Lunch of suffering

What's wrong with raw vegetables?

 

A veggie tray and a tangy dip can get you some new friends, but crudités and tequila? Better watch your a**, doc...

Funny how it all flips around.

Count me in there too. Someday I will run an automotive themed sandwich shop, even if it's just a pop-up stand for a weekend. There will be a lightly buttered mayonnaise sandwich on pillowy white bread (crusts removed) named the Silver Lexus.

An edible tribute to executive indecisiveness.

Slice of processed cheese product or dab of sour cream $1 extra if you are really (considering the adaptive synergies of) going off the rails.

Good article, thanks for sharing. They are not wrong at all.

 

I just enjoy raw vegetables. I love crunchy carrots. For suffering, maybe they should try the over boiled, plain vegetables that was the norm while I was growing up.

 

Oh I'm there dude. I tend to enjoy large raw salads with lots of ingredients.

I grew up on the same boiled situation. I've got much higher standards for my own cooking now.

Just last night I grilled a mix of red bell peppers, long green beans, onions and mushrooms. Nice and roasty but on the plate well before mushy.

 

Just pointing out what they are seeing as a step down meal quality, could easily be a step up for the person.

I also don't my carrots and crackers with guac as a meal, but a snack.

 

Lunch for me is a toss salad with lots of healthy ingredients, maybe I’m not white, but I’m definitely not suffering.
I’m sure a Chinese lunch would feel like suffering, but it’s likely chicken

 

I think @hkmb 's linked article was mostly about uninspired, un-seasoned, lazily prepared, if even merely combined foods. No effort, no flavor.

The crackers and ham and processed cheese in a plastic bento blister is a pretty good example of the sad calories of last resort.

Now I recall somebody in Silicon Valley managed to launch a big company that was all about nutritious eating without any pesky flavor or texture.

It sounded positively ghastly. To each their own. I like food that makes me work and learn while I'm preparing it, makes it more enjoyable overall.

 

I’m sure many Americans food is bland and unhealthy, but why anyone would want to glom on to that, I have no idea.
But we have watched fast food proliferate around the world.
Our grandchildren have never been to McDonald’s, but their parents went once a week

 

The missus wanted something like an Egg McMuffin this morning; my attempt:


home made English Muffins too.

 

TV documentary told me that original Australians were exporting sea cucumbers to China even before Captain Cook Endeavoured to change things there.

Those are on my list of disfavored local cuisine. Not a short list, sadly. But I have some cultural baggage in BIOS, and that's that.

There are compelling reasons not to poke fun at cuisines of others, even if they seem to deserve it. Pots and woks are often both black on the outside and that's that.

 

sushi is popular here, not me though. what is american food? most people go out for ethnic

 

Some American foods are coast to coast but others are very local. Juicy Lucy come first to mind.

 

I suppose Oxford Mess is also a local item. Different country.

 

THE CITRÖEN: A roasted pork Bánh Mì in a crisp French baguette with shaved radishes, carrot slivers and pickled cucumber slices and a tiny glaze of sweet fermented sauce, with lime juice, cilantro and shaved jalapeño rings over top.

THE FIAT: Cheap bologna and American cheese slices. We saw you coming and knew we could rip you off easy. Scan QR code for timeshare info.

THE MUSTANG: Inexpensive, fast & satisfying, if a bit fatty and immature. Please don't ask what kind of meat it is, just buckle up.

 

Eton mess - I stand corrected.
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Raw vegetables (let's just say uncooked plant materials) have small roles in Chinese cuisine. Poop may have had a fertilizer role and in some way that is understood. Wherever crudities elsewhere appear, there is a presumption or certainty that consumers are free from risk. That means you. Here most everything is heated >60 oC, even if a microbiological basis is not recognized.
We miss some vegetal 'crunch'. We still roll dice about whether every mushroom in the mix was correctly identified because the wrong ones are not purified by that little heat.
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I like the idea of naming sandwiches for cars, and that could reach high enough when someone says ingredients of THE PRIUS.

 

Twenty please.