• (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    Have you ever actually had normal scrambled egg?

    First, the normal Egg McMuffin egg is poached, as has been said upstream, so there's nothing wrong with the slice form per se. Second, the scrambled form is ok in form, too, becuase it's cooked in a thin, solid layer, and then actually folded, just like an omelette.

    People can fuss all they want about McDonald's, but it's cheap, it's not particularly unhealthy when you don't gorge yourself on the stuff, and it generally tastes at least decent, to people who aren't food snobs.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Nobody calls it a scrambled egg though. It's a "folded egg".

    Correct. If you don't like the regular poached form and ask for a substitution, you don't ask for scrambled, you say "Egg McMuffin with folded egg".

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    that poorly-assembled.

    I've unwrapped ones after putting them in the car and driving a bit recklessly where they'd started to come apart like that. I imagine that's what happened.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Cream, milk, buttermilk, whey... I don't even know what they are, they sound like toxic chemicals!

    FTFY

    Because "chemical" already implies "toxic".

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    I've unwrapped ones after putting them in the car and driving a bit recklessly where they'd started to come apart like that. I imagine that's what happened.

    Could be, but I've done the same thing, and the worst I've seen is "the stack started to slip", not "half the egg was off the biscuit". But I'm willing to believe the picture could legitimately be an extreme outlier.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    American / processed cheese [ ... ] really good stuff in the right situation

    You have just demonstrated that your opinions on food are completely invalid and I will no longer pay attention to them.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    Because "chemical" already implies "toxic".

    I once got blocked on Twitter by a company hawking some organic soap they claimed was chemical free. Apparently, asking if that means it's made of Unicorn farts and magic is offensive

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Try cooking them. If they still pour after "cooking," they're not cooked.

    They can be cooked and still be soft, but even if they're cooked to complete dryness (which even I, who likes my eggs well-done, find to be not very nice), they shouldn't be a single solid mass, you get a crumbly heap of small pieces that you have to spoon out and spread on the [bread product of choice] as opposed to a single solid mass.

    Yes, I know now that the object in the picture isn't supposed to be scrambled eggs. My bad, I had never encountered the concept of a folded egg and the idea of putting an omelette in a sandwich had never occurred to me. It is less remarkably wrong than if it was meant to be scrambled eggs, but it still looks like a spectactularly bad omelette: I have made some omelettes that looked like that and can attest to their badness.

    boomzilla:
    There's such a wide variation in "traditional" cheeses: hard, soft, runny, moldy, etc, that silly prejudices against more recently formulated cheeses because they cannot manufactured with pre-industrial technology is retarded.

    Well I can't speak for anyone else but I never said I didn't like it. I said it's not like cheese.

    It's not 'more recently formulated cheeses', it's 'normal' cheese of one kind or another that's had a lot of stuff done to it with the result of producing a product that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike cheese. And can't legally be referred to as cheese.

    It's not unpleasant in taste or texture. Indeed, it's hard to imagine anyone could find it actually unpleasant because it's not much of anything in taste or texture, but an inoffensive bland floppiness. It just isn't cheese.

    Saying you prefer other cheeses will vary according to taste, and is as acceptable as claiming to like the taste of fish.

    Generally, when I want cheese I prefer a suitable kind of cheese that I happen to like, to something that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike cheese. Because if it's not like cheese it's not what I want when I want cheese. I like mashed potatoes, but I don't think it would be unreasonable to say I don't like something that has mashed potatoes where it should have cheese.

    Of course, there are kinds of cheese I don't like (blue cheese, for instance), and I'd prefer this stuff to those, because it's pathologically inoffensive. Although I'd be more likely to just choose a meal that didn't call for blue cheese.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    Of course, there are kinds of cheese I don't like (blue cheese, for instance), and I'd prefer this stuff to those, because it's pathologically inoffensive. Although I'd be more likely to just choose a meal that didn't call for blue cheese.

    I'd always heard that you develop a taste for blue cheese as you age, and it seems to be happening to me. Started with including a mild blue in with the mince while making burgers, giving them a lovely cheesy taste throughout, through to stronger ones on crackers. I had a Stilton and bacon sandwich the other day, and while it was still a bit strong to be truly enjoyable, I can definitely see the appeal.

    Maybe you should give blue cheese another chance. Once you've got the acquired taste, it's pretty nice

  • (disco) in reply to another_sam
    another_sam:
    You have just demonstrated that your opinions on food are completely invalid and I will no longer pay attention to them.

    This is what happens when you stand on the bottom of the world for too long and have too much blood pressure in the brain.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    They can be cooked and still be soft, but even if they're cooked to complete dryness (which even I, who likes my eggs well-done, find to be not very nice), they shouldn't be a single solid mass, you get a crumbly heap of small pieces that you have to spoon out and spread on the [bread product of choice] as opposed to a single solid mass.

