/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6022853]

ITT : Overrated foods

[Anonymous No.6022857]

>>6022853
How are these overrated

They're tasty mexican finger food, nothing more

[Anonymous No.6022862]

>>6022857
they probably worship them in flyover country or something

[Anonymous No.6022888]

>>6022853
a tamal is a daily sort of thing that in urban centers is more of a winter holiday sort of item usually with animal products instead of the standard beans
these animal product items are overpriced but not necessarily overrated even sweet desert tamales can be equally overpriced

[None !OPIATE9fy. No.6022891]

sushi, avocado, michelin star restaurants

[Anonymous No.6022893]

[Anonymous No.6022892]

>>6022853
>>6022853
white people have some obsession with foreign foods and feel privileged to have a local hole in the wall consisting of third world delicacies.


>>6022857
its just fucking starch and a tiny amount of meat.

[Anonymous No.6022896]

>>6022857
They're treasured because of the effort that goes into making them, but that effort is disproportionate to the reward.

[Anonymous No.6022899]

>>6022891
>avocado
>overrated
You can put avocado on anything and itll give it another texture/

[Anonymous No.6022900]

>>6022891

Avocado sushi is my favorite food. How plebeian of me.

[Anonymous No.6022901]

>>6022892
>17:44:17

>>6022893
>17:44:12

[Anonymous No.6022907]

>>6022893
This

[Anonymous No.6022914]

>>6022900
As long as you don't buy your avocado sushi at a Michelin star restaurant

[Anonymous No.6022917]

Ramen

[Anonymous No.6022922]

According to Christopher Hitchens, "The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics."

So lobster and champagne, I'd say.

[None !OPIATE9fy. No.6022930]

>>6022922
lobster might be less amazing if you could get it for the price of chicken and eat it a couple nights per week

[Anonymous No.6022935]

>>6022930
It would still be infinitely superior to chicken though.

[Anonymous No.6022945]

>>6022922
normal sex is pretty overrated as well

[Anonymous No.6022957]

>>6022935

If it's prepared well. Poorly prepared lobster is worse than poorly prepared chicken though, and for like 10x the price.

[Anonymous No.6022959]

>>6022853
never had one but this mexican lady keeps coming to my apartment trying to sell them to me

[Anonymous No.6022977]

>>6022959
ask for elote tamales and jalapeno with cheese
you can try meats if you like those two are still going to likely be the best if she can even offer them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3mQFewdHk

[Anonymous No.6023519]

>>6022862
I really hate the amount of shitty forced memes on this board.

[Anonymous No.6023528]

>>6022853
They are delicious. A family that we are friends with will make a shit ton of these and end up giving us a lot. Good shit. I don't understand how they could be overrated, since no one ever talks about them and this the first thread I have seen about them on here that I can remember.

[Anonymous No.6023538]

>>6023528
>They are delicious.
They can be sometimes.

[Anonymous No.6023542]

>>6022853
As a Mexican, I can attest. These are easy to make and can be found anywhere, they're not high art. There is this weird obsession from tourist about them like it's something special.

It's just pork or whatever stuffed in flavorless mush

[Anonymous No.6023546]

>>6023542
>stuffed in flavorless mush
this must be where bad tamales come from

[Anonymous No.6023547]

horchata is. I mean it's not had but I don't find the total appeal of this. Most food so far in this thread is to be edgy. but this is overrated

[Anonymous No.6023548]

>>6022896
Aren't they basically stuffed polenta tubes? I've never actually had one, but they look like stuffed polenta tubes.

[Anonymous No.6023572]

sushi by far.

[Anonymous No.6023613]

>>6023547
You should try Coconut Horchata, its pretty good, as well as cebada (barley version).


Anyway, Tamales are pretty much overrated in the latin American/Mexican community. I don't really understand how people can have such appeal for a food that has no layer of flavor. Just skip the cornmeal and give me a stew of pork with tortillas on the side. No need to give me a barrier of starch. The sweet corn tamales are decent though.

[Anonymous No.6023641]

>>6023548
no and no

the corn masa will be skillfully hand prepared with well seasoned consume to turn out right for the meat ones

[Anonymous No.6023666]

>>6023641
Yep
>>6023613
You have terrible taste and/or you have never had a good tamale

[Anonymous No.6023667]

Think OP is confusing overrated with overused. There's a fuckton of tamale vendors in mexico, expect in the north.

>the corn masa will be skillfully hand prepared with well seasoned consume to turn out right for the meat ones

>90 % of starch
>10% of guisado

sounds like a cornmeal tube to me

[Anonymous No.6023677]

>>6023667

[Anonymous No.6023688]

>>6023666
I happen to live in a community filled with Mexicans and decent Mexican food. I never go out of my way to buy tamales unless I feel like eating with champurrado/atole.

There are much much better Mexican foods than a tamal like pic related

[Anonymous No.6023777]

>>6023641
I'll have to try one. It sounds like a polenta tube to me, bro.

[Anonymous No.6023797]

>>6022853
Tamales are great if done properly. Stop being a cunt by not liking tamales.

[Anonymous No.6023811]

>>6023547
U must be crzy son. Horchata is god tier!!

