So I was browsing through OTC and noticed we don't have any threads dedicated to food. I figured this was a shame since food is an important aspect of life and culture that helps people connect with each other. Plus, we kind of need it to live. So I figured, why not start a thread to let people here talk about food related topics?
I'll start things off by asking this: what is the most "disgusting" food you ever ate and enjoyed despite its reputation?
Personally, I've eaten things like organs including chicken testicles, stinky fermented tofu, and most recently durians. And I've enjoyed all of them. Especially the durian. Maybe I'm just one of the people who isn't bothered too much by the smell, but it really is just as good as its fans claim. The taste really is remniscient of almonds too. Now I want to try eating it in a cake or icecream.
While I normally prefer tea I'll drink coffee as well. A friend of mine though has really gotten into the fine details of making coffee getting a fancy electric burr grinder, temperature controlled water heater, and a chemex pour over pot and filters. I can say it altogether makes a fair bit of difference. We have a local coffee roaster that sells a Brazilian coffee that has a faint hint of peanut butter flavor that is really good. Though the normal pot of the day is Death Wish.
Coffee
What's your favorite kind of coffee? Do you own a coffeemaker? How do you deal with the coffee addiction?
Can't stand coffee. Not even the smell of it. It's ghastly stuff.
Since I'm not allowed to drink caffeinated drinks, I wouldn't drink it even if I did like it. What I can say is this: my colleagues have a bit of a coffee club thing going on, so mid-afternoon, the cafetière comes out and a new coffee brand is tried each time.
Some of the coffee they've tried makes my head buzz. God knows how strong it is to be doing that just from the smell.
Edited by Wyldchyld on Oct 10th 2018 at 11:21:09 AM
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.I prefer the light roasts for coffee when I do have it outside of the need for a caffeine kick which I just buy the bottled sweet stuff.
Alternately I will just make myself a cup of Irish Breakfast from Twining. A good tea for a high caffeine kick. My father preferred Morning Thunder.
Who watches the watchmen?
It is odd, even when I didn't like coffee I used to like coffee flavoured things such as ice cream and chocolates (I think I was one of the few people who was sad that they got rid of the coffee flavoured Revels
- until I found out that they replaced it with a chocolate covered strawberry one, which I like almost as much).
Edited by SebastianGray on Oct 11th 2018 at 8:10:29 PM
Yeah, I like the dark-and-milk chocolate mix very much, too. Dark and white ... not so much.
Nutella...
I gotta confess: it's not my thing. I just never found a situation where nutella was in a desert and I didn't think "I'd rather have chocolate." I don't hate nutella, I just never saw it as anything but a poor man's chocolate.
But given that I'm of the mindset that chocolate is perhaps the greatest culinary discovery of all time, I guess I'm a tad biased.
Edited by M84 on Oct 11th 2018 at 10:50:15 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedGiven that when Europeans first encountered it, they were so impressed they gave the chocolate plant the genus name Theobroma (either food of gods or divine food), I don't think you're alone in that assessment.

On coffee: I only started drinking coffee last year and only generally drink it to warm me up as I have found it does that better than tea. I generally drink instant (Kenko is my favourite of the ones I have tried) with a dash of milk (or Irish Cream
) with brown sugar (the amount depending on the size of the cup and the spoon/sugar cube). I also like to drink decaf just as much, if not more than, the fully caffeinated. Of the more exotic coffee's I have tried I think I like Mocha the most.
Edited by SebastianGray on Oct 10th 2018 at 11:22:50 AM