Foods you may have been told are popular, but that you hate (or love!)

[Scepticalscribe]

Mustard and dill... that sounds delicious. I saw some that were caught off the coast of Maine and put up (in Canada, no less) with stone ground mustard. I should try them and just put a bit of fresh dill from the garden with it, and I usually have some artisan rye bread around from a market in town. Seems like that would make a great sandwich.

It is a particular style of Scandinavian mustard - somewhat sweet and is also served with gravadlax. Check out Scandinavian mustard & dill to see if any half decent deli stocks them.

Once, in the (award-winning) restaurant (more like an upmarket canteen, it was gloriously unpretentious) in the Vasa museum (the museum was constructed around the ship, - which sank in 1628 and which was the centrepiece of the museum, it is one of the best museums I had the privilege of visiting in my life - I spent a full day there), in Stockholm, I had a lunch of three types of herring, standard (classic, with diced onion, otherwise - apart from what it had been marinaded in - a brine of peppercorns, sugar, salt and vinegar - untouched), one with sour cream, and the third with mustard and dill; potato salad and a small green salad completed the meal. I also had mineral water, a light beer (they weren't allowed to serve anything stronger than 5% abv by law) and a coffee completed what was a delicious meal.

 

[BlankStar]

I know someone who doesn't like French Fries (which are Belgian btw, thank you Americans for thinking everyone who speaks French is from France, sigh).

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I know someone who doesn't like French Fries (which are Belgian btw, thank you Americans for thinking everyone who speaks French is from France, sigh).

And some who speak French are even Canadian.....

Wow.

Someone who doesn't like French fries (or better still, Belgian frites)? They are amazing, done properly. And with mayo - delicious at a street stall in Brussels.

 

[decafjava]

I know someone who doesn't like French Fries (which are Belgian btw, thank you Americans for thinking everyone who speaks French is from France, sigh).

Get out! You can’t be serious.

 

[Ujaraq]

Wonderful thread! Who would have thought that there was a food thread in a tech forum.

I just love food, almost any kind. Both local Danish food (I live in Denmark), and foreign food when I'm on vacation, or go to a foreign restaurant.
Well, I'm not so fond of sushi, but I can eat it without getting sick.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Wonderful thread! Who would have thought that there was a food thread in a tech forum.

I just love food, almost any kind. Both local Danish food (I live in Denmark), and foreign food when I'm on vacation, or go to a foreign restaurant.
Well, I'm not so fond of sushi, but I can eat it without getting sick.

What Danish culinary specialities take your fancy?

 

[Ujaraq]

What Danish culinary specialities take your fancy?

In fact, there are many dishes that I am really happy with.
One danish speciality I love is rye bread with varius cold and varm cuts but also pot roasted chicken, fruit porridge, smoked cheese, pork meat balls (frikadeller) and various danish cakes. I just love cakes.

 

[BlankStar]

Get out! You can’t be serious.

I swear it on my iPhone X!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Homemade pesto (love it), and also love wild garlic leaf pesto (the latter usually available around spring when wild garlic - ramson - first appears) .

 

[AsherN]

You need a freshly made Krispy Kreme donut, then. They are light as a feather and a perfectly sweet confection. Hot out of the fryer there is nothing like them!

Krispy Kreme doughnuts are just gross.

Go to Sweden and try a cinnamon or cardamon bun.

 

[LizKat]

Krispy Kreme doughnuts are just gross.

Go to Sweden and try a cinnamon or cardamon bun.

Hmm. I did one time fly from NY to Chicago on a weekday afternoon to attend an invitation-only rehearsal by the Chicago Symphony of the Brahms Requiem, and flew back early next morning to get to work only slightly late.

But to fly to Sweden to get even a really good breakfast pastry might be a stretch.

I do like cardamom buns. The farthest I've ever gone out of my way for food though is 320 miles round trip. I did that twice one autumn for shredded beef Szechuan style at some takeout place in Manhattan when I got fed up with the pathetic Chinese food I could locate up here at that time back in the 80s. Guess I just missed the way they cooked it at one of my old hangouts. Anyway I was finally obsessed enough to get in the car and go for it. Twice no less. I found out later I could have driven up to Ithaca and back and only clocked 190 miles round trip for food nearly as good. The insanity of it all: it's not that difficult a dish to cook from scratch.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Hmm. I did one time fly from NY to Chicago on a weekday afternoon to attend an invitation-only rehearsal by the Chicago Symphony of the Brahms Requiem, and flew back early next morning to get to work only slightly late.

