Lobster is so so so overrated. 75% of the weight is shell. You could get tiger or argentinian shrimp for the same price per pound if not cheaper and you get 3 times more edible meat by weight.
Mayo should be outlawed. Aioli is just garlic mayo. Something about the shiny, sliminess of it makes me nauseous.
Italian restaurant food. Why should I pay so much for spaghetti and meatballs???
Agreed. That’s why I always order something cool like gnocchi when I go to an Italian restaurant. It’s much harder to make that well at home.
This is my opinion too! Basic Italian-American stuff seems really simple to DIY, so unless a place has some really killer house made sauce it always feels like such a ripoff. If I’m going out, I typically want something that is either too hard, laborious, or messy to make at home.
steak
Bacon.
Holy fuck it is very good is made correctly and timely. But somehow it was a Meme that stuck.
I don’t know why they want to add bacon and cheese to everything. They’re fine, but don’t have to be in every dish. Is it for the salt?
See also: Dubai chocolate, affogato, “two best buds running a burger shack” tall burgers… all were amazing, until they became a marketable meme, as you said. And now they’re shit.
I’m with the truffles guy saying truffles with the caveat that perhaps I haven’t had real truffles properly.
Otherwise, I find KFC too overrated. All fast food chains in general, but KFC in particular gets a hype at least in my circles. From what I hear, you are buying bliss and a heavenly experience in a bucket. Come on. It’s just chicken bits with nothing special about them, in fact the cheap deep frying oils can upset my stomach easily.
A teeny, tiny bit of real truffle on something that’s labeled truffle is fine. Huge amounts of truffle oil on everything sucks! And stinks.
Ill die on this hill btw.
When a KFC meal is perfect its one of the best fried chicken experiences on earth. When you get everything fresh, well seasoned, drink is ice cold… Bruh… Problem is it almost never is either the bun is stale, the chips were cold, the chicken was dry, the burger has just way too fucking much mayo… theres always fucking something.
But that one perfect Zinger box you had 18 months ago will bring you back monthly to try again.
Chicken loot box
All the chain chicken joints (Popeyes, Bojangles, Dave’s, etc) taste so salty as it is, but KFC is off the charts too salty for me to enjoy.
The best fried chicken (for me) is actually from a gas station chain here, Royal Farms, which I coincidentally had tonight!
I still wouldn’t put it as an S-Tier food or anything, but I think it’s well ahead of the bigger brands, and especially KFC.
I like Popeye’s spicy fried chicken (pieces, not tenders) and their blackened tenders.
I used to get the blackened tenders, but I must be the only one because they always took so much longer to get than the regular tenders. They’re pretty alright though otherwise.
Yeah, always have to wait but at least they’re fresh.
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Not a seafood fan. Somehow they sneak that shit into everything, like mayo.
I think it’s usually for those umami packed glutimates.
if you’re a mobster, u eat da lobster If you’re deppert, eat pie of shepherd
I’ve had lobster pot pie at 2 different places this year and thought both were amazing. No smashing required, and while lighter than a hearty shepard’s/cottage pie, they really hit the spot!
Also tried stone crab on our honeymoon this year, and though the shell lives up to its name, some things can be worth the effort!
If you get crustaceans out at a place, you can usually ask them to give it a few whacks in key locations with their big ass knives and then the bulk of the work is done for you.
The “two guys burger shop burger”.
Maaaate, your burger is shit. It’s a precariously stacked abomination that’s 8 inches tall, has two ruined patties and half a cup of smoky bbq sauce and melted cheese on it, and then you decided that what it really needed was enough chilli on it so that all you can taste is burning.
Bigger burgers should be wider, not taller. End of conversation.
Avocado is fine, but its not something I seek out to eat. If its included in a dish or in a meal, I’ll eat it, but I don’t find it especially enjoyable. I’m even a big fan of most fruit and veg, but avocado its kind of forgettable if you ask me. I do like cooking with avocado oil though for its high temp usage and health benefits, but I don’t really find the flavor of the fruit in the oil.
The best thing that can happen to avocado is to be turned into guacamole. I’m like you when it comes to avocado, could take it or leave it, but I go nuts for guac.
What about in California rolls and fresh guac?
Wagyu, purely for the texture in this case.
I don’t want “steak-butter”, I want to rip through a raw piece of meat.
I dont think wagyu is overrated but I absolutely cannot justify the cost.
The problem is the taste makes me crave the texture.
I’m a bit abnormal in that I crave texture more than taste though. I love eating steak near raw (blue) with my bare hands so I can do that “nature channel wolf thing” where they rip their prey with a side-to-side wry head movement. It’s primal and glorious.
And if I get that flavour without the texture I am left, wanting.
Gollum had it right in the end. Give it to me raw and wriggling. (But preferably free of parasites…)
Also weird to me that you’re expected to do all the work to consume the lobster too.
I think canned soup is overrated. The nutritional value is surprisingly low. Salt is high. And when I’m looking for something vegan, I figure soups are an easy genre for option. Nope. Everything has some milk product added to it.
