Most overrated cuisine
Thanatos0320
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For me, I think the Americanized foods are overrated (e.g. Japanese and Mexican). Sushi is something I'll never really understand, and tex-mex seems to use just 6 ingredients to make their dishes which all seem to have a ton of cheese.
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I gotta say Mexican. I'm talking about what big chain restaurants are putting out there....Nasty
Now some of the small family run places around here are great. We have a place next door where I work I love. Everything is made fresh daily......The only problem is all the smells from their cooking in the morning drifts over to our place and I start getting hungry.
It helps our business around lunch because I have some customers stop by to buy things off us so their men can run next door to buy something for lunch.
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Irish cuisine...
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Possum. It just has to be done right. (In gravy)-1
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This is going to anger a lot of people, but I'm picking a specific sub genre of american food. The one that says you should not season high quality meats, and just let them stand on their own with their natural flavor, as if seasoning will make them taste worse.5
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^ Very light salt and pepper, let sit till room temp then cook to rare/med rare is how I roll.2
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seagull. The fishermen in Provincetown, back when it was just a fishing villiage, used to catch seagulls and pen them for a week, feeding them anything except fish, harvesting them instead of chickens for Sunday dinner.3
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Red Fox. Years ago a bunch of us had a annual supper that was made of the critters we killed in the previous hunting season. Venison, dove, duck, and even a squirrel sometimes. One fellow was a trapper so we even ate muskrat. This trapper guy was hosting our event and thought it would be good to try fox. He cleaned it and put it in his wife's oven. When the rest of us showed up a horrible stench was in the air. It stank so bad that we all went home and left him by himself to explain to his wife ( she was not home at the time) the finer points of cooking a carnivore.5
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I had raccoon once, it had been living by the herring run before it discovered my friend's chickens and met its final demise. It was awful. I won't eat carnivores unless the apocalypse has arrived. Groundhog,on the other hand, especially the ones I catch in my garden, is pretty tasty. My wife calls the legs 'pot roast on a stick'.1
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I got to eat lion once. it was cool to say I did it, but it was truly disgusting. Animals tend to taste like their diet. Anything that eats rotting carcass is going to taste like rotting carcass. I would still do it again. Just to say I did it. That and shark put me on the peak of the food chain."Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."
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I think some people misunderstand the term, "overrated!"
French
It's pretentious. There's a lot of good stuff in French food, but it's not the end-all-be-all of cooking. I get why "classically" trained chefs are taught French methods, but a lot of those skills don't actually make the food better.
Next on my list is BBQ. I love it, don't get me wrong, but after a lot of it when living in Memphis, I just don't buy into the hype surrounding competitions and things.Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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Pangolin is not all it's talked up to be.
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I think it started with the word cuisine being confused with "critter".Martel said:I think some people misunderstand the term, "overrated!"10 -
Eggs Ackley. Possum ain't cuisine; it's road kill.CharlieHeis said:
I think it started with the word cuisine being confused with "critter".Martel said:I think some people misunderstand the term, "overrated!"
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Chinese. You got less meat diced smaller & spread sparser, for wee tiny people sporting teeny tiny teeth. And just the smell of it... ugh.
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I had caribou once and it was unbelievably good, same with rattlesnake nachos. I gotta give another win to French cuisine though, way overrated and not something I ever seen out or order"When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."0
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The feet are the most profitable part of a chicken.....I'm sure how or why I know that.0
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I don't think there is such a thing as an "over-rated" cuisine. But I think there are a lot of bad executions of good cuisine.
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Chipotle, is horrible and anything bobby flay makes/endorses."We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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I can't stand this place. Tasteless food. I think we have 5 in town. Each one next to a Starbucks. I go to the little mom and pop sandwich place in town. Place is amazing
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Subway don't get it....Starbucks sucks4
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Olive Garden. F#%king horrible9
