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axolotl farmer posted:Bear Grylls is a goddamn idiot and fakes everything. Bear Grylls fakes a lot of stuff but will end up doing so insane poo poo to himself for the ratings, like when he gave himself a seawater enema to stay hydrated. Les Stroud was the only genuine survivalist and he had to quit after 35 episodes years because the toll was too much on him. His followup Beyond Survival was him integrating himself with people living in extreme situations and doing what they did for a week.
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Is there a name for that? - Nacho chips - Hard boiled eggs - Sour cream? - peach slices - velveeta - baby carrots I'm thinking "canned food plate casserole"
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Mar 17, 2015 07:32
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RaspberryCommie posted:You too? Practically grew up on this. Mixing canned soups with batch of pasta is actually "advanced cooking" compared what most people thing is cuisine. The Soylent threads in GBS has proven that internet nerds actually think a second of food prep is some unobtainable goal and they are forced to chug cumshakes as an alternative despite the vastly superior alternatives out there.
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Mar 19, 2015 10:17
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Minarchist posted:I think its added afterwards. Sour Cream is great for taking some of the intense salty flavor out of canned foods. A tablespoon can turn spagettios from heartburn in a bowl into a half decent meal.
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Mar 22, 2015 01:46
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Unless that water is from the Ganges river I have no loving idea why anyone would do that.
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Apr 6, 2015 06:42
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ErIog posted:gently caress Japanese Doritos and Cheetos so hard. They taste sweet. It's the grossest thing. Japan has some really distinct tastes/cuisine differences that many people find gross. They have a particular variety of mayo (they loving love mayo) that is completely different then most other mayo. It think its much sweeter or something like that.
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Apr 14, 2015 05:59
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Alouicious posted:is the center right one lo mein hot dish That's how they do Asian fusion cuisine in the midwest.
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Apr 23, 2015 04:11
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:These are legendarily terrible, and yet they practically fly off the shelves around here. Hispanic people absolutely love them. Those and the premade spice cups you pour beer into are practically a staple of Hispanic drinking habits.
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Apr 29, 2015 13:11
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FetusSlapper posted:Premade spice cups you pour beer into? And I always assumed those budweiser morning beer flavors were for alcoholics that just didn't realize it yet.  These things are loving every in CA.
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Apr 29, 2015 13:31
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Saucy Slit posted:Gross dude. I bet your farts are extra awful and that your tummy hates you when you do this. Canned tuna is a great cheap add-on to almost any meal and is pretty hard to gently caress up. It's pretty much a staple of modern American cuisine.
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May 3, 2015 19:35
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cobalt impurity posted:How do you gently caress up as a parent and not introduce your children to eating fruit so that they love it? Do you have to exclusively feed them microwaved pizzas and McDonald's until they're 14 so they'll actively shun the pleasures that lie within a kiwi or pineapple? Yes. Also, the idea of "finish your peas before you leave the table or no dessert" is now considered child abuse by this generation of parents. The massive rise in the number of "picky eaters" who have all sorts of reasons why they won't eat or even consider a vast variety of foodstuffs is almost uniquely a US/UK thing because working parents are raising their kids on fast food and microwavable poo poo to the point where the modern restaurant industry is now dealing with grown adults who bitch and complain because they want mac and cheese or a cheeseburger when they're eating at a fancy restaurant. pentyne has a new favorite as of 15:14 on May 10, 2015 |
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May 10, 2015 15:09
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Aesop Poprock posted:Here's a clip about a british girl who would only eat burnt sausage or something and was planning on being a chef even though she refused to try any of her own food or ingredients. I have no idea why you would get into a field like that if you're totally unable to even comprehend what you're creating. Unfamiliar tastes are always a shock to many people but real grown-ups take it in stride and push through it. The first time I ate sushi it was bizarre as hell, but I kept at it and slowly learned to enjoy literally any variety of sushi, including live shrimp and roe, which a few years ago I would reject. It's telling that picky eaters are almost 100% fatty, fast food eaters. No picky eater only eats rice and bell peppers, or just eats healthy food, it's always pizza, fries, pasta fatty foods, sugary treats, etc. That's probably down more to upbringing and being coddled during formative years then anything else. Like all genuine phobias its something that can be treated and overcome relatively easily as long as the person puts in the work.
