• @owenfromcanada
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    318 months ago

    OPENUPTHEBREADANDPUTONBEANSPROUTS

    BEANSPROUTS

  • TragicNotCute
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    8 months ago

    This article about them is pretty hilarious in spots.

    We would dutifully order our sandwiches and about ten seconds into eating his, my dad, with some gooey bean sprouts hanging out of one corner of his mouth, would get this look on his face like he had just chugged some unadulterated lemon juice mixed with vinegar. “See,” my mother would chide him, “you don’t like them.” Nevertheless, we’d find ourselves back at Salem Lowe the following winter.

    But here’s the thing. I wouldn’t say that I love the taste of a chop suey sandwich either. I dare say that virtually everyone who lives on Boston’s North Shore would agree with me.

    They didn’t like it and contend that no one really does, but they keep going back to order them.

    https://www.aboutthemeparks.fun/p/i-got-a-chop-suey-sandwich-for-fathers

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      They didn’t like it and contend that no one really does, but they keep going back to order them.

      That would make for a good post theme: “Why do people keep going back for food they don’t like?”

      Off the top of my head I’m thinking about stuff like fruitcakes, chalk-tasting valentines hearts, candy corn for Halloween… except those all have a holiday / special day theme. Hmm…

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          Good point in reality.
          Don’t some fast food joints (like McD’s) add artificial flavoring agents to the hot food such that they get diffused in to the air, whetting peoples taste buds?

          Point is that the food never quite tastes as good as it smells, and in fact might make you feel downright badly afterwards. Yet next time you pass by, you might just smell those delicious smells and make the same bad decision again.

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    228 months ago

    Maggots, Michael… You’re eating maggots.

    How do they taste?

  • @Son_of_dad
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    108 months ago

    Are they even aware that chop Suey contains vegetables and sauce and flavor?