/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10778942
Imagine being such a flyover you've never actually had a late August tomato from just across the river in NJ, so ripe that you can smell it practically starting to rot, so overripe in fact that it starts to crack and bleed out in your hands as you're carrying it up the stairs in your pre-war walkup and it's dribbling on your hardwood floor as you take it into the kitchen to be eviscerated by your 210mm munetoshi wa-slicer

Are you saying I'm living the dream?

>>10778953
Not picking it out of your garden and getting some cilantro, garlic and lemon juice and making salsa minutes after picking it off the vine

>>10778961
>literally 0 heat
nice salsa, whiteboy

>>10778942
Yeah, either this is bait or you are pic related.

>>10778971
Salt, garlic, and lemon juice are already overwhelming enough, why would I want to make it inedible by adding black pepper?

>>10778942
>raw tomato
>sprinkle salt
>eat like an apple
This is objectively the best Old People Food

>>10778980
Just add some ice to tone it down if too spicy from the lemon

>>10778942
>imagine liking raw tomatos on anything lmao
fuck that. imagine not to!

Fucking salt n' pepper, Dukes mayo slathered on whitebread and Bob's your uncle, wat's not to like? Did you use Miracle Whip?

Imagine having the palate of a 12 year old child

I like putting a fresh slice of tomato on a piece of buttered toast, salt and pepper on the tomato
a lovely breakfast indeed

>imagine having no taste

Sad desu.

>>10778971
Salsa doesn't have to be spicy you nignog beaner.

>>10778942
I love your bait OP. it's as if you are hanging a slice of raw tomato on a hook for the 99% of people who like this in many ways.
I dub thee the usual 1/10 troll made me reply now go please do something constructive before you turn 12.

imagine never eating a caprese salad in Naples on a cool summer evening.

imagine never eating a horiatiki salad while watching the sunset over Santorini

imagine never eating ratatouille and watching the beautiful people of Cannes

>>10780322
fuck off weeb, this is an american board and we eat american food here

>>10778982
caprese salads are objectively the best thing ever

Add lemon juice and salt, you got a great snack. Bonus points foe kikkoman sauce.

>>10778942
You live in a suburb. I can tell

>>10780327
>mfw everyone who isn't american is a weeb

>>10778953
Flyovers havs these amazing things called "gardens." We eat fresher than you do by a mile.

>>10779024
This was the official sandwich of summer in VA

>>10781096
why are they attacking the nigger instead of fucking him like porn taught me to be the logical development of it

>>10778953
do coasties actually think we don't have gardens or tomatoes in the midwest??? or is this bait

>>10781143
>>10781150
That babby hasn't left his comfy suburban 15 mile radius before to know how the rest of the country lives. When I lived in the midwest you had a garden, or your neighbor did so getting home-grown produce was never hard.

The offerings at markets and grocery stores were significantly better quality and much cheaper as well. When it comes to produce, meat, and cheese, the midwest can't be beat.

>>10781179
I'll agree with you about the produce and the meat, but cheese? C'mon now. The selection of decent cheeses is awful in flyoverville, unless you're content with shoddy "American" cheese.

and for that matter, the produce is only good for mainstream stuff. Try and find something a little exotic like kaffir lime leaves or galangal and you're fucked.

>>10781185
Not really what I experienced with cheese, maybe because I lived in the upper midwest... and it all tends to funnel out from Wisconsin. The dairy options were unreal. The middle of bumfuck nebraska probably wont have the same selection. However in remote areas there are local dairies that support those immediate communities.

Are 99.99% of us really bothered if we don't have regular access to Kaffir Lime Leaves? Id rather have my entire diet be cheap and high quality and miss out on extravagant ingredients.

>>10778942
>tfw I got up this morning and picked a ripe tomato from my garden
>thickly sliced, lightly salted and peppered
>served on a toasted bagel with chives from the garden, cream cheese and smoked turkey

Feels good, tastes good.

>>10781185
>what is the state of Wisconsin
dumb coastie fuck

>>10781273
>>wisconsin
That's nice for American cheeses, but what about others? Where's the proper Cheddar? The 36-month parm reg? The mimolette? Taleggio? Zimbro? If you're going to claim somewhere has a great selection of cheeses then I expect to see at least the A-list of imports covered. And really, if we're talking a "can't be beat" selection I expect to see something on par with pic related. I've never seen anything like that in the midwest.

>Are 99.99% of us really bothered if we don't have regular access to Kaffir Lime Leaves?
No. But if you're going to claim that somewhere "can't be beat" for produce then I expect a bigger selection than what I have seen in my time there. And I certainly wouldn't call kaffir lime an "extravagant ingredient". Exotic to flyovers perhaps but these days it ought not to be considered that rare. I live in a smallish town in Texas and there are three markets which stock it here, for example.

>>10779971
Tapeworm pizza. Amazing.

>>10781280
What about it? Wisconsin does have some great cheeses, but "can't be beat"? Lolno. You can't even legally sell many of the worlds great cheeses due to a blanket ban on importing unpasteurized cheeses aged less than 60 days. You sure as hell can't claim a "can't be beat" selection if you can't even get something as basic as a proper brie.

>>10781317
coasties will never learn

>>10778942
You know you want it

>>10778942
I like a nice tomato sandwich with mayo and pepper

>>10781330
>>10781998
I unironically can't tell if you're the same person

>>10778942
Yeah. imagine..