But to fly to Sweden to get even a really good breakfast pastry might be a stretch.

I do like cardamom buns. The farthest I've ever gone out of my way for food though is 320 miles round trip. I did that twice one autumn for shredded beef Szechuan style at some takeout place in Manhattan when I got fed up with the pathetic Chinese food I could locate up here at that time back in the 80s. Guess I just missed the way they cooked it at one of my old hangouts. Anyway I was finally obsessed enough to get in the car and go for it. Twice no less. I found out later I could have driven up to Ithaca and back and only clocked 190 miles round trip for food nearly as good. The insanity of it all: it's not that difficult a dish to cook from scratch.

That's commitment to food! I doubt I've ever driven more than 10 miles for food.

 

[Lioness~]

Drive or fly for food
Order it online instead. Goes faster
Not much for Cinnamon Buns these days, that I suppose is the connection with Sweden. Because Cardamom Buns I’ve hardly ever seen here. Must be Denmark in that case.
But I did bake them (Cinnamon Buns) myself back, way back, in the days.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Hmm. I did one time fly from NY to Chicago on a weekday afternoon to attend an invitation-only rehearsal by the Chicago Symphony of the Brahms Requiem, and flew back early next morning to get to work only slightly late.

But to fly to Sweden to get even a really good breakfast pastry might be a stretch.

I do like cardamom buns. The farthest I've ever gone out of my way for food though is 320 miles round trip. I did that twice one autumn for shredded beef Szechuan style at some takeout place in Manhattan when I got fed up with the pathetic Chinese food I could locate up here at that time back in the 80s. Guess I just missed the way they cooked it at one of my old hangouts. Anyway I was finally obsessed enough to get in the car and go for it. Twice no less. I found out later I could have driven up to Ithaca and back and only clocked 190 miles round trip for food nearly as good. The insanity of it all: it's not that difficult a dish to cook from scratch.

I know that feeling - when the craving for a particular taste - offered only in a specific establishment - must be satisfied.

I get those cravings after a long period abroad, and, when you return home, nothing else will do.

Doesn't matter if it is not that difficult to cook from scratch, sometimes, only an ethnic restaurant - a known ethnic restaurant - will supply that particular gustatory hit.

 

[rhett7660]

I know someone who doesn't like French Fries (which are Belgian btw, thank you Americans for thinking everyone who speaks French is from France, sigh).

Seriously, french fries! They don't like french fries. I would have thought everyone would like french fries!

 

[D.T.]

Krispy Kreme doughnuts are just gross.

If you upvoted this and have never had a KKD fresh from the rack, with an ice cold glass of milk ... you might want to retract your vote

 

[AsherN]

If you upvoted this and have never had a KKD fresh from the rack, with an ice cold glass of milk ... you might want to retract your vote

I've had. They are way too light and way too sweet. might as well eat a handful of sugar.

 

[LizKat]

If you upvoted this and have never had a KKD fresh from the rack, with an ice cold glass of milk ... you might want to retract your vote

... maybe with coffee... you'd think I'd be a milk drinker hailing off a farm full of Holsteins but in fact the only way I use milk now outside of the occasional recipe that calls for it is nonfat milk, a lot of it, heated first and coffee poured into it. And otherwise sometimes on cereal for supper in the summertime with some berries added on top. Past that, everything goes with coffee, tea or water. KKD probably would get the coffee treatment from me.

What I wonder about is whether anything's different about the Krispy Kreme doughnuts themselves after it was taken private in 2016 by a European holding company.

Spoiler: Are the doughuts still the same?

JAB Holdings has appeared since around 2012 to be trying to corner the world's market on companies related to retail service of doughnuts, coffees, breads: aside from KKD it has gobbled up not only Peet's Coffee and Tea, but also Panera (which then bought Au Bon Pain), Caribou (which then bought a bagel company), even Green Mountain Keurig which then bought up the Dr. Pepper Snapple (and 7Up) group...

https://www.fastcompany.com/4051057...any-is-buying-up-all-the-coffee-and-doughnuts

Sometimes companies are acquired and then loaded up with debt to serve other purposes of the top dog, and that may eventually doom the acquired outfit, occasionally also an intentional move... but when a chain is taken private then it can get much harder to figure out what's going on, especially when its still operating components keep making further acquisitions of erstwhile publicly traded companies.

We hear about such acquisitions and then... [crickets]

What is the sound of silence continually crunching on American breakfasts?

