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[King Zultan]

What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.

[Rolan7]

Oh please no.  I'm sure it is, and some of the recently-mentioned things are worse I guess, but I used to rely on eggs for most of my protein and I really hate the thought of digging into a skeleton.  If anything can be said for factory farming, it's that the eggs are assuredly unfertilized.

Ugh, I feel guilty for saying that.  I guess it's true though.  Ironic, huh?  Worse conditions for the chickens themselves, just so I don't rarely ruin a dish by cracking a proto-chick into it?
The latter is so viscerally worse, when the former should be.  But ugh, I have no moral standing here nowadays, I've abandoned veganism and vegetarianism in a spotty search for mental health through diet.

(Sure my meat diet is low for an American but it's certainly no longer a point of pride)

[delphonso]

What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.

Ah yes, balut... luckily I've never crossed it. Chinese millenium egg isn't that bad. It just tastes like...a fuckton of eggs. If you like eggs you might like it - just a very powerful egg flavor and unpleasant appearance.

For a cursed pizza topping, I'd go with seasoned chicken feet, which is a common street food here.

[wierd]

What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.

what do you think balut is?

[hops]

not that i want to be too snide about people's dietary preferences but it's rich for americans to think that things like balut or fish sauce are gross and then proceed to eat american cheese

[scriver]

What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.

Ah yes, balut... luckily I've never crossed it. Chinese millenium egg isn't that bad. It just tastes like...a fuckton of eggs. If you like eggs you might like it - just a very powerful egg flavor and unpleasant appearance.

For a cursed pizza topping, I'd go with seasoned chicken feet, which is a common street food here.

If I'd have to choose the chicken parts I'd least like to eat, feet would be in third place.

But I must admit I am intrigued. Are they even chewable?

[Frumple]

not that i want to be too snide about people's dietary preferences but it's rich for americans to think that things like balut or fish sauce are gross and then proceed to eat american cheese

American cheese (or rather, government cheese, the vaguely plastic looking yellow stuff -- there's other sorts which are on par with basically anything on the market) is just kinda'... empty looking. It's mass produced cheese originally cooked up as a wartime ration type of deal. There's not really anything (literally) visceral to it like half-grown baby chicken, still in the egg. It's just sorta' soulless, y'know? Different sort of thing than gross.

Taste wise, it's just cheapass cheese with an okay cheese texture. There's nothing particularly unusual about it, it's just sort of an ur-example of commoditized mediocrity. As opposed to half gestated bird babies or... whatever.

[delphonso]

Chicken feet have a certain amount of skin and muscle that can get puffed up by boiling (and I guess also pickling). They're still 90% bone, but you can get a bit off them. Mostly it's just a method of injesting seasoning while gnawing on bones. Haven't partaken, myself (I'm veg), but the sour vinegar and pepper dressing that is used is quite good. Not.bad, but a terrible pizza topping and, like millenium eggs, look pristinely unappetizing.

not that i want to be too snide about people's dietary preferences but it's rich for americans to think that things like balut or fish sauce are gross and then proceed to eat american cheese

American cheese on a pizza is an actual god damn crime.

[martinuzz]

US cheese is a red herring to distract from the Mexican-infused hamburgers

[dragdeler]

You mean these  ?

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[martinuzz]

Oh nice, new and improved recipe, without fingernails

[None]

Frumple, gonna split with you here on this one; I don't actually consider American cheese to be food, and barely call it edible. That spray cheez stuff or that orange sherbet-looking 'cheese' dip are the same way. Much as I recoil at the thought of eating balut, it does at least come from a creature that is edible at stages prior and after that point of development, soooo.

We have real cheese here in America, and it's really good especially if you go somewhere on the planet with only a fraction of the cheese production capacity. That's how you get pizza with mayonnaise and corn on it instead of cheese.

Now, marmite, though- marmite is real food. There's a distinct difference in color between the remains of my jar of Sanitarium and Unilever Marmite-brand marmite; the former is a thick buttery spread and the latter flows like honey. It's the weirdest thing and I resent a little that I still have 2.5 jars of the Unilever stuff to go through before I can justify ordering a big jar of my Kiwi preferred stuff.

You go ahead and put some on that Pizza of Global Culture and Probably Atrocity to Someone, I'm gonna go make some toast for my marmite...

[scriver]

American cheese (or rather, government cheese, the vaguely plastic looking yellow stuff

Legislactos

[Frumple]

You go ahead and put some on that Pizza of Global Culture and Probably Atrocity to Someone, I'm gonna go make some toast for my marmite...

For what it's worth, I don't really eat the singles stuff anymore -- there's usually some in the house 'cause my grandmother likes it, but the only tolerance I have for cooking with it these days is very rarely melting it into something like mac and cheese or a soup or somethin'. The stuff's actually legitimately good for texture, and it's flavorless enough you can barely tell it's there, especially if you throw in some other!cheese for the cheese flavor.

Now, if you're looking for terrible american cheese, whatever it is velveeta uses is a fucking abomination. Stuff actually tastes worse than the plastic singles t'me, and somehow has a worse texture, too. You'd have to pay me to eat velveeta brand, these days.

[King Zultan]

What about adding an egg with a chick that was about to hatch into the mix I've heard that's a delicacy in some places.

what do you think balut is?

Thank you I could not remember what that thing was called.

american cheese

That's some nasty stuff there, I wonder how much of it is actually plastic?