[OFF TOPIC] Food & Drinks Thread

[heywoodu 16,131]

6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Parmesan at #1 

 

That's the worst cheese imo

I'm glad nobody is writing it 'Parmesian', which is what I often seem to hear in TV shows for some weird reason  

[heywoodu 16,131]

3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

This joins @heywoodu's opinion on olives in the "bad food takes" category 

 

It's definitely not my favorite cheese by any means, but pasta wouldn't be pasta without a bit of parmesan.

Considering there are a billion kinds of cheese, I have no idea exactly how to translate everything, but I believe what I put on my pasta is a kind of Gouda cheese (the 'young' one, not the 'old' cheese, yuck). Coincidentally we recently had parmesan cheese on pasta, but that was rather disappointing, it tasted so....meh.

 

Do you actually use parmesan though? Or that kind of Kraft-from-a-bottle stuff?  

[phelps 8,357]

On 6/28/2025 at 8:22 PM, bestmen said:

That's goat cheese !!! 

 

Here is the best cheese in the world 2025 ...i guess juries are 100% european 

 

no Casu Martzu at no.1?

 

this ranking is a farce!

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu

[phelps 8,357]

7 hours ago, intoronto said:

Parmesan at #1 

 

That's the worst cheese imo

it might be weird when said by someone who doesn't eat any sort of cheese for any reason, but I'm pretty sure nobody from the American Continent here has ever tried the true Parmigiano Reggiano (or Grana Padano), unless you've been in Italy 

[phelps 8,357]

3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

This joins @heywoodu's opinion on olives in the "bad food takes" category 

 

It's definitely not my favorite cheese by any means, but pasta wouldn't be pasta without a bit of parmesan.

sacrilege!

 

except for those 3/4 recipes actually created with cheese as one of the main ingredients, putting any cheese (and above all Parmigiano or even more Pecorino) on a pasta dish, it just ruins that dish, changing its taste

 

and those who put cheese on seafood recipes, should be sentenced to Dante's Hell punishments! 

[heywoodu 16,131]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

sacrilege!

 

except for those 3/4 recipes actually created with cheese as one of the main ingredients, putting any cheese (and above all Parmigiano or even more Pecorino) on a pasta dish, it just ruins that dish, changing its taste

 

and those who put cheese on seafood recipes, should be sentenced to Dante's Hell punishments! 

To be honest, making a change to an Italian recipe you're going to make, serve and eat yourself, mentioning it to Italians and see them get crazy mad because that's not how their grandmother's grandma used to make it, is one of the most fun things in the world of food  

 

Something I often think of when breaking a couple of hands of spaghetti in half before putting them in the boiling water.

Edited June 30, 2025 by heywoodu

[NearPup 3,593]

15 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

To be honest, making a change to an Italian recipe you're going to make, serve and eat yourself, mentioning it to Italians and see them get crazy mad because that's not how their grandmother's grandma used to make it, is one of the most fun things in the world of food  

 

Something I often think of when breaking a couple of hands of spaghetti in half before putting them in the boiling water.

There's really nobody (okay, maybe except that one Malaysian comedian who thinks not owning a rice cooker is a crime against humanity) that is more needlessly pretentious about their cuisine than the Italians. Even the French have less of a stick up their arses.

 

IDGAF what anyone in Europe thinks, Napolitan spaghetti is good, and it's even better seasoned with Italian tears.

Edited June 30, 2025 by NearPup

[LuizGuilherme 334]

I love Parmesan, my favourite cheese by far.

[Grassmarket 4,094]

3 hours ago, phelps said:

sacrilege!

 

except for those 3/4 recipes actually created with cheese as one of the main ingredients, putting any cheese (and above all Parmigiano or even more Pecorino) on a pasta dish, it just ruins that dish, changing its taste

 

and those who put cheese on seafood recipes, should be sentenced to Dante's Hell punishments! 

So I'm guessing you are a no when it comes to pineapple on pizza?  

[NearPup 3,593]

29 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

So I'm guessing you are a no when it comes to pineapple on pizza?  

The purists are really missing out on that one. Ham and pineapple is a classic combination for a reason.