Unpopular Opinions Post [NOT 30/6/21]

30/6/21 brightersideoflife 44
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Hi, friends! It’s mid-summer and thanks to all the damn bbq/cookout/picnic/etc -themed commercials, I am seeing condiments commercials a lot.

I’m just going to say it.

Yellow mustard is fucking gross.

Dijon mustard? Okay in small doses, awesome in vinaigrettes. A solid ingredient to add to vegetarian soups when you’re like “it’s missing something but I’m not sure what.”

Mustard seeds and mustard powder? Great as a spice in my food.

But “classic” yellow mustard? GROSS.

What sorts of unpopular opinions do you have lately? Anything summer-related?

Also, I dislike seedless watermelons because typically they lack flavor. I’d rather deal with seeds than blandness.

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44 Comments

  1. I despise onions with every fiber of my being. I will pick them out of everything. 
     
     
    -This message has been paid for by the Anti-Onion Coalition.

      • On the subject of French Onion Soup, I stand with Butcher. 

        • i love onions….hate onion soup
          come to think of it..i love mustard but hate mustard soup too
          and tomatos…but tomato soup is a solid…..eh….if i have to
          all that…despite me generally loving soups….wierd

      • French Onion Soup = YUM!

    • Oh that has to make restaurant eating a pain, onions are in damn near everything in a lot of places. 

      • That and mayo. I went to a restaurant last weekend where almost everything had onions and mayo. Like… ?!?! Fucking gross??? I start to feel like an ass when i ask them to “hold” more than one ingredient so it wad hard to find something. 

      • Yes, it is my nightmare.

    • I have an onion sensitivity that absolutely wrecks my GI tract. So I have to pick them out.

  2. Yellow mustard is really only good on fast food.  Goes with the whole over processed motif.

    Over the decades, people decided at some point that adverbs were no longer needed.  Now people say things like “drive safe”, or “that turned out bad”.  Well, I say fuck that.  Use those fucking adverbs the way they were meant to be used–liberally, joyously and as expeditiously as you possibly can.  Christ, doesn’t anyone remember their SchoolHouse Rock?

    I will die on this hill.  As slowly, painfully and spitefully as I can manage.

    • I’m with you except for corned beef and cabbage, I require either old fashioned yellow mustard or a jalepeno mustard.  

      • My grandfather used to call yellow mustard “baby mustard “ for reasons I’ll let you figure out. He used to call corned beef and cabbage “corned beef and garbage. “

    • I’m fine with adverbs. I’m also fine with yellow mustard. Dijon sucks on hot dogs. The end. 

    • And if that fast food is cooked properly, that yellow mustard is  the PERFECT accompaniment!😉😁🤗
      Crinkle-cut fries, or Tater tots cooked a deep golden brown?
      The sharp, vinegary, saltiness of a “plain” yellow mustard is the exact right flavor to balance the sweet, starchy, blandness of the potato💖
      And it also balances out the over-sweetness of ketchup on a cheap burger, or an old-fashioned, all-beef (skin-on!) hotdog, like Schweigert’s.
       
      For sandwiches, spicy brown, or even Dijon is alllllways gonna be a better choice, unless you’re eating something like bologna…
      But for fries cooked right?
      French’s Yellow, Plochmann’s, or Heinz yellow mustard, all the way!😁
       

  3. I despise mayo on almost everything.  Everything except chicken and salmon/tuna salad, some potato salad, macaroni salad and Thanksgiving leftover turkey sandwiches.
    It is one of these Euro/North American food things I don’t ever understand.
    Plus it gives me really bad heartburn.

    • I have a sister who hates onions and mayo.

    • I fucking hate mayo. I can tolerate on salads like you mentioned, but at home I make them with with either sour cream or plain yogurt or mashed avocado instead. 

      Seriously, if I see someone scooping mayo from a jar sometimes it will even trigger a gag reflex in me. GROSS

  4. 1. Sometimes when I get leg cramps, I eat SPOONFULS of yellow mustard. That’s for brightersideoflife. Yes, SPOONFULS.
     
    2. Mayonnaise is fine, just not the fake stuff/salad dressing. 
     
    3. Onions are appropriate in some situations. Not in others. Cooked is, in general, better than raw. 
     
    4. I know you’re trying to get me and Butcher into it over bacon. I’m not taking the bait. I will settle accounts with him on a day of my choosing. 
     
