I have both a Taco Bell and an authentic Mexican tacqueria within walking distance from my place. I still eat from and enjoy both establishments because sometimes I want Taco Bell and sometimes I want authentic tacos. Also, Taco Bell is literally the only place left here where I can get a full meal for $5 – but that’s a gripe for a different time.
Yes, third world countries, starvation, yadda yadda yadda. All true. BUT, when things do actually grow, things do taste better.
I remember moving from South America (not the original old country, but whatever) to Canada. And food here costs way more, and tastes like shit. I’m sorry, but it just does. Even eggs don’t taste like eggs, and are nowhere near as filling. I don’t know what they (we?) do to food around here, but most of it is like sawdust by comparison to the real thing. I even went to farmer’s market, paid an insane amount for free-range “good” eggs, taste is better, the shells are thicker, but it’s still not as good.
And while wildly unpopular, I’d love to have some things. Like milk straight from a cow. As in, it was inside the cow 30 seconds earlier. There’s nothing like it. You can tell, from the taste, what type of local grass the animal ate. What we buy at supermarket, no matter the price, is piss water by comparison.
I don’t know what it is exactly, but if I could afford it, I’d go over there just for the food. Don’t want to live there, but I miss the food that tastes like food, not nuclear waste and plastic.
Recipe blogs have ripped all meaning from the word “authentic”, it’s such an obvious and disengenuous marketing ploy I can’t believe more readers don’t take offense to it.
It’s not even that I care whether a recipe is traditional or not, it’s just a surefire sign of a lazy, mediocre recipe that has been copied and pasted from one of the other blogs out there. What a coincidence that so many jambalaya recipes look so similar from dozens of people who have no connection to Cajun culture…
I remember my grandmother’s story about the times after the war – her mother would make her sister and her beetroot peelings patties for dinner, to her it was the most tasty treat ever.
Many years later she asked her mother to make some because she remembered them be crazy good. Turns out, those beetroot peelings patties are tasteless at best.
I feel like that’s how signature dishes evolved. IE, a lot of wealthy people across time and distance have had access to a lot of the same things, prime cuts of meat, fresh produce, and so forth.
Poor people? They made do with a lot of random stuff. They found ways to make it delicious. Would they have preferred the nicer stuff? No doubt. But now that most people have access to decent food, cultural dishes have become unique and tasty. And I’m all for it!
Really shows the difference in attitude across generations. As a third generation “immigrant,” it’s funny to see how much less serious people are about their identity when they haven’t been displaced from it as much. Americans really try too hard sometimes to cling to (and covet) cultures they really aren’t a part of.
one thing I don’t understand is why would you flip out at the waiter? like literally they just take your orders. if you wanna be mad be mad at the chef
I have both a Taco Bell and an authentic Mexican tacqueria within walking distance from my place. I still eat from and enjoy both establishments because sometimes I want Taco Bell and sometimes I want authentic tacos. Also, Taco Bell is literally the only place left here where I can get a full meal for $5 – but that’s a gripe for a different time.
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Not only a first world country, a first world time period đź‘Ť
Boil that water, these beets ain’t sick!
I cannot even stand them being cooked, that smell is gut wrenching, and the taste is like boiled vomit and dirt, do not like.
This though haha, well done (I love the usage of literally as well lol)
So he’s not wrong…
I read through this twice reading “salted bees” and was confused af until the third time I saw the T
This is a hill I’m comfortable dying on.
Yes, third world countries, starvation, yadda yadda yadda. All true. BUT, when things do actually grow, things do taste better.
I remember moving from South America (not the original old country, but whatever) to Canada. And food here costs way more, and tastes like shit. I’m sorry, but it just does. Even eggs don’t taste like eggs, and are nowhere near as filling. I don’t know what they (we?) do to food around here, but most of it is like sawdust by comparison to the real thing. I even went to farmer’s market, paid an insane amount for free-range “good” eggs, taste is better, the shells are thicker, but it’s still not as good.
