Like seriously. I’ve never thought to myself "Huh, I could really go for a warm meal right now." Maybe if I was sick or something, but whenever I eat warm food all I taste is the heat. And there are so many other awesome things about food that you only get to experience when it’s cold. 

Now, I value my health and you should too, so I do not encourage or promote any consumption of raw eggs, meat, etc. It must always be cooked to a safe level first. Which is exactly why I like my eggs overeasy and then chilled in the fridge until they’re cool enough for me to eat them, or recently leftover cooked hamburger in the fridge that I don’t reheat. Consume cool food responsibly and safely!! 

Now, there’s pre-cooked frozen dumplings. If they’re cold, they just get soggy and the chicken or vegetables are watery and the skin falls off so easily. But if I reheat it in the microwave just a liiiiiittle bit shorter than what the directions say? The taste is as clear as day, and the skin has this lovely crunch to it one might never experience unless they understand the true joy of cold food.

Next up, those cans of pre-cooked shrimp are a favorite of mine, I like to chill them in the fridge and maybe have them for breakfast.

Next up, onions. Now I can understand the concept of adding warm onions to a part of a complete meal. It makes the taste that much richer, so cooking it is an idea I can respect. But whenever I actually eat a warm onion, I can’t help but think of how much better it would be on its own if it were cold. And if I am served a cold onion I will gladly eat it.

I’ll spare you by giving one last example, ramen. Kind of like dumplings, I cook ramen just a little shorter than what the cup says, and it also gives it a lovely solid semi-crunch. 

Now, I can eat warm dishes in a restaurant and not dislike it by any means. I simply generally prefer cool food because I can taste it more. But if I’m eating warm food at home, I subtly drink milk as I eat to cool off the food a bit.

If you’re wondering, no, I don’t prefer frozen fruit to warm food or anything like that. Then I mostly just taste the cold, and that’s the same situation the other way around. The key to perfection for me is the colder half of room temperature. 

Imo bananas are at their prime when they are greenest. I just love the dense texture and the unique bitterness they have. 2 is the perfect banana to me, easy enough to unpeel and a tart treat. 1 is also fine, but probably impossible to unpeel.

3 and 4 are fine, but 5 and 6 are dangerous territory because that's when bananas can become way too sweet, plus the risk of bruising skyrockets. I'll pass if offered one at that point.

7, I think we can all agree, is good for banana bread only.

Don’t get me wrong, I eat cooked food l for health and taste and all that, but the process… it’s pretty gross if you think about what you’re doing. You take a perfectly preserved thing, nearly identical to how it was living but maybe cut into chunks, and either heat-damage the fuck out of it or turn it into goopy slop.

Made jam? You took a natural miracle that was a fruit and degraded it into sticky goo to smear over some kind of wheat powder concretion for your breakfasts. Pulled pork? A muscle, a piece of biological engineering with molecules arranged just right to facilitate movement, denatured, liquids spewing out of every cell, peeled apart into a steaming pile of floppy worm-like brown stuff.

“But cooking made humans how they are today! It helps make the nutrients in food more available to absorb!” You know what else makes nutrients more available to absorb? Fucking digestion. Stomach acid. And yet don’t marvel at a pile of puke from a healthy gut, do we?

I have epilepsy that gets triggered by food-related disgust. If I take out a slice of bread and it’s moldy, there’s a chance I’ll have a partial seizure. But at the same time, probably for related malformed-brain reasons, I don’t really feel disgust. I’m the designated cat vomit wiper-upper. I once cleaned out a full fridge left without power for 4 weeks because I was the only willing volunteer; it was whatever. But you know the most frequent seizure trigger is for me? Fucking COOKING. I feel just as much disgust over the process of cooking as I did scooping up the brown, dead-maggot-filled sludge from inside those vegetable drawers.

Does nobody else notice the awful processes involved in cooking because they get yummy treats afterwards or something?

