The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

So, getting to the meat of it.

Those cows in the chicken place ads pushing people to eat chicken get too much weight in the conversation, it's just a handful out of all the cows in the universe (aka an anecdote and not data). Just check with some of the staff/product at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe and we have a very strong opposing view the other way.

Same for that "heart rending" seen in Babe about the cat. I mean, have you seen all of the smiling pigs getting ready to eat pork on the BBQ joint signs in the US south east?

Anyway, white meat or beef or the other white meat. You don't have to watch what I'm eating in my kitchen (and carbon footprint is such a derail!). And it's not like I'm not sympathetic to the discussion - I'm certainly not supporting eating horses, for example! It's just important that we use good arguments and have strong evidence in these discussions or pretty soon we won't be eating anything.

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What about breakfast cereal cannibalism?

 

[Cadence]

I've always loved the fact that Max Headroom was fake CGI. There's a poetic aspect to them having to imitate an imitation to get it to come out right.

In junior year of HS, for the big problem sets in trig&analyt a group of us would get together to watch his ABC series and Moonlighting while we worked on them.

I wonder if either one has aged well?

 

[Mannahnin]

In junior year of HS, for the big problem sets a group of us would get together to watch his ABC series and Moonlighting while we worked on them.

I wonder if either one has aged well?

Pretty sure Max Headroom is still good; though of course with quasi-cyberpunk sci-fi about the near future, they're always going to be adorably wrong on some stuff, confusingly wrong about other things.

 

[Mannahnin]

Ketchup, and its alias catsup, is the condiment of sadness knowing that you could truly have had a better hot dog by putting mustard on it instead.

INSTEAD?! Let's be clear, even when I am eating a hot dog (or related sausage) outside the boundaries of Greater Chicagoland and choose to put a little ketchup on it, that is always as an ACCOMPANIMENT to the mandatory mustard. Naturally, while within the said geographic locale I always adhere to the regional custom and enjoy a proper Chicago dog, with mustard, relish, onion, pickle, tomato, sport peppers, and celery salt.

I recommend it when you can afford it. Also, make sure you can eat or store it all at once; it takes up more space (in your belly or freezer) than you think. The hot dog kit also does a good job, but is even more of an excessive charge if you think too much about it.

For Chicago dogs I'm more of a Portillo's guy. But yeah, one of these days I'm going to order a couple of Lou Malnati's pies shipped.

A friend elsewhere raised a good question that I don't know the answer to. Ketchup on corndogs? But that makes me want to ask "corndogs!?!?".

So:
a) Corndogs!?!?!
b) If (a) is ok, ketchup on corndogs?

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Mustard. Corndogs are already too sweet.

It feels like ranch doesn't go on sushi. What purpose does sushi have it isn't to deliver wasab (applied like frosting on a cupcake)?

... On second thought, how is wasabi with ranch?

As noted, wasabi ranch is already a thing. I tried some crunchy wasabi ranch snap peas recently and they were pretty good, despite the faint tang of awful ranch coming through. Personally I find creamy dressings abominable, but there is definitely some synergy with the two flavors.

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[Snarf Zagyg]

As noted, wasabi ranch is already a thing. I tried some crunchy wasabi ranch snap peas recently and they were pretty good, despite the faint tang of awful ranch coming through. Personally I find creamy dressings abominable, but there is definitely some synergy with the two flavors.

Is it that there is any actual synergy ....


....or is there just further, sad, evidence of the continued ranch-ification of America's taste buds? Much like a fungus or a parasite, the taste of ranch grows on you.

 

[Mannahnin]

Is it that there is any actual synergy ....


....or is there just further, sad, evidence of the continued ranch-ification of America's taste buds? Much like a fungus or a parasite, the taste of ranch grows on you.

This is a frightening theory, although I assure you that I would sooner kick Aubrey Plaza in the shins than eat ranch dressing.

Perhaps I am mistaken, and rather than synergy it is the dry format and the wasabi flavor doing a lot of work to offset and conceal the true awfulness of the ranch.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting article called the Ketchup Conundrum. Essentially, he asks why mustard has had such a revolution in textures and flavors, but ketchup just stays as ketchup.

It's been a while since I read it, but he basically argued that ketchup already had the revolution. It used to be a pretty basic watery bitter condiment, and then it transformed into the perfect blend of sweet-savory-sour that it is today.

I'm a ketchup fan and I don't care who knows! It is the perfect condiment. That, and avocado, go on everything (I am a Californian through and through).

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This is a frightening theory, although I assure you that I would sooner kick Aubrey Plaza in the shins than eat ranch dressing.

Perhaps I am mistaken, and rather than synergy it is the dry format and the wasabi flavor doing a lot of work to offset and conceal the true awfulness of the ranch.

Many people take their terrible, New Zealand-style pizzas and then choose to dip them in ranch.

Which is akin to going to a homicide scene, and instead of putting on a fresh pot of coffee to cover up the smell, you just start pooping everywhere.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting article called the Ketchup Conundrum. Essentially, he asks why mustard has had such a revolution in textures and flavors, but ketchup just stays as ketchup.

Oh no.

Don't get me started on this. Malcolm Gladwell is the ranch dressing of modern writers.

 

[payn]

I need to chug buffalo sauce just to read this thread now.