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Sushi with raw stuff in it is gross, and that weird fish sauce that sometimes goes with sushi is truly revolting. Just go suck on a fish if you wanna taste it that badly
I had an aversion to sushi for the longest time and refused to even try it, then I started dating a Bosnian chick who wouldn't take no for an answer when she wanted to go on a sushi date, and she all but shoved it down my throat. Turns out I love it. You don't need to use the fish sauce; I find a soy sauce with lime juice and wasabi makes pretty much everything taste amazing. It's so clean and refreshing, none of the debilitating, gluttonous guilt of say a burger and fries or a big steak.
 
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I should have known you'd show up with this particular brand of blasphemy. Cheese is amazing and you're evil. (Though cheese ice cream... I'm out on. No Thanks.)
I kind of want to set up an elaborate Uncomfortable Trap (I'm not going to kill someone over this) for your woman and sit a burger without cheese in front of you. I'll let her go as soon as you eat the burger. But I want to see you explain to her why... her being lowered in a pit of snails and slugs is somehow more palatable to you than the cheeseless burger in front of you.

We put it on Youtube, instant Pewdiepie Money.

I plead "guilty", Your Honor. Now please pass that bowl of nachos.
What did those poor corn chips do to you that you will treat them as such?
 
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Oh this is one we learned in Culinary school. A lot of times when a steak-house is really packed, like really busy and its going to be busy all weekend long, and they have a little prep time, like knowing that some championship game is gonna be in town, certain things are bought in preparation for eventually running out of stock. Specifically stingray. Specifically to pass as filet mignon. Apparently using a biscuit cutter, seasoning and grilling it like a steak even experienced fish chefs have trouble telling between a stingray and a filet mignon.

Source: Teacher was the executive chef at one of the nicest steak houses in town.
 

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  • Most seafood is awesome, it's matter of where you are getting from, who's cooking, and what style. I don't know what seafood you've been eating that is "too slimey", but odds are you're dealing with a bad chef, cheap reasturant, or all of the above.
  • The same applies to sushi/Japanese resturants. Go for the authentic ones, not those cheap ass imitations or California rolls. Expensive as hell though.
  • Vietnamese food > Japanese food > Chinese food > Thai food.
  • Taco Bell can burn in Hell!
  • Dressing and canned cranberry sauce are the worst things to have with a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal. I always hated then, and still do now.
 

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When I was still rooming with a friend, I accidentally ate his wagyu cubes because I thought they were a tofu dish I brought from home. It was dark, I was wasted, and too lazy to heat it up. Really did just feel and taste like tofu mixed with some meat, which I guess means wagyu just feels like firmer fat. Which it probably just is. I don't want steak to melt in my mouth, I want a good chew to it along with some beefy flavor.

You people who like cheese don't like food. You just like different mechanisms for delivering cheese into your mouths.
I love cheese. And I absolutely hate every restaurant that thinks putting cheese (usually "cheese") on every fucking thing in ungodly amounts makes them unique. It's gotten to the point that I lose my appetite when I see someone drench a burger whole in some cheese, which is the most common video on social media. Blegh.

My hot take: The best scrambled eggs are crispy, rubbery, and shaped like pancakes. Get the fuck out of here with your barely cooked, 30% butter, slimy ass abominations.
 

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Oreos are shit. Like really, really, really, REALLY bad. I've had month old wafers that tasted better. Me being raised on American media, and how it presented America and everthing from it as the most awesomest ever, figured those Oreos must have something going for them, being as big of a brand in America as it is. I took one bite from my first Oreo ever, and it's like the cookie version of a garbage pail kid died in my mouth. I'll never take Prince or Lu for granted ever again.
Although I dislike Lu and Prince about as much, I agree, Oreos aren't worth their hype in media.

Did you dip it in milk? Milk unlocks the Oreo's true potential. But eating them dry, yeah, they are a bit shit. Plus they get stuck in your teeth like nothing else; an "Oreo smile" is the stuff of nightmares.
Aside from the taste being bland, this is one of my main reasons for never touching one again.

When I snack on a cookie, the last thing I want is to get the urge to run off to the bathroom and brush my teeth.
 

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Cannibalism is ok as long as you don't eat the brain or bone marrow.
I don't know, to be safe I think you really just need to know what they died from. Young and healthy would be preferable.
I think if you make it to the brain OR bone marrow, you've reached the point of no return anyway. I mean, you know how much fatty tissue and white meat you have to chew through to hit a bone? There's no turning back at that point; the blood is quite literally on your hands (and likely some bits under your fingernails and stuck between your teeth.)
I'm guessing that XsjadoBlayde is referring to Kuru a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that decimated a tribe of cannibals in Papua New Guinea. Kuru is caused by misfolded proteins called prions that can't be eliminated by normal cooking methods and were primarily concentrated in the brain. Not that the cannibals practiced good cooking methods, it was their custom to bury the corpses for several days and then disinter them and serve the maggots as a side dish.

It's a similar illness to mad cow disease which was spread by feeding cows meat and bonemeal containing remnants of other cattle who had spontaneously generated the illness.
 
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I kind of want to set up an elaborate Uncomfortable Trap (I'm not going to kill someone over this) for your woman and sit a burger without cheese in front of you. I'll let her go as soon as you eat the burger. But I want to see you explain to her why... her being lowered in a pit of snails and slugs is somehow more palatable to you than the cheeseless burger in front of you.

