Obviously not in a pedantic sense, just that they also don’t look appetizing on their own, it’s the flavor that’s associated with them that makes it work.
If we’re being honest a hamburger looks like a smashed turd and a hot dog looks like fluorescent factory meat.
Now that I think about it a regional American dish that comes to mind is the garbage plate (named aptly for being a hodgepodge of leftovers) which looks like someone unloaded on a tray of french fries part way through their colonoscopy prep and then blew their nose on top of that:
Flavor is suprisingly solid.
Another would be oatmeal which can taste quite hearty if done right but looks very much like snot in a bowl:
That’s interesting, and I agree. My parents didn’t let me eat hamburgers until i was like 15 or 17 and they reinforced this idea that they were just magically really unhealthy because places like mcdonalds sold them (i also met other people kids who were given the same programming lol).
They therefore looked pretty gross to me, and i remember at 11 y.o. telling my parents in disgust that I saw our neighbour eating a hamburger at lunch. It genuinely symbolised greed and disregsrd of health to me that much. I think that was probably the first time they realised they went overboard with the health programming.
Hotdogs are undeniably quite gross-looking if they’re the packet brought plastic-y stuff. But I LOVE THEM.
As for curry - I didn’t get offered it until I was 11 and it was a little hard to get past how it looked but luckily I was in the “I’m going to stop being a picky eater!” Phase. Nowadays the smell of food matters way more than the look, and curry is obviously perfect for that.
I love em. Favourite food as a kid, the cheap packet ones. As a teenager I realised you can have authentic sausages of that length so I usually get those when I buy hotdogs, nowadays. Try and get a deli hot dog for instance, or bratwurst.
I had the same type of programming, that just because you’re grilling or pan frying some ground beef and egg, it’s somehow unhealthy. It is if you fry it in lard, but it’s just a beef sandwich. Don’t eat a ton of fries, maybe even leave some, and it’s really not very bad, calory-wise. Salt may be a different story.
Agree, hamburgers at least taste good even if at their worst they look like compressed excrement between buns. Hot dogs can often be flavourfully dubious while also appearing as artificial factory processed mystery meat, but there are definitely exceptions!
My guess is many users are American so it will be hard to relate to but at least we can acknowledge that the appearance of food is very culturally coded / subjective.
Absolutely! It’s important to remember it’s a pretty subjective / lighthearted topic and not to take it too seriously. I can definitely see how curries can be seen that way from a different perspective. There’s an interesting history that plays into these cultural perceptions, which may explain why other meat in ‘gravy’ dishes may not come to mind first for some – such as meatloaf and gravy which can only be described aesthetically as a spurt of diarrhea on top of a sliced turd.
There seemed to be a need for a greater diversity of foods being pointed out here so thought we could broaden the horizons of this discourse, make it a little more inclusive and maybe even learn a little something about how a perspective is, at the end of the day, just an arbitrary amalgamation (kind of like the garbage plate I posted above) of subjective views. Tongue firmly in cheek, of course.
Feel the same way about hot dogs and hamburgers. Must depend on what you grow up with.
What are you puking up that it comes out looking like a fully formed hamburger or hot dog?
Obviously not in a pedantic sense, just that they also don’t look appetizing on their own, it’s the flavor that’s associated with them that makes it work.
If we’re being honest a hamburger looks like a smashed turd and a hot dog looks like fluorescent factory meat.
Now that I think about it a regional American dish that comes to mind is the garbage plate (named aptly for being a hodgepodge of leftovers) which looks like someone unloaded on a tray of french fries part way through their colonoscopy prep and then blew their nose on top of that:
Flavor is suprisingly solid.
Another would be oatmeal which can taste quite hearty if done right but looks very much like snot in a bowl:
Garbage plate looks like the fucking Kennedy autopsy but I’d crush it
That’s interesting, and I agree. My parents didn’t let me eat hamburgers until i was like 15 or 17 and they reinforced this idea that they were just magically really unhealthy because places like mcdonalds sold them (i also met other
peoplekids who were given the same programming lol).They therefore looked pretty gross to me, and i remember at 11 y.o. telling my parents in disgust that I saw our neighbour eating a hamburger at lunch. It genuinely symbolised greed and disregsrd of health to me that much. I think that was probably the first time they realised they went overboard with the health programming.
Hotdogs are undeniably quite gross-looking if they’re the packet brought plastic-y stuff. But I LOVE THEM.
As for curry - I didn’t get offered it until I was 11 and it was a little hard to get past how it looked but luckily I was in the “I’m going to stop being a picky eater!” Phase. Nowadays the smell of food matters way more than the look, and curry is obviously perfect for that.
Hotdogs are fucking gross. Look and taste
I love em. Favourite food as a kid, the cheap packet ones. As a teenager I realised you can have authentic sausages of that length so I usually get those when I buy hotdogs, nowadays. Try and get a deli hot dog for instance, or bratwurst.
I had the same type of programming, that just because you’re grilling or pan frying some ground beef and egg, it’s somehow unhealthy. It is if you fry it in lard, but it’s just a beef sandwich. Don’t eat a ton of fries, maybe even leave some, and it’s really not very bad, calory-wise. Salt may be a different story.
Agree, hamburgers at least taste good even if at their worst they look like compressed excrement between buns. Hot dogs can often be flavourfully dubious while also appearing as artificial factory processed mystery meat, but there are definitely exceptions!
My guess is many users are American so it will be hard to relate to but at least we can acknowledge that the appearance of food is very culturally coded / subjective.
You can both be right
Absolutely! It’s important to remember it’s a pretty subjective / lighthearted topic and not to take it too seriously. I can definitely see how curries can be seen that way from a different perspective. There’s an interesting history that plays into these cultural perceptions, which may explain why other meat in ‘gravy’ dishes may not come to mind first for some – such as meatloaf and gravy which can only be described aesthetically as a spurt of diarrhea on top of a sliced turd.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking
There seemed to be a need for a greater diversity of foods being pointed out here so thought we could broaden the horizons of this discourse, make it a little more inclusive and maybe even learn a little something about how a perspective is, at the end of the day, just an arbitrary amalgamation (kind of like the garbage plate I posted above) of subjective views. Tongue firmly in cheek, of course.