There's off brand Kool-aid called Flavor-aid. It confused me when I saw it at a friend's house as a kid and that's part of how I came to realize we were at least living Kool-aid rich.
Especially when you could wrap a whole steak in it for 15 bucks yourself lol. They literally sell you a 10 dollar steak with 15 dollars of gold on it for 1500 bucks.
I get that it looks cool and would certainly be an experience but you can get 100 pieces of fake (edible) gold leaf (14cm × 14cm) on amazon for just 6,69€ and it looks the exact same.
It may be gold but probably contains trace elements of all kinds of other metals. Gold leaf is a suspect food item and should probably be avoided unless it is proven to be pure, then it's just a dumb thing to eat.
Fun unrelated fact: one time I was cleaning my weed grinder and i used a safety pin to scrape the corners. I got a miniscule amount out and rolled it up, not noticing that I also scraped off some paint and aluminium. I smoked it and had a headache for like a day straight and also I think I still have lung damage
That's what gets me every time when Reddit enters its obligatory circlejerk about gold leaf on wedding cakes. Like, do you numbnuts know how involved making even just halfway decent buttercream or sugar paste decorations is? Or how expensive real flowers are that haven't been treated with a ton of fertiliser and whatnot?
In the context of elaborate wedding cakes a little food safe gold leaf may very well be the reasonably priced choice.
It looks pretty and complements food presentation if used in moderation (like a tiny tiny spec on your cake to add extra color and sparkle).
Wrapping a whole steak in gold leaf is garish and dumb.
Ortolan. It is a small songbird that's drowned in cognac then cooked whole and eaten whole. The eating is done by placing a napkin over the face, they say to hide the diner from the eyes of God because it's such a sinful food, but in reality it's because watching someone shove a whole bird into their mouth and chew it including beak and bones, is not a pretty sight.
To the extent that you're okay with eating meat, there's a lot of cruelty free foie gras. If given the opportunity, geese and ducks will happily gorge themselves to absurd degrees.
People complain about foie gras but they'll eat beef from cattle that spent most their life standing shoulder to shoulder in cow shit.
If you want to eat meat that's fine, I still do although I'm trying to quit, I think that decision is ultimately a personal one, but don't pretend that standard factory farming methods are any better than foie gras
I imagine the poor little bird inhales and swallows a bunch of the cognac while it's drowning so it sorta marinates on the inside as well. Pretty fucked up.
You don't "shove" an ortolan. You, like, make out with it. [It's downright uncomfortable to watch](https://youtu.be/SEPMuyGe7dg). The napkin's also because munching on a juicy, succulent, cognac-soaked whole ass animal gets pretty messy.
It should be noted that hunting (and therefore preparing and consuming) ortolan has been illegal in France since 1999 and the whole EU since 2007.
This is Maite Ordonez, a legend in the world of French cooking. She was a pure product of the French countryside, and dedicated her life to preserving and spreading her traditions
Man, this is fucked up but the idea of symbolically hiding your face from the eyes of God as you devour this deliciously disgraceful delicacy is kind of darkly hilarious to me.
Gordon Ramsey did a little documentary on it and when he tasted it, he said it tastes like nothing. The flavour is akin to glass noodles. At least it’s not a common dish and is really only eaten for special occasions like birthdays, but it’s still cruel.
He liked the broth itself, but he said you could have anything in there, chicken, beef, etc.. he hated the shark fin.
Also, he went out on the boats with these people. Just him and his camera people. I don't think people realize that if they knew what he was truly doing, they would have thrown him overboard.
I'm Chinese and grew up having sharkfin on special occasions. It is an incredibly tasty soup but the fin adds nothing to the soups flavor. As an adult who gets to make my own choices about the cruelty of my food I love imitation shark fin soup, where you make the same soup you just add glass noodles for texture instead of fin.
When I would go visit family in Singapore as a kid we would have shark fin soup. Went back a few years ago and had some imitation shark fin soup and tasted the same as I remembered it. Literally no reason for them to just cut off the sharks fin.
I think if I wanted to chew on cartilage, I'd just ask them to throw a beef ear into the broth. You get two per slaughtered cow, and the only competition for them is for dog chews.
70-100 million sharks annually. That's 192,000 per day or **132 sharks every second** (minimum).
[https://www.sharks.org/massacre-for-soup](https://www.sharks.org/massacre-for-soup)
This is the answer. At least if you're going to do it, kill the damn shark and eat the rest of its body too. Just cutting the fins off and letting them swim to their deaths is so inhumane it's appalling.
Truthfully, as someone got strong armed into trying it by accident, there is a absolutely no flavor, it tastes like a bland jelly, and the consistency is just weird. It's like an egg drop soup but with worse additives. It's purely a wealth and social class flex for the cultures that do consume it
What makes this tasty is the broth which doesn't derive any taste from the fin itself, you wouldn't lose anything without the sharks fin. Its just a way to 'show off'.
He's a chef, whose arrogance and pretension outweighs his cooking talent by at least a factor of 100.
