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Caesar Saladin posted:When i was a kid I stayed at a friends house that had unsalted pasta with slices of deli ham and turkey in them with no sauce for dinner. They were a wealthy family too. they carefully researched that dinner to appeal to you, a non-rich person
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A family member who will remain nameless served up a 'buffalo chicken lasagne' with only four ingredients: sheet pasta, cheese, chicken and about a quart of Frank's wing sauce.
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TIP posted:they carefully researched that dinner to appeal to you, a non-rich person Lmao "Darling, the poor's are coming over for dinner. Make sure you don't frighten them with seasonings" That's exactly what they said
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Jun 15, 2022 06:41
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I wish that were true, because at least it'd be some rational for eating a meal with the opposite of any flavour
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Jun 15, 2022 07:12
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kntfkr posted:I'm in Ningbo with all the execs from the parent company and my sales team. Checks out. My girlfriend’s family has spent some time working in China. It was a horror show every time the bosses or handlers invited them out for dinner. Being take on a tour of rural areas, where a restaurant proudly offers a fish that they claim is about go extinct. This was a prestigious honor. An extremely expensive “western” restaurant serving overcooked, unseasoned steak and copious amounts of red wine served in shot glasses. You were supposed to drink it one go, like it was vodka. All the execs loved it. Sea cucumber. E: the food when they weren’t being treated to dinner was great, I think they were just being treated to some ostentatious hospitality 
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Jun 15, 2022 07:37
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I was working in Kazakhstan on an oil rig and as it was a new project the local Iman came down and slaughtered a sheep for a blessing.* This was then cooked up by the boys into a nice lamb stew which as the incredibly important person that I was, I got a big bowl of. I thought it was just a clear soup type of dish but what I didn't realise was the clear liquid I got was actually liquid fat. Very hot liquid fat. In fact I am going to out on a limb and say probably the hottest liquid fat I have ever eaten. I got quite bad mouth burns. *Not an acceptable substitute to a proper planned preventive maintenance system.
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I spent $450 taking my friends out to dinner at Butcher and Singer in Philly when I was like 24 and it was a cool atmosphere and appetizers and drinks were good but the $125 ribeye I split with my cousin was ridiculously salty. Like almost inedible levels of saltiness. Apparently that's just how they serve steaks there because everyone else's steaks were equally salty
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Jun 15, 2022 11:49
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unwashed rear end
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jimmyjams posted:unwashed rear end Save some for me 
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Jun 15, 2022 15:08
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When my cousin got married, my aunt made his wedding cake out of about six box mixes. After she'd frosted it, she left it on the kitchen table and left the room. While she was gone, the dog jumped up onto a chair and licked all of the frosting off the top tier. She told everyone this story at the reception. "Don't worry, everyone," she went on, "I got some more frosting and patched it, it's fine." Yum yum, dog spit wedding cake. I guess she didn't see any problem with it, because when she cooks, she licks her fingers clean of any spills as she goes and doesn't wash her hands after. She just goes right back to handling the food.
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CynCyanide posted:When my cousin got married, my aunt made his wedding cake out of about six box mixes. After she'd frosted it, she left it on the kitchen table and left the room. While she was gone, the dog jumped up onto a chair and licked all of the frosting off the top tier. She told everyone this story at the reception. "Don't worry, everyone," she went on, "I got some more frosting and patched it, it's fine." that dog was a good dog
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Jun 15, 2022 15:32
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My wife is a great cook and made a pretty good chicken soup then added pickles to it. It was awful and anytime she cooks something new and thinks of something to add I veto pickles. She is a good cook until she goes off recipe, she doesn't have any intuition for substitution unless it's like, vegan substitutes since she was vegan for a few years.
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Jun 15, 2022 15:39
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:My wife is a great cook and made a pretty good chicken soup then added pickles to it. This is almost as bad as the lady that heats soup in a blender.
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Jun 15, 2022 15:40
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Pickles are an abomination regardless
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:My wife is a great cook and made a pretty good chicken soup then added pickles to it. My mom literally ate the stereotypical pickles and peanut butter combo when she was pregnant with me. I questioned whether she had a fever dream about this and she's sure that she did it because it was before that stereotype existed
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Stunning Honky posted:Pickles are an abomination regardless I don't like dill pickles but sweet and butter pickles are delicious
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Jun 15, 2022 15:43
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:This is almost as bad as the lady that heats soup in a blender. What
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Jun 15, 2022 15:46
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Outrail posted:What if you buy a $400 blender the blades' friction can actually do this
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Jun 15, 2022 15:48
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Also I would get a Vitamix in a heartbeat, or at least steal one. It's like having a really nice pen: stupid as hell but it makes all the difference
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Outrail posted:What Speleothing posted:
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Jun 15, 2022 15:50
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I would rather have a blender I can put away than a microwave that just loving sits there all the time to be honest
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Stunning Honky posted:Pickles are an abomination regardless they're good actually, esp. daikon and carrots
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Jun 15, 2022 15:52
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My mom had this recipe she got from her poor as hell (and mean as hell) mom. It's called, no joke, "Jew Stew" Put tomato juice in a casserolle dish. Add a bunch of quartered peelled potatoes, parsnips, rutabagas, whatever else root you got. Add a can of green peas. Add a pack of ground meat. NO SPICES ALLOWED Cook way too long until perfectly mushy and that the ground beef becomes so hard it could crack glass. Serve and do not enjoy. Add ketchup and cry.
