/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15209999
>I don't really get it
>vagina
of course you don't

>>15209999
It's literal boomer food like spam, cube steak, aspid, and meatloaf. It was the best they could get when meat was so expensive that steak was considered a luxury item. Imagine a time when only big cities had delis and cold cuts in their grocery stores. Bacon was one of the only meats that would last.

>>15210063
This has to be the hottest take on this board by far in the last 2 hours.

>>15210068
Prove me wrong.

>>15210073
>internet
>prove
you win

>>15210080
:)

>>15209999
What a fucking waste on those quads, like honestly. OP doesn't get the BLT?
OP must have gotten a floppy lettuce - white centered tomato slices, and microwaved bacon, sandwich.
The literal monstrosity you get from time to time at a place like McDonalds. And makes a vapid Americanized post.

Why are American's like this with food?

>>15209999
The central ingredient is bacon - of course it's shit.

>>15209999
The thing they don't tell you is that the LT stands for Lettuce and Tomato. That's why it sucks. Just get a B next time and add some fried eggs and cheese. Thank me later.

>>15209999
You gotta use the right tomato. Most grocery store tomatoes are just straight up bad. Tomatoes are one food you're almost always better off going canned or growing at home.

>>15210124
>The central ingredient is bacon - of course it's shit.
Actually I'd argue the key ingredient is the tomato. And considering we're in winter where fresh vine-ripened summer tomatoes aren't available, that OP didn't have a very good first BLT is not surprising. OP probably went with watery beefsteaks, but you can make do with Roma or Cherry tomatoes however. Also the kind of mayo used is an oft-overlooked ingredient.

>>15210240
>Duke's Mayo

Are you from the south lad?

HAHA WOAH BACON?! DID SOMEBODY SAY BACON?!?!

I LOOOOOOVE BAAAACOOOOON!

wtf!! epic bacon strips ftw

>>15210063
Meatloaf has been around for hundreds of years you arrogant twatterbrained cunt.

>>15210246
Yes, the extra egg yolks used matter.

>>15210240
This man BLTs. The base flavor of the BLT should be derived from good, rich tomatoes and the interplay between the tomato and the mayo. 100% agree on the mayo, hell a ripe summer tomato and mayo sandwich at the peak of summer is unbeatable. Pinch of salt and pepper on the tomato, too. Bacon is essentially the accent. Then shredded iceburg for crunchy texture. Place on a nice butter toasted pullman.

Simple sandwiches like the BLT really suffer when any of the five ingredients(bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo, bread) sucks.

>>15210240
Are you Kenji gay Lopez fag

>>15209999
It’s a very light sandwich, good for road trips yeah.

>>15210240
Duke's is breddy damn good

>>15210063
Uh sweaty, you could go to you're local diner back between 1935-1960 and get a nice steak, eggs, toast, cup of coffee, and a nice cig to wash it all down for a NICKEL!. If you wanted to impress your number one gal and take her out for a night on the town and get a better steak dinner for two, it was maybe a quarter after tip. Nowadays, a fucking can of Spam is literally the cost of a half hour of labor at minimum wage.

>>15210240
OP here, I used and Heirloom tomato which was very soft and I think hampered my satisfaction.
Also, Is it better to use crispy or soft bacon? My Bacon wass very crispy

>>15210779
Fully crispy.
If it's soft, you end up biting in, the bacon doesn't get fully bitten through, and you have a big wormy bacon-tongue dangling out of your mouth.

>>15209999
>wasn't very good.
you and your quads can go back to whatever commie rock you crawled out from under, bucko!

if the bacon is overcooked its pretty underwhelming. something about pork fat.

>>15210102
Rent

>>15210102
Obsessed

>>15210649
And they say amerigans have no cuisine

>>15209999
I fucking love club sandwiches:
Slice of bread as base
>Mayo
>Turkey
>Bacon
>Lettuce
>Tomato
>Onion
Middle slice of bread
>Mayo, both sides
Top slice of bread
>Mayo
>Bacon and Turkey, maybe ham or chicken if I have a third meat
>Lettuce
>Tomato
>Onion
Makes for a massive sandwich just dripping in flavor.

I was in California once and ordered a BLT, and they DIDNT' TOAST THE BREAD. I was shocked and for years wondered who was in the wrong there.

