nakedfrog
No Lifer
More evidence for simply discarding your opinion regarding foods. You probably don't like real calzones either (if it doesn't have have ricotta, it's not a real calzone).
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Nograts
Platinum Member
Calzones are just folded up pizza. I think it's you who are fooling yourself. :whiste:
nakedfrog
No Lifer
You don't know what a calzone is
Nograts
Platinum Member
You don't know what a calzone is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calzone
Wiki said:
I just said it was a folded pizza....what kind of calzones are YOU eating? :hmm:
slag
Lifer
Funyuns.
/end thread. I love funyuns but have a hard time eating them lately. I put some in a ziplock, crushed the crap out of them, and poured the powdery dust over some popcorn. So delicious it should have been a crime.
KMFJD
Lifer
You don't know what a calzone is
a wannabe panzerotti?
JulesMaximus
No Lifer
Italian > *
French is a close second.
Chinese is way down the list...
French is a close second.
Chinese is way down the list...
Nograts
Platinum Member
nakedfrog
No Lifer
I will end you.
SphinxnihpS
Diamond Member
Creole/Cajun
Northern Mexican
Indian (tie)
Italian (tie)
Northern Mexican
Indian (tie)
Italian (tie)
madoka
Diamond Member
Did you do a header off your bike and not tell us?
How on earth does this:
smell worse than this:
I like Indian food, but to say that it smells better than Korean food is stupid.
Ns1
No Lifer
the argument can easily be made that kbbq is more of a korean-american invention that was exported back to the homeland.
cuz palek paneer smells better than this:
but i dunno, like soon tofu smells bomb as fuck too
BurnItDwn
Lifer
I love most things food (I have even recently allowed my opinion of broccoli to reset from FORBIDDEN to avoid when convenient)
Creole & Cajun for sure. So freiking good (you could call them french as most of the good dishes are evolved from french cooking.)
I hate that my friend moved to SC, now instead of going to vacation in New Orleans, I have to go to SC and visit him instead. Lame!
As far as Indian foods go, I love Nihari as far as meat dishes, so impossibly tender! Veggie dishes, my love is for Pindi Chana. And Briyani with a little bit of saffron in it has a fantastic aroma that rivals most Barbeque smells in terms of its grandeur IMO.
Then, don't forget Vindaloos, they tend to have a little bit of fire in them. Most of my indian friends tend to avoid vindaloos since they are not from Goa and they can't handle the heat. (Though the Pakistani dude from Karachi can match me pretty much on any heat level of any food)
Creole & Cajun for sure. So freiking good (you could call them french as most of the good dishes are evolved from french cooking.)
I hate that my friend moved to SC, now instead of going to vacation in New Orleans, I have to go to SC and visit him instead. Lame!
As far as Indian foods go, I love Nihari as far as meat dishes, so impossibly tender! Veggie dishes, my love is for Pindi Chana. And Briyani with a little bit of saffron in it has a fantastic aroma that rivals most Barbeque smells in terms of its grandeur IMO.
Then, don't forget Vindaloos, they tend to have a little bit of fire in them. Most of my indian friends tend to avoid vindaloos since they are not from Goa and they can't handle the heat. (Though the Pakistani dude from Karachi can match me pretty much on any heat level of any food)
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DigDog
Lifer
oh good, a food thread.
i am going to start with a shocker; the first place on my list is:
1. american
i've never had food so good as i have had in the US. (it's also true that i've never had food as bad, but that's irrelevant)
in europe, you will simply not find stuff like whole-sized beef ribs, or proper barbecue, or clam chowder, surf & turf, and the seafood is incredibly good and cheap; i used to get a live lobster, cooked in front of me, for $7.99 back in 2000, and the same in europe would have been $30.
same for crab, clams, shrimp, etc.
also, you can't get pancakes anywhere in EU, there's no maple syrup, and our muffins suck.
your bread sucks balls though.
2. italian
i might be biased here, as i'm italian, but hear me out.
we got the best pizza. you are all welcome to enjoy your US style pizza but our wood oven thin pizzas are a completely different food.
pasta is an ok dish, it's really not meant to be great, just to be a cheap filler.
we've got by far the best bread, and our pastry is almost as good as the french and the spanish. we got a ton of hams and salami which comes a close second to the spanish jambon iberico.
french food is great for a treat, but it does get to be a bit too much if you eat it every day.
3. french and spanish
both french and spanish restaurants tend to be disappointing, just like italian restaurants, but if you go local, you'll find some excellent grub. hearty meals which are cheap and filling, reasonably healthy, and taste great.
the french tend to cook everything a bit too much, and the spanish tend to mix strong flavors, but all in all almost as good as italian food.
4. japanese
although i love japanese food, when you eat it every day, it starts to become less and less filling; also, less and less tasty. the unusual flavor of their food starts to lose the impact, and they don't have anything which is really filling.
it's also deadly expensive. but, unagi (roasted eel) is one of the best food things ever.
