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There's Actually Zero Difference Between Good & [Bad] Food

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited October 2022
    Karl wrote: »
    Let us all bond over our love of spicy fried chicken.

    Hot wings are my go to from any fried chicken place because the large pieces of chicken (say drumstick and thigh) are usually "southern fried" and therefore not as spicy.


    CAVEAT: This is a UK thing, I bet the US has the comment sense TO MAKE THE BIG CHICKEN ALSO SPICEY WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I GET BIG SPICEY CHICKEN.

    Karl wrote: »
    Let us all bond over our love of spicy fried chicken.

    Hot wings are my go to from any fried chicken place because the large pieces of chicken (say drumstick and thigh) are usually "southern fried" and therefore not as spicy.


    CAVEAT: This is a UK thing, I bet the US has the comment sense TO MAKE THE BIG CHICKEN ALSO SPICEY WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I GET BIG SPICEY CHICKEN.


    I'm not sure about commercial meat chicken farms in other parts of the world, but selective breeding has made some absolutely monstrous meat golem chickens in the USA, if you ever see one of these poor bastards, you will be very upset

    I've made my peace with that evil. when I was a little kid and there was that like "oh they can't call themselves Kentucky Fried Chicken because they've bred like, crazy chickens with extra legs, and they're not technically chicken anymore so they call themselves KFC."

    I was like "oh gross, sounds correct, whatever. chew chew chew"

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited October 2022
    Nashville Hot chicken is maybe one of my favorite forms of speecy spicy chicken now and I spring for it whenever it's an option.

    I think the "traditional" Nashville, Tennessee method is to mix up a sort of paste with lard and just a fuck ton of cayenne pepper, but I've seen it vary a lot regionally.

    Edit: Frank's Hot Sauce sells bottles of the stuff that probably isn't anywhere near authentic but I use it a ton! I just chop up chicken thighs and either pan or air fry them in a light cornstarch or flour coating and then slather is a quarter bottle of the stuff. Makes a dope chicken wrap.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I want to eat some spicy chicken

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  • JimBobtheMonkeyJimBobtheMonkey Registered User regular
    Karl wrote: »
    Nashville hot chicken is definitely a thing. A spicy delicious thing

    I will keep an eye out for it, but considering this is the first I've heard of it?

    Probably not a common thing in the UK.

    I love. Spicy fried chicken

    https://www.louieshotchicken.com

    I can't speak to the quality, but this looks pretty damn tasty.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I want to eat some spicy chicken

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  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    Karl wrote: »
    Nashville hot chicken is definitely a thing. A spicy delicious thing

    I will keep an eye out for it, but considering this is the first I've heard of it?

    Probably not a common thing in the UK.

    I love. Spicy fried chicken

    https://www.louieshotchicken.com

    I can't speak to the quality, but this looks pretty damn tasty.

    Of course it's in Hoxton

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  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    Gokesque

    Also I got them from Wingstop

    They honestly weren't the spiciest but I really like the Louisiana rub they got there

    Wish I could make it at home

    Louisiana rub eh? I would think that's most likely Tony chacheres.

    I used to loooove buffalo but the regional specialty is lemon pepper and I'm a convert. They toss it in butter instead of doing a dry rub and booooy are they good.

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  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    I want to know about the crunch rating on that fish and chips. I need to live vicariously through others right now.

    The batter was practically levitating off the fish. It was soooo light and solo crispy. No lemons but plenty of malt vinegar and this is going to sound gross but i have lemon powder I bring with. Solid.

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  • hlprmnkyhlprmnky Registered User regular
    Jokerman wrote: »
    Louisiana rub eh? I would think that's most likely Tony chacheres.

    That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time …a long time.

    I used to bring a can of that with me to the college dining hall for application to literally anything (I went to school in Iowa, which compounded the normally pusillanimous nature of recipes for mass consumption).

    I quit caring about Tony Chachere’s when they updated their packaging from the 1960s line drawing of T. Chachere to some mid-00s lookin’ self-parody. Partially because my palette has gone more to the “put some more Sambal Olelek in it, no sir I said more, I said …well, there’s your problem, you got one o’ them tiny bottles smaller than a soup can back there” and partially because I simply assume they let the magic fade when they took the time and money to “update their look”.

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    Ugn, eventually I'll remember that cooking off meat I'm worried about (for no reason other than anxiety) is more wasteful than just letting it go off, at least if it's pork or chicken. I think I've had better luck powering through pork or chicken that my anxiety was telling me might be off than I have eating more than a few bites of anything with an intense warmed-over-flavor.
    hlprmnky wrote: »
    Jokerman wrote: »
    Louisiana rub eh? I would think that's most likely Tony chacheres.

