/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13328799
>Pain and suffering are human experiences unique to us.
Nah, that's bullshit. A monkey or a horse or a dog isn't so alien from ourselves that it doesn't have comparable instances of pain or suffering It's debatable how far down to more primitive brain structures you want to go before beginning to doubt the presence of each of those things but almost no one would say a horse doesn't meet that cutoff.
>>13328530
>Of course. I eat food so hot it's intensely painful because it's fun. But I still receive those pain signals. Naturally plants respond very differently but that doesn't necessarily make it not pain.
No. The entire point was to say that pain is different from suffering. You're talking about pain not being bad which misses that point. I'm saying even if you call something plants do "pain" it's not the issue because suffering is the issue. If you don't actually have the capacity to suffer (as opposed to just having a physiological reaction to stimuli) then that's not the same thing.
Which isn't even to say it really makes sense to call anything plants do "pain" either. But the point is you don't need to bother dealing with the pain question when they fail the more important suffering question. Suffering is contingent on being able to make a decision. The monkeys that can decide to act to prevent a shock get ulcers from the psychological stress while the monkeys that still get shocked no matter what they do maybe somewhat surprisingly *don't* get ulcers and don't suffer over it. Plants doing what they do in all the cases described in this thread have been physiological reactions like your skin tanning in the sunlight. Even a venus flytrap which can move to eat flies isn't really deciding to move. It's reflexively snapping in place, like your leg kicking out when you hit the knee with a reflex hammer.

>>12790426
>Hating beans in chili must be a Jewish thing.
Why do beanfags get everything backwards?
The attempts to legitimize beans added to chili came from New York e.g. that 1967 Holiday Magazine shitpost 'Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do'.
There are more Jews in New York City than there are in Tel Aviv.
>Y'ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SEPARATES CHILLI FROM SPICY STEW
It's a pointless filler ingredient. Good chili is way too strong to allow you to taste bean flavor even if you for some reason made the mistake of adding beans but did everything else right. And it has less protein and fewer calories than meat. The closest thing I've seen to an argument for beans doing anything helpful in the context of chili is people claiming they like the texture, although that isn't a particularly compelling argument either since thoroughly cooked beans in a very hot bowl of chili are going to be pretty insubstantial to chew through. And it's not even like beans that are substantial to chew through have a great texture to begin with. Their texture is waxy. Is that really what you think chili con carne is desperately needing? More waxy texture?

>>12752216
>because its popular
^This. It's one of the most blatant examples of contrarianism I can think of, up there with saying the Beatles were a shit band or Ocarina of Time was a bad Zelda game.
Basically it's a common tendency for people to push back in the opposite direction when they feel themselves getting pushed, both literally and metaphorically (in the literal sense they teach you to exploit this tendency in wrestling by pushing forward on the opponents arm/s and then releasing the pressure so that the force they were exerting to push back is no longer being balanced with your own and then you can perform your preferred throw with their momentum assisting you).

>>12546858
>pie
What the fuck else do you call a pizza pie?
A pizza pack?
A pizza conglomerate?

>>12518491
>There's no seafood cooked into the broth. The prawn, fishcake and cockles are added later with the noodles/vermicelli when serving.
>>12518582
>If it says "Singapore Laksa" and it has shrimp paste in it, then it is *definitely* a lie.
So your problem is the shrimp is crushed instead of whole?
Is this one of those autistic "not authentic" deals like when people get upset about instant noodles being labeled as "ramen noodles?"
Prima Taste Laksa La Mian is legit. Look it up, everyone gives it rave reviews. Easily one of the best instant noodle packs around.