I keep some canned soup for emergencies but everytime I make soup from scratch I like to fill a mason jar or two and keep it in my freezer for a healthier emergency meal
Canned soup is rated?
Yeah, a solid threeve/ ten.
Lobster High Pressure Processing
Text Article if you don’t want to watch a video, also has more details
There are now machines that will remove the lobster meat from the shell without cooking it, so you can have 100% of the edible stuff with no shell bits.
It comes at a premium, but if speed and a hassle free experience are what you’re after, the tech exists!
Hot damn. Imagine getting executed by high pressure chamber, kind of gnarly
We come up with some particularly interesting ways to execute lobsters, that’s for sure. I’m not sure we dispatch any other food animal in so many ways.
Anything “truffle” I’ve ever been offered smells absolutely terrible to me. While not near as powerful as durian, the smell and taste give me a bit of that vibe.
Perhaps it’s all just been fake truffle oil type crap and real shaved truffle is amazing, but nobody’s ever given me any of that or inspired me to try it.
Truffle oil is the real truffle flavor. It’s the synthetic diamond or baking vanilla situation all over again.
I’d take a lab diamond or bottle of vanillin over the truffle stuff I’ve had any day!
Even the old school beaver anus vanillin! 😅
Agree 10000%. I went to a truffle party a couple of years ago. Plain cheese pizza, grilled asparagus, steak bites, etc. all with small shaved pieces of truffle (that i assume was outrageously expensive). Those were very good and nothing like the typical stinky Parmesan truffle fries that every restaurant sells.
If I were to see someone shaving it off the real deal, I’d give it another try, but at this point I’m done with the stuff otherwise and even if the real deal is a better version of that flavor, it hasn’t inspired me enough to cough up the money for a small real truffle for myself.
I’ll extend the truffle hate to all mushrooms. If I wanted food covered in fungus, I would have waited for it to start rotting.
Agree, the first thing that came to mind, seeing this thread.
100% agree. I don’t like the smell to begin with, but what’s worse is that the aroma is so powerful, it completely eclipses the taste of whatever food items it’s mixed with.
Yes, no matter what flavor enhancer you’re adding to a dish, once it starts replacing the actual flavor of the main ingredient, you’ve gone way too far!
Extreme hot sauces, over hopped beers, etc
Truffles* and durian are actually good and you guys are just boring.
*too much truffle oil is nasty
Lol always a possibility. I’ve tried both a few times to give them a fair shake, and while I taste amazing flavor elements in both those things, the cons just always outweigh the pros. 😅
I second your impression of truffles. I’m yet to appreciate them. So far in my books is a thing that tastes like dirt and shoots up ridiculously the price of whatever it’s added into
I see truffle fries most commonly, and I’ve taken to calling them “pig stink fries” in reference to the horny truffle finding pigs. 😁
Nice to randomly bump into you again btw, I haven’t seen a comment from you in a bit!
Cheers! Yes I haven’t been on Lemmy as much lately, but I still check in every now and then.
My kids’ fav joke-
How did Godzilla invite Mothra to lunch?
Let’s go eat someplace.
Sushi , you pay a lot to eat possibly parasites
Pizza Hawaii.
Not because of the flavor,
but it should have been called Pizza Brazil.Bubble tea.
MacDonalds foods.
Pizza hut Pizzas.I think I might not be answering this question correctly.
I think it technically should have been called Canadian pizza but there’s already a canadian pizza (pepperoni, mushroom, bacon). Coincidentally, my go to pizza order is half Hawaiian and half Canadian.
That sounds like a pretty good combo pizza!
I was hesitant to have Hawiian pizza the first time, but I instantly liked it. I soon changed it up though to get bacon instead of ham so it adds crunch and smokiness.
Korean fried chicken sauce is also good on pizza.
Bacon. Cheese.
“with cheese”? Yeah, okay.
Just “cheese”? No, bullshit. That’s like saying “meat” or “fruit”.
Cheese doesn’t need to be added to every dish. It’s fine on a charcuterie where you can choose if/how much you want, but i don’t need it on/in everything.
Agree with bacon but you have lost your marbles about cheese
Cheese.
Heresy!
That said, I understand it’s not too popular across much of Asia, even beyond any lactose issues.
Lowkey I think pizza is a bit overrated.
I mean it’s still good, but there are better foods.
Pizza is probably my favorite food - you can buy/make it 5 times and have 5 totally different things- different crusts, different toppings, dinner, breakfast, dessert, … For the last year i have been stuck on prosciutto and fig. When we do pizza night we make 4-5 different ones and i save that one for last because it’s so good.
Prosciutto and fig sounds like some real I-Talian shit.
I could go for that. I’ll have to give it a try next time I make some za.
I also really like pizza. I just think it’s a bit overhyped. Haha
Fig & Pig pizza is so awesome! Sweet, salty, and carby! 🤤
I go a step further and usually just attempt to veto Italian if “where do we want to eat” is brought up.
Again - it’s good - and I’ll eat it. But cmon.
I could eat Italian food, as in actual Italian or Americanized Italian food (not Olive Garden), for my entire life. S-tier cuisine.
Yes, agreed. My comment is in reference to specifically American pizza.