He's a relatively good butcher - certainly good enough to get a job in a shop, or out the back of a supermarket - but has no real idea for what makes good food.
Wonderful (but overhyped) ingredients treated stupidly.
(I mean - wagyu burgers? Who the fuck thought of that. The whole point of wagyu is the marbling, and you lose that completely when you throw it through the grinder. All you're left with is fatty mince (ground beef). The fat is supposedly "different" - but given how much wagyu tallow goes for, how much of that will actually be in your burger?)
I’m sure the burgers are made from scraps leftover from the cutting of steaks etc. This is how it was done when I worked in the meat dept of a grocery store
Excuse me, could you please take that back and apologise? Whatever he is, he's not a chef. Even a line cook at Applebee's who microwaves steaks for a living has a better claim to the term "chef" than that grease stain.
Gold is the dumbest fucking trend I have ever seen in food. Any restaurant that uses gold in their food is not worth visiting unless you want to post on social media telling everyone you have money to waste on sub par food.
A damn fine cuppa joe, but a weird enough story that I’m not that excited.
I believe these can be harvested humanely however. It’s basically collecting droppings from the animals’ natural feeding cycle.
Yeah, by all accounts it barely changes the flavour and doesn't have any particularly distinctive qualities.
It's not like people traditionally did it because it tasted good, it originates from workers taking civit shit home and rinsing it off to get free coffee. They would have drank the non-shitty coffee if they could.
Back in the day civets were better at finding ripe cherries to eat, which would then make better coffee after they were cleaned and processed.
Now that we have better automated processes for sorting there’s no real reason other than the novelty of it. Well… no real reason other than you enjoy the severe animal cruelty that is now prevalent in the industry.
I went to a workshop with an award winning barista. He said that the reason the beans were better is because the animals would be able to select the better ones via smell. Nothing to do with it passing through their digestive systems. Now that the civets are caged and fed the beans, they don’t even get to pick the good ones, so they’re living in captivity and people are drinking poop coffee all for nothing.
Chicago you can find very cheap takeout. Just get away from downtown. There's a ton of mom and pops shops. Sure Kumas $16 burgers are good, but I'll take phils fatso last stand. $4.50 for burger and fries.
In this economy? Regular nonorganic beef at regular grocery stores near me are $8 lb. Tubes are like $.50 less. I reluctantly switched to ground turkey
Anything where an animal has to be tortured to create the food. In this particular case I don’t mean “the animal was kept in horrific conditions while it was alive,” but “a key part of the process of creating this food is torturing the animal.”
"For centuries, a rite of passage for French gourmets was the eating of the Ortolan. These tiny birds—captured alive, force-fed, then drowned in Armagnac—were roasted whole and eaten that way, bones and all, while the diner draped his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and, some believe, to hide from God."
Why bird needs to be drowned alive in Armagnac?
You could just kill them before.
I can’t imagine any future version of myself that wants to eat any small animal whole (like they eat the bones and shit too???? Wtf) let alone one that’s been gratuitously tortured too
Have you had deep fried small yellow croakers before? They’re little fish that are very common where I live and when you deep fry them the bones become really crispy and they taste amazing.
You sent me on a bit of a rabbithole...
So. Amazingly, foie gras, despite the french name and french popularity - is an Ancient Egyptian invention, and later popularized in Ancient Greece, and it's been practiced by rich folk (it's always been a rich people food from start to finish apparently) for centuries, MILLENIA even.
And yeah, the Ancient Egyptians and all the others DID do the forcefeeding thing too D: I really did think this was a rather "new" culinary invention maybe going back a few hundred years. Holy shit!
There is ethically produced foie gras from just regular wild or free-range ducks/geese, but yeah, I agree that force feeding foie gras production should absolutely be outlawed.
Theyre not really expensive, but rocky mountain oysters. They're fried bull testicles and they basically taste like a beef chicken nugget. Not worth the hype, and a strange part to eat.
Always enjoyed them. Chicken gizzards, too. There was no hype for these things growing up, just another part of the animal we ate. We also had “lengua” sausage, aka chorizo quite frequently.
I like them, but don’t particularly get excited about them. But honestly, they’re castrating the cattle anyway, so I’d say people eating them is a good thing. Better than throwing them in the trash.
Funny story to add- growing up in a small town we would have a testicle festival (edit because I’m pretty sure auto correct did the auto correct thing and I didn’t re read it before I posted) every single year. People would drive down from Canada just to eat some balls. We weren’t allowed to wear any shirts from the festival to school however! I remember when someone tried to- they made them flip their shirt inside out… and you could still see the words so it ended up covered in duct tape for the day. Lol.
If you live in Eastern Europe, especially Russia, it tends to be pretty cheap. It's an acquired taste, Ill admit. I really do like it though, on rye bread with a pickle on side.
Ikea sells a really good fake caviar. Made out of alges. I bought it once and bunch of my friends without knowing it's fake ate the whole thing before I even tasted it. I buy it now from time to time. It's great with some crackers, and I don't feel icky by eating thousands of tiny fish eggs.
