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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Geeeez, it's just nutrients your bod needs to survive. It's "good" because your brain evolved to tell you that so you wouldn't starve to death.

I sure hope food isn't one of life's greatest pleasures. That just seems.....well, I'd hope for more out of life than that.

Oh well. If you love food, fine, incorporate it into whatever else you get out of life. Me, I guess eating is just a chore, like brushing teeth or showering. Something that simply needs to get done.
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That's roughly the equivalent of saying sex is just something you do to procreate, and feels "good" because your brain evolved to tell you to procreate so we wouldn't die out.
Sure, it may essentially be true, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of enjoying the hell out of it! 😛
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: Ns1
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Breast meat. No bones, no cartilage, no gobs of fat, no organs or anything weird - just good meat.

I'm also the sort who doesn't care for getting my hands covered in gross, greasy slime. I roasted a whole chicken once. I don't care to do it again. It makes a mess from spitting juice all over the place in the oven, and it's just......yuck, to pull it all apart. Time consuming, too. Boneless chicken breast is easy - out of the freezer, into a pot of boiling water, wait awhile, and after pouring away the smelly used water, the meat is good to go.
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flavorFAIL!
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wow dude, you might as well just get canned chicken from costco.
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I've always been the sort who's light on flavor. The chicken breast is topped with Heinz 57, though, believe it or not, I wish it wasn't as spicy as it is.

Plain corn, plain peas, always kept separate. Plain cheese pizza, spaghetti with Ragu sauce - cooking for me isn't much of an issue. I don't care for many spices (yuck, I must be racist😛), and tend not to like many "ethnic" type foods.
That, or BBQ sauce - eeewwwwwww. Nasty, nasty stuff.
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Ketchup is too spicy? Dude what is wrong with you? So pretty much your favorite food is a bread sandwich.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
The single best piece of the bird has yet to be mentioned here. The butt. Yep. The butt.

Roast a whole chicken. When eating it, the part I go for first is the chicken butt. It's the little heart-shaped piece that sticks out from the underside of the chicken between the drumsticks. That goes first.

Next come the legs, then the first slice of breast with the most skin. After peeling away most of the breast, the 2 cords of meat running along the breastbone are the next best.
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I don't enjoy it at all actually ^_^
 

Originally posted by: sandorski

You usually have to buy a whole chicken to get the Gizzard, maybe that's why you know little about it. Anyway, it's flavour is kinda a median between chicken Heart and the dark meat on the thigh/leg. The texture is rather interesting, being kinda tough, but once piercing the outer skin it chews up easily enough. It's really good added to a chicken soup or even cooked inside a stuffed chicken. Buy yourself a whole chicken, look inside for a bag that holds the Heart, Gizzard, and Liver, and cook them all up in some fashion. I personally can't stand the Heart and Liver, but some love them, so.
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I buy whole chickens all the time. I LOVE to make soup with the carcass and leftovers, which is also the only current way I've enjoyed the neck, gizzard, liver, heart, etc. -- boiled for stock.

I LOVE dense stock home-made chicken soup. After making the stock and straining out the bones and skin and other dreck (yes, I boil the skin, too), I add water and throw in plenty of onions and diced carrots and potatoes -- hell, most any root veggies I happen to have -- a pinch or two of sage and other spices like savory, rosemary, marjoram, oregano, dill (the greenies) then sometimes ginger, sometimes cayenne, sometimes neither (whatever falls to hand, really) -- and finally, barley or, if I have no barley, rice.

I LOVE the smell when it's cooking, I LOVE the filling quantity this yields, and I LOVE spooning it's goodness down my greedy, gaping gullet!

Next time, though, I'm gonna' try to overcome my rigid white man rules and gently fry up that gizzard and enjoy it. As long as you're breathing, there's room to learn!

 
Originally posted by: XxPrOdiGyxX
Ketchup is too spicy? Dude what is wrong with you? So pretty much your favorite food is a bread sandwich.
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Heinz 57 != ketchup



Originally posted by: ForumMaster
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Breasts. Best part of just about everything.
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couldn't have put it better myself. amen to that!
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Just about everything - there is always the dreaded "man boob."

 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Ns1
this HAS to be jeff7's problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Problem_foods
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If he's truly a super taster then he can make a TON of money off of it. Should get tested.
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Yeah, it says something like 25% of the population may qualify as supertasters. It doesn't sound like some super-rare trait.

They say taste and smell are closely linked, so I wonder if this has any relation:
It seems that most people will get "acclimated" to a certain smell if it persists for awhile. I don't. I'll notice it as strongly after a few hours as if it had just entered the room. Certain foods, like macaroni and cheese, require a thorough cleaning of my lips, because there's apparently a thin film of aromatic grease that licking can't get rid of. And the smell of it just hangs around for a long time. It gets to be like someone hissing in your ear, it is distracting, and gets on your nerves after a while.

Other anomaly - I find that milk that comes in plastic bottles tastes rather different than milk out of a carton. Same with bottled water. Both have the similar anomalous flavor, and it's not especially good.

 
wikipedia is never a reliable source. It's based on your tastebud density. Who knows, you could be a special little snowflake after all. 😉
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
wikipedia is never a reliable source. It's based on your tastebud density. Who knows, you could be a special little snowflake after all. 😉
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But, but, but, Lewis Black said we're ALL delicate little snowflakes. :laugh:

 
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