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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.

SebastianGray (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#301: Oct 10th 2018 at 3:20:06 AM

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 Creamwink) 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

Rymyll_the_Wanderer from a room with plants and white walls Since: Nov, 2016
#302: Oct 10th 2018 at 4:59:04 AM

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.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#303: Oct 10th 2018 at 5:26:01 AM

Can't say I've done anything fancy, but I started grinding coffee at home and making it manually rather than just drinking instant coffee.

Then ruin all the work by sticking it in a thermos for half a day because I don't want to fiddle with the department coffee machine. [lol]

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#304: Oct 10th 2018 at 5:38:06 AM

To me coffee is something to enjoy at the right moment. Otherwise I am mostly a tea drinker. If I don't simply stick to water in the first place.

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#305: Oct 10th 2018 at 3:17:14 PM

So, to keep the conversation going...

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

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#306: Oct 10th 2018 at 3:33:34 PM

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.

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Kakuzan Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to. from Knock knock, open up the door, it's real. Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#307: Oct 10th 2018 at 6:49:55 PM

I haven't drinken many exotic kinds of coffee (certainly not the kind that comes from excrement), but I do enjoy small cups of coffee every now and then, though I do prefer iced coffee. In either case, I love me some cream/milk in my coffee.

Don't catch you slippin' now.
Rymyll_the_Wanderer from a room with plants and white walls Since: Nov, 2016
#308: Oct 10th 2018 at 7:11:43 PM

I remembered another weird coffee thing I saw recently. I did not try it, but apparently the Swedes have a coffee lemonade drink. I've heard it is pretty good.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#309: Oct 10th 2018 at 10:52:00 PM

I also like desserts made with coffee. Coffee ice cream, chocolate covered coffee beans, tiramisu...

Disgusted, but not surprised
SebastianGray (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#310: Oct 11th 2018 at 12:09:15 AM

[up]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

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#311: Oct 11th 2018 at 12:37:14 AM

[up] Possibly a result of aging taste buds. I hated coffee in my youth too.

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Kakuzan Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to. from Knock knock, open up the door, it's real. Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#312: Oct 11th 2018 at 6:43:36 AM

My family got this chocolate and coffee cake for my mom's birthday a few years back. Probably the best cake I've had, and I'm not that big a cake guy.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#313: Oct 11th 2018 at 6:45:23 AM

Chocolate and coffee are a classic combo, much like chocolate and peanut butter. Or chocolate and bacon. Or chocolate and salt. Or chocolate and marshmallow. Or chocolate and fruit. Or...I can go on and on with this.

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Kiefen MINE! from Germany Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
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#314: Oct 11th 2018 at 6:50:02 AM

Chocolate and chocolate !

I never tried different blends of coffee, it only matters to me that it is strong. When I get to choose I go with a double espresso.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#315: Oct 11th 2018 at 6:57:47 AM

[up]Not as silly as one might think. Mixing milk chocolate with darker ones can be an interesting experiment.

I always thought espresso was a tad overrated myself.

Edited by M84 on Oct 11th 2018 at 9:57:22 PM

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Millership from Kazakhstan Since: Jan, 2014
#316: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:05:18 AM

[up]Yeah, I like the dark-and-milk chocolate mix very much, too. Dark and white ... not so much.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#317: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:10:57 AM

I like espresso after a good meal.

SebastianGray (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#318: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:26:43 AM

I've never got much out of espresso when I have tried it personally.

On mixing chocolate: I do have a recipe for Triple Chocolate Chilli Cookies that mixed dark chocolate, white chocolate and cocoa powder but I haven't got around to trying it yet.

Rymyll_the_Wanderer from a room with plants and white walls Since: Nov, 2016
#319: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:41:19 AM

Espresso is great as part of other drinks. I am a sucker for a good cappuccino.

Kiefen MINE! from Germany Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
MINE!
#320: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:41:54 AM

[up][up]Sounds delicious. I baked cacao-chocolate chip cookies with nutella/penutbutter filling a few times, turned out great but I am on a diet now so I probably wont bake them until Christmas or so.

Edited by Kiefen on Oct 11th 2018 at 4:41:40 PM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#321: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:46:22 AM

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

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#322: Oct 11th 2018 at 7:58:50 AM

Nutella is nasty. Waaaaay to sweet. There is better high quality hazelnut creme to be had. And some of them are cheaper on top of it.

Kakuzan Let memes die. Kill them, if you have to. from Knock knock, open up the door, it's real. Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#323: Oct 11th 2018 at 8:34:17 AM

I've never had Nutella myself, but it seems a bit thick for my tastes.

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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#324: Oct 11th 2018 at 1:22:25 PM

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.

Given 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.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#325: Oct 11th 2018 at 6:16:09 PM

It's probably the closest thing we've got to ambrosia in real life.

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