• TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
    147·
    4 days ago

    From the article in [35]

    As Arseny explained: “I think if they want to know how King’s Hand tastes, they should bake it themselves and tell me. Somebody actually did that, so I have one testimonial; they baked it and they said it’s shit.”

    Shitpostception

  • BoosBeau@lemmy.world
    361·
    3 days ago

    I once had a dream about a “lobster hotdog.” A lobster tail in a buttered hotdog bun. I went to a sports bar that happened to serve lobster tail and had hot dog buns. The waitress willing let me order this culinary sin. On an occasion, I still wake up in a cold sweat with the faint memory of processed bread and shellfish…

    • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
      60·
      3 days ago

      Wait, you mean a Connecticut-style lobster roll? Which is amazing? Are you messin’ with me? Culinary sin? You mean culinary heaven?

      • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        19·
        3 days ago

        I tried a lobster roll for the first time last year and I’m mostly disappointed. Every single place sold them for around 40 to 50 USD. It was just buttered lobster which is good but for the amount I got, it was definitely not worth, and honestly I’d rather have bread on the side than as a roll

        • OshagHennessey@lemmy.world
          20·
          3 days ago

          The popularity of lobster rolls mostly comes from a time, not so long ago, when eating lobster and shrimp was on about the same level as eating crickets. People in the Northeast would catch them for export. Poor kids brought lobster rolls to school, rich kids brought baloney sandwiches or Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Eventually, people decided lobster was a “luxury” food so now you get these tiny little lobster rolls for absurb prices. Hard to understand how they’d attract any new fans today.

          • BanMe@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 days ago

            We did make improvements since then, like dousing in butter and cooking only to a delicate texture instead of pencil erasers. If you had the old fashioned style you’d be grossed out too.

          • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            5·
            3 days ago

            I might be biased but Asian style of lobster is amazing. My favorite is salted egg yolk lobster (I think also literally translated as golden sand or smth)

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I’ve had a good one before. They’re rare AF. Most places just seem to throw some overcooked butter-drenched lobster claw meat on a Pepperidge Farm top split and call it a day. You need to go somewhere with an actual chef to get one properly executed. (or maybe an ancient Northeastern grandmother)

          Lobster salad, no huge chunks, relatively dry, properly salted, moderately spiced. A Top-split roll that’s soft on the outside and crunchy butter-fried on the inside.

          Even at their best, you won’t cry for it when it’s gone. It’ll just be a “that was good” and a nice solemn happiness that you ate it.

        • Lenggo@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 days ago

          I’ve had a few but would never pay that much. Especially after having one from McDonald’s in Maine awhile ago for like $10 that tasted exactly the same. I check every time I’m up there and it’s never been available again

          • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            3 days ago

            In all fairness. I was in Boston (and in the seaport area) when I first tried it, so I’m sure it could’ve been cheaper. But this definitely isn’t a food that gets better the more you pay for it.

            • BanMe@lemmy.world
              5·
              3 days ago

              The Iowa State Fair is doing them for $100, includes gold leaf for some reason, add caviar and Dom and it’s $800.

              Just to point out Iowa wasn’t nearly this stupid when I grew up there in the 80s, they were actually fairly progressive and tech-forward for a while, wish a dash of country polite.

              • Ledivin@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 days ago

                I wouldn’t even eat lobster in Iowa, let alone pay that much for it. Where do people think the lobster is coming from?

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          I’ve never had lobster roll - or indeed lobster - but from the name I imagined it to be lobster rolled up in something like a pig in a blanket (though I’ve heard that varies from place to place as well; my variant is just a hot dog rolled up in a croissant).

          I was pretty disappointed the first time someone around me ordered one and it was just lobster in a roll … Though I admit it makes sense.

          • nostrauxendar@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 days ago

            A hot dog in a croissant? That’s wild, I didn’t realise pigs in blankets were different around the world (presumably you’re not in the UK?). In England, pigs in blankets are little sausages wrapped in bacon!

            • toynbee@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 days ago

              No, I’m not in the UK.

              What you describe is delicious, too, but I’m not aware of a colloquialism that describes it.