    That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time …a long time.

    I used to bring a can of that with me to the college dining hall for application to literally anything (I went to school in Iowa, which compounded the normally pusillanimous nature of recipes for mass consumption).

    I quit caring about Tony Chachere’s when they updated their packaging from the 1960s line drawing of T. Chachere to some mid-00s lookin’ self-parody. Partially because my palette has gone more to the “put some more Sambal Olelek in it, no sir I said more, I said …well, there’s your problem, you got one o’ them tiny bottles smaller than a soup can back there” and partially because I simply assume they let the magic fade when they took the time and money to “update their look”.

    I put it on everything. It's not like I don't know how to season food, even, I just end up using Tony Chachere's anyway. Chicken, burgers, fish, whatever.

    The exception being, like, if I want a beef or pork steak with italian dressing, Worcestershire, salt, and pepper.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I'll have to look for that stuff and try it

    It it's that good I'll probably always keep some around

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Kamar wrote: »
    Ugn, eventually I'll remember that cooking off meat I'm worried about (for no reason other than anxiety) is more wasteful than just letting it go off, at least if it's pork or chicken. I think I've had better luck powering through pork or chicken that my anxiety was telling me might be off than I have eating more than a few bites of anything with an intense warmed-over-flavor.

    Hm. Reading that article makes me ponder if maybe I'd be better off cooking chicken in smaller batches - like even just one breast - as I need/want it, rather than putting several in the Instant Pot and then into the fridge to have over the course of a week, as has been my habit/practice.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited October 2022
    My introduction to Nashville Hot Chicken was Season 2 of Mind of a Chef in which Sean Brock and a pal go get some from the OG place and order the extra hot
    https://youtu.be/u9ztecYHFwU

    "Go ahead and put the toilet paper in the freezer now"

    Edit: I should watch that season again. I thoroughly recommend it. It also features the scene where Sean takes Tony Bourdain to Waffle House which is another all timer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEpXeTDwbk8

    Edit 2: Oh wait, shit that was on Parts Unknown!

    #pipe on
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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I like boneless buffalo wings

    I ain't got time for all that mess and bone and chewy parts and performing cunnilingus on that little gap in the middle to get the middle meats.

    that said, I could eat a Goku-nian amount of boneless buffalo wings

    Boneless buffalo wings are chicken nuggets. Not that there's anything wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's still weird they are marketed as different things.

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  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    I like boneless buffalo wings

    I ain't got time for all that mess and bone and chewy parts and performing cunnilingus on that little gap in the middle to get the middle meats.

    that said, I could eat a Goku-nian amount of boneless buffalo wings

    Boneless buffalo wings are chicken nuggets. Not that there's anything wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's still weird they are marketed as different things.

    I've always associated "nugget" with the chicken leftovers swept up around the slaughterhouse machines, ground into a paste, and compressed into a slightly rubbery puck, like what you get at McDonalds. Boneless wings are at least pieces of identifiable breast meat.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    I like boneless buffalo wings

    I ain't got time for all that mess and bone and chewy parts and performing cunnilingus on that little gap in the middle to get the middle meats.

    that said, I could eat a Goku-nian amount of boneless buffalo wings

    Boneless buffalo wings are chicken nuggets. Not that there's anything wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's still weird they are marketed as different things.

    I've always associated "nugget" with the chicken leftovers swept up around the slaughterhouse machines, ground into a paste, and compressed into a slightly rubbery puck, like what you get at McDonalds. Boneless wings are at least pieces of identifiable breast meat.

    There's no industry-wide standard for it, I think. Some places will use processed chicken for boneless wings, and some will specifically say they're using whole meat pieces. As far as I'm concerned if you have to state your boneless wings are whole meat, that means the base definition is processed.

    It's basically nuggets vs tenders. If the terminology wanted to be accurate, I'd say you should call them chicken tender bites or something if you wanted to claim your boneless wings were whole meat pieces.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    I like boneless buffalo wings

    I ain't got time for all that mess and bone and chewy parts and performing cunnilingus on that little gap in the middle to get the middle meats.

    that said, I could eat a Goku-nian amount of boneless buffalo wings

    Boneless buffalo wings are chicken nuggets. Not that there's anything wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's still weird they are marketed as different things.

    I've always associated "nugget" with the chicken leftovers swept up around the slaughterhouse machines, ground into a paste, and compressed into a slightly rubbery puck, like what you get at McDonalds. Boneless wings are at least pieces of identifiable breast meat.

    I thought Boneless wings were small cut up chicken tenders?

