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Is Dal similar to mainland Chinese rice 'cake'?
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 22:24 |
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SubG posted:Not related to veggie burger chat but hamburgers are one of those popular foods where the overwhelming majority of them are just terrible. And not just in terms of snooty that's-not-a-real-[whatever]-ism or anything. Just from the standpoint of technical execution or whatever you want to call it. Like I don't get fast food burgers not because of any ideological position or whatever, but most of the times when I have gotten one they're just soggy messes, or someone has assembled the bits sideways, or something like that. Yeah, I agree. I haven’t had a fast-food burger in about 20 years, and part of it is an ethical choice but mostly it’s because they are bloody awful. Agree re sushi, and yes, phø. Happiness Commando posted:Dosa Thanks. I thought of dosa but always think of it too late for the soaking. And I don’t have a large grinder. Would a food processor work? VelociBacon posted:Is Dal similar to mainland Chinese rice 'cake'?
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 22:25 |
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Hopdoddys has an impossible burger on their menu. I got it and thought it was good, but then I had a bite of my wife’s normal cheeseburger and it blew the impossible burger away. The impossible one tasted like a “beef” burger you’d get at a summer camp cafeteria.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 23:08 |
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mediaphage posted:tbh i am not that impressed with beyond burgers. they're...fine? they definitely taste like a veggie burger, too hard on the char and onion flavour imo. i am absolutely content to have them when out and about, though i won't bother with them for home eating. definitely not as good as the burgers i get around here. they're not bad, i just don't think they're some revolution in veggie burgers that a lot of people do. Our home response to the beyond burger as a burger has been pretty much - it's fine? I guess? However we've had great success with dicing up the beyond burger patties for stir-fry with noodles. It goes from 'okay' to 'actually that's really tasty'. They probably have other meat shapes for sale that would work for that but the store we're using only carries burgers.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 23:34 |
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Furious Lobster posted:
The label is rarely going to have any information about flavor other than the grade and frequently but not always nihonshudo. I usually rely on the description from the shop/website for the other stuff. That label, reading top to bottom left to right, has a warning about not drinking alcohol if you're under 20, the name and location of the brewing company, the name and grade of the sake (junmai which means no brewers alcohol is added, just rice and water), and a list of ingredients (rice and kouji from yamagata-ken), the rice polishing (60%), alcohol content (17%), and bottle volume (720ml). Given the lack of info I'd have to revert to guesswork, but 17% is an extremely high alcohol content I've usually only seen in genshu, so I'd expect that bottle to have a very full bodied texture and aggressive flavor profile, probably on the sweeter houjun side. Just a guess though. Guildenstern Mother posted:It might be a few pages back or god forbid trapped in the archives but I distinctly recall there being a sake thread in here at some point. If I had search I'd dig it up but I remember it having a pretty informed OP and it's not like the info had changed over time making it out of date. You might also try the japanese cooking thread. The wine thread has sommeliers that are actually trained on sake and probably can give more information.
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 23:41 |
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Yeah I should add, which fits with other posters, that preformed patties are far inferior to the loose mince. Unrelated: Do you think Cadbury creme eggs are too sweet and could use a bitter balance? Ask your doctor if "some bullshit BrianBoitano came up with" is right for you! E: I just realized I didn't do this prior years because I usually just give them to coworkers. Wife doesn't eat them and I am contractually obliged to waste no chocolate BrianBoitano fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Apr 5, 2021 |
# ? Apr 5, 2021 00:11 |
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therattle posted:Thanks. I thought of dosa but always think of it too late for the soaking. And I don’t have a large grinder. Would a food processor work? Maybe? I've only made dosa batter with a blender.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 00:47 |
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In a neat coincidence I just came across this site from the Japanese national tax agency about sake that has a lot of good information: https://tourism2020.nta.go.jp/ From the site a very helpful little graphic, although I'd tell people to take the acidity/sando scale with a grain of salt:
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 01:47 |
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SubG posted:Not related to veggie burger chat but hamburgers are one of those popular foods where the overwhelming majority of them are just terrible. And not just in terms of snooty that's-not-a-real-[whatever]-ism or anything. Just from the standpoint of technical execution or whatever you want to call it. Like I don't get fast food burgers not because of any ideological position or whatever, but most of the times when I have gotten one they're just soggy messes, or someone has assembled the bits sideways, or something like that. this is true with a lot of foods imo. people decide the base effort is more than enough because someone is gonna buy it so why bother doing better? see also, bagels/doughnuts/other pastries, coffee, tea, beer, french fries i do find pizza particularly galling, though, because it's not really any more expensive to make it better since the base ingredients for pizza are relatively cheap
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 04:00 |
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BrianBoitano posted:Yeah I should add, which fits with other posters, that preformed patties are far inferior to the loose mince. i'd rather just have it with an actual cup of coffee
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 04:07 |
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mediaphage posted:this is true with a lot of foods imo. people decide the base effort is more than enough because someone is gonna buy it so why bother doing better? see also, bagels/doughnuts/other pastries, coffee, tea, beer, french fries A lot of times, the thought that goes in to the recipe isn't necessarily product cost (though that's certainly part of it), but also thinking of how you'll streamline production in a fast food kitchen, or maximum hot holding quality, or make it impossible to be screwed up by workers who don't care, etc. That's why mom and pop pizza places are almost universally better than chain pizza - the person making it is caring mostly about getting you a nice pizza for a price they can make a living on, and not concentrating so much on quarterly profits for 2000+ stores. But yeah, if people are going to throw money at you for mediocre products, then what's the incentive to make it better?
