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I grew up around Fall River so I guess I had the bad luck to be right over the American Chop Suey Line  e; Terrible snipe apology map: 
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Minenfeld! posted:What the gently caress is American goulash? 
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Feb 10, 2023 06:09
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American goulash is great! It's pasta with tomato sauce, stock, ground beef, and spices like onion powder and garlic powder. It's absolute snobbery to say it's gross, it's a combination of only delicious things.
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Feb 10, 2023 06:16
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In my family that was called hamburger casserole. I've never heard it called goulash, though apparently that really is a thing. Maybe it's regional? It's also... not bad I guess? Not great, just cheap and filling. Definitely not on my top 50 worst foods. Tuna casserole on the other hand 
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Feb 10, 2023 06:22
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i think i could eat hot tuna casserole but cold pasta salad is my barrier
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Feb 10, 2023 06:53
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FreudianSlippers posted:Is stegte sild like the Dutch version where it's just a whole fried fish (bones and all) or is it something weirder? NDP posted:And why isn't haggis listed for Scotland?
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Feb 10, 2023 07:00
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I've always heard haggis is pretty good after you get over the presentation. Have yet to confirm that though. offal sucks and 2500 years of culinary progress can't hide it
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Feb 10, 2023 07:02
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i say swears online posted:offal sucks and 2500 years of culinary progress can't hide it I would question whether it truly has 2500 years of culinary progress behind it though.
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Feb 10, 2023 07:03
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A Buttery Pastry posted:haggis is also being graded on a curve. look we all tell lies
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Feb 10, 2023 07:08
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I've always heard haggis is pretty good after you get over the presentation. Have yet to confirm that though. It's fine. It's kinda like boring boudin. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but I haven't had any that was as bad as the reputation.
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Feb 10, 2023 07:55
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Kuzu kelle is a top tier food in Turkey, a country of pretty much only great food. Only bouillabaisse makes a better soup imo. And the better gumbos.
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Feb 10, 2023 08:30
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Unreal_One posted:It's fine. It's kinda like boring boudin. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but I haven't had any that was as bad as the reputation. I think haggis's reputation stems entirely from some certain kinds of people balking at the idea of eating that part of the animal, rather than any reports on its taste or texture.
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Feb 10, 2023 08:45
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NDP posted:I'm of half-Norwegian descent and have no problem with lutefisk being on that list. Its consumption is not a culinary tradition but a grueling rite-of-passage Scandinavians do only once. Nah, like an earlier poster said, it's just a dish that tastes of nothing. I'm 50/50 Swedish/Norwegian, but lived in Sweden my entire childhood, and I never understood why my Norwegian uncles and grandparents were ok with cooking something that made their entire house smell of fish for three days when the end result is something so devoid of tase. Unless you have an extreme aversion to the somewhat slimy texture you won't be gagging or anything when you eat it.
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Feb 10, 2023 11:49
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Also, if "skånsk spettkaka" is similar to Norwegian "spettekake" you can add it to the not-bad-tasting-just-bland pile. At large get-togethers with my Norwegian relatives, there would be this large upside-down cone pyramid cake with a bunch of Norwegian flags in it that was always placed somewhere very visible long before it was to be eaten. As a kid it looked like the most amazing dessert ever, but when you finally got to eat it it was this dry pretzel-like cake that was barely even sweet, so definitely dissapointing as hell but not disgusting or anything. edit: This appears to be known as "kransekake" or "tårnekake" everywhere I look on the internet, but it was definitely called "spettekake" or something very similar by my Norwegian relatives when I was a kid. Offler fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Feb 10, 2023 |
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Feb 10, 2023 11:58
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Offler posted:Also, if "skånsk spettkaka" is similar to Norwegian "spettekake" you can add it to the not-bad-tasting-just-bland pile. At large get-togethers with my Norwegian relatives, there would be this large upside-down cone pyramid cake with a bunch of Norwegian flags in it that was always placed somewhere very visible long before it was to be eaten. As a kid it looked like the most amazing dessert ever, but when you finally got to eat it it was this dry pretzel-like cake that was barely even sweet, so definitely dissapointing as hell but not disgusting or anything.
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Feb 10, 2023 13:07
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:American goulash is great! It's pasta with tomato sauce, stock, ground beef, and spices like onion powder and garlic powder. It's absolute snobbery to say it's gross, it's a combination of only delicious things. In my region/house it's not tomato sauce - it's tomato juice and the whole thing becomes lovely soup Possibly my least favorite meal growing up
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Feb 10, 2023 13:15
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A Buttery Pastry posted:A (Danish) kransekage is very different from whatever spettekake appears to be, being made of marcipan, sugar, and egg white, rather than eggs, potato flour and sugar. I'd definitely not call it "barely even sweet" either, though it is rather bland in its overpowering sweetness. (Which I used to love as a kid but definitely grew out of over time.) The "barely even sweet" thing may be my memory playing tricks on me, I haven't tasted one in 30 years or so. I definitely remember it tasting dry and dissapointing after all the buildup though.
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Feb 10, 2023 13:30
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My wedding cake was a kransekage
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Feb 10, 2023 13:36
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Offler posted:The "barely even sweet" thing may be my memory playing tricks on me, I haven't tasted one in 30 years or so. I definitely remember it tasting dry and dissapointing after all the buildup though.
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Feb 10, 2023 14:12
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If your kransekage is dry, you've hosed up. Another one from the list, Finnish kalakukko is fish baked inside a rye bread dough and it can be really drat tasty. The name means "fish cock"*. * Actually rooster, but cock is funnier.
