People actually eat that where I live. In the Midwest. I don't get it. They don't even necessarily add :lmayo: or anything else - I'm not even kidding
My SO and I are constantly being told there will be sandwiches here or there, but it's this shit. I won't even call that a sandwich - we've been calling it "bread-meat" because it's literally just a piece or two of deli meat between two slices of dry bread. People will actually go to the store and buy only those two things and plan on eating bread-meat. And I don't mean people with no money. I mean people with plenty of money. Bread-meat.
I started hearing jokes about "white people food" and "where are the spices" before I moved to the Midwest and thought it was bullshit - I thought maybe it was coming from like, Mexicans or Indians etc. who tend to eat spicier food, and they were exaggerating - no. No that wasn't it. White people really are eating fucking breadmeat and they really do go to potlucks where every single dish is beige without exception.
I spent like a month where every breakfast was like a piece of fresh bread and a slice of cured meat. It started off good but even that got pretty fucking boring
I honestly think there's something in the water here in the midwest. For the longest time, my mom enjoyed a variety of flavors and foods. But as she's gotten older she just uses less and less flavor and spices. She's stopped wanting to eat basically any food besides bland Italian. I don't get it
Does she drink alcohol much? I've noticed some :lmayo: relatives eating less and less spices as they age while continuing to drink and many complain of stomach upset / reflux due to spice. I'm of the opinion the alcohol is messing with them but they're in denial of the cause and blame spices (which may exasperate the effects of the reflux but aren't the root cause)
I ate that a few times when I was a kid, but those were some pretty rough years. Working single mother with depression food.
Midwest "food" is so unbearably gross. "Hot dish" is a casserole impersonating "food" made by dumping cream of mushroom soup and tatertots, unseasoned, in a casserole dish. Ugh. They love it. Just ugh.
The most absolutely unhinged thing about potlucks is that people will say ahead of time what they're all bringing, and one or two people will say "salad" and there is absolutely no indication of what that means - they actually think that the following dishes perform the same role in a meal and are completely interchangeable:
Chopped lettuce, various vegetable toppings, and dressing. AKA a fucking salad
Potato salad
Vanilla pudding, apple chunks, whipped cream and candy bars
Jello concoction
They will not tell you which one it is until you're there. Those are all the same to them, because all of them are chopped things mixed together. They do not have the desire to round out bread/cheese/meat/sugar with some fiber. That's not a craving they get.
No, other readers, you don't understand. You don't get it. If you bring a bowl of green salad, someone with a bowl of whipped cream and candy bars will look at you say "oh no, we both brought the same dish"
People actually eat that where I live. In the Midwest. I don't get it. They don't even necessarily add :lmayo: or anything else - I'm not even kidding
My SO and I are constantly being told there will be sandwiches here or there, but it's this shit. I won't even call that a sandwich - we've been calling it "bread-meat" because it's literally just a piece or two of deli meat between two slices of dry bread. People will actually go to the store and buy only those two things and plan on eating bread-meat. And I don't mean people with no money. I mean people with plenty of money. Bread-meat.
I started hearing jokes about "white people food" and "where are the spices" before I moved to the Midwest and thought it was bullshit - I thought maybe it was coming from like, Mexicans or Indians etc. who tend to eat spicier food, and they were exaggerating - no. No that wasn't it. White people really are eating fucking breadmeat and they really do go to potlucks where every single dish is beige without exception.
i still dont understand how people can eat that bagged sliced bread shit (except in extremity, and even then only as toast)
It really is bad. Meat between two beautiful slices of fresh bread would almost be something
good fresh bread is good with basically anything (or nothing)
(olive oil)
I spent like a month where every breakfast was like a piece of fresh bread and a slice of cured meat. It started off good but even that got pretty fucking boring
I just gave up and now i buy "brioche" (it's not) that's basically cake.
If it's a cured meat and a flavored cheese I think it's okay. Bologna and American cheese might as well be food paste.
No there's no cheese, that's why we call it bread meat. It's the absolute bottom of the barrel bread combined with mid tier cold cuts from the deli
I honestly think there's something in the water here in the midwest. For the longest time, my mom enjoyed a variety of flavors and foods. But as she's gotten older she just uses less and less flavor and spices. She's stopped wanting to eat basically any food besides bland Italian. I don't get it
Does she drink alcohol much? I've noticed some :lmayo: relatives eating less and less spices as they age while continuing to drink and many complain of stomach upset / reflux due to spice. I'm of the opinion the alcohol is messing with them but they're in denial of the cause and blame spices (which may exasperate the effects of the reflux but aren't the root cause)
I ate that a few times when I was a kid, but those were some pretty rough years. Working single mother with depression food.
Midwest "food" is so unbearably gross. "Hot dish" is a casserole impersonating "food" made by dumping cream of mushroom soup and tatertots, unseasoned, in a casserole dish. Ugh. They love it. Just ugh.
The most absolutely unhinged thing about potlucks is that people will say ahead of time what they're all bringing, and one or two people will say "salad" and there is absolutely no indication of what that means - they actually think that the following dishes perform the same role in a meal and are completely interchangeable:
They will not tell you which one it is until you're there. Those are all the same to them, because all of them are chopped things mixed together. They do not have the desire to round out bread/cheese/meat/sugar with some fiber. That's not a craving they get.
No, other readers, you don't understand. You don't get it. If you bring a bowl of green salad, someone with a bowl of whipped cream and candy bars will look at you say "oh no, we both brought the same dish"