People Are Sharing The Worst “Crimes Against Food” They Can Think Of, Here Are The 35 Best Answers
Food is, pun very much intended, the ultimate matter of taste. Everyone has their favorites, their restrictions and those few dishes that end up being irresistible. But by the same token, some combinations or techniques are so baffling, folks had to share them online.
Someone asked “What is considered a crime against food?” and people shared the culinary “delights” they think should never have seen the light of day. From poor taste to truly abominable recipes, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the worst examples and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments section below.
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Putting gold flakes or wrapping food in gold. It adds no extra flavor or texture. It's just there for show.
Back in the 90s we drank this horrid cinnamon liquor called Goldschläger because it contained gold flakes. The supremely gullible kids were convinced that, if you drank enough, you got a gold plated liver. We were so very stupid.
The amount of gold involved is minute. Gold has the unique property if being able to be beaten into sheets barely a few molecules thick.
Load More Replies...It looks like they dropped it on the floor and rubbish is stuck to it.
Well, it definitely doesn't need to be applied on a steak, and on nothing should it be applied in big globs like that! But a few artful touches on a dessert is lovely, and nobody cares if it doesn't add taste. It's pretty, just like flowers that you can't eat.
You might want to have a body and be alive. The human body uses sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, iron, cobalt, copper, zinc, and molybdenum. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36152810/
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I will defend this one until my dying breath.
Candy corn DOES NOT... belong on pizza.
I LIKE candy corn and even I think this is an abomination!
Load More Replies...Pineapple group and anti-pineapple people. TROOPS! We must put aside our differences and unite to defeat this enemy!!!
It is pretty much pure sweet, with little other flavour and a waxy, chewy texture. As the comments show, North Americans generally either hate it or love it.
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The gelatin everything trend from the 50s. Got some leftovers? Put it in jello! Fold in mayonnaise so it's slightly opaque! Just open up whatever cans you have in the house - pineapple, corn, olives, chicken - and layer them all into a mold shaped like a fish! Is there fish in here? Who knows, who cares! God is dead and only aspic remains.
Oh I love going through my mom's old cookbooks from the 60s and 70s. Gelatin molds, gelatin molds everywhere! To be fair, it was a practical way to make a "loaf" without having to resort to expensive meat as the binder. Just a mostly flavorless and very slimy way.
Depending on how you prepare the jelly, it can be delicious. In Bavaria we have a dish called "Tellersülze" which is sliced pork roast with slices of boiled egg, pickles a slice of Tomato and Parsley in jelly (either home made from pork bones and feet or from powdered gelatine). Perfect beer garden food.
Sülze as such is actually tasty, whether it be with lots of vegetables, chicken etc. It just needs spices. And it used to be a popular way of preserving food before refrigerators were a thing in most households.
Load More Replies...My wife's favorite food, is Aspic, which she refers to as "Pig jelly" Made by simmering about 15bs of chicken, beef and pork meat and bones along with a couple smoked pig feet in a 5 quart pot for 14 hours, then pouring the liquid through a strainer into serving bowls with a small amount of meat at the bottom, and letting them sit in the fridge overnight to set up into crystal clear gelatin, which is eaten COLD. :::shudder::: The only saving grace of knowing that meal exists is that i now make chicken/turkey soup with such a high volume of meat that it sets up similarly in the fridge, you can literally take a slice of soup lol, which makes for great soup dumplings.
The 50s and 60s were when even low-income households were getting electric refrigerators. Because of the need for even temperature during the cooling process, gelatin requires an electric refrigerator. The Jello company capitalised upon this brilliantly by putting free recipe cards in supermarkets (remember, this was pre-Internet so collecting recipes took effort). Imported canned foods were becoming increasingly available and popular, which the Jello company took advantage of by incorporating into your recipes. If you were serving aspics/gelatines of any sort it was a way to show off that "hey, we can afford an electric fridge!" and "we are sophisticated enough to use these fancy new foods!"
Wasn't this a technique to keep foods fresh longer? Like stretching leftovers? I'm reading different things in my searches lmao regarding war rationing or flexing the family's wealth and expensive refrigerators.
Before it was fashionable, before refrigeration and packet gelatin, aspics were made from boiling the offcuts after butchering an animal. The gelatin layer acted as a barrier that prevented oxygen reaching the meat inside, preserving it.