5. thai / malay / etc
more unusual flavors than chinese food, more difference in types of dishes, more unusual ingredients, and generally a more skillful balancing of taste.
tends to be expensive and not much filling.
6. arab
not the most flavorful of foods, but easy to eat (even every day), quite healthy, and not expensive. my favorite takeaway, but not my fav restaurant as i find it unexciting.
actually quite easy to make at home with good results.
7. chinese
i've been cooking chinese for a year now, and i've gotten pretty good at it, but i have hit a brick wall - to do really good chinese food, you need specialized tools, and i don't have them.
chinese food out of a takeaway doesn't even begin to compare with real chinese food, which is not just tasty, but has great texture, and it's also quite filling.
but, it tends to be quite greasy, even when well made. and when it's bad, it's really bad.
8. indian
besides the fact that indian food is just food with cumin..
to get good indian food, you need to go to an expensive restaurant; cheaper places will just use bad quality food and dried spices, which defeats the purpose; just buy a piece of chicken, throw every spice you own in the same pan, add tons of chili, and there's indian for you.
also you will poop death.
i am going to start with a shocker; the first place on my list is:
1. american
i've never had food so good as i have had in the US. (it's also true that i've never had food as bad, but that's irrelevant)
in europe, you will simply not find stuff like whole-sized beef ribs, or proper barbecue, or clam chowder, surf & turf, and the seafood is incredibly good and cheap; i used to get a live lobster, cooked in front of me, for $7.99 back in 2000, and the same in europe would have been $30.
same for crab, clams, shrimp, etc.
also, you can't get pancakes anywhere in EU, there's no maple syrup, and our muffins suck.
your bread sucks balls though.
2. italian
i might be biased here, as i'm italian, but hear me out.
we got the best pizza. you are all welcome to enjoy your US style pizza but our wood oven thin pizzas are a completely different food.
pasta is an ok dish, it's really not meant to be great, just to be a cheap filler.
we've got by far the best bread, and our pastry is almost as good as the french and the spanish. we got a ton of hams and salami which comes a close second to the spanish jambon iberico.
french food is great for a treat, but it does get to be a bit too much if you eat it every day.
3. french and spanish
both french and spanish restaurants tend to be disappointing, just like italian restaurants, but if you go local, you'll find some excellent grub. hearty meals which are cheap and filling, reasonably healthy, and taste great.
the french tend to cook everything a bit too much, and the spanish tend to mix strong flavors, but all in all almost as good as italian food.
4. japanese
although i love japanese food, when you eat it every day, it starts to become less and less filling; also, less and less tasty. the unusual flavor of their food starts to lose the impact, and they don't have anything which is really filling.
it's also deadly expensive. but, unagi (roasted eel) is one of the best food things ever.
5. thai / malay / etc
more unusual flavors than chinese food, more difference in types of dishes, more unusual ingredients, and generally a more skillful balancing of taste.
tends to be expensive and not much filling.
6. arab
not the most flavorful of foods, but easy to eat (even every day), quite healthy, and not expensive. my favorite takeaway, but not my fav restaurant as i find it unexciting.
actually quite easy to make at home with good results.
7. chinese
i've been cooking chinese for a year now, and i've gotten pretty good at it, but i have hit a brick wall - to do really good chinese food, you need specialized tools, and i don't have them.
chinese food out of a takeaway doesn't even begin to compare with real chinese food, which is not just tasty, but has great texture, and it's also quite filling.
but, it tends to be quite greasy, even when well made. and when it's bad, it's really bad.
8. indian
besides the fact that indian food is just food with cumin..
to get good indian food, you need to go to an expensive restaurant; cheaper places will just use bad quality food and dried spices, which defeats the purpose; just buy a piece of chicken, throw every spice you own in the same pan, add tons of chili, and there's indian for you.
also you will poop death.
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JulesMaximus
No Lifer
Did you do a header off your bike and not tell us?
How on earth does this:
smell worse than this:
I like Indian food, but to say that it smells better than Korean food is stupid.
Korean BBQ is fine but the problem I have with Korean food is Kimchi. It smells like dirty gym socks.
lxskllr
No Lifer
Kimchi's delicious though.
Yikes. I barely know where to even begin replying to your post.
But for starters/in general, everyday/low-end restaurants in the the US and/or UK are by no means even fairly representative, much less ideally representative, of the various cuisines you mention.
Indian especially (like Chinese food in the US) gets a terrible beating from its most popular restaurant incarnations in the UK. Perhaps you should try cooking some of that at home? Being so heavily vegetable-based, it's relatively inexpensive, too. On the other hand, if your idea of it is just "throwing every spice you can think of" into the pan, perhaps trying it at home wouldn't be the best idea:\, at least not without looking at a cookbook first. Madhur Jaffrey's books should be readily available there. They aren't expensive and are quite accessible to Western home cooks.
As for "well-made" Chinese food being "greasy," I guess we have radically different ideas of what constitutes "well-made"...