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 04:11 |
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Also a lot of people just have really bad palettes. Chipotle makes money hand over fist, even in markets with a dozen good taquerias on every block. The average consumer doesn’t necessarily want what food snobs focus on as “good food”. I know people who get excited for all you can eat sushi.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 05:36 |
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Another thing to consider is that you probably get more discerning about something the more you have it, or when you're exposed to better examples of something. As one example, we're probably the opposite on pho vs. sushi - I'm generally pretty unpicky about sushi, and don't have much of a palette for the really good stuff at all. I'll happily eat grocery store sushi, and while I can recognize that restaurant sushi is better, it doesn't feel miles away at all, and any time I've had really nice sushi, it hasn't registered as heads and tails above anything else for me. The only time I can think of sushi being unacceptably bad is at an all-inclusive in Dominican Republic. Pho on the other hand I have a lot, and I'm pretty discerning. Toronto is rife with pho places, and there's one or 2 that I think are really great and a whole bunch that are passable at best. In most other North American and European cities I've had pho in, it's often not passably good at all.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 11:57 |
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I have a hard time trusting food recommendations from people who don't know if they're using a pallet, a palette or their palate.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 14:09 |
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did somebody say Chipotle paelaet?
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 14:31 |
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pile of brown posted:I have a hard time trusting food recommendations from people who don't know if they're using a pallet, a palette or their palate. Lol, I assumed I spelled that wrong, and went back to an earlier post to confirm I got it right. My spelling is as undeveloped as my palate.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 14:36 |
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tbh i like chipotle salad bowls, but i treat it as its own genre of food. it's not mexican or anything, really, it's just a salad that has guac on it. really not a bad option if you're out and about and want to grab something. i haven't eaten at one in a couple of years, though.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 14:39 |
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'Mexican' in general is something where there's TONS of food that's not in the slightest bit authentic in terms of 'it came from Mexico' but can still be really good, even if Chipotle isn't the best. A mission burrito doesn't have much to do with Mexico outside of 'is in a tortilla' but that doesn't mean they're not awesome from a place that knows how to do them well. 'Chinese' food is the same IMO.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 14:44 |
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enki42 posted:'Mexican' in general is something where there's TONS of food that's not in the slightest bit authentic in terms of 'it came from Mexico' but can still be really good, even if Chipotle isn't the best. A mission burrito doesn't have much to do with Mexico outside of 'is in a tortilla' but that doesn't mean they're not awesome from a place that knows how to do them well. yes of course but this is an argument people love to throw against stuff like chipotle. tbh idgi because they basically sell a bunch of stuff i would make at home none of which is individually bad tasting. i think people just like to hate on what’s popular. anyway their food crimes pale in comparison to something like little caesars hot n readys which i’m sorry are foul
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 16:02 |
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mediaphage posted:yes of course but this is an argument people love to throw against stuff like chipotle. tbh idgi because they basically sell a bunch of stuff i would make at home none of which is individually bad tasting. i think people just like to hate on what’s popular. I don't think Chipotle meats are as tasty as they could be, but every other part of what they make seems just fine in my (limited) experience with them. It's a basic-rear end burrito, there's really not much they could do to screw it up. edit: Well there was the time when they served everything with a side of e coli and that seems bad
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 17:29 |
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mediaphage posted:yes of course but this is an argument people love to throw against stuff like chipotle. tbh idgi because they basically sell a bunch of stuff i would make at home none of which is individually bad tasting. i think people just like to hate on what’s popular. Little Caesars exists entirely to cater to people like me that are very tired and very depressed. We want to shovel the maximum amount of pizza with the minimum amount of effort. And they're extra delicious because of it. It's depression in a pizza box.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 17:50 |
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fizzymercury posted:Little Caesars exists entirely to cater to people like me that are very tired and very depressed. We want to shovel the maximum amount of pizza with the minimum amount of effort. And they're extra delicious because of it. agree to disagree. lc is one of the only fast food chains where i immediately feel worse pretty much as soon as i’m done eating.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 17:57 |
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I didn't say I didn't feel worse after eating it. I just enjoy the experience of eating a physical manifestation of my depressed state. And at least it's better than eating peanut butter out of the jar while I cry.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 18:16 |
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I mean, I don't order it, but I have no problem eating Little Caesar's/Domino's/Pizza Hut if it's being offered to me.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 18:49 |
