What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?

All this hating on pasta...

There's a restaurant near my house that makes their pasta fresh every day. It is SO different from dried boxed pasta. The texture and flavor are amazing.

Yes, yes, you Martha Stewart wannabes...I know I could make it myself. Ain't nobody got time for that.

RelCanonical wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

RelCanonical wrote: »

Pasta by itself is tasty if the water is salted!

meh... I salt my water plenty when making pasta. Still doesn't do anything for me

It was like an epiphany for me, lol. My favorite way to have pasta is buttered with grated parmesan - yes, the kraft kind. Loved it as a child, still love it.

YES...YES...YES...!

But not with salting the water.

Breakfast is not necessary.
Milk is disgusting.
Mayo is foul.
Cottage cheese is fouler.
Sour cream is...okay, so I hate most creamy white foods.
Nutritional yeast...just no.
I know there are more, but can’t think right now.

kshama2001 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

Thoughts on this??

https://letthebakingbegin.com/pasta-with-sweet-cream-cheese-sauce/

Needs nutmeg. I'd maybe try it with the raisins that are mentioned, too.

I'm not a huge sweets or pasta lover (they're OK, nice sometimes, not The Meaning Of Life). But I'd try it. Conceptually, not crazy different from sweet noodle kugel (but quite different in the details, of course).

Ya, I'd try is with a dash of nutmeg and raisins as well. Or apricots. And nuts, like those 0 calorie pecans in the MFP database

Would try with a penne, some chopped dates/figs/raisins and nutmeg... maybe some pistachios or walnuts tossed in

I don't bother with food that I have to work for....

-Any nuts still in their shells
-Crab legs
-Pomegranates
-Whole lobster
-Artichokes

Exception is mussels in the shell....just beacause.

Ninkasi wrote: »

nooshi713 wrote: »

Beer is disgusting. I have tried craft ones, “good ones”, all kinds. All are gross to me. The maltiness is what is bad.

I feel about wine the way you do about beer. To me wine is by definition gross.

Yep! Rotten grapes. Who wants drink something that tastes like rotten grapes?

I don’t like meat or dairy

I don't understand the whole Dunkaroo hype at all. I would rather have a tub of frosting with pretzels or graham crackers...

lemurcat2 wrote: »

Katmary71 wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

I totally agree on the boring bland pasta. I much prefer to load up with TONS of sauce, meat, and lots of veggies with minimal pasta. I never understood why some people just "love" pasta. A lot of my friends like just plain pasta with butter, yuck. The best part is the toppings.

Bite your tongue! Butter IS a topping! I'd have pasta and butter, or homemade bread and butter, all the time, except I can eat it all day long and never feel full.

I actually am not big on pasta alone as an adult but didn't eat tomatoes until older. Butter was my topping, especially with that green container of parmesan cheese! My absolute favorite pasta was Spaghetti Factory brown butter and mazithra cheese, I would choose it for my birthday every year.

I will admit that sage and brown butter sauce is a legitimate topping for squash-filled ravioli, even if I mostly think of a good pasta sauce as including something besides butter.

I once made potato gnocchi from scratch and served it with sage and brown butter sauce - it was a project, but oh so good!

pancakerunner wrote: »

I don't understand the whole Dunkaroo hype at all. I would rather have a tub of frosting with pretzels or graham crackers...

I don't know what a Dunkaroo* is, but both graham crackers and pretzels are incredibly overrated, and I wouldn't miss either if they disappeared. Pretzels are only worthwhile as a vehicle for salt and popcorn exists (and is better) for that. (You and others dissing popcorn are wrong.)

*My first thought was "isn't that some kind of underwear" and then I realized I was thinking of underoos. This may date me, I'm not sure.

lemurcat2 wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

I don't understand the whole Dunkaroo hype at all. I would rather have a tub of frosting with pretzels or graham crackers...

I don't know what a Dunkaroo* is, but both graham crackers and pretzels are incredibly overrated, and I wouldn't miss either if they disappeared. Pretzels are only worthwhile as a vehicle for salt and popcorn exists (and is better) for that. (You and others dissing popcorn are wrong.)

*My first thought was "isn't that some kind of underwear" and then I realized I was thinking of underoos. This may date me, I'm not sure.

I think the only reason why I know what a 'Dunkaroo' is, is because I see every other kid in my grade one classroom have one in their lunch! (what happened to real food...). I've never actually had them, but I can just tell I would not enjoy them in the least....but, graham crackers...disappearing?? No more smores? no more pb/banana graham cracker 'sandwiches'...actually, they are just perfect plain...

Don't like seafood

seltzermint555 wrote: »

karenscfld wrote: »

Vegan is crazy.

I don't feel this way myself but I often wonder why so many people go vegan rather than vegetarian, pescetarian, etc. I mean of course some have their reasons for it...but I think for others, it's just the trendy thing and then they find it too difficult and quickly give up.

JMHO!

One of my unpopular opinions is that a lot of BBQ meats are better with no sauce.

Generally, because they want to keep their harm and exploitation of animals to an absolute minimum, perhaps believing that animals are feeling, sensing creatures like ourselves?

I'm not a vegan, I'm an ovo-lacto vegetarian (eat eggs and dairy, not meat/fish). By the strictest definition, vegans are distinct from fully plant-based eaters. Vegans don't wear animal products (leather, wool) or use other products that they feel increase harm to animals, on top of eating fully plant-based.

By choosing to be an ovo-lacto vegetarian - which I have no intention of changing, been one for 45 years - I am to some extent responsible for treatment of dairy cows on factory farms, of chickens at chicken farms, the fear and pain they may feel when they're slaughtered at the end of their useful careers, and all the ancillary practices involved. I'm also responsible for environmental and economic downsides of my choices.

I don't think that other people need to choose to do what I do, and I don't think ill of people who choose differently. I do think that thoughtful people try to be aware of the implications of their personal choices, and accept their share of responsibility for them, positive or negative.

Do some people declare themselves vegan because it's trendy? Sure, it can be no different from any other trendy way of eating (keto, IF, paleo, whatever), when people go into any of those without really understanding what they involve or having substantial personal reasons for doing them. Some people adopt non-mainstream ways of eating for good, well-thought out reasons. For vegans, those reasons are ethical.

I like my BBQ sandwich made with jackfruit, personally, and sauce (but not tooooo sweet).

AnnPT77 wrote: »

seltzermint555 wrote: »

karenscfld wrote: »

Vegan is crazy.

I don't feel this way myself but I often wonder why so many people go vegan rather than vegetarian, pescetarian, etc. I mean of course some have their reasons for it...but I think for others, it's just the trendy thing and then they find it too difficult and quickly give up.

JMHO!

One of my unpopular opinions is that a lot of BBQ meats are better with no sauce.

Generally, because they want to keep their harm and exploitation of animals to an absolute minimum, perhaps believing that animals are feeling, sensing creatures like ourselves?

IME (not that I am an expert, but I do live in a larger city, so likely a place with a higher than average percentage of vegans than the US as a whole, dunno), pretty much all the vegans I know were vegetarians before that, and usually became vegan after becoming more personally bothered by the egg/dairy industries (and some of them are fine with backyard eggs if available -- one of my vegan friends seriously considered having backyard chickens not that long before she became vegan, so I don't think she's strictly "no animal use at all" (in the any use = exploitation camp), so I do think there's a range of opinion. That friend became bothered by aspects of the dairy industry years after first becoming vegetarian, and I think largely figured the vegan position was a clearer one that she felt good about.