Haha yes, they have that little "swedish store" usually near the entrance and they sell bunch of swedish food. They have these two types of "seaweed pearls": big orange ones, and tiny black ones. It was a huge surprise to find it there by accident but now every time I'm there I take one or two jars just in case.
a russian friend growing up introduced me to those big orange caviar + unsalted butter on pumpernickel bread. shockingly balanced and not what i was expecting. have definitely tried some i don’t love tho. will stick to roe on reasonably priced sushi lol. but now i guess i need to go to ikea!
It's one of those things I feel like I'm craving even before I've actually tried it. I still haven't had the real thing, just various other kinds of more affordable salty roe. Actually have some Greek shit in my fridge right now, the name escapes me as well as what I was gonna make with it. Ill figure it out tomorrow. It's cheap shit though so not for eating straight.
But I digress. soon as I have like $200 I can afford to drop on an experience, I'm gonna do it right, mother of pearl caviar spoon and everything.
I just wanna put out that I’m not a vegan or a vegetarian but if you are anti veal, you should be cutting dairy too as it runs comorbid with the veal industry (they gotta get the cows pregnant to make milk and the babies gotta go somewhere); you can’t support dairy without indirectly supporting veal, unless you get your dairy right off your farm
I went to a high end restaurant once with a friend. This was my first time in that particular restaurant. We sat at the bar and were talking to the bartender and the owner/Chef showed up to the bar. He joined in the convo, we ended up talking about food dishes that we didn’t like in general. I brought up foie Gras, I had it once before and I couldn’t get through the first bite. It just was not a good taste and the texture was off putting. When the owner/chef heard that he said, “wait, you prob had either bad quality or it wasn’t prepared correctly”. He actually said we have foie Gras on our menu, I will go in the back and make our dish and let you try it. I was like ok, awesome. They actually have a farm where they keep ducks specifically for foie Gras. So I knew the quality was gonna be top notch. About 15 mins later he brought it out and watched as I tried it. As soon as I bit into it, I thought “ I’m such as asshole”. Not only was this a dish that prob cost $75 and he made for free for me to try, It tasted no different than my first time trying it. But obv I couldn’t tell him that and said it was really good. Had 2 more bites and when he left to go back to the kitchen, I gave the rest to my friend. Now to his credit the quality of the dish was way better the 2nd time around, but the flavor was not something I would really enjoy again.
Sea Cucumber. It's a caterpillar/worm from the ocean that looks like snot on the plate. It tastes like if processed American cheese was left in the sun for the day and then wrapped around soggy tofu. It was served at my wedding and worst dish of my life maybe? Super popular in Asia though.
Right? Not expensive either, just need a ditch, flashlight, and a pointy pole or long net. Might also want a fishing license if you're going to be visible to the public
> truffle oil
The overwhelming majority of truffle oil isn't actually made with truffles. It's a chemical concoction created in a lab that is supposed to mimic the smell of truffles.
I remember watching Chopped (Food Network TV) and listening to the judges grown every time a chef would add truffle oil to a dish. Nearly every chef that did it ended up getting chopped for that dish alone. You basically knew who was going home after that round.
Love having truffles when in France, they’re cheap, plentiful, and used sparingly. The French have not heard of truffle oil.
In the US (I’m in NYC) I won’t touch the stuff. A single ‘truffle addition’ will cost more than the whole meal would have in France. And there, they just bring out a whole truffle and let you have a go.
I don't understand how any of the people eating at Salt Bae's restaurant can enjoy what he is giving them at those prices. Paying thousands of extra dollars just because this guy was in a viral video? Give me a fucking break.
A5 Japanese Wagyu, it’s too god damn rich, a few bites is more than enough, maybe Australian or American is a little more tame
Edit: since people are seeing this, if you didn’t know dry age has a “funk” to it that might catch you off guard, still good, just not might be what you think.
Japan actually set up cooperative Wagyu growing in Australia. We'd grow and butcher it to their standards and then send it over to them.
Just a half decade before that, we were advertising our lean beef (grassfed) as healthier and more flavourful (It is).
Now nearly every Australian beef animal gets funnelled through feed lots. :(
Farmer near me in the US raises Wagyu to Japanese standard to reduce the price of shipping and insures freshness, he sells a single head for $20-25k, where Japanese raised is closer to $30k
I mean, A5 is supposed to be just be a few bites. You aren’t supposed to eat it like you would a ribeye, strip, etc. if you ate it as a full entree, as you would with a regular steak, you ate it wrong.
There was a bar in New York that I really liked - connected to an upscale Korean BBQ place that sold basically 'tasting cubes' of their fanciest beef options you could buy one by one and it was always the perfect amount in the end.
The local Japanese restaurant sells its as a nigiri sushi and it’s absolutely phenomenal. I’m quite happy to eat 200g of it though so I don’t mind either way
Isn’t “a few bites is more than enough” a huge positive though, and part of the selling point of the product? Usually in Japan you only have a piece of two as aburi sushi or a box of playing cards sized piece cooked on a teppan.
