FOOD THREAD

[kristin]

Just made homemade pesto from basil that I grew from seed (again, all organic from start to finish).  So yummy.

YUM!

I feel the same way about home-grown tomatoes as I do about farm fresh eggs. Once you try the home grown/fresh variety, you can't go back.

[naut]

Tomatoes taste like shit these days.

So do strawberries.

[threatsicle]

I've been having a horrid affair with my juicer lately. Really addicted to apple-celery juice, with carrot-ginger coming in second.

[individualzero]

@naut: Quoted for fucking truth. I remember strawberries tasting a whole lot better in the '90s, but maybe that's just me. I'm not sure about tomatoes since I didn't start eating them until a couple of years ago.
@threat: Apple-celery? What's that like? It sounds like something I'd try at least once. FFS, V8 Fusion is one of my favorite drinks and that's, like, mangoes and pineapple with carrots and celery or something.




So I tried the watermelon flavor of the new Arizona fruit cocktails (yes, Arizona as in the makers of the pretty-okay sweet iced tea). While I've yet to try the other flavors, I'm bound to, because the watermelon cocktail is fucking delicious. I am an admitted watermelon fiend, but it's probably one of the best drinks I've ever downed, and it's only $0.99 for a twenty-four ounce can.

[boom]

I've never enjoyed watermelon and/or watermelon flavored products. Now raspberries? I love them so much even my soap is raspberry scented!

I've been grilling way too much lately, but damn nothing says summer like burgers and steak hot off the grill. Theo has the very precise ability to NEVER remember to buy beef hot dogs (since I'm a commie and dont eat pork) so I think I've had one hot dog all summer.

[naut]

Raspberries are seriously awesome. They are also seriously expensive. I love it how their short season corresponds with Christmas time here when the price of EVERYTHING is jacked up.

[Nadia]

YUM!

I feel the same way about home-grown tomatoes as I do about farm fresh eggs. Once you try the home grown/fresh variety, you can't go back.
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Truth. I grew up on home grown, and I still can enjoy store bough tomatoes as long as they're on a sandwich or something, but it's not the same as a ripe tomato straight from the vine, just by itself, maybe with salt. In the summer though, I do like to leave store bought tomatoes sitting out, because it kind of makes me feel like they're from a garden out back. I can just put them on the kitchen window sill and pretend.

Similarly, ever since visiting my father in Nigeria, I cannot enjoy American pineapple for the life of me. It just tastes bad. The pineapple in Nigeria was honestly the most amazing fruit I'd ever tasted in my life.

[r00]

I OD'd on chinese take-out last night and feel like the walking dead this morning.

[Aaron]

I want to buy Marmite & Vegemite. I want to try it. Just not 100% sure I want to spend 10 bucks (on each. and then shipping) for something I may find to be horrible. (Or I may REALLY like it?)


Also. Canned Cheeseburger. I can't find them anywhere, and the one review I have read is that they are horrible. HORRIBLE. BUT I still want to buy one. More so just to have a canned cheeseburger, then anything... Cuz hey, CANNED CHEESEBURGER. Tell me that isn't just bad ass. (can't, can you? Even if I was a vegan, I would still own one just for the amount of WTF they can put into a can.) http://www.avclub.com/articles/taste-test-cheeseburger-in-a-can,2183/      Here is the review I was talking about...

[sin]

I'm sorry dude, but I've heard that snuff-films are horrible too, and I trust the reviews (although admittedly having a snuff-film stacked with the rest of my DVDs would be a pretty good conversation starter [the first part of the conversation consisting of "why aren't you in prison?]).  Please don't buy a canned cheeseburger.  If you want a shitty cheeseburger, THERE ARE OTHER AVENUES AVAILABLE.

[Nadia]

There is such a thing as a canned cheeseburger??? That is crazing me out. It sounds like something I would absolutely never ever want for the life of me.
Freak, aren't there any grocery stores near your home with an international aisle? Certainly you can find Vegemite  and Marmite somewhere.
The idea of snuff films has always simultaneously fascinated me and horrified me/ freaked me out.

[threatsicle]

Latest obsession: WATERMELON X MINT JUICE, mmmm...

[individualzero]

That sounds like something I would drink (see above). lol

[Aaron]

I'm sorry dude, but I've heard that snuff-films are horrible too, and I trust the reviews (although admittedly having a snuff-film stacked with the rest of my DVDs would be a pretty good conversation starter [the first part of the conversation consisting of "why aren't you in prison?]).  Please don't buy a canned cheeseburger.  If you want a shitty cheeseburger, THERE ARE OTHER AVENUES AVAILABLE.

See, I know they taste horrible now. But think, when the zombies come, and I have some canned cheeseburgers. I will be a GOD. Or dead and someone that raids my apartment will be the happiest person ever.

[Nadia]

When did the world become obsessed with zombies? Has this always been a thing and I just never realized it until recently? My roommate has a plan for our house in case of a zombie apocalypse. Also, he is buying a gun for such an occasion. He reads books on it quite a bit and has explained and re-explained to me why zombies happening is a realistic possibility. And everywhere I go I hear talk of zombies. Have I missed something?