[Anonymous No.6023817]

>>6023797
make carnitas and put them in the following foods and tell me how they turn out

>tacos
perfect

>tostadas
excellent

>tortas
good

>tlacloyos
not bad

>tamales
shit

I don't think anyone hates tamales, they're just not as delicious as other foods

[Anonymous No.6023828]

>>6022862
you have no idea, I just drove from NH to Colorado (pretty much pure fly over states in between), and there were just constant billboards for that shit, as if this was the first food they'd tried after years of eating nothing but their 'famous' cheese wiz grill cheeses

[Anonymous No.6023830]

>>6022853
>Overrated
>tamales
kek. you're dumb

[Anonymous No.6023840]

>>6023688
Just because you eat spoiled maze doesn't make you some sort of expert. Also your community has all of Mexico's rejects. The failures that could not make it here. So they leave for the states. Do not delude yourself into believing that they even know what good food is. They are Indians and nothing more.

[Anonymous No.6023842]

>>6023817
>>tamales
>shit
>carnitas
you must have taken a bad turn at Albuquerque because carnitas do not belong in tamales
pork in chile verde does and so does chile colorado

[Anonymous No.6023843]

>>6023817
>tostadas
>excellent
Pick one and only one.

[Anonymous No.6023845]

>>6023830
I fucking hate "bread and butter" pickles. So fucking shitty and the name is retarded as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6023850]

>>6023840
very funny
you must be a true old fag to be so funny
or maybe and most likely its your first day here and it just beginners luck

[Anonymous No.6023854]

>grew up in Tijuana
>buy tamales for like $8/dozen from the lady who sold them door-to-door
>live in Portland now
>$4 for one tamal

lolwhitepeople

[Anonymous No.6023857]

>>6023854
>grew up in Tijuana
Lolshitstain

[Anonymous No.6023866]

>>6023850
u mad?

[Anonymous No.6023868]

>>6023854
When did you naturalize? Are you legally in the states?

[Anonymous No.6023890]

>>6023843
>>6023842
>>6023843
Tostadas are the most versatile of the bunch. Try putting ceviche in a taco and tell me how that turns out. Your shitty barrio is used to eating masa laden so I don't expect an indian to know any better.


>>6023842
You're missing out the point. put chile verde in all of those antojos and they would all come up on top over tamales.

I would rather have the pork be the star, not the cornmeal. Once babby tries good filling without the starchy filler then he'll be able to appreciate good eats

[Anonymous No.6023899]

>>6023854
>grew up in Tijuana
>living in the states

so which southern indian state were you originally from before you briefly stopped at Tijuana?

Its usually the central and southerns who cross over

[Anonymous No.6023908]

>>6023890
>failbaitisfail

[Anonymous No.6023911]

>>6023890
>cornmeal
is not masa
and corn not being the main meat of these dishes is foul

[Anonymous No.6023916]

>>6023890
Tostadas suck. That is a fact.
Eating a tostada goes a little like this.
>pick up retarded flat eating fry bread made of corn
>add some shit to it
>bite it
>breaks apart and makes a fucking mess
>repeat

[Anonymous No.6023921]

>>6023916
this is almost true unless you toast your own tortilla

[Anonymous No.6023927]

>>6023911
>and corn not being the main meat of these dishes is foul

God, I swear this forum is pathetic.

[Anonymous No.6023942]

>>6023916
>Tostadas suck. That is a fact.

Its funny because the most known street food cart in the world (from Mexico) serves tostadas. Once again, pablito doesn't get out much from his pueblo

[Anonymous No.6023945]

>>6023921
>one exception

[Anonymous No.6023947]

>>6023927
reminder corn tortillas are known as the primary meat of daily life

[Anonymous No.6023951]

>>6023942
>street food
>world class everyone knows it
Trying this hard...

[Anonymous No.6023958]

>>6023947
/thread

[Anonymous No.6023960]

>>6023942
>the most known street food cart in the world
Kek

[Anonymous No.6023961]

>>6023947
reminder that when you go eat a taco or a main dish that the star is usually the guisado and not the tortillas

>can I have a taco with a good tortilla p-pls

[Anonymous No.6023967]

>>6023961
This is true for people in urban centers out of touch with growing food and raising animals

[Anonymous No.6023978]

>>6023811
Agua De jamaica is way better. I don't get how you consider it got tier. It's sugar and cinnamon rice water.

[Anonymous No.6023981]

>>6023868
>>6023899
I'm not sure how much info you guys actually want.

My mother was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, but her family moved to Tijuana shortly after. My father was born in Ario de Rayon, a very small town outside of Zamora, Michoacan but spent most of his late childhood and teenage years in Oceanside, CA. I was born in the US, in Chula Vista, but lived in Tijuana until I was 9.

Technically an anchor baby, but my parents went through all the proper channels and red tape to get permanent residency in the US anyway (my father was a legal migrant worker and got residency through the Simpson-Rodino Act). My parents didn't become naturalized citizens until I was well into my 20s. My mother could have become a citizen much sooner, because she had a law degree in Mexico, and a Masters Degree in Education in the US, but she wanted to wait until my father (who was a high school dropout) was able to attain citizenship because his wait period was significantly longer. Again, because they wanted to do it the "legitimate" way.

So, technically, and rather ironically, I was actually living as an illegal immigrant in Mexico when I was a boy.

[Anonymous No.6023983]

>>6023916
>>6023916
Well. Once again /ck/ is wrong.

You have a dish that focuses primarily on the quality of the filling vs a dish that has no filling

90% filling > 10% filling

http://www.sandiegored.com/noticias/27390/La-Guerrerense-se-lleva-la-noche-en-Los-Angeles/

[Anonymous No.6023985]

I nominate queso. Not the actual varieties of mexican cheeses used in various dishes, but the shitty, velveeta-based dip that tex mex restaurants charge too much for.

[Anonymous No.6023987]

>>6023981
The 919. Gotcha

[Anonymous No.6023991]

>>6023983
What are you even going on about?
That has nothing to do with the fact that a flat fried brittle object, is a terrible conveyor of food.
Give it up.

