came here to make a silly comment. i can see im not needed here.

We call them Karen

This thread is just going to be peppered with puns now.

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.

What are you talking about? Every generation in the US knows more about food than the ones before.

Boomers were raised on canned/frozen nonsense and basically had no variety. Their vegetables were underseasoned and overcooked. Their pickiness about cuts of meat left many delicious parts of the animals underappreciated scraps. They knew each fruit as basically one cultivar, like how all apples were the utterly mediocre red delicious. Even their bread was boring.

Their restaurant scene was pathetic, with Italian American food representing the pinnacle of exotic cuisine. Any immigrant opening a restaurant for American diners would have to carefully water down their traditions to fit American tastes and the American supply chain.

No thank you, I'd never travel back in time to eat or cook the way people did 50 years ago. Food is better now, and it's largely because today's cooks and diners know way more about food than people did back then.

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.

While that is true, not recognizing a bayleaf is a sign of embarrassing stupidity.

Wait, they go to a bay and pick up leaves to put in food? Urgh, yuck!
Why can't they just use the aromatic herb from a laurel tree?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Since when is chipotle ultra processed? Can we be a littler more responsible about how we talk about things so that we don't make the fight harder since just convincing people that ultra processed food is shitty is shitty already.

Not if everything is the max then there it's all just noise that's gets harder and harder not to just dismiss

It's just hilarious they don't understand a bay leaf, but as Randal said that one time, they are one of today's 10,000

Finding out how things get flavoured is a great learning experience when you are 5 or going on 85

Can we be a little more compassionate and kind to each other, even the people that will never see us or know how we respond. Just makes you a more pleasant and wonderful person

Edit: I'm in Canada and chipotle is relatively new so perhaps there are giant regional differences that I'm not aware of?