Shitting on Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine
Thinking French cuisine is somehow worse than the garbage the British call food
Imagine being this mentally colonized.
Placing British food inbetween French and Italian is an opinion I can only imagine arising as a pure bit to try and piss off Frenchmen.
Also for my usual Italian food hot take, placing Italian food as like the best cuisine is an epic bacon kind of opinion.
Also for my usual Italian food hot take, placing Italian food as like the best cuisine is an epic bacon kind of opinion.
I kind of assume it's because Americanized Italian food is probably some of the best food the average American has come across (from a
background), that covers at least some of the flavor bases food needs to hit: it's rich, full of garlic so it has an actual flavor to it, and includes both sweet and acidic flavors from the tomato sauce. Meanwhile french food has a reputation for weird shit like frogs and snails and raw meat, not to mention pretentious trash like fish eggs (which are fucking awful, even if they weren't also a disgusting symbol of bourgeois and aristocratic conspicuous consumption) and foie gras and British food has a reputation for being a bunch of flavorless mushy things.Also Italian meatballs are just kofta with too much fennel, and as a result can actually be decent if not as good as proper kofta.
Fish eggs are good(you can just buy the non bougie stuff in grocery stores here) but yes.
I've had several types of roe before, and they're just nearly flavorless, textureless jelly with just a hint of an unpleasant fishy taste. Maybe they're not actively disgusting, but they're not good and they certainly don't contribute anything to any dish that couldn't be gotten in cheaper and more palatable forms elsewhere. Like I bet I could get 99% of their impact with fish sauce and corn starch, I just really, really wouldn't want to ever do that.
I assume roe is pretty regional but the stuff I usually see around here is a lot firmer than the fancy roe you get in restaurants, has a kind of "pop" texture to it(as unpleasant as that might sound just described.)
As for the taste idk, its salty fish taste, wont be for everyone. You can usually get tiny jars of it here for less than the average fish sauce(excluding maybe worchestershire sauce.)
Fish eggs are awsome what are you talking about? And are not necessarily expensive. When i lived in the coast some fishermen would somtimes trow it away.
French food isn't that different from British, just has a bit more seasoning. 90% of French dishes are: brown some meat, deglaze, add some spices, eat with bread or potatoes or soup. The bread is better, the soup is better, but we're comparing like... unseasoned bean water to slightly seasoned bean water.
Brown with lighter brown and green on the side.
Arent italians suposed to eat lots of shelfish both literaly and metaforically? That seems pretty good. Also they have nice cheeese.
Its not that Italian food is bad or not good, its just the kind of food that someone who doesn't actually have many serious opinions about food will pick out if they for whatever reason feel like they need to have a food opinion.
The exception being maybe people who are opinionated about their home food, but other than that its like French food is too fancy and pretentious, "foreign" food is also pretentious but in a different way if you decide to call it your favourite, so its basically Italian that is left.
So its the american idea of italian food rather. I gues they could have also said chinise or is tha too foreing?
For the specific type of guy I'm thinking of its definitely too foreign.
If someone says Chinese food is their favourite/"the best", in my experience its more likely that they either have a really great restaurant near them and its just a food observation that they like the food there, rather than an opinion. Or they have a more deep seated reason for putting it on top, like having it as their home food, being a fanatic for it otherwise, they've decided that cuisines are the frontline of the political battle etc. Rather than it just being like a default option to pick whenever they need to declare someone the best at food.
'Cuse me but french cheese is better than Italian cheese, except for Casu martzu, which is good.
Casu martzu sounds awesome tho i havent tried it. I like the ferench cheeses too. maybe im imagining it but i find the italian types easier to digest. Probably its because of longer fermentation periods on average?.
But what really males italian cousine better than french is the shelfish and the heavier use of spices.
It is a very soft but uh extremely strong tasting, also since its „banned“ its kinda of like an experience that you have to try, if you visit sardinia. The latter is true, italian cusine is much more diverse than french one. Well I personally think that italian cheese is less fatty? If you can describe it like that, like I can’t eat like a huge amount of it.
While there are some fattier italian cheses like parmesan. You are correct. French cheese has generally more cream wich means it also melts easier wich is good. I stll prefer the longer fermentation tho.
an opinion I can only imagine arising as a pure bit to try and piss off Frenchmen.
Based
I dunno about the British food thing...but Singaporean food is not notable. Try to find a Singapore restaurant outside of Singapore or a diaspora community.
What's the signature Singapore dish? "Street hawker" food. Yeah that's right, the main cuisine of their entire culture is food made without running water. I dunno about you, but street food is drunk food and there's no way I would eat that sober. Eww.
One of my favorite restaurants is a Singaporean restaurant where it's just Chinese main dishes, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai sauces, Thai desserts and drinks, and the only Singapore dish is their salad which is really just a slightly different Malaysian salad
I have come to the based centrist conclusion that all of the food is bad. Everywhere only has bad food and we should just stop eating.
Eating disorder? I 'ardly know 'er!
Gotta love people that log onto twitter to publicly air their bad takes like masochists.
I miss when the internet was clearly delineated into "Wacky comedy", "Useful tips and tools", and "Bizarre opinions"
Now it's all just one mixed up jug of wackadoo
The internet is now useful comedy, bizarre tips and tools, and wacky opinions.
One of the wildest takes you see people dropping Indiscriminately is i dont season it to bring out the flavor Pfft
Oh no this cumin is making it too hard to taste the chicken statements dreamed up, by the utterly deranged
Steak needs but salt and pepper. And in a pinch, you can do without the pepper.
Salt isn't even a seasoning IMO. It's a nutrient. Salted food tastes good because it enables our cells to perform their functions more effectively. Saffron...doesn't.
Usually as a rule the closer to the equator the better the food. There are some exceptions like hungary and romania that have a local chili pepper? But usually it is so.
