Holiday Question:
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i'm convinced that those recipes exist because everyone smoked and so they had no taste buds.
@burnitdown @futurebird @lionelb "Everyone smokes" really changes the palate.
One of the things I lament about my present geographic location is that no one does Danish style bacon; the available actual bacon (= water not an ingredient) is apparently being done with love and care by a forty-something three pack a day smoker trying to re-create that magical first-bacon moment when they were five years old and eating bacon cooked over a wood fire started with gasoline.
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You WHAT.
@futurebird @msbellows @Nickiquote That was exactly my reaction.
And now my head is spinning, wondering how to use hot melted candy canes for the greater good this season... 0_o
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@burnitdown @futurebird @lionelb "Everyone smokes" really changes the palate.
One of the things I lament about my present geographic location is that no one does Danish style bacon; the available actual bacon (= water not an ingredient) is apparently being done with love and care by a forty-something three pack a day smoker trying to re-create that magical first-bacon moment when they were five years old and eating bacon cooked over a wood fire started with gasoline.
i hope he fails. that sounds vomit-tastic.
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@futurebird @msbellows @Nickiquote That was exactly my reaction.
And now my head is spinning, wondering how to use hot melted candy canes for the greater good this season... 0_o
@raynetoday @futurebird @Nickiquote Pro tip: NOT sex play. It's HOT!
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@raynetoday @futurebird @Nickiquote Pro tip: NOT sex play. It's HOT!
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i hope he fails. that sounds vomit-tastic.
@burnitdown It's less "strong smokey notes" than "a protracted fanfare of smoke"; it's not awful, but it would only work for me if the bacon were being used as a flavourant in a larger dish like bacon and buckwheat.
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@burnitdown It's less "strong smokey notes" than "a protracted fanfare of smoke"; it's not awful, but it would only work for me if the bacon were being used as a flavourant in a larger dish like bacon and buckwheat.
@graydon @futurebird @lionelb i rarely even eat bacon anymore. maybe if i ever get to go camping again, and we cook some over a fire with some maple syrup. that's the shit. otherwise... bacon was so overdone for like five years back in the 2010s, i just don't really care for it anymore, and the way it's produced these days, it's a health hazard to eat it anyway. i'd much rather have smoked tofu. i'm not even vegetarian, but the food often has so much more flavour than "i cooked the meat with no spices and nothing added, how is it?"
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Holiday Question:
Does anyone *like* candy canes? Peppermint sticks?
What makes a candy cane or peppermint stick "good?"
I recently got a candy in a card that was more like a "U" than a "J" ... It was ... chewy. But not on purpose. Aren't they shaped that way so you can hang them on the tree?
I know there are defenders of EVERY candy no matter how heinous so speak up!
(If you don't have candy canes are there any strange winter candies where you live?)
@futurebird I like them. Not as much as wintergreen
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@graydon @futurebird @lionelb i rarely even eat bacon anymore. maybe if i ever get to go camping again, and we cook some over a fire with some maple syrup. that's the shit. otherwise... bacon was so overdone for like five years back in the 2010s, i just don't really care for it anymore, and the way it's produced these days, it's a health hazard to eat it anyway. i'd much rather have smoked tofu. i'm not even vegetarian, but the food often has so much more flavour than "i cooked the meat with no spices and nothing added, how is it?"
"i'd much rather have smoked tofu. i'm not even vegetarian, but the food often has so much more flavour than "i cooked the meat with no spices and nothing added, how is it?"
Same. I'm not veg or vegan but I love vegan dishes, I just wish that it was easier to avoid nuts and sunflowers when eating vegan foods from restaurants or pre-made snacks.
I'm very proud of my home-cooked tofu!
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@futurebird I like them. Not as much as wintergreen
OK. Exactly what *is* a "wintergreen" ?
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Some of the worst foods on earth are old time candies that survive only on nostalgia for suffering.
@futurebird @lionelb when I was a kid in NJ in the 1970s, there were candies called “buttery mint puffs” that I loved
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@futurebird @lionelb when I was a kid in NJ in the 1970s, there were candies called “buttery mint puffs” that I loved
@glasspusher @futurebird @lionelb the ones they would just have in a dish at the cash register at the diner?
And then they had to stick a dirty spoon in there to discourage you just reaching in the bowl with your fingers?
And then they started individually wrapping them in packs of two?
I love those things
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@glasspusher @futurebird @lionelb the ones they would just have in a dish at the cash register at the diner?
And then they had to stick a dirty spoon in there to discourage you just reaching in the bowl with your fingers?
And then they started individually wrapping them in packs of two?
I love those things
@catmisgivings @glasspusher @lionelb
This has to be some kind of trauma response.
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@glasspusher @futurebird @lionelb the ones they would just have in a dish at the cash register at the diner?
And then they had to stick a dirty spoon in there to discourage you just reaching in the bowl with your fingers?
And then they started individually wrapping them in packs of two?
I love those things
@catmisgivings @glasspusher @lionelb
Now I can't stop thinking about the way they are as hard as sand until suddenly all at once they *dissolve*
And there is nothing there but air.
