Lobster is so so so overrated. 75% of the weight is shell. You could get tiger or argentinian shrimp for the same price per pound if not cheaper and you get 3 times more edible meat by weight.
Okra. No matter how you cook it, it’s like eating snot.
Italian restaurant food. Why should I pay so much for spaghetti and meatballs???
Spaghetti and meatballs, the classic italian dish. If you’re american
The British came up with that one.
I ate Scott Conant’s lamb tagliatelle Ragu and it was really good. Fresh pasta hand made to order by a pro is worth it.
Italian food in USA is warm garbage. Everyone overcooks the pasta and puts on two much sauce.
Agreed. That’s why I always order something cool like gnocchi when I go to an Italian restaurant. It’s much harder to make that well at home.
if you have the right kind of potato, it’s very easy and it takes less time than most handmade pasta
Pasta gnocchi come from a bag. Potato fresh gnocchi take work.
McDonald’s - way too expensive for the quality and quantity.
Pork products (excluding bacon). I can’t stand the taste of ham, bologna, pork chops, etc. Hot dogs are okay but I prefer beef franks.
Mac n cheese. I like noodles, and I like cheese, but I don’t like them put together unless there’s a tomato based sauce in between.
Meatloaf. The taste and texture is off-putting.
Crispy bacon.
Maybe it’s because I’m gay, but I like actually having meat in my mouth.
Preach.
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I’ve had lobster pot pie at 2 different places this year and thought both were amazing. No smashing required, and while lighter than a hearty shepard’s/cottage pie, they really hit the spot!
Also tried stone crab on our honeymoon this year, and though the shell lives up to its name, some things can be worth the effort!
If you get crustaceans out at a place, you can usually ask them to give it a few whacks in key locations with their big ass knives and then the bulk of the work is done for you.
if you’re a monster, u eat da lobster If you’re deppert, eat pie of shepherd
Not a seafood fan. Somehow they sneak that shit into everything, like mayo.
As someone with an aversion and allergy, Asian and Italian foods are the worst for hidden seafood. I have to be super careful even with “vegetarian” dishes. Why the fuck are anchovies and fish oil in everything?!?!?! To give examples, restaurants loooooove to put non-vegan kimchi in their veggie dishes, and Caesar dressing often has surprise anchovies
Mexico and Canada also love clam juice based cocktails for some reason. I love Micheladas but they never disclose whether or not they have clamato. Caesars are completely off the table for me.
I think it’s usually for those umami packed glutimates.
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French food (I assume because everything French seems “fancy” for whatever reason, maybe because they’re a bit more “civilized” than the Anglo-Saxons? lol) is undeservedly hyped up, right? Or is my palate too underdeveloped to taste the complexities of French cuisine?
The problem is that French food in the Anglosphere has literally been the fancy food since 1066. That’s why English has 2 words for every meat: the germanic peasant word and the french nobleman’s culinary word (cow-beef, chicken-poultry, deer-venison, sheep-mutton, swine-pork, etc).
Being the default “fancy” food is going to do damage to any cuisine as the purpose becomes more about fanciness than tasting good or being what people from the place actually eat.
For another example, look at American Italian food. In a lot of small towns, Italian restaurants are the de facto fancy restaurant . It’s basically made it so that Italian restaurants in much of the US are either way too expensive and fancy or they’ve gone the opposite route and just overcharge for really basic pasta with sauce (olive garden).
I used to agree, then i went to a couple of French restaurants and started thinking of them as the same as Mexican, Italian, etc. - Ok to go for breakfast or lunch; it doesn’t have to be white tablecloth anniversary dinner for $100. French is fucking delicious! I didn’t know i needed 4 kinds of onions in my soup, but holy crap it’s good! Great bread, sandwiches, omelettes, …
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I agree on lobster because I think crab tastes better.
Agree on truffles, I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.
People here LOVED Dave’s hot chicken. I went and really, it’s fine, I’d eat it but wouldn’t affirmatively choose it, if getting industrial fried chicken Popeyes and Publix are both better.
And man do people love Cuban Sandwiches here. Again, I will eat them they are fine but mostly because the bread is so good. Would rather just have a roast pork on the bread, dressed, without the ham & salami, or even the cheese toast I think is so good. There is nothing magical about the 3 meat combo.
I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.
Most of the snooty rich people food are like this. It’s also why they’re so threatened by cheap mass produced alternatives. If the knockoffs were actually significantly inferior in flavour they wouldn’t be threatened.
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Tampan detected. I love a Cuban sandwich, but I’ve never had one from Tampa, so maybe yours are worse, lol.
It’s funny because Tampa does bat way over its league in restaurants generally. We have amazing food here, all over. Why is “the” food that sandwich? It’s good but def overrated.
Mayo should be outlawed. Aioli is just garlic mayo. Something about the shiny, sliminess of it makes me nauseous.
Broccoli has very few ways of actually good preparation. Fuckoli is generally overrated and sucks ass. Pukeoli shouldn’t ever be streamed or boiled like some people do to this disgusting vegetable.
I also despise broccoli, but broccolini is much milder in smell and taste, and has a tender stem. If you can deal with asparagus, you may like broccolini.
Thanks for the idea, I’ll check it out.
Glad to (possibly) help!
You just aren’t getting good broccoli. The stuff from the store is usaually weeks old and has hint of a funky rotten garbage or a musty moldy taste to it. Fresh broccoli has a nutty earthy flavor and is amazing.
Yeah, and some people insist on steaming or, worse, boiling broccoli for far, far too long.
Sushi , you pay a lot to eat possibly parasites
Don’t eat from a gas station.
But they’ll give me super powers
Bacon.
Holy fuck it is very good is made correctly and timely. But somehow it was a Meme that stuck.
It was literally a marketing campaign from Big Hog, who were losing money cause of anti-fat, anti-salt dieting.
I don’t know why they want to add bacon and cheese to everything. They’re fine, but don’t have to be in every dish. Is it for the salt?
I don’t know, and unless the bacon is freshly and perfectly cooked it just sucks.
See also: Dubai chocolate, affogato, “two best buds running a burger shack” tall burgers… all were amazing, until they became a marketable meme, as you said. And now they’re shit.
Taken at a Staples checkout impulse aisle. Yeah, over $50 with tax. As seen by idiots on tiktok.
Lobster and crab was poor person food back in the day, then it switched for some reason? You figure it out?! Bottom dwelling scavenger bugs from the ocean are now en vogue?
Land cockroaches are taboo now…,
The “two guys burger shop burger”.
Maaaate, your burger is shit. It’s a precariously stacked abomination that’s 8 inches tall, has two ruined patties and half a cup of smoky bbq sauce and melted cheese on it, and you decided that what it really needed was enough chilli on it so that all you can taste is burning.
Bigger burgers should be wider, not taller. End of conversation.
Agreed.
If I have to dislocate my jaw to try and eat the burger then at that point I’d rather use a knife and fork.
