Unbayleafable.
came here to make a silly comment. i can see im not needed here.
Keep an eye out for another spice-related pun opportunity, your thyme will come.
Your presence is welcome, thanks for cumin.
LOL
That is fucking magnificent. If you’re not a dad your talent is being wasted on us mere mortals.
You won the internet today
She is a dangerous type of white person.
We call them Karen
That just means your meal was freshly picked from the burrito tree. Geesh, some people…
Chipotle is really resting on its laurels.
I can’t bay leaf that happened to her.
This thread is just going to be peppered with puns now.
Ain’t nobody got thyme for that.
Incorrect. I love pun threads, they are mint…
Cummin mate, that’s enough with the puns
I appreciate you addressing it gingerly. Even the punniest Portlanders would give these puns the old oregaNO. 😬
Only seasoned veterans will get this thread.
Others might be salty about missing the joke.
Don’t have to be salty about it.
I knew things were going to get spicy in here.
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I was hoping the Pun People would have stayed on Reddit. I haven’t missed scrolling through miles of puns before getting to real posts…
Sir this is a shitpost
No need to be paprikabout it.
The saddest part to me is how little more and more people know about cooking. Each generation seems to know less and less about the basics and rely more and more on fast food and restaurants to survive.
In Brazil’s version of the Shark Tank TV show, they sometimes call for guest “sharks” to show up besides the regular hosts. Once, the founder of China in Box, Brazil’s largest Chinese fast food chain (and one of the first in general) was there.
So the participant shows up and his pitch was a device he invented for peeling garlic faster at home. It’s basically a blender motor, but with attachments to vibrate the garlic against the container rather than cut through it, so the skin peels off and the garlic is ready for usage. After the pitch, of course, they ask the hosts if they want to invest into their company.
So the Chinese food guy says “oh no, no way I’m investing into that, it’s a kitchen appliance - in ten years, nobody will have a kitchen in their homes, they’ll use delivery apps for every meal, they won’t ever need any cooking apparatus”
And honestly his comments still fill me with rage every single time.
I wouldn’t invest in that because all you need to do is smash a clove with a knife and the skin falls right off, but I see what you mean.
If you need to peel a bunch of cloves, put them in a small mason jar and shake the shit out of it.
Yeah but your hands do end up smelling like garlic for a couple days
When seasoning meat, remember that you are also meat and therefore susceptible to be seasoned.
That’s a feature.
Wash them but use salt instead of soap. The smell will go away. It works for onions and probably a bunch of other stuff too.
Rubbing against stainless steel gets rid of the smell also works
Are you sure you’re trying to help and are not a cannibal?
If i was a cannibal why would I give you advice on how to un-marinate yourself?
That’s a bonus!
I mean, that dude makes money each time you dont cook. Of course he’s going to pitch “kitchenless” homes as a real thing.
Its abject bullshit, but also a clear cut case of “follow the money” to understand stupid reasoning.
did he say that 10 years ago?
Just as intended.
I can’t speak for everyone, but since the COVID inflation I’ve swore off most fastfood and exclusively cook for myself now. I’ve learned baking bread, making stocks, processing meat, canning, and so much more. It’s so much healthier, tastier, and more affordable. I think folks are coming back to cooking for themselves. It may not be the majority, but there are many of us that have mostly swore off eating out.
I worked with a dude who loved “ramen” but had never had it from a restaurant. He didn’t seem like he knew how to cook particularly well, and I’m not sure if he’d ever even left the suburbs he was born in.
One day he was talking about how excited he was to go to a real ramen shop over the weekend. So next time I see him I asked how it went. He sighed and said he got a veggie ramen because he found out the meat ones were “made with bone” and he was grossed out by it. I could only say “of course, that’s how you make good soup.” Then I had to explain how you make stock or split pea with ham soup, etc. I think I ruined soup for him.
Vegetarian soups are still delicious though. Soup is just awesome all around
I can’t downvote you for an honestly expressed opinion, but soup is a disappointing meal.
I respect your wrong opinion
Oooh, is that a soup though? Soup is something that’s eaten with a soup spoon. I challenge you to eat noodles with a soup spoon. That looks damned fine, by the way.
[I never said my opinions were rational, only correct, like an absolute truth of the universe.]
Try a thai curry, seafood if you like it, or pork or veggie. So flavorful.
Other suggestions: pho, French onion soup, bouillabaise.
certified banger
I’m not saying soups aren’t nice. But if you offer me, eg, a French Onion Soup (one of the greatest soups there is) and you offer me… a rack of ribs, or a steak, or blackened chicken with dirty rice, soup is coming second every day of the week.
The cook really should be picking the bay leaves out. No one wants to eat a bay leaf.
They probably do, but finding them all every single time is almost impossible. I know I’ve had a few pop up in my own food over the years.
we just tell the kids whoever finds the bay leaf “wins” and gets first dessert.
i can’t remember the last time i served dessert.
While that is true, not recognizing a bayleaf is a sign of embarrassing stupidity.
ignorance, but yeah. Who hasn’t encountered a bay leaf by adulthood?
Yeah this is pretty much where I’m at, her reaction seems pretty stupid but I would be a little annoyed if I had to pick a bay leaf out of my mouth.
Like a cat with a hairball.
TBH I have no idea why bay leaves aren’t ground like other herbs — despite having spent my childhood watching my mom regularly put bay leaves in her cooking.
That might also be why I detect barely any taste in bay leaves.