Yes - it’s super marbled and when cooked properly the fat melts and gives a rich buttery taste . Eat too much and you’ll feel a bit unwell from how rich it is .
It makes me sad. I watched a video once and the baby started struggling when soy sauce was out on it, then struggled not to be put into the guys mouth, like tentacles grasping at his mouth to keep from being swallowed. It has sat with me all these years :c
I'm not even sure if it is even expensive but that dish where they have a live monkey and bash it's head open to eat the brain while it is alive.
Edit: I'm going to keep this up but shortly after I posted this I found out it was in fact fake. I'll stick with the answer of brain matter from any animal.
After scrolling for a bit, ive determined im too poor to participate in this discussion. Good day
No shit. Give me a fried bologna sandwich and some Kool Aid and I'm a happy guy.
whoa, Kool-aid look at mr.moneybags over here
Fine, I'll just squirt margarita mix into a glass of water.
There's off brand Kool-aid called Flavor-aid. It confused me when I saw it at a friend's house as a kid and that's part of how I came to realize we were at least living Kool-aid rich.
Yeah, I dislike consuming "Fancy" food because it's be wasted on me.
Anything with gold leaf on it
It literally tastes like nothing. People just use it as excuse to jack up prices, so Im with you on this!
Especially when you could wrap a whole steak in it for 15 bucks yourself lol. They literally sell you a 10 dollar steak with 15 dollars of gold on it for 1500 bucks.
Closer to a dollar. Probably less.
You’re absolutely right. I found a site that sells 5 leaves for $15 but 500 leaves for $825, so $1.65/leaf to wrap a steak in gold.
I have seen packs of 100 for less than 20 AUD. It was one of the first results on google.
I get that it looks cool and would certainly be an experience but you can get 100 pieces of fake (edible) gold leaf (14cm × 14cm) on amazon for just 6,69€ and it looks the exact same.
That's real gold on Amazon. Gold is able to get so shockingly thin that edible gold leaf is actually really cheap.
It may be gold but probably contains trace elements of all kinds of other metals. Gold leaf is a suspect food item and should probably be avoided unless it is proven to be pure, then it's just a dumb thing to eat.
If you only knew how many metals you ingest without knowing it on a regular basis
Gotta get your vitamin Hg from somewhere
Fun unrelated fact: one time I was cleaning my weed grinder and i used a safety pin to scrape the corners. I got a miniscule amount out and rolled it up, not noticing that I also scraped off some paint and aluminium. I smoked it and had a headache for like a day straight and also I think I still have lung damage
What a terrible grinder that they had paint on the inside, that's just asking for problems
That's what gets me every time when Reddit enters its obligatory circlejerk about gold leaf on wedding cakes. Like, do you numbnuts know how involved making even just halfway decent buttercream or sugar paste decorations is? Or how expensive real flowers are that haven't been treated with a ton of fertiliser and whatnot? In the context of elaborate wedding cakes a little food safe gold leaf may very well be the reasonably priced choice.
It looks pretty and complements food presentation if used in moderation (like a tiny tiny spec on your cake to add extra color and sparkle). Wrapping a whole steak in gold leaf is garish and dumb.
It is very pretty on brownies. But I don't see much difference between that and frosting. And if made from real pods, vanilla frosting may cost more.
That stuff isn’t even expensive we use that stuff all the time in Thailand at temples and such
Ortolan. It is a small songbird that's drowned in cognac then cooked whole and eaten whole. The eating is done by placing a napkin over the face, they say to hide the diner from the eyes of God because it's such a sinful food, but in reality it's because watching someone shove a whole bird into their mouth and chew it including beak and bones, is not a pretty sight.
What the actual fuck is the point of drowning it and who is sick enough to even do that?
The French
after all, they invented foie gras which is a solid piece of cruelty as well
To the extent that you're okay with eating meat, there's a lot of cruelty free foie gras. If given the opportunity, geese and ducks will happily gorge themselves to absurd degrees.
People complain about foie gras but they'll eat beef from cattle that spent most their life standing shoulder to shoulder in cow shit. If you want to eat meat that's fine, I still do although I'm trying to quit, I think that decision is ultimately a personal one, but don't pretend that standard factory farming methods are any better than foie gras
when they are drowning the bird. it is swallowing it and breathing it in so it flavors its insides. either way its horrible.
I imagine the poor little bird inhales and swallows a bunch of the cognac while it's drowning so it sorta marinates on the inside as well. Pretty fucked up.
You don't "shove" an ortolan. You, like, make out with it. [It's downright uncomfortable to watch](https://youtu.be/SEPMuyGe7dg). The napkin's also because munching on a juicy, succulent, cognac-soaked whole ass animal gets pretty messy. It should be noted that hunting (and therefore preparing and consuming) ortolan has been illegal in France since 1999 and the whole EU since 2007.
That was... fucking weird.
Much less than I expected though. I was expecting like a pigeon sized bird which would have been huge.
Dude fr. I was totally expecting some French chef to devour a fully-sized pigeon. Sorely disappointed.