We put it on Youtube, instant Pewdiepie Money.
Oh, I'd happily eat the burger without cheese. Went through a spell in my youth where I didn't want cheese on my burgers because I associated it with the other accoutrements of "toppings" like ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise which I still won't eat to this day. I've since come to my senses on the cheese front. As for my lady, you can dunk in the snails and slugs; I'm sure she deserves it for one reason or another.

  • Taco Bell can burn in Hell!
I've no particularly problem with Taco Bell other than they seem to keep getting away with "new" menu items that are just the same four ingredients they've been using for decades in a slightly different order. Just uninspired-if-dependable drunk food.

  • Dressing and canned cranberry sauce are the worst things to have with a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal. I always hated then, and still do now.
You watch your damned mouth. Have you had my mama's dressing?? It's been requested as a last meal at no fewer than 40 executions in the Midwest alone!
 

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Oh this is one we learned in Culinary school. A lot of times when a steak-house is really packed, like really busy and its going to be busy all weekend long, and they have a little prep time, like knowing that some championship game is gonna be in town, certain things are bought in preparation for eventually running out of stock. Specifically stingray. Specifically to pass as filet mignon. Apparently using a biscuit cutter, seasoning and grilling it like a steak even experienced fish chefs have trouble telling between a stingray and a filet mignon.

Source: Teacher was the executive chef at one of the nicest steak houses in town.
Interesting if true. I had shark once, several years ago, and was surprised how "beefy" (looked like red meat) it was as opposed to flaky and fish-like as one might expect. Question is,. why not simply offer the stingray as a menu item instead of passing it off as beef?
 

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Oreos are shit. Like really, really, really, REALLY bad. I've had month old wafers that tasted better. Me being raised on American media, and how it presented America and everthing from it as the most awesomest ever, figured those Oreos must have something going for them, being as big of a brand in America as it is. I took one bite from my first Oreo ever, and it's like the cookie version of a garbage pail kid died in my mouth. I'll never take Prince or Lu for granted ever again.
Chocolate oreos are heaven.
 

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Dressing and canned cranberry sauce are the worst things to have with a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal. I always hated then, and still do now.
You watch your damned mouth. Have you had my mama's dressing?? It's been requested as a last meal at no fewer than 40 executions in the Midwest alone!
Boxed dressing is indeed as awful as canned cranberry sauce. Making your own dressing and cranberry sauce make them potentially fantastic. Surprisingly, both are easy to do... good cranberry sauce can be made out of cranberries, sugar, and an orange. Dressing... bread, sage, mushrooms, cream, and some salt and pepper are all you need. I never understood why someone would get dressing from a box, or cranberry sauce from a can.

My own culinary hot take, this new crop of plant based meatless burgers... can taste better than burgers made of beef. They are meaty and satisfying, but when frying them you can get a crispier exterior without overcooking it. Generally I prefer the ones made of pea protein rather than the soy-based ones, but they both are pretty good.
 

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Palm oil is horrible. I mean, yeah, the way it's usually farmed is morally repugnant, but they don't advertise that. Normally I find out it's got palm oil when I eat it and it has that appalling taste that tells me I'm likely to be sick in a few hours.
 

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You watch your damned mouth. Have you had my mama's dressing?? It's been requested as a last meal at no fewer than 40 executions in the Midwest alone!
No, no offense to the woman, but I don't want it. I know when dressings actually cooked it's better, but for me it just becomes tolerable.


Boxed dressing is indeed as awful as canned cranberry sauce. Making your own dressing and cranberry sauce make them potentially fantastic. Surprisingly, both are easy to do... good cranberry sauce can be made out of cranberries, sugar, and an orange. Dressing... bread, sage, mushrooms, cream, and some salt and pepper are all you need. I never understood why someone would get dressing from a box, or cranberry sauce from a can.
Like I said before, it's a bit more tolerable for me, if it's actually homemade for my parents, but I just don't like it in general. The dressing they always handcraft themselves, but they will almost always use canned cranberries to go along with it. They rarely ever make it themselves.
 
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I've no particularly problem with Taco Bell other than they seem to keep getting away with "new" menu items that are just the same four ingredients they've been using for decades in a slightly different order. Just uninspired-if-dependable drunk food.
My problem with them is that they are the "Mexican" version of McDonald's. Once you go to actual Mexican restaurants, there's no need to go back to Taco Bell ever again aside for maybe two or three items. Shoot at my job, there's at least three or four Mexican restaurants and a Taco Bell in the surrounding area. Even the cheaper Mexican restaurants have better quality food than Taco Bell.
 
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My own culinary hot take, this new crop of plant based meatless burgers... can taste better than burgers made of beef. They are meaty and satisfying, but when frying them you can get a crispier exterior without overcooking it. Generally I prefer the ones made of pea protein rather than the soy-based ones, but they both are pretty good.
Problem there is that you don't get the satisfaction of knowing that something else had to die so that you can live. Well, except some plants, but they were going out either way. I need that ego boost of living at the top of the food chain to get me through the drudgery of the modern world.
 

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Interesting if true. I had shark once, several years ago, and was surprised how "beefy" (looked like red meat) it was as opposed to flaky and fish-like as one might expect. Question is,. why not simply offer the stingray as a menu item instead of passing it off as beef?
Price and perceived fanciness.
People have come to associate filet mignon as incredibly fancy and high class, even if its size makes it an unsatisfying meal. And fish is for common people. A lot of people who frequent super fancy and expensive places do so as a status symbol. They'd happily pay $100-$150 for a single plate, just to say they did. And a restaurant that can get customers to pay that for a simple ray biscuit will happily let them.