I love mint in lots of things, including the above-mentioned watermelon/feta pairing. I've never entirely understood the lamb pairing, but don't object.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
Mint is cool
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
Ween is not a weird band
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
Remove all land borders apart from some x-claves because they can be absolutely adorable.
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
When aging people eat more meat that just makes them smell and have fewer/grosser bowel movements. No one wants to deal with that.
― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
Mint is great just not as a jelly to put on lamb.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
xp
if you're exercising it shouldn't
exercising contributes to a healthy bowel movement
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
Dunno about mint jelly but mint sauce is delicious
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 1 March 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
the word on my streets (ie my children’s schools) is that you need to eat meat to make blood. only halal meat though.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 1 March 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
I just presumed yanks called the sauce jelly they call things jelly that aren't jelly I've noticed
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
yeah like jelly fish and jelly beans
― the late great, Friday, 2 March 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
and jam
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 2 March 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
My objection to mint jelly is to the mint, which is an obnoxiously overwhelming flavor for proper comestibles imo- but in this case the jelly is quite gelatinous and...not so great either
― Hunt3r, Friday, 2 March 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
I am not a fan of anything gelatinous, at least in a culinary context, nor of the use let alone misapplication of the word jelly.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 2 March 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
CP and Darragh - no mint jelly is diff than mint sauce. Over here it’s actually served with a gelatinous mint thing that has the consistency of jam. V diff from your mint sauce.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 2 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
The fuck kind of animals are ye at all
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
Food can be okay but it's mostly dumb. Just puree it and run it directly into my, what, my stomach I guess? I was going to say 'veins' but that probably isn't okay to do.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 March 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
https://goo.gl/images/Zsn86a
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 2 March 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
I can’t see that picture but is it of soylent?
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
Also bear is my spirit animal if you must know dmac
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
Controversial opinion is Yoshi’s Story > SMB2
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 2 March 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
Mint jelly is gross but mint sauce on lamb is my favorite (it’s mint, vinegar, sugar). Trader Joe’s usually has New Zealand lamb.
― just1n3, Friday, 2 March 2018 07:04 (six years ago) link
Someone take me to the Cheese Board (then across the street for a drink)
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, March 1, 2018 2:15 PM (nine hours ago)
Cesar, the tapas restaurant that is across the street from the Cheese Board, does have excellent drinks (and food), but I wasn't aware you were familiar with the gourmet restaurant scene in North Berkeley?
― sarahell, Friday, 2 March 2018 07:27 (six years ago) link
Aside from fancy small ranch stuff I don't think I've seen lamb that isn't from Australia or NZ, it's not really a commodity meat in the US.
I love lamb when other people cook it but I have had fuck all luck preparing it well for myself. Even going heavy on the fat trimming with shanks or boneless legs it usually comes out greasy. I've decided to just cede it to a couple of local Lebanese restaurants. Their tabouli is way better than what I can make for myself anyway.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 2 March 2018 07:28 (six years ago) link
not liking any even vaguely normal food is shameful and embarrassing and you should stfu about it and ppl who have refined their palate to the point of finding normal food disgusting are hideous monsters who are to be shunned.
― ogmor, Friday, 2 March 2018 08:54 (six years ago) link
BINGO
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:00 (six years ago) link
this def applies to turning your nose up at fast food/junk food as if it's inedible too
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:01 (six years ago) link
this thread has reminded me i haven't made lamb saag in a while, an oversight i intend to rectify as soon as i can dig my way out of the snowdrifts in front of my house and make it to the shops
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
it's def the meat that makes me feel guiltiest when i eat it tho cuz baby sheep are cute as hell
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:31 (six years ago) link
so cute, so delicious ;_;
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/de/29/1d/de291d2d1ddb75f63e644dc9e4c68c27--smiling-lamb-keep-smiling.jpg
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:32 (six years ago) link
Xxxp It's all part of treating food as a proxy for class / values / health / dieting / coolness rather than treating it as food.Can't stand all these "gourmet burger restaurants" that have appeared recently, just apparently to add the veneer of respectability to eating junk food, if you want to eat it then it's a quarter of the price and basically the same at burger king.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:35 (six years ago) link
cue stream of burgsplaining about how it really really isn't
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:10 (six years ago) link
Receiving his “frothy coffee” in Pontypridd’s Prince’s cafe, Owen Smith stopped mid-sentence to express some amusement. “I tell you it is the first time I have ever been given little biscuits and a posh cup in here,” Smith said, looking up at the owner David Gamberini, as his order was placed on the table. “Seriously, I would have a mug normally,” the MP added, examining the refreshments in front of him.
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
i had a lamb rogan josh in a Spoonies last night just to wrap this all together
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:12 (six years ago) link
rip owen smith, heaven needed a centrist frothycoffeepologist
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
don't make me post the latte-munching thread
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
the latte-munching thread is an extremist stance in the other direction and equally reprehensible, the point of that and performative foodie-ism being this gauche strained othering of perfectly normal things that are normal to eat and pleasant
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
like mint jelly
*minces triumphantly off to the american politics threads, to solve THEM*
― mark s, Friday, 2 March 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link
Lemonjelly was popular for a while but i did not like them ever nope
― F# A# (∞), Friday, 2 March 2018 14:39 (six years ago) link
I say mint and mint jelly suck and its like suddenly we can’t eat mayonnaise anymore
― Hunt3r, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
they sell yummy lamb right up the street from my house.
http://leydenglenlamb.com/index.cfm
― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
western mass/vermont good for small farm meat. they have great meatshares here.
― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
there is a hipster butcher shop in northampton now that has ridiculously good local stuff.
http://www.suttermeats.com/p/local-meats.html
― scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
mmmmm local meats
http://www.myfconline.com/character_avatars/78291_67387.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
hipster butcher shop
Lamb. Pfft. SO last season. Lately I've been really excited about an obscure cut of zebra shoulder; you probably haven't heard of it.
― Wyld Scalyns (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
Pfft you're about twenty years late on the white stripes posing m8
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
every mfer on this thread talking about cheese better have a real controversial opinion they're saving up for after this dairy bullshit
― Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
"gourmet burger restaurants"
oh man, not even "gourmet," but there's a stretch of road in the suburbs here that has the most chains moving in per square mile in the metro area and there's a Five Guys, Fuddruckers, and Red Robin within three blocks of each other, with a local burger chain a few blocks away and a "gourmet" local one in the mall just beyond that
how many fucking hamburgers do you normy asses need
― mh, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
The world is overpopulated and the deaths of a few million here and there, grouped by a particular characteristic or not, is no great harm
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
ty
― Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link