"Just Season It" by Mr.Lovenstein

Yup, properly cooked veggies are awesome.

But, children's taste buds are different from adults. Iirc they taste things more strongly, so the bitter notes are more pronounced.

Also, they've been breeding stuff like brussel sprouts to be less bitter for a while now, so veggies might actually taste better than when we were kids.

I didn't even think you could do that to asparagus. That's seriously demonic.

Same with Brussel sprout. My step-dad would boil them. Tastes like a soggy sulfur fart. But cut them in half, toss them in a bit of oil, salt and pepper, roast them until crispy in the oven with, and they're delicious. Oddly sweet, even. Try with other seasonings to enhance further.

Blanche and shock are the only way I actually like asparagus.

I can tolerate a baked or sauteed spear, but the margin for error is too damned small, and either side of it makes it unpalatable.

boiled (or steamed) white asparagus is quite good, but green asparagus, yeah you should absolutely roast that instead

I dunno about asparagus, but it turns out the Brussel sprouts we ate as kids were bitter and didn't taste as good as the ones they sell now. But yeah, with asparagus, you gotta broil those bad boys with garlic/olive oil, etc

I love steamed (not boiled) asparagus. Though for most of my life, vegetables were just a vehicle for butter and salt. I’ve pulled way back on how much I use in recent years.

My buddy makes the most delicious grilled asparagus. He’s a real pro and it’s a treat to bbq with him.

Yeah boiled here too. I liked it sorta but discovered much later that roasted is way better.

Same thing with Brussels sprouts. Don't boil. Toss in salt, pepper, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar, bake at like 425 for 20 minutes, you're welcome

but our winter never comes

Sad George R. R. Martin noises

I looked my mother in the eyes after a long day once and responded to a similar statement with "No, I hated your chilli when I was a kid."

She really does make the absolute worst chilli I've ever tasted. It's so bland. There is almost no chilli powder in it, just some salt and a little bit of pre-ground pepper from a packaged salt/pepper shaker. The recipe amounts to "throw some hamburger and tomato sauce with canned beans in a pot and cook it for an hour and then add random amounts of all THREE seasonings"

It's a wonder I survived to be able to cook on my own.

My kids are the opposite. We can sauté up some fresh green beans and make them so good, but the kids only want to eat the canned ones.

i used to be anti meat except ham and chickfila chicken (specifically), turns out my parents made super dry chicken...

i now eat 2x the meat to account for vegetarians and my lost time

Or just dont overcook/boil your veggies. Everything in moderation.

Kills some of them, but guess what happens when you enjoy it, and therefore eat a lot of them?

Breathing KILLS you! 100% of people who breathe die, so stop breathing RIGHT NOW to live a healthy life!

Im of Scottish, Irish, and South German descent my ancestors didnt conquer shit beyond the whole bursting into flames under direct sunlight problem.

Unnecessary racist comment but it's OK since its against the one group that its OK to be racist towards. This wouldn't fly if it was about black people and a similar gotcha line

Super God, duh

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Lauren Faust

The author.

Bill Murray

The infinite regress of creator's creators.

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Genetically modified? That's a stretch.

Like many other cultures, bananas and apples were selectively reproduced to obtain fruits with more to eat. Corn, carrots, every single kale and cabbage, potatoes, oranges and even strawberries can go into this basket.

The wild banana has almost nothing to eat, being filled with large seeds and we can still find wild apples, by nature very tart but still edible. Every single cereal we plant and harvest today was originally nothing more than a wild grass.

But to call the work of millenia and who knows how many generations of farmers genetic modifications is a bit over the top.

GMOs are very recent introductions and normally for obtaining pest, drought or disease (more) resistant plants.

iirc the modern banana is actually a less flavorful variety than centuries past, but not for selective breeding reasons. The more popular variety, the Gros Michel, was susceptible to a certain fungus that wiped it out by the 60s. Those apparently tasted closer to the artificial banana flavoring that is still used today and in fact are what that flavoring was based on (albeit probably quite a bit more sugary and concentrated since it's still a candy flavoring).

And then you have other produce like apples and tomatoes being bred for size and yield, since that will both net more profit and feed more people. This often necessarily means that the produce will lose flavor in the process, as well as nutritional value by weight since the size/yield increase is mostly just the crop taking up more water. (I think the genetic modification you mentioned is in some part meant to correct that inverse relationship between yield and nutritional density, but I'd have to read up more on the subject.)

So I think you can just as much argue that it's not our tastebuds being ruined so much as produce itself being considerably less appealing to them.

I feel like God would have the capacity to realize he is the higher power. Nothing says there has to be a higher power at each level.

im an atheist and i believe in a higher power.

that sun will fuck me up if i get too close

Depends on if he's having a bad day, or if he believes in himself. Wait, is that why faith is how you get into heaven? God having shitty self-confidence and not wanting any haters around makes as much sense as any other I've heard.

who's the creator of god and the realm he resides in? hm? hm? hm?

checkmate, theists!

Guess he needs an imaginary friend for comfort aswell

The bible actually says there are other gods beside the main one; he's the king of kings, god of gods. But maybe there's an emperor of emperors, God of gods of gods? It's gods all the way up.