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What’s the place that gives you little things of garlicky poo poo with your pizza, bc that place gives me a stomachache just looking at it
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 19:10 |
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Hawkperson posted:What’s the place that gives you little things of garlicky poo poo with your pizza, bc that place gives me a stomachache just looking at it lots of places do but you’re probably thinking of little caesar’s. Mr. Wiggles posted:I mean, I don't order it, but I have no problem eating Little Caesar's/Domino's/Pizza Hut if it's being offered to me. i would eat dominos probably. pizza hut maybe. i’d happily go hungry than eat little caesars at someone’s house though. fizzymercury posted:I didn't say I didn't feel worse after eating it. I just enjoy the experience of eating a physical manifestation of my depressed state. And at least it's better than eating peanut butter out of the jar while I cry. bizarre. also i’d much much rather just eat the peanut butter. because that poo poo is delicious and less, well, *gestures at all of little caesars*
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 19:16 |
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mediaphage posted:lots of places do but you’re probably thinking of little caesar’s. Oh I remembered, I’m thinking of Papa John’s. I’m with you though; Pizza Hut and dominos are edible, though not great. I have been at parties where the only food was Papa John’s or LC and grabbed fast food on the way home rather than eat it.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 19:23 |
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Hawkperson posted:Oh I remembered, I’m thinking of Papa John’s. I’m with you though; Pizza Hut and dominos are edible, though not great. I have been at parties where the only food was Papa John’s or LC and grabbed fast food on the way home rather than eat it. ah i’ve never gotten the garlic fingers from there. they were the go to for my campus because you could larges delivered for $7.50 a pop
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 19:43 |
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Yeah papa John’s does the garlic dip which is probably melted I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter and garlic salt. Hell yeahI put that all over my pizza as a kid. I also snagged the random pepperoncini they threw in there.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 20:10 |
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I ordered papa john's stuffed crust last time I was feeling super depressed and I felt as if I'd done some sort of penance afterwards because that poo poo was flavorless and sad
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 20:43 |
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Hawkperson posted:What’s the place that gives you little things of garlicky poo poo with your pizza, bc that place gives me a stomachache just looking at it Pizza Pizza And they're categorically worse than any pizza place you'll ever patronize. In fact, their little pots of garlic sauce are the best things they offer.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 20:52 |
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BrianBoitano posted:did somebody say Chipotle paelaet? drat what kind of magic mirror did they put on that thing where it shows the real food inspiration of each of the colors. I like how the peppers and onions turned into a wine color, rather than the average of red onions and green peppers, which would give a putrid brown color
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 21:08 |
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BrianBoitano posted:did somebody say Chipotle paelaet? Maaaan. I hate to say it but I might need this
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 21:14 |
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I don't know or understand what that is but I do think it's extremely stupid, aggressively
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 21:26 |
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How Wonderful! posted:Maaaan. ...I should definitely mention that I'm really into weirdly bold makeup just in case.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 21:26 |
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I'm a Nyx girl, I was sold on their lipsticks and am scared to experiment beyond that. Because money. I do need to replace my gold eyeshadow though..
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 01:53 |
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enki42 posted:Another thing to consider is that you probably get more discerning about something the more you have it, or when you're exposed to better examples of something. As one example, we're probably the opposite on pho vs. sushi - I'm generally pretty unpicky about sushi, and don't have much of a palette for the really good stuff at all. I'll happily eat grocery store sushi, and while I can recognize that restaurant sushi is better, it doesn't feel miles away at all, and any time I've had really nice sushi, it hasn't registered as heads and tails above anything else for me. The only time I can think of sushi being unacceptably bad is at an all-inclusive in Dominican Republic. I also don't think that finding a soggy fast food burger disgusting is due to me having some kind of highly developed gourmand sensibilities about fast food burgers.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 02:05 |
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i still love me some mcds. i like to order mcdoubles with bacon no bun. or a few wendy jbcs.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 02:34 |
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SubG posted:I eat phở more frequently than I eat burgers. This is both normal and good. Phó is a really common breakfast/lunch for me.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 04:47 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 21:36 |
I do hunger for a fast food burg on occasion but shake shack is about the only place that may make it well. So I Might as well go to a local place at 8 vs 13 for a meal. It's like how a taco bell order costs about as much as a local burrito place now.
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