Worst ASMR vid I've ever seen.
I think after watching that I'm going to get a call telling me that I'm going to die in seven days.
I'd rather drown a bird in cognac than watch that lady eat another one.
Can anyone translate the sweet nothings she's whispering to it while she holds it up to her cheek? Why the fuck?
I would, but trust me that you are better off not knowing
This is Maite Ordonez, a legend in the world of French cooking. She was a pure product of the French countryside, and dedicated her life to preserving and spreading her traditions
Man, this is fucked up but the idea of symbolically hiding your face from the eyes of God as you devour this deliciously disgraceful delicacy is kind of darkly hilarious to me.
I know. It's marvellous and I intend to eat all of my meals behind a veil from now on. "Pasta salad, but you do not know this, God"
tom and greg did this in succession it turned my stomach.
I had to look it up after seeing that because I honestly thought it was something Tom made up to make Greg look dumb.
Rich people eating stuff just to be cruel is nothing new, I’m afraid.
Greg was right to suggest California Pizza Kitchen.
Reading this is terrifying.
Blame the French
Good general life advice.
I'm pretty sure this was on American Dad
“Barbra does Celine! Barbra does Celine!!!!!”
Drowned in cognac? How do I volunteer to be one of the birds?
Did you miss the part about having your bones crushed?
I'm okay with it
If you put an add on craigslist I am sure someone is willing to accomodate you
FYI- This is illegal in both the US and the EU.
Shark fin soup. I don't care how tasty it is, it's absolutely cruel to cut off a sharks fin and drop it back in the oceab.
Gordon Ramsey did a little documentary on it and when he tasted it, he said it tastes like nothing. The flavour is akin to glass noodles. At least it’s not a common dish and is really only eaten for special occasions like birthdays, but it’s still cruel.
He liked the broth itself, but he said you could have anything in there, chicken, beef, etc.. he hated the shark fin. Also, he went out on the boats with these people. Just him and his camera people. I don't think people realize that if they knew what he was truly doing, they would have thrown him overboard.
I'm Chinese and grew up having sharkfin on special occasions. It is an incredibly tasty soup but the fin adds nothing to the soups flavor. As an adult who gets to make my own choices about the cruelty of my food I love imitation shark fin soup, where you make the same soup you just add glass noodles for texture instead of fin.
Yesss imitation sharks fin soup is the best and I dare the average Joe to try and find the difference.
I'd rather just go imitation right off the bat and never try the real stuff.
When I would go visit family in Singapore as a kid we would have shark fin soup. Went back a few years ago and had some imitation shark fin soup and tasted the same as I remembered it. Literally no reason for them to just cut off the sharks fin.
I think if I wanted to chew on cartilage, I'd just ask them to throw a beef ear into the broth. You get two per slaughtered cow, and the only competition for them is for dog chews.
Humans 🤝 Sharks Thinking the other tastes like shit
70-100 million sharks annually. That's 192,000 per day or **132 sharks every second** (minimum). [https://www.sharks.org/massacre-for-soup](https://www.sharks.org/massacre-for-soup)
Awful
What a terrible day to be literate
That doc is how I learned about shark fin soup, it's the dumbest food I have ever seen, and it's inhumanely, and sometimes shadily, sourced too.
This is the answer. At least if you're going to do it, kill the damn shark and eat the rest of its body too. Just cutting the fins off and letting them swim to their deaths is so inhumane it's appalling.
Truthfully, as someone got strong armed into trying it by accident, there is a absolutely no flavor, it tastes like a bland jelly, and the consistency is just weird. It's like an egg drop soup but with worse additives. It's purely a wealth and social class flex for the cultures that do consume it
What makes this tasty is the broth which doesn't derive any taste from the fin itself, you wouldn't lose anything without the sharks fin. Its just a way to 'show off'.
Same thing with fois gras. One of the absolute cruelest dishes.
I like the imitation shark fin soup. I never tried or wanted to try the real one.
I had it once before I really understood what it was. It's not even good that's maybe the worst part. The cruelty IS the enjoyment.
I've heard shark fin actually doesn't even have a taste. It just has some weird ass mystical powers
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I don’t know what salt bae is. Do I want to change that?
He's a chef, whose arrogance and pretension outweighs his cooking talent by at least a factor of 100. He's a relatively good butcher - certainly good enough to get a job in a shop, or out the back of a supermarket - but has no real idea for what makes good food. Wonderful (but overhyped) ingredients treated stupidly. (I mean - wagyu burgers? Who the fuck thought of that. The whole point of wagyu is the marbling, and you lose that completely when you throw it through the grinder. All you're left with is fatty mince (ground beef). The fat is supposedly "different" - but given how much wagyu tallow goes for, how much of that will actually be in your burger?)
Waygu burger is a great way to use up the trim from waygu steaks and roasts. Those steaks don’t come off the cow all pretty and portioned like that.
