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SlothfulCobra posted:Most Thai food was developed around the 30s as a weird national project and the Thai government has put work into pushing and regulating Thai food abroad even through all the coups. *Verhoeven-esque news broadcast* Yes, I would like to know more.
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Sekhmnet posted:*Verhoeven-esque news broadcast* Yes, I would like to know more. I think that's only true of Pad Thai specifically? Which was created for a contest type thing
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Shitstorm Trooper posted:It's three ingredients you sick fucks. It's three ingredients plus a clean frying pan. That you'll have to wash again afterwards! Who has time for that in our I suppose it could be useful for children. If you have kids that are old enough to use to the toaster alone but you don't want them messing with the stove.
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Extra heavy mayo sounds ok if it doesn’t get drippy and gross.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Extra heavy mayo sounds ok if it doesn’t get drippy and gross. You know it has to separate in those buckets, just all that lovely oil floating to the top.
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Mar 17, 2022 02:10
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Ken’s makes good stuff though. I’d give it a try if it was available in a less than 4 gallon size.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Ken’s makes good stuff though. I’d give it a try if it was available in a less than 4 gallon size. You need to make a commitment to experience Extra Heavy Mayonnaise. It's not for lightweights.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I suppose it could be useful for children. If you have kids that are old enough to use to the toaster alone but you don't want them messing with the stove. That is probably what the target users are. I was a latchkey kid and I still have a weird fondness for microwaved hamburgers. Specifically this brand:  I could use the microwave/toaster oven but not the oven or stovetop. If I want to 'grill a cheese' I just put mustard on some bread, slice whatever cheese I have and toast it in a dry cast iron with a cover on to help the cheese melt. Butter and/or mayo is fancy style; but the mayo I have is the mayo I buy to make club sandwiches once a year and it's probably gone bad, and butter takes a long time to soften enough to spread. Paraphrasing from a terrible Stephen King book: Dreamcatcher "You could melt the butter in the pan and fry the sandwich in that, but somehow it just isn't the same as spreading it on the bread first".
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Sekhmnet posted:That is probably what the target users are. I was a latchkey kid and I still have a weird fondness for microwaved hamburgers. Specifically this brand: Those drat things. They are NOT good. But yet, pure nostalgia biting into that oddly textured “beef”…
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Those drat things. They are NOT good. But yet, pure nostalgia biting into that oddly textured “beef”… And the microwaved bun being randomly soft and hard as you work through it.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I think that's only true of Pad Thai specifically? Which was created for a contest type thing Sort of! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-invented-pad-thai quote:AS WORLD WAR II APPROACHED, Thailand was in a precarious position. For years, the country’s leaders had clutched their independence closely, worried about the French and English, who had colonized neighboring Cambodia, Laos, and Burma. Now, Japan was expanding imperially into East Asia, having invaded China in 1937.
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Sekhmnet posted:*Verhoeven-esque news broadcast* Yes, I would like to know more. Yeah, Thailand had a dictator that pulled an inverse of Mussolini trying to convert noodle-eating Italians to rice, except it actually worked. But also: https://www.vice.com/en/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america That's about the ways in which Thailand worked to train and help fund people to set up Thai restaurants abroad, and even continually certify them for quality in the hopes of extending some kind of "soft power" by putting the idea of Thai in the minds of people around the world. And I think it has worked a fair amount. There's even two shows on the Disney channel right now about Thai-American families. That also reminds me of another far east nation that somehow ended up adding noodles to their cuisine and now have started exporting it around: The Philippines. I'm not sure how, probably something from during the American occupation, but they picked up a taste for spaghetti, and that led to the rise of a Filipino fast food chain that serves spaghetti, Jollibee, which only has 60 locations in the US, but they bought up a number of other fast food franchises and are the biggest fast food company based in Asia. They also own Smashburger. Anyways, fast food spaghetti just don't seem right.  McD's also has its own McSpaghetti that I think it developed at around the time it expanded into the Philippines in order to appeal to the locals. 
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I remember a chain called "Fazoli's" that was drive through Italian. They had decent breadsticks(it's hard to gently caress up garlic butter) but they suffered from an Olive Garden short sightedness of 'we don't salt the pasta water'. You could get a bucket of spaghetti, family style, like KFC but.. pasta. They still kind of exist but I haven't seen one in ages. I would really like to try Jollibees though, they sound like a not-buffet and drive through friendly version of sizzler.
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Fazolis is still around, I saw one a couple weeks ago
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There are a fair number of "traditional" cuisines that are super recent. Like basically all Japanese food is either from Meiji or the immediate post-war. Edomae sushi only became popular because of how the rice rationing system worked after WW2, for example. Ramen also became a thing because of finding something to do with all the wheat flour the US provided as food aid.
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not sure if it was itt that someone recommended the hazelnut Bamba peanut snacks...I just had some of them mfers and they're so drat good!