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    I like boneless buffalo wings

    I ain't got time for all that mess and bone and chewy parts and performing cunnilingus on that little gap in the middle to get the middle meats.

    that said, I could eat a Goku-nian amount of boneless buffalo wings

    Boneless buffalo wings are chicken nuggets. Not that there's anything wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's still weird they are marketed as different things.

    I've always associated "nugget" with the chicken leftovers swept up around the slaughterhouse machines, ground into a paste, and compressed into a slightly rubbery puck, like what you get at McDonalds. Boneless wings are at least pieces of identifiable breast meat.

    Goddamn do I love swept up unidentifiable chicken bits compressed into a rubbery puck and then deep fried in what is probably actually petroleum based oils.


    I am very hungry right now.

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    Karl wrote: »
    Nashville hot chicken is definitely a thing. A spicy delicious thing

    I will keep an eye out for it, but considering this is the first I've heard of it?

    Probably not a common thing in the UK.

    I love. Spicy fried chicken

    Nashville style chicken places have been popping up all over the US really quickly lately. Kind of a fad we have going on (a delicious fad). I bet someone will make one near you eventually.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    I like boneless buffalo wings

    I ain't got time for all that mess and bone and chewy parts and performing cunnilingus on that little gap in the middle to get the middle meats.

    that said, I could eat a Goku-nian amount of boneless buffalo wings

    Boneless buffalo wings are chicken nuggets. Not that there's anything wrong with chicken nuggets, but it's still weird they are marketed as different things.

    I've always associated "nugget" with the chicken leftovers swept up around the slaughterhouse machines, ground into a paste, and compressed into a slightly rubbery puck, like what you get at McDonalds. Boneless wings are at least pieces of identifiable breast meat.

    I thought Boneless wings were small cut up chicken tenders?

    There's no standard. Like if you go to your freezer section at the grocery store you'll likely find either type.

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  • JimBobtheMonkeyJimBobtheMonkey Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    I thought Boneless wings were small cut up chicken tenders?
    There's no standard. Like if you go to your freezer section at the grocery store you'll likely find either type.
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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    At least they have the temerity to call them Wyngz! Just let people know they're not actually wings, they're something else.

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  • TayaTaya Registered User regular
    Buffalo don’t even have wings herherher

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited October 2022
    They are just from really buff chickens

    These chickens aren't chicken about going to the iron church and putting in some reps

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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    I blame you guys for the fact that I bought a big bag of chicken(?) tenders(?) just now at the grocery store.

    Was gonna buy some of the store's boneless not-wing trays they didn't have any cold and I didn't want to interact with the deli.

    Normal chicken tenders dipped in ranch+hot sauce, or bbq, or ketchup, or honey mustard isn't a bad compromise anyway.

  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    You ever tried skipping the mustard and dunking your fried chicken right into the honey?

    It good.

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    mustard is gross, honey owns

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  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    mustard is gross, honey owns

    ....what do you put on brautwurst?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    I like bratwurst with no condiment

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  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    edited October 2022
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    mustard is gross, honey owns

    Tonight I will be combining them. TO FORM HONEY MUSTARD curry CHICKEN.

    2 T. butter
    ¼ C honey
    3 T. Dijon mustard
    2 tsp. curry powder
    ½ tsp. salt

    Melt, combine, cover chicken with it, bake.

    At the end you have this sauce that tastes like crack when you put it on rice.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    I haven't bought more rice yet, can I just dip the chicken straight into the sauce?

  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    I mean. The chicken is cooked in it. So yes.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    and when I get breaded tenders at the store deli, they're always offering me sauces to dip it in. so I guess that's a thing some people do.
    (I tend to just eat them straight; when they're nice and fresh, they're delicious as-is.)

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  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    I made a chicken and chorizo 'paella' with hot italian sausage cos the butcher was out of chorizo.. and i say 'paella' because I was following the recipe from the side of the jar of sauce so it's probably only an approximation, but with a big ol' habanero added in it sure tastes fine.

  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    I mean. The chicken is cooked in it. So yes.

    I missed that part.

  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    If you find that your bad food is too bad, try Sambal Balado. It obliterates bad flavours!



    Mainly cos I put twice as many little chillies in there than the recipe says to. Also you can use Jalapenos for the large chillies, it works good.

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  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    [BAD] food thread, Mrs. The Jokerman is out of town. Do I make Salmon patties and eat them for two or three days? Y\N

    Also should I document said Salmon Patties? Y\N

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    Taya wrote: »
    Buffalo don’t even have wings herherher

    well not after we ate them all, no

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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    If I saw something called Wyngz, my immediate thought would be that it was a vegan alternative to chicken.

    Having said that, however, the presence of "Boneless" would then be very puzzling indeed.

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  • OdinOdin Registered User regular
    Bonzless Wongz®

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