Unpopular opinions

Most "food" in the US is poison. I use an app called Yuka to show me which foods have dangerous additives. All calories are NOT alike in quality or nutrition. Lastly I would risk is and say the US healthcare system and maybe the culture itself exacerbates health issues by making a profit off of food that is bad for you then you go to a doctor that doesn't address the root cause of illnesses many of them by digesting bad or fake food. It's a culture of greed and corruption at the root. It's really sad.

🥕 Steamed vegetables are great!!!
There I said it. 🍠

Steam me up Scotty! 🥦

Fruits have mystical micronutrients that science doesn't have names for yet, and are Good For You in ways that can't be quantified

Coarse-ground brown mustard is anabolic (empirical)

It's okay to do non-optimal stuff to virtuous food to make it palatable. If few tbsp of panko bread crumbs makes the difference between eating 8 oz of chicken breast and NOT eating it, do it already

Fake sugar is mehhh probably fine

Indian spices are legit medicinal

Instead of milk, just buy heavy cream and dilute it if you want

Tofu good, edamame good, soy sauce okay; other forms of soy are bad for indefinable, intuitive reasons

Salt is never optional. I love salt. I use plenty of salt. Around here, I think that's an unpopular opinion in itself.

Also, I like vinegar, so yeah, I like vinegar on fries. Yeah, ideally malt vinegar for that.

But I still like ketchup better. Ketchup also tends to be unpopular around here, seems like - evils of hidden sugar, blah blah blah. OK. So I get a good unsweetened brand, not so much because it's unsweetened, but when making unsweetened ketchup they're nearly forced to use better-tasting tomatoes. It's not unusual for me to eat a quarter to half a cup of ketchup on something, usually potatoes but not always.

And speaking of vinegar, I also like vinegar a lot. People here are often yuck to ACV, but I like it. The old-school-style drinks called "shrubs" made with ACV and fruit? Tasty. Cupboard is full of different kinds of vinegar . . . not flavored vinegars, but different types, like red wine, white wine, sherry, beer, coconut (sourced, not flavored), champagne, balsamic, white balsamic, rice wine . . . and more.

Cold poatatoes are great. My Austrian parents served them with red beet borscht and sour cream - sadly haven't had it in years.