/ck/ - Food & Cooking

go fuck yourself

>>11440386
The Midwest is everything wrong with this country

a thread died for this

>>11440393
t. Democrat

>>11440386
The flyover states are a cultural wasteland.

>>11440398
I'm sorry but the Midwest is just worthless. The only thing of value is the farms, and there's like 5 people that actually farm anymore. Everyone else is just taking up space and being medicore.

>>11440405
>>11440402
>>11440393
>>11440386
reminder

>>11440408
>meatloaf
Fucking flyover

>>11440386
Huh?

>>11440408
lol'd at butternut-white truffle oil reduction.

At that price you'd think they'd use actual truffles.

>>11440408
>has never been to New England

You don't know what good culture is until you're doubled over in pure agony and existential dread while SPICY grease farts and streams of diarrhea violently explode out your asshole.
MUY DELICIOSA SENOR BRAAAAPPPPFFFTTT BAPBAPBAPBAPBA BAAAAAP UGGGNNH VERY SWEET PABLANO THIS DISH SENOR BRAAAPPPFFFTTT

>>11440408

>>11440386
>>11440393
>>11440402
>>11440405

Yeah it's really horrible. Don't come here.

>>11440408
why do midwesterners love meatloaf so much?

>>11440437
Because it the best food they've ever tasted.

>>11440437
Really we just love whatever people think we love.

>>11440437
w-what is the icing

meatloaf is literally "we have some shit unfit for regular human consumption, let's throw it in a pan and eat the mixture"

>>11440452
Instbnt mashed potatoes.

>>11440408
what the fuck is horseshoe

>>11440427
>>11440420
>people would unironically eat seabugs (a known peasant food back in the day) over the Flyover Feast™

>>11440434
No one wants to faggot. There's nothing.

>>11440386
Michael....

>>11440455
>electrical socket
this isn't even american?!?!?!

>>11440580
>>11440455
>yuros on suicide watch

Excellent presentation
The cookies dance across the plate seperating the two different sauces

>>11440557
Good. I'm happy you think this.

>>11440386
>the cookie dangerously close to the ketchup

>>11440641
Yep, I can tell your ego isn't at all damaged considering you keep replying to insist how great it is.
Everytime someone clowns on the Midwest
>G-good I'm g-glad you don't like it m-more for me
Lol fag

>the midwest has terrible fo-

>>11440706
WHAT IS THAT

>>11440437
a couple reasons:

1. Firstly, it's just purely economic. As the old saying goes, "the cobbler's children have no shoes"/"The potter drinks from a broken cup": before modern industrialization and specialization, regions that thrived on exporting a certain product were forced to choose between the profits of selling their product, or using/consuming it themselves. So meat-processing regions (ie, the Midwest) tended not to KEEP the expensive cuts of meat, but held onto the scraps and sold the good meat. Thus, they focused on recipes that utilized this scrap meat in inventive and delicious ways.

2.Cultural. A lot of Midwesterners have familial roots in German culture, due to Germany having some political and economic upheaval in the 1800's, and their emigrating populaces ending up in the newly settled mid-west. Germany has a robust sausage/ground meat culture, which was brought with them to the region.

3. Economics part 2/Edibility. Even as beef production grew and better cuts became available, the Midwest ran into something of an issue: the culture of the area was broadly focused on large families living in close proximity. This created a need for meals that could feed large groups without high costs. A New York Steak on every plate for 8 will cost around $50 even with scrimping and smaller portions. Ground beef is cheaper, especially when mixed with binders and other meats. Further, these large family units would include young children and the elderly, especially at say, weekly family dinners. People who might have trouble consuming steaks, especially tougher cheap cuts. Meatloaf's softer texture made it very useful for meals with multiple generations in play. This creates a positive memory loop: meatloaf is now associated with large family gatherings, which are (for many) positive and warm affairs, so meatloaf becomes associated with those feelings.

I actually wretched

Is that tomato ketchup on the side of that plate?


>>11440437


NO GOD NO

I am going to throw up

>>11440437


Its so sinister I think its turning me manic

please tell me that isn't a savoury meat dish shaped like a cake

>>11440732
An image that's been reposted every single day for years.

>>11440393
I might be boreing, but it's tem times better then shithole that is the south.

>all these people in this thread not recognizing intentional food gore pictures that have been reposted ad nauseum since Al Gore created the internet

Totally my dude :^)

I can tell your ego isn't at all damaged considering this thread is made every single day.

Now give me another >>11440693

>>11440814
>boreing
>tries to shift topic away from the culinary wasteland that is the midwest
Yeah the south’s cuisine has you beat by 20,000 miles brainlet

>>11440386
Terrible food but hot women and fun people

>>11440750
"Frosted" Meatloaf, which is simply meatloaf covered in a layer of mashed potatoes, is a common Mid-western dish. It caught on because meatloaf is often served with mashed potatoes as a side, so it's seen as just unifying the experience. Like a chip butty in England.

