Unpopular Opinions Post [NOT 6/2/21]

6/2/21 brightersideoflife 112
woman reading book with text in image saying so much to do, so little desire to do it

Hi friends! Happy weekend! I’m hoping we can get some entertaining arguments going in the comments tonight.

I’ll start off with some.

Mayonnaise is an abomination and should not be consumed.

Subway tuna salad was disgusting before the recent lawsuit claiming it doesn’t contain actual tuna. And not just because it has mayonnaise in it!

https://www.mashed.com/321944/subway-is-being-sued-for-its-tuna-heres-why/

Hoodies/sweatshirts/fleeces/jumpers/etc should always have a zipper front. Pullover variations are the fucking WORST because of static issues when you need to remove them.

Please, friends, add you own in the comments!

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112 Comments

  1. mayonaise is the devil?
    oh….if had a glove to slap you with i’d challenge you to a duel
    oh wait….i have two
    i challenge you to two duels !
    mayonaise and sate sauce is the bestest thing evar (i guess opinions are devided there as translated we call it war sauce)
    anyways
    pineapple is not a pizza topping
    evar
    there is no exception

    • Sate sauce, like the delicious peanut sauce you get with some Asian cuisines? I fucking love sate sauce!

      Pineapple on pizza I am ambivalent on. I think it comes back to what flavor profile your pizza sauce is. Like use a sweet bbq sauce or a sweeter pizza sauce and it works great, but like if your sauce is closer to robust red sauce oh it would be disgusting. 

      • Sate (Satay) Sauce recipe – guaranteed Thai restaurant formula. I’ve been using it for homemade satays, toast, and veggies.
        1. Masaman Curry Paste, 1 small can of paste
        2. Palm Sugar, about 1 tablespoon, increase if you like it sweeter.
        3. Coconut milk, 1 small can, skim the cream to start the sauce, use the lighter liquid for later.
        4. Ground peanut or creamy peanut butter, 2 or 3 tablespoons, moderate as needed.
        Steps:
        1) Heat up a saucepan, put in the curry paste. 
        2) When the paste starts to sizzle, put in the cream of the coconut milk. Stir well.
        3) Once it starts to bubble, add a little bit of the lighter coconut milk to thin it, then add ground peanut or peanut butter.
        4) After it starts to thicken and near boil, add the palm sugar. Keep stirring until the sugar melts completely, then take it off the heat.
        5) Keep stirring until the sauce stops bubbling.
        6) This is the hardest part: Taste it, and resist the urge to smother your body with it.

    • I never liked mayonnaise until I had real Vlaamse frites with curry mayo special sauce. That changed my mind, but only in that setting. Occasionally, fresh mayo is good. I also like aioli, but my unpopular (though correct) opinion is that aioli is NOT mayo, people!! 

    • You, and most of the world, are wrong about pineapple on pizza. It is delightful, especially paired with jalapeños. Salty + sweet + sour + spicy, what’s not to love? 

    • I love mayonnaise, especially homemade.  I have to put it away, or I will literally sit there and eat it off of a spoon/butterknife.  But I understand a lot of people don’t like it.  I think it’s more a polarizing opinion than an unpopular one?
       
      Pineapple and bacon is the best pizza topping.  More for me.

  2. BAH!  I will see your pineapple as a pizza topping and raise you pineapple as a HAMBURGER topping. Fight me!
     
    Collard and turnip greens are an abomination. They should be outlawed under the Geneva Convention. 
     
    Grits are delicious and if you fail to recognize that you need to excuse yourself from my presence. 
     
    Shrimp, crabs, and lobsters are Lovecraftian horrors that should never be consumed by human beings. YOU’RE EATING BUGS PEOPLE

  3. This is unpopular because nobody wants to agree that it applies to them: everybody has biases and prejudices, and it impacts their words, thoughts, and actions. Even subconsciously. 
     
