Ya definitely not saying cooking is easy or trivial. I love doing it and I'm very good at it but that's because I do it all the time and put in effort. Even I go to restaurants sometimes for food I haven't learned to cook... or even for food I could cook but like the restaurants version of. So I don't precisely blame someone for wanting a food but not wanting to make it for whatever reason...

However if you wax poetic about the perfection of burger and it's intrinsic value to your cultural identity I'd assume it's important enough to you to try. Especially if your next post is normal chud shit about getting a job and working hard etc etc.

And ya I think you are 100% right about restaurants having the luxury of adding lots of salt and fat and such. Or perhaps it's a luxury restaurants provide to guests... blissful ignorance. It is something you learn when you start cooking. Wait I have to add how much fuckin spice to this? How much sugarrrr??

Most people definitely do not add enough. I'm always doubling spice levels in anything I cook from rando recipes online. Gotta fuckin adddddd that flavor bb and Americans love adding half a teaspoon of black pepper to a pot of soup and calling it a day.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Again, just musing on the point to socialize:

There was some guy Joshua Weissman was talking to who went around to all these diners and studied the food science for what makes a good burger and published a book on it. That's an interesting enough thing. If Amerikkka has a culture that's positive then surely that knowledge is part of it.

And to your last point about people eating flavorless slop I remember asking about what rich people eat that makes them make such weird faces when eating corn dogs or whatever and someone explained to me how it's probably not that they're eating at all these high end restaurants but rather that it's probably more like flavorless gruel - the plain corn soups of the world. So for many of them it's not that they siphon everything so that they covet the nice things in life, but rather they paint the world into gray nightmare fuel in their own image

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Every time I've ever eaten rich people food it has always been grey flavourless slop, so you might be onto something there.

[–] NinaPasadena@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Ya there are interesting food cultures in America despite its tendency to grey slop at the top levels. Lovvee a book that dives deep in such things.

You are what you eat or something. Or maybe for rich people you eat what you are. Pathetic and bland and overpriced