Very in character for anon.
This is something an alien would do. It would perfectly fit as a scene in the Resident Alien series. And now I’m kinda disappointed it wasn’t.
The bag (usually) has cooking instructions written on the it…
Ignorance I can forgive, but lack of curiosity is inexcusable.
We live in a hot climate and all my kids loved to eat frozen corn, frozen. I could never cook it because if I bought a bag they would raid it.
Belongs in the category of things you know once somebody told you. I think we all have little things that nobody has ever taught us and everyone else knows.
I knew a guy like this. He said he didn’t like sunflower seeds for the same reason he didn’t like shrimp. “Too crunchy”. Apparently he was eating the shell and all of both of these things…
Okay but a properly fried shrimp is peak with the shell on. Good snappy crunch to it, they help hold the flavor in, wonderful. And for tails I usually don’t even care how they’re cooked I just go ahead and eat the tails shell in saves a lot of hassle and they’re pretty good
Depends on the shrimp.
Also a good source of [compound that lubricates your joints].
Mmmm bone lube
Did he like bananas?
No, but he loved coconuts
Crunchy!
You take of the skin? Such a waste… that’s where all the electrolytes are.
It’s what plants crave.
I have always eaten sunflower seeds and peanuts w/ the shell on. I know the other way, but I prefer them shell on.
Cleanest colon in the lower 48
I love frozen fruit and veg! If you’ve never tried it then don’t knock it
I work with a kid who really likes cold sensations in his mouth (autism, this kind of experience isn’t uncommon.) At snack time he eats frozen peas and frozen blueberries.
Which is why when I recently cooked with frozen peas, I tried a few before cooking. I get it, I’m a fan of peas and the novel texture of them being frozen was interesting. I didn’t love it enough to make a new snack out of it, but you’re right - you never know until you try.
Try frozen fruit. Dude, so good. Frozen cherries, frozen pineapple, frozen mango, mmmmm
Yeah, frozen peas sounds pretty edible and even nice for current weather
Me too! When I was a kid, my grandmother would give me a little bowl of frozen peas and corn to snack on. Now I give my kids the same and they strongly prefer them cold.
I won’t dog on them since the context implies this is ESL, but seeing “etc.” punctuated as though it’s an acronym is unholy.
Why did you have to point it out? I didn’t even notice until you did!
If their first language is a Romance language it still isn’t an excuse, because “etc” comes from the Latin.
But punctuation rules might be very different, e.g. in Spanish ordinal numerals are supposed to have a dot to denote that it’s a contraction: 1.º
Nowadays this seems to die down, but it still is in the rules:
Entre el número y la letra volada debe haber un punto.
There must be a period between the number and the superscript letter.
Do any of those languages actually have a rule that you’re supposed to put a dot in the middle of “et,” though? It’d be pretty weird if they did because “et” is one word…
“e.t.c.” makes about as much sense as “a.n.d. other things.”
(At least the old-fashioned English way of doing it, with a ligature connecting the e and t like so: “&c” was somewhat reasonable.)
Totally gay, because office bro was totally hoping to get some booty.
But damn if I can’t believe this is true. I’ve met people that are that unaware of that kind of thing. Shit, I once had to teach a 76 year old man how to operate a can opener because up until then, his wife had done all kitchen stuff.
I started the case maybe two weeks before and had been doing the meal prep because home health. One morning, I show up and my man is stabbing at the top of a can with an old butcher knife. I freak out a little because, damn, dude needs a nurse’s assistant, so an already less than ideal tool was crazy dangerous. Also, dude had decided to ignore the nicely arranged food I had cooked the day before, which is story in itself.
So I dig through the drawers and find a shitty old can opener. Show him how to use it, and Bob’s your uncle. Mostly.
Dude wasn’t senile, believe it or not. Just not the brightest crayon in the box and woefully a product of his generation. Nice guy though! Not always the case on a case.
I swear some people act so fucking alien about life, like they had not learned some of the most basic things, or lack what you would consider to be the most obvious social skills.
I think some families just royally fucked up their kids heads growing up.
tbf, ignorance is something you giggle at once, before getting over it and educating them. Hopefully OP and their friend got over it and managed some actual change
This isn’t ignorance, it’s pure idiocy.
“Eat some frozen peas!”
“Ew WTF why are your frozen peas frozen?”
No, it’s just ignorance. Expecting the name to be literally accurate is completely understandable. Unashamedly pointing and laughing just makes you a dick.
