People Explain That They Or Someone They Knew Have Been Eating These 30 Foods Wrong For The Longest Time
People can argue about food, its preparation and the best combinations until the end of time. Somehow we all are born with different taste buds and there are people who like and dislike identical foods, so if you think about it, such a discussion is kind of pointless.
But it still goes on as Redditor heystarbuckslover asks “What are some foods that most people have been eating the wrong way or not the way it was intended?” Most people interpreted the question a bit differently and actually told the weirdest and rarest ways they eat food or someone else does.
Whether they answered the question directly or were talking about what they personally were eating wrong, this list of people’s mistakes may be viewed as educational or even inspirational if any of these wrong ways sound delicious to you.
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My dad believes steak should be well done. And by well done, unseasoned shoe leather.
Growing up I never could fathom why anyone loved steaks, and why they were such an 'expensive treat' at the house.
My dad would buy these beautiful, thick cut rib eyes, then toss them on the flaming grill with no seasoning, cook them on one side for seven minutes, flip, then other side, till they had shrank half their size and were charred. Then he would berate us for using sauce because 'it covered up the flavor of the meat'.
No Scott, your inability to cook on a grill covers the flavor.
It wasn't until I was 18 and living on my own that I tried to grill my own.
Seasoned with garlic powder and salt, flipped on the flaming grill often and buttered between flips, taken off when I was tired of waiting, I had my first medium rare steak that melted in my mouth.
I have never let my father 'cook' me another steak since.
"No Scott, your inability to cook on a grill covers the flavor." Oh, wow. I don't know who got burned worse: Scott or the steak.
Okay, so this is more along the lines of me eating a certain dish the wrong way, but when I was little my mom would make french toast except she would put chilies, onions and sometimes chicken on it. I grew up thinking french toast was a savory dish until I ordered it at a diner and it was sweet. I still like my mom’s version of french toast better tbh.
My grandfather enjoys eating lightly salted peaches with mayonnaise. If you didnt know there was a wrong way to eat a peach, now you know.
My dad served us underripe fruit my entire childhood because to him firm = good and soft = bad. The first time I had a mango that was actually ripe I was an adult and the experience was borderline orgasmic.
You have to devein shrimp, or else you're eating their poop.
Someone told me "You don't want to know" when I asked what the black thing they were taking out. I assumed it was a parasite and have avoided shrimp since. I can deal with it being a vein and pooper now.
I eat Kiwis with the hairy skin on. My mom said I seemed to like it so she wasn't going to stop me. Later on I find out that I'm a freak of nature for doing it, but I still eat it that way because I just like it. The only downside is that since I like the texture of the hair and skin, I have "forbidden fruit" moments when I'm looking at the abdomen of a tarantula.
Nothing wrong with it. I've been eating them with the skin on for years. It's good for you and actually nice.
Recently read where people were **eating the f*****g wax** on Babybel cheeses and I haven't been the same since
Don't eat the wax. Save it up and make tiny candles for your garden gnomes.
There was a comment a long time ago from a guy who found out in adulthood that you aren't supposed to eat the cupcake wrappers when someone looked horrified when he ate it.
To everyone who eats spaghetti with a little itty bitty smidge of sauce at the top with the rest completely dry and white: Atone or be banned from cooking forever.
I eat my spaghetti covered in butter and parmesan cheese, the sauce is in a separate bowl covered in cheese was well. I eat the sauce like soup.
When I first ate edamame I chewed up the entire pod and couldn't figure out why people enjoyed eating them. I did't realize you're just supposed to eat the bean inside the pod.
*Not peas in a pod. Beans.
Whoops. I've also eaten the pods. I figured it the beans were supposed to be shelled, they already would be.
My buddy's step dad puts sugar in his f*****g mac and cheese. Sometimes I think about it and I can't sleep
I'm going to assume there's already sugar in KD considering Spaghetti-os puts sugar in their sauce.
It's not traditional to eat Thai food with chopsticks. They use a fork and a tablespoon. Stop asking for chopsticks in Thai restaurants.
The Thai people who run restaurants in my town are incredibly hospitable, adaptable, and good-hearted. They know that people are going to ask for chopsticks, and although that's not part of their culture, they give them to those who ask. They also hand out fortune cookies.
Not others but I don't take Oreos apart and lick the frosting off first, I just bite into them like a savage.
[A man once sued a restaurant in Miami for serving him an artichoke which he promptly ate all of.] I don't mean like "he finished the artichoke" - I mean that this guy, who apparently is a *Doctor*, just ate the entire f*****g thing, including all of the inedible parts.
