/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12717449

>>12437444
Agreed. But great grandma is dead and her recipes don't really work with shit from the supermarket or Walmart anyways. The kind of American homestead/farmhouse cooking that was something of a national treasure was pretty much destroyed by the 20th Century. And what replaced it in home kitchens across the country isn't very pretty.

>>12374168
You don't seriously buy into that mid 20th Century American garbage cooking, do you? That shit is over except in backwaters.

>>12199536
this

>>11686889
>All the best food is in the heartlands.
Is that why you eat green bean casserole, Chex mix and queso made out of Velveeta?

>>9557058
One could argue that. Look at how low the second half of the 20th Century set the bar for food in much of the US. We now have a generation who grew up on nuggers and tendies but have never tasted what chicken tasted like to their grandmothers - those are the same poor bastards who have never had a pork chop that wasn't tough and dry. Their food preferences are expressed through choice of dipping sauces. The dishes they call home cooking are mostly heating up the contents of convenience food products with maybe a couple other ingredients added. I'd call that failure. Pic related.

>>9532555
Several shitty dishes have become traditional parts of the Thanksgiving dinner over the last couple generations, and two I can think of are perfect for a bad cook: candies yams with marshmallows and green bean casserole. Yes, you'll be the one bringing the worst dish of the bunch if you show up with either, but every family has at least one person who likes this kind of crap, and it's easy as piss to make.

>>9450410
A lot of people are defensive about the crappy shit they like, though. You see it on this board all the time. You see it all the time in threads about pizza and fast food. And it's tough, because most of us live in a place where the standards are so crappy we don't even know where to look to find good stuff. The other day some Anon who had never tried fresh mozzarella asked what brand he should look for. Many of us live in places where if something isn't a national or regional brand it's just not available. I've seen people on this board defend pic related. It's hard to claim to like good food when you may be someone who has never had it.

>>9298733
Bet you'd defend pic related, too. Just a major defect of growing up in your time and place. The way some jerkoffs here enthuse about Taco Bell.

>>9248782
But if you cherry pick the worst dishes from any cuisine it seems awful. You could say:
America:
>Skyline Chili 3-Way
>green bean casserole
>Chex Mix
See what I mean?

>>9111962
Absolutely. When people were starving to death 20 years ago cheap, plentiful food seemed amazing. And having just gone through a war being too fussy about the quality of it seemed like being ungrateful. This was easily exploited by advertisers and an industry that was working hard to sell the cheapest food possible in the newly popular supermarkets.

Have a free recipe for casserole using cream of mushroom soup, frozen green beans and fried onions from a can. This bullshit will be your new family holiday tradition because you're that gullible.

>>9098568
>encouraged to retain its culture
I live in the US. There really isn't that much that qualifies as culture. There are a few music and food things in the South, but the rest of it is mostly pop culture or manufactured industrial/advertising culture. Not all that much worth retaining. McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Hollywood and pic related aren't really worth all that much. Mediocre shit.
>>9098581
HesRightThough.jpg

>>8559866
Foodgore thread? Foodgore thread.

>>8250181
I have relatives who consider that dish a thanksgiving essential. It's fucking disgusting. They're the same kind of people who make pic related, which is also disgusting.