Load More Replies...We have two versions of this in my deli (hot and mild). They are consistently in the top 5 products we sale. I only have three things in my deli that I can not bring myself to taste, and head cheese tops that list. I find the concept repulsive, but apparently my sales indicate that many many people disagree with me. To each his own. 🤷♀️
Load More Replies...It wasn't the sweetened Jello they used, it was just the gelatin with no sugar. Jessica Vill (youtuber I sometimes watch) tested out some 50s recipes but used the sweetened Jello. What she made could've been not that bad, as some people in the comments were saying, if she used unsweetened gelatin.
Remember when the British colonized the entire world for spices and then created their breakfast delicacy…. beans on toast? Sincerely, an Indian.
There are over 8,000 Indian restaurants in London alone. Beans on toast is a meal Brits enjoy, but it doesn't stop them enjoying spicy food as well.
I find it's good comfort food. Not every food has to be drenched in spices and strong flavours.
I mean where i come from, bread and beans is food you eat practically every week. But we cook our beans with peppers and spices and don't toast the bread. Sincerely, a Nigerian
What the hell is that on top of the beans? And only one slice? It looks cold, too, like they've been put straight out of the tin & onto the.... toast? Looks like bread, not toast. Whoever created this image to photograph has obviously never had proper beans on toast. 0 out of 10.
Red blooded American here, I've eaten beans and toast for breakfast when I felt like it for 73 years. It's wonderful with many kinds of beans and breads.
And what did we get in return.....? Curried beans on toast.... Sincerely, a Brit.
Biting into a Kit Kat without separating the bars.
What’s wrong with that? Unless I’m sharing I don’t need to waste time and energy in separating the bars
I don't have time ti break apart before someone comes asking if they can (not) have some.
Using a donut as a hamburger bun. I've seen it. Good god, people.
That's a thing? Damn some people are really unhinged
Load More Replies...Tried this on holiday (no points for guessing which country), was good! but wouldn't have it again.
I'm a morbidly obese American with the sweet tooth from hell, and I have no interest in eating this.
Load More Replies...I want to try burgers with loaded baked potatoes for buns. Is that too much?
Just do it. Nobody would bat an eye at a salisbury steak with a loaded potato side, which is basically what you're talking about.
Load More Replies...I had a fried chicken sandwich on a raspberry jelly donut once at a fair. It was delicious! A little siracha added really brought it all together.
Seems people are trying anything and everything to substitute bread. Why???
One day I saw one of my coworkers open an Oreo, scrape the cream into the freaking garbage, and eat only the cookies. Apparently it's 'too sweet' for her. I almost called 911. A part of me died inside that day, knowing such behavior exists.
Not when there are chocolate digestives available!
Load More Replies...About 6 years ago, right after my dad died we had thanksgiving dinner at my uncles house, big to do with about 25 people. I spent the day before making cup cakes, from scratch with homemade cream cheese, buttercream frosting. Almost everyone loved them....except my aunt who picked up one, then took a napkin and wiped the frosting off the cupcake without even trying it. Cupcakes are frosting delivery systems, and that was a hate crime.
My dad always hated icing, and my sister liked it much more than most, so he would always scrape the icing off his cake directly onto her plate and she was happy to get it.
Load More Replies...I can't eat Oreos without dipping them in milk, however, IF I were going to eat them straight out of the package, I'd do the same thing. That frosting is absolutely disgusting. Waaaay too sweet.
Why not eat a different kind of cookie? OMG. Just wasting the best part.
These kind of ladies like myself marry the kind that like double frosting. We get the cookie sometimes and they get double frosting always.
I just don't eat Oreos because the frosting is too gritty and sweet. But then I don't like the American 'frosting' on cupcakes etc either.
I don't see the attraction of eating sugar paste either. The modern addiction to sugar has gotten way out of hand.
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Overcooked, chewy seafood. What a waste of expensive ingredients.
Oh that is such a crime overcooked seafood is probably the reason a lot of people don’t like it.
Shrimp, crab, lobster.....all bugs. Most western folks balk at the thought of eating say....fried grasshoppers or meal worms...but as long as the bugs are wet they consider them a delicacy.
