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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Sugar, cinnamon, and butter on spaghetti is amazing (sans meat, herbs, and spaghetti sauce, in case it needed to be said). It doesn't taste like spaghetti; it tastes like dessert.

[–] tupalos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Is this for real? How has this not been brought up already as a crime against humanity?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Alright guys. How do you all feel about a dessert lasagna?

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

It's been a long time since I've been, but I distinctly remember Olive Garden having a chocolate lasagna. It was decent, but nothing to rave about.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

I would like to know more!

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago

Marshmallows and gravy.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Ever had spaghetti ice cream with strawberry sauce and grazed white chocolate as "parmesan"

[–] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Fruit goes on cooked flour.

It's been like that for centuries.

Cake. Danish. Fruitcake. Pizza. Filled doughnuts. Kolacky. Raisin bread. Banana bread...

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Not sopping wet flour

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

Ya know when ya put Danish I thought you were calling the Danes gay and just kinda accepted it.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

Japan putting ketchup on spaghetti: "Hold my sake."

[–] Manzas@lemdro.id 4 points 6 hours ago

What other condiment can you put on there? Mayonaisse?

[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Frenchies are doing it as well

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

I mean, I've seen plenty of Brazilians doing that for years, too.

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[–] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 41 points 12 hours ago

Hawaiian pizza was invented by a Greek man running an Italian pizzeria in Toronto inspired by the sweet and sour flavors of Chinese cuisine

[–] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 7 hours ago

Chuja się znasz na makaronie, frajerze! /s

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As a wise man recently said:

🎵 (Don't) Give a fuck about tradition, stop impressin' the dead 🎵

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

Tradition is just peer pressure from the dead

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 101 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (9 children)

Man, people miss out on so much good eating because of preconceptions and gatekeeping.

Berries go with almost anything. And yeah, technically strawberries aren't berries. But the point is that pretty much every berry is a blend of acidic tartness, sweetness, and complex flavors. There's no world in which berries make something bad.

Any fruit has the potential to go with any standard food. Meats, pastas, breads, even veggies. It's a matter of balancing the specific fruit with the other ingredients.

That's why pineapple on pizza works. Tangy, sweet, and with that hard to describe tropical fruitiness. It brings out the sweetness of a good tomato sauce while cutting through the fattiness of toppings and any oils.

Pork chops and applesauce baby, it's a classic for reason. Pork stuffed with apples; and other things, orange chicken or duck, blackberry glazed venison roast (seriously, you want to try it), apricot beef (or lamb), curried goat with prunes (or apricot, or peaches even), roasted brussels sprouts with apples and cranberries.

It's all about the balancing with other things.

The Polish strawberry pasta? It's balanced out with sour cream that mutes the sweetness some, and works as a bridge with the pasta.

I know I'm talking into a void here, what with this being a meme, but I'm always so amazed that people will dismiss a food combination without trying it, or sometimes without even trying to imagine the possibilities.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 36 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Syntax error: Unmatched parentheses on paragraph 5

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 21 points 13 hours ago

The classic pitfall of the ADHD parentheses in a parentheses info dump

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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I blame Alton Brown.

Hear me out.

Alton Brown is undoubtedly a legendary figure and he did a lot of good for the modern state of culinary entertainment. His scientific, experimental approach was authoritative. He came up with what was scientifically the best way to do a thing, demonstrated why, and did it in a very entertaining way.

But with that, came scores of fans who saw "this is the best way to do a thing" and interpreted that as "this is the only way to do a thing, fuck you you're doing it wrong."

Alton wasn't doing what other TV chefs were doing. Emeril and Julia presented really good recipes, they'd add some flare and say hey, this is how we do it around here. Bourdain explored the world and showed off a lot of great ways to cook. He was reluctant to criticize and clearly just loved the food.

But Alton Brown, for all the good he did, opened up authority to fans who didn't know shit about fuck. He spoke with confidence about how his method was the right method.

Right about the time the Internet was coming in to it's own and arguing about nonsense online became a hobby a person could have.

Now, there's a culture of being right about cooking online. People who log in every day just to bitch about how somebody else cooked something.

Obviously it's not exclusively Alton's fault, and Alton is as open to new and interesting ways to cook things as Bourdain was, a fact you'll discover if he ever happens to visit your home town and read what he says about the food there on his Facebook page.

But there is a through line there, and it starts at Good Eats.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You know, I agree, especially about Alton not being the cause as much as it is the viewers looking for am excuse to feel holier-than-thou about something.

You're dead right that people took his work way too far and assumed that because he was breaking things down into the underlying food science and methodology that the exact preparations he used were default the best, period.

He wasn't prone to that himself, though he did go hard against myths.

He's a terrific food educator. One of the best in television history imo. But you're also dead right about the entertainment side screwing things up. His on screen persona, combined with the structure of good eats as a show made it too easy for food snobs to glom onto the wrong parts

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I think you said it better than I did. Dude just wanted to educate and people just can't let something be good. It has to be correct.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I still can't get over the militant grilled cheese vs melt arguments that were common online a year ago.

If food tastes good, who cares what the hell it's called or how "authentic" it is. No food is authentic from the get-go; someone tries something new one day, other people like it, and it catches on and becomes a thing. If it's not your thing, or if you think it could be done better with x, y, and z, that's fine, everyone has personal tastes and you don't have to like everything.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ok now I'm hungry and I want to try Polish strawberry pasta.

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[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Need to polish them tastes

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

A famous italian chef branded the strawberry and champagne risotto, so maybe not

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 11 hours ago

I'm a man of strange tastes so I say y'all should carry on with whatever nonsense that pops into your head. How do you think we got to this point as far as the culinary arts go?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

The entire country of Brazil:

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 11 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Nothing is sacred in Brazilian culinary.

Pineapple is probably one of the tamest pizza toppings in my region, which ironically has one of the largest Italian populations.

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[–] Nariom@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Once, out of salt, I put sugar in my fries. It wasn't bad.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 hours ago

American ketchup is basically corn syrup with red dye, you’re just cutting out the middleman.

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