For those of you who have never encountered an Artichoke, the edible part of the plant is a fleshy substance that is on the inside parts of the leaves. You scrape it off and eat that part and discard the leaves. The artichoke heart, at the middle of all of the leaves, is also edible (and delicious). The stem and the fibrous leaves are not edible. Well I guess except to this guy.
As far as vegetables go, artichokes are indeed delicious, but they take the most amount of work for the least amount of return.
This is really relevant to me today, because I just found out that my girlfriend has been buying smoked salmon for years then cooking it!
You're supposed to wait for the pizza rolls to cool down BEFORE you put them in your mouth, not after while you're doing the dragon breath thing trying not to let them touch your tongue
Ladies and gentlemen of Reddit. Do what ever you’d like behind closed doors, but please remember if you’re eating a banana in public it’s banana to mouth. Not mouth to banana.
If you steam brussel sprouts and also dont salt and pepper them of course you dont like them. They need to be charred and on the brink of almost burnt for them to be good. Olive oil salt and pepper in a 450 degree oven cut in half, cook for 10 to 15 minutes.
Fatty bacon in a pan til it starts to brown, add halved sprouts, toss around until they start to brown on the edges, then devour while hiding them from your children.
My friend eats popcorn by picking the fluffy parts away from each piece and discarding the “seed” center. Every time i tel him hes an idiot but hes too stubborn to just eat a damn piece of popcorn like a human
Some of these people are getting criticized for eating too much fiber; some are getting criticized for eating too little. Rock on with your fluff-eating self, friend.
For me, it was crackers with any sort of topping until my wife showed me the error of my ways.
I would always put cheese, or whatever spread I might be eating with the crackers on the top i.e. salty side of the cracker. My wife lost her ever loving mind when she saw me do this. She then proceeded to explain to me that I should turn the cracker over and put the spread, cheese, or whatever on the bottom so that the salty side would hit my tongue when I put the bite in my mouth.
It was a revelation.
Ya seen these taco lickers? You heard of these guys? Yeah, well there are these people out there, and I don't know who raised them or how they turned out the way they did, but they eat their tacos middle-out. They dip their heads down to their tacos and lick out all the insides first, then eat the soggy shell afterwards. Sometimes they don't even eat the shell. I can't take my kids out to the Taqueria anymore because of these freaks. I don't want my little girls to become taco lickers. It's just not natural and I will not have any taco lickers living under the roof of my house!
OK, but if we learned anything from Kevin Bacon in "Footloose," it's that restrictive measures often make kids rebel. Don't come crying to us when your kids run off to lick tacos in a commune in Montana!
My grandpa would peel a green apple using this nifty little device, then salt it and put it on a stick and give it to me
This seems less like a snack and more like a arcane ritual for summoning an A24 horror version of Johnny Appleseed.
Ginger with Sushi. You're actually supposed to eat the ginger slices between eating the rolls of sushi so as to cleanse the palate.
Although, personally I love putting ginger and Wasabi on my sushi roll then eating it in one bite.
Anybody else love eating all the ginger at the end? It's like a tiny dessert.
people can make their basic ramen taste a bit better, open the packet, take out the seasoning, and set it aside, cook the ramen just in the water, after its cooked drain the water leaving only a tiny tiny amount, pour some more out you still have too much, just a little, and add the seasoning and mix it at that point, it actually flavors the noodles themselves and makes em taste much better
I cook the noodles in the broth, toss the broth, and then just eat the noodles.
Vegemite. As an American I was tricked into eating some as a sandwich and was convinced it was just a food meant to prank people with. An Australian friend was alarmed when I recounted this and corrected the method for me.
"Oh GOD no, you don't eat it as a sandwich! You've gotta get yourself a nice piece of toast, spread a good layer of butter on it, then just the tiniest scrape of Vegemite over that. And if you can get a slice of cheap processed cheese on there, even better! Please please don't dismiss Vegemite until you give it another go."
This same friend introduced me to TimTams AND the TimTam slam, so who was I not to trust her implicitly?? I took her advice, and I'm glad I did. Ended up buying myself a little jar because dang, that's a nice little savory punch if you use it right!
It might have been said already, but I got tired of scrolling.
I don't know if it's "most", but I know it's fairly common to rinse off your pasta after you drain the water. Don't do that.
Also, cooking the pasta until it sticks to a wall means you over cooked it.
I've read plenty of ways "to make your pasta better" but those two simple things are the only ones that really made any difference to me.
The issue is this - once I pour the al dente pasta into the colander to drain, it's still cooking. If I leave it there for 5 mins while readying my sauce or whatever, it gets too soft. Rinsing lowers the temp of the pasta so it stops cooking and my al dente stays al dente. Am I missing something?
