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Blue Apron et al. do have their pros. My sister-in-law hated cooking because she was terrible at it and had no idea how to learn, but my brother subscribed to Blue Apron for a month and she learned some basic techniques and a small variety of recipes and now she's actually pretty enthusiastic about it. If you were just a little more motivated you could get the recipe PDFs off of the website for free and buy better and more sustainable ingredients yourself for less money, though.
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This is straight up this thread's alley: http://theworstthingsforsale.com/2016/05/02/what-is-bone-broth/
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So you're suggesting that Blue Apron is like a tiny peek at an exotic fantasy world where your parents loved you and taught you how to take care of yourself?
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The dog food bowls better not come with cutlery or else I'd really be pissed. If I'm going to eat of of a dog bowl it had better be with my face.
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May 3, 2016 02:58
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Keurigs/Nespressos are dumb
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Picnic Princess posted:The dog food bowls better not come with cutlery or else I'd really be pissed. If I'm going to eat of of a dog bowl it had better be with my face. If someone's feeding me out of a loving dog bowl they better be paying me mad cash for their stupid fetish bullshit.
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Mu Zeta posted:Keurigs/Nespressos are dumb Bone broth Kcups are probably the worst trendy bullshit I've heard in a while.
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TontoCorazon posted:Bone broth Kcups are probably the worst trendy bullshit I've heard in a while. God loving drat it I thought you were joking. 
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Mu Zeta posted:Wooden boards are fine for charcuterie/salumi plates and cheese. Putting saucy stuff on there is just asking for a mess. We have these amazing thing called plates that can be made out of a variety of substances such as plastic, metal, glass, or ceramic. I wish I could elaborate further, but as I said before my expertise extends only to cat and fish bowls.
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Palpek posted:
Haha I love the one that's "served on a bed of fried chicken and chips". I like to think there is no plate, they just dump that poo poo straight onto the table.
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May 3, 2016 03:46
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There's something about a bowl of food reminding me of cold chunks of stinking meatpaste in jello sitting on a kitchen floor that just turns my appetite right the gently caress off.
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I'm gonna be honest, the nachos in the dog bowl go so far the other way, that I probably would
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epsilon-6 posted:I too would storm out if I went into a themed restaurant that makes their kitschy conceit clear before I ordered, and then they delivered that exact thing I ordered and knew I'd receive. To be perfectly honest I've never eaten at one of these restaurants that tries to get cute with the tableware so I didn't know how much/how little forewarning you get. If it's heavily advertised then I probably wouldn't be ordering it to begin with, but if there's no warning then gently caress 'em. Also lol at you going to a goon meet
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May 3, 2016 08:47
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You all bitch about the dog bowls, but they made one for men too! http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/gift-novelty/man-bowl/10484014.html
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BattleMaster posted:To be perfectly honest I've never eaten at one of these restaurants that tries to get cute with the tableware so I didn't know how much/how little forewarning you get. If it's heavily advertised then I probably wouldn't be ordering it to begin with, but if there's no warning then gently caress 'em. I've never gotten anything as egregious as a dog bowl. But the places that have served food on wooden boards or in those miniature metal buckets haven't advertised the fact they don't use normal plates.
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epsilon-6 posted:I too would storm out if I went into a themed restaurant that makes their kitschy conceit clear before I ordered, and then they delivered that exact thing I ordered and knew I'd receive. This dude was so scarred by a goon meet he stumbled into this entirely unrelated thread with some Vietnam style ptsd and started flailing at the very concept of goons because they don't want to eat out of a dog bowl. And hell, I don't blame him
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Screaming Idiot posted:We have these amazing thing called plates that can be made out of a variety of substances such as plastic, metal, glass, or ceramic. I wish I could elaborate further, but as I said before my expertise extends only to cat and fish bowls. Cheese and charcuterie boards are nothing new and in fact are de rigeur for any place serving charcuterie. Being served a plate of prosciutto di parma would be out of the ordinary.
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If a restaurant is serving food in a dog bowl it should come with an option of being able to order it with one of those bowls that are designed to slow down eating.
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I have a ball that I put my dog's food in so that instead of inhaling it in 20 seconds from a bowl, she spends 20 minutes rolling a ball around trying to get food out a bit at a time. Looking forward to restaurants learning about this.
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A kitschy "artisan" burger place that opened up in my hometown several years ago serves all of their meals out of small dog bowls that are barely large enough to hold the burger or sandwich, much less the sides, so it's all just thrown in there with the burger resting on top. By the time it gets to your table, it's just a bunch of soggy fries smooshed under the weight of an overloaded, good-but-not-great burger. If you want to eat your fries, you generally have to hold the burger with one hand while eating fries with the other, because the dog bowl is too small to set the burger off to one side until you've finished about half of it; by that point the burger is falling apart so you're just using a fork to eat the patty, trimmings, and fries anyways and wondering why the gently caress they just don't serve loaded fries instead. The place is also decorated like a knock-off Applebee's and has the standard variety of burgers with no real specialty of their own. I assume the only reason the place has stayed open is because it's one of the few restaurants in town to serve booze.