Nah, you don’t want that. I don’t think the leaf would grind very well and it’s just supposed to be a hint of spice in the final dish.
I live in a country where ground bay leaf is a very common spice to use. It’s just another powdered spice in a jar or a bag like cinnamon or curry.
Huh. Maybe I’ll try it
Man, just wait until someone tells her where the rest of food comes from
I know folks, my boss and his family, who - if it doesn’t come from a box, powder, and/or plastic bag, will not be eating it. It’s really sad and I eat whole food in front of him all the time in hopes…
I had a relative once say that she’s vegetarian, won’t eat animals. I point out the chicken she’s eating and has always eaten, and she says “It’s from the grocery store, not an animal”. We had to have a long chat. People too divorced from real food and its sources, have some weird assumptions.
My friends mom has been trying the opposite- shes trying to avoid buying any plastic packaged food. Not so much out of concern for microplastics, but as a way to reduce her environmental impact.
Its also helped her eat much healthier- most candy is out, all her veggies are fresh instead of frozen, fresh meats instead of prepackaged ones, etc.
Now don’t go hate on frozen veggies, they did nothing wrong
A weirdly large amount of people seem to think frozen foods or persevered foods in general are all evil and will kill you. Like ALL of it.
Like fucking salted meats and refrigeration are a god send. People are fucking stupid.
My first girlfriend’s brat sister got grossed out when I told her that eggs were literally shitted out by hens. Beautiful twist. She went on to get a food safety degree.
Flavour in my food?!
Real, natural flavour.
Might be a good time for them to learn about the curry leaf.
And likely also water, like from a toilet!
Complaining will not keep future leaves at Bay.
In fairness, I’m not sure anyone knows if bay leaves even do anything.
my person, it absolutely does i love them very much, they are one of my favourite spices
… what?
Make a dish twice, once without the bay leaf. There is an obvious difference. It’s fine to not like the taste of any particular spice but saying there is none is sort of crazy?
Bay leaf does provide a subtle earthy flavour, but it is also an anti fungal. I guess your left overs will stay edible a bit longer.
It also looks exactly the same as a clove leaf. A shop sold me a bag of mis-labelled clove leafs and my Bolognese that evening tasted most strange
Ah, yeah, the kind of cooking our household does is usually pretty strong favour wise (lots of South Asian cooking), it’s probably why neither my wife or I have ever noticed it.
Maybe if when make Italian food we should use it :)
I wasn’t sure myself, so i made a “tea” out of bay leaves to check, and i can confirm that they do in fact have a pretty distinct flavor.
Just smell it (not just bay leaves but whatever). If it has a smell, that aroma can be infused into cooking, though you’ll want to make sure it’s edible before just throwing it into dishes.
And you might need to sauté them for a bit (also called tempering) to infuse that aroma into oil, since it’s not all water soluable.
Might as well just boil up a handful of grass from the local park, about the same.
Cherry on top would have been if her name was Laurel
Leaf on top
While I support the message of never eating at Chipotle again, she’s doing it for the wrong reasons.
I don’t eat at Chipotle because they were bought by private equity and subsequently enshittified to further enrich someone who already had more wealth than could be spent in a lifetime.
She doesn’t eat at Chipotle because she found a bayleaf in her burrito bowl…
Who the fuck uses bay leaves in Mexican food?
Apparently it is common in Mexico itself. I had to look it up because I was also incredulous at using a bay leaf in a burrito.
Many Latin American countries always add bay leaves when cooking any type of bean. There are beans in a burrito.
I’m gonna have to try the mexican variety becsuse the kind I am used to adds literally nothing to dishes other than a leaf in the food. 🤷♂️
it’s the exact same plant. if your grocery store has a latin section they probably sell hojas de laurel for cheaper per ounce than mccormick.
Or even hoja de laurel molida. And then you don’t have to fish it out.
People who know how to cook? 😆
Birria? Rice? Caldos?
WTF do you mean who uses leaves in Mexican food?
Mexicans.
Every good pot of Mexican beans has bay leaves in it.
I was curious, here is what I found: “We use bay leaves to add a subtle depth of flavor to dishes like our beans, rice, Barbacoa, and Carnitas.” - this was off a reddit post, so who knows.
Classic carnitas flavor absolutely has bay
There’s literally a species of laurel native to Mexico that indigenous Americans used in their food for thousands of years.
Bay leaves come from various plants and are used for their distinctive flavour and fragrance. The most common source is the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). Other types include California bay laurel, Indian bay leaf, West Indian bay laurel, and Mexican bay laurel.
Mexicans, for one. Bay leaves are common in lots of cuisine.
“Mexican food”…
Just checked out a map; turns out Mexico does exist.
Big if true
Chipotle is to Mexican food what Olive Garden is to Italian cuisine.
Why is it Mexican FOOD and Italian CUISINE?
Eurocentrism
Well fuck, do the Spanish have food or cuisine?
Because despite not realizing it yet, human consciousness is just a next-word-predicting LLM, and the dataset most Americans are trained on has those as the most common next words.
I feel like it’s closer than Taco Bell at least
The number of people who think Mexico isn’t a North American country is worrying
Try asking Americans to point out South America on a map. You’ll have to not giggle as they point to Texas or Florida.
Use it in with rice all the time. Its a very subtle flavor but it definitely adds to it so it goes in.
Mexicans. At least some of them.
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I use it in Chili Colorado.