              What I’m accustomed to by that name is a less fancy looking version of this:

              American pigs in a blanket

                • toynbee@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  3 days ago

                  I don’t put seeds on mine, but they seem like sesame seeds. What were you picturing?

                  The rolls are:
                  https://www.pillsbury.com/products/crescents/original

                  I wouldn’t call them sweet, but from what I understand the UK and US have very different definitions of that taste, so you might.

                  edit: That might actually just be salt. Pretty sure it’s sesame though.

                • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  Precook? The bacon and sausages just need to be thin enough, ie. pancetta sliced and chipolata, respectively. Possibly better roasted so they don’t need to be turned (they may unravel).

                  Traditionally, short chipolatas are used, sometimes referred to as cocktail sausages, although this can also refer to cold, precooked sausages of the same size.

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 days ago

        When my wife and son took a trip up yhr Maine coast they had these at every chance available. And the honor system roadside pie stands.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      Up to that point, I was looking at the description in disbelief, but burst out laughing when I read “greek salad”. The hand cookie bit was just realistic enough to get it in the uncanny valley (the photo looked like an AI cookie hand, too… Actually, it might still be, I don’t know if that photo was from the lady that made them or added for the memenm, it says she produced photos in the meme… Really wish voyager’s comment UI showed more than just the one comment I’m replying to like RIF), but the greek salad put it well into absurd territory. Just imagining people biting into their over the top cookie thing and then making a wtf face at the combination of flavours in their mouth, though it would be even better if the initial surprise and disgust gets replaced by a confused look and then a “well played, not bad” because it works.

      Lol I literally just had a greek salad earlier today but didn’t even think to check how it tastes with chocolate chip cookie, so who knows, maybe it is good.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I immediately wondered if some other country called something else “Greek salad”… I tried to click the link in the photo to see if it was another name for like Ambrosia Salad or something desserty.

      Nope… Just a delicious, oily, salty Greek salad like I know and love from the local Coney.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 days ago

    I once had a dream about two brother inventors who were trying to build a cheaper space rocket but they were strugglingvwith investors and running out of money, so the fun brother (in my dream he was played by Ryan Reynolds, I shit you not) spent the last of their money developing a prototype of some roller skates that played music, but only while you were moving. When the skates stopped rolling the music stopped. He was dressed in pink booty shorts and was trying to sell preorders of his musical skates at an LGBT pride festival but it’s not going well.

    Then his brother bawls him out for wasting their money and declared their partnership over. Ryan Reynolds can’t talk him back, and walks off, but he’s walking awkwardly on the grass with his skates, and because they aren’t rolling continuously, he is just sadly shuffling over the grass while his skates play, in broken spurts and stops, that “Firework” song from that American woman singer.

    There was more to the dream, it was movie length and extremely vivid, but that was the funniest part.

    So in my dream I invented shitty musical roller skates that even a gay Ryan Reynolds couldn’t sell at a pride fest.

    • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Man I’m always jealous of people tbat get to have goofy dreams like this. Weird stuff that just sounds fun, or sexy dreams, or dreams about flying etc. 98% of the time i don’t remember anything. When I do it’s shit like a plane crashing into my house with my family inside, or holding my dog in my arms as it dies from cancer. Lost track of the number of times I’ve woken up with no clear memory of my dream, just feeling terrified or with a horrible unnamed sense of sadness and loss. I’d much prefer Ryan Reynolds on musical rollerskates.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 days ago

      Ryan Reynolds… dressed in pink booty shorts … at an LGBT pride festival but it’s not going well.

      Well that’s just unrealistic.

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        To be fair in my dream, the other brother was the business savvy marketing genius, the Ryan Reynolds brother was an eccentric visionary engineer who made people uncomfortable with his enthusiasm.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
    181·
    3 days ago

    You only need to change a few ingredients for it to be nice.

    Make it bread dough, and replace the M&Ms with small cubes of cheese.

    Then replace the “Greek salad” bit with melted cheese.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Anywhere between like 15 and 45, I think. I dunno because i didn’t look it up and im not a brain doctor guy.