Load More Replies...I live near the ocean so seafood is cheaper, but holy hell why is it still so expensive?
It depends on the kind. I live near the Gulf so I know what you mean.
Load More Replies...UGH! Nothing ruins it more for me than chewing on a rubber band ring of calamari!!
This. I was going to leave a similar comment :)
Load More Replies...Such a disappointment to order shrimp or lobster and have it rubbery
I think deep frying seafood is a crime. I want it fresh and cooked to perfection.
My ex-wife used to boil ribs so they tasted mushy. Then, she'd get offended when I took over the rib-cooking responsibilities and made them in a smoker. No one should have to eat boiled ribs.
I don't even eat meat and still I know that's wrong ;)
Load More Replies...Parboiling them to remove excess fat and to tenderize, that I can understand. But just boiled ribs? The poor animal died for nothing. 😔
Saw an episode of some cooking show where the owner of the BBQ joint boiled ribs in sauce before finishing in the smoker. Seemed to work.
Good barbecue doesn't need sauce at all; just a dry rub. Not a sermon, just a thought.
Load More Replies...My wife and I argued about my claim she boiled meat (Her.."that's how my Mom did it"), cook in a skillet, with water, until done. She has since come to her senses and at least roasts it now.
Depends. Boiled thick-cut ribs with a thick horse-radish sauce is an old-school Swedish staple.
Depends. Famous 'Rippchen mit Kraut' would be braised in meat broth and sauerkraut, so if you get the right time, it tastes fantastic, but is also an entirely different dish than smoked ribs.
I know quite a few people that enjoy iced coffee and lemonade together. Sounds like a crime against beverages to me.
Call crime stoppers. This injustice against juice and my favorite caffinated beverage needs to end.
This being said, half lemonade, half iced tea (called an Arnold Palmer) is so good.
I have tried iced coffee with juice in it, and it is actually quite good, you know. But it needs to be coffee with no milk in it, so not the one in the picture. My favorite is coffee with orange juice or one with coconut water. It is rather refreshing.
oooh, have to try it with coco water. lurve it with orange and I also heard of it being good with tonic water?
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A friend of mine used to take two Pop Tarts and a chicken patty and make a sandwich out of them. True story.
Lived with a stoner house mate, this shits common for them.
Load More Replies...Use a cinnamon and brown sugar PopTart Yea, that doesn't sound bad at all 😁
Load More Replies...I wonder if some people who have this odd way of combining food that shouldn't go together are deficient in vitamins.
Something is wrong with your friend and you need to stage a intervention
Using ketchup as a base for pizza or pasta sauce.
Only acceptable if it's a free tiny package because you're to poor for sauce..
My grandma's "pizza" when me and my cousins would stay overnight on holidays was slice of white bread, ketchup and kraft single American cheese in the toaster oven. Bless her heart she tried
We used to use pasta sauce instead. Which is at least marginally better!
Ketchup is when we're scraping by with the last of the spaghetti and we have no pasta sauce. It's not bad. Kinda tastes like canned pasta.
Bah, it’s all basically tomatoes right? I’ve started using leftover salsa for pasta sauce. :p
All of you pandas should try Lyutenica (лютеница) on a pizza instead of tomato sauce. It's addictive
Putting ranch or ketchup in soup.
my cousin once put sour cream in a cup of noodles. he has an obsession with it.
Load More Replies...Taco soup with a dollop of sour cream, and then some nacho chips for dressing. Agreed. Yum! Add green onions for kick... ;p
Load More Replies...My dad does worse. Where he grew up, they had mustard as a condiment to boiled fish. I, personally, can't stand it (mustard to fish, that is, both are otherwise OK).
Microwaving ice cream...not to melt it slightly and make it easier to scoop, but rather to make full on ice cream bisque.
Your name just made it about 1000000 times better
Load More Replies...I microwave mine to soften if. I have sensitive gums and this helps. But yes, EVERYONE that knows thinks I’m a psychopath for it.
Hey I do this too! I just like how it’s a little melty on the sides
Load More Replies...you can just buy custard if that’s what what you want, wouldn’t that be easier?
I used to live with a roommate, and every time a bottle of sauce was about 2/3 empty, he would fill it up with water and shake it before to 'get his money's worth.' I thought it was absolutely disgusting.
