What do you eat? The thread about things you eat.

[fohat.digs]

Really far off-topic, but the science is especially interesting.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/29/physicists-find-key-to-perfect-pasta-but-not-how-mamma-used-to-make-it

[noisyturtle]

How do you tell if a hard mold-ripened cheese like a blue or stilton has gone off? Or does the flavor just get too strong? 🤔

[tp4tissue]

How do you tell if a hard mold-ripened cheese like a blue or stilton has gone off? Or does the flavor just get too strong? 🤔

Whichever cheese accelerates atherosclerosis is the best cheese.

[phinix]

How do you tell if a hard mold-ripened cheese like a blue or stilton has gone off? Or does the flavor just get too strong? 🤔

it gets slimy on outside, softer overall, stilton also goes yellower, darker on edges, like those emojis 
You can try and cut it around, all sides sliced off as inside it will still be ok. But every time, if you feel uncomfortable eating it, don't, just throw it away.

[fohat.digs]

It is generally still edible, but it will get harder and "whiteness" will give way to "yellowness" from the outside inwards.

[tp4tissue]

Why would you worry about mold, when heart disease and cancer rank the #1 and #2 cause of death in America. Cheese is a big part of both.

[phinix]

Why would you worry about mold, when heart disease and cancer rank the #1 and #2 cause of death in America. Cheese is a big part of both.

tp, I know you dont eat cheese, but do you like cheese? is there particular cheese you like?

[tp4tissue]

Why would you worry about mold, when heart disease and cancer rank the #1 and #2 cause of death in America. Cheese is a big part of both.

tp, I know you dont eat cheese, but do you like cheese? is there particular cheese you like?

They make cashew/almond cheeses now. Similar cultured live molds, grown onto nuts.

Taste great. 

Cashew blue cheese smells the same..

[noisyturtle]

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[tp4tissue]

After you is drink 1 soda.

Immediately, crave the next soda.

[fohat.digs]

First vegetable of the season. I think I will eat it raw at room temperature.

I got a yellow pear tomato yesterday, but that's a fruit.

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 has salad greens, but they're a bit too smole for now.

[noisyturtle]

Last night, after much hype, I tried The Habit Burger.
It was honestly one of the worst burgers I've ever had. The bun was totally soggy from grease, wilted lettuce, they forgot the pineapple on my teri burger, when packing my meal they put the burger on the bottom with a milkshake on top crushing it and making it cold. Absolutely terrible, they don't get a redemption 2nd chance. Total waste of my monthly cheat meal.

[tp4tissue]

Last night, after much hype, I tried The Habit Burger.
It was honestly one of the worst burgers I've ever had. The bun was totally soggy from grease, wilted lettuce, they forgot the pineapple on my teri burger, when packing my meal they put the burger on the bottom with a milkshake on top crushing it and making it cold. Absolutely terrible, they don't get a redemption 2nd chance. Total waste of my monthly cheat meal.

You have to undrstnd the CORE elements at play with capitalism and animal-agriculture.

Animal agriculture is to profit from rape, kidnapping and murder. The cow is raped, its calf removed to prevent it from drinking the milk, then the mother killed for hamburgers.

The cow is fed loads of chicken feces and bedding waste. Then they're pumped full of antibiotics because of the filth of it all.

Don't blame capitalism and its industries for giving you Cancer + Heartdisease + Diabetes. 

They don't care about "the cow" and they certainly don't care "about you". 

You, widely, (mankind), deserve everything that's coming to you.  Probably a stroke.

[tp4tissue]

Made pasta for breakfast.

2x medium tomato, 1/2 yellow bell pepper, 1/2 head of Brocolli, 5tsp chili powder, 1tsp salt, 3tsp sunflower oil, 2 tablsp sugar, 151g dried Rotini.

Honestly, this is too expensive, time and fuel cost are staggering.

[tp4tissue]

Popcorn made in wok = next lvl.

So good, 99.78% pop rate. MELTS SUGAR right onto dat korn.

100g korn, 50g sugar, 3.5tbsp canola oil.


Swirl while covered voraciously.  You can do it in a regular pot if you don't know how to swirl wok with pot lid. (use forearm to hold down the lid)


The drawback is, the cleanup, hot sugar and oil cover the insides of container.

[noisyturtle]

Really tasty ice cream treats, check 'em out if you spot them!

each flavor is served in the shell of it; i.e. orange is in an orange peel, coconut is in a coconut shell

[tp4tissue]

Peeps who eat wayyyy too much butter.  Broh, that is not ketchup, you can not be downing it like that. 

Of course, Tp4 only recommends veggie based margarine. Less bio-accumulated pesticides, less cow mastitic pus, less carcinogenic.

