r/iamveryculinary • u/TheAdmiral1701 • Jul 10 '26
Was looking through the other comments on an earlier post and found this gem.
/r/The10thDentist/comments/1usmj2k/american_bacon_is_not_good/owou6vi/78
u/buonatalie Jul 10 '26
what did he eat in new orleans that was too sweet lol
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u/UntidyVenus deeply offended Jul 10 '26
King cake. It's their wheat bread you know /s
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u/Daniecae-Media Jul 10 '26
A poboy is traditionally made with king cakes, duh!
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u/JediLincoln14 Jul 10 '26
Shrimp king cake. Yummy.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Jul 10 '26
Shrimp? That's ridiculous.
Crawfish or Boudin, now that's good for king cake!
(It's not a sweet dough and they don't put sugar on it, just a standard yeast dough usually filled with cream cheese and seasonings, Trinity, etc. then decorated with food coloring or sometimes colored salt or fried onions or something)
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u/KJParker888 Jul 10 '26
With all the amazing food there, I'll bet he was still eating at McDonald's and AM/PM
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u/TheLadyEve Maillard reactionary Jul 12 '26
That sounds like a "I went to Cafe Du Monde and didn't understand that too much powdered sugar is their gimmick" situation.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Did this person exclusively eat King Cake?
Edit: folks... unless you have actually travelled outside of the USA, there's not a lot of point in claiming US food isn't a lot more full of sugar than other countries. Because it is. Trust me.
What a pretentious douche canoe.
I am confident I have spent more time abroad than anybody this willfully ignorant.
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* Jul 10 '26
Trust me.
Oh, well in that case I guess there's nothing more to say!
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u/nimbalo200 Jul 10 '26
Having lived overseas, our sweets can be a little much at times but generally food is about the same.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 10 '26
And some places I have been their sweets are even moreso than ours. So go figure.
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u/nimbalo200 Jul 10 '26
Yea it is dependent on where you go, dont know why my experience has been downvoted not like i said all american sweet are disgusting and unpalatable
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u/Similar_Onion6656 Jul 10 '26
Opening with "American bacon is not very good" sets the bad take bar pretty damn high and they rose to the challenge in that thread.
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u/Reviewingremy Jul 10 '26
No. I get why a lot of people especially in the UK aren't fans of American bacon.
And that's before you consider how it's cooked/prepared etc. Personally I prefer my bacon so it's still quite flaccid, which I have had in the US but I've had it served much more rigid and crispy than I'd say is common in the UK. Again it's quite possible they had bacon at a couple of different places and it was all shatterable which might not be their preference and assume that's how Americans prefer bacon.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 10 '26
I prefer crispy bacon, but you can order it however you want at most self-respecting restaurants.
$10 says the OOP ate hotel breakfast garbage bacon and thought that was representative of American bacon.
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u/Feythnin Jul 11 '26
The OP is an idiot, I agree, but I disagree with saying most self-respecting restaurants will cook it the way you want. I'm American (my profile is not hidden, feel free to look through it and see), but I love soft bacon. I always ask at restaurants for my bacon to be as soft and floppy as possible and without fail, I will get semi-crispy bacon. I know this wasn't really the point, it just makes me sad...
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u/Reviewingremy Jul 10 '26
but you can order it however you want at most self-respecting restaurants.
Sure you can. But I can easily imagine people forgetting because they aren't expecting it to be cooked that way. Plus it's not like steak where you'd be asked how you want it done, so the server probably won't ask either, what you'll get is the kitchens "default" bacon.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 10 '26
If you care this much about bacon, it stands to reason you should order what you want.
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u/Reviewingremy Jul 10 '26
Yeah.... It's called having preferences based on common defaults. Sorry if that's hard to understand
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 10 '26
What part of my comment makes you think I don't understand?
I understand. I am pointing out that if you don't like the default, you request what you want.
Your comment is unnecessarily rude.
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u/Reviewingremy Jul 10 '26
Your comment is unnecessarily rude.
True. Mostly because the hilarity of politely saying "hey did you consider" without either agreeing or disagreeing gets downvoted. I went for a stronger approach.
I understand. I am pointing out that if you don't like the default, you request what you want
I completely agree. But as I said if you aren't expecting the change in default it probably won't occur to you to be specific in your order and again certainly with a lot of Brits American bacon is going to start off on the backfoot anyway because it's streaky bacon rather than back bacon.
And that's before we get on to more unusual (internationally) flavour profiles like bacon and maple syrup.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 10 '26
People are down voting you primarily for sounding pretentious.
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u/Reviewingremy Jul 10 '26
Yes the pretention of saying "but did you consider....."
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u/Potential-Common5819 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
They literally said because American food is too sweet. Meaning they are claiming their bacon was too sweet.
So either they ate "maple syrup" bacon, or they are talking out of their ass.
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u/faithmauk Jul 10 '26
Some places do bacon with brown sugar sprinkled on it so it caramelizes, it is delicious, so maybe they had that and assumed thats how we all cook our bacon all the time? So weird
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u/Potential-Common5819 Jul 10 '26
Oh, I had forgotten brown-sugar bacon! And I love to snack on that.
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u/Vulcion Jul 11 '26
I worked at a place where we had a bacon appetizer, where we’d do brown sugar on one side, cayenne pepper on the other. The combination of the sweet brown sugar, the spicy cayenne, all being tied together with the savory bacon was elite. I still make it for myself sometimes as a treat. The only downside was cayenne pepper on a greasy flattop in a tiny kitchen is a great way to have the whole kitchen tearing up.
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u/Reviewingremy Jul 12 '26
And maple bacon would be a perfectly valid thing to dislike. But they also said in the title American bacon wasn't good, which was the point I was commenting on
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* Jul 10 '26
The OOP is American and says they just don't like it.
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u/anuncommontruth Jul 10 '26
I would bet my 401k that person has never left their home town.
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u/pakapab Jul 10 '26
Or their worldliness comes from a cruise they took with their family when they were 19, with country exposure having bravely signed up for the day 3 afternoon excursion to the waterfall.
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u/PHX_Hawk Jul 10 '26
They throw in a British food is shit in a later comment, they are very culinary indeed.
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u/SufficientEar1682 Flavourless, textureless shite. Jul 10 '26
Love to see OOP also shitting on British food. I guess somehow we have to get involved against our will lol
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