This is a crime against my country! We demand 1/3 of the roomate as recompense!
I thought everyone used up their sauces this way. I add the liquid to soups and stews. Why waste it? Not disgusting at all.
The last shake, yeah, but imagine a diluted sauce sitting somewhere going off because it doesn't have the acidity or salt high enough to protect it.
Load More Replies...When it's nearly empty, pop a bit of vinegar in - that works far better than water.
He probably grew up poor and was raised to do this to preserve the food for as long as he could.
this achieves the opposite, if done when bottle is half-full. the water introduced messes with the concentration of preservatives, both natural (sugar, vinegar) and artificial. It would spoil much faster.
Load More Replies...One of my coworkers always did that with a bottle of coke. When it became half empty he would fill it up with water.
I came to drinking my coke with (sparkly) water these days because it's too sweet for me in purity. But I'm not sure I'd do that with the bottle.
Load More Replies...He may have had parents who did this to stretch out a bottle between paychecks.
I do this with an almost empty jug of almond milk. I rinse out the remainder, put it in my coffee, and then recycle the jug.
Unless the bottle is made of glass, I just cut the bottle in the middle and use up the rest that way (with the other side of the bottle functioning as a cap). I don't like wasting it, but I'm not sure I'd dilute it with water
My sister eats green bell peppers filled with whipped cream. She's been doing it since she was 7 years old, and I have insisted from the very beginning that it's gross and wrong. I tried it recently just to say I have, and it's just as gross as you might imagine — like you're having salad and dessert at the same time.
it’s times like these that make me so glad to be allergic to capsicum (or bell peppers if you’re american)
Are you sure you mean bell peppers? Red bell peppers are actually a variety of capsicum, but capsaicin is the common allergen which makes peppers hot. There is no capsaicin in red bell peppers, but plenty in other varieties of capsicum peppers.
Load More Replies...Cheese stuffed cherry peppers are a thing, and delicious! - this just sounds like a poor version of it.
Bell peppers filled with cream cheese are an actual thing at least in Greece. A tasty thing
I could smoke the biggest, fattest blunt and still would not try this lol
People putting apples and raisins in salads, and then criticize pineapple on pizza 😏
In Buffalo, eating your wings with Ranch dressing is a offense that is punishable by exile to Cleveland.
I refuse to buy wings that don't come with blue cheese dressing on the side. I hate Ranch!
SAME!. I was told I can't be trusted since I love blue cheese and hate ranch.
Load More Replies...Why ruin wings with ranch sauce or bleu cheese? That's why you got Buffalo wings... For the buffalo sauce
The milk in the dressing helps if the wings have put your mouth on fire.
Load More Replies...Buffalo wings go with bleu cheese dressing period. Any who sips in ranch is a savage.
I have a friend that loves ranch dressing. He could drink it out of the bottle,
I don't care for blue cheese or ranch but I can see the issue.
Carrying a pizza box vertically instead of flat.
I know this is true from personal experience in a snowstorm one time.
Load More Replies...Only acceptable if no pizza is left in the box only reason that won't offend the gods
Load More Replies...How about grocery store clerks who have the audacity to pack your pie or cake vertically in the bag? Or put the hot stuff in the same bag as the cold stuff?
Or put eggs or bread in with 2l bottles of liquid? Or put cleaning products and food together?
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I had a friend who would make really good sushi, but they put Altoids mints in it. Not a great taste.
I feel i would like to know how this habit first started. The real person responsible for this horror is still out there and needs to be held accountable.
I mean seriously. You don't just look at a sushi roll and think "This would be so much better with Altoids in it". There must be an organization behind this.
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Not adding salt to water when making pasta.
The salt makes the pasta buoyant so it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot.
No, that's not true. We always have salt in the water but the pasta still sticks to the bottom 7 times out of ten. But cooking pasta without salt leeches the salt out of the pasta, so it gets disgustingly bland. Adding salt keeps the salt inside the pasta where it belongs.
Load More Replies...It's only recently that I started adding salt to the pasta water. There isn't enough sodium to cause any health issues. Now the pasta sauce is a horse of a different color.
I never do. Doesn't do anything. Never add oil to the water either.