[Anonymous No.6023995]

>>6023981
>Zamora, Michoacan
Welp. Guess I was right

>>6023967
Yes the quality of the tortillas matters but if I want to eat an al pastor taco, I want to taste the pork, and if I want to eat a tuna tostada, I want to savor the quality of the seafood. Same goes with a gordita and the ingredients of the stew .

try harder shitskin

[Anonymous No.6023996]

>>6023981
I feel like I just watched 60 minutes

[Anonymous No.6024017]

>>6023991
>That has nothing to do with the fact that a flat fried brittle object, is a terrible conveyor of food.

You're focusing too much on the tostadas and not on the topping . If you aren't able to eat a tostada properly, then that's your problem. Like I said, if Tostadas are shit, then how come a shitty baked tortilla dish serving seafood has been winning awards left and right in Mexico and all over the world?

[Anonymous No.6024023]

>>6024017
What worldly awards has it won? Out of curiosity.

[Anonymous No.6024026]

i dont know if that is overrated or not, but this.
is underrated try cook without it

[Anonymous No.6024027]

>>6024017
Stop moving the goal posts asshole.

[Anonymous No.6024031]

ATTENTION

If the opportunity presents itself, get Oaxacan Tamales. They don't load up the thing with Masa and use generous portions of sauce to go inside each Tamale

[Anonymous No.6024034]

>>6024026
I think you meant to post a picture of onions

[Anonymous No.6024051]

>>6023995
>Yes the quality of the tortillas matters but if I want to eat an al pastor taco, I want to taste the pork, and if I want to eat a tuna tostada, I want to savor the quality of the seafood. Same goes with a gordita and the ingredients of the stew .

this is a perversion unfortunately
cada quien a su manera and these "Chefs" nearly all got it wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7Rc5ytHg8

fuck these faggots
bold taste and other silly crap ignoring the principle fine corn tortillas

[Anonymous No.6024056]

fookin flyover country bullshit haha

[Anonymous No.6024058]

>>6024023
Street food congress in Singapore, was placed best street food cart by national geographic, and won multiple awards in food fests in los angeles. In a country with an abundance of tacos and tamales, a little seafood cart selling seafood tostadas is usually the representative for Mexican street food

[Anonymous No.6024061]

>>6024058
That really is irrelevant. I couple of shit holes across the globe find another shit holes street food good.
meh

[Anonymous No.6024064]

>>6024058
Are you proud of that?

[Anonymous No.6024066]

>>6024056
?

[Anonymous No.6024078]

>>6024026
Deserves all of the attention that it gets.

[Anonymous No.6024079]

>>6024064
>>6024061
I would call it a success if I were to eat Uni, geoduck,octopus and fresh fish from a cart for less than 3.50 and skipping on the Michelin and 5 star bullshit. Eating raw seafood in other parts of Mexico is always a bad idea

[Anonymous No.6024080]

>>6024056
>islandfat detected

[Anonymous No.6024095]

>>6024079
>Eating raw seafood in other parts of Mexico is always a bad idea
although the warning is fair it is not as bad as it may seem
make sure you eat ice packed and rather cold raw seafood mainly civiche/cocktail /abuelo (a shrimp vendor) said so

[Anonymous No.6025107]

mexican-american here.

Tamales are alright but definitely are overrated. if they were a ubiquitous item like sandwiches then they would get old fast. they're only revered because they're time consuming to make and they're associated with the winter months. you also wouldn't want to eat them with any regularity as dough is made with 50% lard in a traditional recipe. it's pure decadence.

[Anonymous No.6025130]

>>6022853
>ITT : Overrated foods

Nigga plz... tamales, real tamales, are delicious.

[Anonymous No.6025166]

>>6025107
>it's pure decadence
Sorry little cabron but you are wrong.
Tamales are normal everyday foods especially un tamal de frijol. Something you may not have ever even tried and likely something you would think sucks.
Only its very good but you have foul cheap taste.
The manteca you seem to think is so bad is the cheap vegetable shortening not real pork fat that is used in baking the same used for tamales.

[Anonymous No.6025189]

bacon

[Anonymous No.6025207]

>>6022922
>champagne, picnics
Okay

>anal and lobster
ABSURD

[Anonymous No.6025222]

>>6023688
I am mexican, and wtf is that? chalupas, that isn´t mexican food or real, at least

[Anonymous No.6025233]

You're mom vagina.

[Anonymous No.6025373]

Disclaimer: I don't dislike any of the foods I mention here, not trying to be le edgy faggot, I just don't get the fanatical devotion some foods receive.

Korean BBQ. Grease-flavored meat, whoop-de-fucking-do. IMO, nothing about it stands out over other kinds of BBQ.

>>6022853
Agreed with this, and to that I would add any tortilla-based Mexican food, with tacos being the most overrated by far.

Not that they're bad, but they are definitely poor people food that don't deserve the attention they get over finer Mexican cuisine. But then, as another anon has explained, when you look at representation of Mexicans we find in the US, I guess it's not that surprising.

It's hysterical in LA, some of the old roach coaches that have been around forever have cashed in on the food truck fad. They get LED banners up on the truck and maybe a vinyl wrap, and suddenly they've got the Latinos lining up all night long for the same pleb food that they sell to construction workers during the day. The nearest main road has 2 or 3 trucks parked a few blocks apart every night of the week with a handful of people hanging out every time I drive by.

>>6022917
This too. Even "good" ramen. Again, not bad, but nothing to drool over. Same for pho, for that matter. It's just noodle soup, BFD.