    5. Corn on the cob is ambrosia. 
     
    6. Watermelon sucks in general. 
     
    7. Boiled peanuts are a culinary masterpiece. Bonus points for Cajun. 
     
    8. Chicken wings are an abomination before God. 
     
    9. Jello sucks. And no, I’m not just saying this because Cosby got sprung. It sucked before Cosby. 
     
    10. Vanilla is the best ice cream. You can dress it up. You can’t take your other flavors out for a night on the town. 

    • Corn on the cob is overrated, so is ice cream of any flavor. Watermelon is the best thing about summer. I get 2 every Sunday at the farmers market and eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I agree on the boiled peanuts and chicken wings though. 

      • Corn on the cob is great if you don’t mind stopping everything in the middle of a meal to floss. So much fun.

        • Like a perpetual kid with braces, I still saw off the corn kernels from the cob with a knife before eating them.

    • Isn’t it just the acetic acid in the vinegar in the mustard that helps the cramps?

      Why not just take a swig of ACV?

      Also strong agreement with the vanilla ice cream. A well-done vanilla ice cream is sublime!

      • I think I remember reading something about vinegar-based drinks being used in the summer/for labor, on the basis it would help with cramps?
        posca? switchel?  I can’t remember, but I’ve tried making a few, they seemed ok.  but I also like vinegar…

      • Yes, you’re right. But I’d rather eat a spoonful of mustard than swig vinegar. But I haven’t found myself without mustard when I get serious cramps, so vinegar is an option. It’s usually my hands or feet, and they twist up freakishly. Horrifies my wife. 

        • I fucking hate cramps like that. I get them very rarely thankfully but they’re so bad!

    • 7. Boiled peanuts are a culinary masterpiece. Bonus points for Cajun.  Yes! 9. Jello sucks. And no, I’m not just saying this because Cosby got sprung. It sucked before Cosby.  Facts. 
      10. Vanilla is the best ice cream. You can dress it up. You can’t take your other flavors out for a night on the town. 
      If you mean vanilla bean, I’m very much with you.

  5. I mix Matouk’s West Indian Hot Sauce with Dijon as a sauce for steak…might explain why I like to drink milk with my steak.

  6. I like humidity. It’s been Florida humid here lately and YES. Give it to me. Both my nostrils work, my skin looks great, I don’t wake up in the middle of the night to cough. 
     
    I think I was a lizard in a previous life.

    • Second that. In cold weather, my skin cracks and bleeds. I’m a delicate hothouse flower. 

    • I’ve lived around heavy humidity here in St Louis for so much of my life that when I was in grad school in Alabama I didn’t like how dry it was.

      Anyways, while I might complain about being swampy outside sometimes in the summer, I too love the humidity. 

    • im fine with humidity…long as it isnt paired with heat…according to my phone theres currently 99% humidity outside and im perfectly comfy with that..
      course thats with a temperature in the high 50s
      into the 80s i have major issues with the air being thick enough to cut

  7. All my opinions are unpopular, and I’m mostly ok with that.  I’m not really trying to change anybody’s mind, I mostly just want to be left alone in my wrongness.
     
    I’m having trouble thinking of any especially inflammatory ones right now, so I’ll just check back later and see what others have posted…

    • Nevermind, here are two:
      tanto points suck (granted, this one is really narrow, and probably won’t rile feathers here…)
      If you properly sharpen your chef’s knife, there is no reason to own a bread knife

      • But the bread knife is PERFECT for cutting pool noodles into smaller chunks, for kids to play with!
         
        It glides through them like they’re butter, and the foam doesn’t stick to that narrower blade, like it would with the depth of a chef’s knife or Santoku!
        😉🤣💖

  8. My biggest two-
     
    Red mangoes are disgusting, and they TASTE like a mouthfuls of B.O!!!!🤢🤢🤢
    Other mangoes? Not so much–they taste fine, and not like manky armpit.
     
    Also?
     
    Lavender is a TRASH flower, agitating, *NOT* relaxing–and just like Jasmine–it’s incorporation into any foodstuffs instantly renders that food completely inedible!
     
    Because it tastes like you’ve sucked on an eighty-year old bottle of perfume that someone’s grandfather brought home for his sweetheart, when he was a young GI fighting the Nazis in France during WW2….
    🤢🤢🤢

  9. Oh my, I love condiments. I especially love a japanese mayo called kewpie. It’s so good. Homemade mayo OTOH grosses me out, I know what’s in there, ecoli.
    I like cheese, I don’t like cheese sauce, like macaroni and cheese, yuck. I have some form of lactose intolerance, it’s weird, I can’t eat yogurt or too much dairy. Small dollops of sour cream are fine. Even some plant based milk gives me a stomach ache. This is a big reason why I don’t like spanakopita, the cheese and all that butter makes me feel quite ill.
    Oh, @lochaber, you’ll have to pry my bread knife specialized cooking gadgets out of my cold dead hands.

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