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May 10, 2015 16:24
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How spicy are the flaming hot cheetos? It doesn't seem that bad to toss into a meal for the spiciness.
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May 11, 2015 15:09
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Tiggum posted:That's pretty common, but some people just only eat bland foods (eg. rice, potato, chicken breast). And some people eat perfectly healthy stuff, just a really small variety of things because that's all they're used to. And some people just aren't all that interested in food, so they're happy to just eat the same thing all the time. Yeah, that's what the midwest is like. My parents were raised on a diet of casseroles, vegetables boiled to mush, pancakes, and meatloaf. Most people when they leave the area end up broadening their horizons but I guess people who stay in one region their whole lives just become so accustomed to it that new flavors are terrifying to them. My dad was always the outlier when we visited family back there because he'd order spicy/exotic food (eggplant parm as opposed to meatballs) while the rest of the family would eat starchy butter/cream covered pasta dishes.
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May 11, 2015 18:15
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Lonely Virgil posted:The love for Flaming Hot Cheeto has to be something you would pick up from spending years in prison I just bought some of these out of sheer curiosity and they are bland as gently caress. The spiciness level is comparable to adding a teaspoon of sricha to 3 cups of rice. You can tell that some spiciness is present, but it barely registers unless your palette is weak as gently caress.
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May 11, 2015 22:50
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Senior Scarybagels posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZE8Fl4GwNo Literally every video on the channel is smug hipster-esque women acting superior because they know the "right" way to cook.
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May 23, 2015 20:51
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cash crab posted:I file people who pretend to prefer super dark chocolate under the same category as people who also think superfruits are a real thing. It's an intense flavor so far removed from milk chocolate that presenting it as chocolate is a complete lie. I've had some pretty great 80-95% dark chocolate but I always pair it with black coffee to wash the taste down.
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Jun 4, 2015 05:33
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Anyone ever have apple pie with cheddar? I checked it out and it seems to be a New England only thing, and they use sharp, bitter cheddar not plastic slices so there must be something to it. This doesn't look completely disgusting.
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Jun 6, 2015 06:44
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EZipperelli posted:Being from Boston, a slice of cheddar is a staple with apple pie. The key is having good cheddar though. Most often I used to see Vermont Sharp White cheddar. Same kind that's made by Cracker Barrel. The guy in MC looks like he took a bag of shredded sharp cheddar and topped the pie with it before baking so the cheese was cooked to a crisp. It looks and sounds disgusting because it doesn't look like the cheese melted so much as burnt.
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Jun 6, 2015 07:05
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AlbieQuirky posted:Oh, okay, I'll tell my neurologist she was wrong then! Also, don't forget to notify the leading neurology journals that they've been publishing bad science. Again, its one of those fad "illnesses" that 99.9% of the people claiming it are full of poo poo. Yes, there are some people with an actual medically certified gluten intolerance, but everyone else just demands gluten free foods because its a hip thing to say. The human body poorly regulating glutamates is something that can be measured and diagnosed, and I would wager that the first rumors of Chinese Restaurant Syndrome were probably connected to people with hosed up glutamate levels but were people who'd get regular migraines anyways and didn't connect the dots until it repeatedly happened after eating Chinese food.
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Jun 14, 2015 06:00
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cash crab posted:Last raccoon derail: At some level its hard to mock them because they were probably raised on frozen and fast food never learning how to cook, so making Easy Mac and grilling hot dogs rather then microwaving them is next level poo poo to most people. Their head would probably explode if someone showed them how to cook a good bratwurst with grilled onions (which is literally onions+butter till carmelized, remove, add sausage and beer, maybe some spices, simmer for a bit, mix onions back in, done) and a homemade cheese sauce is just milk+flour heated and then add the right amount of cheese. It's 20-30 minutes versus 10-15 but to some people the sheer idea of firing up a skillet is like witchcraft and tossing in a pinch of anything other then salt is some weird foreign voodoo crap.