My father likes to tell this tale of when he made fried spaghetti because he was a poor student and his buddy liked it so much that he asked how to make them. My father replied “Like normal spaghetti. But you fry them in a pan.”
That’s what he did. Instead of cooking he fried the dry spaghetti in a pan.
Going in another direction, but ramen is great if you fry it after boiling it. Just drain the water (save it if it’s a broth type as you can add the noodles back after frying), then drop them in a pan with heated oil, fry them for a few minutes, just to the point where the noodles on the bottom start to burn a bit (don’t stir them before this but do stir after to interrupt the burning) and your ramen will have a satisfying crunch.
Wait, so these are noodles fried, boiled, and then fried again?
Buldak ramen is intended to be prepared like that and comes with a thick sauce you add during the fry instead of the boil. Their curry flavour one is amazing, though hard to find.
My dad tried frying frozen peas once. Turned the kitchen into Viet goddamn Nam. I still have flashbacks.
I actually love frozen peas because they can easily be thrown into whatever I’m currently making. Especially something like fried rice.
Of course, just frying them alone is probably pretty difficult.
It’s not that it’s difficult, it’s easy to drop frozen peas in hot oil. It’s just that doing so would explode hot oil (and peas) all over yourself and your kitchen.
Peas and carrots are too full of sugar. I mean, they’re better than chips or candy bars by a long shot, but minimizing them or mixing peas and carrots with other less sugary veg is a better idea.
Edit: triggered people who somehow think I said you can’t eat peas and carrots. Whatever. SJW away.
Good grief, can we stop shaming people for eating the “wrong types of vegetables” as if that’s even a thing? Just be happy they’re eating any at all.
Things that cauliflower people say.
is this a racial slur for white people? 😂
No. Health obsessed people are mostly obsessed with feeling superior to others based on diet, so they won’t ever stop shaming anyone who eats differently than they do. They are projecting their insecurity with themselves, and they are so insecure eating some peas might as well by drinking 2L of soda per day, because they are unable to contextualize anything appropriately, and just panic over every slightly ‘wrong’ thing someone else does.
Same with politics or a hobby, or anything else people seek personal validation in. Anyone who doesn’t do it exactly the way they do it is invalidating them and it hurts them and they lash out.
Adding to this, because despite the kneejerk reactions, you’re pretty correct on this one. Carrots and peas are both more on the high starch side, not quite as high fiber as other plant foods. So basically you can think of them as being in the same category as potatoes. Starchy vegetables are actually more strongly associated with unhealthy aging than even refined grains.
And like you said, this isn’t to demonize them. They still have a place in any reasonable diet, it’s just a good idea to be aware of the need for balance with other more beneficial foods like fruit, vegetables, whole grains, sources of unsaturated fats, legumes, and nuts and seeds.
The kneejerk reactions are justified IMO. You don’t need to “minimize” peas and carrots to have a healthy diet. Obviously they shouldn’t be all you eat, but that holds for pretty much all foods - balance is key.
There’s several issues with your source.
First, it would have been nice of you to link to the relevant figure so others aren’t forced to comb through the whole thing.
Second, it’s important to point out that this data only shows correlation. The data is interesting for sure, but one should be cautious about demonizing a particular food group based on this alone, considering that the main point of the study was to analyze the health benefits of particular diets rather than food groups.
(note also that fast/fried foods got a positive score, which makes me further apprehensive about drawing quick conclusions from this data)Third, this study focused on health professionals only. I don’t know why it shouldn’t generalize to the general population but it is not a given that it does.
Most importantly, it is not clear (to me at least) that peas and carrots are part of the category “starchy vegetables” according to this study. I couldn’t find any explicit description of the categories, please let me know if there is one in the study or one of its sources.
From what I could find online, peas can be considered starchy vegetables, but carrots usually aren’t. For instance, this site classifies both carrots and some types of peas as non-starchy.
You do understand all sugar isn’t created equal, yes? And sugar interacts with other components of a given food? Carbs don’t exist in a vacuum. You’re comparing actual whole foods to literal trash.
Please educate yourself and also stop spreading bullshit.
Dam, better go eating drywall.
Dude, let’em eat vegetables they like. They can venture further without the gatekeeping; otherwise, they’ll say “why bother.”
A lot of frozen vegetables are raw and require cooking to ensure safety
Tell me you’re white without telling me you’re white.
No shade to fair folks who are fair cooks, but I ain’t never seen a person with melanin who does not know that cooked veggies are a thing. It’s always the pigmentally challenged.
Do you think it’s okay to be racist as long as it’s towards white people?