And while wildly unpopular, I’d love to have some things. Like milk straight from a cow. As in, it was inside the cow 30 seconds earlier. There’s nothing like it. You can tell, from the taste, what type of local grass the animal ate. What we buy at supermarket, no matter the price, is piss water by comparison.
I don’t know what it is exactly, but if I could afford it, I’d go over there just for the food. Don’t want to live there, but I miss the food that tastes like food, not nuclear waste and plastic.
Recipe blogs have ripped all meaning from the word “authentic”, it’s such an obvious and disengenuous marketing ploy I can’t believe more readers don’t take offense to it.
It’s not even that I care whether a recipe is traditional or not, it’s just a surefire sign of a lazy, mediocre recipe that has been copied and pasted from one of the other blogs out there. What a coincidence that so many jambalaya recipes look so similar from dozens of people who have no connection to Cajun culture…
Reminds me of a Buzzfeed video a few years ago: “Chinese people try Panda Express.”
Chinese guy: You call this Chinese food? My grandmother would be offended!
Chinese guy’s grandma: Hey, this is actually pretty good.
EDIT: Wow, thanks for the gold! Least I can do is go dig up [the video I was talking about.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo59LlkTDe4)
And the exact quote from the video:
Chinese guy: I can’t imagine anyone thinking that Panda is actually Chinese food.
Chinese guy’s grandpa: This is tasty Chinese food that Chinese people would actually accept.
So we just copying [SMBC](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/craproot) strips now?
Aside, beets have a ton of nutrients. I cook with them regularly. (not as often as I’d like, because they still require a lot of prep work)
People who act like that guy should be demolished
I remember my grandmother’s story about the times after the war – her mother would make her sister and her beetroot peelings patties for dinner, to her it was the most tasty treat ever.
Many years later she asked her mother to make some because she remembered them be crazy good. Turns out, those beetroot peelings patties are tasteless at best.
That’s why Nana’s beets were amazing. When you have a poor selection to cook with you find ways to make it amazing.
To be fair, she hates beets.
Salted beets is a thing?
Just for fun make a post about Carbonara on foodporn.
At some point a desperate hungry French gardener went.. what the hell I’m starving to death here … lets eat a snail. ‘Pas mal!’
“You read the menu, ordered the item, and got mad that I made the physical act of transporting your order to you?”
Don’t forget the babies! Nom
“My Great Nana would ~~literally~~ slap you if you served this to her in the old country.”
Someday, our descendants will pine for authentic fast food.
I feel like that’s how signature dishes evolved. IE, a lot of wealthy people across time and distance have had access to a lot of the same things, prime cuts of meat, fresh produce, and so forth.
Poor people? They made do with a lot of random stuff. They found ways to make it delicious. Would they have preferred the nicer stuff? No doubt. But now that most people have access to decent food, cultural dishes have become unique and tasty. And I’m all for it!
Really shows the difference in attitude across generations. As a third generation “immigrant,” it’s funny to see how much less serious people are about their identity when they haven’t been displaced from it as much. Americans really try too hard sometimes to cling to (and covet) cultures they really aren’t a part of.
“Well, you know what they say in the old country.”
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know. I’ve never been to the old country.”
How do you mess up a dish like that? By adding a 3rd ingredient?
I do this with German potato salad. “Nobody could afford bacon when I was a kid”, really influenced my view of German potato salad
Going against the grain but beets are delicious, idk what yall are on about
[Relevant SMBC](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/craproot)
Edit: just saw someone else showed the comparison. It’s still a cute strip.
How come hungry Europeans from poor countries pre-ww2 are always depicted in media as being average or slightly overweight?
Unless the old country was also America, they wouldn’t be called beets. They’re only called beets in the US.
one thing I don’t understand is why would you flip out at the waiter? like literally they just take your orders. if you wanna be mad be mad at the chef