    I am aware of some of my own prejudices, but not all of them. I want to say I don’t let my biases impact my day-to-day life, but that’s a lie. The sooner everyone makes peace with this fact, and try to be conscious about it, the better off we’ll be. 

    • Unconscious biases are huge! I got into it with a former coworker because I was like “your speech patterns and emails indicate you don’t believe women could be leadership in this group” and that did not go over well because he loves his wife and daughters dearly, etc etc. 

      Not saying everyone’s unconscious biases are on the scale of unintentional gender discrimination in the workplace, but they’re definitely a thing we all should try to be cognizant of. 

    • i dissagree
      you’re opinion is unpopular coz it actually doesnt state one…….just makes us feel bad about ours
      i mean.. you are not wrong
      but you also havent picked a side
      i need you to pick a side goddamnit,,,brighters,…or mine?
      come to the mayo and sate side 

    • This is unpopular for the same reason that “The Mandela Effect” exists.  Far too many people believe their brain to be perfect and completely flawless, to the point where when faced with indisputable evidence in contradiction with their recollection, they will sooner believe they have been shunted into an alternate timeline, then admit that maybe their memory is flawed…
      Anyways, I think I agree with you.  I think our society is so saturated with racism, sexism, and such, that nearly everyone absorbs at least a little bit of it.  I think it’s far more productive to concede that it’s likely we’ve absorbed a bit of racism and misogyny, and try to be more aware about it, and put some more thought into things, instead of just insisting “I don’t have a racist bone in my body” and continuing on…

  5. Mayonnaise is NASTY. If I am making something that calls for it I cut it in half and sub plain yogurt for the rest. But I rarely make anything that has mayo as an ingredient except deviled eggs. The article about Subway is revolting. They claim their tuna salad features tuna, WTF?  That’s some fancy tap dancing, lol.

     

     

  6. Mayo is to be use sparingly and with great caution.
    i haven’t purchased ketchup or mustard in probably a decade. 
    Collards and turnip greens are AMAZING and WONDERFUL.
    Shrimp, lobsters, etc are totally bugs of the ocean and are kinda gross scavengers. But they do taste yummy. But I can gross out on them very easily if they’re not precleaned or already prepared. Can’t do raw or non deveined without having a meltdown.
    Pineapple on pizza is awesome.
    My unpopular opinion: most American style classic birthday cakes are wayyy too cloyingly sweet and fatty tasting. I can only eat a small portion before the sugar/fat wall slams down and I can’t eat any more

      • Not that it’s happened in over a year, but I love going on cruises. And I’m always surprised the first few days that the desserts aren’t as sweet as expected and then my taste buds re-adjust. Normally by the end I get a random dessert that is super sweet and a few bites in I’m done. 

    • Yes! I am totally with you on birthday cakes. I’m not a huge cake person in general, but birthday cakes especially. I kinda enjoy 1-2 bites and then I’m DONE. Sooo sweet. Angel food cakes and bittersweet chocolate cakes are pretty much the only types I enjoy. 
       
      I’m always curious about British cakes when watching GBBO. They’ve talked about American cakes being too sweet, which makes me wonder if I would like British cakes.

    • I keep hearing people describe something as “too sweet”, and I literally cannot comprehend what they are talking about.
      I think this is because my parents wouldn’t let me eat junkfood/candy as a kid.  well, not just a kid, up through my teens.  Once I moved out to go to college, I pretty much lived off of junkfood and candy.  I’ve calmed down a bit in my old age, but I still enjoy some sugary snacks.

    • OMFG, Titanic. “My Heart Will Go On” and the dancefloor remix also suuuuuuck! And that year, Good Will Hunting or LA Confidential (or even Boogie Nights) deserved most of the Oscars Titanic swiped (Elliott Smith had the best original song, by far). 

    • I do not understand the obsession with Chick Fil A. Their chicken isn’t even good. I admit waffle fries are great, but fries at other places are also great.