I’m sure the burgers are made from scraps leftover from the cutting of steaks etc. This is how it was done when I worked in the meat dept of a grocery store
Excuse me, could you please take that back and apologise? Whatever he is, he's not a chef. Even a line cook at Applebee's who microwaves steaks for a living has a better claim to the term "chef" than that grease stain.
Would you settle for "he's a chef, in the same way that Vladimir Putin is a politician"?
Exactly, no one would call him Chef and mean it. That requires respect.
No. It’s a prick.
Nope. You’re pure. He’s a trashy “celebrity” chef with tacky restaurants
You can find clips of him on /r/StupidFood.
Gold is the dumbest fucking trend I have ever seen in food. Any restaurant that uses gold in their food is not worth visiting unless you want to post on social media telling everyone you have money to waste on sub par food.
That coffee made from digested beans
kopi luwak I believe
A damn fine cuppa joe, but a weird enough story that I’m not that excited. I believe these can be harvested humanely however. It’s basically collecting droppings from the animals’ natural feeding cycle.
Yep, tried it. Wasn't good. Wasn't offensive or anything, just wasn't good.
Yeah, by all accounts it barely changes the flavour and doesn't have any particularly distinctive qualities. It's not like people traditionally did it because it tasted good, it originates from workers taking civit shit home and rinsing it off to get free coffee. They would have drank the non-shitty coffee if they could.
Back in the day civets were better at finding ripe cherries to eat, which would then make better coffee after they were cleaned and processed. Now that we have better automated processes for sorting there’s no real reason other than the novelty of it. Well… no real reason other than you enjoy the severe animal cruelty that is now prevalent in the industry.
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I went to a workshop with an award winning barista. He said that the reason the beans were better is because the animals would be able to select the better ones via smell. Nothing to do with it passing through their digestive systems. Now that the civets are caged and fed the beans, they don’t even get to pick the good ones, so they’re living in captivity and people are drinking poop coffee all for nothing.
Any burger on any menu over the price of $14 especially if it doesn’t even come with fries. When did $18 single patty burgers become normal?
100% agree however it’s very difficult to find now in bigger cities.
Chicago you can find very cheap takeout. Just get away from downtown. There's a ton of mom and pops shops. Sure Kumas $16 burgers are good, but I'll take phils fatso last stand. $4.50 for burger and fries.
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Ground beef comes in tubes? Cool
Never heard of the meat tube? Very convenient and oh so tasty.
In this economy? Regular nonorganic beef at regular grocery stores near me are $8 lb. Tubes are like $.50 less. I reluctantly switched to ground turkey
Wow fuck, where do you live at?!?
DC 🫠
Anything where an animal has to be tortured to create the food. In this particular case I don’t mean “the animal was kept in horrific conditions while it was alive,” but “a key part of the process of creating this food is torturing the animal.”
"For centuries, a rite of passage for French gourmets was the eating of the Ortolan. These tiny birds—captured alive, force-fed, then drowned in Armagnac—were roasted whole and eaten that way, bones and all, while the diner draped his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and, some believe, to hide from God." Why bird needs to be drowned alive in Armagnac? You could just kill them before.
You forgot the bit where they were blinded to make them think it was nighttime so they continued to feed all day
It's getting worse more I read about this.
I believe the reason was they would suck it into their lungs as they drowned and now the Armagnac is inside, so when you bite in you get a burst of it
French cuisine is just wierd.
I can’t imagine any future version of myself that wants to eat any small animal whole (like they eat the bones and shit too???? Wtf) let alone one that’s been gratuitously tortured too
Have you had deep fried small yellow croakers before? They’re little fish that are very common where I live and when you deep fry them the bones become really crispy and they taste amazing.
Smelt too. They’re like tasty deep fried minnows.
Isn’t the goose liver thing French too? Like who even thought of that, let’s force feed this goose and then EAT ITS FUCKING LIVER ITLL BE JUICY
You sent me on a bit of a rabbithole... So. Amazingly, foie gras, despite the french name and french popularity - is an Ancient Egyptian invention, and later popularized in Ancient Greece, and it's been practiced by rich folk (it's always been a rich people food from start to finish apparently) for centuries, MILLENIA even. And yeah, the Ancient Egyptians and all the others DID do the forcefeeding thing too D: I really did think this was a rather "new" culinary invention maybe going back a few hundred years. Holy shit!
You know what, this just put an episode of Atlanta into perspective for me.
Tom Wambsgans
You can't have a Tomlet without cracking a few Gregs.
Foie gras. I was nauseated after seeing how the geese are force fed. Should be outlawed everywhere. And I’m no vegan; I’m a pescatarian.
This was my immediate thought when reading the OPs question.
There is ethically produced foie gras from just regular wild or free-range ducks/geese, but yeah, I agree that force feeding foie gras production should absolutely be outlawed.
Theyre not really expensive, but rocky mountain oysters. They're fried bull testicles and they basically taste like a beef chicken nugget. Not worth the hype, and a strange part to eat.
Always enjoyed them. Chicken gizzards, too. There was no hype for these things growing up, just another part of the animal we ate. We also had “lengua” sausage, aka chorizo quite frequently.
