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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

i would not boil poptarts

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    By this logic, so is pie and any donut with a filling.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Italian food is cheating!

    Spaghetti carbonara with heavy cream.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    Easy. First off:

    Pop-tarts are calzones.

    More fights:

    Greek salad is fruit salad

    Paris sucks

    Chick-fil-A isn't actually good

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pop-tarts are calzones.

    This is more accurate than ravioli but its still the wrong kind of dough. Pop-tarts are empanadas.

    Greek salad is fruit salad

    True.

    Paris sucks

    Never been but its not particularly high up on the list of places I want to visit.

    Chick-fil-A isn’t actually good

    It's OK at best. Certainly not worth the line (the one I live near is always packed) or the bigotry they fund.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Dude Paris is fucking awful. Trash and pickpockets literally everywhere

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Here's a hot take for you... every major city is terrible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You're not wrong, Ive been to many and they all are not pleasant in their own way. But for me, Paris had genuinely no redeeming factors. Every major attraction to go was tainted with a seedy underbelly that was active no matter the time of day or where you were. It was insane. I ended up chaperoning a small group of five and had to practically wrap my arms around them to fend off purse snatchers. Its something that sounds like hyperbole, and if you told me the same thing, I wouldn't believe you had I not experienced it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man, I don't think I could be bothered to fight about any of those.

    I'd laugh at the pop tarts one (that's a good one), the rest, meh.

    I mean Paris is cool and all, but what a shit show with the insane traffic (like any large city). The food is fantastic though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Best food I had in Paris was Belgian. Best bar was Irish. Art..sure, OK.

    France in general I really like. Loooove the south. Paris is overrated AF and riding high on reputation from 1870-1943.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Paris sucks

    Anyone who's been to Paris will probably agree, especially Parisians

    Greek salad is a fruit salad

    Tbh a proper one is just a deconstructed sandwich

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    To be fair, I love a Greek salad, and make myself one once a week when none else is looking.

    But...a sandwich? How so?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A quick Google has reminded me I'm specifically thinking of a Cretan greek salad: https://hungryhappens.net/dakos-salata-cretan-salad/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    OK, yeah, I'm doing northern mainland Greek salad: tomatoes, cukes, cheese, olives. And onions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Legitimately recommend giving the Cretan version a go, it's the perfection of the dish IMO

    Though sadly unless you're actually having it somewhere in the Mediterranean, the tomatoes just don't hit the same

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Doesn't a calzone require the fold in the dough where a ravioli is two "sheets" of cough pinched together? Or am I misremembering sandwich classifications?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The cube rule only cares about starch location.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    So ok, Chick-fil-A sandwich is pretty good if you don't get the pickle and mayo.

    But everything else is eh, and the sauces are downright disgusting

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's top to bottom mediocre. I will die on this hill.

    Popeye's, Zaxby's, hell even Church's are better.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Isn’t ravioli just a dumpling?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Just like chili is a stew (which is a very thick soup) and hot dogs (and tacos) are open faced sandwiches and so forth.

    Pretty much all of these memes fall apart if you at all know how to cook. Which is probably why they are so lasting.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Hot dogs aren't open-faced sandwiches. The bun is split open; the sausage lies within, not atop a sole piece of bread.

    And that's not even addressing the fact that "open-faced sandwich" is an oxymoron. By that logic, a slice of [proper NY] pizza is a sandwich as much as a taco, as they are folded and consumed in the same manner, which is clearly ludicrous.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do people fold open faced sandwiches??

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wouldn't think so. Thus, tacos aren't open-faced sandwiches. Of course, neither is a piece of cheese on a cracker, but that'll just further confuse OC.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why are people downvoting us? Are open faced sandwiches such a controversial issue?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Why would that be so ludicrous? It is meat and cheese with a lubricating sauce on bread.

    That said, I would actually argue the distinction there isn't the form factor but the cooking method. For pizza/"pizza", you start with raw dough and add toppings to it and then cook. Rather than adding toppings to a cooked dough (i.e. bread). Although I want to say there is a style of pizza that actually cooks the dough first for some reason? I am inclined to blame Chicago just because they are usually the food criminals. Also I've never actually made one but I assume at least some of the chain store sausage rolls (?) the Brits like are also starting from toppings in raw dough but... let's just say Chicago learned their food atrocities from somebody...

    But, regardless: The point is that all of these are mostly just regional/cultural equivalents of the same meals. Tacos and sandwiches mostly fulfill the same role of being a way to eat leftovers without getting your hands too messy and were popular with "lower class" workers. Soups, chilis, and curries are mostly a way to get a bunch of ingredients into an easy to cook (and leave in the pot) format that can also be stretched pretty far with stuff like rice and bread. And so forth.

    And, again, once you actually start cooking you realize this and realize how easy it is to translate skills from one cuisine to another. Flavor profiles are very different but you rapidly realize you are doing mostly the same motions when you are making a Japanese or Indian curry or a British stew and so forth. And... you can then consider different cooking vessels and the like and how that might actually work better than the traditional style (just make sure you call it "fusion" so people don't get pissy).

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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    I was with you most of the way there (shout out to the chip butty), right up until that “pigs in blankets” abomination turned up. What in gods name has happened to them. Where’s the bacon, and why have they got that pastry nonsense on them? It’s behaviour like that this that explains the state of the world these days

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I only need 2:

    JavaScript frameworks

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Chiropracty / Chiropractics is all fake.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s at best pseudoscience and a scam, and also an actual cult

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sorry it's actually a lasagna.

    There are 3 foods. There is soup. There is salad. And then there is lasagna. That's it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Roller skates count as vehicles

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Punishment is ineffective long-term

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    A ravioli is an amphibious hot pocket

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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