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Grand Fromage posted:There are a fair number of "traditional" cuisines that are super recent. Like basically all Japanese food is either from Meiji or the immediate post-war. Edomae sushi only became popular because of how the rice rationing system worked after WW2, for example. Ramen also became a thing because of finding something to do with all the wheat flour the US provided as food aid. To say nothing of course (on a bit longer timeline) of all the European "traditional" cuisines that depend on New World crops like tomatoes and potatoes.
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Can you really say any cuisine that incorporates dairy products is "traditional" when cattle was only domesticated like 10000 years ago?
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Sekhmnet posted:I would really like to try Jollibees though, they sound like a not-buffet and drive through friendly version of sizzler.
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Sekhmnet posted:I remember a chain called "Fazoli's" that was drive through Italian. They had decent breadsticks(it's hard to gently caress up garlic butter) but they suffered from an Olive Garden short sightedness of 'we don't salt the pasta water'. You could get a bucket of spaghetti, family style, like KFC but.. pasta. They still kind of exist but I haven't seen one in ages. I forgot about Fazoli's, one opened up in my hometown a few years before I moved away for college and I liked it back then. Basically just an easy way to load up on pasta and bread, I want to say they had some kind of weekly all-you-can-eat special on some basic dishes? Looks like that location is gone, but there's still quite a few around the state and I'm surrounding ones, so I guess they're doing ok.
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and when we finally made it back to cave, our cheeks flushed with laughter and cold, there was root waiting for us. Dig an root and eat it. YES A RAW, No Salt, pepepr. In it
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Brawnfire posted:and when we finally made it back to cave, our cheeks flushed with laughter and cold, there was root waiting for us. this is the most perfectly Internet thing ever and my poisoned brain loves it so much
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I'm convinced you could write a paper on why every element in "Boil an potato and smush it up with fork and botter. NOT A RAW, Salt, pepepr. In it" is perfectly selected and applied, but it's the hidden "modified slightly" that really elevates it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm convinced you could write a paper on why every element in "Boil an potato and smush it up with fork and botter. NOT A RAW, Salt, pepepr. In it" is perfectly selected and applied, but it's the hidden "modified slightly" that really elevates it. For some reason I thought the first line was referencing the rotten meat goon or whatever it was who was theorized to actually be a bear
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jollibee is just fried chicken. it's good but it is absolutely nothing special. kfc tier food. sometimes Stater Brothers has better fried chicken than jbee also if you get mayo on your whopper or BK or your sandwich at boston market you've had heavy mayo. it just stands up better to heat, for foodservice applications
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I just found out there's still one Fazoli's left in my town, near my dentist's office where I'm going later, and y'all are tempting me to get a bucket of cheapass pasta
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All you can eat mediocre breadsticks
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The Bloop posted:All you can eat mediocre breadsticks Cumulatively better than finite high quality breadsticks
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Captain Hygiene posted:Cumulatively better than finite high quality breadsticks A very American perspective, just like with buffets: the more I eat, the cheaper it was
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I just ate at wafflehouse, trip-report: it sucked.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I just ate at wafflehouse, trip-report: it sucked. I find a lot of variation from Waffle House to Waffle House, oddly enough. The good ones are pretty good, and the bad ones are extremely bad and also racist. The good ones are probably also racist 
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LifeSunDeath posted:I just ate at wafflehouse, trip-report: it sucked. I never got waffle house despite the weird slavish devotion it has on these forums. I can also make perfectly mediocre eggs at home
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Data Graham posted:To say nothing of course (on a bit longer timeline) of all the European "traditional" cuisines that depend on New World crops like tomatoes and potatoes. For sure, there's just a common thing in East Asia (and I'm sure elsewhere but EA is what I have the most experience with) of acting like all of this culture is unaltered and goes back thousands of years, when nearly all of it is, at best, from the 19th century. Though I was pleasantly surprised when I went to the Sichuan food museum and it was straight up about yeah, chili peppers were brought to China by the Portuguese and slowly made their way inland. Much different than the common Korean claim that chili peppers are native there and not eaten anywhere else.
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A lot of modern European identities were consolidated during the 18th and 19th centuries when a bunch of elites looked around and decided which group of peasants were the best mascots for their political ambitions. The idea of "Italy" is ridiculous.
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hallo spacedog posted:I never got waffle house despite the weird slavish devotion it has on these forums. Yeah but you ain't got a griddle for hashbrowns. And presumably you sleep sometimes.
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Kenning posted:A lot of modern European identities were consolidated during the 18th and 19th centuries when a bunch of elites looked around and decided which group of peasants were the best mascots for their political ambitions. The idea of "Italy" is ridiculous. I didn't realize this comic was making a deep historical-political point: 
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Kenning posted:A lot of modern European identities were consolidated during the 18th and 19th centuries when a bunch of elites looked around and decided which group of peasants were the best mascots for their political ambitions. The idea of "Italy" is ridiculous. Yeah, Japan's invented identity in Meiji was straight up copying the nationalist ideas from Europe.
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