What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?

pancakerunner wrote: »

i don't think "traditional" fruits like apples, oranges and bananas are as "healthy" as everyone thinks... compared to other foods they are actually pretty high in sugar and calories and pretty nutrient poor.

I think bananas are overrated taste-wise (I especially don't like them in smoothies), but I disagree. They have good amt of nutrients and are pretty low cal normally. I eat tons of stone fruit in the summer and frozen berries and clementines in the winter plus pears and apples when they look good, and they've never hurt me on Cronometer.

Granted, I don't get the obsession with sugar being somehow bad bad super bad in all cases.

Fruit is my main dessert.

elmusho1989 wrote: »

Here's one for the day that's in it:

I prefer thick American style pancakes. (this is unpopular in Ireland.) Our thin ones just aren't as good and they burn more easily!

Happy Pancake Tuesday everyone! 😁🎉🥞😍

I'm American, so this isn't likely unpopular, but I prefer American style pancakes too, at least if compared to, say, crepes, if that is like what you mean.

On the date, here in Chicago it's normally Paczki Tuesday (basically filled donuts, a Polish thing). But it's something we usually have at work (one of the legal assistants is Polish and her family owns a bakery, so...) and my office is still officially closed bc of covid, and I don't like them enough to buy a bunch, as tons of local bakeries were accepting orders/promoting them, plus don't need multiple donuts. I thought I might pick one up today from a local place I could walk to (lots of places sell them individually today, but we were dumped with lots of snow so it would have been tough given the state of the sidewalks. So I had this weird stressy reaction about whether I should find something sweet to have or make gumbo or something to mark the occasion and then realized I had leftover pizza I needed to finish anyway. That was my silly Fat Tuesday.

Although the same concept, of course, Pancake Tuesday isn't really a thing here to my knowledge, although I could have made french toast and kind of wish I'd thought of it.

salads like this do not appeal to me

^those types salads that are sold in chain-type restaurants taste awful too - the quality of the ingredients used is usually subpar and never look like the picture (in my experience anyways)

baked potato > french fries > mashed

lemurcat2 wrote: »

Roasted potatoes (chopped skin on, tossed with olive oil + salt (or roasted with a chicken to absorb some of the rendered fat) and maybe garlic or rosemary > mashed > baked (I'm just not as fond of russet potatoes > chips.

Where fries fit depend on the fries (as they vary a lot) and whether I'm in the mood for them.

The only kind of potato I have regularly are the roasted ones or ones in soup or stew.

Also, for some reason lately: turnips>celeriac>potatoes>sweet potatoes. I've been subbing turnips when I might otherwise use potatoes.

well put. I agree on the french fries.

pancakerunner wrote: »

coming from the ice cream thread... I do NOT like cookie dough ice cream!

Curious - do you just not like cookie dough?

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

coming from the ice cream thread... I do NOT like cookie dough ice cream!

Curious - do you just not like cookie dough?

Not sure about @pancakerunner but I love cookie dough, just don't like it in my ice cream. I feel like the texture doesn't go well and it makes the cookie dough so cold I can't even really taste it. Most have chocolate chips and I hate chocolate chips in my ice cream. I am not a fan of plain vanilla ice cream either.

Unless its like a small bit of soft serve topped with tons of big fresh chunks of cookie dough.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

coming from the ice cream thread... I do NOT like cookie dough ice cream!

Curious - do you just not like cookie dough?

Not sure about @pancakerunner but I love cookie dough, just don't like it in my ice cream. I feel like the texture doesn't go well and it makes the cookie dough so cold I can't even really taste it. Most have chocolate chips and I hate chocolate chips in my ice cream. I am not a fan of plain vanilla ice cream either.

Unless its like a small bit of soft serve topped with tons of big fresh chunks of cookie dough.

I LOVE cookie dough too, just not in ice cream. I do love the chunks of cookie dough but I find the rest of the ice cream very underwhelming.

Both coffee and tea are disgusting. As are olives.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

I don't like oranges. Too much work to eat and I hate the fibrous white parts. You can never get all the white strings off.

Yes this. I pick every last piece off, and my husband just eats the whole thing, white strings and all.

I'm not about to eat that white stuff, and it's just too much work for me to take it off.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

I don't like oranges. Too much work to eat and I hate the fibrous white parts. You can never get all the white strings off.

Where are you getting your oranges?

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

I don't like oranges. Too much work to eat and I hate the fibrous white parts. You can never get all the white strings off.

Huh. I like to eat the white pith off the inside of the orange peels, after peeling the orange. Yes, I recognize this is eccentric. Meh.

Not grapefruit pith though: That's more bitter.

When I do eat oranges, I also eat the pith.

I don't have a sweet tooth at all lately, but ice cream/gelato/frozen yogurt is without question my favorite reasonable calorie, I could have every day if I wanted, easy to obtain dessert. There's really nothing else, unless we count fruit (which is what I normally have now). I love pie, but don't really want it that often, and I'm certainly not baking it that often, and it's dangerous to have around (my head would say "better eat it before it goes bad, another problem ice cream does not present). I like chocolate fine, especially good quality dark chocolate, but a few square of chocolate is not typically as satisfying as the same cals of ice cream and gets dull. Some restaurants have interesting desserts, but not things I would want often, and the cals are typically insane. Cookies I like, but don't particularly crave or miss if I don't have, and again I only really like them if they are homebaked. Cake I'm super picky about and again, it would have to be home or good bakery baked. Donuts, blah for the most part.

However, when I was losing and for a couple of years after I had ice cream at least 3 nights a week (when it fit in my cals). I tried lots of new flavors and brands and enjoyed seeing which flavors went well together (I would usually have at least 3 pints of different flavors). I'd only eat what fit in my cals (usually about half a cup), and two different kinds (so .25 cups of each), and it was the perfect after dinner finisher.

Ice cream/gelato and good homemade/bakery fruit pie are probably the two desserts I would pick if I could pick only two.