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Feb 10, 2023 14:58
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My mama called goulash "Christmas stew" because of the red sauce and green peppers in it, because she thought my brother and I as children would not like to eat something called goulash and love Christmas It worked I fuckin' love goulash
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Feb 10, 2023 15:01
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KozmoNaut posted:If your kransekage is dry, you've hosed up. In shocking news, cock and rooster are synonyms in English.
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Feb 10, 2023 15:16
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KozmoNaut posted:If your kransekage is dry, you've hosed up.
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Feb 10, 2023 15:48
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I mean, there is the question of what dry means to any given person. Based on how many of them I've found too dry, I feel like a lot of people prefer them drier than I do. You should try baking your own, it's just marzipan, powdered sugar and egg whites. I've had dry-rear end store-bought kransekage before, and the homemade stuff is in a completely different league. People only eat the dry poo poo because they think that's the only stuff you can get.
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Feb 10, 2023 16:07
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KozmoNaut posted:You should try baking your own, it's just marzipan, powdered sugar and egg whites. But yes, the dry-rear end store-bought version appears to be the benchmark other people use.
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Feb 10, 2023 16:16
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That's why you add nougat filling, I can't be bothered to eat it plain anymore.
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Feb 10, 2023 16:41
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I thought this was very funny because I am dumb.
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Feb 10, 2023 17:17
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It is very funny... wait, oh nooo
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Feb 10, 2023 17:22
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To Dutch-speaking ears, "spettkaka" sounds like diarrhea ("spetterkak").
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Feb 10, 2023 17:49
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Pope Hilarius II posted:To Dutch-speaking ears, "spettkaka" sounds like diarrhea ("spetterkak"). "Sputter poo poo." loving love it
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Feb 10, 2023 17:50
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Sounds like the horrid “salt cookies” they eat here, the TRUE inexplicably ubiquitous and terrible Turkish food. Tastes like a pretzel flavored brick of chalk, yet somehow it’s packed with sugar.
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Feb 10, 2023 17:59
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Offler posted:Nah, like an earlier poster said, it's just a dish that tastes of nothing. I'm 50/50 Swedish/Norwegian, but lived in Sweden my entire childhood, and I never understood why my Norwegian uncles and grandparents were ok with cooking something that made their entire house smell of fish for three days when the end result is something so devoid of tase. Unless you have an extreme aversion to the somewhat slimy texture you won't be gagging or anything when you eat it. The texture is a BIG factor in why I don't like lutefisk. JesustheDarkLord posted:In my region/house it's not tomato sauce - it's tomato juice and the whole thing becomes lovely soup What I can't figure out is how real Hungarian goulash became American goulash because the two are nothing alike. Hungarian goulash is a type of vegetable beef stew that's heavy on paprika. American goulash seems like the result of a non-Italian's attempt to make a traditional Italian pasta dish without ever eating Italian food, reading any Italian recipes, and having only a vague idea of what Italian food is supposed to be like.
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Feb 10, 2023 23:06
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NDP posted:American goulash seems like the result of a non-Italian's attempt to make a traditional Italian pasta dish without ever eating Italian food, reading any Italian recipes, and having only a vague idea of what Italian food is supposed to be like. Being born in New England makes sense then, just enough Italians for the WASPs to peek over their fences and go "Begawd Margery, those newcomers are sure making themselves quite the dish. After tea time why don't you try and do something like that for supper!" Also tracks with the CT people itt like myself not knowing what it is, too many Italians in CT.
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Feb 11, 2023 01:44
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KozmoNaut posted:That's why you add nougat filling, I can't be bothered to eat it plain anymore.
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Feb 11, 2023 06:40
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My grandmother made American chop suey with sauteed peppers and onions, ground beef, and ketchup (and maybe Worcestershire sauce), and I swear doused in Frank's red hot it's absolutely delicious. Maybe she used garlic or something else flavorful too, because I do remember the school lunch kind being super gross, although I attributed that to the lack of hot sauce. Nowadays I make a variation of that, attempting to bring a little east Asian flavor back in. Sauteed peppers, onion, and garlic, swap the ketchup for sofrito and the Worcestershire sauce for soy sauce, and add rice vinegar to taste for some tang (since my theory of why it's delicious with hot sauce is the vinegar). It's a rare dish that both the kids and the wife like, and still great doused in Frank's.
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Feb 11, 2023 09:53
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Kids don't want nuanced flavors and adults usually base their opinions on what they felt or experiencesd as children
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Feb 12, 2023 04:24
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Youremother posted:I grew up around Fall River so I guess I had the bad luck to be right over the American Chop Suey Line I liked the gimmick version of these ones, where it would be like “gal”, “broad”, and then in the south “the jew’s man”
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Feb 12, 2023 10:02
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IMO the New England contribution to that list should be gas station cellophane pizza.
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Feb 12, 2023 10:07
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I liked the gimmick version of these ones, where it would be like “gal”, “broad”, and then in the south “the jew’s man” They were from the front page https://www.somethingawful.com/news/dialect-map-racist/1/
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Kids don't want nuanced flavors and adults usually base their opinions on what they felt or experiencesd as children The most American opinion. In real life, kids enjoy all sorts of wide and varied things that their parents give to them. The concept of what is a "good food" for kids has basically everything to do with culture - curiously, lots of kids around the world don't eat only chickie nuggies.
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