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

The worst part about Thanksgiving dinner is the turkey. Very few people actually enjoy it - and I can prove it.

Roast turkey is one of the easiest dinners to make, and it feeds a ton of people for a long time. Despite this, a vanishingly small number of people actually roast a turkey any tome other than Thanksgiving. Why? No one is really excited about it.

Oh, and my homemade stuffing, passed down from my grandmother, is the best there is. Very simple, no expensive ingredients, but it's the best.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Fruit and chocolate do not belong together.

Canned tuna tastes better than tuna steak.

Not when tuna is fresh caught and put on a flame right away.

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Anonymous wrote:Mint does not belong in food, especially chocolate or ice cream.

YES! Anything mint + chocolate ruins the food

Uhm how about Mediterranean lamb with mint yogurt sauce? It’s delicious!

Disgusting! I can't stand lamb, nor mint! I grew up with it. But, I am allergic to diary, which might explain why I would throw up after eating any of it. I did not know that long ago that I was allergic to it, and had to eat what we had.

Anonymous wrote:If you have to eat some extremely processed, chemically enhanced version of a food because you can't or won't tolerate the real thing (i.e. impossible meat, oatmilk, fake cheese) -- just eat something else.

ooh I like this one.

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Anonymous wrote:Mint does not belong in food, especially chocolate or ice cream.

YES! Anything mint + chocolate ruins the food

Uhm how about Mediterranean lamb with mint yogurt sauce? It’s delicious!

Who would really eat a little lamb. It’s basically a puppy.

Fruit and chocolate do not belong together.

Canned tuna tastes better than tuna steak.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is dairy bad for your liver? Or sea food?

Combining them in a dish is bad for you, like a fish or lobster sandwich with cheese. Drinking a milkshake, right after eating seafood as examples. Eating them individually and spaced apart isn’t bad for you.

Can you provide an actual scientific citation for this?

I assumed this was a clever troll.

New pp. I grew up in Middle East and heard this growing up. Can’t think of middle eastern dish that combines fish or seafood with dairy (yoghurt or cream). Can’t provide you and actual citation and never tried to disprove or prove the allegation, but I also just never eat seafood with dairy. It’s just not a taste combination I grew up with.

Italians don’t combine seafood and cheese either

Cheese quesadillas are immensely improved by incorporating natural peanut butter.

Fight me.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Spinach and tomatoes. This combination (in Indian cooking) is thought to result in kidney stones. I never believed it, love cooking this together!

This probably has some (remote) basis in truth. Oxalates, which are found in spinach, combined with vitamin c, found in tomatoes, can exacerbate kidney stones. I doubt the amounts one would eat in single dish would matter much though.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is dairy bad for your liver? Or sea food?

Combining them in a dish is bad for you, like a fish or lobster sandwich with cheese. Drinking a milkshake, right after eating seafood as examples. Eating them individually and spaced apart isn’t bad for you.

Can you provide an actual scientific citation for this?

I assumed this was a clever troll.

I tried looking it up, closest I got was a site that discusses Ayurvedic concepts and also says eating fish and milk together can cause pigmentation patches. Other than that it said because fish is not vegetarian but milk although an animal product is, this causes incompatibility which is apparently a bad thing. Also that milk cools the body and fish heats the body and together they release a lot of energy during digestion which is also apparently a bad thing.

As for seafood and cheese, I have one response: coquilles St. Jacques.

I'm south asian and have been told my whole life that having dairy with seafood would cause some sort of horrible skin disease- i thought it was leprosy! haha its just melasma, so typical from my skin color obsessed elders.

If you have to eat some extremely processed, chemically enhanced version of a food because you can't or won't tolerate the real thing (i.e. impossible meat, oatmilk, fake cheese) -- just eat something else.

Agree with the pp who is meh about grilled food. I don't think it is bad, but it is nothing special, and definitely not worth the work and cleanup involved. I feel the same way about barbecue. It's just okay. People rave about their regional barbecue and it's never anything noteworthy. If I had to pick a type of barbecue, Korean would be my choice, though.

Chopped salad is disgusting. I like each element of the salad to be distinct. I don't want it to look and taste like someone barfed it up.

The best vanilla ice cream is Breyer's natural vanilla. All the superpremium.and fancy stuff is too heavy and fatty to me.

All Mexican food in the U S. tastes the same to me. Even Rick Bayless' food was just a better seasoned version of the standard fare.

Persian lime pie tastes better than key lime pie.