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Jun 15, 2022 15:58
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tripwood posted:My mom had this recipe she got from her poor as hell (and mean as hell) mom. Lol the potatoes and root vegetables would normally take longer to cook than the beef, but putting them in tomato sauce makes them take waaaaaay longer. Your description sounds exactly how it would turn out.
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tripwood posted:My mom had this recipe she got from her poor as hell (and mean as hell) mom. Why would you waste all those ingredients?? For the same time and money you could do so much better wtf
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Jun 15, 2022 16:23
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That sounds like something we had a lot growing up only with the roots substituted for elbow macaroni and uhh less of the antisemitism Idk why we had it so much because my mom is a really good cook, but that was just something she had grown up having a lot and kept in her repertoire for some reason
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Jun 15, 2022 16:30
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I've had many difficult Thanksgivings, having been a vegetarian since 1990 (and living in Texas back at the time); too many tales to recount here, but I'll just mention the first Thanksgiving when I came back from college to my family and my mother "accidentally" had put ground beef in everything imaginable, including the turkey dressing, because as she later admitted she was worried about my diet. But all the stories about dressing/stuffing remind me of the opposite Thanksgiving experience, something my wife's family does: stuffin' muffins (though they're technically dressing because they don't go inside the turkey or use its drippings). Whip up the dressing, put it into cupcake molds, bake, et voilà! Crisp yet tender dressing "muffins" that you can break apart or eat as rolls. Yum!
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My ex once tried to use Lawrey's Seasoning Salt as a dry rub on a chicken. In theory that's fine. But it was soooo much. Then he burnt it in the oven. It was inedible. That was a decade ago and I'm still dehydrated.
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Jun 15, 2022 16:55
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My wife and I went to one of her co-worker's house for a dinner party. Her husband was a civil engineer who also happened to be a homebrewer. I've done some homebrewing myself, and have sampled a lot of friends' homebrews. The thing about homebrewing is that the end result usually ranges from "mediocre" to "ok". Very rarely will you make a homebrew that is "great", however if you follow the general process it's not typical to have a homebrew that tastes outright awful. Homebrew guides all use the mantra "Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew" since you really just need to make sure your equipment is clean and let the yeast do their job. Something went seriously wrong with the homebrew he gave my wife and I. It was really sweet, tasted like malt extract syrup, and completely flat. We couldn't finish it. A sense of dread came over me when I thought about a 5 gallon bucket of what was essentially sugar water sitting in this guy's garage not fermenting for 2 to 4 weeks. Didn't seem to bother him though, he had 3 bottles.
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Admiralty Flag posted:I've had many difficult Thanksgivings, having been a vegetarian since 1990 (and living in Texas back at the time); too many tales to recount here, but I'll just mention the first Thanksgiving when I came back from college to my family and my mother "accidentally" had put ground beef in everything imaginable, including the turkey dressing, because as she later admitted she was worried about my diet. Meatloaf as turkey stuffing isnt the dumbest idea I guess.
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Treecko posted:My ex once tried to use Lawrey's Seasoning Salt as a dry rub on a chicken. In theory that's fine. But it was soooo much. Then he burnt it in the oven. Hi Mrs. Shapiro
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Outrail posted:What When I used to teach cooking lessons at Williams Sonoma we had these things. They were Vitamixes and you could blend and make soup in them. They're honestly not great but they're expensive and impressive to use so we sold tons of them to upper class weirdos
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The thing about the blender heating method is that the poster also mentioned the soup was watery and bland. If you take something of say, normal squash soup consistency, and then blend it more then necessary it’s going to get thinner until it eventually reaches a point where it just doesn’t break down anymore. So not only was she heating up soup in a blender, she was also likely destroying the intended consistency of the finished product. It’s weird. Just put a bowl in the microwave instead of dirtying a blender.
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My former sister in law always insisted on hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas, because god forbid she ever have to travel anywhere. One year she started a new diet/weightloss plan the same loving week as Thanksgiving (why?) And so we all got to have a "healthy" Thanksgiving. I.e., all of it cooked with no butter and minimal salt, but for some reason tons of olive oil. Imagine mashed potatoes that are literally just potatoes, mashed. With a drizzle of olive oil. And nothing else. And the entire dinner convo revolved around how great everything definitely tasted and how amazing it was you could cook a healthy meal and it still tastes just great! Then she ate like three slices of pie.
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yeah but it had no butter, minimum salt and a ton of olive oil.
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Microwave mac and cheese my cousin served me when I was like 4. She had long black curly hair and I think she was "babysitting" us and wanted to feed us, and every time I went to take a bite I'd always pull out a long black hair. The bar for bad was set fairly high pretty early on.
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Went to OPs moms house with the promise of a giant plate of pussy but when I got there someone had already eaten all of it.
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I went to a house and they mashed up a bunch of broccoli with a fork and added water and it was broccoli soup, authentic I hear 👂
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Poohs Packin posted:Went to OPs moms house with the promise of a giant plate of pussy but when I got there someone had already eaten all of it. Lmao
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Burt posted:I was working in Kazakhstan on an oil rig and as it was a new project the local Iman came down and slaughtered a sheep for a blessing.* Muslims don't sacrifice for blessing. Also why would you be given a bowl of rendered fat as a 'meal', and do you believe that this would be normal for them to have eaten regularly as they are super-human and would have been able to eaten liquid hot clarified fat that was so hot it physically scalded you but that's just something they're physically immune to or in fact you've just made up bullshit about? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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