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Jun 19, 2015 08:13
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quote:I blame the TGI Friday's test kitchen executive chef (a prepaid cellphone that Guy Fieri texts recipes to while high on whippets) for making the prototype of these sticks accidentally one full moon—for by accident is the only way such an item could ever have been deemed suitable for human consumption—and then never copping to the mistake.
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Jun 19, 2015 23:25
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Roro posted:Edited, I'll avoid the dramatic descriptions in future. How do you gently caress up chicken that badly? It's like they tried to peel the skin halfway then stopped, and then just dumped a can of green beans in. There's no point putting canned beans into anything other then a microwave because they're already mush.
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Jun 28, 2015 22:02
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Lobster is overpriced and not really worth it to begin with. Maybe I've never had top-tier quality lobster but even the restaurant ones I've had were good, but not $40 for 3 ozs of meat good. The taste is pretty specific and I can't imagine it ever being so good that I would pay the "market" price for it. I'd much rather pay high dollar values for unique items or a new flavor experience at a place then 4 forkfuls of perfect seafood.
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Jun 28, 2015 23:33
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BluJay posted:I grew up in New England, and the best lobster places were never the fancy expensive ones, it was some shack by the shore where you sit at a picnic table, get lobster that some fisherman just pulled out of the water in a basket with fries and corn on the cob, everybody wearing a lovely 2 cent plastic bib as you crack through the shell, dipping it in fresh drawn butter while drinking some local podunk beer. All that for $10. It's not fancy sea food. First guy I befriended from the MD coast told me he would never eat seafood at a place more then 10 miles from the ocean and if you paid more then $20 for a meal you got robbed. Crustacean seafood just doesn't really work as a cuisine when its not plucked from the sea, and the insane mark-up on it means most people can't eat it. He worked in a cheap "low-class" restaurant on the bay and how locals would drop buy with their haul and give a fair amount of it to the staff for cooking it. Gordon Ramsay has a ton of youtube videos, but one of my favorite is the mitten crab. Mitten crab is a massive loving $$$ delicacy in China and people in Europe pay insane prices for it, but mitten crab live in the Thames and can be caught as byproducts of regular fish catches, however the bureaucracy in charge refuse to let people fish for them because of the fear that people will deliberately create new crab colonies and destroy the local ecosystem. People have gone insane over crab, lobster, clams, and shrimp in the last 30 years for no reason other then people have been saying its expensive and great, but in reality its not spectacular or amazing, just pretty good with a ton of hype.
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Jun 29, 2015 00:42
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Milk, salt, tomato, and garlic mixed together? Good heavens! It's probably a Japanese thing. They make Mayo milkshakes and Mayo fondue, ketchup and milk seems par for the course.
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Jun 30, 2015 18:10
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McD has a pretty robust history of people not understand their core brand and attempting to do something completely stupid and unnecessary. For example - McArch: A burger where every single ad was kids showing disgust over the burger and it's "adult taste" - Pizza: Something that took 10-15 minutes to make in a place where people expected their food in a minute or less - McDLT: Not a bad idea per se, but usually any fast food that requires the consumer to finish assembling it isn't a massive success - Spagetti: No one wants dirt cheap overcooked pasta (unless its $20 a plate at Olive garden) - Angus burgers: No one wants to pay $7-8 for a McD's burger, no matter how superior the beef is.
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cash crab posted:Or Probably why Fuddruckers ended up going bankrupt.
