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I'm intrigued by the use of the word ramen used for generic Asian noodles, specifically in the US. Like I may be wrong but AFAIK ramen is a soup based dish with noodles as part of it, ramen noodles are a very specific type of noodle. Just like soba or pho noodled or other various types of noodle. Maybe it's used differently overseas but I'm not used to hearing ramen used except in actual ramen dishes. Like we buy 2 minute noodles or packet mi goreng or whatever and they're all different types. And ramen noodles aren't usually wavy like those?
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Nov 16, 2017 13:31
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Actual restaurant ramen has little to do with instant noodles, but the first brand sold in the US was Top Ramen and that was the first exposure the US had to instant noodles in general so it became a generic name like kleenex. Real ramen is still not all that common in the US outside some major cities, it's not like sushi that's gone everywhere. Instant noodles are in the style of ramen noodles though, they are intended to have a similar springiness and a lot of the Japanese brands use the same sorts of flavor like shoyu or tonkatsu.
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Nov 16, 2017 13:36
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McSpergin posted:I feel like this kid may not have eaten brined and smoked chicken breast fillets in his life. Because if there was any best chicken seasoning that would be it Could be like my parents who consider unseasoned, shredded chicken, plain white rice, and instant yellow gravy is a fancy meal.
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Nov 16, 2017 13:43
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Iron Crowned posted:Could be like my parents who consider unseasoned, shredded chicken, plain white rice, and instant yellow gravy is a fancy meal. When I read sad stories about goons who had parents who couldn't cook, I feel like calling my mom and telling her thank you. 
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Nov 16, 2017 13:48
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Iron Crowned posted:Could be like my parents who consider unseasoned, shredded chicken, plain white rice, and instant yellow gravy is a fancy meal. sounds dry todd
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Nov 16, 2017 13:55
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Randaconda posted:When I read sad stories about goons who had parents who couldn't cook, I feel like calling my mom and telling her thank you. I was going to say that they thought Shake 'N Bake was the only seasoning chicken needed, but then I remembered that was reserved for pork chops.
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Nov 16, 2017 13:57
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How can it be dry, it's got gravy! If you wanted more gravy, you could've just asked. Here, have an extra teaspoon worth, this is the good stuff and we don't want it to go to waste if you burn your mouth with it.
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Nov 16, 2017 13:58
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Iron Crowned posted:Could be like my parents who consider unseasoned, shredded chicken, plain white rice, and instant yellow gravy is a fancy meal. What is yellow gravy?
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Nov 16, 2017 14:05
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I'm the broken ADT sign in the crab grass lawn. Tiggum posted:What is yellow gravy? The stuff I've been blowing out of my sinuses this week.
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Nov 16, 2017 14:05
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Tiggum posted:What is yellow gravy?  Trust me, it looks a lot more yellow in person.
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Nov 16, 2017 14:11
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von Braun posted:I found something disturbing: Why are we not talking about this?!?!?! Dude just bombed down beer, eels, and everclear.
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Nov 16, 2017 14:24
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Tiggum posted:What is yellow gravy? Chicken gravy, made with MSG and salt.
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Nov 16, 2017 14:58
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Wasabi the J posted:Chicken gravy, made with MSG and salt. And yellow.
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Nov 16, 2017 15:04
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Wasabi the J posted:Chicken gravy, made with MSG and salt. The brown gravy was the flavorful one, which we'd rarely get with mashed potatoes, 90% of the time we got gravy, it was the yellow stuff. I'd say 70% of the time we had mashed potatoes (instant of course), it was butter or nothing. How can you even make a loving mashed potato volcano with butter?
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Nov 16, 2017 15:05
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If your parents didn't think that gravy should be close to consistency of water they were still better than mine.
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Nov 16, 2017 15:10
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Whenever that happened, they just called that "au jus"
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Nov 16, 2017 15:26
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lol if your mom didn't make gravy from scratch just lol
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Nov 16, 2017 15:27
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Randaconda posted:lol if your mom didn't make gravy from scratch  This is the closest to from scratch they get: A few years ago I had to move in with them for a little while, I tried introducing them to food that involved actual effort, but they'll argue indefinitely how instant food counts. They're just too far gone.
