What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?

pancakerunner wrote: »

Do people still order Frappuccino’s?

AnnPT77 wrote: »

As a somewhat related, but possibly unpopular opinion: I don't personally care to keep things like brownie mix, cake mix, muffin mix, etc. around. It seems so much more straightforward to keep the ingredients on hand (flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder, cocoa, etc.) and make whatever I want at the time, rather than needing the specific box of stuff. The steps aren't hugely more time-consuming to make most things from scratch, either, IMO.

It seems evident, from looking at the grocery aisles, that a big segment of the population must disagree with this.

lemurcat2 wrote: »

I read some book on the rise of cake mix and other convenience foods. It was something of a women's social history of the 1920s-1960s or some such told through that lens. I can't recall the name of it, but if I look tomorrow I might be able to find it (I don't recall if I still have the book). Anyway, it was pretty interesting. One point is that people wanted a middle ground between just add water or buy premade goods and doing everything from scratch, and the add eggs but premixed dry ingredients seemed to fit.

I also read this series of books written in the '50s as a kid, and in one of them the main character (who was from a less well off family) really wanted to be able to cook/eat the processed options and thought her mother's cooking from scratch was embarrassing. When she took over shopping and cooking for a while because her mother had to go tend to a family emergency, she quickly realized that not only was this too expensive, but not as filling/tasty. I think it's interesting that the class implications have shifted a lot, as cooking from scratch now is likely a status thing for many, while obv easy processed stuff (even when likely across classes) is cheap, so certainly has no status.

I used to live in a very upper middle class professional neighborhood (my current one is more mixed), and the grocery store did a great business in super over priced pre cut veg/fruit, while people tended to disdain (or claim to disdain) other types of convenience foods.

Anyway, I don't actually like to bake that much and rarely do (oddly enough I wanted to be good at it as a life skill so used to bake but losing weight gave me the freedom to admit that baked goods are rarely worth the cals for me and I like cooking but not baking -- I much prefer tossing ingredients together based on whim/what sounds good), so it's common for me not to have either mixes or the flour/sugar/baking powder type ingredients on hand. I bought some sugar before Christmas and just recently bought some flour because I wanted to make chicken and dumplings (I had baking powder for some reason), but I often don't have either on hand. I do pretty much always have eggs. Milk I have to buy if I need. I have cocoa for some reason, largely because I rarely use it. I think I bought a Bob's Red Mill brownie mix a couple of years ago because it was supposed to be tasty and lower cal, but have not used it. It's probably still in my pantry.

frankwbrown wrote: »

I think the reality is, most people don't really look at the nutritional info. At least, I know I didn't in decades past. When I first started looking at labels to track my grams of fat, protein and carbs, I was shocked to find that one of my favorite foods (Marie Callendar's Chicken Pot Pie) had 46 grams of fat, which was more than I was supposed to consume all day! Some people are a little more aware these days, but still, a lot of people just eat what they want -- hence the large percentage of the population that are suffering from obesity.