I don't know about most people, but growing up I always thought I hated guavas because they were so dry. Turns out, my parents used to cut out the best part--the fleshy seedy inside-- and serve me the dry rinds...
Edit: since a lot of the comments are confused, I'd like to clear a few things up.
My parents would cut out where the seeds are and eat the green part + the white parts where there are no seeds. not sure if that's fully the rind; I guess the easiest way to compare it is with a watermelon: it's like cutting away the red flesh and eating the skin + white part. no, my parents don't hate me (maybe for other reasons) because I've seen them throw away the seeds. we are Vietnamese and my parents prefer the dry, crunchy texture with some chili salt and think the seeds cause constipation.
I guy goes into the doctor with lettuce in his hair, carrots sticking out of his ears and beans in his nose. He says despondently, "Doctor, what's wrong with me?" Doc says "Well first of all, you are not eating right."
Not many people know but you are supposed to remove the membrane that is on the bottom of a rack of ribs before you cook them. It makes them easier to cut and eat.
If you eat salmon to have a healthy meal, it's more beneficial to leave the skin on... just fry it with some salt/pepper until it's crispy.
Or give the skin to your dog, who will greet this gift with zoomies and joy.
Up until a couple of years ago (22 currently) I thought you were supposed to bite the skin off the apple then eat it.
If I didn't have a knife I would spend my time biting around the entire apple, spitting the skin out, then eating it.
Most people eat the skin of an apple. It's odd that someone would peel it off with their teeth.
I don't like the skin of an apple, I think it's gross so I peel it off with a potato peeler
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I just eat an apple. Skin and all. Sometimes it's cut up, sometimes I just eat it whole. I wasn't aware folks had issues with the skin.
The only part i dont eat is the core, but i know that some people will straight up eat the whole thing, no waste, just goes in seeds and all.
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The skin is the most nutritious part of the apple, why the hell remove it?
What??? I m eating all skin, I always did... what is wrong with it???
I have always done that, but I don't bite, instead I use my front teeth to pill the skin off.
Awesome, gonna try that on the next apple, and it's season! I dislike apple skins and am all for saving best for last.... although it's not the core and environment. apple is best 50% between the skin and the core. Fight me (☆▽☆)
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whenever my mom made apple pie I'd help her peel the apples... I perfected the method to first peel a bit long enough so I could comfortably put the end in my mouth and then continue peeling the apple while eating the peel like a rabbit (has resulted in quite a few hilarious pictures)... I honestly still do it when making anything with apples... those peels are delicious...
I am 71 years old, all my life I eat the apple and pear skins, to me it is the best part.
a raw apple with skin contains up to 332% more vitamin K, 142% more vitamin A, 115% more vitamin C, 20% more calcium, and up to 19% more potassium than a peeled apple
Aren't all the apple's vitamins under the skin? If you peel the apple, you peel of the vitamins? a raw apple with skin contains up to 332% more vitamin K, 142% more vitamin A, 115% more vitamin C, 20% more calcium, and up to 19% more potassium than a peeled apple
OK, last comment before I keep scrolling. Why would OP (unless I misunderstood) bite around the entire apple, spit the skin out, then eat it? It was already in your mouth, why spit it out to put it back in and eat it properly? Or did they mean they spit the skin out and ate the flesh of the apple without the skin? Wasteful
If this is about the pesticides that are often on fruit, do people not wash their fruit before they eat it? Wash your apples and then the skin should be fine to eat
Why wouldn't you wash an apple before you ate it?!? You don't know how many people touched it in the grocery store before you decided to buy it. Even the ones in a sealed bag.
Load More Replies... Eat the skin crazy ones, it has great benefits. Who peels apples to eat unless they are for a baby ..
Sometimes my mom would peel apples for apple crisp and I would eat some of the left over peelings.
I guess I'm a freak.... I just eat the skin... lol. Only time I peel and apple is if it's for a recipe that specifically calls for peeling it.
You just eat the skin of the apple...unless, like my dad, you are allergic to the skin, but not the flesh. Then, you should peel it first.
The skin always made me cough as a kid so I would peel them with my teeth too 😂 my kid doesn’t like apple skin either
I grew up in apple country in western NY. Eat everything with possibly the exception of the stem.
What? You don’t have to peel it at all, the skin is edible and nutritious.
Why no skin? A) it gets stuck in the teeth , B) that's where a lot of the pesticides are, C) and that's where other people have handled it. Who knows whether your washing it has gotten everything off? I've eaten over 100 varieties of apple, and only about 4 have peel that I consider an enjoyable part of the fruit.
Although I don't like raw apples, I usually eat pears with their skin. It's perfectly eatable, and all people I know eat apples the same way, except in a fruit salad.
