/ck/ - Food & Cooking

something something "omg this is so spicy!!!" except it's just ground black pepper. over-exaggerated for the purpose of memes

Many white americans barely season their food. Its not a joke or meme, its actually true. This is especially common with genXers and boomer generation. Most millennials and zoomers enjoy spices and more than just salt

>>12782393
A family member knows some Italian Americans who think Taco Bell is too spicy. They avoid it like the plague. Real life stories like this created the meme.

Non-whites have such an inferiority complex that they needed to invent something from thin air as a cope

>>12782410
Salt is a seasoning not a spice. Spices come from plants.

>>12782393
Baby Boomers and their literal child palates.
Every Baby Boomer I meet hates red bell peppers because they are "too spicy".

>>12782415
They had millennia to invent the wheel and didn't even manage that. I'm guessing some bleeding heart white chick invented that retarded meme for them.

>>12782416
Whatever, people know what i mean. I used to live with an older Mormon lady. To her anything more than paprika was too spicy

All stereotypes are based in truth unfortunately
yes this uses broad generalizations, I'm well aware
It comes from the fact that the average white american meal cooked by the average white american parent/WAP goes as follows:
>Meat, typically unseasoned, broiled in an oven or pan seared if you're lucky
>Overcooked vegetables
>Some sort of starch
and for some strange reason, WAPs never, ever try to integrate the parts of a meal. They literally keep all of the vegetables, meats, and starches completely separate on the plate with no attempt at making a more combined dish.

For example, a typical meal from my mom would be
>Chicken breast, unseasoned, baked in a pyrex dish
>Steamed broccoli, no seasoning
>Boxed rice pilaf mix
>After cooking, apply bottled BBQ sauce to the chicken breast
I love my mom, but fuck...

Unfortunately, since this is how their kids were raised, they were never taught proper seasoning so they continue the folly of their parents, and are very much adverse to "strong" seasonings

>>12782393
/pol/dditors get triggered by obvious bait so once they found /ck/ the trolls followed them here for the easy replies.

>>12782416
You know what the fuck they meant. You just like correcting people.

>>12782393
Midwest farmhouse cooking from three generations ago was built around what a family could produce themselves. They didn't buy much besides flour, salt and maybe coffee. Spices weren't a thing.

>>12782393
Because it's true, and it's been a stereotype for ages now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_KilRD-do

>>12782393
I like tasting meat.

I don't mind seasonings.
I eat the spice.

I like tasting meat.

>>12782393
It's not an American thing, traditionally, non-whites generally use a lot more spices in their food compared to Whites. There are a bunch of theories: whites prefer subtler tastes, lack of native ingredients, spicy food helps cope with climate heat/humidity, etc. Of course, in today's multi-culti cosmopolitan world people just eat whatever they want, but the stereotype is still there, Whites generally still prefer milder flavours compared to non-whites.

>>12782463
Most spices come from warm climates outside of Europe.

>>12782459
I'll let you taste my meat if you know what i mean

>>12782471
This. The spice trade was big business. By the time spices made it to the end of the route they were very expensive. Only the rich could afford them. Which meant they were not something the common people were at all familiar with.

>>12782471
Yeah, I know, that's what I meant by "lack of native ingredients".

>>12782453
That scene always stood out to me.
Pretty fucking rare to hear Marge swearing.

>>12782487
It lacked specificity. Spices come from predominantly the brown world, i.e. warm climates.

>>12782393
but that's not a white person's hand

It's because of flyover """cuisine""". See pic related:
>can of green beans
>canned Cream of Mushroom soup
>stir it together, pour some fried onions from a plastic cup on top
>bake in oven

>>12782393
It is just a bunch of made up anti-white bullshit.

>>12782504
It is worse than that. It is a brown person who is thawing a white castle burger with water in hopes of eating it without cooking it.

I should add that White dishes are by no means flavourless, we may not have had many spices but we have plenty of herbs that gave plenty of flavour and aroma.

>>12782497
Yes, I know where spices come from as well as other 'hot' foods like chilli peppers.

>>12782504
>but that's not a white person's hand
No shit, it was a nonwhite person making that joke.
Did you think they took a screenshot from a documentary on white people eating habits? I have no idea what you were thinking.

>>12782518
>It is just a bunch of made up anti-white bullshit.
No it fucking isn't. It's not like being prone to bland food preference is some sort of shameful character flaw. It's about as harmless as stereotypes get. You're not going to get turned down for a job or stopped by the police more often because black people make jokes about your taste in food being boring.

>>12782393
It's a real thing amongst boomers. They were the ultimate in convenience meals, ie shitty ass casseroles and jello towers for dessert. They inherited and many of them can't even handle salt and pepper. My girlfriend's grandmother, who is a boomer or silent generation, not completely sure, we she legit can't handle salt and pepper, hates garlic in anything, and just eats everything without seasoning. Needless to say that only her baked goods are any good. My girl's mom is just as bed, thinking chicken breasts with a pad of butter in the oven is good cooking. She's early Gen X and many of them are just as bed. This is especially prevelant in the Midwest and certain parts of the South.

