Your Unpopular Food Opinions
What are your unpopular food opinions? I've never had a bowl of chilli that I liked, tacos are overrated and I like kale. Also, do you think there have been too many "Your unpopular opinions" threads today? If so, did this one put it over the edge of too redundant or did it happen earlier? Also, do you think there have been too many "Your unpopular opinions" threads today?
DISCUSS
February 14th, 2015 at 1:17 PM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 1:19 AM ^
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February 14th, 2015 at 7:49 AM ^
I don't like it when my peanut butter mixes in with my chocolate.
I don't like mexican food because it gives me really horrible gas.
I also don't like extra mayo on my sandwich that I keep in my nightstand while I am having sex.
February 14th, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
If anyone is interested in learning about food/restaurants (like I have been for years because of working in the industry), here are a bunch of food blogs and suggestions for youtube viewing:
WEBSITES AND BLOGS
eater.com and all their local sites. I frequent the Chicago version as I live there.
theinfatuation.com and their local sites. This is a restaurant review site. They usually cover mid-level restaurants and hidden gems.
luckypeach.com This is Peter Meehan's website. He wrote the Momofuku cookbook (for those of you in NYC). Lots of food science, recipes, history, and if you like ramen, they have been covering every aspect of it for the last few weeks.
zagat.com for restaurant ratings
YOUTUBE AND OTHER VIDEO SERIES
In Search of Perfection with Heston Blumenthal. This series is my favorite. Hes a 3 michelin starred chef and covers a different ingredient on every show. For instance, one week he will do beef, the next potatoes, eggs, etc. He incorporates a lot of science into his food and its always interesting
The PBS series Mind of a Chef (found on Netflix). Awesome show. Follows a different chef each season. David Chang (Momofuku empire) did the first season, Sean Brock (from Husk and McCrady's in Charleston) and April Bloomfield (The Spotted Pig) did the subsequent ones.
Richard Blais Burger Lab. Burgercentric show found on Youtube. The production is obnoxious, but the burgers are really cool.
February 14th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
There's nothing wrong with GMOs. This is not the same thing as saying there is nothing wrong with some of the mega-conglomerates that manufacture them or the business practices they employ.
The organic food movement is well intended, but also scientifically dubious.
All the criticism about antibiotics are fully warranted, however. Thanks for screwing up our ability to fight disease so that your overcrowded pigs could get a couple ounces fatter, assholes.
The conditions in mass meat production are deplorable (you don't have to be a vegetarian to think so, either.)
Sorry about the politics, but hey... unpopular opinions, right?
If it helps, umm.... watermelon is overrated, uhh.... peanut butter is good on virtually everything.... stuff has too much salt in it these days... Oh, and I don't care about coffee snobs telling me I put peppermint mocha creamer in my coffee because I "don't like coffee." Fine, you like it more than me. 100 points for you. You win the coffee appreciation award for today.
February 14th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^
and then it will taste as good as it smells. no heat reaction, therefore far less oils and alkaline substances.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 12:54 PM ^
here is link, assuming i can get it to embed. if not, search 'toddy coffee' and you'll find lots of places to get one.
and it won't let me embed, sorry.
February 14th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^
but you are wrong with most all of your sweeping generalizations - so that fits in perfect with the 'unpopular' nature of your opinion. well done.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
You're off base on several assumptions, but it's not worth taking the time. I could just as easily accuse you of being unfamiliar with science and assume you must be anti-vaccine, but then that would just make me look like a stereotyping ass.
February 14th, 2015 at 4:12 PM ^
February 15th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2015-articles/15943-why-do-pe…
My views on a number of things have changed through the years as I've become more informed, but it's all moving one direction -- against the behemoth industries. I look at someone who is pro-GMO in the same way I look at climate science deniers (brainwashed by big agritech is the same as brainwashed by big oil). I'm quite familair with the science (and the lack of science) on GMOs.
When people like me were insisting there was a problem with antibiotics 10+ years ago, we were laughed at in the same manner. "Kooky luddites" who "deny science" or whatever the conservative yuppies were being taught by corporate media to say about us, even though what we were saying was based on the latest science then. Now that it's finally mainstream science and reaching the mainstream media, people are suddently acting like it's cutting edge science because it's in the NY Times or AOL's Huffpost...but that just means the corporate propagandists gave up on the issue and allowed the media they control to finally print some truth.
Meanwhile, I've been tossing out doctor Rx's for antibiotics and curing any type of infection I get naturally (and much faster and more effectively than the Rx antibiotics ever would have done) for years.
February 14th, 2015 at 12:44 PM ^
I hate chopsticks. I know this is widely taken as a sign of being "uncultured" but shit, a knife and fork are just so much easier to use.
February 14th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
State and Washtenaw? Are you sure those are correct?
February 14th, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^
February 14th, 2015 at 5:51 PM ^
Whom ever was the first person to watch a chicken lay an egg. And say gee that looks mighty tasty, get me some of that. Was all kinds of wrong. I can't even look at someone eat an egg without dry heaving. I am also a trained culinary professional. Go figure.
February 15th, 2015 at 2:29 AM ^
I think Zingerman's is overrated.
February 15th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
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