Also curious about things that are the other way around where they look really good but taste awful.
Kebab:
Refried beans literally look like diarrhea doodoo. Thankfully they taste way better.
Pretty much same story as curry, but good ol’ Texas chili looks pretty unappealing. Of course it’s damn good assuming it’s made right.
My guess is we have a few folks here that didn’t grow up with curry which in my humble opinion looks and tastes great (subjective, I know) but if I had to pick one it would be octupus. Something about the suction cups.
Most curries look like vom slop and taste HEAVENLY
Feel the same way about hot dogs and hamburgers. Must depend on what you grow up with.
A whole roasted pig. It’s horrifying to look at, but so damn yummy.
The tater tot hotdish I grew up with. … Under the tots at least.
Okay, see what’s under the potato gems? Put it on toast and make jaffles. Cold day, hot mince jaffles for lunch.
Lutheran church basement potluck favorite!
Shepard’s pie? My mother was obsessed with this. I hate the vegetable water at the bottom
Pretty close! Swap the mash for tots and the gravy for cream soup.
Xinxin de bofe. A brazilian food made (As far as I know) only in Bahia, created by the slaves during imperial time. It’s good af, but it was hard to convince me to try the first time.
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Used to eat it as often as I could when I visited southeast asiaOne of the most delicious dishes I’ve had as a fan of curry though I’ve only ever eaten it at a Malaysian restaurant and not homemade.
This is a pretty normal aesthetic for food in South and South East Asia so it looks amazing to me…Seems like the appearance of food is very culturally subjective.
Is it easy to make?
I am by no metric an expert, hell I am barely proficient, as I found a recipe online after I got back from Malaysia, but it’s somewhat simple. It just takes a lot of time and a lot of ingredients that isn’t easy to find where I live.
That plating in particular looks like a stainless steel prison toilet
That’s how it’s traditionally served.
Its in a wok.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_ghanoush
Looks like slop, tastes like a party in your mouth.
Babar Ganesh!
So we can add hummus and… probably lots of other sauces / dips as well.My candidate might be guacamole, which looks like it could almost be toxic ooze at first sight.
Honestly a lot of Mexican food looks kind of rough. Molé sauce looks like something you’d have to eat during a fraternity hazing. Birria, looks greasy and almost violently red. Nachos even, are not the most appealing food. But they’re all amazing. So much flavor. The texture is exquisite despite appearances. Largely we’ve learned to maybe adapt our visual palates, I feel.
I honestly believe that the Mexican cooks invented the burrito because everything inside, especially mushed together, looks fucking gross. But if you wrap it in a tortilla so you don’t have to look at it, it tastes fucking awesome.
There’s a Mexican place that opened very close to me, and I’ve been a bit bewildered by the general lack of flavor in their stuff. Examples would be their barbacoa, birria, pastor, chicken tinga, and carnitas. Funnily-enough, they load up the spices in their ground beef, so that’s most usually my protein filling. 😕
I really don’t know quite what to say in trying to suggest to a Oaxacan-style restaurant that their meats need more spices…
Because you don’t speak Spanish?
Hablo bastante castellano, pero ese no era la problema.
The founders spoke perfectly fine English, but at least one of them seemed sensitive about the issue, so I didn’t pursue.
Next up is Steven Babaganoosh!
I once threw away baba ghanoush that was intended for dinner because I thought it was discarded remains. I thought I was being helpful, but I was not.
Peanut brittle.
Some may disagree, but I always thought it looks like frozen vomit
Pretty much all seafood. Shrimp in particular tastes fantastic but looks like something you’d try to flatten with a shoe.
Yum, ocean bugs
Shrimps is bugs after all.
Oysters. Snails. Mussels.
Thai Pounded Jackfruit
very tasty
Also thai geng ki leck. A spicy curry of very bitter leaves with sliced ox skin. Strangely delicious.
Honestly this looks fantastic.
Give some variation for an internet stock image. IRL it kind of just looked like brown mush in a bread bowl. It really was great though.
I’m gonna catch hate for this, but I don’t care. I have a thing that physically looks awful, but also seems conceptually awful.
Sometimes, if I have the money and I wanna get a little treat, I’ll buy a block of cheese, Nutella, and bread, and make a Nutella and cheese sandwich. I do not know why or how I got to the point where I ate it, but I did and I love it.
Usually, I’d get like a pecorino romano cheese, cut a couple slices of dark (full grain) bread, and just paste it in place with Nutella, and that would be a little desert for me. If I have a lot of cheese on there, I might add raspberry jam (not too much or it gets waaaaay too sweet).
Are you, by chance, a rat who controls a French man and helps him with cooking?
If the position’s open, I’m there! But alas, I am a rat for free at this time. :3
I’m sure there’s a French man to be ridden and controlled around here somewhere.
I do PB and cheese sometimes; it’s awesome. Not a big fan of Nutella, but I imagine it’s the same kind of combo with the sweet and savory mix. Sometimes I’ll add a piece of salami into the mix also, but it’s fine without it, too.
Though, in my opinion, if you want a home run quick sandwich, make a PB&J but then butter the outside and cook it like a grilled cheese. To die for.
Nutella is swimming in palm oil IIRC. Maybe a cocoa-based version could work?
Maybe, I would try more hazelnut instead.
Is palm oil bad?
I’m having a bit of trouble understanding what it’s saying about how bad it is, but I get the impression less is just better always? Either way, though, you can for sure swap out Nutella with anything else vaguely in the same ballpark. What makes the sandwich so good is the cheese and vaguely chocolate flavor. If you do try something else out and decide it’s good, please let me know!
I got plenty of results with:
https://www.google.com/search?q=healthy+nutella+alternativeThat’s where I followed on as well, but it kept seeming like I was finding mixed results on the articles. I don’t know enough about which studies are funded by which groups, and I’m pretty sure I’m finding biased stuff. It’s okay, though, I’m not asking you to look things up for me, I just was curious if you had some kind of insight into the industry or not.
I think if you drill down a bit past the first paragraph citing uncertainty, you’ll find there’s a pretty consistent body of scientific findings naming various ill-health effects. Maybe follow up on those specific studies, supplementing with ScienceDaily and PubMed material as needed?
I’m not a nutritionist, and haven’t spent much time myself researching palm oil studies, but I can tell you as someone who’s tried to keep abreast of nutritional news for decades, so far I’ve only seen negative findings upon palm oil, both as a food and as an ecological agent of destruction.
I don’t know, I think the problem was in ethical issues about how it is cultivated.
It’s got plenty of health issues, too, as per the WP link above.
WordPress?
Made even better by the addition of a slice of salami.
Honestly, if you add salami, I would say bump up the jam you put on it, too. The extra umami makes room for more sweet. I bet this absolutely rules.
bump up the jam
Not to be confused with the unrelated 1989 Belgian techno anthem.
I’m not going to hate on this at all. I’d probably eat it myself.
