/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12388651
>removing the skins form potatoes
Is this some kind of torture invented by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants?

Eating Mayonaise with French Fries is considered gross even though the country they originated in, Belgium, prefers to serve them this way.

Tomato Ketchup is based on mushroom ketchup which is based on fish kei-chap which is a chinese fish sauce condiment imported to Britain by traders. Modern day Lea and Perkin's Worcestershire Sauce still contains this influence as they add anchovy sauce to their bottles.

Soy sauce is the vegetarian version of fish sauce.

Fish sauce used to be consumed by the majority of Europeans and was called "Garum" during the Roman empire.

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. It's a legume like chickpeas (also not peas).

Black eyed peas are beans.

Kale, Mustard, Bok Choi, Broccoli, and Brussel sprouts are different cultivars of the same plant (Brassica oleracea).

>>12333487
>fish and chips with shoestring fries

Chips are called chips because they look like they were "chipped" from a potato. Personally I don't understand how anyone can eat fries without the skins on. They just add so much texture and colour compared to bland shoestring fries.