>>10781998
Try pesto instead of the mayo. It's great.

>>10781330
>>10781998
This is wild

>>10781304
Mate, come on you're really nit-picking now. The midwest does have access to proper cheddar, aged parm, and the other pretentious items you mentioned... Of course bumsville with a population of 10 doesn't have the same resources as a Mariano's in Chicago... and you know that. Wisconsin, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota are among the top ten cheese producers in the country. The point is that there is many quality offerings that makes it hard to beat regionally.

Also, don't cherry pick an ingredient you know most grocery stores around the country don't stock, and use it to claim the midwest is no longer valid in terms of produce selection.

>>10780133
Sauces do not need to be spicy, “salsas” do

>>10782326
Just like I said before, if you are making the bold claim that their cheese selection "cannot be beat" then you at least need to cover the well-known imports, which you don't. I didn't name some silly cheese that's only known in a miniscule Swiss canton. I named very well known cheeses.

Claiming something "cannot be beat" is bold. Don't get your panties in a twist when you get called out on your hyperbole.

>>10781330
>untoasted white bread
>mayo
Just how white are you?

>>10781143
>gardens
You mean your 1/4 acre patch of poison-soaked kentucky bluegrass?
>>10781150
I know you can buy mealy, flavorless tomatoes at Piggly Wiggly, yes
@10781179
No (You) for you
>>10781185
Exactly
>>10781304
>cheddar, parmigiano-reggiano, mimolette, etc
The WIDF's official stance on this matter is that "those are fedora tipster cheeses that nobody has ever heard of, you just brought them up to make me feel uncultured"

>>10779932
Unironically this

>>10778942
dumb boomer

>>10782585
Saying "cant be beat" is a bold claim, yes. In the context of the internet we tend to unconcernedly speak in sweeps. However, you knew exactly what I meant when I said that: Great, Wonderful, The Tops, Hard to beat, Cream of the Crop... Would changing it to "quite good" make you finally happy? When your friend goes "man this burger can't be beat" Do you push your glasses up your nose, scoff, and go "Well actually let me explain why its not."

Imported cheeses are absolutely available in the midwest, are you joking?: Probably more-so in the midwest due to numerous european specific grocery stores. You also fail to acknowledge the high concentration of quality cheeses being produced by regional dairy farmers, some even using old world recipes they brought with them. Good cheese produced locally: only a few regions of the united states can claim this with such authority, Texas most certainly cannot. The midwest is hard to beat in this respect.

Your local store may have a few things some places don't. That's cool. There's also a lot your store doesn't have. Enjoy your cheese friendo

>>10782872
>Would changing it to "quite good" make you finally happy?
Yes.

>>When your friend goes "man this burger can't be beat" Do you push your glasses up your nose, scoff, and go "Well actually let me explain why its not."
Depends on the context. If social cues indicate that we're just goofing around? Nope. If it's a serious discussion and I disagree? Yes.

>>Imported cheeses are absolutely available in the midwest
I'm sure they are. But that's a different claim entirely. Earlier the claim was midwest is best because of muh wisconsin. That's poor logic because wisconsin alone does not constitute a good cheese selection.

>>You also fail to acknowledge the high concentration of quality cheeses being produced by regional dairy farmers
A lot of those are great, I agree. But like above, it doesn't matter how good your local stuff is, if you don't have the major imports then you certainly can't claim to have a top notch cheese selection.

>>10782926
Perhaps it wasn't articulated appropriately but the point was that the midwest has great regionally produced cheese, I then clarified it also had great import cheese. Thus making it "quite good" in terms a cheese region. Cool? Cool.

>>10782926
>>10782585
you have extreme autism

>>10778953
I've lived in NJ for over 30 years and raw tomatoes are fucking vile

>>10783043
I've had the local coffee in Colombia. Not good. I've had the local cigars in Cuba. Not good.

The thing about third world countries is that the best stuff is exported to more appreciative foreigners.

You truly live in a miraculous state. We give you our trash, you turn it into tasty tomatoes. The circle of life.

>>10778942
I made a tomato salad for dinner today - quartered cherry tomatoes garnished with capers, olives, feta cheese and with a salsa of finely diced red onion, olive oil, basil and just a splash of apple-cider vinegar. It was tremendous.

>>10778953
Think you went a little overboard there, m8.

>>10782715
>"you just brought them up to make me feel uncultured"
It's merkin cheese that is uncultured.

Or more likely they're in just too much of a hurry and don't give the cheese the time to mature that it needs.
Protip to any Wisconsinoids here: mature cheese isn't made in a few hours.

>>10783738
Sure it is. Just add liquid smoke and stamp on some "age marks" using a natural vegetable-based colorant. Much superior to the obsolete protectionist methods that create foul smells and weird textures. You can't even tell the difference anyway, our cheese masters are descended from real European immigrants who came over straight from Europe. Show me a peer-reviewed scientific study that proves they're different. You can't. Anyway ours is better, because it's smoother and has a milder smell (because it's made from real milk!)

Everyone knows Wisconsin makes the best cheese in the world and if you say otherwise, you are obviously trolling or insane.

>>10778942
>he's never made fresh salsa

>>10780133
The definition of "salsa" is a spicy tomato sauce.

>>10778953
Flyovers are king of tomatoes, anon. wtf? lol

>>10782516
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