Tim Walz made a "white people tacos" joke and Chuds are big mad about it
Tim Walz made a "white people tacos" joke and Chuds are big mad about it
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It's not a joke though Minnesota really does have the blandest trough slop in north america it's awful.
They have this thing they call "hot dish" which is they dump green beans and cream of mushroom soup in a casserole dish and put tater tots on it. This is the height of Minnesotan cultural cuisine. I am not joking. It is not seasoned.
Are the French, Italians and Spaniards the only white people with good food?
I am not of the mayo phenotype but I'd probably like that tbh
I've made this! Well, a vegan equivalent with mushroom gravy I made myself. And I used frozen mixed veggies, not just green beans. Oh, and I seasoned it. And put some (vegan) cheese on it. But it was really good! Sure, it's not something I'd serve to anyone or even admit I enjoy (except anonymously on the internet, I guess), but like, it's almost a shepherd's pie situation, except with tots instead of mashed potatoes. Surprisingly good for a lazy meal, and lots of leftovers!
This sounds pretty lazy, yeah
yo, what's your mushroom gravy recipe? I'm always looking to try and improve mine. Next time though, try fried onions. That's the original and the crunchiness does wonders for the texture.
Forgive me for being prejudiced eurotrash but isn't a lot of "traditional" white American foods just branded processed foods hastily mixed together? Are fresh ingredients that hard to get your hands on? Has the knowledge of how to cook them been lost?
A lot of "traditional" white American food rises from traditions of using government issued foodstuffs. Government cheese, spam, various concoctions devised from military rations. But quite a lot also comes from what immigrant communities were able to afford, which was generally the worse stuff. There's also a not-insignificant number of white households that possessed no generational cooking knowledge because it was done by slaves, and thus had no culinary culture they could continue without the requisite skills.
A lot of the weird stuff is a holdout from the Great Depression and the years after refrigeration became ubiquitous
I mean we have food deserts here for one thing. I imagine theres more to the answer to your question, but thats one thing I can mention.
Many people who come to a us grocery store for the first time are shocked at how cheap meat is, and how expensive fresh veg is.
It's sort of a 50/50 split between standard poverty meals adapted by time and region, and recipes invented by marketing campaigns to sell processed slop.
Upstate NY beats out Minnesota in the bland food category, all they have is buffalo sauce w/ bleu cheese. Most of the restaurants I go to don't even salt the food, at least Campbell's cream of mushroom is packed full of sodium. Sponge candy is bland, they used to produce brown beans that everyone acknowledged needed to have ingredients added to give them flavor, and even the hotdogs have a weird texture because they're ground so fine and not smoked. Don't even get me started on salt potatoes or garbage plates.
I have never seen a more aptly named dish in my life.
Depends on what you mean by upstate, anything between NYC and Albany tends to still be good but go north or west of Albany and it's gonna get as bad as you said
Made "hot dish" with refried beans, fried onions and queso and topping it with crushed tortilla chips instead of cream of mushroom soup and green beans makes a pretty good half-assed taco casserole kinda thing tbh, tater tots are a nice base to add assorted slop to in a baking pan and just chuck it in the oven for awhile.
Cream of mushroom soup is nasty though, so are any kind of pasta/potato salads where the main ingredient is mayo, and "Waldorf salad" is an affront to apples
It's sad because homemade mushroom soup with cream is actually really nice, the canned stuff is kinda horrifying and it's basically white person umami for casseroles
Night of the living Watergate Salad
As a general rule if you couldn't walk to the sea in one day of forced march the "salad" isn't a salad.
Nah, that's "green bean casserole." That's the ONLY hotdish we DON'T call hotdish. Ive always seen it with fried onions, not tots, but everyone makes a hotdish a little differently.
There's a thousand kind of hotdishes and there are good and bad ones, I guarantee you.
Good ol beef bean tater, it’s fine.
I'll die on the hill that the only issue with green bean casserole is that it isn't vegan. Its' meant to be communal, if made properly the contrast between the softness and the crunch create an inviting texture, it is quite possibly the only way to sneak both soy sauce and black pepper into a dish that middle America won't question, it was designed to be cheap and therefore accessible, no authentic version has tater tots, no authentic version is unseasoned, for the less unadventurous it benefits greatly from adding even more spice (paprika, garlic powder, and sprinkle some herbs on top of the onion. if making a vegan version use a but less cashews than you would normally use for a vegan cream of mushroom. I don't know why, it just works better.). Also, if you like the taste of hot peppers but not the heat, its a great vehicle for cutting the heat so much you can still dump some capsicum bomb on there.
I am channeling Lenin and screaming "utopianism! Utopianism!"
There might be some theory of edible green bean casserole or edible hot dish. It might work on paper. You might look at the recipe and think "mmm, yes, i can see the appeal."
But on earth? Where people live and die? No such thing exists, nor could it.