The spice must flow

Because who buys spices at the regular grocery store, it's like $4 for a 50g bag. You gotta go to the Asain grocer or Indian market for those delicious half kilo bags for $6.

Then put them in an old pasta sauce jar and shove them in your pantry and let them get old and off gas their aroma until they're just bland sawdust....but act like you're still better than other white people because you own spices.

Boomers came up as fast food franchises and convenience foods began to dominate. The equal rights movement meant more women in the workplace and less in the kitchen and instead of spreading the burden, capitalism filled in the gaps.

Another explanation is that American cuisine got wrecked by the Great Depression. Everything that had flavor was expensive. People's inability to purchase and make certain foods stopped generational transfer of knowledge on how to make certain things. Thankfully, after several generations it's finally recovering.

"Ethnic" food (non European) wasn't as affected as much.

I heard an interview about a book on it a few years ago but now I can't find it.

Because they did cook well at one point. It took hours, it involved a lot of cleanup, and 4 year old you whined and complained for some chicken nuggets and the fucking candy bar your aunt gave you without talking to your parents first.

So they gave up. The tantrums, the rejection, the effort. None of it was worth it. Like pretty much every skill in life it atrophied.

Too many people order shitty delivery so that they can save 15 minutes cooking while spending 3 times more

I would have written that as "oh my me"

His son.

My dad does this, just boils vegetables and potatoes so long that they're reduced to their component quarks and then serves them in a bowl with nothing on them. For bonus points, he makes sure they've cooled off to room temperature before we eat. I want to blame the Great Depression for this style of "cuisine", but he was born after that shit.

No excuse for bland potatoes. Even boiled, they can taste good. Low effort, throw some dill on those bastards. It's that easy. My mom is diabetic, and down a kidney, so salt and sugar are not really things in the food she makes, but it always tastes good.

Isnt thanksgiving a month from now? Are you like from the future? Why did you suddenly come back? Is the whole world doomed and you came back to warn us of something terrible?!?!?

Are you of norwegian ancestry?

As a lazy person who grew up with a parent who's method of cooking vegetables was just "boil it till its grey!", if a vegetable can be eaten raw, I will be eating it raw.

Raw broccoli dipped in garlic greek yoghurt is delicious, nutritious and fast/lazy to prepare.

I'm on the hunt for a vegan alternative that is decent, but until then, crunchy carrots and sugar snap peas are my go-to lazy veggies.

Honestly fresh veggies sautéed right are better than any hamburger, and I love to eat meats

I'd take those over some greasy burgers any time of the day

Maybe you just need to find the right veggies or the right seasoning. I wouldn't say I love veggies more or less than a burger, but they add much needed variety.

I’m also a meat eater but have to disagree with you there. I prefer variety because eating the same salty slop gets boring. Maybe you have abused your tastebuds . If you take a break from certain foods it recalibrates the taste buds.

Never "just" steam your veggies. Do a quick stirfry in oil with garlic then use the residual steam to finish it up!

Butter isn't bad for you per-se, it's the quantity that gets you. It's a pretty calorie dense food, and it has a lot of other things in it that, when taken in large quantities will clog up your cardiovascular system.

Used in proper moderation and it's wonderful. Throwing a whole stick of it into a single serving at every meal is probably too much.

Disclaimer: I am neither a health professional, nor a nutritionist.

Okay I microwave veggies a lot because it's convenient but we cannot pretend that the fart cloud created by microwaved broccoli is in anyway close to the delicious crispyness of stir fried or baked broccoli

And it retains the greatest amount if nutrients

In the pan, duh.

OK, I will link the artist's website. I usually provide source link to where I found the comic.

From what I understand, it's that foods containing lots of fats, sugars, salt etc aren't normally unhealthy, out in the wild. When you're worried about not starving, foods with energy storage substances like sugar are a good thing, and the amount you'll get in some wild fruit or something isn't bad. Salt is an essential thing to get enough of, and overabundance of it in food isn't common. So, rather than evolve some ability to know exactly what substances we need and only want to eat food with those exact things, we have the evolutionary shortcut of "sweet things are good, fatty things are good, salty things are usually good, etc". Our biology hasn't really evolved to for the possibility of us farming stuff that contains sugar on an industrial scale, extracting and concentrating that sugar, and then putting unnaturally large concentrations of it in everything.

Tasty unhealthy foods are also way tastier than even the tastiest veggie dish.

Have you tried eating those unhealthy food raw/unseasoned? With enough butter/sugar anything will taste like heaven

Because natural foods are sweet when they’re the most nutritious.

Fruit, for example, or carrots (which convert it’s starches into sugars to avoid freezing.)

Prior to modern food preservation and heavily processed foods, getting calories was hard enough on its own, so we’re primed to seek calorie rich food.

We’ve evolved- technologically- to the point that’s no longer true, but our biology hasn’t caught up yet.

Because it's seasoned with diabetes

CALORIE

I mean food shouldn't be salted to the point that it tastes salty, just to the point that it tastes good

This!

Boiled carrots 🤮

Raw carrots 👍

Boiled broccoli 🤮

Raw broccoli 👍

And so on