[Anonymous No.6025400]

>>6022892

>its just fucking starch and a tiny amount of meat.

King Colon Cancer can't enjoy any dish that isn't meaty cheese wrapped in bacon?

[Anonymous No.6025412]

Grilled cheese.

[Anonymous No.6025414]

>>6025412
Shut up idiot

[Anonymous No.6025415]

>>6022853
lol sounds like you get shitty tamales.... typical hipster....

[Anonymous No.6025416]

>>6025414
lmao

[Anonymous No.6025417]

The premise of this thread is invalid. Any dish can be done well. It's called "overrated" by people that are unfortunate enough to have had only bad examples of it, and so they write off the entire dish via mental laziness.

There are prepackaged products that are overrated, of course, by people that have never had better. But a *DISH* is only as good as the person preparing it.

[Anonymous No.6025419]

>>6025417
Ok yada-yada-yada... Shut up, you're an annoying tranny.

[Anonymous No.6025468]

olives

[Anonymous No.6025508]

>>6025222
A huarache?

>>6025400
>>6025415
>>6025166
Tamales are just average food, nothing special. Stop making it out to be some dish you'd get out of your way to look for such as kebab Banh mi or tortas ahogadas.

In terms of corn based meals from Mexico such as Tacos, Tostadas, Pozole, Pastel Azteca, Gorditas, Tamales, enfrijoladas etc etc tamales looks the least appetizing.

[Anonymous No.6025571]

ITT : Sons of wetbacks and poor little brown peasants

Mexico City : Al pastor tacos
Mexico state : green red and longaniza chorizo
Yucatan : Cochinita Pibil
Monterrey : Cabrito
Puebla : Chiles en Nogada
Sinaloa and Baja : Seafood
Sonora ; Carne Asada
Oaxaca : Mole
Jalisco : Birria
Michoacán : Carnitas
Veracruz : A la veracruzana
Guerrero : maybe pescado a la talla/ ceviche
I can't even think of a state/region in Mexico that has a tamale as their regional dish. Maybe in some shitty huasteca village where there are only uncivilized Indians, but beats me.

[Anonymous No.6025598]

[Anonymous No.6025993]

>>6023978
>sugar and cinnamon rice water
god tier

[Anonymous No.6026017]

>>6022853
Fucking thank you, tamales are not even that good. I don't get why people lose their shit over them. I've had frozen store-bought tamales, restaurant tamales, and legitimate tamales made by first-generation Mexican immigrants. All of them were just "meh". They are nothing special.

[Anonymous No.6026163]

Bacon cheeseburgers.

[Anonymous No.6026340]

>>6026017
>I don't get why people lose their shit over them.
No one does this. Tamales are actually underrated because no one gives a shit about them (evidenced by this entire thread) but if you're not a shit cook they actually taste pretty good.

[Anonymous No.6026344]

>>6026163
Bacon cheeseburgers are rated about right. It's only the shitskins outside of the US that have never had a real cheeseburger that think it's overrated.

[Anonymous No.6026360]

[Anonymous No.6026690]

>>6025571
>ITT : Sons of wetbacks and poor little brown peasants
you mad
you mad
cause you have no real connection to mexico
no tienes madre

[Anonymous No.6026695]

>>6022892
true words right there

[Anonymous No.6026699]

>>6026690
I'd beat

[Anonymous No.6026705]

>>6025571
>Jalisco: Birria
fight with me IRL faggot, you're lucky you didn't insult Tortas Ahogadas

[Anonymous No.6026708]

>>6022901
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.6026713]

>>6026705
this kid is reading shit off of some worthless wiki fuck him

[Anonymous No.6026718]

>>6022945
>asexual detected.

[Anonymous No.6026729]

>>6022922
Regular park type picnics suck but beach/forest/ river picnics are worth it

[Anonymous No.6026731]

>>6022930
If you live anywhere near a food4less, they have $5 lobsters all the time in the frozen seafood case.

[Anonymous No.6026790]

>>6025508
link to where i said i would go out of my way for a tamale? didn't think so.... what a fucking clown....

[Anonymous No.6026818]

>>6022853
Anything with a drive thru.

[Anonymous No.6026832]

>>6026818

Drive thrus are unholy.

[Anonymous No.6026837]

>>6026729
especially if u with a cute kinky grill and you get to have anal sex on the river bank after the picnic
champaign optional

:))

[Anonymous No.6026843]

>>6026731
>eating frozen lobster

[Anonymous No.6026936]

>>6025571
Nothing for Tabasco or Chiapas?

[Anonymous No.6026979]

Your favorite anime.

[Anonymous No.6027022]

Are you seriously trying to talk shit about tomales?

[Anonymous No.6027039]

>>6025508
Some tamales actually are worth going out of your way for, sorry you live in watered down flyover contry

Coastal cali masterrace

[Anonymous No.6027043]

>>6024026
Fucking this

It's nice once in a while, but garlic is not that fucking good people

[Anonymous No.6027061]

>>6023547
Horchata is delicious, I place it in the same tier as chocolate milk, which is pretty damn high.

>>6022893
Troll or 11 years old

>>6024026
Not underrated in any way. Where do you live that garlic isn't important?

>>6025189
Overrated by itself, quite good on/with a litany of things

>>6025412
Incapable of literal AND ironic appreciation at the same time

>>6025468
Only correct post so far, though olive oil is the best oil

>>6025598
Never tried except for on top of sushi, which basically means it was masked by the wealth of rice and bland fish

>>6026360
Kebab is delicious as hell and tzatziki sauce is really refreshing in light of how savory the meat usually is

>>6026718
Boning is overrated, le classy sirs are experts at optimizing penile pleasure with their own hands

[Anonymous No.6027092]

>>6027061
I love it when some autist replies to every post in the thread like anyone's gonna read that shite

[Anonymous No.6027116]

>>6027092
>every post

[Anonymous No.6027155]

>>6022853
Burritos.