This is just a playful arrangement of the idea exploiting the joking nature of the 'frosting' name. I'd wager this is probably a birthday dinner for a family/church member who is known to love meatloaf. A play on getting them a "birthday cake"

It IS a savory meat dish shaped like a cake, but it would be served and treated as a standard entree, not as part of the desserts.

>>11440743
>is that tomato ketchup
Yes.

>>11440852
I'm in Minneapolis and we have great food, i assume Chicago and Detroit also have fine cuisine. What midwest states are you talking about?

>>11440830
Nice

>>11440861

It makes me feel sad like when I walk past butchers and I feel like I am trapped in a hell world.

>>11440868
All of it minus large city centers

>>11440737
based factual anon. it's too bad that autists are too stupid to understand facts.

>>11440928


people barely ate meat until Henry Fords time

In fact the Asians who came to visit him were appalled by the levels of meat being consumed.

>>11440402
Imagine having so little culture and being so self-hating that instead of strengthening your cultural appreciation of our past you deny it and take pride in a mish mash of cultures from other countries you live vicariously through.

>>11440402
Protip: the biggest defining factor of hicks is that they live their whole lives in one area.
This is why city people act like hicks in spite of their hatred for rural folks.

Also, since all city culture is the same cosmopolitan, identity-free garbage, you are still a hick even if you move from city to city.

I hope this illuminates why actual humans hate you people.

>>11440978
Lolwat city people travel all the time and have access to a multitude of diverse cultural elements. Nice try though.

>>11440955
The Midwest has no culture. It simply is.

>>11441029
That's nice, honey.

>>11440386
Not as bad as Italian food. Yuck.

>>11441051
>Honey

>>11441055

>>11441029
The Midwest HAD culture until the faggots from the West coast ruined their shithole and flocked here to ruin us.

Swedish, German, Norwegian, Dutch, french, etc

We still have pockets of culture but they are kept secret from the fucktards in the cities who think it's not black enough.

In fact I am part of a secret lefse and lamb society

>>11441060
Weeb.

>>11441113
Newfag.

>>11440868
To bring a more thorough understanding of what's going on in this argument, we have to discuss some mildly sticky issues.

Namely, that people tend to gravitate to foods that they experienced during their childhood or adolescence, or foods that they can connect with those experiences.

And what makes this difficult between coastal cities and the inland states is, simply put, there's a difference in diversity between the two. This is not to say that one is LESS diverse, from a raw cultural standpoint, but differently diverse. Take Minnesota and Washington state.

Minnesota is roughly 86% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Native, 0.1% pacific Islander, and a couple rounding errors and biracial identities for the last few percent. Washington , by contrast, is 72% White, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 1% Native, 0.6% Pacific Islander, and 4.7% biracial.

Thus, when Minnesota goes to diversity, it leans a little more heavily on intra-white diversity: Irish vs German cuisine, and so on. And there are certainly distinctions and differences between those cuisines. But to Washingtonians, who have a broader connection to Hispanic and Asian foods, those nuances seem somewhat lackluster or unimpressive. There are flavors and concepts that the Washingtonian looks to for variety and interest that will not be found (or will be exceedingly rare) in Minnesota.

This cultural divide is emphasized by the truth of interstate travel: most travelers will be traveling to and mentally fixating on the major cities of the other state. This is where the idea that Midwestern food is "boring" arises from: a Washingtonian in Minneapolis will be expecting a different range of cultural offerings, and find the reliance on white cuisines somewhat 'safe'. Meanwhile, the Minnesotan who is stuck downtown Seattle for a day is going to encounter a lot of options they have little reference for, and feel the city is alien and extravagant, abandoning good simple food.

(cont)

>>11440737
Good post

>>11441142

The Washingtonian is wrong because the execution of a dish isn't necessarily connected to the simple idea they hold of it. I recently had a slice of 'Millionaire's Meatloaf' that was very good, as well as different from any meatloaf I had tried before.

The Minnesotan is wrong because they're simply lacking the cultural touchstones to relate to the products they're being offered. They may be unaware, for instance, that an Empanada is essentially just a Mexican Pastie, or that curries are basically just Chili from India.

Thus both sides get biased opinions of the other because they don't have the same mental framework and experiences to connect with the other's innovations and struggles.

>>11441114
Lol, nope, you utter waste of oxygen.

>>11440434
This. Please stay away. The Midwest has the best comfort food in the country. I've lived around the world but I always miss the rural Michigan country breakfast. The best gravy in the world.

>>11441113

>>11441176
do you actually think people don't eat mexican or asian foods in the midwest?

>>11441249
>Please stay away from a place you don't want to go

>>11441273
I'll suck your dick for that one

>>11441284
t. tsundere for midwest dick

>>11441249
>brrruuummmggffhhhuuuuuu*burp*huuggnnnnnnn

>>11441292