But that's not true. Adding salt definitely boosts the taste
Load More Replies...We do with rice, not with pasta. Would probably work fine with noodles as well, though.
Load More Replies...Still needs salt, but I also sometimes add garlic or onion.
Load More Replies...Because people eat more since it tastes better? If it's about energy/cooking time: the salt is usually put in when the water boils, and even if you salt the cold water the additional costs are negligible.
Load More Replies...I never use salt or oil* when boiling pasta. I boil the pasta in abundant amount of water and just sort of move them around a couple of times in the first 2-3 minutes and as long as they are boiling they do not stick. Mind you, you have to mix the sauce in as soon as it is out of the water or in the plate if you don'' t wat it sticking. *the oil and the salt always come from the sauce.
I agree with the oil, but salting the pasta water makes them taste better than leaving them unsalted (IMO, of course)
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Seasoning the food. It amazes me how many people cook without properly seasoning their food.
My wife, when we first started dating, was one of these people. The first time she cooked for me it was chicken breast and it was so bad. It looked like a pale slab sitting on a plate. She has gotten much better now but there are so many people who go through life just raw dogging their own taste buds.
My wife is romanian, she grew up on Salt, pepper and parsley because that was the extent of her mothers experience with flavor. The most flavorful thing she'd eaten before i came here was Vifon instant ramen. At 25 years old, she wasn't even aware of Garlic powder being a thing. For years, every meal i cooked for her was the "best thing she ever had" simply because it included actual flavor.
This depends on the quality of the chicken ( or any other meat).. a really good chicken breast from a slow-grown bird is a delight with just salt and pepper. A force-grown, water-filled bird has no flavour and you might as well be eating tofu.
Where I live, you can get AMAZING grass-fed beef from pasture-raised cattle. I almost cry when I see someone douse a perfectly aged striploin in hot sauce.
Load More Replies...Cut chicken breast into strips, drub in butter, then instant potato flakes (w/ parmesan or garlic powder). Bake until done
Load More Replies...I grew up in Ireland and all we had was salt pepper and if there was money an oxo cube. The food was always gorgeous and very flavourful. So i don't buy into all this 10 seasonings per dish rubbish.
I was in the Army for 24 yrs. Between the mess hall food and the field rations my taste buds were destroyed a long time ago
Can’t relate, I learned to cook from my Italian immigrant grandparents. 🤷🏻♀️
Overcooking fish, especially salmon.
I don't order fish at restaurants because the majority of them cook it "tourist" - the way most people expect it - and it's overcooked and dried. out.
I have always been confused by comments like"the fish is great, not fishy tasting at all" etc. Isn't fish supposed to taste like fish? And if you don't like fish that tastes "fishy" do you even like fish? Speaking as someone who does not like fish, fishy or not
In my experience it means that some just have a stronger fish flavor. Certain kinds of fish taste similar to chicken, for example.
Load More Replies...In my opinion, the best way to cook salmon is rubbed with Old Bay (or teriyaki sauce mixed with plum sauce for sweet and sour salmon) and popped in an air fryer- cooks it perfectly throughout and makes it melt-in-your-mouth flaky on the inside. It's absolutely divine, highly recommend!
I ordered Salmon once from a restaurant in the city where I live and they brought it out deep fried. I refused to pay for it and only assume there were trying to cover up something.
Ugh I hate salmon even when it's cooked well, it's good on sushi though
The pasific salmon and the atlantean or dog forbid "Norwegian sea salmon" are a completely different taste wise
Load More Replies...No, it depends on the fish and its source. Norwegian salmon is usually (more) parasite-free that salmon from other waters. In addition to this, many common parasites found in fish are killed by freezing the fish for ~7 days at -4F.
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I had a lady order salmon with a slice of american cheese on top. I had to ask twice what she wanted because it wasn’t computing.
Gross, but I respect a lady knows what she wants. Despite popular opinions..or anyone with there sanity still intact.
Isn't there already enough plastic in the fish without putting the cheese on?
For some Americans, American cheese is the only cheese they've ever eaten.
Miracle whip instead of mayo.
I rather like the taste. Some sandwiches I'll use mayo while others miracle whip.
Nothing wrong with miracle whip. It has tang. Necessary for deviled eggs
Use mayonnaise and vinegar. No need for high fructose Kraft syrup.