[Anonymous No.6027163]

>>6022853
Authentic Mexican food in general.

Hope you like the taste of corn and beans because that's all real Mexican is.

[Anonymous No.6027198]

>>6027163
>has never been to Ensenada or Baja in general to try some of the best seafood in the north American region

nice try pleb

[Anonymous No.6027223]

>>6027198
this

spent no longer than seven days in tijuana and was absolutely blown away by the simplicity and profundity

[Anonymous No.6027227]

itt: mexicans ruining a thread like they ruined america

[Anonymous No.6027233]

>>6022853
>>6027198
Best seafood in North America my ass.

[Anonymous No.6027254]

Loreto. HUGE amounts of fresh seafood, nice restaurant right on the water. Amazing!

[Anonymous No.6027303]

Just a list of things I find vastly overrated:

>Chipotle
>Five Guys

yeah just those two things... so meh

[Anonymous No.6027342]

[Anonymous No.6027346]

>>6027342
eggs in general are kind of gross

[Anonymous No.6027396]

>>6027346
>eggs
>gross

yea, you have shit taste

[Anonymous No.6027444]

>>6022892
>white people have some obsession with foreign foods and feel privileged to have a local hole in the wall consisting of third world delicacies.

I hate literally every foreign cuisine except mexican. Not because it's a novelty but because I like the food. Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.6027488]

Any big chain is overrated for me. It's okay to say that you like a big chain, but don't tell me it is the best. It's okay to say that you have a sick obsession with McDoubles or Popeyes chicken sides. But don't tell me that they are the best thing in the world.

[Anonymous No.6027493]

>>6027488
If anything, big chains are underrated.

[Anonymous No.6027497]

>>6027493
it comes down to personal taste and it varies so much. Like my favorite fast food burger chain fry is still mcdonalds. I like a crispy fry and not a soggy floppy fry.

[Anonymous No.6027505]

>>6025508
>tamales looks the least appetizing.

And yet I can eat a dozen of the mother fuckers without even feeling badly about it.

I think white Americans find them so appealing because we grew up eating nothing but shake 'n' bake and hamburger helper. Give us something with an actual flavor and we act like you're a culinary God.

[Anonymous No.6027515]

>>6027505
Umm, hamburger helper and shake and bake generally has far more flavor than tamales.

[Anonymous No.6027518]

>>6027505
Most white people don't know what a real home cooked meal from scratch tastes like. But my mexican mom goes crazy during this time of year. She and her friends get really fucking competitive. One year she had a friend over and she and her kid ate like a cool dozen tamales. She got super pissed because " they just ate like a fucking dozen of them and the pigs didn't even said they were good, I had to cut them off and stop serving them" Good times.

[Anonymous No.6027523]

>>6027515
I'm sorry you haven't had a good tamale. You need to find some little old lady walking around, who doesn't speak a word of English, pushing a baby cart with a big pot of tamales and buy the shit out of them.

[Anonymous No.6027524]

>>6027518
Beaneriffic

[Anonymous No.6027534]

>>6027523
Tamales off the street are rip offs. Nothing but corn and crisco.

[Anonymous No.6027535]

>>6027523
I've had many of them from places like Mexico City.
They are still bland compared to shit like hamburger helper. Notice i didn't say that the flavor of helper is better, but there is definitely more of it.

Also, come off your high horse. Whites are still the majority. That means that there area lot of broke ass white people who do the meals from scratch thing.

[Anonymous No.6027538]

>>6027534
Sorry the abuelas in your hood are so ungenerous with the meat.

[Anonymous No.6027546]

>>6027538
it's business

[Anonymous No.6027547]

>>6026837
Holy shit am I on /v/

[Anonymous No.6027550]

>>6027535
Poor white people cooking from scratch? What a joke! Like they don't live off the dollar menu.

This is true for inner city poor Americans at least.

[Anonymous No.6027553]

>>6027550
Most of poor white America is rural mate.

that value menu isn't a value when you have to drive 30 miles one way to get it.

[Anonymous No.6027556]

>>6027553
WALMART TACITOS!!!

[Anonymous No.6027557]

>>6027556
I'll admit that goes on too, but real cooking still definitely happens in decent amounts.

[Anonymous No.6027558]

>>6027553
Considering that about 88% of the population is white and 81% live in cities and suburbs, nah, you are objectively wrong.

[Anonymous No.6027565]

>>6027558
81% of the population*

[Anonymous No.6027569]

>>6027558
> considering that I pull numbers out of my ass with no real understanding of them, I'm objectively ignorant.

Might want to spend some time looking at how areas are codified and how census figures are arrived at.

Start your learning with "census area"

[Anonymous No.6027572]

>>6022853
Fucking spics spending half the thread screaming about authenticity

Barbeque is overrated. Traditional restaurants in the South, hybrids on the west coast, they're all shit. They perfectly frame the weaknesses of American cuisine: their only saving grace is tradition. Subtle or hidden flavors are completely thrown out.

Only aspect refreshing about BBQ is the small family-run places unlike the sushi places owned by Koreans and staffed by Mexicans.

[Anonymous No.6027578]

>>6027569
Those numbers are not pulled out of my ass.

Do your own research and when you do and you stop responding, I will understand.

