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[–] 44 points 5 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 88 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    Caviar. Stop lying it's gross.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    I eat just about anything that comes out of fish. I think it's fine. Same with salmon roe and stuff. Cod sperm is the one I don't care for (at least raw), but that's a texture thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Alton Brown claims his favorite protein source is caviar.

    Idk, I like fish eggs on sushi — but straight caviar on a cracker is horrifying to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Doesn't the cracker normally have some cheese on it? Like one of the white lumpy cheeses, not like cheddar or provolone.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think you're thinking of creme fraiche, which is a kind of cream.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe, I thought it was something more like ricotta or cottage cheese, but I haven't been to a fancy enough party to try the stuff. Just remembered a picture.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    A perk of being of Iranian origin is having tasted actual Persian caviar from Caspian sturgeons. And it's unfortunately very delicious.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Oh so maybe I've just had shitty caviar? My dad was an ambassador and we were always served it when we ate together. The one I remember most vividly was my first and it was at a state dinner in Mongolia, perhaps it's different there. I usually just declined where appropriate after that.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    We used to sell caviar at a store I managed and the caviar guy came around to have the staff taste it for sales purposes. We went through like 3 tins of caviar and it was absolutely fantastic. Delicate, slightly briny, slightly sweet, could've eaten it all day.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I would like to try some before I can say it's overrated. But seing the price, it's probably overrated af.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    You can get some pretty cheap, and that's probably what the poster had. From what I've heard, when it's good it's really good. The cheap stuff though is pretty plain. More of a texture than flavor. It's just little sacks of water basically. The more expensive stuff is more salty with fishy flavors, from what I've heard.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Mushy peas. I’m from northern England and therefore should genetically love it, but I just don’t. Maybe it’s because I never went to watch football and rugby games in the rain and cold.

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  • Fresh peas straight from the plant are such a world away from whatever monstrosity processing turns them into. Mushy peas are gross, but I will happily pick every pod in the garden and greedily eat every pea out of them if given the chance.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    I enjoy canned and frozen peas a lot. But when they gave me that little cup of mushy peas with my fish and chips. I gave it a shot. It's like pea flavored pudding, nope.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    How do you cope with curry sauce at the chippy? I’ll pour it over everything, still with salt and vinegar. Similar consistency but less green tasting.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know what that is. I was just visiting London.

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  • [–] 48 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Raw oysters. They have the texture and salinity of snot

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I assume you've tried at least a few but the difference in oysters around the world is immense. If, for example, you've only tried east Asian oysters, give north/south American atlantic/Pacific or European atlantic/mediterranean ones a try.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Using snot as your salinity guide says a lot about you

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    You've never had a runny nose before?

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That you use it as a benchmark is weird

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  • [–] 64 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Lobster. Without the butter it tastes like almost nothing. With the butter it tastes like butter.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It tastes like slightly lobstery butter with an immensely satisfying texture. It's good

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I'd much rather just have an artichoke with a lemon and garlic and melted butter dip. Or a Lion's Mane mushroom, cut into slices and pan-fried in butter and salt, then topped with lemon juice. Or, for that matter, a Dutch Baby pancake. All of these strike me as being in the same overall flavor family as lobster, but I find them tastier, and they also avoid the cracking process, which I find messy and unpleasant.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It’s just expensive escargot

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Dubai chocolate bars. $15 for a candy bar that just tastes like sweet? Makes no sense to me.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You can pry black licorice from my cold dead hands

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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    i flicking love it. even the odd kind from europe with ammonia or somesuch in it. or even just chewing on the root sticks.

    careful with the blood pressure though.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    thank you. ammonium chloride, no?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You insulted my Dutch heritage

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    with this one i think a lot of it comes down to if you can taste those test strips from high school biology class. if you can, you're going to hate kale. if you can't you're going to think the people who hate kale are being unnecessarily dramatic.

    (bias report: i can taste the strips and i hate kale)

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Nobody LIKES kale, it's just a health trend

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I hate kale. I can barely tolerate most leafy greens, and then along comes this trend of making every salad a kale one and now I can't order any fuckin salad unless I feel like paying to mentally fight my gag reflex the entire time I'm eating it

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is plainly untrue. I went through a period of eating lot of salad, and I can think of exactly one with kale.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I suppose it's been letting up the last few years now that I think of it. Also now that I'm back in a large city, most restaurants have more than 1–2 salad options so the chance of a kale trap is decreased

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