One time I talked to an acquaintance about why she hadn’t tried the best taco truck that I love that is literally next to her house.
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@meganL @skinnylatte I mean, I can taste a lot of flavor and texture nuance in stuff other people find really bland and it brings me a ton of pleasure but it’s things other people would absolutely describe as disgustingly flavorless.
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@bluestocking @meganL there’s a term used for some types of Chinese food that’s like ‘flavorful and bland’
I don’t think everything needs to be heavily seasoned, but I do want food to be made of good ingredients and made with care. My favorite food in the world is simply steamed fresh fish with just soy sauce. But every part of it has to be good to work.
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@skinnylatte I think cold climate relationships to food (and obviously available foods) are very different than tropical ones. Very different flavor personalities but deliciousness usually comes down to the quality of ingredients and someone being a good cook because they care about the food they're cooking. @aehdeschaine
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@fifilamoura @skinnylatte I'd agree. And I've actually really enjoyed learning about traditional Nordic cuisine! Not a fan of the fermented fish, but the broader preservation practices are fascinating, and the "Nordic diet" counterpart of Mediterranean is really interesting, too. And spice DOES have a long history in the cuisine, but in specific places.
I admit the most flavorful explorations I've done have been in mostly-warmer cuisines. But living in the PNW's growing season really helps!
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@fifilamoura @skinnylatte It is interesting that, the more I explore, say Chinese or Mediterranean or Middle Eastern food, the less I crave the few "traditional" foods from childhood. I always want to find a jazzier version, and the craving becomes nostalgia but not culinary appreciation...
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@skinnylatte This sounds extreme for me! I understand spice, or a *specific* flavour, but I have never heard of someone not liking flavour full stop!
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@aehdeschaine @fifilamoura there’s a whole genre of food that is ‘Asians hired by colonial Europeans to make food for them, ended up jazzing up their food’
I love Hainanese ‘British’ food, it’s so fun. It’s like curry chicken pot pies and black pepper steaks and really old school food from the early 1900s with more pepper and curry and soy sauce
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@sashin @skinnylatte having spent a few years in the Midwest in the 70s, I can concur that the (mostly) Norwegian-Americans I knew did not like seasoning. It was really odd.
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@kimlockhartga @sashin oh you were there for peak flavor fear too. Also when they were afraid of fat I think
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One time I saw an internet discussion about ‘what are some things that cause your society to ostracize you?’
The Americans said ‘not liking dogs’
The Singaporeans said ‘not liking food’
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@skinnylatte the. lack. of. flavor. comforting … I’m… I’m speechless.
That might explain British food.
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@aulia these people tend to be Nordic descended tho. I don’t usually associate the Nordics with worse food than the UK, but there is something about suffering and food and not allowing yourself to enjoy anything that is very interesting. (I blame Lutheranism. Some Dutch and Germans are like this too)
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@skinnylatte I’m still dumbfounded
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@aulia this helped
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@aulia honestly just fascinated. I want to go and eat all these things in fascination
All the stuff with cheese looks fine
14 Midwestern Foods That Confuse The Fuck Outta Everyone Else
Canned pineapple + marshmallows + whipped topping = a salad.
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@skinnylatte religions can really ruin people
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@aulia I don’t get it. You couldn’t get me to convert to a cult or religion if great and amazing food wasn’t part of the deal
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I know someone from Saskatchewan who, when he was his a kid, his mom did not use seasonings. Like not even the mildest of herbs
He's old now, but he still cooks that way. It's just what tastes good to him
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@NilaJones I would be fine with that if people also got the best ingredients!
