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Cantaloupe tastes like rotten fruit

You've never eaten a proper cantaloupe if this is your real opinion. I wouldn't be surprised, as most cantaloupe you find anywhere is garbage. It has a short season and should never be eaten outside of season.

Yes. DH was like cantaloupe-disliking PP but I helped him see the light

DS didn't like yellow vegetables but loved cantaloupe (and athena melons, which seem more reliably better) and still does. But it is so, so hard to get a good cantaloupe. Most are green and they don't actually ripen after being picked. I read that they way to find a ripe cantaloupe is to smell the stem end, you should be able to smell the fruit (I try to be discreet about this when I do try it). Most of the time you can't smell anything at all. Pretty much it does seem like it actually has to approach fermentation to get sweetness and the right texture--not crisp but avoiding mushy.

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate chip cookies are bland and a waste of calories. . Much better cookies out there.

Yes, this is controversial! Homemade choc chip cookies are pretty much the only thing to spend calories on.
Other cookies do not compare. Sugar, snickerdoodle, peanutbutter? All yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Baked goods (muffins, cakes) made with oil are not yummy and moist. They are just oily. Oily and moist are totally different mouthfeels. Yuck. Bake with butter or don’t bake.

Sounds like you're using too much or the wrong kind of oil. Try light olive oil.

Baking with olive oil? No. It's too strongly flavor.

Yes, which is why I said "light olive oil".
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5711-light-olive-oil

Blech. Do not bake with olive oil.

I’ve baked with olive oil and you can’t even taste the difference.

How can you not? I do not use much olive oil, but I clearly remember in my childhood, in Med region, when someone put olive oil in dishes instead of cooking oil like vegetable oil, or like lard. I know here there are a million varieties of olive oil, so did they make it tasteless for cooking?

Chocolate chip cookies are bland and a waste of calories. . Much better cookies out there.

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Anonymous wrote:Pancakes aren’t good. Waffles are a tiny bit better because they at least have texture, but both are really just a vehicle for butter and syrup.

Oh, for sure. But that’s not a bad thing

Ya'll are eating your pancakes wrong. Spread with natural peanut butter (ingredients should be peanuts and salt and not another thing). Add a slice of bacon. Roll up and eat. Delicious!

Nah, I’m good with it being a vehicle for syrup.

Hope Toast is the best

Toast
Butter
Strawberry Jam
Egg
Bacon

Open-faced sandwich style

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Anonymous wrote:I hate mashed potatoes. I just don't get them. Also baked potatoes, which are just a vehicle for toppings - but still, so many other things I'd rather eat.

Me too! Someone (on Food Network?) once said that mashed potatoes are just a “sum of good parts“ (potato, butter, cream, salt) and therefore aren’t really a a stand-alone creation. It stuck with me ever since!

That's how I feel about grits.

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Anonymous wrote:Pancakes aren’t good. Waffles are a tiny bit better because they at least have texture, but both are really just a vehicle for butter and syrup.

Oh, for sure. But that’s not a bad thing

Ya'll are eating your pancakes wrong. Spread with natural peanut butter (ingredients should be peanuts and salt and not another thing). Add a slice of bacon. Roll up and eat. Delicious!

Anonymous wrote:Pancakes aren’t good. Waffles are a tiny bit better because they at least have texture, but both are really just a vehicle for butter and syrup.

Oh, for sure. But that’s not a bad thing

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Anonymous wrote:Honeycrisp apples are bland extremely overrated.

Yes I said it. Fight me.

I wouldn't say bland, but I do find them overly sweet. And they cost more! But I'm the only one in my house who is not a fan.

I find the Honeycrisp to be the only reliably crisp, sweet apple out there. The other Reds seem easily bruised and mealy-prone. I like to my Honeycrisp
sliced with a squeeze of lemon.

Honeycrisp are so pedestrian.

Those who know, eat/bake/wait for Staymens or Winesaps.

Winesaps are too winey! I really prefer Honeycrisp.

Spending more than $30 on a bottle of wine is a waste.

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Anonymous wrote:Baked goods (muffins, cakes) made with oil are not yummy and moist. They are just oily. Oily and moist are totally different mouthfeels. Yuck. Bake with butter or don’t bake.

Sounds like you're using too much or the wrong kind of oil. Try light olive oil.

Baking with olive oil? No. It's too strongly flavor.

Yes, which is why I said "light olive oil".
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5711-light-olive-oil

Blech. Do not bake with olive oil.

I’ve baked with olive oil and you can’t even taste the difference.

Anonymous wrote:Pancakes aren’t good. Waffles are a tiny bit better because they at least have texture, but both are really just a vehicle for butter and syrup.

Pancakes are terrific for like the first 2 bites when they're hot. But it goes downhill in a hurry -- by the end you're diminished to regretting even eating them.

Anonymous wrote:I hate mashed potatoes. I just don't get them. Also baked potatoes, which are just a vehicle for toppings - but still, so many other things I'd rather eat.

Me too! Someone (on Food Network?) once said that mashed potatoes are just a “sum of good parts“ (potato, butter, cream, salt) and therefore aren’t really a a stand-alone creation. It stuck with me ever since!

Hummus is disgusting