      I live reasonably close to a Cane’s, Popeye’s, Chick Fil A, Gus’s, and several grocery stores that offer hot bars with fried chicken.

      You know where I haven’t eaten at in over 3 years? Jesus Chicken. 

      That’s what my old hair salon called it because they were nearby a location. “Anyone want some Jesus Chicken? I’m gonna pick up lunch soon.” etc etc

       

    • I’ve never eaten Chick-fil-a, and never seen the Titanic.  The first is just because I don’t think I’ve ever been near one, until the news about their owners being homophobic bible thumpers broke, and after that, I just didn’t give them a try the handful of times I’ve been near one. 

    • I still haven’t had CFA. They weren’t in my area until I was an adult, and by then the “they hate gays” narrative was well known so it was pretty easy for me to just keep not going there. Though unfortunately they aren’t the only business to hate gays and I had to adjust my moral shopping compass accordingly. 

    • Automatically, because of their place atop the rock music canon, the Beatles are overrated. Same with Shakespeare and Wordsworth and Whitman in the canon of Western and English and American literature: overrated.

    • I’m with you on early Beatles, and sure there were a lot of later songs written while they were being “very deep” while tripping balls, but come on, there are a lot of great Beatles songs. I grew up on the Beatles and so they also sound like home. Blackbird was one of my lullabies for Lil. 
       
      But if any of you have young kids or know someone who does DO NOT let them watch Beat Bugs FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT. Ugh. 

    • Years ago, I read the memoirs of the guy who was the President of the American division of Apple Records.  He related a story of an exchange between him and John:
       
      “Hold you in his arms, you can feel his disease.  What does that mean?”
       
      “Nothing.  I just made it up.”
       
      John went on to say that after a while he and Paul got tired of hearing other people’s interpretations of what their songs meant.  So, they simply decided to write what sounded good.  If someone offered an interpretation that they liked, then they’d tell that person, “yeah, that’s what it means.”  Otherwise, they just quit trying so hard with the lyrics.

      • If you ask my parents, who are Beatles fanatics, they would say that John was screwing with that interviewer, as they did with most interviewers. They weren’t really interested in discussing what their lyrics meant and loved that people took them in a lot of different ways, and they didn’t want to weigh in. It’s an interesting idea because there’s no way for us to really know whether there was no meaning, or intended meaning that was never expressed. Either way, they wanted people to fill in their own meaning.
         
        I certainly won’t argue that there are plenty of songs, or lines within songs, that are pure nonsense (though my parents would), but I believe many of the songs are actually quite thoughtful. And I think many are meant to evoke feelings more than to have direct meanings to every line. 

        • Right, but this wasn’t a random interviewer:  this was the President of the American division of Apple Records.  He reported directly to John and Yoko and knew them on a personal level for years.  So, I’m inclined to accept that John meant it.

          • I mean, I can accept that some lines are legit nonsense, and were picked just because the words sound poetic together. But I also am not sure that just because they knew each other well, that John wasn’t still bullshitting. I think he was bullshitting a lot of the time, I imagine also with his friends. 

  10. I’m team mayo all the way. Fries are a vehicle for mayo and ketchup (ratio 2:1). But yellow mustard is King.
    Yes to pineapple on pizza. But I’m offended at the term “Canadian Bacon”. Bacon is bacon in Canada. “Canadian bacon” would be more accurately labeled “UK Bacon”.
     

  11. Why has no one commented on your very incorrect opinion on sweatshirts? Zippers ruin sweatshirts because they destroy the comfort level (and you will never be able to nap in one), and make them less warm too. If you can take a shirt on and off, you can do the same with a sweatshirt. 

  12. I like humidity. I can’t wait until spring and I can open my windows and everything stops static clinging and my nose stops bleeding. I wanna cut the air with a knife. 

    • Haha you’re crazy, but my husband is the same way. His favorite weather is oppressively humid and hot. 
       
      I do hate the dryness of winter though. My hands and lips are cracking. 

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