    That's just so much bullshit. And you even claimed to know what an omelette is!

    CarrieVS:
    I said it's not like cheese.

    :rolleyes:

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    Maybe you should give blue cheese another chance. Once you've got the acquired taste, it's pretty nice

    I don't know why you assume I've resolved never to try anything with the stuff in ever again and haven't eaten it in decades (and I've only pretty recently finished growing up, never mind aging).

    I tend to dislike very strong tastes, and also most things that have bits/veins of a different texture running through them, so I'm not sure if I ever will like it, but I will admit that the irrational 'ew' factor also plays a part.

    boomzilla:
    That's just so much bullshit. And you even claimed to know what an omelette is!

    I'm talking about scrambled eggs in that sentence.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    I don't know why you assume I've resolved never to try anything with the stuff in ever again and haven't eaten it in decades

    I assume nothing.

    Just saying that I realised I liked the stuff after years of not. YMMV

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    I assume nothing.

    Just saying that I realised I liked the stuff after years of not. YMMV

    ...

    Jaloopa:
    Maybe you should give blue cheese another chance.

    Not sure how else that's supposed to be interpreted.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS
    CarrieVS:
    Maybe

    Or maybe not. I don't care what cheese you eat

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa

    That misses the point quite spectacularly.

  • (disco) in reply to CarrieVS

    Yeah, I'm good at that

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    I don't care what cheese you eat

    Unless you're trying to eat my cheese. That's nacho cheese.

  • (disco) in reply to Jaloopa
    Jaloopa:
    Maybe you should give blue cheese another chance. Once you've got the acquired taste, it's pretty nice

    "Maybe you should give shit sandwiches another chance. Once you've got the acquired taste, it's pretty nice."

    I generally avoid things that require acquiring a taste for them.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Saying you prefer other cheeses will vary according to taste, and is as acceptable as **claiming to like the taste of fish.**

    Coming from you, this is as good as declaring war.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    Coming from you, this is as good as declaring war.

    why? he's right. Fish is not an appetizing flavor... sure you can do interesting things with it and how you prepare it can make a huge amount of difference. It can even make the difference between "ick" and "wow that was actually quite good"

    but then we're comparing cooking technique, and i've seened what that Food Network show "Worst Cooks In America" produced.... so let's not head down that route.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    Fish is not an appetizing flavor
    I beg to differ; tuna and salmon are delish, and anchovies… oh sweet merciful Chaos, anchovies… so so *so* good :smile:
  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    why? he's right.

    Duh....nevertheless:

    RaceProUK:
    I beg to differ; tuna and salmon are delish, and anchovies… oh sweet merciful Chaos, anchovies… so so so good
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    ... okay salmon i'll grant you....

    and tuna... i'd give it a pass. not great but passable.

    anchovies though? ick! too salty and oily for me!

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    anchovies though? ick! too salty and oily for me!
    But the oils, being fish oils, are the ones that are (meant to be) healthy! :stuck_out_tongue:

    I'll give you the saltiness though; I do love anchovies, but there's no way I could eat them every day

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    why?

    I seem to recall a conversation a few months back on the merits of fish. He was not so kind to those of us who enjoy fish back then.

    accalia:
    Fish is not an appetizing flavor.

    I am saddened by all that you are missing out on.

    RaceProUK:
    tuna

    Yum.

    RaceProUK:
    salmon

    MMMMMMMM.

    Uh, does anyone have a towel?

    RaceProUK:
    anchovies… oh sweet merciful Chaos, anchovies

    I have yet to try anchovies, solely because I've never had the opportunity.

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    I am saddened by all that you are missing out on.

    You can't miss a thing if you've never had.

    This sone appears to be somewhat relevant:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_wCaBZTCg

    i really need to post that bug on meta.d

    I should actually probably declare the two week long bout of food poisoning i had last time i ate fish?

    to this day i can't be in a house that's cooking or has recently cooked fish....

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    tuna and salmon

    ew

    almost as bad as cheese

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    I should actually probably declare the two week long bout of food poisoning i had last time i ate fish?
    That'll be the way it was prepared, rather than the fact it was fish ;)
  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    tell that to my stomach which smells fish and still to this day yells "EVERYBODY OUT!"

  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    I have yet to try anchovies

    Neither have I, but AIUI, if you like them great. If not, abandon all hope because they will have imparted their flavor to everything else in the kitchen.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    tell that to my stomach which smells fish and still to this day yells "EVERYBODY OUT!"
    OK \*turns to @accalia's stomach* That'll be the way it was prepared, rather than the fact it was fish ;)
  • (disco) in reply to abarker
    abarker:
    I am saddened by all that you are missing out on.

