For example:
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When you open a fresh jar of peanut butter do you only work through one side until it is completely empty then start on the other side?
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Or when you get those shallow tubs of hummus does it have to make it back home undisturbed? Then one of the baggers at the grocery store shoves it sideways into the bag completely ruining the symmetry.
When it comes to things like chocolate bars, cookies, brownies, pop-tarts, ect., I almost always pop them in the freezer for a bit because it changes the texture.
Cookies/brownies with chocolate chips/m&ms are the best for this, because the chips get crunchy, while the cookie part is chewier.
Do you pop the pop-tarts into the toaster afterwards? They’re much better toasted imo
Nah, but just because it’d also reverse the effects of freezing them. but next time I get them, I’ll try toasting them first!
That’s one of my favorite things. I started doing that one hot summer and now I do all year round. Cold chocolate is the best chocolate.
Food should be finished at the same time. You work gradually around all of your sides and main dish so you have exactly one bite of each left, and then you finish your plate.
My SO drives me nuts because they can just eat the entirety of the main dish and then eat all of one side, and then all of another.
I’d like to introduce you to me - I eat the starch, then the veggies, then the protein. Order of preference, descending.
I never want to eat in front of anyone who has replied to you so far. I’m a chaos eater. Nothing exists besides the current bite. I didn’t remember what the last one was and haven’t decided what the next one will be.
I’ve never wished I could eat in front of another human being more than I do right now. I just really want to trigger you with this and I don’t know why.
I eat like your SO, though I do mix it up a little sometimes, but it’s because I’m saving my favorite thing for last. I don’t want to end up with my least favorite thing at the very end.
Eating one dish at a time ensures you’re getting the full, unadulterated experience of the dish.
But sides are made in consideration of the main course and are intended to be eaten/enjoyed together.
Why are side salads typically served before, and separate?
Because they are a separate course and not a side. They call it a side salad like Americans call the main dish an entree, we like to use words wrong.
Word meanings shift over 500 years, nobody is using “entree” wrong because it means different things in different cultures and has changed several times over the centuries. The way we serve and eat meals has also changed considerably.
https://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2009/08/entree.html?m=1
I like this write-up, it had plenty of historical examples.
Then the world is lawless chaos, and I can enjoy my meal one dish at a time.
Start with your favorite dish and when its gone move to #2.
That’s like ejaculating on someone’s face and then working your way to foreplay. If this isn’t against the Geneva convention it should be.
I’ve never seen anyone else ever do this and now I don’t feel as alone.
I eat this way and people look at me like I have two heads.
The only weird one I have is that I can’t do cereal and milk. 100% rate of vomiting resulted the two times I tried. I grew up on dry cereal and will, for all roughly two times a year I eat it, continue that. No, I’m not interested in adding water/ice/juice; that’s just making wet bread with extra steps. Doesn’t bother me that others do it.
Being poor and living out of a car in my early 20s for a bit rid me of any childish restrictions otherwise.
Finally, a reply that actually fits the question
If you don’t eat that chicken wing clean, we can’t be friends.
You get one pass and that’s if you only take 1 wing.
I mean I get it but at the same time many of us do not like eating cartilage.
It’s why I don’t like wings, or most bone-in chicken.
I always scrape my ice cream and cheese. If I get a nice piece of Gouda or cheddar and I’m feeling snacky then I will take a sharp knife and scrape it. I swear it’s so much creamier and smoother in your mouth, eating it normally makes it look like cardboard in comparison. Same thing with ice cream, scrape it with my spoon while serving.
What drives me insane is that my mom will literally take a bite out of the block. Even with Parmesan.
She’ll eat a bite directly out of the block of cheese other people were going to cut pieces off of?!
Yep. Once when I was cooking, I was about to cut into a block of cheddar until she reached her hand UNDER the knife to take one last deranged bite out of it.
Only sandwiches in the shower. Noodles are right out. Edit: nobody liked my joke, sad
Look at this guy that hasn’t figured out where to eat pizza.
I must eat from a small plate to make my little food seem big. NO BIG PLATES ALLOWED!
My wife did that for a while. She stopped when she realized she was just piling the food higher instead
I will use a little fork whenever possible for a variety of reasons with differing grades of logic behind them. I don’t say anything, but I’m always a bit annoyed when I have to use a regular sized or big fork.