Me and my cousins would always fight over the turkey gizzards/heart/neck on Thanksgiving as kids. Those are the best parts of the turkey.
I like them, but don’t particularly get excited about them. But honestly, they’re castrating the cattle anyway, so I’d say people eating them is a good thing. Better than throwing them in the trash.
Funny story to add- growing up in a small town we would have a testicle festival (edit because I’m pretty sure auto correct did the auto correct thing and I didn’t re read it before I posted) every single year. People would drive down from Canada just to eat some balls. We weren’t allowed to wear any shirts from the festival to school however! I remember when someone tried to- they made them flip their shirt inside out… and you could still see the words so it ended up covered in duct tape for the day. Lol.
Caviar. that expensive egg of fish hays.
If you live in Eastern Europe, especially Russia, it tends to be pretty cheap. It's an acquired taste, Ill admit. I really do like it though, on rye bread with a pickle on side.
It's better AND cheaper there, definitely a bummer trying to eat it elsewhere
Ikea sells a really good fake caviar. Made out of alges. I bought it once and bunch of my friends without knowing it's fake ate the whole thing before I even tasted it. I buy it now from time to time. It's great with some crackers, and I don't feel icky by eating thousands of tiny fish eggs.
Ikea the furniture store?!
Haha yes, they have that little "swedish store" usually near the entrance and they sell bunch of swedish food. They have these two types of "seaweed pearls": big orange ones, and tiny black ones. It was a huge surprise to find it there by accident but now every time I'm there I take one or two jars just in case.
I have never felt like I live under a rock more than right now.
You're telling me you've never heard of their world famous meat balls?
And they sell them frozen too! I usually buy vegan plantballs(?) and their cinammon rolls too :D
And now I want those giant, hot cinnamon rolls. Beats Cinnabon, hands down.
a russian friend growing up introduced me to those big orange caviar + unsalted butter on pumpernickel bread. shockingly balanced and not what i was expecting. have definitely tried some i don’t love tho. will stick to roe on reasonably priced sushi lol. but now i guess i need to go to ikea!
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Sorry, to each their own, but caviar is incredible.
But it's so delicious
It's one of those things I feel like I'm craving even before I've actually tried it. I still haven't had the real thing, just various other kinds of more affordable salty roe. Actually have some Greek shit in my fridge right now, the name escapes me as well as what I was gonna make with it. Ill figure it out tomorrow. It's cheap shit though so not for eating straight. But I digress. soon as I have like $200 I can afford to drop on an experience, I'm gonna do it right, mother of pearl caviar spoon and everything.
Anything known to have involved additional cruelty to the animal. Fois gras, veal, shark fin, whale etc
I just wanna put out that I’m not a vegan or a vegetarian but if you are anti veal, you should be cutting dairy too as it runs comorbid with the veal industry (they gotta get the cows pregnant to make milk and the babies gotta go somewhere); you can’t support dairy without indirectly supporting veal, unless you get your dairy right off your farm
Didn’t know that but luckily I’m lactose intolerant so not an issue!
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That poor, poor onion :'(
I cry every time I cut into one. I’m so sorry onion buddy.
I will try almost anything but I can’t mentally eat something that is still alive. Well, except oysters I guess.
I went to a high end restaurant once with a friend. This was my first time in that particular restaurant. We sat at the bar and were talking to the bartender and the owner/Chef showed up to the bar. He joined in the convo, we ended up talking about food dishes that we didn’t like in general. I brought up foie Gras, I had it once before and I couldn’t get through the first bite. It just was not a good taste and the texture was off putting. When the owner/chef heard that he said, “wait, you prob had either bad quality or it wasn’t prepared correctly”. He actually said we have foie Gras on our menu, I will go in the back and make our dish and let you try it. I was like ok, awesome. They actually have a farm where they keep ducks specifically for foie Gras. So I knew the quality was gonna be top notch. About 15 mins later he brought it out and watched as I tried it. As soon as I bit into it, I thought “ I’m such as asshole”. Not only was this a dish that prob cost $75 and he made for free for me to try, It tasted no different than my first time trying it. But obv I couldn’t tell him that and said it was really good. Had 2 more bites and when he left to go back to the kitchen, I gave the rest to my friend. Now to his credit the quality of the dish was way better the 2nd time around, but the flavor was not something I would really enjoy again.
Sea Cucumber. It's a caterpillar/worm from the ocean that looks like snot on the plate. It tastes like if processed American cheese was left in the sun for the day and then wrapped around soggy tofu. It was served at my wedding and worst dish of my life maybe? Super popular in Asia though.
Salt Bae stuff
That little bird eaten whole, beak and all. “Ordelan” or something similar. So gross. Also, frogs legs.
Frog legs are good though. They look like chicken drumsticks, taste similar to chicken, but with the texture of a fish similar to halibut.
