Controversial Food Opinions - The Béchamel Test

Oh, is that where your dad is from? The last time I tried to go to Bolivia there was a surprise visa that I didn't know about so we just went to the atacama instead.

Korean noodle and rice dishes all kind of suck. The only thing fun is doing the barbecue.

controp: any pupusa is better than any burrito

most south americans know chilean food doesn't exist

if chilean food didn't exist chileans would have to invent it

canadian and us cuisine is basically junk/garbage food

british food doesn't exist either

indian food is junk food as well

hm those are all i can think of for now

indian food is junk food as well

― F# A# (∞), Friday, March 23, 2018 2:19 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I could eat indian food every meal of the week. Mmmmm.

There are a couple of very good traditional chilean restaurants with a modern twist, near fine dining. And chile does kind of have near the only real wine game in Latin America save for Argentina who got saved by malbec and torrontes.

o ya

to balance things out, definitely give props to chilean (and argentinean) wine

peruvian wine is really bad, tastes like sweet grape juice or something

don't mean to restart the war of the pacific

indian food is junk food as well

― F# A# (∞), Friday, March 23, 2018 2:19 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think this counts as an opinion

I don't like burgers. They all taste the same, like nothing, just some overcooked meat in stodgy bread. Just tried a five guys burger to see if it was any different, it was just like a McDonalds burger, but bigger, what is the point. French fries are also boring. I mean I get McDonalds and Burger King is cheap and convenient, but why would anyone want to spend more than £5 on this stuff I really cannot understand

because it's everywhere

I think 95% of hamburgers are kind of terrible too. Eating crappy overdone ground meat for no reason.

Steaks are also boring. Thirty mouthfuls of the same mediocre taste and texture. But people seem to genuinely enjoy eating them.

I like steak tartar and i like steak rare and in small quantities.

i love burgers

my preference is rare/bloody meats, but i'll eat them if i know it's from a good quality source, and this is rarely the case

one thing i love about japan is their meats, i'll eat almost raw japanese meats and eggs any time

almost all*

I'm sorry, you said Indian food was junk so your mouth is obviously broken in some way.

i mean doesn't mean i don't eat it or like it

If you cut down on the ghee or oil when making it, it's actually really healthy.

the only cuisines I don’t much like are not controversial eg british

― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 24 March 2018 8:03 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That’s fighting challops

i don't know if they top the list these days but india is definitely in the top 3 for having the most diabetics per capita

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/India-is-the-diabetes-capital-of-the-world/articleshow/50753461.cms

^ random article but there is a lot of info on it in other articles

we could have a thread just about empanadas

The best are salteñas. La Paz represent

indian food is junk food as well

― F# A# (∞), Friday, March 23, 2018 2:19 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think this counts as an opinion

― brimstead, Friday, March 23, 2018 2:29 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

chilean empanadas not fried and have the beef with raisins and hard-boiled egg? because that is definitely classic.

a bit annoying to assemble, though, because you have to be careful about the number of raisins and bits of egg that sneak into each one.

yeah those are empanadas de pino, i think they're pretty great

some indian food is like dehydrating vegetables at high heat with a bunch of spices and very little oil/ghee. it can be healthy.

also daal seems to be healthy unless there's tons of ghee in the tadka, but adding butter to soup is the best way to move along the healthy/delicious curve

Salteñas are the best

that said, my favorite indian food is fried potato and cheese balls + gravy, so you may have a point

these Salteñas look like calzones. they are huge.

Chilean empanadas have some serious issues with their dough. I've had a lot of bad empanadas here where the dough is way too dense or there is just too much of it.

I also think the bread here is kind of terrible in general. But there is an Eric Kayser near where I live.

too much dough is my problem with them

saltenas are meaaaty

i have the same problem with non-mexican tamales -- too much dough

i love that mexican tamales are like 50% meat

xpost if all the ingredients for pupusas were as prevalent or as easy as burritos I would probably prefer pupusas.

totally agree about burgers and steaks, not my thing at all. I love other meat but those are boring

empanada dough is delicious. it is full of lard and butter. it is delicious pie crust.

Some empanada dough. #notallempanadadough

I just showed my spouse a pic of locos mayos. He said "it looks chilean."

Look, this lady has made lasagna without bechamel, looks just lovely, very authentic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT5llaBYrQA

MOLTO BENE

https://media1.giphy.com/media/3o8doT9BL7dgtolp7O/giphy.gif

"I'm so pleased to have found this channel. This is what Lasagna should be about: meat, tomato puree and mince with onions. No bechamel sauce, no cheese and no herbs to confuse the taste buds. I like my food to simply exist in my mouth without drawing attention to it's self by having flavour. "

flavor is the worst

why go to all this trouble when soylent has already been invented, is my question

One would think restaurants that serve steak sandwiches would've figured out by now that the steak needs to be cut up into tiny pieces. FFS, such a waste.

i'll be on the front lines of the cilantro-backlash backlash

I don't quite understand parsley. I don't think I have the magic touch in the things I make with it.

I have tried putting a thin steak between bread and yeah that doesn't really work