Most people don’t keep relish forks on hand.
I mean, I’ll take a salad fork without much complaint.
I cut up pizza mozzarella so that each disk of mozzarella remains uncut. Sometimes it means extremely chaotic cuts. But the rationale is that cutting through molten cheese is extremely messy, so I avoid it if I can.
Also, Brussel sprouts are the best green vegetables.
No seed oils. No ultra processed food or drink, or to an utter minimum. I mean, I will always eat a pizza or a bag of chips or something at some point. So, it balances out. Little sugar, since it is already everywhere.
Make everything at home, if possible.
Aren’t all oils made from seeds? Which ones do you eat?
i fry my chicken in petroleum oil
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You can use animal fats. There’s also evidence saying they’re healthier than plant/seed based oils because they contain more saturated fats and don’t oxidize as quickly.
I wouldn’t want that in my salad dressing though
I don’t know, lard is pretty awesome. It’s a bit of a tradition around here to keep the remains when cooking bacon, put it in the fridge and then spread it on some bread.
I use excess lard to make rice tastier for example, it’s awesome for that. Still wouldn’t want to use it in a salad though ;)
I sometimes use bacon fat to make stove top popcorn. It’s so tasty!
That’s not true and plant-based oils are so different from each other. Sunflower seed oil is pretty bad, but olive oil or rapeseed oils are good for you. Just don’t use too much, but that applies to all oils
Well you can find quite a few scientific studies saying exactly what I’ve said. I agree that plant based oils are not all the same though.
Just one example:
3918 of those who cooked with vegetable/gingili oil had ASCVD, and 249 of those who cooked with lard/other animal fat oils had ASCVD. The prevalence of ASCVD in vegetable/gingili oil users (31.68%) was higher than that in lard/other animal fat oil users (17.46%). Compared with lard/other animal fat users, the multivariate-adjusted model indicated that vegetable oil/sesame oil users were significantly associated with a higher risk of ASCVD (OR = 2.19; 95%CI, 1.90-2.53). Our study found that cooking with lard/other animal fat oil is more beneficial to cardiovascular health in older Chinese.
Sorry, but that study is just bonkers. They use one type of oil (sesame) and sneak in the spurious generalization of “vegetable/sesame oil”, as if it were representative. It is not.
Here you can see the range of unsaturated fat percentages in different plant oils: https://images.ctfassets.net/stnv4edzz8v3/25E1IVeShv9HOcse0Luc5p/dbe6b2165d4ca7f4a93e2f912f3bcdf6/Polyunsaturated_fats_in_plant_oils.png
Unfortunately, neither rapeseed nor sesame are in there, but you should see how much they differ. Stay away from sunflower seed oil, at least when cooking at home. Rapeseed or olive are good. Don’t use more heat than necessary.
Where do you get the idea that they focus only on sesame oil?
Well, they don’t say what they mean with “vegetable”, but it’s just put in the same group with gingili oil. I don’t know if you’re in science or otherwise familiar with statistics, but that’s a problematic indication. They don’t justify why they group them, how many of those replied with gingili etc., and they don’t provide a separate analysis. Other major flaws with the study:
- it’s correlational, but makes a causal inference. That is basic stats, you can’t do that, even if there are no other easy ways to make causal inferences on that topic.
- the groups vary significantly on many factors, such as total size, smoking status, gender distribution, drinking status etc. They “adjust” for that, but that’s not how “adjusting” works. You can’t just adjust for characteristics of the person and then pretend it’s all controlled for. There is a great paper on this problem, which is unfortunately quite common: doi.org/10.1037//0021-843X.110.1.40
Very interesting, thanks for sharing that link! It seems that the analysis is reviewing oil used for cooking, not for raw consumption. I think this makes sense since certain plant seed oils shouldn’t be heated past a certain point at which they become unhealthy.
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What did you learn (in ED treatment)?
Holy shit, this would kill me. I’m a mess when it comes to food. One day almost nothing, the other day storm of sugars, next one mostly vegetables, etc. I’ve never counted any calories and it honestly scares me, because I know I’d be fucked.
That sounds tough to deal with.
