Anonymous
Post 06/23/2024 08:54     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
My unbearable thing is not food, but people who are "allergic" to MSG!
I had to sit at work lunch with a woman who was telling a recent immigrant from China that she is allergic to MSG. Sadly, a Chinese person agreed with it and said she did realize it is bad for you! That is how deep this racist BS is!
I then asked the "allergic to MSG" coworker if she eats tomatoes okay and what about cheese. She said, oh, I love them, no issues there!
I mean WTH?
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2024 22:52     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I look down on the whole restaurant scene here. Yes, there are exceptions, esp among the very expensive and ethnic hole-in-the-wall places, but as a whole it is so painfully mediocre. It really bugs me that there's no mid-range restaurants that would offer creative, great food. Why can't they do it? California can do it, New York can do it, friggin Philly can do it, not to mention countless cities in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America (haven't been to Africa, so no personal experience there)... But in DC it's all: 'Baaaa! It's humanly impossible to produce an interesting plate of food of any kind for under $40.'


Oh I am so with you there. And often the food isn't even that good. Like DC has a million pizza places and like 7 of them are decent and they all charge $30 a pie. Or you can't get a literal sandwich for less than $16 anyway but plenty of the are crap -- so you just have to know which of the $16 sandwiches are actually worth $16 and which are just you being swindled.

Also even the really good places go downhill after a year or so because the head chef will step back a bit and they'll try to scale up and quality tanks. But prices never come back down. They aren't based on quality they are based on popularity.


+3 Was just saying this to a neighbor at the pool.


+4 I don’t trust any lists or reviews anymore. So much mediocre food. We only keep going back to a handful of restaurants we randomly found over the last 20 years.


Anonymous
Post 06/22/2024 21:47     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
I really like salmon, tuna, haddock, whatever kind of regular fish you want to serve me, however you prepare it, I will happily scarf it down. I even like catfish (!)

I cannot deal with shellfish. I have tried so many different types and preparation methods and it all just makes me gag.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2024 21:32     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Mayo. Should be a law against it. Only thing even more vile is Miracle Whip or restaurants that sneak it into a cleverly named sauce.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2024 09:34     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
People who smell like food.

My hair when I go to a badly ventilated place with a fryalator and I smell like food. It's unbearable.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2024 09:33     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:I don't mind cheeseburgers but a good burger really doesn't need cheese. Good mustard and pickels compliment a plain burger really well.

And dovetailing on that, American cheese is a totally pointless, if not a totally gross addition. At least Cheddar or Swiss have some flavor and hold up when melted. America cheese just melts into nothing and just tastes like extra salt.

Also -- I like eggs but a yolky egg on a burger is disgusting.


Is nacho cheese/melty neon cheese american? It's not pointless. It's essential. If it's wrong I don't wanna be right.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2024 23:20     Subject: Re:What is your most unbearable food thing?
Okra
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2024 23:06     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.


Wow! What’s a sophisticated European palette you have! I am in awe of its awesomeness. Signed another immigrant.



Palate, just so you know.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2024 22:39     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:I'm vegan. We have a personal chef daily that makes us 2 meals a day.


You're my most unbearable person thing.

Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 17:36     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:Dairy and seafood mixed together. Just doesn’t work well.


Disagree. I know this is one of those rules that you’re not supposed to disagree with, like no ketchup on hot dogs in Chicago, but there are dishes where the two work beautifully together.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 16:16     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Dairy and seafood mixed together. Just doesn’t work well.


No bagel with cream cheese and lox?!


Didn't we already establish that no one is eating bagels?


I love an everything bagel with cream cheese and lox. But cream cheese isn't exactly cheese!
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 16:12     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dairy and seafood mixed together. Just doesn’t work well.


No bagel with cream cheese and lox?!


Didn't we already establish that no one is eating bagels?
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 16:11     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:I laugh out loud at people who are skittish about eating food prepared by neighbors or co-workers (read social class peers) but won't think twice about eating fast food, Panera, or even most sit-down restaurants, where the people in the back preparing the food are often drug addicted underclass who dropped out of high school.


But there is a specially trained food safety manager on site watching everything like a hawk. /s
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 12:22     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I love the cultural authenticity of food and detest fusion - Korean tacos, bbq chicken pizza, and Mexican lasagna are all no gos for me.


This is a tough row to hoe. So you also eschew ramen, all Italian dishes that use tomatoes, which were an import from the new world, any Indian dishes that contain chili peppers, which were introduced by Europeans? Or do you mean you don’t like new fusion foods, but are ok with older ones? No Korean tacos, but la galbi (invented by Korean Americans in la) is ok?


Good question. It’s not hard and fast rule but more an emotional one. If I feel a particular dish is a bastardization of authentic cuisine I’ll pass. eg, since you can find California rolls in Japan it’s acceptable to me. But bbq chicken pizza is an invention of some socal pizza chain trying to be cute, so I won’t touch it.


Can you provide a list of authentic pizzas toppings?


tomato, mozzarella, basil.


Tomatoes are American and not Italian. So authentic pizza is just mozzarella and basil.


Maybe you should let the Italians know, they seem to keep putting tomatoes on pizza there.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 12:17     Subject: What is your most unbearable food thing?
I don't mind cheeseburgers but a good burger really doesn't need cheese. Good mustard and pickels compliment a plain burger really well.

And dovetailing on that, American cheese is a totally pointless, if not a totally gross addition. At least Cheddar or Swiss have some flavor and hold up when melted. America cheese just melts into nothing and just tastes like extra salt.

Also -- I like eggs but a yolky egg on a burger is disgusting.