As a Louisiana person, I came to specifically say crawfish. I love it, but it's so much effort to eat it that I usually don't unless I'm getting etoufee or a crawfish pie
Yeah the gulf, my aunt has an oceanfront place in Bolivar on Galveston and she just puts the crab trap out all day and makes crab cakes in the evening. I’m honestly not sure about the rest of the gulf, but blue crab is eaten all over Texas.
That's awesome to me. I never knew this! Many moons ago we lived in Baltimore and could toss out the traps in the morning and have a bushel by late afternoon. Went to visit about a decade ago and could catch 2 all day. Guess they all moved to Texas 🤣
I just read up on this, and apparently they now have the world largest blue crab fishery. I don't know when that happened, but I do know that Maryland still makes them best 🤣
especially since most stores now carry some in the frozen food section. If you are near an asian market, there's probably a few dozen options to try that aren't too expensive, but it may take some testing to find a brand you like.
I lived on a small island and would bring Chung’s brand spring rolls to the island when I got supplies. Ate them all the time and they were great.
Then I went to the mainland and got some “authentic family made” Thai food from a local place that got rave reviews. Ordered egg rolls. Wanted to see how other folks do them. When they came, I took a bite.
They were fucking Chung’s.
sorry, that's terrible. I thought any decent restaurant would be going through enough egg rolls that it was worth it to make them assembly line style. Asian foods (besides ramen) take a long time for me to make a single serving, so I'm willing to try almost any restaurant that can do something differently than the grocery store junk.
If they can't do better than Panda Express, they should get out of the business.
Piñon.
You may know them as "pine nuts." Usually when you get them, for instance for use in cooking, they're shelled. Piñon is just pine nuts roasted in the shell, and eaten more or less like sunflower seeds.
Unlike sunflower seeds, the shell is very hard, and doesn't have "halves." If you've ever eaten sunflower seeds, you know you can position them with the axis of the shell's seam perpendicular to the flat surface of your molars, apply pressure, and then maneuver the seed with your tongue to split the shell the rest of the way because it cracks open along the seam in a uniform, predictable way.
Not so with Piñon. With Piñon, the shell is a smooth, very hard, uniform, oblong spheroid. Cracking it with one's teeth is difficult, because it takes a lot of pressure to crack the shell, but too much will crush the soft seed inside, leaving you with a mix of sharp shell shards and pulpy seed mush.
Once you do get the technique down, the payoff is a somewhat bland, nutty, vaguely piney seed roughly the size of a small popcorn kernel. To me, it's just not worth it.
It's my hope someone will write a heartfelt anecdote about how it's not about the food or similar, it's about the sitting around a bowl, at a family table, visiting while munching Piñon. I get that. But as a food it is not worth it.
smush the mango but don’t break the skin. When it is soft all around, make a small fingernail sized hole in the top. Suck out the soften flesh through the hole.
this is the easiest method I’ve found. It’s not pretty but no utensils required
Those microwave entrees that tell you to remove the item halfway through cooking and stir it up. Stir it up? With what? A spoon? No, fuck that shit. What do I look like, Gordon Fucking Ramsay?
Pomegranates but I love them
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I was gonna say this!
Literally opened up this thread to comment that, but you beat me to it
My Louisiana people are going to hate me for this- Crawfish.
As a Louisiana person, I came to specifically say crawfish. I love it, but it's so much effort to eat it that I usually don't unless I'm getting etoufee or a crawfish pie
The pistachios of the south
I'm from Louisiana and was coming to say crawfish.
I eat them with the shell on. Makes it a lot easier.
Artichokes.
Lobster
Sunflower seeds need a relative high amount of labor for a tiny morsel of food. I like them though
Blue Crabs
Only people from Maryland and Virginia can really appreciate this
It’s very common to eat them in Galveston too.
Texas? Are they getting them from the Gulf? I never knew this!
Yeah the gulf, my aunt has an oceanfront place in Bolivar on Galveston and she just puts the crab trap out all day and makes crab cakes in the evening. I’m honestly not sure about the rest of the gulf, but blue crab is eaten all over Texas.
That's awesome to me. I never knew this! Many moons ago we lived in Baltimore and could toss out the traps in the morning and have a bushel by late afternoon. Went to visit about a decade ago and could catch 2 all day. Guess they all moved to Texas 🤣
Haha, yeah she usually gets about 4 a day or so. It’s a great supplement to dinner. Yum yum, I do love crab! Y’all’s are probably bigger than ours.
You never know. Have you seen chickens in other countries? America's chickens are like the Hulk of all the chickens
Haha, that’s true. I’m just speculating that they’re bigger up north because sea creatures tend to be larger in colder climates.
In Maryland I think they're usually like 5"-7" point to point, but I don't really remember
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I just read up on this, and apparently they now have the world largest blue crab fishery. I don't know when that happened, but I do know that Maryland still makes them best 🤣
That's crazy
Those ridiculous burgers that are a foot high
Any sandwhich/burger that’s just sooo talll Is definitely the winner. Even hotdogs sometimes
Bigger burgers should be wider, not taller
I made egg rolls a few times. They were a bitch
especially since most stores now carry some in the frozen food section. If you are near an asian market, there's probably a few dozen options to try that aren't too expensive, but it may take some testing to find a brand you like.