Load More Replies...There is a time and a place for Miracle Whip. When and where, I haven't a clue.
I grew up on Miracle Whip, so it is my go-to comfort condiment. Also, my experience with regular mayo is largely from institutional kitchens (school, camp, college), so it has never tasted as good for me.
Absolutely nothing! For mayo. Dukes, Hellmams and Kraft. Do not buy store brand mays it's not good at all.
If you so much as put Miracle Whip in your fridge, your house will turn into a trailer and your cousin will start hitting on you.
Miracle Whip is a vile abomination and is completely banned from my kitchen.
My roommate puts applesauce on anything. Tacos, fish, spaghetti, steak, burgers, you name it, and he will put it into a bowl of applesauce. It's horrifying.
Here in the States, store bought applesauce usually contains what the FDA calls an acceptable amount of arsenic. Supposedly not harmful UNLESS you're eating it all the time!
Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance in apples. And the seeds contain actually quite significant levels of cyanide. You can kill yourself with a single, good-sized snack of apple seeds.
Load More Replies...How has nobody mentioned porkchops 🥩 and applesauce?
Our mother made us applesauce sandwiches when we were little. We liked her anyway.
Applesauce can be amazing on the most surprising things. Pancakes (European style, not American Pancakes (which I like, just not so much with applesauce)) are the obvious. Pretty much anything out of potatoes works well (obviously not when in a casserole!), that includes fries, mashed potatoes,, cooked potatoes and whatever else you can think of. Not yet tried with gnocci - no urge to do so. Applesauce works well on some meats and is excellent with fried liver (which I admit is a taste not everyone agrees with). So... I wouldn't put EVERYTHING with applesauce, but it's nice with unexpected things
I love apple sauce. I love lots of other foods. I do not think I would love them together
Unseasoned chicken.
If you buy supermarket chicken, yes. That has no flavour. Organic chicken has a wonderful flavour, although it doesn't look like the bloated white commercial birds. Basically it only needs salt and pepper. Delicious! I was amazed at the difference in flavour the first time I had it. Most commercial chickens are drowned in coatings to disguise the lack of taste.
Absolutely 100% agreed. Having our own chickens and turkeys stopped us from buying meat long ago. We are lucky to have our own big yard where they can roam as much as they want and enough insects and meadows, so we barely need to feed them spring to autumn.
Load More Replies...We love chicken-flavored chicken.
Load More Replies...Chicken is always bland, except for the skin when it's all tanned and seasoned. After that, the meat is bland.
...so for the picture BP decided to go with... Seasoned chicken.
I grew up with a mother who put butter and white sugar on rice. I made my rice the same way for a while because I learned by example, but now I realize it's a totally bananas thing to do. My mom is one of those people who loves sweet things, and anything that isn't already sweet can be improved by adding more sugar. Savory doesn't exist in her house at all.
I recently learned about that and it seems to be widespread in multiple cultures/countries, specially during poorer times. Some people call this rice cereal. I tasted it and I actually really liked it, I wouldn't eat it every day but as an occasional snack it's nice.
Wait'll OP finds out about rice pudding! (I find rice pudding too sweet, but I love it with half added rice and half pudding.)
Load More Replies...Every Dutch person I know eats it. Cheap sweet treat.
Load More Replies...Have to disagree here. I eat rice with sugar, butter or cheese. Depending on my mood.
As far as I heard, pasta with sugar on it can help you cope with hunger when you can't afford any other food.
Pasta with (butter and) sugar is one of my guilty pleasures. I know some people make milk pasta/milk noodles, especially as a kiddy dish, but I haven't tried that. (I don't need more unhealthy food I like 😆)
Load More Replies...It depends on the rice. There's a Swedish dish that I make called rice pudding or porridge. It's made by cooking long grain rice in milk for close to an hour with a little bit of salt, sugar and butter mixed in. When it's all cooked together then you can add butter, cinnamon and sugar on top and it's REALLY good!
Grew up on butter yes, sugar no. Although I haven't made it that way in decades.
Automatically adding seasoning/salt/pepper to the dish before tasting it.
I don't absorb salt properly so I have to add it to every meal. In one restaurant they didn't have salt on the table and when I asked for some I was told chef wouldn't allow it. Obviously, I never went back but now I make sure I have a few sachets in my handbag - just in case.