[phinix]

Peeps who eat wayyyy too much butter.  Broh, that is not ketchup, you can not be downing it like that. 

Of course, Tp4 only recommends veggie based margarine. Less bio-accumulated pesticides, less cow mastitic pus, less carcinogenic.

Margarine? So there is english word for it?! Cool
I thought its only in Polish. In UK, its called spreadable, so I thought there is no english word for it

[tp4tissue]

Yea we got brands like, "I can't believe it's not butter", "Country Crock", etc

Basically the same stuff, most are not strictly 100%-veggums but come close and only use milk products as part of the seasoning.

Saw this kid at the hotel breakfast this one time, he put 8tabs each of those precut butters on 2 bagels, Then after he finished eating them, he ate a few more tabs of butter by itself. Slightly more than a whole stick of butter for breakfast.

[fohat.digs]

Margarine? So there is english word for it?

When I was a kid most people said "Oleo"

edit - enjoy this article
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-government-came-to-decide-color-your-food-180973962/

[tp4tissue]

It's a conspiracy.

Ignore the politics,   Eat veggies. 

Meat products come out of an animal toilet.

[Findecanor]

Last night, after much hype, I tried The Habit Burger.
It was honestly one of the worst burgers I've ever had. ...

I've long ago learned that the best burgers are the ones you make yourself.
I'm a vegetarian though. But we vegetarians get especially bad burgers in restaurants.

My main source of inspiration (for my weekly cheat meal*) has been Ballistic Burgers on YouTube even though the guy cooks meat.  I like how he attempts to replicate different burgers from different restaurants: historic burgers, from single restaurants known locally in some town somewhere, to large chain restaurants.

*: a tradition from back a few years ago when I had gall bladder problems and couldn't eat fat  regularly.

[tp4tissue]

It's a shame Tp4 has so little enthusiasm for the diversity in life despite his good fortune.

Beyond burger patties is as far as Tp4 has ventured.  They're pretty delicious in Tp4's opinion, as they are greasy.

[Findecanor]

It's a shame Tp4 has so little enthusiasm for the diversity in life despite his good fortune.

Beyond burger patties is as far as Tp4 has ventured.  They're pretty delicious in Tp4's opinion, as they are greasy.

Ready-made patties are gross. Full of additives such as methyl cellulose, that is bad for your colon.

I'm afraid that all that methyl cellulose from all the vegan meat substitutes I've eaten throughout the years is likely to have been a contributing factor to why I don't have a colon any more.

My go-to recipe for a burger patty is a mix of:
- soy mince
- falafel mix
- grated cheese
- eggs

I sometimes have mince beans in there, grated carrots and/or grated beet root. Use frozen, thawed and minced tofu instead of the soy mince -- which is basically the same thing just with/out colouring.

The eggs are necessary to keep it together. I had used lupin-based vegan egg replacement when I couldn't eat eggs and that worked really well but it isn't as easy to get hold of.
The falafel mix swells in the excess moisture from the eggs, keeping the patty from being too soggy. The downside of using falafel mix is that it contains spices that mess with the flavour profile if you use too much. I sometimes add seitan powder (raw gluten) or just dried breadcrumbs instead. I think that seitan needs to be kneaded a little.
I use real cheese to add some fat to get it succulent. "Vegan cheese" contains emulsifiers that are probably not good for you: just omit if if you don't want it.
And of course you could fave flavourings such as spices, stock, MSG or nutritional yeast, but I mostly use mushroom powder which contains natural MSG.

[tp4tissue]

The higher we eat up on "processed" foods, the more inevitability of chemical additives, even if you think about them just having to package things.

Plastic packaging looks like a "solid" piece of wrapper, it's actually not, it's a soft cloth, persistently shedding plastic particles, and if it gets heated for the seal or during transport, it's Off Gassing.

Lots of food are also acidic+ oily, so put that in your plastic bottle for a long time, wellll..

[noisyturtle]

Cannot decide if kiwi or mango is better. Both are great, specifically Golden Kiwi and Carabao Mangos.

Strange that fruits like strawberries, blueberries, oranges, and melons have lost taste, sweetness, and juiciness. While fruits like mango, kiwi, and dragonfruit have far improved their taste and variety over the past few decades.

[tp4tissue]

Watermelon is obviously superior to both. No need to decide, they both C-tier at best.

Watermelon is S^inf Tier. All other fr00t are irrelevant.

[Sniping]

Cannot decide if kiwi or mango is better. Both are great, specifically Golden Kiwi and Carabao Mangos.

