Example, putting ketchup on a perfectly cooked ribeye steak at a nice restaurant.
Back when I was in the Army, a friend of mine tricked his vegan GF into eating meat.
That is super fucked up. We don’t need to agree on things. I thing vegans are cringe, personally. But I would fight tooth and nail to make a vegan get what they want.
Like come on.
You articulated some of what I was about to write up.
Do what you like to your own food but never, ever, ever intentionally mess with or disregard someone else’s food restrictions. Doesn’t matter if you disagree with them or think they’re “making it up.” At best it’s a violation of their agency, and at worst you could kill or seriously injure someone. Stuff like that is scary.
One of my friends tells a story when she was 8, and she was deathly allergic to nuts. She was at a friend’s birthday party, and was given a cookie. She went to her mom to ask if it was okay, and her mom asked the mother of the birthday girl, “Does this have nuts in it? My daughter is deathly allergic to nuts.” The woman said, “No.” So she was allowed to eat the cookie. A few minutes later, her face started to swell, her throat started to close, and she started having a deadly reaction. The mother freaked out, and said to the other mom, “I thought you said there was no nuts in these?” “I mean, there are just one or two walnuts, but they are ground up so fine, she couldn’t have tasted them.” My friend had to go to the ER.
Hope the mother who provided the cookie was the one to pay for the medical bill. Otherwise, that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
That “mother”, and I use to term lightly here, is beyond stupid dangerous (the one that said there were no nuts in the cookie).
After saving my child, it would have been all I could do to not beat them to a bloody pulp.
This really is baseline respect.
I knew a woman who almost killed her son in law because she believed his shellfish allergy was “made up”.
Waste.
eating raw chicken? eating straight salt with a spoon?
but if you wanna put ketchup on a steak? Id hate that. however its someone elses food. I wouldnt yuck their yum
Ok but does anyone else eat the salt plain at the end of the pretzel bag???
Yes…
Ow, my kidneys.
Raw chicken is a delicacy in Japan
I’ve yet to have the balls/reckless-abandon-for-my-bowels to try it
I would trust the quality of Japanese chickens infinitely more than others’. They seem to take their food products pretty dang seriously, like their ridiculously perfect fruits.
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It’s still not fine lol. It carried an insane salmonella risk even in Japan. It’s just one of those traditional dishes that get overlooked on safety in favor of tradition. Japan’s health department strongly discourages it because of the extreme risk of salmonella.
I’ve come around on a lot of things, even if I don’t like 'em, can wrap my mind around them, but sugar on grits is an abomination.
Other than that, I think the only right answer when someone makes you food is “thank you”. If you try it and don’t like it don’t eat it, that’s fine. Just acknowledge the effort the person made to feed you. “EEW” is never appropriate. Even if they give you sugared grits. “Thanks, I’ll pass on those, I don’t like sugar on grits but please, enjoy. When I cook I’ll make them savory so you can try them that way.”
I have an issue with anything that my brain says is supposed to be savory that has been loaded up with sugar and is now sweet.
Like I ate cornbread relatively often as a kid, but my mom always made it without any sugar, so I’m used to it. To me cornbread is a savory food, but apparently everybody else in the entire fucking United States of America put so much sugar in their cornbread that it’s more like a corn muffin.
Sugar in grits? I’ll take one bite, realize what it is, and not eat anymore.
I dislike sweet cornbread too, will put a pinch or half spoonful of sugar, no more. More likely to put cheese or jalapenos or something like that.
Kettle corn popcorn is ok though. Not my favorite (nutritional yeast, chili powder, salt is my favorite) but the sweet and salty kettle corn is good.
That makes sense because it’s kettle corn popcorn, so my brain doesn’t go, “This is supposed to be savory!”
I had a professor in undergrad who was from Arkansas. He told the story of how he moved north (to Missouri) and was shocked when he was served “cornbread” that he classified as “cake.”
That was when I learned that the sweetness of cornbread is a regional difference. I spent most of my life in the Ohio River valley (“south” to northerners and “north” to southerners), so I like and recognize both types.
That eponymous scene from American pie
Ketchup on scrambled eggs.
Waste.
The only wrong move is to waste it. Do what you want but use everything possible.
Tuna steaks, well done
Some of this is respect for the cost: you could have had canned tuna, but decided to spend a lot of money to turn a good fish into something like canned tuna
Wasting it, if it can at all be avoided.
My grandmother was purported to have frequently said that this was the only true crime.
Of course, she lived through Jim Crow, WWII, and The Korean War, so she overlooked a few other massive crimes, but she was a young adult living in the dust bowl when the Great Depression hit, so I think it’s reasonable for that to have been pretty formative for her.
My parents grew up in the ruins of post WWII Germany, so that has certainly impacted their raising of me.
But even setting that aside, deliberately wasting food is a disrespect to all the life that needed to end for you to have it. Be it flora, fauna, or fungi.
I had a friend who put mustard on his fettucini Alfredo.
That doesn’t sound too bad, I put some mustard in mac n cheese when I make it, nobody has ever complained, I think it’s a common addition.
What?! How have I never tried this? I’m going to add mustard to my Mac and cheese next time.
Do you use Dijon, yellow, or what?
Dijon or spicy, even the packet of mustard from the Chinese restaurant works. Have never tried yellow mustard in there, I don’t buy it as it’s more sour than I like for sandwiches.
You remind me I want to try fermenting some mustard seeds.
That Chinese mustard is soo good.
I don’t know to me it’s such a contrasting flavor. It completely overpowers the Alfredo Sauce.
But if he enjoyed it, that was on him. It’s not like I had to eat it or anything.
Mustard is an emulsifier so it’ll help keep the sauce from breaking. Though usually with Fettuccini Alfredo you only need to add a bit of the starchy water you cooked the pasta in and it’ll turn out perfectly creamy.
This was like dollar store frozen Fettuccine Alfredo. Michelinas’ brand.
We were poor as fuck and this was far from fancy
That upsets me in a way I can’t fully describe
Heating day old pizza is to be done on low in a covered skillet - all other methods are objectively inferior.
Edit: Also putting a box of pizza in the fridge, without laying a piece of wax paper, cling wrap, or tin foil over the top of the pizza slices is wrong because it will desiccate without it.
Keep your pizza in an off oven overnight(so the dogs can’t get it). Wake up and eat room temp pizza for breakfast. Be a champion.
None. Everyone should eat food the way they want to enjoy it.
Cultural relativism is fine. Doesn’t mean talking about things counter to your experience/preference isn’t interesting.
I’ll never understand the psychopaths who like glass on their pizza.
The only place ketchup belongs is in the trash
A huge chunk of the world loves their tea with milk but I just can’t stand it. Hot leaf juice is perfect just the way it is… maybe add some honey but that’s it!
