• owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    How got-dang popular were those plates? Had me hundreds of (probably lead-tainted) dinners on those bad boys.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know why, but the word “hotdish” bothers me; I guess because I assume it refers to sort of dish/vessel rather than food.

    • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      in which case, “hotdish” is a calque of “casserole” as both refer to the vessel

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Sort of. When signing up to contribute something for the potluck at the local Lutheran church, you can specify if you’re bringing a hot dish (food that requires cooking) or cold dish (not cooked).

        Since most people go for something easy to prepare, the hot dish just became all casseroles.

    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m pretty sure that’s Corelle. Do they still do this today? Because all of our dishware are fucking Corelle

      Edit: Ok so they stopped putting lead since 2005 so we should be safe. But how come they only stopped in 2005

      • frunch@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        But how come they only stopped in 2005

        Probably ran out of their stock of lead around that time

    • Acters@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      What’s even more silly about this is that you never bothered to cook it yourself to experience better cooked food and the reason is? Idk for me it was because I am lame and too shy to ask to change the established way of life. On the other hand I have adjusted to eat food of all sorts even though it is displeasing. Except foods that have capsaicin or or peppers, I’m allergic to them.

      • howrar@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        You would first have to believe that better tasting vegetables was a possibility before you start looking for it.

        • Acters@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          idk, am I privileged to have a family who cared enough to go to eat out once in while like once a month ?

          I fail to see how you can think I am trying to relate to someone who never had decent vegetables. It’s not like it is impossible for many of us to eat decent vegetables at one point. I clearly am not trying to be relating to everyone’s background. You are simply nitpicking and didn’t bother reading or understanding my comment.

          • howrar@lemmy.ca
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            2 months ago

            Who said anything about relating to others? You criticized a kid for doing what any reasonable kid would do. That’s the part I’m responding to.

            • Acters@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Fr I don’t think you want to think about it much past the surface level. I agree to some points but not the myth that kids all kids can’t taste good vegetables at all. Conversation ran it’s course, I don’t mind. It is what it is. I believe differently.

              • howrar@lemmy.ca
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                2 months ago

                I don’t know why you say “points” plural. I made one point and it’s that [email protected] came to a very logical conclusion as a kid. No mention of any other kids, let alone all kids. But no matter. If you believe that you know more about shortrounddev’s life than shortrounddev, then we’re starting from a completely different basis of contradictory facts. You are correct if your bases are correct, and likewise for mine. Maybe you do know more about their life for all I know. I’m just an Internet stranger. I don’t know you. I don’t know shortrounddev.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          Which is funny because these days I just buy frozen vegetables and make food with those, and I still enjoy it far more than my parent’s cooking

          It really isn’t even about fresh vegetables

          • CandleTiger@programming.dev
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            2 months ago

            Refrigerated fresh vegetables are much better than canned. Somewhere in between the '50s and today refrigerated got common and cheap and there was no excuse anymore for buying that soggy canned shit. I would’ve said the '90s were well after that point though. Anybody using canned green beans as a side in the '90s was just coasting on momentum and bad choices I think.

            (There’s reasons to use canned – they make a good soup ingredient if you’re going to boil it to death anyhow, and they store better in your disaster prep bunker. But as a simple side for dinner, not a good choice.)

            • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Am I crazy because I liked canned green beans as a salad (like, standard oil, vinegar, salt, pepper) when I was a kid? Mum still makes that and I still like it.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They have a uniquely terrible taste, but I don’t understand how just the way they’re cut could produce that taste. I think maybe they’re also soaked in lye or something. Or maybe the exposed inner part of the beans absorbs metal from the can.

      • Decoy321@lemmy.worldM
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        2 months ago

        I’m guessing it’s more dependent on the brands you’re buying, but there shouldn’t be that significant of a flavor change. Also most cans have a liner inside them to protect the contents from chemically affecting the contents. I just checked a few sources for various products, and all of them were simply the beans in a water solution.

        Some did include salt, which may be having a minor effect. The French cut, julienne, provides a higher surface area / volume ratio. This means the beans will “marinate” in the solution more effectively than larger cut beans. As in, the salt and water have better access to the inner parts of the beam, leaving them more tender and “marinated.”

        I’m using that weird very loosely because I honestly can’t remember the right word.