Post a controversial opinion

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (7395 of them)

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

this def applies to turning your nose up at fast food/junk food as if it's inedible too

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

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

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

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

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

‘a few million’ get a load of this milquetoast over here, billions or gtfo

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link

:-/

tsunami wiped out how many again?

the late great, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link

300,000 (and we’re still whining about 9/11)

for a moment i thought it was 300 mil

well it’s only an order off

the late great, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link

Cheese is a more interesting topic than anyone's opinion on anything including cheese

scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution

Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link

I won't accept "overpopulated" until all of Europe and North America has the density of Hong Kong + entire cities on floating offshore platforms.

Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link

death list: everyone currently falling from a high window, everyone who's just about to be hit by a train

imago, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution


but i’ve been saving that nuclear warhead i bought on ebay for a rainy day

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link

People bemoaning overpopulation always have at least one immediate means of contributing to the solution

― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:41 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh it's never the one you want

things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link

ice-nine no doubt

Mordy, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link

who needs to wait for global warming? not americans, by gum!

"Total U.S. Drug Deaths* - More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2016, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids--nearly double in a decade."

scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link

By drugs tho tbf not by gum

things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link

even more in 2017, i think.

scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link

all i'm saying is this country is doing its part to control population growth. and its not easy when you are a big rich country either! you have to try even harder to find ways to die in big numbers. but with guns and drugs we are on the right path.

scott seward, Friday, 2 March 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.