>>15211105
>being in California
you were in the wrong

>>15211100
That sandwich sounds too big to comfortably take a bite, but I like the ingredients. My favorite has those ingredients, but replace the mayo with avocado, and the bread is toasted sourdough

>>15211112
The sandwich was absolutely horrible and suffered directly as a result of the bread not being toasted. Terrible.

>>15211122
That would never happen on the East Coast.

>>15210240
>>15210649
shitty, shitty fucking take

how retarded are you faggots?

>>15211184
How flyover are you?

>>15211187
im from south Alabama you waste of air, the south is where the BLT started

>>15211194
No I think clubs and blts come from the north.

>>15211216
either way, our tomatoes and mayonnaise are better than anywhere else and we know how to make good food, but the taste comes from the lightly salted pork and the crisp lettuce

>>15211220
>the taste comes from the lettuce
tastelet cope

It's the fresh thick cut tomato slices and the salty crispy bacon, you probably eat shit tomatoes or you're a fat fuck scared of vegetables (south alabama so probably spot on)

>>15210102
>American's

>>15211270
>sweeping generalizations
>South is fat and/or stupid
this is your only argument every single time, have you ever even been to the south? its probably the only place in the USA that truly has a definitive culture, and tons of our dishes contain vegetables you stupid urbanite

>>15211286
whyd you ignore the relevant thing to OP post

>>15211187
Fuckoff, the man knows his BLTs

>>15209999
you just don't get it

>>15210716
>Nowadays, a fucking can of Spam is literally the cost of a half hour of labor at minimum wage.

holy shit you're right, its not far off

>>15210240
>>15210649
Absolutely wrong. It should be smokey, salty, fatty bacon with the tomato acidity helping. Go make a tomato sandwich if you want one, a blt is a bacon sandwich.

>>15211384
>Go make a tomato sandwich if you want one

>they've never had vine picked fresh delicious tomato in a sandwich of fresh bread and butter with plenty of pepper
I think I will go make one, they're fucking great

>>15211286
>muh slavery = culture
k

I'm with the tomato guy. A blt is at first a tomato sandwich.

Not a fan of BLT but I like BLTA

That is include some avocado

>>15210240
>cherry toematers on a BLT
Oy Vey

>>15211194
Impossible as you would know if you had a garden. In the deep south, lettuce is a spring and fall crop. It goes to seed late spring, long before tomatoes begin to ripen. The south didn't have lettuce when fresh tomatoes were ripe. Get over it, snowflake, you lost!

>>15212416
Go away.

>>15211114
>That sandwich sounds too big to comfortably take a bite, but I like the ingredients. My favorite has those ingredients, but replace the mayo with avocado, and the bread is toasted sourdough
Never question Dagwood.

>>15212429
It's not ideal, but if chopped to make a flat layer it'll work. You are trading quantity for residual quality to have good out-of-season produce.

Reminds me of the first time I had a club sandwich. Man that was a fucking crazy story...

>>15209999
Tomatoes are out of season retard. They need to be good and fresh because the tomato is pretty much the whole point of the sandwich. Everything else is seasoning for the tomato, or for texture.

>>15211220
>our tomatoes are better than anywhere else
Stay away from New Jersey unless you want me to stuff a tomato that actually tastes good down your throat

>>15210240
"Real mayonnaise"? Are they having a laugh, do mutts actually think that that white chemical slop bears any resemblance to real mayo?

>>15209999
My country doesn't get the McRib

>>15210594
Ha

>>15210246
Not whom you're responding to, but i live in the northern US and its pretty common and well liked up here. Word of mouth

>>15209999
>one tier only

>>15210063

Absolutely love meatloaf.

>>15209999

Lettuce makes a fine filler and bacon's delicious, so I assume if someone likes tomato slices, they'd like this.

Personally, raw tomato slices make me vomit, so I'm not a fan.

Chicken BLT is unironically my favorite food

>>15209999
It's good if you actually use enough bacon. If you only put two strips for the whole sandwich then it's going to seem skimpy.

>>15210786
Imagine having dull teeth

>>15210716
kek it was not like the movies. people hung out at the automat where they got burned coffee and prison tier bologna sandwiches for a nickel. Coffee sucked, beer sucked, people were poor as fuck. You could support a family on a low wage but it was not up to par with the standards we're used to living in today.

>>15213616
rent free