    Says the guy who doesn't drink alcohol. :tropical_fish:

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    Neither have I, but AIUI, if you like them great. If not, abandon all hope because they will have imparted their flavor to everything else in the kitchen.

    I once had a piece of pizza on which one half had anchovies. The half that my piece came from was supposedly anchovy free. It did not taste that way. :mask:

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    RaceProUK uses:

    RaceProUK:
    That'll be the way it was prepared, rather than the fact it was fish

    Stomach has no ears!

    It's not very effective...

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    "Maybe you should give shit sandwiches another chance. Once you've got the acquired taste, it's pretty nice."

    I generally avoid things that require acquiring a taste for them.

    Tastes change over time. Coffee and beer would be prime examples - children usually don't really like the taste of those beverages.

    I myself am now eating olives and artichokes regularly even though I'd hate them with a fiery passion as a child.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    Stomach has no ears!

    Yet you claim it can smell, despite the fact that it has no olfactory apparatus with which to smell, either.

    accalia:
    stomach which smells fish
  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    pedantry denied when you mix metaphores like. :-P

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    RaceProUK:
    I beg to differ; tuna and salmon are delish, and anchovies… oh sweet merciful Chaos, anchovies… so so *so* good :smile:

    Also cod, preferably in the form of fish and chips. And the Philly roll (smoked salmon, cream cheese and avocado).

  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian
    antiquarian:
    Also cod, preferably in the form of fish and chips
    Haddock and plaice work well too ;)
  • (disco) in reply to antiquarian
    antiquarian:
    cod

    Whitefish: acceptable.

    antiquarian:
    Philly roll

    Sushi: acceptable.

  • (disco) in reply to Yamikuronue
    Yamikuronue:
    Whitefish: acceptable.
    Racist :stuck_out_tongue:

    <Joking, of course ;)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    mix metaphores like.
    Like ... what?

    I used "olfactory apparatus" rather than "nose" intentionally, because the nose, itself, is not what actually smells. It is merely a structure that encloses the olfactory apparatus. It also worked better the way I originally worded the sentence. In contrast, the ear, and in particular the inner ear, plays an active, essential role in the process of hearing.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    i was referring to the conflating of me saying "my stomach smells" when it's fairly obvious that i meant that the smell of fish is extremely nauseating to me (an effect that's entirely in my brain) because of past experiences with my parody of Pokemon battles for comedy when @RaceProUK 'addressed" my stomach directly.

    ;-)

    in context i feel both of my comments were more than clear enough that pedantry was unwarranted and so i'm not flagging for it. :stuck_out_tongue:

    others, of course, may disagree; and indeed are free to flag on their own should they so desire.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    @RaceProUK 'addressed" my stomach directly
    Hey, you told me to tell your stomach, so I did :stuck_out_tongue:
  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    clear enough that pedantry was unwarranted and so i'm not flagging for it.

    Indeed. I cannot speak for others, but when I respond pedantically to an overly literal interpretation of an obviously metaphorical statement, my intent is primarily humor; the pedantry is secondary. If someone chooses to flag for pedantry, all the better, but I don't expect anyone to do so. (Mild rant about flagging in general redacted.)

    Either that, or I missed the obvious metaphor. No, only humor; never a whoosh. No sir. Never.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    my intent is primarily humor; the pedantry is secondary

    hmm... in that case we appear to have been humouring in at least three different directions at the same time and collided...

    ;-)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    others, of course, may disagree; and indeed are free to flag on their own should they so desire.

    I'm not flagging anyone who already has a pendantry badge as long as I don't have one.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    we appear to have been humouring

    Or at least attempting to. I usually think my attempts at humor are at least somewhat successful, or I wouldn't post them. Others, however, seem to not always agree.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Says the guy who doesn't drink alcohol.

    Ok, setting aside my religious reasons:

    First, a story. When I was about twelve, my family was up visiting my uncle. He is not a Mormon. We went to lunch at the Spaghetti Factory, and at one point his beer ended up next to my soda. I grabbed my drink without looking and took a sip. NOPE, not soda. Beer is nasty.

    Second, let's look at some facts about alcohol:

    • It's a depressant.
    • It inhibits decision making.
    • It inhibits balance.
    • It frequently causes headaches and light sensitivity. (I get enough of that with my migraines, thank you.)
    • It causes liver and kidney damage.
    • It inhibits balance and coordination.
    • It is not uncommon to experience memory loss as a result of ingesting alcohol.
    • By the admission of every person I've ever talked to who consumes alcohol, it is an acquired taste.

    There's more, but I figure I've mentioned enough to make my point. With all of these, why would I want to drink alcohol? What possible benefits could outweigh all of that?

    Filed Under: Taking the bait

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