I don't love apples, but I straight up dislike the peel, so whenever DH gets an apple, he'll eat the skin off a section to try to get me to eat a bit.
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Fettuccine Alfredo. Stop with the jar of white goop. It's 3 ingredients. Butter, cheese and noodles.
No no no no. Whipping cream, unsalted butter, and shredded Parmesan cheese.
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When I eat fried chicken I peel off as much of the skin as I can, set it aside, eat everything else, then the skin.
My takeaway from all this: people eat things differently. Not incorrectly, just differently.
If I want to eat wax with my cheese or ginger with my sushi that's my business nobody else's. Why does anyone care how another person eats food it's none of your business.
I mix the ginger, the soy sauce and the wassbi all together and just dip the roll in - I don't care if someone thinks that is wrong, I like it that way. Just enjoy what you eat!
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I'm sharing this one for my dad because he doesn't have boredpanda: when he was a kid, he regularly ate those maruchan noodles that came in a little bag. expect he didn't cook them, he sprinkled the powder you put in the broth on the top and ate them dry.
Applesauce. I grew up in the south (USA) and my mama would peel and cut apples and cook them down to mush and flavor with sugar, vanilla, molasses etc. Then she would serve it hot. It was a side dish that could also be dessert if so desired. I was in college when someone offered me applesauce - it was cold and flavorless. I was disgusted, but apparently eating bland cold 'sauce' from apples is a thing.
I like applesauce both warm or cold, I don’t peel the apples when I make it though they just get a good scrub then chopped up, and the only flavouring it needs imo is cinnamon!
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My grandmother would put sugar on bananas but eat lemons without any. Her sister ate Saltines soda crackers slathered with petroleum jelly.
My grandfather used to eat graham crackers by breaking them into pieces and shoving them in a glass of milk until soggy... It always grossed me out as a kid.
Upvote for grandpa, following a time-honored tradition. Well, kind of. You want to dip in the milk and leave in until it soaks up some of the milk but can still be lifted out (by the dry end) and bitten. Repeat until all gone.
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Stupid food rules. Who cares? The only time I care is when I'm eating something.
Sometimes my dad will put dry cerial into a tall, plastic cup, and then pound it to dust with a wooden spoon. Then he'll just sit there and knock back the powder.
When I was a kid, I used to eat just the skin of chicken lollipops and leave the rest of the meat to my family.
Fettuccine Alfredo. Stop with the jar of white goop. It's 3 ingredients. Butter, cheese and noodles.
No no no no. Whipping cream, unsalted butter, and shredded Parmesan cheese.
Load More Replies... When I eat fried chicken I peel off as much of the skin as I can, set it aside, eat everything else, then the skin.
My takeaway from all this: people eat things differently. Not incorrectly, just differently.
If I want to eat wax with my cheese or ginger with my sushi that's my business nobody else's. Why does anyone care how another person eats food it's none of your business.
I mix the ginger, the soy sauce and the wassbi all together and just dip the roll in - I don't care if someone thinks that is wrong, I like it that way. Just enjoy what you eat!
Load More Replies... I'm sharing this one for my dad because he doesn't have boredpanda: when he was a kid, he regularly ate those maruchan noodles that came in a little bag. expect he didn't cook them, he sprinkled the powder you put in the broth on the top and ate them dry.
Applesauce. I grew up in the south (USA) and my mama would peel and cut apples and cook them down to mush and flavor with sugar, vanilla, molasses etc. Then she would serve it hot. It was a side dish that could also be dessert if so desired. I was in college when someone offered me applesauce - it was cold and flavorless. I was disgusted, but apparently eating bland cold 'sauce' from apples is a thing.
I like applesauce both warm or cold, I don’t peel the apples when I make it though they just get a good scrub then chopped up, and the only flavouring it needs imo is cinnamon!
Load More Replies... My grandmother would put sugar on bananas but eat lemons without any. Her sister ate Saltines soda crackers slathered with petroleum jelly.
My grandfather used to eat graham crackers by breaking them into pieces and shoving them in a glass of milk until soggy... It always grossed me out as a kid.
Upvote for grandpa, following a time-honored tradition. Well, kind of. You want to dip in the milk and leave in until it soaks up some of the milk but can still be lifted out (by the dry end) and bitten. Repeat until all gone.
Load More Replies... Stupid food rules. Who cares? The only time I care is when I'm eating something.
Sometimes my dad will put dry cerial into a tall, plastic cup, and then pound it to dust with a wooden spoon. Then he'll just sit there and knock back the powder.
When I was a kid, I used to eat just the skin of chicken lollipops and leave the rest of the meat to my family.