Fruit has long been touted as the ultimate convenient snack, a food group too tasty to be as healthy as it is. I fully believe this reputation to be completely undeserved. If you think about it, there's really no situation in which raw fruit is the optimal thing to eat. In winter, it's thin, watery texture and unsatisfying coldness makes it undesirable, but even in summer, when it's supposed to be at its best, it's excessive sweetness and unpleasant, sticky mouthfeel prevents it from being genuinely refreshing, leaving you with that tingly-tooth sensation. I've been personally victimised by trying to eat an apple during winter and almost chipping a tooth while getting the worst brain freeze imaginable.

As for convenience, almost all raw fruit has a built-in feature - whether skin, seeds or a random inedible section - that makes it difficult to eat on the go. Unless you're sat next to a bin, eating a piece of fruit means you'll be left carrying a gross, sticky piece of rubbish around with you for an uncertain amount of time. There's also often some preparation involved in peeling, washing etc. Given the mediocre flavour, this inconvenience offsets any sense of reward.

I specify raw fruit because fruit cooked into other desserts, or into jams and used to accompany meat, is actually very nice. Vegetables, like carrot sticks, leafy greens etc make much nicer quick, healthy snacks.

Edit: can't handle this slander of my palate, so adding that I don't like processed food either, just prefer veg to fruit.

I will preface by saying that I don't think that pepperoni is bad, but I do not think it should be as popular as it is in the US.

I have spent time training as a chef. Time in professional kitchens, interning and at school. What I learned about flavours is that balance is key. American pepperoni is highly spiced and highly fatty. Everything that I know about balance is thrown askew with pepperoni. When you put pepperoni on top of highly fatty mozzarella, it's just too much. There is no acidity. There is no sweetness.

I will propose my personal favourite choices for pizza toppings to make my intention clear: bacon and pepperononcini. Fatty plus acidic. Although I like straight vegetables on my pizzas, this is my choice if you must have meat.

Soups, stews, broths, you name it. The mixture of wet and moistened food combined in a bowl is severely off-putting. With soup, there are truly no winners, as you're either drinking warm water, which has been loosely seasoned, or you're consuming a bowl of items floating (or sinking) inside of a pool of said warm water.

Presenting it in a bowl is also quite insulting, considering you'll have better luck consuming it all through a bottle and straw.

I’ve been Italy three times and the food has never been exceptional. Very mediocre, you could say that I’ve only been to tourist trap restaurants but I don’t think that’s true, and how would you expect the average tourist going Italy to avoid a supposed tourist trap when nearly every restaurant in the big spots for tourism are tourist traps. If you want a good restaurant you have to hunt so much, and you still might end up at one by accident. “You have to go to x restaurant for good Italian food” okay maybe some places have amazing food but it’s consistently nowhere near the level of japan. And also I am yet to find such a place.

Japan on the other hand has exceptional pizza every single time. You can just walk into any Italian place and it will be amazing. Even at saizeriya which is the lowest of the low of quality, I still think the pizza is similar to the average Italian pizza in a touristy area. Any restaurant that isn’t saizeriya goes immediately into wow this is like the top 10% of pizzas I’ve had worldwide. Like even places selling pizza for like 1200 yen is a thousand times better than anything I’ve had in Italy. Japanese restaurants all around are very high quality and they put a lot of effort into making the dishes amazing. I recently visited Takasaki which is famous for pasta for some reason and it was leagues better than anything I’ve had in Italy it’s not even close. The portion sizes also are nice and small so you are never stuffed after a meal which is another bonus.

It's only ice cream i do this with. The texture is not ruined after being eaten, and I've gotten skilled enough that I can re-eat the same mouthful 2 or 3 times before it's totally melted.

I'm also able to only bring up the ice cream, and not any previous food or stomach acid (that i can taste). You know the magic trick where someone swallows a fish and spits it back out alive? I think i'm doing that.

I love doing this. I get to eat more ice cream, and I don't need to worry about extra calories. I don't think this counts as bulimia, since I don't spit anything out.

