Tuesday Food Discussion

[Pruitt]

I like canned green beans. Don't even need to cook 'em.

I grew up a latchkey child. I can eat some fucked up shit.

Green beans are not my fav at all but canned green beans make me sorta throw up in my mouth a little bit. blech.

Canned peas, peas, green beans, etc. are wrong. The only palatable canned veg is corn.

100%

Ever tried canned potatoes? What's wrong with people? Who buys this shit?

[Nonlinear FC]

[Pruitt]

WTF?

[Nonlinear FC]

It's a northeastern thing.

[The Sybian]

I learned you can roast veggies instead of boil the shit out of them like my mum used to and most of them are actually pretty great.

I used to say I hated broccoli except for in Chinese food until I learned that my mother over steamed the hell out of broccoli, and that's why it was a limp, tasteless mess.

[bfj]

Fresh green beans taste like dirt every time. You can’t really tell me that canned corn tastes better than corn on the cob.

[A_B]

Fresh green beans taste like dirt every time. You can’t really tell me that canned corn tastes better than corn on the cob.

Jesus Baltimore must be north of the mason dixon line.

[mister d]

The flipside there is my kids, who aren't green bean eaters (they're cool with peas), were eating off the vine at a neighbors house this past weekend. Canned over fresh has to be based in childhood memories.

[Brontoburglar]

I really want to try this because I think I would like it

[Nonlinear FC]

The flipside there is my kids, who aren't green bean eaters (they're cool with peas), were eating off the vine at a neighbors house this past weekend. Canned over fresh has to be based in childhood memories.

Canned goes better with BBQ.

[Johnny Carwash]

I really want to try this because I think I would like it

It's like cake but drier and less sweet. Also you will feel full after eating about 1/4th as much as you think you will.

[brian]

The flipside there is my kids, who aren't green bean eaters (they're cool with peas), were eating off the vine at a neighbors house this past weekend. Canned over fresh has to be based in childhood memories.

Canned goes better with BBQ.

French-style green beans or death.

[Johnnie]

I think mine is salt and vinegar chips. It's never the kind I'll immediately go for if given the option, but it certainly is for other people so I'll try it.

I'm fairly certain my taste buds have calmed down since I was a kid because when I was young the taste was so very overpowering I would spit them out (despite loving more vinegar in my salad dressing than oil). Now the slight bitterness is decent.

But I'm still not eating any type of melon, olives, or cucumber. It all tastes bad to me.

[bfj]

Fresh green beans taste like dirt every time. You can’t really tell me that canned corn tastes better than corn on the cob.

Jesus Baltimore must be north of the mason dixon line.

Jesus Baltimore was my DJ name.

[DSafetyGuy]

Frozen is the worst form of green bean.

[Rush2112]

Real brown bread is steamed and fantastic, canned isn't bad. Had some every Sunday growing up as that was baked beans dinner day.

(and I do prefer cob corn to canned, just saying that canned corn is still ok, 99.9999999% of canned veggies blow. )

[bfj]

Frozen is the worst form of green bean.

Works great on a sprained ankle.

[BSF21]

I want to go to places with y'all and get to have all the olives they put on the appetizer spreads. You guys are nuts.

[mister d]

I want to go to places with y'all and get ... all ...h...ol...es ... spread.... You guys ... nut...

[DSafetyGuy]

I want to go to places with y'all and get ... all ...h...ol...es ... spread.... You guys ... nut...

Top-notch work.

[Giff]

Revelatory as well.

[wlu_lax6]

For those who are anti-olives...are you pro tapenade? Because the muffaletta is a delight.

And muffaletta is the unsung hero of New Orleans food options. Beniegets are overrated, fried seafood is good, chicory coffee is overrated, and tropical fruit drinks in novelty plastic containers are for rookies. But the muffaletta from a local deli while just walking the streets...phenomenal.

[mister d]

100% aspirational.

I think muffaletta is the only reason I really wish I didn't hate olives.

[A_B]

God muffaletta is so so good. I need to make that again soon. The overnight wait is agonizing.

[Johnnie]

I actively avoided muffalettas while living in Louisiana because of that olive shit on it.

[A_B]

I actively avoided muffalettas while living in Louisiana because of that olive shit on it.

You've been in the military forever so your poor judgement is well noted.


I KEEEEEEDDD. But seriously, you hardly notice the olives. Consider it a thick dressing. Like nine pounds of meats! One of them is almost your name!

[Johnnie]

I'm Google image searching the sandwich. The olives are very noticeable. I also have weird taste buds. I'll definitely notice them.

And I grew up eating Italian subs from local spots around Boston. That sandwich does nothing for me.

I'll stick with the fried and cajun deliciousness of Louisiana.

[The Sybian]

I actively avoided muffalettas while living in Louisiana because of that olive shit on it.

You've been in the military forever so your poor judgement is well noted.


I KEEEEEEDDD. But seriously, you hardly notice the olives. Consider it a thick dressing. Like nine pounds of meats! One of them is almost your name!

They make a good muffeletta at the sandwich station at Wegmans!

[BSF21]

I'm Google image searching the sandwich. The olives are very noticeable. I also have weird taste buds. I'll definitely notice them.

And I grew up eating Italian subs from local spots around Boston. That sandwich does nothing for me.

I'll stick with the fried and cajun deliciousness of Louisiana.

How can one dislike little salt bombs? It’s beyond me. I haven’t ever eaten an olive I haven’t liked. Canned black, green, kalamata. They’re all great. Is it a texture thing or something?

[Johnnie]

Caviar are "little salt bombs." Olives have this weird taste and aftertaste to me that just isn't palatable.

[Ryan]

eating the actual fruit : the fruit used as a flavor in other stuff*

What fruit has the highest ratio? The lowest? Explain how you know.

*NOT the fruit as ingredient (like apple pie or orange marmalade) but solely the flavor (like lemon Starburst or grape Dimetapp)

[A_B]

Bananas. I hate real bananas but love banana flavored stuff.

[Johnny Carwash]

Bananas. I hate real bananas but love banana flavored stuff.

Absolute exact opposite of this.

[mister d]

Yeah, that's freak shit AB.

[P.D.X.]

Bananas are one of the few things I always buy organic as the flavor is noticeably superior.

[brian]

eating the actual fruit : the fruit used as a flavor in other stuff*

What fruit has the highest ratio? The lowest? Explain how you know.

*NOT the fruit as ingredient (like apple pie or orange marmalade) but solely the flavor (like lemon Starburst or grape Dimetapp)

Lemons for sure. Lemon flavored stuff is awesome, but it's not like you eat actual lemons.

[mister d]

But fresh squeezed lemonade is much better than fake shit, no?

[Pruitt]

Not a fan of real blueberries. The "flavour" though is good.

Same with strawberries. I must have been a teenager when I tried real strawberries. So disappointed as the fake flavour is so much stronger and sweeter.

[mister d]

I'm going raspberry because real raspberries are ruined by the seeds.

[Rush2112]

Bananas. I hate real bananas but love banana flavored stuff.

Artificial banana is based on the Gros Michel bananas that our grandparents/parents ate, those were wiped out by blight in the 50/60s and our current bananas are all cavendish blandness.

Another weird old food thing, when my mom was a kid all they got was brown tuna in a can.