JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I don't want to go all Is It Worth It, but I had a three-cheese baked mac and cheese with truffle oil and breadcrumbs in Cheyenne, WY, and it was one of the best things I've ever tasted.
I mean, later that night I felt like my intestines were actually on fire, but when you fly too close to the sun sometimes you get burnt.
there's something about bougie versions of cheap foods that really makes me spit
"it's an artisnal mac and cheese" GO FUCK YOURSELF UP A PIPE YOU RICH FUCK
Taking what was simple food for the lower class and turning it into an expensive to-do is the essence of gourmet food.
Lobster used to be perceived as a bottom feeder that would stuff garbage in it's craw that you feed to prisoners and indentured servants. People in Boston started marketing it to well-to-do tourists from New York and Washington in the 1870s as a regional specialty.
You can actually see that today. PBR gets marketed like champagne in China and Spam is popular as a food in Guam and not a cheap substitute for brick mortar like it is here.
What really let lobster take off was the introduction of refrigerated train cars, allowing the transport of fresh lobster cross-country, where it could be sold as a pricey delicacy.
Sometimes you've got a craving for the cheap foods of your youth but you want to make them with real ingredients instead of eating something processed.
Isn't ramen an actual traditional food? Why wouldn't you have an upmarket version?
Like, ramen is real food, not just that dry 2 minute noodles stuff.
Fun fact: Ramen is actually a fairly recent invention! The first ramen restaurant in Japan opened in 1910, and the dish didn't really take off in popularity until after the invention of instant noodles in 1958!
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F...fancy pizza? Not Totino's party pizza? I'm confused here.
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No food is worth $79 dollars.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
i would say a significant amount of food billed high is overbilled (ignoring the discussion about labour costs and the question about how much someone who went to culinary schools for years should charge in our capitalist society after it demanded loan upon loan to pay for their education)
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One of my best friends was roommates with a cullinary student for a while. One day the guy brings home a super thin slice of ham that costs $100 per pound because the pigs are raised on a diet primarily consisting of walnuts and milk. Sure enough it tasted like walnuts but like...man just buy some walnuts.
im very mercenary when it comes to eating, I consider it a function like a sim bar, its not that I dont love me some delicious food, its just I have no cultural or familial attachements, nothing ceremonial, nostalgic or ritual when it comes to eating. For me whatever doesnt make me feel ill or unhealthy, and fills me up for the least amount of money, is what I like.
Also I decided to stop eating ham and such in solidarity with a vegan friend of mine, because I dont want to eat piggies anymore. Sorry cows and chickens youre still getting eaten.
I'd pay a premium for health food that doesn't taste like dirt
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One of my best friends was roommates with a cullinary student for a while. One day the guy brings home a super thin slice of ham that costs $100 per pound because the pigs are raised on a diet primarily consisting of walnuts and milk. Sure enough it tasted like walnuts but like...man just buy some walnuts.
they're called vitamins and minerals for a reason; why should I let all my nutrients go through some vegetable middleman
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Isn't ramen an actual traditional food? Why wouldn't you have an upmarket version?
Like, ramen is real food, not just that dry 2 minute noodles stuff.
Fun fact: Ramen is actually a fairly recent invention! The first ramen restaurant in Japan opened in 1910, and the dish didn't really take off in popularity until after the invention of instant noodles in 1958!
Funner fact: Ramen is heavily inspired by, if not outright copied from, Chinese La Mian noodles.
The origin of ramen is unclear. Some sources say it is of Chinese origin.[7][8][9] Other sources say it was invented in Japan in the early 20th century.[10][11][12] The word ramen is a Japanese borrowing of the Chinese lamian (拉麵).[13] Until the 1950s, ramen was called shina soba (支那そば, literally "Chinese soba") but today chūka soba (中華そば, also meaning "Chinese soba") or just Ramen (ラーメン) are more common, as the word "支那" (shina, meaning "China") has acquired a pejorative connotation.[4]
Isn't ramen an actual traditional food? Why wouldn't you have an upmarket version?
Like, ramen is real food, not just that dry 2 minute noodles stuff.
Fun fact: Ramen is actually a fairly recent invention! The first ramen restaurant in Japan opened in 1910, and the dish didn't really take off in popularity until after the invention of instant noodles in 1958!