I'll automatically put salt on my chips (US:fries) without tasting first, but nothing else.
Grandma told me about a cousin of hers who would salt everything to death. She'd salt and salt and salt while cooking, then add more salt at the table. A frequent response to this insane salting was "You'll dry up your liver!"
Load More Replies...Regardless of anything. Taste first. Even just to be polite. Its like a lesser version of adding ketchup to everything.
Isn't it worse to taste first and then add seasoning? It's like saying, "ugh this tastes bad. Need to season more." I avoid both by eating it just as the cook made it (unless they offer salt/pepper of course).
Load More Replies...My dad (once again). Mom has been training him out of it (they been married for 50 years), and now he only does it automatically on boiled potatoes.
I'm a waitress so I've seen it all, and I hardly ever judge. But this one time, I took an order that started out simple: three eggs, soft scramble. Add spinach and goat cheese. Add fresh strawberries. Scrambled. In the eggs. They turned this grey brown color...and you bet the customer ate every bite.
Bandcamp has ingrained some of the weirdest memories in my brain
Load More Replies...I'm fairly sure I've had spinach, goat cheese, and strawberries together in a salad before. So this doesn't seem like too much of a stretch.
Cook here. My worst was a crunchy chicken Caesar salad wrap. No dressing. Add ketchup. Ick.
"Make wine easily" tutorials that are grape juice mixed with yeast.
Yeah, don't do this. Most grape juice in the grocery store has preservatives added to it that literally kill the yeast. You end up with a moldy stinky mess. If you buy the good organic juice you end up with mediocre 8% wine that costs more than just buying a bottle of the real thing. How do I know? 15 years in the beer and wine industry and I've heard every bathtub booze story this side of the Mississippi.
Preservatives don't kill the yeast, it doesn't allow the yeast to propagate. There are ways to bypass this, depending on the preservative - heat, aeration, a big enough yeast starter. I have made wine from concentrate to whole fruits and everything in between. You absolutely can make wine with just juice and yeast, but good wine needs to take into account ph, tannins, barrel flavor, residual sugar...
Load More Replies...Probably get a bottle of 4 buck chuck for the same price as the grape juice
Depends... there are sunk costs in winemaking. The more you make, the lower the cost. I can now make wines that cost $12‐30 dollars at the store for $3‐8 ‐ though there can be a wait time. I have some amarone I made (five years ago) from must that won't be ready for another five years or so.
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My coworker eats a ton of ketchup with pizza. Even though it’s a tomato-based sauce, it’s still shocking to see that much ketchup eaten with pizza. We’re talking a full dip before every bite.
I can't really shame for dipping preferences. I tried ranch dressing on pizza once and realized it's amazing. Sometimes stuff you wouldn't expect enhances the flavor!
Ranch on pizza is very popular. So much so that every pizza place (Domino's, Pizza Hut etc..) all sell ranch dip cups 😊 I love it too!
Load More Replies...I'm confused by this idea of dipping pizza in anything. If pizza's meant to be this amazing food, why does it need extra sauce to make it edible?
yeah i still do that. many people still do that. its best when the pizza is cold out the fridge and you put ketchup on it.
Overcooked mushy rice.
I actually like soft rice, it makes for good curd rice and it makes it easier to swallow. Bisi bel bath is only good when the rice is soft in my opinion
This is a funny opinion to be considered one of "worst crimes against food"
I use that as a opportunity to ask, how do you not overcook rice. Like it really annoyes me that I never get it done right. Like I will taste it and it's still kind of hard, but then I blink and it's pudding.
Ugh, that smell. If I walk into a Chinese place and I smell that smell, I walk out again immediately.
Time temperature abuse or a contamination. Make what you like, just make it safely.
My mother in law, who spent 20 years as a PROFESSIONAL CHEF at a resort in Spain, will leave cooked food sitting out for 6/8/10/12 hours at time "because it needs to cool" before it can go in the fridge. In the summer. With no A/C. Absolutely foul, i refuse to eat anything that woman prepares.
There is a time allowance for food to go through the temperature danger zone that maxes at 6 hours (under specific temperature requirements). Though it really depends on the type of food to determine the risk. I was in restaurants for a few decades and a restaurant/food safety consultant for several years.