[Anonymous No.6027581]

>>6027569
Not >>6027558, but a quick wikipedia check says that 72% of the US population identifies as white alone. Mixed race passing as white could be added to that. "As of 2011, about 250 million Americans live in or around urban areas. That means more than three-quarters of the U.S. population shares just about three percent of the U.S. land area." So about 80% if you take 250 million divided by the 312 million total population.

So the numbers aren't coming out of anyone's ass. Assuming everyone that is rural is also poor, however, is an ass based assumption. Based on the fact that it was an assumption pulled from your ass.

[Anonymous No.6027587]

>>6027578
Obviously you don't because you show no understanding of the fact that you can be 50 miles from a city, 35 miles of that distance being nothing but pasture land, and counted in that city for census purposes.

[Anonymous No.6027590]

>>6027578
>>6027581
>what is gerrymandering?

[Anonymous No.6027599]

>>6022853
Tamales are from colombia

[Anonymous No.6027601]

>>6027587
You show me the "real" numbers that proves most poor white people live in rural areas.

This will be fun.

[Anonymous No.6027617]

>>6027601
Hahaha! You don't even know that white flight happened for the better part of 5 decades?

Why don't you show me white communities in... Washington DC.

[Anonymous No.6027621]

>>6027587
> you can be 50 miles from a city and counted in that city for census purposes
And I quoted:
>As of 2011, about 250 million Americans live in or around urban areas

"In or around" being the operative words there that directly address your problem. So listen friend, the burden of proof lies on you now. >>6027601, right? Because I'm still only hearing your asscheeks flapping in the wind.

[Anonymous No.6027627]

>>6027621
And I'm not arguing the "around" portion of that. I'm saying that it is a worthless statistic for these purposes because of its nonspecificity

[Anonymous No.6027630]

>>6027627
It's all we have to go on until someone provides a more accurate number, which is probably impossible.

[Anonymous No.6027637]

>>6027630
> impossible
Not impossible, just really difficult.

You'd have to use dataferret on the raw census data with custom queries that would take a while to figure out, then wait forever as that data is crunched.

There is a reason censuses only happen once a decade.

[Anonymous No.6027638]

>>6027587
Idk about where you live, but in the small city of Rochester NY, literally all the areas surrounding the city are pretty developed. Suburbs stretch on for tens of miles.

[Anonymous No.6027639]

>>6027637
We will be eagerly waiting when you get back to us with an accurate figure

[Anonymous No.6027642]

>>6027638
Bro, get off the east coast for a bit. It's basically one city from DC to Boston.

[Anonymous No.6027645]

>>6027642
It's also where the majority of the population lives.

[Anonymous No.6027647]

>>6027639
No thanks. Working with that data set is like covering your hands with pureed ghost peppers, then fisting yourself while masturbating and rubbing your eyes.

[Anonymous No.6027648]

>>6027627
Go dig into the data if you don't like it; there were links and the U.S. census can give you tons of info along the lines of what you're asking for.

And yet claiming that rural white people are like, super poor bro, and using gerrymandering and the existence of white flight as proof? Do you not get that you're operating under different standards (what you're saying vs. what you'll accept as information), and that you are throwing potentially causally linked things together yourself to see what sticks? Are you not from the U.S. or did you just take your first Race and Nationality class?

[Anonymous No.6027650]

>>6027647
So you are wrong.

[Anonymous No.6027656]

Not the guy y'all are arguing with, but:
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2009/ruralchildpoverty.aspx

[Anonymous No.6027671]

>>6027656
>y'all
Hey Texas. How are ya big guy?

[Anonymous No.6027742]

>>6027342
This. Omelettes are retarded. You take this beautiful egg which has two completely different parts, a fantastic natural contrast in textures...and you mix them together to produce this boring spongey piece of crap? Why would you do that?

[Anonymous No.6027844]

>>6025373
>This too. Even "good" ramen. Again, not bad, but nothing to drool over.
Never had good ramen, have you? :^)

[Anonymous No.6027872]

>>6027671
>big guy

don't

[Anonymous No.6027889]

>>6027872
Why not lol it's funny.

[Anonymous No.6027891]

>>6027844
It's pretty mediocre imo as well. Very plain and boring, like a lot of jap food. Chinese is better imo

[Anonymous No.6029008]

Omelettes
American style pancakes
Sweet chilli everything
Cupcakes

[Anonymous No.6029012]

>>6022899
>calling a vegetable overrated
how fucking dumb are you?

[Anonymous No.6029064]

>>6022922
He's never had anal sex with a lobster on a picnic in france

[Anonymous No.6029100]

>>6022892
>its just fucking starch and a tiny amount of meat.
To be fair, there's only so much you can do with mystery meat and cornmeal. They did pretty good considering.

[Anonymous No.6029121]

Water...

It's fucking everywhere why pay a dollar for something I can turn on my facuet and drink for free?

Look at the africans, they are so stupid they cant even turn on the faucet and get some clean fucking drinking water.

I could send them buckets of fucking water right now... I could end world hunger. Send me a bucket and I'll fill it up with water for you fuck heads.

[Anonymous No.6029125]

>>6023519
>I've only been on the board for two minutes
>see this post
it's like I'm back at home on /fa/

[Anonymous No.6029739]

Nothing in this world can be more overrated than a "good steak" not even the fanciest of stinking cheeses.

[Anonymous No.6029752]

>>6029739
>not resting your steak
>wonder why it's half raw
>"good steak"

[Anonymous No.6029762]

>>6022922

>anal sex and picnics.

Probably because he's the catcher and has to do all the cooking too.

