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.
MINE!
We have this one grill booth nearby who completely drown their burgers in sauce. I eat those with cutlery as well.
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I have a lot of pistachios and not sure what to do with them. I thought I could eat them as is, but I'm bored of raw pistachios (even with salt or pepper). There's nothing simple involving pistachios, especially if you don't want a dessert.
I don't know what you would consider easy but you could try pistachio crusted salmon
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Edited by SebastianGray on Feb 25th 2020 at 4:33:54 PM
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Pistachio pesto is a thing... as is pistachio-stuffed ravioli or tortellini. Pistachio ice-cream should be illegal, it's that good. Nougat is a natural, too.
And, where you can use cashews in sweet or savoury or sweet-and-sour dishes, pistachios work just as well.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Feb 25th 2020 at 6:01:30 PM
Apparently all the California locations of Curry House, a popular Japanese curry and spaghetti chain, closed without warning today. Employees showed up to work not even realizing they were out of a job. No word on why this happened. I'm sad, cuz I liked going to Curry House every once in a while.
Edited by danime91 on Feb 25th 2020 at 12:10:16 PM
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How popular is curry in the US? Pokémon Sword and Shield made me remember that Britain likes curry a lot. I assume it's popular in Canada too, since I heard there's a large Indian population there. Anecdotally as an American, I know no one who's even heard of curry (besides curry powder).
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I don't have a food processor, so I'm not sure what to do with a large amount of pistachios. Maybe I could pan-fry them? I tried that with peanuts once, but just ended up burning them.
Edited by Pichu-kun on Feb 25th 2020 at 2:00:41 AM
A nicely nutty pilau, pilaf or stir-fry?
Heck, even Portuguese or Southern African yellow rice likes a little pistachio instead of almond.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Feb 25th 2020 at 10:21:06 AM
Oh, bother.
Apparently the owners of the Curry House brand figured it was no longer profitable. One former manager was told it would take over two years to make a dollar of profit.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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That’s... extremely unfortunate. I loved the curry they had there, and it was definitely better than other franchise places like CoCo Ichibanya‘s curry.
Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.
Oh, bother.
Here's an article about the closures:
Newsweek: CURRY HOUSE TRENDS AFTER ALL JAPANESE CURRY AND SPAGHETTI RESTAURANTS MYSTERIOUSLY CLOSE
"It caught all of us off guard," Balaschak said. "From what I heard from my co-workers it had to do with the investment firm that bought Curry House last year—one of the people from corporate was talking to our manager and, apparently, he said that in order for them to make a profit off Curry House it would have taken two-and-a-half years to make $1."
Balaschak said that employees were contacted on Monday morning and were informed that they were out of a job. "It was really tragic seeing that everything was already being thrown away," said the former employee. "We were open the night before and yet moving people came at 6 a.m—they knew before any of us did that we were out of a job."
Basically, the investors thought Curry House wasn't turning a profit and shut it all down.
The investors btw were Food Management Partners, Inc. The article mentions that they own a bunch of other restaurant chains. And just last year the co-founders were involved in some shady shit.
According to the suit, the executives had distributed $12 million to themselves to pay for "exotic cars, boats, homes and foreign travel."
So I guess if you want to blame someone for the sudden lack of curry in your routine, you can blame FMP.
Edited by M84 on Feb 25th 2020 at 10:34:25 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
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Man, now I'm just bummed out. I was thinking of going there this weekend, too. Aside from the curry, I'm gonna miss the corn potage and the pasta.
Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.
Oh, bother.
Update:
The earlier Newsweek article was apparently wrong about who actually owned Curry House at the time of closure. Here's a more recent article from another source about who actually owned it and their reasons for closure.
PR Newswire: CH Acquisitions Closes Curry House Restaurants
"While we did everything possible to increase sales, we are unable to continue operating these restaurants at the severe loss caused by the misrepresentation from the seller, House Foods America. We were in contact with the seller in the weeks prior to closing these units in an attempt to get them to take the restaurants back, but they refused," stated Yoshida.
CH Acquisitions, LLC, purchased Curry House Japanese Curry and Spaghetti from House Food America in June 2019.
Essentially, the new owners are blaming the former owners apparent fudging of employees' legal status screwing them over. They lost so much money trying to salvage the situation that it probably would have taken years to make a profit. So they cut their losses.
If their statement is true, then you can probably blame Curry House's original owner House Food America.
Edited by M84 on Feb 25th 2020 at 11:00:07 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
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Are pistachios okay to eat once they turn brown? I have no clue. I ate a few a few days ago but decided to just throw the rest away. Pistachios are a nice nut, but they're not something I could eat in bulk.
I've been looking at a lot of vegan recipes. They're tasty, but are they healthy? Are you getting all your needed vitamins? It seems like a lot of Youtube vegans eat unhealthily, especially raw vegans (I don't even know if humans can healthily be raw vegan). Unnatural Vegan is my favorite vegan Youtubers because she talks about nutrition.
Edited by Pichu-kun on Feb 26th 2020 at 1:43:24 AM
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
So I am on another stuffed/filled food item kick. My latest one was one of my better successes.
I made a beef gravy mix with shredded pork and peas for the filling. I took a muffin tin and used biscuit dough to form the bottom. I pushed it in and left a hollow to pour the mix into. Then I capped it off with another wad of dough. Sort of like a pie but made with biscuit dough. Baked in the oven for about 15 minutes. Turned out great.
My two next experiments are variants on Arancini and Onigiri.
Who watches the watchmen?
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I've been curious about different types of honey. I read a book about honey and the different tastes between honey, but I've only ever used Golden Blossom Honey myself. Looking at other types at the grocery's... Other types are expensive. Geeze. $6-$12 for a bottle of honey?
An uncle of my old friend is a beekeeper, so I've had direct access to various kinds of honey. I've found that buckwheat honey is the most potent one (for a lack of better word), both flavour and taste-wise and the effect it has on you. It's also the one people have allergies on most often, so watch out.
Spiral out, keep going.
Heather is delightful and much less given to cause havoc... unless you're unlucky and have an issue with gorse pollen.
But, my favourite is citrus blossom. I don't get it often because citrus farms are seriously scary with their dependence on pesticides.
Because getting the monoculture sources necessary to get a particular type of honey are hard. (Ok, it depends on how strict local regulation is with percentages vs labelling and how common certain type of plants are... but the point stands).
Though it you want to try some easier to source variations, get some Blue Gum honey from Australia.
Captain of the Dead City
Anyone made mead before?
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
Nope. Getting decent amounts of honey together is quite the heavy investment. And that's not taking early failure rates into account.
Although, I guess using corn syrup to work the fundamentals out with early on is an option, come to think.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Feb 28th 2020 at 10:36:49 AM
Captain of the Dead City
I do happen to have a massive tub of raw honey in the house that needs using.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
Oh, bother.
Honey ain't cheap. There's an honest to goodness black market in honey in California.
Disgusted, but not surprised
It depends on how big a batch you're making. Especially if you're experimenting it would probably be better to start with small batches which mean you're not going to need as much honey.
In the name of being honest
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I've definitely done it with burgers, too. Maybe a handful of times with really wide, really flat pizza slices.
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