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Nov 16, 2017 15:35
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Anti Food Porn... or Actual Food Porn? from The (Newburgh, New York) Evening News, Feb 28, 1975
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Nov 16, 2017 16:13
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Tiggum posted:What are "normal noodles"? What is "kansui"? Isn't "ramen" just American for two-minute noodles? Kansui is alkaline water, which gives the noodles springiness and their yellowish color. Kind of like how pretzels are dipped in lye to get their characteristic golden-brown shine and crunch. Instant ramen is basically par-cooked with kansui, then fried and dried.
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Nov 16, 2017 16:16
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Pastry of the Year posted:Anti Food Porn... or Actual Food Porn? I have a copy of Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls on DVD
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Nov 16, 2017 16:17
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Minnie Mumps
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Nov 16, 2017 16:35
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RareAcumen posted:oops i forgot Mask/Disney cinematic universe looking good.
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Nov 16, 2017 16:41
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sirbeefalot posted:Mask/Disney cinematic universe looking good. Mask was a pretty good movie
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Nov 16, 2017 16:52
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Samizdata posted:At Aldi's they have what is allegedly a popular German snack. It is an unflavored corn puff with powdered peanuts on it. It tastes kinda peanutty and something else. Not sure what it is, but something else. By popular they mean "the cheapest snack you can get" Eating that crap is enough to remind you snacks exist, but not enough to actually give you the satisfaction that comes from eating them. It's the blueballs snack. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 17:11 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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Nov 16, 2017 17:06
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von Braun posted:I found something disturbing: uh what the gently caress was this?
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Nov 16, 2017 17:10
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von Braun posted:I found something disturbing: gently caress
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Nov 16, 2017 17:19
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I'd give that the old poke von Braun posted:I found something disturbing: Well, at the very least I'll try that bottle vortex if I ever have to chug out of a bottle again. Everything else though
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Nov 16, 2017 17:32
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elise the great posted:Kansui is alkaline water, which gives the noodles springiness and their yellowish color. Kind of like how pretzels are dipped in lye to get their characteristic golden-brown shine and crunch. And Grand Fromage, tonkotsu (pork bones) is the ramen variety, not tonkatsu (fried pork cutlet).  Though tonkatsu ramen would probably taste reeeeeal fiiiine (kind of soggy, though).
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Nov 16, 2017 18:09
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Nov 16, 2017 23:37
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Yes, "bizarre"--just what I'm looking for in food.
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Nov 16, 2017 23:59
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Hirayuki posted:You can add 1/2 t. of baking soda to the water when boiling dry ramen noodles to fake the kansui effect and give them the texture of fresh. It works great; it even punches up dry spaghetti and other pasta. If you intend to serve the noodles in soup, though, use a fresh pot of water. this is one of my favorite things to do with regular pasta (a thicker angel hair is nice, sometimes thin spaghetti is a bit too thicc) whenever I make homemade ramen  also my parents make good gravy from scratch and do it a lot, but they had the brown/poultry gravy mixes in those big containers, too. I liked the poultry gravy.
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Nov 17, 2017 00:08
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I use packets of turkey gravy powder as a convenient way to add corn starch and MSG to pan drippings to get the best of all the gravy worlds, like a monster.
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Nov 17, 2017 00:18
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The Snoo posted:lol if you don't already have a big bag of MSG in your pantry
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Nov 17, 2017 00:22
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It's almost Thanksgiving. Where are all of our people incinerating themselves and/or their homes while attempting to fry turkey? I suppose the AFP would be the pictures of the 'finished' bird.
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Nov 17, 2017 00:39
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Would so loving hard. 
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Nov 17, 2017 01:13
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I've been craving spam but it's so expensive 
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Nov 17, 2017 01:50
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The Snoo posted:I've been craving spam but it's so expensive Do you live in Alaska or something? I'm pretty sure I can buy spam (or at least a knock off brand) at the dollar store.
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Nov 17, 2017 01:53
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A tin of Spam costs the equivalent of 5USD here in Japan. I imagine it's even more expensive in a lot of other places.
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Nov 17, 2017 01:56
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unless it's on sale it's pushing $4 and I can get real food for that price dollar store spam sounds real bad
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