Relatedly: Ramen is the cheap, late night, drunk food of Japan. It's the staple after bar food. There are good ramen places, don't get me wrong, but the most amazing ramen I ever ate in my life clocked in at around $10 tops in Japan.
Less fun fact: Japan most likely got its taste for ramen and their inspiration from China for it during their oppressive, brutal occupation of Chinese land during the Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII.
the most expensive fancy ramen i've had in sydney was about AUD$20, and most places clock in at $14 to $18. Like, it ain't the cheapest food you can have, but considering that the really nice places do all this amazingly soft cha-zu pork slices and stocks that are made from simmering things for 8 hours and whatnot i feel like it's a pretty good price.
They say that everyone must eat a handful of dirt before they die.
If I just eat the handful all at once that means I get to have dirt-free food the rest of my life, right?
I thought it was bucket of dirt.
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At the end of the day, it's people's money and I don't think you get too much upset over 79 dollar ramen. You can not eat it, and at that stage it isn't as if they are throwing gold leaf and shit in there to make it more expensive.
It's 79 dollars for three courses by a top shelf chef. Sure you can buy 79 cent ramen that is pressed out of a machine and is deep fried in fat to make it last with a bunch of powder to give it flavour, but what that dude is something that is quite clearly done with passion and time. I guarantee you that stock that the majority of the day to make, and those noodles he said, took days to do.
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I once had a meal by a five star chef that was five courses, heavily discounted, and it cost five hundred dollars.
And I felt like I had stolen food from the Elysian Fields. It was absolutely worth it.
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If I'm paying $79 for a single dish it better either:
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I mean, later that night I felt like my intestines were actually on fire, but when you fly too close to the sun sometimes you get burnt.
Taking what was simple food for the lower class and turning it into an expensive to-do is the essence of gourmet food.
Lobster used to be perceived as a bottom feeder that would stuff garbage in it's craw that you feed to prisoners and indentured servants. People in Boston started marketing it to well-to-do tourists from New York and Washington in the 1870s as a regional specialty.
You can actually see that today. PBR gets marketed like champagne in China and Spam is popular as a food in Guam and not a cheap substitute for brick mortar like it is here.
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Like, ramen is real food, not just that dry 2 minute noodles stuff.
Fun fact: Ramen is actually a fairly recent invention! The first ramen restaurant in Japan opened in 1910, and the dish didn't really take off in popularity until after the invention of instant noodles in 1958!
Holy shit disagree.
A) Be delicious and filling. If I'm still hungry at the end, you have failed
or
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I would not buy $79 egg nog though.
i would say a significant amount of food billed high is overbilled (ignoring the discussion about labour costs and the question about how much someone who went to culinary schools for years should charge in our capitalist society after it demanded loan upon loan to pay for their education)
Also I decided to stop eating ham and such in solidarity with a vegan friend of mine, because I dont want to eat piggies anymore. Sorry cows and chickens youre still getting eaten.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I wonder if that would set off my nut allergy?
A very expensive and possibly painful experiment.
they're called vitamins and minerals for a reason; why should I let all my nutrients go through some vegetable middleman
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
If I just eat the handful all at once that means I get to have dirt-free food the rest of my life, right?
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Oh you've never gone for your yearly mudspoonful? In this day and age. Better eat two handfuls, to make up for it
Funner fact: Ramen is heavily inspired by, if not outright copied from, Chinese La Mian noodles.
sounds plausible
Relatedly: Ramen is the cheap, late night, drunk food of Japan. It's the staple after bar food. There are good ramen places, don't get me wrong, but the most amazing ramen I ever ate in my life clocked in at around $10 tops in Japan.
Less fun fact: Japan most likely got its taste for ramen and their inspiration from China for it during their oppressive, brutal occupation of Chinese land during the Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII.
and Chinese foods that are accepted, but known as Chinese and not Japanese in the slight. Like steamed buns.
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I thought it was bucket of dirt.
It's 79 dollars for three courses by a top shelf chef. Sure you can buy 79 cent ramen that is pressed out of a machine and is deep fried in fat to make it last with a bunch of powder to give it flavour, but what that dude is something that is quite clearly done with passion and time. I guarantee you that stock that the majority of the day to make, and those noodles he said, took days to do.
Satans..... hints.....
And I felt like I had stolen food from the Elysian Fields. It was absolutely worth it.
A) Have been a
Good thinking.
Better safe than sorry!
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