Underrated foods?

pancakerunner
pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
in Food and Nutrition
What are some of your favorite foods that you think deserve more love?

Some of mine:
  • Sloppy joes
  • Coleslaw
  • 100 Grand bars
  • Meatloaf
  • Tapioca pudding
  • Stinky cheeses
  • Strawberry milkshakes
  • Potato skins

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  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    Beetroots in general
    Cabbage - just the boring white variety.
    Goats cheese
    Herbs - all of them (except sage)
    Pears
    Rhubarb
    Elderberries
    Capers
    Carrots
    Gooseberries - whatever happened to them! Not seen them for sale in eons! Little jewels of flavour!

    Amen to the goat cheese. Don't get people who hate on it!
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    glassyo wrote: »
    Potato chips. Nutritionally speaking, they're awesome for potassium.

    And sodium. Essential.
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    skelterhelter wrote: »
    Brussel sprouts! One of my favorite vegetables. And not underrated per se, but potatoes get a bad rep. They're really not as a calorie dense as one might think. They're actually super nutritious and low calorie, IMO.

    yes to Brussels! All in how you prepare them. Overcooked they are mushy and gross, yes. But grilled? Superb. Or cooked in a sheet pan with some bacon fat? THE BEST! Ughhh. And same for potatoes! Really, even frozen french fries, etc. aren't too caloric. I think its just the whole starch/carb/GI thing.
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    Ricotta. I’ve been eating a lot of it on English muffins lately, and I even have a ricotta cookie recipe.

    Agreed! Ricotta + some cocoa powder, stevia and fresh raspberries is a great dessert! Also: english muffins are underrated in general... I prefer them over bagels.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/
  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,941 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    Agreed. That Theo milk + lemon doesn't interest me. If you like a dark chocolate with lemon, Divine makes a GREAT product!

    http://shop.divinechocolateusa.com/85-Dark-Chocolate-with-Refreshing-Lemon/p/DIV-004487&c=DivineChocolate@Organic
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.

    need!
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,003 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.

    It was around Christmas time when someone brought me a hostess gift of dark chocolate coated candied lemon peel from an artisinal bakery when I was living in Amsterdam. Wondering where I could find something like that?
  • pancakerunner
    pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
    acpgee wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.

    It was around Christmas time when someone brought me a hostess gift of dark chocolate coated candied lemon peel from an artisinal bakery when I was living in Amsterdam. Wondering where I could find something like that?

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.

    Lindt has apparently discontinued the dark chocolate lime bar https://www.lindtusa.com/zest-of-lime-excellence-bar-329900aa so get it while you can locally! (I was thinking of getting one from Amazon, but the listings I saw are shipping from the UK, and I don't want to do that for chocolate.)

    Interestingly, Lindt calls that one "dark" and it is 47%, while Theo calls theirs "milk" at 45%.

    I wonder if there is a standard cut off, or brands decide?
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    acpgee wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.

    It was around Christmas time when someone brought me a hostess gift of dark chocolate coated candied lemon peel from an artisinal bakery when I was living in Amsterdam. Wondering where I could find something like that?

    Make it! Give it as hostess gifts!
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    apullum wrote: »
    pancakerunner wrote: »
    Not really a "food" per se, but a highly underrated food COMBO is lemon + dark chocolate.

    https://www.theochocolate.com/product/lemon/

    Hmm, not sure about the milk chocolate with lemon, definitely can get 100% behind super dark chocolate and lemon though!

    A 45% milk bar is a “darker” milk chocolate. (Compare with a Hershey bar, which is somewhere around 10%-ish.). Bars in that range are usually buttery or fudgy. They’re usually not super sweet but usually don’t have the slight bitterness or level of complexity of a darker chocolate.

    When I tried that particular Theo bar, I thought it was pleasant because the sweeter chocolate balanced the lemon. I didn’t love it, but it was nice.

    Lindt makes a dark chocolate lime bar, and I think they used to have a lemon one.

    Lindt has apparently discontinued the dark chocolate lime bar https://www.lindtusa.com/zest-of-lime-excellence-bar-329900aa so get it while you can locally! (I was thinking of getting one from Amazon, but the listings I saw are shipping from the UK, and I don't want to do that for chocolate.)

    Interestingly, Lindt calls that one "dark" and it is 47%, while Theo calls theirs "milk" at 45%.

    I wonder if there is a standard cut off, or brands decide?

    That 40-60% range gets called all sorts of things. Some companies call it "dark," some call it "milk," and some call it dark milk." Of course, it is only milk chocolate if it actually contains milk.

    I personally think of it as "dark milk" because I think the flavor is different from either traditional milk or dark chocolate. Most of my favorite bars are in that range. I'm very sensitive to bitter flavors, so I'm not always in the mood for dark chocolate, but I think milk chocolate can be one-note and overly sweet if it's not done well.

    However, in the spirit of the OP, I'd say that a high quality milk chocolate bar is underrated. Most people think of something like Hershey's or Nestle when they think of milk chocolate, but there are some very high quality milk chocolate bars (and some of those are made by companies with stronger sustainability and fair labor policies). The good milk chocolate bars I've seen start at around 33%.

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