this post reminded me of the phenomena of people (granted, not all black) finding bay and other edible leaves in their food and going "oh mah gawrd is that a LEAF?"
Bay leaves aren't really edible, but it's amazing how retarded you'd have to be not to recognize one. They're not poisonous but they're very rigid and can choke you or irritate your esophagus.
I usually count them if I add more than one and warn people if I couldn't find one.
Who the fuck doesn't know what a bay leaf is? I notice all those hands are white.
Bay leaves are a scam and have no flavor even when fresh.
Bull. I've even done the blind taste test thing a couple times and the bay leaf version is always better even to normies.
Yeah but OTOH remove your fucking bay leaves before serving your dish, okay?
It's sometimes damn near impossible to find those little cocksuckers. But yes, you should try. One thing I've done is use a teabag to put weird herbs like that that have to be removed in. You can also do this with those dried red peppers some Chinese food has (I don't though I just keep them in and chew them up).
Cracker is a word created by whites btw. So as usual most of the shit we associate with niggers isn't even theirs to begin with.
Iirc it was invented to describe the Scots-Irish, i.e. the original wiggers.
maybe that's the real purpose of them
the constant argument of whether or not they actually add flavor to the dish is resolved, it was never for flavor... it's for weeding out the niggers among your peers
They add very, very little flavor on their own, but that's not their purpose. You can test the flavor by making a tea of it. It has barely any flavor of its own. It has a huge array of organic compounds in it, though the most important are probably eucalyptol and eugenol. These don't so much have flavors of their own as they (somewhat like Sichuan peppercorns although they also have an extremely distinct taste of their own) activate your tastebuds so they react more strongly to the other flavors in the dish.
So adding a bay leaf to something by itself is really not going to do shit, but adding it to something with rosemary, basil, thyme, pepper, and savory herbs in general will enhance all those flavors. That's why they're so good in a pot roast. I've spaced out and forgotten them in a pot roast and had people say there seemed to be something missing.