/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4801763]

>think vegetarians and vegans are silly and hypocritical
>realize i haven't been able to afford meat in 5-6 months

man what id give for some meat...


also why do americans put sauces on everything? anyone else just enjoy their meat alone?

[Anonymous No.4801774]

>also why do americans put sauces on everything? anyone else just enjoy their meat alone?

You mean poor americans. They do it to cover up the terrible taste of their cheap, badly cooked food. This is why your average /ck/ denizen can expound at great length upon the relative merits of various brands of hot sauce, or between 2003 taco bell and 2013 taco bell.

You ask him to explain the differences in flavor between the meat of two different heritage breeds of swine, or between a rheingau spatburgunder and an oregon pinot noir, and you'll draw a blank stare at best, or intense hostility if you catch him in a bad mood.

But perhaps the same can be said of poors worldwide.

[Anonymous No.4801776]

Because sauces tend to have high sugar and salt content. Amerifats love their sugar and salt. Not to mention, when you eat 24/7, probably get bored of plain meat quickly.

[Anonymous No.4801779]

>>4801774
its spätburgunder, faggot.

[Anonymous No.4801792]

>>4801779
>Getting semantic about umlauts

[Anonymous No.4801822]

>>4801792
>insulting someone
>makes a fool out of themselves doing it
>"sh-shut up, baka amearikans"

[Anonymous No.4801837]

>>4801774

Like this guy said I think it is just the fact that poor americans are so used to shit cooking so they drown their stuff in sauce.

My family wasn't rich and I picked up the habit of drowning shit like chicken in ketchup and smothering steak sauce all over my stuff because the food tasted bad on its own. Didn't break the habit until I moved out.

[picnkn No.4801904]

>>4801763
isnt sauce just american for curry? i have no idea what the fuck curry is.

[Anonymous No.4802352]

>>4801904
post of the century

[Anonymous No.4802385]

>>4801904
Curry is Chingchong for ketchup.

[Anonymous No.4802397]

>>4801763
That's how I was through most of college OP. People would often ask me if I was veg (still often had eggs & milk). My answer was always "only by circumstance."

As to the sauce bit, sauces are a crutch people use to avoid having to learn to properly spice their dishes

[Anonymous No.4802405]

Americans don't put sauces on everything. I never put sauce on steak or roasted chicken, for example, or certain other meats. But some meats use sauce as an enhancer. For example, I'm making bbq'd boneless beef ribs today, and am making homemade bbq sauce to go along with them, because they benefit from a glaze of bbq sauce at the end. Just sayin'.....

[Anonymous No.4802416]

>>4801763
What country are you from?

Anyways, being from the ol' USA I'd have to say we sauce everything because there are so much anti-biotics in our meat and so much growth hormones, it makes the meat pretty damn tasteless.

Therefore, we need to season/sauce the meat because otherwise all we taste is dry cardboard.

The ultimate result is we get all the hormones, sugar, salt, and fat without any of the proper protein or vitamins - say - from a grass-fed animal.

We can buy it, but then we honestly wouldn't afford meat more than a few times per year. The cheap horrible meat we can buy once a week, and it tastes o.k. because of the fat.

[Anonymous No.4802538]

>>4802416
>>4802405
>>4802397
damn im glad i dont live in US

I mean you guys do have a lot of nature still and large country, but ... Ugh...

[Anonymous No.4802573]

>>4802538
"Fact" stated by anon.
"Confirmed" by another anon.
Clearly true.
Feel sorry.

I'm glad you don't live here as well.
Thanks for reaching out and sharing some similarities.

[Anonymous No.4802601]

>>4801774
Really? You also see it A LOT at the top. Every protein in a "fancy" restaurant seems to be served with a truffle-deglazed-wine-cream-pan-mushroom-aoili-whatthefuckever sauce. The chef has to prove their worth, and no one is going to be impressed with a plain chicken breast. It might be good, but it's not noteworthy. Plus, sauces lend the perfect presentation to a proper plating. Go find me some plating pictures without some type of sauce. The only things that might not come with sauce seems to be steak, but I can walk into Tiny Town Steakhouse and get it offered the same way I do as Big City Steakhaus (sauces are offered as extra, but not assumed, the only difference being poor places leave A-1 on the table and you have to ask for sauces in a fancy steakhouse, but most people don't). It's not just a poor thing, it's not just an American thing. It's a restaurant's prerogative to say, "Hey, plain meat isn't going to bring people in here" and "I want to show what I can do." Americans are hardly the sauciest bunch.

[Anonymous No.4802608]

>>4802538
What kind of idiot are you? Certain dishes require certain sauces, not everything. If you really believe that Americans put sauces on all their meat, you're a gullible moron.

[Anonymous No.4802758]

>>4801779
>having a Nazi keyboard

we didn't raze your vineyards because they made good wine. we'll take care of your guttural pig language in due time, nazi scum.

[Anonymous No.4802775]

>be an omnivore
>eating a vegetarian/vegan meal
>some veg asshole notices and initiates conversation, trying to start a vegan dick-measuring contest

Can't I just eat, say, a grilled portobello sandwich because I, you know, LIKE them? I swear, I'd rather eat with a religious evangelist.

[Anonymous No.4802780]

>>4802758
>guttural
you don't even know what that means, Ami scum

[Anonymous No.4802792]

>mfw the American idea of a sauce is gloopy corn starch glue

[Anonymous No.4803123]

As an American, I think I eat more sauceless meat than I do sauced.

[Anonymous No.4804652]

bump