Strange that fruits like strawberries, blueberries, oranges, and melons have lost taste, sweetness, and juiciness. While fruits like mango, kiwi, and dragonfruit have far improved their taste and variety over the past few decades.

that's a tough statement to make generally. there's a bit of a race to the bottom with produce and food ingredients like there is with like any other commodity in the modern world. people just want their stuff cheap, and cheap stuff is what they got. there's still smaller farms that sell locally to more specialty produce stores, farmers markets and the such that will carry the good stuff. it's a bit hard to make out whether or not the local farmers market is selling quality product or just reselling normal produce and swindling, just takes some trial and error. zespri does have a grip on the kiwi market (it's a bit monsanto like honestly..) but they've done a very good job at controlling kiwi quality and cultivating kiwis. they have a new variety for north america this year, ruby red zespri if you've seen it around. they're not as good as gold at the moment but they're clearly trying their hardest to push new varietals and commoditize.

if you want some melon recs for the summer, you should look out for picasso melon and origami cantaloup. I've had some really good ones recently. I have to drive kind of far to get to a store that has good produce and also isn't overpriced, bit of a PITA but I basically live for a solid summer fruit bowl.

[Sniping]

summer salad - frisee and red butter lettuce (literally just looks green in the picture..), hass avocado, rainier cherry, yellow peach, japanese cucumber, winged a vinaigrette. basically only have time to make fancy salads on the weekends since getting the ingredients takes too much time on the weekdays lol

[noisyturtle]

Cannot decide if kiwi or mango is better. Both are great, specifically Golden Kiwi and Carabao Mangos.

Strange that fruits like strawberries, blueberries, oranges, and melons have lost taste, sweetness, and juiciness. While fruits like mango, kiwi, and dragonfruit have far improved their taste and variety over the past few decades.

that's a tough statement to make generally. there's a bit of a race to the bottom with produce and food ingredients like there is with like any other commodity in the modern world. people just want their stuff cheap, and cheap stuff is what they got. there's still smaller farms that sell locally to more specialty produce stores, farmers markets and the such that will carry the good stuff. it's a bit hard to make out whether or not the local farmers market is selling quality product or just reselling normal produce and swindling, just takes some trial and error. zespri does have a grip on the kiwi market (it's a bit monsanto like honestly..) but they've done a very good job at controlling kiwi quality and cultivating kiwis. they have a new variety for north america this year, ruby red zespri if you've seen it around. they're not as good as gold at the moment but they're clearly trying their hardest to push new varietals and commoditize.

if you want some melon recs for the summer, you should look out for picasso melon and origami cantaloup. I've had some really good ones recently. I have to drive kind of far to get to a store that has good produce and also isn't overpriced, bit of a PITA but I basically live for a solid summer fruit bowl.

Yes, Zespri has been my go-to. I've noticed other kiwi producers have been getting wiped out and Zespri has been quickly dominating the entire kiwi market.
Smaller producers are now selling for nearly double, and do not offer special varieties, just green. The only good option is Zespri only sells in 6+, and smaller producers you can buy individually which is good for convenience. I also like their logo, an angry pair of kiwi muppets.
I've got both Zespri Sungold, and Ruby Red in my fridge right now. The Ruby Red almost tastes like a cross between guava and strawberry, but I prefer the Sungold which is just a sweeter kiwi.

Designer kiwis might be a good future produce too look for. Due to how they are grown, you cannot take Ruby Red or Sungold seeds and grow them yourself. I hope to see more kiwi variety in the near-future.

[tp4tissue]

This is hilarious,

Donut Economics, Kate Raworth, is translated to, sweet-sweet-hoop economic studies in chinese. 甜甜圈经济学

Hahahahahahhahaha

[fohat.digs]

Corn seems to be particularly good this year.

[tp4tissue]

Corn seems to be particularly good this year.

It's the new Monsanto spray, extra corn flavor.

[noisyturtle]

1 vodka or gin based cocktail and 1 full-fat soda = appx. 350 calories
Just 2 drinks is the equivalent of an entire meal

[Findecanor]

Strange that fruits like strawberries, blueberries, oranges, and melons have lost taste, sweetness, and juiciness.

That's because producers and sellers have transitioned to hardier, high-yield varieties and/or that they can grow in greenhouses out of season.

Strawberries grown outdoors and sun-ripened are absolutely wonderful. That's why here in Sweden, strawberries in summer is a big deal, and people care about getting domestic strawberries to increase the chance that they taste good.

I've had large american blueberries many times, and all but once were they tasteless.
Wild european blueberries (called "bilberries" in the US) are smaller, but more nutritious and much tastier. Nobody has found a way to cultivate and harvest them at scale, unfortunately, but thankfully they grow wild in abundance over here in mid/late summer, and frozen berries are usable for a pie.

One thing I don't like is that european and american blueberries are sold under the same name, so when a product contains "blueberries" you can't tell which variety it is.
Sometimes, a product based on european blueberries have been diluted, with american "blueberry" flavouring added ... yuck.