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Im gonna put my mom on blast with this one.
Whenever she makes chili mac or beef stew she adds some cheese (normal), whole Ritz crackers (still normal) and then a very large dollop of mayonnaise in it. She takes a cracker fills 1/4 of it with mayonnaise and then the rest is the chili mac or stew broth. I thought it was normal but I just didnt like the taste. I made chili mac for my husband after we got married and he thought I lost my mind when I asked him if he wanted mayonnaise on it.
I usually sub sour cream for mayo because I hate mayo but this is the first time I've heard of someone doing the opposite.
I went to college in the southern part of my state and discovered that people down there put sour cream and oyster crackers on chili. I thought it seemed weird at first, but it's actually amazing!
The only time I use mayo is on lunch meat sandwiches, when I make devil eggs or egg salad sometimes I will eat a slice of bread with mayo and a slice of cheese for a quick snack.
My mom puts mayo on everything. She does wait and only do it to her own bowl, but I mean everything
I made a very nice bolognese a couple of months ago. Red wine, pancetta, two kinds of meat, the works. I gave some to my friend to take home, bc sharing is caring. M**********r put it on a piece of leftover salmon.
Oh, no, what an AWFUL thing, the person ate the leftovers YOU gave them how THEY wanted to! :p
I agree (have an upvote), BUT I also see OP's point. My wife's aunt asked me to make a prime rib. I did it with a brown sugar and bourbon crust. I spent all day carefully cooking it to the exact temperature and perfect pinkness... then she asked me to make hers well done. She is entitled to have it however she likes, but I wouldn't have gone to all that trouble to cook it if I had known.
Load More Replies...Just eat whatever you like, enjoy, and don't give a damn about what anyone else thinks about your food preferences. There are no rules. But also, don't expect others to accept your choices.
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." — Mark Twain
Load More Replies...Disappointed that BP has now completely hidden people's comments if they get 10 downvotes, with no more click here to view. We are now the ones being censored, and it removes any opportunity for discussion and debate.
Molasses with warm milk. My mom would make this for me often growing up. I'll admit it wasn't the worst taste but .... why?? When we went grocery shopping together just after I had gotten my own place she suggested I get molasses. That's when I had to break it to her that I never actually liked it. I guess she thought it was healthier than ... idk honey. Now I make it like in The Aristocats, Creme de la Creme a la Edgar, with cinnamon, nutmeg, a little sugar and vanilla, minus the sleeping pills.
I went to a preschool in California that served Mac and cheese with beets mixed in. Pink mac and is delicious. Freaks people out when they see it.
Here's an idea. Don't talk about it, text it, twitter it, tic tok it, or whatever.
I don't eat frozen pizza. I always warm it up first!
Load More Replies...My fiance will dip just about anything in soy sauce...and then drink the leftover soy sauce. He gets the low sodium kind just to feel less guilty about drinking it. Sure, babe. Sure.
Just eat whatever you like, enjoy, and don't give a damn about what anyone else thinks about your food preferences. There are no rules. But also, don't expect others to accept your choices.
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." — Mark Twain
Load More Replies...Disappointed that BP has now completely hidden people's comments if they get 10 downvotes, with no more click here to view. We are now the ones being censored, and it removes any opportunity for discussion and debate.
Molasses with warm milk. My mom would make this for me often growing up. I'll admit it wasn't the worst taste but .... why?? When we went grocery shopping together just after I had gotten my own place she suggested I get molasses. That's when I had to break it to her that I never actually liked it. I guess she thought it was healthier than ... idk honey. Now I make it like in The Aristocats, Creme de la Creme a la Edgar, with cinnamon, nutmeg, a little sugar and vanilla, minus the sleeping pills.
I went to a preschool in California that served Mac and cheese with beets mixed in. Pink mac and is delicious. Freaks people out when they see it.
Here's an idea. Don't talk about it, text it, twitter it, tic tok it, or whatever.
I don't eat frozen pizza. I always warm it up first!
Load More Replies...My fiance will dip just about anything in soy sauce...and then drink the leftover soy sauce. He gets the low sodium kind just to feel less guilty about drinking it. Sure, babe. Sure.