I put most of that in a spoiler since it was more about who owns the food we buy than the foods themselves. Still, one can wonder sometimes about the intentions of companies on the way to being global oligarchies. I used to wonder what if ADM decided one day why bother with cornflakes why not just go from harvest to fuel storage tankers, keep it simple. But that's PRSI material.

So in here, let's keep it simpler: do the KKD doughnuts still taste the way they used to? Even a holding company that says "hey run it your way" does have conversations with the directors of its acquisitions, and they could have something to do with expected profit margins and cost management.

 

[ThisBougieLife]

I remember before I tried macarons, I'd think "those silly little French cookies? Who cares?" I'd see them brightly colored in store-windows and think "how overrated". Then I tried Chantal Guillon and it transformed my world They are now my favorite dessert, next to tiramisu and tres leches cake, and I look forward to trying every new flavor they come out with. The problem is how expensive they are. They were $13 for a box of 6 last year, now they're up to $16 and it'll keep climbing, I'm sure.

 

[D.T.]

... maybe with coffee... you'd think I'd be a milk drinker hailing off a farm full of Holsteins but in fact the only way I use milk now outside of the occasional recipe that calls for it is nonfat milk, a lot of it, heated first and coffee poured into it. And otherwise sometimes on cereal for supper in the summertime with some berries added on top. Past that, everything goes with coffee, tea or water. KKD probably would get the coffee treatment from me.

What I wonder about is whether anything's different about the Krispy Kreme doughnuts themselves after it was taken private in 2016 by a European holding company.

So in here, let's keep it simpler: do the KKD doughnuts still taste the way they used to? Even a holding company that says "hey run it your way" does have conversations with the directors of its acquisitions, and they could have something to do with expected profit margins and cost management.

Wow, interesting, heck, I probably haven't even had one since '16 (we generally don't eat many sweets, and when we do, it's usually something special/homemade).

The last donut I had was this little fellow from Voodoo Donuts (he was understandably a little shaken up during transport ... ), filled with delicious red jam, he's lying on a Fruit Loop donut and sharing the box with a maple _bacon_ apple somethinganother

 

[LizKat]

Wow, interesting, heck, I probably haven't even had one since '16 (we generally don't eat many sweets, and when we do, it's usually something special/homemade).

The last donut I had was this little fellow from Voodoo Donuts (he was understandably a little shaken up during transport ... ), filled with delicious red jam, he's lying on a Fruit Loop donut and sharing the box with a maple _bacon_ apple somethinganother


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Oh my god. And you're still with us! I wish now to retract my previous remark about the insanity of driving 320 miles round trip to acquire some decent shredded beef Szechuan style.

Then I tried Chantal Guillon and it transformed my world

I would love to order 2-macaron boxes as little flourishing touch for holiday or birthday gifts to special friends or family. Not sure I'd be trustworthy long enough to complete the delivery.

 

[D.T.]

Oh my god. And you're still with us! I wish now to retract my previous remark about the insanity of driving 320 miles round trip to acquire some decent shredded beef Szechuan style.

Hahaha, well, it was a trip to Universal, we're pretty much off the chain with consumables ... though to be honest, I only ate his jam concentrated torso (Note the little "voodoo pin" sticking in him is a pretzel stick )

The Fruit Loop was for Daughter (we're now doing Father / Daughter as proper names apparently ...), because Fruit Loops == Breakfast, the maple monstrosity lasted for another whole day, and I actually ate a modified version (all the top and bacon, hahahaha ...)
[doublepost=1532979328][/doublepost]We're actually on a no/low carb, no booze sprint this week as recovery from a week in The Keys.

 

[Matz]

It occurred to me a day or two ago, when someone mentioned strawberry shortcake, that I actually don't like what I understand to be strawberry shortcake - made with that spongy, tasteless stuff that holds up the strawberries and whipped cream.
On the other hand, I would consider this:

 

[Number-Six]

It occurred to me a day or two ago, when someone mentioned strawberry shortcake, that I actually don't like what I understand to be strawberry shortcake - made with that spongy, tasteless stuff that holds up the strawberries and whipped cream.
On the other hand, I would consider this:
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Isn't that essentially the same thing, just in a single serving instead of a big cake?

 

[LizKat]

Isn't that essentially the same thing, just in a single serving instead of a big cake?

No... the one in the photo has a biscuit- or shortbread-like base as opposed to that sponge cake sometimes used in what's then erroneously called a strawberry "shortcake". A shortcake has butter or lard in it... Sponge cake does not.