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Fish Of Doom
Aug 18, 2004
I'm too awake for this to be a nightmare


Walking Tacos? Here in New Mexico, we just call it a Frito Pie.

Bourdain puts it perfectly; something that is both disgusting and delicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvL-Wg81oE

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PCOS Bill
May 12, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Efexeye posted:

my kid begs me for these



You've failed your child.

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

PCOS Bill posted:

You've failed your child.

i didnt say i bought them for her

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

deadly_pudding posted:

I feel like it's too runny to be queso. Whatever it is, it's some kind of horrible food abyss and I don't want anything to do with it :gonk:

It's queso. Specifically, a local diner's take on a popular mexican-american snack around here: flamin hot cheetos, opened up, with queso dumped in, eat with a fork.

A hot cheetos queso burger, with a side of cheetos covered in queso.

And yes, the proper response is "that is so loving disgusting, but would"

Hollaindaise sauce? lmbo

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Fish Of Doom posted:

Walking Tacos? Here in New Mexico, we just call it a Frito Pie.

With Wolf-brand chili?

deadly_pudding
May 13, 2009

who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

DrBouvenstein posted:

With Wolf-brand chili?

I'll hear no ill words about the chili that looks like it came from the hardware store :colbert:

I'm fond of the hormel chili in like a really misguided way. Chili cheese dogs are basically dog food, but it's so good. I am willing to overlook almost any food horror if it's in the form of a chili cheese dog. That said, it's one of like 2 forms that I'm willing to eat hormel chili in. The other acceptable format is chili cheese dip, which is the same thing but without hot dogs and on chips.

If I'm eating chili as chili, I drat well make it from scratch and use it as a vehicle for sour cream and Too Many Scallions.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Efexeye posted:

i didnt say i bought them for her

Don't listen to him, he likes dry burnt steak.

Gridlocked
Aug 2, 2014

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by Roger Hargreaves

Efexeye posted:

my kid begs me for these



These looks like they belong in an MRE. Like a bad MRE knock-off MRE; not a real MRE which for the most part are decent.

RNG
Jul 9, 2009

my cat is norris posted:

They sell something like this at a regional chain of convenience stores called Sheetz. They call them Walking Tacoz, and you can order them with a base of Doritos, Fritos, or Tostitos.

I'm a big fan of Sheetz for both the convenience and the food quality -- which is surprisingly not bad, on the "fast food" level -- but I've never been hungry enough to risk one of these.

I ordered a burrito at Sheetz and the kiosk asked me at two separate points if I wanted to add tater tots. :(

PCOS Bill
May 12, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Picnic Princess posted:

Don't listen to him, he likes dry burnt steak.

I feel really bad for someone who can't cook meat through without burning it or drying it out.

rndmnmbr
Jul 3, 2012

RNG posted:

I ordered a burrito at Sheetz and the kiosk asked me at two separate points if I wanted to add tater tots. :(

:eng101: Potatoes in your burrito is a genuine Mexican thing.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


rndmnmbr posted:

:eng101: Potatoes in your burrito is a genuine Mexican thing.

So are hot dog tacos. Turns out "authentic" Mexican is pretty drat variable.

deadly_pudding
May 13, 2009

who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

PCOS Bill posted:

I feel really bad for someone who can't cook meat through without burning it or drying it out.

PCOS Bill is a notorious food criminal, but I respect his dedication to his craft.

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

KiteAuraan posted:

So are hot dog tacos. Turns out "authentic" Mexican is pretty drat variable.
pretty much like "authentic" United Statesian food

Columbian food? there has to be a better way to say that than "American"

melting pot food (not necessarily fondue)~

"authentic Italian" tends to involve a fruit from south america -- how authentic could it possibly be

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deadly_pudding
May 13, 2009

who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off
Does anybody have a lock on what Italian food was before the tomato? I know the Romans invented broccoli, so that's a thing.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


deadly_pudding posted:

Does anybody have a lock on what Italian food was before the tomato? I know the Romans invented broccoli, so that's a thing.

Roman food was a lot of roast meat, olive oil, fish and the typical Mediterranean vegetables and fruits, flat bread, fish sauce and a lot of wine. Basically the typical diet of Southern Europe before the Ottoman's and the Columbian Exchange.

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

also cheese

basically everything in modern "authentic italian" besides tomatoes and pasta

here

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
And pepper, the ancient Romans really liked pepper

quote:

With ships sailing directly to the Malabar coast, black pepper was now travelling a shorter trade route than long pepper, and the prices reflected it. Pliny the Elder's Natural History tells us the prices in Rome around 77 CE: "Long pepper ... is fifteen denarii per pound, while that of white pepper is seven, and of black, four." Pliny also complains "there is no year in which India does not drain the Roman Empire of fifty million sesterces," and further moralizes on pepper:

quote:

It is quite surprising that the use of pepper has come so much into fashion, seeing that in other substances which we use, it is sometimes their sweetness, and sometimes their appearance that has attracted our notice; whereas, pepper has nothing in it that can plead as a recommendation to either fruit or berry, its only desirable quality being a certain pungency; and yet it is for this that we import it all the way from India! Who was the first to make trial of it as an article of food? and who, I wonder, was the man that was not content to prepare himself by hunger only for the satisfying of a greedy appetite? (N.H. 12.14)[24]

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Wanamingo posted:

And pepper, the ancient Romans really liked pepper
i was going to make a joke about capsaicin being addicting and how this read similarly to anti-:catdrugs: but peppers with capsaicin are from the americas too

this "long pepper" seems intriguing, though

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch

deadly_pudding posted:

Does anybody have a lock on what Italian food was before the tomato? I know the Romans invented broccoli, so that's a thing.