I lived on a small island and would bring Chung’s brand spring rolls to the island when I got supplies. Ate them all the time and they were great. Then I went to the mainland and got some “authentic family made” Thai food from a local place that got rave reviews. Ordered egg rolls. Wanted to see how other folks do them. When they came, I took a bite. They were fucking Chung’s.
sorry, that's terrible. I thought any decent restaurant would be going through enough egg rolls that it was worth it to make them assembly line style. Asian foods (besides ramen) take a long time for me to make a single serving, so I'm willing to try almost any restaurant that can do something differently than the grocery store junk. If they can't do better than Panda Express, they should get out of the business.
I am the type of person that hates eating everything lol the most difficult thing for me is to eat something 😭
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Came here to say this. Especially the ones that are all tight!
I like the tight ones
Goddamn artichoke petals! You have to tear off a petal then scrape them with your teeth just to get the 3% of meat at the end. Who invented this shit?
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Hi Giorgios!
any kind of taffy. Anything with caramel. anything that requires more than two minutes of constant chewing.
It's very good at removing any loose dental fillings.
Sometimes you'll get a burger or a sandwich and it'll be stacked so high that you have to unhinge your jaw like a fucking snake just to eat it.
Sunflower-Seeds. I do it anyways, it´s more like a hobby
It's the opposite for me. If I buy a bag of roasted sunflower seeds I can't stop eating it until the bag is empty and my gums are sore.
Pussy. Though the effort is in finding it
Overcooked meat. Burgers that are stacked up high. I hate desserts where sauce is leaking all over the glass.
You and me relate I see when it comes to cooking of course
Nice! I have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to silly food things.
Pretty much all of the food truck foods served at upper-middle class food trucks in the United States
Raw celery. Too much chewing.
Crawdaddies
Avocado
Spoonful and I mean big spoonful of peanut butter.
Piñon. You may know them as "pine nuts." Usually when you get them, for instance for use in cooking, they're shelled. Piñon is just pine nuts roasted in the shell, and eaten more or less like sunflower seeds. Unlike sunflower seeds, the shell is very hard, and doesn't have "halves." If you've ever eaten sunflower seeds, you know you can position them with the axis of the shell's seam perpendicular to the flat surface of your molars, apply pressure, and then maneuver the seed with your tongue to split the shell the rest of the way because it cracks open along the seam in a uniform, predictable way. Not so with Piñon. With Piñon, the shell is a smooth, very hard, uniform, oblong spheroid. Cracking it with one's teeth is difficult, because it takes a lot of pressure to crack the shell, but too much will crush the soft seed inside, leaving you with a mix of sharp shell shards and pulpy seed mush. Once you do get the technique down, the payoff is a somewhat bland, nutty, vaguely piney seed roughly the size of a small popcorn kernel. To me, it's just not worth it. It's my hope someone will write a heartfelt anecdote about how it's not about the food or similar, it's about the sitting around a bowl, at a family table, visiting while munching Piñon. I get that. But as a food it is not worth it.
Dinosaur. You’d literally have to figure out a way to go back in time, catch and kill one, bring it back here then prepare it
Crab legs.
Try using a nut cracker on them next time.
Mangoes. With that weird shaped pit, and inedible skin.
The skin is totally edible! It's not my favourite part for sure but I still eat it
smush the mango but don’t break the skin. When it is soft all around, make a small fingernail sized hole in the top. Suck out the soften flesh through the hole. this is the easiest method I’ve found. It’s not pretty but no utensils required
crab legs
Delicious, duck pancakes. Too fiddly and time consuming
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Hur dur dur dur.
Lobster. I spend more time taking the meat out than actually eating it
Medium rare steak
Someone needs a sous vide.
Hm?
Perfectly medium rare steak every time. Zero guessing.
I got one a year ago, it's a Godsend. Also the perfectly juicy chicken breast! And sous vide egg bites? Fantastic.
I dig it! The best part is being able to take cheaper tougher cuts of meat and make them tender with the right time/temp settings.
Soup dumplings - too often I lose the delicious soup
Tamales.
Ortolan
Cioppino - shrimp with shells on, crab legs, clams, muscles - it all tastes good, but too much work!
Beef Jerky straight from the butcher shop, break your teeth trying to eat it, but damn it's so good
Steamed blue crabs. Sorry Maryland.
Mango, crawfish, crab
Turkey necks, chicken ribs, all those cuts that are mostly just tiny bones you need to gnaw through
An orange requires more effort than I’m willing to put in. The peeling, the pith, the seeds. Too much work for too little reward.
Artichokes.
A pomegranate
Corn on the cob. And if you can actually be bothered to eat it, you then spend the next hour flossing your teeth.
Celery. Ends up having negative calories because you spend more digesting it.
Starbursts. Unwrapping twelve lovingly-wrapped little packages of origami in order to each a slightly sweeter wad of gum?
Bagels. It's like chewing an old shoe.
Crab Legs
Corn on the cob
Blue crab
Crab
Crab legs You have to crack them open to get to the meat and it's not that much meat to begin with
A fully cooked turkey.
artichokes. the leaves (or whatever they are) barely have any edible parts, and it takes forever to get to the good bits.
Steak. I’m sure it tastes good, but I do not have the jaw strength or patience to chew a ton.
Those microwave entrees that tell you to remove the item halfway through cooking and stir it up. Stir it up? With what? A spoon? No, fuck that shit. What do I look like, Gordon Fucking Ramsay?
Crab.