is not always going to work.
How often does one have to try?
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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"NON-GMO"
Proceeds to use banana...
I agree that most anti-GMO stances are silly, but Cavendish bananas aren't GMO. (The history of major banana cultivars is super interesting, though!)
Almost all food crops are GMO through the practice of selective breeding. Bananas have been altered to be sterile, seedless, and have larger edible fruit.
Oh, totally agreed. It's just not in the way the person in the post cares about.
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Yes, but can us Pro-GMO get Gros Michels back into production? I'll let Monsanto inject me with 5G Tylenol vaccines for the rebirth of those yellow fatties.
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I feel like you should at least have the ingredients that are in the name of the dish.
Theseus' recipe. How many ingredients can you replace before it's a different dish?
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I just recently found out that (in some cakes) bananes actually can eb eggs. Pretty cool!
Apple Sauce is a great substitute too! About 60g / ¼ cup per egg. It works especially well in cakes that are already pretty moist, like brownies.
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Thing is a ripe mashed banana can be used as an egg substitute for recipes. Not that one clearly.
Ok, but ... sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn't an egg, you know?
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Depends what the egg is being used for. As a binder? Absolutely! Works great in cakes. But you certainly are not making custard with it.
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Probably not when it's the main ingredient like in this case
Might as well just make a banana pie
I followed your advice and made a banana pie. But as I didn't have any bananas at hand I replaced them with eggs. The pie had an eggy consistency and didn't taste anything like banana.
Bad advice, 1/10, wouldn't do it again.
Instructions unclear; what do I do with this circuit board?
Did you just substitute raspberries for bananas that were supposed to be eggs?
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This has to be bait, "no gmo gluten free vegans"?!
C'moooooon
My ex's Mom is a vegetarian (who also doesn't believe in using GMOs or a microwave) and her Dad has celiac and legitimately can't do gluten.
I hate trying to cook for them, and I REALLY hate it when they cook for me. Her Dad made these "dessert" balls that are made from flax seed and sadness the first time we met and I pretended to like them to be polite. Now he always makes me a bunch of them and I have to choke them down with a smile. I'll bee seeing them Friday and know I get to look forward to chomping on birdseed.
Then you have people from the opposite end of the spectrum. One time I received "protein cookies" from a friend and it was just baked chocolate whey protein powder 🤣. You'd expect something like that to work okay-ish, but it was a very, very sad cookie with way too much sweetener.
I don't know how to cook for shit (I once set pasta on fire) but I feel like even my dumbass could figure out how to make that work. Motherfucker needs to refine their recipe.
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Why do you keep that lie up?
Because he's a very sweet man and really enjoys sharing them with me. I'm not gonna take that away from him.
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Also the reply says the recipe is for an egg custard tart. Why would a vegan even be looking at a recipe like that?
My wife was gluten free for awhile for health reasons on doctors orders. She would try to make the most outrageous gluten free versions of food because she missed them, but they were always terrible. I kept telling her, instead of making a bad version of a good food, make healthy food taste good.
Yep. For instance, making a vegan version of a non vegan food can turn out disappointing. But a food that is just vegan to start with? Delicious.
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I've met people like this. They are real and usually not invited back.
Edit: same to anyone claiming to be allergic to msg! Mfer I just saw you drink a bloody Mary!
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I used to try and gauge how good a recipe I found online is by reading through the comments that people leave below. However, about 10 years ago or so, I had to stop because it seemed like nearly every single one had multiple comments like this, though not quite as extreme. I think some people are like me, they must enjoy pretending to be faceboomers and leaving ridiculous comments on random sites. I still remember one that I read a while ago that gave me a giant chuckle. But most of them just give me heart burn. Then again so does eggs.
I love recipe comments like these. It is really just insight into how absolutely ludicrous and entitled people are. Why can't your recipe simply bend reality to my will, and modify itself into what I desire to give me the outcome of my dreams.
"Instead of chicken I used an unborn cow's fetus and it tasted a bit funny, 1/5 stars"
We didn't have any potatoes on hand for the potato salad so we used diced up and used our pet clown fish instead. It tasted funny.
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I feel like about ten years ago the Internet was invaded by non Internet people. As in there was a large influx of idiots who were previously unable to be online because it required an actual PC, stable internet connection and some know how. Then dipshits with iPhones started posting their dumbass stream of thought messages with voice to text.
I die a little each time I read something and some halfwit used "ewe" instead of "you."
A+ for diplomacy