The Romans actually sort of abhorred the concept of varied cuisine. They had a very strong cultural pride in the fact that they ate simple meals with simple ingredients and held up things like the heavily spiced food of other empires as symbols of decadence and inferiority. What this generally meant was that they ate a lot of plain carbs dipped in spiced oil and slathered in the ancient equivalent of ketchup. Basically the ancient empire equivalent of the American midwest, the Romans would have approved of loose meat sandwiches and casseroles.

RNG
Jul 9, 2009

FFT posted:

i was going to make a joke about capsaicin being addicting and how this read similarly to anti-:catdrugs: but peppers with capsaicin are from the americas too

this "long pepper" seems intriguing, though

I've had some on my Amazon wishlist forever, but I'm afraid it's gonna be really disappointing so I never order it.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

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Pretty sure "peppers" i.e. the capsicum fruits are completely unrelated to "pepper" the berries that you grind

Also pretty sure Pliny the Elder was a wuss and a picky eater :colbert:

Sweet As Sin
May 8, 2007

Hee-ho!!!

Grimey Drawer
Hotdog tacos are a legit mexican thing

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

deadly_pudding posted:

PCOS Bill is a notorious food criminal, but I respect his dedication to his craft.

Craft of trolling? Please stop replying to his posts

PCOS Bill
May 12, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

BraveUlysses posted:

Craft of trolling? Please stop replying to his posts

Are you seriously following me around the forums?

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

Sweet As Sin posted:

Hotdog tacos are a legit mexican thing



assuming those are onions, would

hell, i can smell it and it's good

oh poo poo something's burning

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atholbrose
Feb 28, 2001

Splish!

Sweet As Sin posted:

Hotdog tacos are a legit mexican thing

One of the best things on a local taqueria's menu is a wiener torta -- but they rarely have the wieners to make it with. Too bad, because it's loving delicious.

DJ Fuckboy Supreme
Feb 10, 2011

And when you stare long into the abyss, you become aggressively, terminally chill

FFT posted:

assuming those are onions, would

hell, i can smell it and it's good

oh poo poo something's burning

Are you having a stroke?

root beer
Nov 13, 2005

Data Graham posted:

Pretty sure "peppers" i.e. the capsicum fruits are completely unrelated to "pepper" the berries that you grind

Also pretty sure Pliny the Elder was a wuss and a picky eater :colbert:

Indeed, the heat from pepper (the spice) comes from the chemical piperine, not from capsaicin, as is in peppers (the fruit).

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.
Roman food also made heavy use of fish sauce. HEAVY. Watch the Supersizers Ancient Rome episode, it's revolting!

As an archaeologist, though, all that fish sauce left traces of various elements in the jars and that's proven to be useful in a number of ways :science:

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

bringmyfishback posted:

Roman food also made heavy use of fish sauce. HEAVY. Watch the Supersizers Ancient Rome episode, it's revolting!

As an archaeologist, though, all that fish sauce left traces of various elements in the jars and that's proven to be useful in a number of ways :science:

I've heard it has a pretty mild taste compared to the smell (which is awful).

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
I thought I remember hearing that analysis said its not that much different from (proper, not sugary syrup) modern fish sauce, which is the superior source of MSG even if you'd never know it by the smell.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I cook with fish sauce and I basically have to hold my nose until it simmers for a while, but there's somehow no fishy taste in the finished product.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

DrBouvenstein posted:

With Wolf-brand chili?

Next time I make velveeta shells and cheese with wolf band chili mixed in I'll post about it here.

FFT
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

NotAnArtist posted:

Are you having a stroke?
no, but i did leave the stove on.

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

RNG posted:

I ordered a burrito at Sheetz and the kiosk asked me at two separate points if I wanted to add tater tots. :(

You got the tots right? If not you hosed up.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

deadly_pudding posted:

Does anybody have a lock on what Italian food was before the tomato? I know the Romans invented broccoli, so that's a thing.

Fun fact about Broccoli, the species it belongs to Brassica oleracea, is also the same species as like at least five other vegetables, they've just been all bred to emphasize on different aspects of the wild plant they were cultivated from

It's cousins Brassica rapa, napus, and juncea are similarly diverse in having a lot of cultivars

rndmnmbr
Jul 3, 2012

KiteAuraan posted:

So are hot dog tacos. Turns out "authentic" Mexican is pretty drat variable.

My concept of burritos and tacos is, they're not supposed to be fancy at all. They originated as whatever leftovers you had sitting around crammed into a tortilla as a cheap filling lunch for workers. Later they became cheap fast food sold from taco carts, initially to workers, but later to the drunken party crowd. And then America became enamored with ethnic street food, and now white people think they're some kind of Hispanic haute cuisine.

e. There's still a (dark and shameful) place in my heart for Old El Paso taco kits, even to this day. Also, in my observations of Mexican migrant workers, dudes loving love ramen.

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BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

rodbeard posted:

I cook with fish sauce and I basically have to hold my nose until it simmers for a while, but there's somehow no fishy taste in the finished product.

I put fish sauce in anything that I want to augment the savory flavor. I can kill a liter pretty quickly. The sodium content though, drat.



Mayonnaise and Peanut Butter. It's definitely a.. um, hmm.

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Some personal Anti-Food Porn in my dinner from tonight. Visited the Hummus House on Mills 50 and got a bowl of probably their strongest tasting ingredients mixed together into a puke bowl:

* Rice
* Andouille sausage
* Chickpeas
* Melted mozzarella
* Red onion
* Red pepper hummus
* Balsamic vinegar

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