Humbly, I ask you downvote if I've convinced you, and upvote if you still think I'm gross.

tldr; https://youtu.be/taD2YOx47fQ

EDIT: this is also a perfect way to get rid of brain freeze, since its always a bit warmer coming up

I don't know where the idea came from other than rice being the same colour as milk but a few months ago tried putting sweet cereal (Nesquik) over boiled rice once and realized it's a superior way to eat.

There's enough moisture in the rice so it doesn't feel you're eating dry serial, but not enough to make the cereal soggy, if you've salted your water there's a nice balance of salt to sweet and it's a more filling meal if you need more carbs in your diet.

It's the only way I've been eating cereal for the past 2-3 months until today where (on holiday) I had a bowl of cereal with milk. Didn't hit the same.

Sure, stuff is great for variety and no wonder kings fought for that, but plain food also tastes good and a lot of the time I prefer that. A plate of plain boiled macaroni or just white rice with unseasoned chicken also tastes really well.

Of course there are dishes where condiments are an important ingredient (like baking, i'm pretty sure salt and sugar do material engineering there), but I'm not referring to those.

A) Both are in the dictionary now: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expresso

B) Both are understandable. No one would get confused by what you mean when you ask for one, pretty much anywhere in the world.

C) Some may argue that “Espresso” is truer to the Italian language. But that’s only if we go by pronunciation/spelling. The meaning… is lost. Espresso means roughly “expressed” or “pressed out” in Italian.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/espresso

But… hey. Notice that one of the meanings is “expressed!” (in the sense of squeezed out). That’s exactly what “Expresso” evokes. So while “Espresso” preserves the Italian SPELLING, it loses the meaning, as the word “Espresso” means nothing to an English speaker, while “Expresso” evokes the meaning of “squeezing” or “pressing” the coffee through a filter.

This is more of a pick-what-you-want situation, and each has merit. There is no reason to prefer spelling and sacrifice meaning if want to stay "true" to Italian.

D) and sure “Expresso” makes it sound like something that is fast, and that’s false.

This just means we need to educate people on the meaning of “Expresso”: that it means “pressed through,” not “fast.”

But with “Espresso,” people don’t know what the heck it means either and still need to be educated…

I’m not saying this should be the norm but it would be a cool feature to pay a little bit extra for.

The delivery driver comes inside your house, unpacks the food, and serves it to you at your dinner table. This could also quickly identify if there’s any missing items or if the order was made incorrectly.

The driver could even wear a tuxedo to make the experience fancier “Your McNuggets and fries, Sir” 🤵

(I’ve been ruminating about this for a while because I actually didn’t know why it irritated me until recently.)

I’ve always gotten irritated when someone orders a salad in a restaurant — friends and family but especially when I’m on a date. Of course, it’s not a thing that I hold on to for even a few seconds, but I definitely feel a sharp pang of “wtf? A salad?” every single time.

My thought process essentially is: why are you ordering an expensive salad in this restaurant when you can just make it yourself at home?

Which, obviously, applies to the rest of the food in the restaurant’s menu. I mean, I usually order steak or burger and of course I can make that at home. But for some reason, ordering a salad just seriously annoyed me.

And now I think I know why: I think I don’t like salads in general for the same reason I wouldn’t eat an entire plate of plain white rice. I don’t like monotony in my life, and I think salads are just the most boring dishes. It’s just vegetables, and vegetables are always the side dish. So you’re eating a plate full of side dish because .. ???

Like, I eat vegetables all the time but the “main” is always meat or fish. Just last night I had steak and Brussels sprouts for dinner. However, you wouldn’t catch me eating a bowl full of Brussels sprouts for dinner because .. what the fuck?

