# Foods you like prepared "wrong".
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 11, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231 "2015-10-11T01:18:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/1 "2015-10-11T01:18:15Z")
I like my eggs over cooked. Most people would call them rubbery but that is how I like them.
I like pizza crusts that have been heated in a microwave and are soft and chewy. of course fresh pizza is better but I don’t mind reheating my pizza in a microwave because you get the chewy crust.
I like shoestring french fries that most people would call soggy. When they are limp they are yummy.
What foods do you like “wrong”?
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### Author:  [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/2 "2015-10-11T01:32:08Z")
when I was a teenager, I liked my Raisin Bran soggy as in I poured the milk on it and let is sit for 5 minutes or so.
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### Author:  [@pseudograph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudograph)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/3 "2015-10-11T01:38:37Z")
I like my pasta completely cooked, not al dente, as is proper, and I always break spaghetti in half.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/4 "2015-10-11T02:01:44Z")
I like my scrambled eggs tinged brown. I like my Guinness ice cold. I like my Caesar salad anchovie-less and with chicken and my chili with meat.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/5 "2015-10-11T02:18:33Z")
I like lumpy mashed potatoes. And lumpy gravy to go with it.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/6 "2015-10-11T02:28:48Z")
I like my eggs overcooked for sure, at least by classic French or high-end restaurant standards. Give me eggs over hard, crispy around the edges, diner-style. I want a fried egg that will give a breakfast sandwich drip-free structure.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/7 "2015-10-11T02:31:50Z")
I prefer dry turkey (with gravy) to moist turkey (which seems somewhat slimy to me).
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/8 "2015-10-11T02:35:47Z")
I like to make chili with onions, tomatoes (not too much), and BEANS. I hear the wail and lamentation of Texans, and it is MUSIC to my ears.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/9 "2015-10-11T02:39:53Z")
I soak my cereal in milk at least 5 minutes. I like it soggy.
I buy canned chili. Wolf Brand tastes so good that I almost never make it anymore.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/10 "2015-10-11T02:41:52Z")
I like a little bit of iced tea in my sweetener.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/11 "2015-10-11T02:41:59Z")
I like my breakfast potatoes overdone. When I go out I just order them, “as burnt as the cook is willing burn them.”
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### Author:  [@CatastrophicFailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatastrophicFailure)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/12 "2015-10-11T02:44:18Z")
I like toast and bagels to be toasted until burnt.
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### Author:  [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/13 "2015-10-11T02:47:26Z")
I like pretty much all my drinks room temperature. Water, I prefer hot.
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### Author:  [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/14 "2015-10-11T02:49:42Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I like to make chili with onions, tomatoes (not too much), and BEANS. I hear the wail and lamentation of Texans, and it is MUSIC to my ears.
It might distress you - but if you are brave enough, and can avoid the canonical Texas Chili debate about beans in chili, visit Houston. There are restruants there that are changing that belief and it is all delicious.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/15 "2015-10-11T02:50:22Z")
I also enjoy a buttered bagel with Genoa (pork) salami. Gives my observant Jewish buddies the vapors.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/16 "2015-10-11T02:51:32Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#):
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> It might distress you - but if you are brave enough, and can avoid the canonical Texas Chili debate about beans in chili, visit Houston. There are restruants there that are changing that belief and it is all delicious.
Visiting Texas would distress me.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/17 "2015-10-11T02:58:53Z")
Oh and I like my liverwurst sandwiches with mayo on the bread and mustard in between the wurst and the American cheese. I once went to a diner where the “cook” refused to make it. Absolutely refused to put mayo and mustard in my sandwich. He then told the busboy/waiter not to give me a mustard packet after he made the mayo only sandwich. It was a Greek diner that I swear SNL copied in their diner skit.
P.S., the waiter gave me a mustard packet.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/18 "2015-10-11T03:01:59Z")
Pancakes ever so slightly underdone, so the middle is juuuuuust a little bit raw. Yum!
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/19 "2015-10-11T03:17:06Z")
> [@pseudograph](#):
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> I like my pasta completely cooked, not al dente, as is proper, and I always break spaghetti in half.
I can’t tell the difference between completely cooked and al dente; I suspect I let mine boil too long. And, yeah, I break it in half too! Much easier to eat in shorter strands!
I let my rice boil too long also, and I don’t drain it. I only put in as much water as will be completely absorbed in boiling and cooling.
I like my steak and burgers and other meat very well done. “Burn it, Sam.” Aficionados decry this as ruining the meat, but it’s how I prefer it.
A friend of mine chides me for putting shredded cheddar on top of French Onion Soup. He says only shredded Swiss cheese is proper. I never learned that as a rule, and like cheddar (or Swiss, or both!)
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### Author:  [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-like-prepared-wrong/734231/20 "2015-10-11T03:28:24Z")
I don’t eat cereal, but when I did I never put milk on it.
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