issue. Not sugar.