Right? Not expensive either, just need a ditch, flashlight, and a pointy pole or long net. Might also want a fishing license if you're going to be visible to the public
It’s so fucked you’re supposed to eat it with something covering your face so god can’t see you or some shit like that
TIL God doesn't understand object permanence.
this made me lol, thank you
Anything without seasoning or anything that prioritizes looks and cooking methods over taste and texture
Anything thats come out the ass of an animal. Like those expensive coffees (i know its a drink, if thats okay)
Truffles. Each to their own but truffles and truffle oil completely overwhelm the flavor of whatever they’re in and it’s not a taste I care for.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE truffles. Wife hates them though, so I totally get your perspective.
> truffle oil The overwhelming majority of truffle oil isn't actually made with truffles. It's a chemical concoction created in a lab that is supposed to mimic the smell of truffles. I remember watching Chopped (Food Network TV) and listening to the judges grown every time a chef would add truffle oil to a dish. Nearly every chef that did it ended up getting chopped for that dish alone. You basically knew who was going home after that round.
Love having truffles when in France, they’re cheap, plentiful, and used sparingly. The French have not heard of truffle oil. In the US (I’m in NYC) I won’t touch the stuff. A single ‘truffle addition’ will cost more than the whole meal would have in France. And there, they just bring out a whole truffle and let you have a go.
I don't understand how any of the people eating at Salt Bae's restaurant can enjoy what he is giving them at those prices. Paying thousands of extra dollars just because this guy was in a viral video? Give me a fucking break.
A5 Japanese Wagyu, it’s too god damn rich, a few bites is more than enough, maybe Australian or American is a little more tame Edit: since people are seeing this, if you didn’t know dry age has a “funk” to it that might catch you off guard, still good, just not might be what you think.
Japan actually set up cooperative Wagyu growing in Australia. We'd grow and butcher it to their standards and then send it over to them. Just a half decade before that, we were advertising our lean beef (grassfed) as healthier and more flavourful (It is). Now nearly every Australian beef animal gets funnelled through feed lots. :(
Farmer near me in the US raises Wagyu to Japanese standard to reduce the price of shipping and insures freshness, he sells a single head for $20-25k, where Japanese raised is closer to $30k
I mean, A5 is supposed to be just be a few bites. You aren’t supposed to eat it like you would a ribeye, strip, etc. if you ate it as a full entree, as you would with a regular steak, you ate it wrong.
There was a bar in New York that I really liked - connected to an upscale Korean BBQ place that sold basically 'tasting cubes' of their fanciest beef options you could buy one by one and it was always the perfect amount in the end.
That's why most places sell it in 1-3oz portions..
The local Japanese restaurant sells its as a nigiri sushi and it’s absolutely phenomenal. I’m quite happy to eat 200g of it though so I don’t mind either way
Isn’t “a few bites is more than enough” a huge positive though, and part of the selling point of the product? Usually in Japan you only have a piece of two as aburi sushi or a box of playing cards sized piece cooked on a teppan.
Yes - it’s super marbled and when cooked properly the fat melts and gives a rich buttery taste . Eat too much and you’ll feel a bit unwell from how rich it is .
Live oysters, gold leaf, fois Gras, anything "adventurous " like live squid, deep fried bugs, shark fin soup.....
Eating a live baby octopus or whatever is something I can’t even watch a person do :c
Don't watch the dinner scene in the latest season of The Boys.
Every video I've seen of that, they just swallow it. There is no 'taste' to enjoy. I really don't get it.
It makes me sad. I watched a video once and the baby started struggling when soy sauce was out on it, then struggled not to be put into the guys mouth, like tentacles grasping at his mouth to keep from being swallowed. It has sat with me all these years :c
Oysters are just amazing, I love their flavor. So as the saying goes, to each their own
No, let them think they’re gross so the price comes down
Is the price high? I feel like dollar oyster places are still everywhere.
You don’t exactly want to eat oysters that where dead for too long lol
Anything with gold leaf
[Live Geoduck.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlpEmboyAeA&pp=ygUOZ2VvZHVjayBlYXRpbmc%3D) Sorry for what you are about to see.
Clicking that link is gonna be a no from me dawg.
So I've always found them kinda phallic but this video, like...wow. Um, that thing is very dick like.
I'm not even sure if it is even expensive but that dish where they have a live monkey and bash it's head open to eat the brain while it is alive. Edit: I'm going to keep this up but shortly after I posted this I found out it was in fact fake. I'll stick with the answer of brain matter from any animal.
amusement park food
What no deep fried twinkies?!
Wrong amusement park. Talking about a small bottle of coke for $18 because it comes in a novelty bottle from a novelty booth in a theme park.
Caviar.
Raw duck eggs with the chick inside. Crack the top off, a splash of Vinegar. Feathers, beak and claws..🤢🤮 * Apparently cheap as shit..
Not really expensive at all in Southeast Asia.
It's not even expensive here in CANADA. Seems like commenter just wanted to mention food they don't want to eat 🤨
Yep, balut. I think it’s a dish eaten in the Philippines.
It’s not expensive tho
It's not raw. They're hard boiled and not expensive my local Asian store sells them for a couple of dollars a piece.
You think "expensive" means cheap as shit?