Okay for reference, my roommate is Mexican and does a LOT of cooking. I’ve yet to tell her that I have the cilantro soap gene because genuinely it’s SO GOOD. Street style tacos are my favorite food and I drown them in cilantro, even more than she does. I sometimes even just eat straight cilantro to snack on. I probably eat more cilantro than any other spice. I don’t think I have Pica since I didn’t eat dirt as a child but cilantro helps take the edge off wanting to eat actual soap

Update: She saw the Reddit post and recognized my username. She learned more about me in this thread than she was expecting to and we had a nice sit-down about whether or not I needed to meet with a food psychologist. Since we live in Mississippi we have now decided on “fuck it we ball” and has allowed me to continue with the mass consumption of cilantro. Anyway y’all ever had cilantro on peach slices?

I see so much hate on fast-casual lunch places where you walk-down cafeteria-style and have people fill up a bowl for you - places like Chipotle, Cava, Sweetgreen, DIG Inn. People call them "Slop bowls" like you're being fed gray goo or soylent green or something.

But they're great! Usually fresh ingredients, tasty, convenient, relatively healthy. They're a bit pricey these days, but so is everything else these days - at their price range you're often comparing it to microwaved junk food.

So what's with all the hate? I think that what's really going on is these are the kind of places you go to lunch when you're at work - especially, when you don't have time for a long lunch break. You're often eating with the guy on your team you really don't like, or better yet - you have to work through lunch and are getting something you can go back and eat at your desk. Work sucks, you wish you could be doing something else, you don't like places you associate with your job, especially places with the same faux-friendly giant corporate aesthetic as your workplace.

But the food is good!

I get that they are only 1.50$ for a hot dog and a drink. But even being that cheap i wont buy it. The meat to bun ratio is off. The sausage taste too meaty. And then I’ll be burping hot dog all day. PLUS they don’t even have mayo

The pizza is way better and still cheap for a big slice. Sometimes when I wake up with a hangover I’ll go to Costco just for the pizza and leave.

I love Oreos. I just don’t think the flavor of traditional milk is very good. I think most people dip their cookies for the sogginess that you get, so I think water does a fine job. People always freak out when they see me dipping my cookies in water, but I don’t see the issue!

What benefit does it add? It just makes the bread all soggy and ruins the crunch of the lettuce/onions/whatever. I love cheese so much, and I will fuck up a grilled cheese or cheese stick or pizza or whatever but every time someone melts cheese on a burger I can't eat it unless I pick it off. I feel like it doesn't go with the rest of the ingredients at all - rich meat, crisp veggies, fluffy bread, then you have this melty, soggy glob screwing up all the textures and adding nothing to the ensemble.

I understand there’s no laws against what types of food you eat depending on the time of day but my goodness there’s a limit.

Having a traditional breakfast for dinner?!

You want eggs? They better be taking a dip in a bowl of pho or mixed into some ground beef for hamburgers.

Bacon? Wrap it around asparagus.

Pancakes? I’m calling the police.

Chicken juice is anything but a good flavor, it leaves the chicken soft and mushy, sometimes even spongy. Dry chicken, on the other hand, has a nice firm texture to it, almost none of the nasty chicken juice, and actually feels and tastes fully cooked. If someone serves me moist chicken I'll eat some of it to be polite, but if chicken is coming from my own kitchen it will always be dry.

And I'm not just talking about certain types of steak, I mean all of them. Chuck, ribeye, even tenderloin. All of them are better fully cooked.

If it's tasteless it wasn't well seasoned plus the mallard reaction makes the crust taste good.

If you can't chew it don't eat it, you don't have to eat it well done but you can't say it's bad, you don't like it and that's ok but stop hating on well done because you don't like it

I find pink meat gross, i find the moisture and juiciness off-putting, I want the fat fully melted. If you don't like that's your problem. This is a hill I am willing to die on

Edit: I don't like juicy steaks, yes, I'm weird like that

Listen, I like bread as much as the next gal, but bread is not the star of the show when it comes to Pizza. Food should be eaten in a way so that the last bite, the closure bite, is the most satisfying. Eating the crust first gets the most boring part of a pizza out of the way and leaves room for you to eat around the slice until you've created the last perfect, saucey, flavorful bite of pizza.