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Admiral Snaccbar @Chris Mench Serving shrimp with the tail still on when it’s already mixed into something (pasta, rice, etc) is insane.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      People have been saying this for thousands of years, though. In some cases, they weren’t even wrong to think it. But for a country as wealthy and well insulated and exhaustively policed as the average Western state?

      Come on. We don’t even have COVID era crime rates, much less the lead /cocaine fueled crime bonanzas of the 1970s and 80s.

      Relative to what? The Great Depression? The Civil War? The collapse of the Aztec Empire?

      We’re a blip on the radar.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      Onions don’t belong on pizza. They are great for plenty of other things like burgers and hotdogs… but never ever pizza yuk!

      • @[email protected]
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        79 months ago

        You asked for my most radical opinion.

        It’s an ADHD texture thing, the texture of onions does not mesh with any other food (maybe edible paper?), so it’s always jarring to bite an onion while eating food.

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          19 months ago

          My brother is the same but he has always been „problematic“ with all greens. He at least tried it and I think had a bad experience due to wrong cooking, so now he has a trauma of some kind, I don’t know. Onions can have so many different textures depending on if or how they are cooked. If it doesn’t fit with the rest of the food, it was probably prepared wrong.

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          29 months ago

          Props my dude. Don’t feel ashamed by that!

          I got a coworker who cannot stand ruffle chips. Like, not just the texture, but the sound it makes grinding on each other.

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          39 months ago

          I’m with you when the onions are raw. Cooked, the texture is tolerable enough that the taste is worth it IMO. Though I do prefer them chopped small or sliced thin no matter what.

          • Karyoplasma
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            19 months ago

            I just let the sauce simmer for so long that the onions disintegrate.

  • Pantsofmagic
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    89 months ago

    Amusingly as I was reading this comment thread my room service arrived and it had shrimp with the tails buried in pasta.

  • @[email protected]
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    419 months ago

    Not only does pineapple belong on pizza, ham & pineapple pizza is the only pizza that is consistent in all three states: fresh and hot, cold, and reheated.

    • @[email protected]
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      109 months ago

      I despise when people are food traditionalists. If we listened to them, we’d still be eating like British people.

      I grew up in El Salvador listening to people insist that only beans, cheese and pork go in pupusas. Otherwise it’s a sin! Well the young people now make them with everything you can think of from shrimp to sweet potato and it’s incredible.

      You don’t like pineapple on pizza don’t eat it

      To add my personal opinion. New York/North American pizza is better than Italian pizza

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      59 months ago

      Hmmm while I agree about Hawaiian pizza, I will say that cheese pizza shares the properties of consistency of all 3 states.

    • Karyoplasma
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      9 months ago

      The reason why it’s good when reheated is the moisture in the pineapple. It keeps the dough from becoming a rock formation when reheating.

      For non-pineapple pizza, adding a bowl of water into the microwave has the same effect.

      That said, the argument is not whether pineapple is good on pizza or not, ofc it is, everything is good on pizza. But is it the best topping? No, that’s anchovies and capers (olives are good too).

  • Captain Howdy
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    169 months ago

    Same with meat on the bone for me. Like… I love a biryani, but it’s so much better when the chicken/lamb is boneless. I get that the bone imparts some flavor, but I don’t think it’s worth the effort and mess.

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      119 months ago

      Anything I can’t eat with my hands, should not be covered in a sauce that I don’t want on my hands.

      Fried shrimp with tails = fine. Bone-in chicken legs = fine. Bone-in chicken in biryani = not ordering. Shrimp with tail in pasta = sin against god and crime against humanity.

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        39 months ago

        Buffalo wings violate that rule and I’m not prepared to give them up.

        For me, the rule would be: if it’s a dish meant to be eaten with utensils, don’t include inedible parts that have to be separated by hand.

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          19 months ago

          I don’t really like buffalo wings. I know boneless wings are basically just “nuggies”, but I prefer them, especially if things are getting saucy.

          A dry spice blend can make for acceptable wings, but I actually still prefer something like a spicy breading and a bigger piece of chicken, if I’m going to have to deal with bones.

          But, I will admit that is a good border case, and isn’t quite the sin that shrimp w/ tail covered in cream sauce is.

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          19 months ago

          Ribs. I don’t mind saucy ribs. I suppose if you are supposed to use your hands, maybe it’s okay if they get a bit saucy.

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            29 months ago

            Yeah I think that’s the big thing: don’t have a dish that requires shifting from utensil to fingers and back… especially if there’s sauce.

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    9 months ago

    This is Korea. For whatever reason every single animal they consume that has unpleasant bits inside, they leave em in. Bony fish, bony chicken, grisly pork, soup full of shelled shellfish, and shrimp with tails. Hell, frequently entire shrimp head and all. Also locally where I live they have these different shrimp that have I dunno extra tough and sharp carapace. They don’t even try to shuck those things.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      139 months ago

      I’ve had similar experiences with SE Asian cuisine. They just don’t seem to have the same standards for butchering and meat preparation that we do in the West. Hell, I know of one SE Asian culture that doesn’t even have any sort of defined meat cuts. They just chop it all up into big chunks. Doesn’t matter what part of the animal it is, it’s getting chopped up into big bits.

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        159 months ago

        Oh definitely. It wasn’t that long ago there were some pretty hard times here. The older generation remembers.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          69 months ago

          All of us who are old enough to have grown up around depression era survivors in the United States are familiar with that too.

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            9 months ago

            My grandma is over 100 and still licks the plate clean after eating. Things like that get ingrained with you

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            My mom was born during the Great Depression and re-uses ziplock bags. On the other hand, she insists on brand-name everything instead of generics or store brands, so it’s not purely about frugality.

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              39 months ago

              Yeah but name brands mean you buy it once and it doesn’t fail as often, is the argument for that I get from those of that generation.

              And I mean I get it. Buy a cheap pair of shoes or a good pair and you will realize you will go through 3 of the cheap pairs at half price compared to buying 1 good pair.

              Though less so with each passing year since name brands are designed to fail now too.

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                39 months ago

                Yeah, I’m 30 and I feel like I’ve never had the experience of being able to rely on a name brand consistently. Everything seems to fall apart. Sometimes you get something great, but when it comes time to replace it and you buy the exact same thing from the exact same company it comes at a much lower quality

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                  29 months ago

                  Its so fricking hard to find the trustworthy brands.

                  I’m honestly just so willing to not have any brand loyalty and to suffer with making a bad pick that I have to return or fix myself, I constantly having to re-find what is considered actually good quality.

                  The answer is a lot of name brand in the higher price range but not so high that it’s just for padding a contractor’s quote and percent take home is still good quality. And you can never go for the same model twice if the company is doing constant refreshes cause those are with cheaper components every time. (Allowance for first refresh fixing a flaw)

                • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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                  29 months ago

                  Ironically, it was about 30 years ago that brand names started really leaning into shrinkflation, and enshitification, riding off the merits of their previously good name.

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    59 months ago

    The shrimp tail is nothing, but when the intestine is left in the shrimp, that bothers me!