[Anonymous No.6029779]

>>6022853
>Overrated foods
-Industrially raised meat and dairy
-Supermarket vegetables
-Any chain restaurant dishes.

[Anonymous No.6030176]

Chipotle.

[Anonymous No.6030399]

>>6029739
Nice sanitary pads.

[Anonymous No.6030414]

Bacon.

Bacon isn't bad, but the hype some people build around it is simply stupid.

[Anonymous No.6030420]

>>6030414
I have never seen this "hype" or "meme" around bacon that /ck/ claims exist, other than people complaining about people who "hype" or "meme" bacon. Funny that.

[Anonymous No.6030425]

>>6030420

[Anonymous No.6030465]

>>6023777
SImilar, but the corn is treated differently. Polenta is made from dry cornmeal I believe. Tamales are made with either fresh ground raw nixtamal ( hominy, corn plumped with lye or lime ), or nixtamal flour.
There are fresh tamales also, made from freshly shucked and ground starchy white corn.

[Anonymous No.6030469]

>>6023817
fuck all that, almost anything in a tamal is good.
chicharron
smoked marlin
cheese
chard and spinach
pineapple
hot dogs with mustard in the masa
spam
potato and green chile
shrimp

[Anonymous No.6030486]

lol at tameles being overrated... fucking gringos man.

if a simple meal/dish like tacos are super bastardized in the US of fucking A (hard shell, disgusting cheese and rice as filler) I can't even imagine how awful tamales tastes in USA...

[Anonymous No.6030649]

>>6030469
>pineapple
>hot dogs with mustard in the masa
>spam
these are new and not one nit appealing
maybe pineapple but its depends on the final product tbh

[Anonymous No.6030986]

>>6025508
>mfw mexican
>mfw no watered-down anything
>mfw leftover crispy tamales

[Anonymous No.6030993]

>>6030486
It's hard to find a place that makes GOOD tamales. Most places under and over cook them. You'll only have any luck in places densely populated with Mexicans.

Also

>mfw bent tostadas are labeled tacos

[Anonymous No.6031052]

>>6022853
I don't think tamales are overrated. What's Christmas without them?

Here's my list of overrated foods:

chicken Caesar
chicken Alfredo pasta
burgers
cheap pizza
turkey as lunchmeat
gravy
mac & cheese
mayo
Buffalo wings
cheesesteaks
burritos

[Anonymous No.6031215]

2 things.

1) Bacon.

2) Nutella

Both are nice, not bad at all, but they are NOT the most amazing mind blowing foods that the internet seems to think they are. Nutella in particular is pretty underwhelming at the best of times.

[Anonymous No.6031242]

>>6031052
>>6031052
>>6030486
Funny thing is, I'm also Mexican and tamales are average as shit. Name one state in Mexico that has a tamale as their regional dish, most likely you won't.

Its on the bottom echelon when it comes to Mexican food, and I've been to Oaxaca, Chiapas and mexico city. There are some good places to get good tamales, but they are overshadowed by the other places to get other good foods in specific cities.

[Anonymous No.6031265]

The people here who are defending tamales are the ones who are most likely associated with them. Their grandma or mother makes them once every other month and their nostalgia goggles kicks in. But if they were get to eat a torta ahogada, a nice cut of carne asada cooked in the grill, a smoked marlin tostada, or mole as often, it wouldn't be a contest.

[Anonymous No.6031275]

Steaks are disgusting. It's terribly thick, hard to chew, and the taste ins't subtile.

[Anonymous No.6031288]

>>6031275
>hard to chew,

Stop buying shit steaks and/or overcooking them. Something is very wrong if your steak is hard to chew.

[Anonymous No.6031293]

>>6022853
Big slab of meat on a plate. I find meat just by itself, regardless of seasoning and cooking style, to be bland. Much much prefer my meat as a component of a larger dish with a variety of ingrediants.

[Anonymous No.6031307]

>>6027342
that omelette is criminally overcooked. :(

[Anonymous No.6031316]

>>6031242
>>6031265
Compared to the heights of Mexican cuisine tamales aren't much. But I don't see them as terribly overrated. They're just a traditional food. People make a big deal about them come Christmastime, but beyond that no one goes around claiming they're the most amazing thing on Earth. It's not like Californians with their wildly overhyped burritos, or Arizonans going apeshit over bland ass green chilies.

[Anonymous No.6031323]

>>6025571

I dunno m8, I think Machaca is more overrated than Cabrito in Monterrey, I mean, it's just dry meat.

[Anonymous No.6031329]

>>6031293
Agreed. The problem with steak is that a good one is fucking delicious, but also expensive. And for the money a good steak costs you can pretty easily find something tastier to eat.

[Anonymous No.6031339]

>>6023547
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRwQQPV5EWg

[Anonymous No.6031350]

>>6031323
Those are just regional dishes from each region

[Anonymous No.6032307]

>>6030414
>>6031215
I've always thought of bacon fanaticism as more of a running joke than a serious thing. I guess it could be irritating to see sone dense fucker take it seriously, though.

[Anonymous No.6032789]

>>6030986
>leftover crispy tamales
MY NEGRO

[Anonymous No.6032874]

>>6022892
fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.6032886]

>>6029779
Underrated post.

[Anonymous No.6032897]

>>6022853
>tfw my gardener's wife makes great tamales
>tfw this saturday I am purchasing 3 dozen of each of these: pork adobo, bean and cheese, chicken in tomatillo (verde sauce)
>tfw I will be giving them to my employees and family and everyone loves them

[Anonymous No.6032910]

>>6032307
>I guess it could be irritating to see sone dense fucker take it seriously, though.
chocolate covered bacon
chocolate with bacon bits
bacon muffin
bacon pretzel
bacon cheesecake

all served with a straight face

[Anonymous No.6032911]

[Anonymous No.6032936]

>>6027891
So you've never had good ramen...