>>12782413
I know someone whose wife could not have a sausage McMuffin because the sausage was too spicy for her. I really thought he was joking but he meant it. However, I haven’t met anyone else like that, I think many Americans just can’t cook and just don’t know how to use spices or which ones go well together, etc so they just use salt and pepper and the most basic spice mixes like Italian Seasoning

>>12782561
Another thing is that a lot of niggas just throw in spices, indiscriminately, so in contrast white cooking is really off.

>>12782463
>Whites generally still prefer milder flavours compared to non-whites.
In America class played a role as well. In the 19th and first half of the 20th Century bold, assertive flavors were considered "ethnic", and thus lowbrow. Back when German immigrants were still a thing spicy mustard they liked was looked down upon in favor of mild. When Italians started arriving garlic was frowned upon. In the American Southwest the milder chili peppers have always been favored over the hotter ones. White Americans embracing spicy food didn't really start happening until the 1980's when suddenly salsa and chips went mainstream. The 1990's found a whole new market for spicy foods using terms like "extreme". Now spicy food is pretty mainstream in much of the country, though many backwaters have yet to get the memo.

>>12782481
Ironically, once better navigation and colonialism made spices plentifully available in the 17th century, they were seen as a cheaper way for poorer people in the cities to dress up their meat.
Meanwhile, wealthy people moved to the countryside where unadorned roasts and fresh cream and fruits became the new standards of haute cuisine.

>>12782393
Niggers don't know how to cook without dumping an ounce of store bought chili powder in everything they make. Niggers think "spicy" = good and that the epitome of cuisine is spicy fried chicken and mediocre barbecue (which they wrongfully insist was invented in Africa). They make fun of white people because they're racist and being racist against whites is trendy, acceptable and encouraged as the white population drops every year by percentage.

The truth is that white people season their food so that it doesn't overpower the other ingredients.

>>12782538
>It's not like being prone to bland food preference is some sort of shameful character flaw.
Not as bad as being disproportionately responsible for 50% of violent crimes that's for sure.

Die in a death camp nigger scum.

>>12782590
>Ironically, once better navigation and colonialism made spices plentifully available in the 17th century, they were seen as a cheaper way for poorer people in the cities to dress up their meat.
That was pretty much only the case with allspice, ginger and nutmeg/mace. Stuff like peppercorns and cardamom held their value.
>Meanwhile, wealthy people moved to the countryside where unadorned roasts and fresh cream and fruits became the new standards of haute cuisine.
The wealthy English have always leaned that way due to French influence. The rise of the bourgeois class and Escoffier codifying the restaurant only furthered this. The French were always partial to herbs over spices, with the exception of black pepper.

>>12782629
Thanks for the info

Because it's the truth, like nonwhites shitting themselves when they get close to delicious dairy

>>12782393
>its the "white people eat bland food meme"

>>12782422
>Every Baby Boomer I meet hates red bell peppers because they are "too spicy"
Bollocks.
Most americans eat spicy food and have for at least 50 years.
There are some exceptions on the east coast and midwest but that accounts for less than 20 % of the population

>>12782645
>white people eat dat bland food

People from poorer backgrounds use substandard ingredients and attempt to make up for the flavorless or rancid flavor of their meals by adding an abundance of cheap spices. They have become accustomed to masking the mediocrity of their cuisine and anything else is alien and scary and bad. It all folds into the culture if it being cool to be unprivilaged.

>you think you had it rough? I used to have to X to get by.

>>12782664
That's why black people literally drown their chitlins, pig snoots, and pig feet in tabasco or sugary bbq sauce, they have to mask the flavor to make it more palatable.

>>12782664
This is true. Most Americans outside of cities eat rodents and roadkill to survive and you need a shitton of spices to make those palatable. It’s America’s dark secret.

>>12782670
this lol
Chitlins taste like feces. Depending on how thouroughly they are washed, there probably literally will be pig feces in them anyways. The Jews got it right

>>12782709
Chitlins aren’t fully washed? Seems like if you were going to thoroughly wash just one type of food it would be chitlins

>>12782393
Black people literally season their food with sugar. I'm not making this up. They consider sugar to be a seasoning, both while cooking and on the table. They put salt, pepper, sugar, and hot sauce on the table. I have also seen them use Tony Chacherie's Creole Seasoning as season salt at the table.

Blacks have the palettes of children. They hate anything with a trace of bitterness or complexity. Tell a black person that you're bringing kielbasa and sauerkraut, or bring chicken wings but no ranch just blue cheese. They'll be horrified.

>>12782619
I'm white you overly sensitive faggot. I can't imagine seriously taking offense at jokes about white people having bland food tastes. How is that even possible? Do you pride yourself on your elaborately spiced cooking? I don't get it.

>>12782728
Fuck off asswipe

>>12782429
Okay, but what do you think black people ate at the same time in US history?

>Baked BBQ chicken
Probably wouldn't bake it, just pan fry it. Yes, bottled BBQ sauce, especially if it was sweet. Add extra white sugar to it.

>boxed rice pilaf
Yeah, if it's Zatarains or Rice-a-Roni, blacks eat that shit to this day.

>Steamed broccoli
Okay, you win. Blacks don't eat steamed broccoli. They would have fries or baked beans or mac and cheese or fried okra here.

>>12782743
Get ready for some football, Jamarvius.