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Jul 1, 2015 00:01
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It's pretty hard to gently caress up ramen, but that looks disgusting. The cheese doodles or whatever they are would turn to mush in seconds. David Chang has some pretty great instant ramen dishes, and all it takes is 4-5 minutes of work to make it from basic college meal food into genuine filling dinner. http://www.pepper.ph/cacio-e-pepe-ramen/
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thespaceinvader posted:I think it's a poached egg. Also a mushroom. English breakfast is a big thing for people to try and make hip/modern in dumb ways.
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Underwater Shoe posted:"Deconstructed" English breakfasts are hilarious. 90% of "deconstructed" dishes are probably poo poo unless they come out of a kitchen where the chefs go through dozens of variations until they produce a product that looks completely different but still has the expected flavor profile with a hint of something new and unique. David Chang showed off some great examples of that in mind of a chef, my favorite was his "Eggs Benedict." It's such a great series because he shits all over the idea that you need to make something super fancy and use high tech equipment to get it right when most of the time its so simple to do most households would have the equipment needed but maybe not the special geletins or binders.  Egg yolks are mixed with a binding agent that lets them solidfy a bit in a tube, then just squeezed out, the squares are gelled hollandaise sauce coated in toasted english muffin bread crumbs then fried, there's dried parma ham in the yolks, and chive and black salt for flavor. The point of the dish is that anyone familiar with the flavor of Eggs Benedict will get almost the exact same taste they're used to but in a completely new way. English Breakfast is supposed to be a hearty, greasy mess, and there's really no way to make that into a fancy dish. But holy poo poo do people waste their time trying.
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Wanamingo posted:Pizza cakes apparently exist. How would that even be possible? It's a dense as gently caress mass of cheese and dough, the center would take hours to get hot.
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Jul 30, 2015 03:17
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PhotoKirk posted:Sweet baby Jesus. People do not realize the insane difference between sausage and hot dogs. It's pretty hard to gently caress up a cheap stew, but holy poo poo will people try their hardest. You can just add whatever leftover veg you have, beef/chicken stock, little bit of cooked pasta, spices, beans etc. and make a hearty and delicious meal. I'm just surprised there was no Velveeta added.
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Gamma Nerd posted:TWEWY is my favorite game ever but it was just too topical to ignore It was such a weird bizarre game it was the only DS game I had bought in over a year. Plus leveling the "buttons" was so esoteric it was basically "poo poo, need to level up pedometer-type buttons, time to go for a 90 minute walk."
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Aug 9, 2015 19:39
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tribbledirigible posted:I feel like cup price should be as much as corn price. "I went to the gravy truck and got stains all over my new sweater!" "That's because you've got to hit up the Bowl Truck first. That's how they get you"
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Railing Kill posted:Here ya go. There should be a "cooking for ma man  " when its pics of easy mac and cut up hot dogs.
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cash crab posted:^^ LOL. I'm so so sorry, I really tried not to seem like a raccoon Maybe I'm just too privileged, but even at my lowest I saved and bought 20 lbs of rice for $14 and a fuckload of raw beans for cheap as hell and just ate that and mixed in whatever spices/sauces I had left and stole hot sauce/ketchup from fast food places. It's great for keeping you alive, but after a certain point you don't even want to chew and would prefer a liquid slurry you could gulp down in 5 seconds just to get past it.
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cash crab posted:Oh god yes yes, sweet sweet dicks in my mouth this is the loving worst thing ever made. Who gave that man a tablet. WHAT AN rear end in a top hat Goons always take it one step further http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3406045
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Aug 13, 2015 04:42
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Minarchist posted:They didn't make it properly. I love that the major message from the GWS regulars was "gently caress it, make chili you like and want to eat, but your chili recipe is almost certainly poo poo and uses tons of artificial chemicals because you're too lazy to chop garlic or cut an onion"
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Is there any good version of bologna? I assume the original Italian variety is the best, but it seems like the term is a catch all for horrifically cheap sliced meat. I bought a cheap pack of cotto salami made by Kraft and on the front it says "Made from chicken, beef, and pork" and in the ingredients label is says "chicken, beef hearts, pork" so technically yes, its made with beef.
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