[Anonymous No.6032946]

>>6030414
>>6030420

I think the disconnect here, is that you probably don't use social media or expose yourself to consumer products du jour, whatever those may be.

Bacon was most definitely a "meme" of sorts in the sense that there was surge in popularity. Something people professed to like for the sake of social capital really. Take the multitude of bacon related content and products of two years ago, and post them on social media in 5 years? People would think it's odd.

Just because you don;;t notice something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[Anonymous No.6032960]

>>6022892
>its just fucking starch and a tiny amount of meat.

Who the fuck is making your tamales??

[Anonymous No.6032996]

>>6027116
>implying not effectively every post

[Anonymous No.6033005]

>>6032946
>Take the multitude of bacon related content and products of two years ago,
You seem to have a short memory. People into the Atkins diet were posting bacon related content (often with Simpsons references from a 1995 episode) in 2000. When Atkins died this shit calmed down for a while. Then artisan bacon became a thing in NYC restaurants around 2007. Like, a slab of bacon from some small producer who did their own curing as an appetizer for $8. I'm sure it was exciting 3-5 years later when this hit the local gastropub in Podunk. But the cycles of people getting excited about bacon are pretty tight. Seems like it happens every 5-7 years. So five years from now I wouldn't find it the least bit odd if it seemed like everybody was talking about bacon again.

[Anonymous No.6033007]

>>6033005
Nah, you're wrong. It's distinctly something that was incredibly popular for the past 2 years. It has exhausted it's social capital.

It won't be in vogue for 10 years at least.

[Anonymous No.6033021]

>>6033007
>It has exhausted it's social capital.
Tell that to the folks who just opened a beer and bacon bar in Midtown, NYC.

[Anonymous No.6033035]

Re: tamales..

Jesus fuck this political correctness shit has gone too far.

[Anonymous No.6033050]

>>6033021
NYC isn't really the best example of rational purchases or non douchebag asthetic. I could probably find you a place in NYC where waiters are nude except for clown shoes, doesn't make the place good.

[Anonymous No.6033077]

>>6033050
And Podunk suddenly discovering ramen, pho, Sriricha, banh mi, food trucks, avocados, al pastor tacos, vegans or remembering that bacon can be pretty fucking delicious doesn't exactly put them in the zeitgeist, either.

[Anonymous No.6033081]

>>6033077
There's clearly a difference between Podunk, which seems to be anything outside NYC to you, and what is considered mainstream average culture.

No point arguing, just another conceited New Yorker.

[Anonymous No.6033082]

>>6033081
Why do you hate NY?

[Anonymous No.6033085]

>>6033081
>mainstream average culture
Your words, not mine. You have my condolences.

[Anonymous No.6033098]

>>6033082
I don't, I've been there many, many times and it's nice. It is funny to see the NY elitism though.

>>6033085
I live in a major city. Funny to see how much you internalize discussions on 4chan though.

[Anonymous No.6033139]

>>6029739
I always have my steak "Well Done", It really just tastes like blood if you go with mediun rare, blue rare or rare.

[Anonymous No.6033170]

>>6033139
Just have a burger next time, that's more your style

[Anonymous No.6033171]

>>6023854
Have you checked salaries and prospects in these two places?

[Anonymous No.6033183]

>>6025373
> misses everything that's good about korean BBQ in his assanine assassination of it

[Anonymous No.6033185]

>>6033183
Hi weeb

[Anonymous No.6033195]

>>6033139
>>6033170
This board really needs a moderator and some rules. Unless we're talking about fucking blood-sausage or coagulated blood in SE Asian stews then calling red meat or runoff from burst muscle tissue "blood" should warrant a warning and then a ban.

Tired of fucking hearing both trolling and ignorance.

[Anonymous No.6033204]

>>6030993
>hard to find a good place
> not going to your grandmas house every weekend
My hook died a couple years ago.

[Anonymous No.6033275]

Sushi bitches
It's tasty and pretty but people gush over it

[Anonymous No.6033334]

>>6022922
Crabs are layouts and bounds better than lobster imo. Lobster's too greasy for me.
Also, more expensive than lobster

[Anonymous No.6033542]

>>6022922
>not liking the taste of anal sex

[Anonymous No.6034769]

>>6033183
Humor me then, what makes the Korean grease+salt flavor profile so great? Pretty much everything that's good about Korean barbecue applies just as well to American, Chinese, Mexican, or any other style of well-prepared grilled meat.

And to reiterate, I don't dislike Korean barbecue. I just don't understand why people seem to cream their pants at the mere mention of it.

[Anonymous No.6035231]

bump

[Anonymous No.6035282]

>>6025417

You're invalid.

[Anonymous No.6035299]

prime or rib roast. pretty expensive and boring. same with lobster. expensive delivery for butter. chuck and shrimp are better It's ok. just don't care fore it.to be honest, If I never had champagne again, would be ok. I much prefer beer or cider. low tastes I guess.

[Anonymous No.6035300]

>>6024026
My country's cuisine build for it. Important for every meat foods.

[Anonymous No.6035307]

>>6022853
Anything made by flyover staters though I think everyone already knows this

[Anonymous No.6036179]

>>6035282
very funny
right
ha h a

[Anonymous No.6037054]

i call soda pop very overrated

[Anonymous No.6037963]

>>6026360
I will fight you.