Measuring in grams to the tenth won’t get you kcals to the hundredth. More importantly, kcals per gram isn’t even close to that precision in labeling. I hear you though. I measure to the tenth but I recognize the precision for what it is and move on. I realize you’re dealing with tough struggles though. Sorry about that. I’m just talking precision.
Peanut butter never expires. Ever.
I have no way to test this theory. If I buy to much peanut butter, I’ll have eaten to much peanut butter… Long before any suggested dates haha
God damn right. My peanut butter has a shelf life of about 5 days. I’m happy to dispose of it into me.
There’s a “food theory” video on the ‘tube about how long you could survive locked in a food (grocery) store. It points out that food may turn rancid but can still be “fit” to eat - I think peanut butter fell into this category. I don’t know whether the video is factually accurate but it is entertaining all the same.
Given the research MatPat does for each video I wouldn’t be surprised.
But hey, that’s just a theory. A FOOD theory!
JFC. I could hear the dude’s voice as I read that comment… looked around my kitchen to see where he was.
A green salad should never contain anything sweet.
This probably doesn’t count, but I am also firmly of the opinion that water chestnuts are not food.
Jesus christ do I hate water chestnuts. I don’t know how anyone ever did decide that they’re food. Starvation, I guess.
I dunno, candied nuts are pretty amazing paired with Gorgonzola in a salad (I’d throw some sliced pears and strawberries in there too).
That said, I used to hate fruit in a green salad, my taste just changed over time.
Candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and carrot slivers are sooo good in a salad. Especially with a sweet balsamic dressing. It’s pure summer on a plate.
Agreed. Green salads should be savory.
How good pickles are is inversely proportional to how whole they are.
- Whole pickles: blegh
- Pickle wedges: no thanks
- Pickle strips: on a sandwich, sure
- Pickle chips: yum, on a sandwich or alone
- Diced pickles: oh yeah, please
- Pickle relish: hell yeah!
Now all that’s left is to try a pickle smoothie to confirm your theory.
Pickle beer is a thing.
Thats gotta be amazing
It’s really good for one or two then it gets to be like drinking out of a pickle jar.
I wonder what pickel vodka tastes
Pickle backs are a thing. It’s just chasing a shot with a shot of pickle juice. First saw it with Jameson, but I think people do it with a lot of things these days
We’ve got to go all the way, time to vaporize pickles and inhale them
I know how to do this.
take relish (sweet or dill) and blend smooth. add pickle juice until runny. blend again. put about a 1/4 cup into an empty Soda Stream and pump it up like triple the normal amount. quickly cap and shake the hell out of it. uncap and suck the vapor out with a straw.
-I am a stranger from the internet and would never do this myself
You haven’t had pickles until you’ve freebased them
Dehydrater - mortar and pestle - rip a big line of pickle
“Mooooommmm, Dad’s nose is bleeding again!” “What did he do this time?” “Remember when he snorted a line of 21 Seasonings spices on a dare? Well…”
What you vaping bru?
Pickle juice, homie.
I have this but in reverse (and less extreme). I can eat a good pickle relish, but it doesn’t do much for me. Then, the delish goes up as we approach the whole pickle. The whole pickle is sour and crunchy. Perfection!
Haha, we must be arch nemeses.
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Are you counting pickles as fruit here? Cucumbers often get thrown in either or. (Seeds inside fruit discussion)
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Is relish basiclaly like the pickel equivalent to salsa?
I will eat all of the chocolatey edges of a Kit Kat before I start to eat the wafer bit that’s left with just two thin layers on top and bottom at that point.
I also do this. There’s two of us!
Do you eat the chocolate fluff in between the wafer layers before eating the wafers as well or do you just eat the wafers together?
Kit Kat buddies! Sometimes I will peel them apart and eat the fluff, but not always.
People who separate anything they eat are heathens. The proper way is to stuff bits of everything on your plate in your mouth at once for the correct taste and texture sensory overload.
Even Oreos?
Yep, also Oreos are overrated!
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Liquid dairy grosses me out, never puked but gagged a couple times. Cream, cream based sauces, melted ice cream (though if I eat it fast enough it doesn’t melt!), queso, but melted cheese on pizza is somehow ok.
It’s so dumb, I somehow conditioned myself.
