Crimes Against Nutrition

I saw the maple syrup and went “motherf**ker wasn’t kidding when he called it breakfast salsa”

Q: do you have the genetic phenotype that makes cilantro taste like soap to you? I live with someone that does. You rapidly discover how much that stuff gets shoehorned into everything.

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No. Thank god.

Although I did work with a tech-bro who was really into bio-hacking food and he claimed he had the phenotype that prevented his piss from smelling after he ate asparagus.

I’m curious to a fault, but I never followed him into the bathroom to validate that claim.

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I do. It tastes like what I imagine biting a bar of Irish Spring would taste like. No clue how people like it. My wife says it tastes fresh and herby, but it definitely does not.

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You just got me to go down a rabbit hole

Normal cilantro doesn’t taste like soap to me but when we went to a vietnamese restaurant, something that looked like cilantro did infact taste like soap. I found one reddit thread about that but it looks like I’ll have to go back and see if it tastes like soap again

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culantro.

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I really thought you were messing with me until I googled it. Thanks for letting me know, that was about to be on my mind for a while

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Nah. I like this site so I’m usually pretty serious unless it’s self-deprecating, an inside joke, a clavacle thread, or politics.

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I’m happy there’s no clavicular threads yet

Well, I put peanut butter on my eggs this morning. While not offensive, it just made everything taste like peanut butter. Lol.

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I am honestly so hyped you reversed your “never will” stance. An absence of culinary adventurous spirit saddens me. I see it in my mom’s generation.

But yeah, everything tasting like peanut butter certainly isn’t a bad thing, since it’s delicious, but for eggs my favorite way was to include it in a breakfast burrito. Peanut butter the tortilla, then put the filling in and it functions in a manner similar to sour cream. Allowing the natural heat of the eggs to melt the peanut butter into more of a sauce ala hollandaise allows it to pair well and accent. It helped I was using unsweetened peanut butter with just salt, and I actually found sunflower seed butter even more enjoyable. It could work similarly in a breakfast sandwich approach.

But this was back when I ate plants, haha. But peanut flavor compliments savory so well. It’s why we have thai food.

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I’m a total liar. I will try almost anything once. Lol. I have a friend who regularly makes me try things that I don’t want to. I usually end up liking them.

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Ah see, I know who this was targeted to hit, but self knowledge is no defense against the first peanut butter breakfast burrito.

Now I have to make one. :rofl:

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They’re divine, haha. Because peanut butter ALSO pairs well with cheddar cheese, which goes great on a gringo breakfast burrito. Oh, and of course peanut butter and bacon are classic, as Elvis taught us all.

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Well, tomorrow is the cheat day. And I do have a pack of apple smoked bacon in the freezer.

I’ll report back with the results and photographic evidence.

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Same. My ex was definitely in this category. He ate the same things over and over. Me? I want to try all the food!

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I am one more bad workday away from blowing $500 on more exotic meat

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I am 53 years old. I’m smart enough to know the types of stuff I like at this point. No, I don’t want a taste of whatever that is my wife is eating. I like what I ordered.

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For me, it’s less about learning if I’m going to like something and more about learning about what/how other people enjoy things. Similar to why I read philosophy. I know what and how I think, but I like learning about others.

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Sounds way better than my standard- lemon cake and chocolate milk.

I want to eat a zebra!

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When you say blackened, I read burnt. So is that what it is? Cause I’m gonna try this breakfast salsa and I don’t want to mess it up.