Unpopular opinions about food

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I'm not really a "sweet savoury" kind of person in general, so that might be my problem. I've had sweet potato fries and I want to say I made mashed sweet potato like a decade ago where the entire family hated it. I want to give them a go again, cooking something from scratch, because tastebuds develop and change as we age, but I also hate the idea of potential food waste
Oof, I can understand that. While I do like those preparations, they're still low on my list of ways to prepare sweet potato.

If you do want to try them again, I'd recommend just baking it around 450°F (232°C) for around 40 minutes or until fork tender. Then add butter and cinnamon, sugar if you'd like extra sweetness. I'd also recommend Sweet Potato Pie (pretty much just pumpkin pie with sweet potato replacing the pumpkin).
 
Apple pie sucks. A good apple is easily my favorite fruit because of the texture. Apple pie just makes the apples slimy which completely removes the appeal of the apples.
 
Apple pie sucks. A good apple is easily my favorite fruit because of the texture. Apple pie just makes the apples slimy which completely removes the appeal of the apples.
Ever tried an apple pie that was 100% Granny Smith? Apples that turn into mush suck.
 
A good tomato is GOOD. I understand the hate for a shitty tomato, all watery and the flesh tastes of misery and sad. But I have never had a bad tomato in Italy, for example. Nothing beats a freshly picked, still warm from the sun tomato where it's perfectly ripe, where the first bite explodes with flavour in your mouth.
That's the thing about tomatoes. You really do have to get them fresh from a farm or someone's garden because the stuff you get in stores is shit. There's no comparison between the two. The flavor, the texture, everything is different. I love tomatoes that still have that fresh tomato smell (you know what I'm talking about).
 
Apple pie sucks. A good apple is easily my favorite fruit because of the texture. Apple pie just makes the apples slimy which completely removes the appeal of the apples.
Americans need to try other types of apples that aren't Pink Lady. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend making apple pie with Ingrid Marie, it is tart, crisp, a good amount of sweetness and super juicy. Toss cubed apple with some cinnamon, sugar, a hint of vanilla (doesn't have to be expensive vanilla bean, powder mixed with your sugar will do just fine) and maybe a pinch of cardamom for your filling. You can make it an apple crumble by adding equal parts sugar, flour and butter in a bowl, mixed with your fingers until it has the look of bread crumbs. I like a couple of teaspoons of cinnamon in my crumble dough, along with some rolled oats (25% rolled oats to your remaining 75% flour in the aforementioned dough) and some roughly chopped almonds for extra crunch.
You can use salted butter just fine in this, it won't taste salty. That is, unless American salted butter is more salty than here in Europe.
 
Americans need to try other types of apples that aren't Pink Lady. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend making apple pie with Ingrid Marie, it is tart, crisp, a good amount of sweetness and super juicy.
I haven't seen this here. How does it compare with Granny Smith or Honeycrisp?

The absolute worst thing to put in an apple pie is "Red Delicious." Even the name is a lie. It's mealy and nasty and basically the McDonald's of apples. I have no clue why it's so popular. It's a shitapple.
 
I haven't seen this here. How does it compare with Granny Smith or Honeycrisp?
I'd say it's closer to a honeycrisp than a GS. It's been a hot minute since I had either because I prefer local in-season apples and GS and HC's are more often than not imported from abroad.
It has a nice tartness to its taste and the flesh structure is kinda grainy without being overripe and mealy, with a satisfying crunch like biting into a Honeycrisp.
 
The absolute worst thing to put in an apple pie is "Red Delicious." Even the name is a lie. It's mealy and nasty and basically the McDonald's of apples. I have no clue why it's so popular. It's a shitapple.
My dad calls Red Delicious the Industrial Apple. It has helped create some great cultivars, though.
 
Uncooked pasta is great.
Back when I was still a smoker and found I'd run out of matches or functioning lighters, I found that pressing a strand of uncooked spaghetti against the heating element of a toaster is an effective means of creating a lighting-stick for your cigarette, without all that inconvenient holding-your-head-over-the-toaster-and-setting-your-eyebrows-on-fire.
 
Back when I was still a smoker and found I'd run out of matches or functioning lighters, I found that pressing a strand of uncooked spaghetti against the heating element of a toaster is an effective means of creating a lighting-stick for your cigarette, without all that inconvenient holding-your-head-over-the-toaster-and-setting-your-eyebrows-on-fire.
And here am i, bending over with the cigarrete on my mouth like a jackass
 
The hate against Crumble Cookie is cringe and gay.

Most of it is just performative lipservice done by people who want to feel "rebellious" or feel important by fighting against what they perceive to be some sort of "evil" target that is simply an overpriced cookie company.
If only these people would put half of their hatred that they have against some cookie company towards actual evil companies like Blackrock and payment processing companies that are legitimately putting our society down the shitter.

If anything, the Crumbl Cookie hatebase have done more to help Crumbl reach a stronger audience and give them free advertisement.
I legitimately only learned of Crumbl because of all the hate videos and hate tweets I saw about it all over Twiter.

I also heavily suspect that the Crumble Cookie company themselves responsible for mustering up this social media hate campaign against themselves as some sort of controlled opposition type of thing to generate lots of publicity for themselves by getting everyone on the internet to talk about them and inevitably drive more people to their locations out of curiosity.
Considering the fact that I irl see many zoomers my around my age lined up to buy their cookies everytime I stumble upon their locations and I'm even tempted to get a cookie for myself to see what the fuss is about,
 
The hate against Crumble Cookie is cringe and gay.
I stopped hating on Crumbl after realizing Chip City was worse. The Chip City around here only has the special flavors on the weekends, and it's not close enough that it's worth going for me.

Flavor-wise, Crumbl is hit or miss. I liked their mint chocolate frosted cookie, but the regular chocolate chip is mediocre.
 
I strongly expect that they are bred for the meat, because it's well-known that old horses would produce meat so tough and stringy as to be inedible. There is a reason that the "retirement home" for old workhorses was Elmer's (glue) Acres.
In the NL a decade or so ago there was pretty big controversy of some beef products turning out to secretly get bulked out with spare horse meat.

Part of this was just the being lied to about the contents and quality, horsegirls being aghast, etc, but a big issue was also that riding horses get a bunch of meds that meat lifestock is not supposed to get, making it so traces of those meds get into the meat. Dunno if modern Mongolians even give meds to their horses though.
 
Are horses bred for meat? Or when the horse dies they go "fuck it" and butcher it?
In Sardinia, where i ate most of my horse meat, they are bred for it, i buy horse in one of the larger super markets when i am over for a visit. I guess it's the same everywhere horse is eaten and food safety standards exist. We did have a minor scandal in my country ages back where old and sick horses ended up in frozen lasagna and the like, i think even some döner meat manufacturers put horse meat not fit for human consumption in their product as well.
Then I'm GODDAMN MONGORIAN too, 'cause horse rocks.

Slivered, raw horse meat, quail egg, with a topping of soy sauce, gochujang, garlic, and sesame oil.

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Fuck, now I want to go rustle some horses. BRB, tempting the gallows...
Looks amazing. Big fan of raw eggs. When i eat horse it's usually just flame-grilled, thinly-cut steaks. 10-20 seconds on each side, bit of salt, just beautiful.
 
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