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Make your labels as ambiguous as possible, so nobody knows if it's water full of fat, water that makes you fat, or water effective against fat. (I'm sure the small print says, but nobody in the target audience is going to read that)
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Haifisch posted:Make your labels as ambiguous as possible, so nobody knows if it's water full of fat, water that makes you fat, or water effective against fat. I was curious so I looked it up. It's the first one.
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TontoCorazon posted:Bone broth Kcups are probably the worst trendy bullshit I've heard in a while.
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So not only is it lovely broth, but lovely broth that tastes like stale coffee at four times the price of a box of beef stock.
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They're just normal K-cups, right? For a normal Keurig coffee maker? What if you want more than a single mug of Bone BrothTM?
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Wait, isn't it just a bouillon cube in a kcup? It's for when you can't manage to boil water I guess.
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http://time.com/3975092/fat-water-bulletproof/ quote:When TIME’s health team tried the berry and lemon flavors of FATwater, which are sweetened with xylitol, no one could agree on what it tasted like. One reporter thought it tasted “like lotion”; another thought it tasted like the sweet innards of liquid-filled chewing gum; and another said it tasted like “sweetened room water”—a glass of water that’s been sitting out and collects dust or other particulates from the air. Sounds like good stuff. Somebody send a case of it to Lewis Black.
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I'm naming my next pet "sweetened room water"
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Another trend that is funny/sad are the various channels that tried to be the next big thing in viral cooking so you get edited videos with voice-overs of "recipes" like Coke float that need 2 products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2miVfSMg4iQ You can see a new wave of these now that Tasty became a thing. It's hilarious.
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Actually that's another trend that annoys me I keep seeing on Facebook. Recipes that seem ridiculously unhealthy which involve mixed ready to eat junk food into a standard recipe and pretending like they re-invented the wheel. Recent examples I've seen are fried chicken made with crushed doritos in place of seasoning and breadcrumbs. Nutella also seems to be popular among those types of recipes. I've seen pancake wraps with nutella filling and coated in nutella, or nutella sauce spaghetti. The whole trend is depressing seeing adult women going wild for food a 5 year old would dream up.
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Palpek posted:Another trend that is funny/sad are the various channels that tried to be the next big thing in viral cooking so you get edited videos with voice-overs of "recipes" like Coke float that need 2 products: Loving the delivery of the ingredients in this
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Marenghi posted:Actually that's another trend that annoys me I keep seeing on Facebook. Recipes that seem ridiculously unhealthy which involve mixed ready to eat junk food into a standard recipe and pretending like they re-invented the wheel.
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i wonder if one could get a lucrative youtube money gig seductively describing the experiences of frozen dinners. i bet it could be found with less  that i dont have
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Well I just caught up on this thread, and simultaneously love it and am pissed at some of the things I've seen. A couple of thoughts, regarding discussions some pages back: The thing that pisses me off the most about the mason jar trend is the fact that it started as a simple solution/making something work when you don't have much, or just because it was functional. Like posters talking about drinking iced tea or OJ out of one in their youth. We got this 12 pack of mason jars for 8.99, and we can store stuff in them AND drink out of them! Who needs pint glasses? But now I've seen in stores mason jars, with and without handles, sold with a trendy lable in 4-packs for $20. And they come without loving lids! And re: trendy coffee: my cousin was visiting last week, and I was showing him around our downtown/main street area. We both wanted a pick me up, and popped into the nearest coffee shop, which happened to be a super pretentious one. I got a drip coffee and he an espresso. The barista was just going on and on about how smooth she could make the espresso. My cousin was just like "ok, cool, but really I'm just going to knock it back". But she just kept tinkering with the machine, brewing one, tasting it, and dumping it out, talking about how she could "dial it in" more. He finally got his shot, and she told him to "give it a taste, if that's not smooth enough I can definitely dial it in more." And then he knocked it back, just like he said he said he would, and was like "that was fine." She seemed a bit irritated. I mean I get you're a pro barista or whatever and take pride in your work, but sometimes people just want their drat coffee.
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I always feel like I have to rein myself in when I start drifting toward some kind of hipster trend. Like I legitimately like some aspects of that aesthetic like denim jackets and old 35mm film cameras, but I feel like charging a premium for that kind of poo poo is kinda useless? Like I can go on eBay and buy actual old poo poo for cheaper than people charge for the same stuff new. Likewise, a lot of these weird food trends and hipster joints can be served just as well for cheaper if you know what you're looking for, unless you're being really specific like trying to be incredibly anal-retentive about the origin of ingredients or something. I think the best way to put it is that people want the experience of things like rustic or old-timey cool stuff without actually having to put in any more effort than dropping more money. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 05:05 on May 7, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:
That's called a Renaissance Faire.
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  Waste of a good pepper.
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Nothing wrong with eating a raw seeded bell pepper, but is that a paper straw?
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Sentient Data posted:Nothing wrong with eating a raw seeded bell pepper, but is that a paper straw? Yeah. Disney's Animal Kingdom has them because they're biodegradable in case assholes throw them into the animal habitats. They're generally good for the time it takes to finish your drink, as they get too soggy and soft to use for multiple refills.
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