Hell, even your view of pasta is totally out of whack. Italians rarely eat it as a main course, as is done in some some other countries (again, the US and UK spring immediately to mind), but all the "Italians" I've known - whether visitors, recent immigrants or third-generation Italian-Americans - would be aghast at the thought that it's "just" "cheap filler." For that matter, the good stuff (ie, made with durum wheat, extruded through bronze dies, and slowly dried at relatively low temperature -- the stuff that actually tastes like something) while not exactly "expensive" isn't really even all that cheap, either...
No real offense intended, but your opinions on international cuisines sound a lot like those of a stereotypical Briton whose family line goes back to 1066. 😉 How recent is your "Italian" heritage if you believe such nonsense about even pasta, for heaven's sake?
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mmntech
Lifer
Italy probably has the best food. They've mastered taking rustic ingredients and turning them into a masterpiece. If you're used to Italian American cuisine, you need to try some dishes from the dairy rich north. Authentic lasagna is to die for.
French food is the most overrated IMO. Their idea of cooking is to take something that already exists, then add a stick of butter to it.
Japanese and Thai rank pretty high for me. I'd probably put them higher on the list if I liked seafood. I enjoy fish, just not that other stuff.
Chinese is a bit hit and miss. They have some fantastic dishes, but then some really weird stuff. Yum yum, chicken feet. I'll pass. Like Italian, there's a big difference between what passes for Chinese here and the authentic stuff.
Most underrated? English, German, and Caribbean. Germany gets a bit overshadowed by Austria but they damn well know their sausages and deserts. So does England. Of course jerk anything is delicious.
Worst cuisines I've had? Scottish and Cuban.
Scotland's idea of food is to take porridge, then combine it with the old mystery meat they found in the back of their fridge. Be sure to make it as bland as humanly possible for good measure. Used to get mince and tatties a lot growing up. It's a weak stew of ground beef and mashed potatoes. Basically gruel, but my dad loves it for some reason.
Cubans just don't know how to cook period. Plus they're plagued with low quality ingredients. I guess they don't import a lot of stuff. Never order beef there. It's very tough even when it's not overdone.
I've recently been made aware that Hawaiian Pizza is in fact Canadian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza
Spaghetti and Meatballs is actually American. It was invented in New York. You won't find it in Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_with_meatballs
French food is the most overrated IMO. Their idea of cooking is to take something that already exists, then add a stick of butter to it.
Japanese and Thai rank pretty high for me. I'd probably put them higher on the list if I liked seafood. I enjoy fish, just not that other stuff.
Chinese is a bit hit and miss. They have some fantastic dishes, but then some really weird stuff. Yum yum, chicken feet. I'll pass. Like Italian, there's a big difference between what passes for Chinese here and the authentic stuff.
Most underrated? English, German, and Caribbean. Germany gets a bit overshadowed by Austria but they damn well know their sausages and deserts. So does England. Of course jerk anything is delicious.
Worst cuisines I've had? Scottish and Cuban.
Scotland's idea of food is to take porridge, then combine it with the old mystery meat they found in the back of their fridge. Be sure to make it as bland as humanly possible for good measure. Used to get mince and tatties a lot growing up. It's a weak stew of ground beef and mashed potatoes. Basically gruel, but my dad loves it for some reason.
Cubans just don't know how to cook period. Plus they're plagued with low quality ingredients. I guess they don't import a lot of stuff. Never order beef there. It's very tough even when it's not overdone.
I've recently been made aware that Hawaiian Pizza is in fact Canadian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza
Spaghetti and Meatballs is actually American. It was invented in New York. You won't find it in Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_with_meatballs
Nograts
Platinum Member
No. No. NO! I refuse to believe it. You lie. Good day sir....I SAID GOOD DAY!
yhelothar
Lifer
ROFL @ the uncultured swine bashing Chinese food here. Chinese has a lot of weird dishes, but that's what makes them awesome. They have a food philosophy that believes the more exotic the ingredient, the more desireable it is. It leads to them having probably the most diverse ingredients in cuisine in the world.
Few things beats a really good beef noodle soup and some soup pork buns for me.
Few things beats a really good beef noodle soup and some soup pork buns for me.
DigDog
Lifer
7 years working in catering, 5 of which as chef.
waiting on your cooking credentials.
i know right? because a dish of friend chicken in batter (with oil as a component of the batter itself) accompanied by fried rice and a dipping sauce which is made exclusively from infused oil, is not greasy at all.
Non vorrei sembrarti scontroso, ma ho ragione di credere che tra noi due, quello che se ne intende di piu di cibo italiano sono io, e non tu.
find someone who can translate it for ya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Veronelli
he was a friend of my dad, although i was young at the time, he enjoyed very much my mom's cooking, over at my italian house in my italian country where i, as an italian born in italy, have lived most of my life.
he also did the introduction on a great book by Carnacina, which is where i get most of my recipes from; obviously with a bit of editing IRL, as stuff like "generously grate a large truffle" is kinda unrealistic nowadays.
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