# This does not sound remotely edible... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881 "2015-05-26T15:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/21 "2015-05-26T19:50:10Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > This recipe reminds me of getting a chemistry set when I turned seven and instead of reading any directions I just mixed random stuff together to see if it would blow up. That would most definitely blow up. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/22 "2015-05-26T21:35:04Z")
Well, it’d blow up for _you_, but then, for you, everything blows up. Wait, this is an Acme chemistry set, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Saturn\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Saturn\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/23 "2015-05-27T02:38:53Z")
Edible? Sure. Palatable? No way. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/24 "2015-05-27T03:00:18Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > In the spirit of nutritional pedantry, I point out that jalapeno peppers are vegetables. Even when pickled. And nachos without jalapenos is potentially more blasphemous than OP’s recipe. 😃 In the same spirit of pedantry, isn’t a jalapeno technically a Fruit?:p:cool: ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/25 "2015-05-27T18:34:19Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Seems to me to be one of those perplexing feminine attempts to insert vegetation into dishes where it doesn’t belong. “feminine attempts”? Do you know for sure it was a woman who wrote the recipe? What if it was a gay man? Would you be as comfortable saying “faggy attempts”? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/26 "2015-05-27T20:04:00Z")
Jalepenos are a vegetable that happens to be a fruit, just like carrots are a vegetable that happens to be a root, and lettuce is a vegetable that happens to be a leaf. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/27 "2015-05-27T20:22:47Z")
My friend sent me a recipe for gluten-free pizza that featured a crust made of mashed cauliflower. She claimed to enjoy it, but I have no idea in what universe that would qualify as pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/28 "2015-05-27T20:34:53Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I see it now, it’s Nutritional Yeast. That stuff is actually really good. For a while I was going hard on the low sodium diet, and nutritional yeast was a great substitute for salt on things like popcorn and baked potatoes. It has a very rich flavor, so I can see how it might sub for cheese. > > I wouldn’t expect it to taste “like” cheese anymore than it tastes “like” salt, it’s just going to give it a richness that a cheese-less dish would be missing. I would happily roast some sprouts and sprinkle nutritional yeast over top to finish it off, like you might do with grated Parmesan. > > Never tried it as a cheese sauce, and I don’t really want to. Agreed, nutritional yeast on popcorn is really good. I tried to make a “not-cheese” sauce with it once and was disappointed but my husband liked the results. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/29 "2015-05-28T04:05:39Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I see it now, it’s Nutritional Yeast. That stuff is actually really good. For a while I was going hard on the low sodium diet, and nutritional yeast was a great substitute for salt on things like popcorn and baked potatoes. It has a very rich flavor, so I can see how it might sub for cheese. > > I wouldn’t expect it to taste “like” cheese anymore than it tastes “like” salt, it’s just going to give it a richness that a cheese-less dish would be missing. I would happily roast some sprouts and sprinkle nutritional yeast over top to finish it off, like you might do with grated Parmesan. > > Never tried it as a cheese sauce, and I don’t really want to. I would, however, expect it to taste like “Cheese Flavor”, the flavor that is used in chips/crisps/biscuits/crackers/junk food. Which, though not the same flavor as cheese, is popular with a lot of people. And the association with Parmesan is not accidental: Parmesan has a lot of this flavor. And I was eating Cauliflower with cheese sauce this morning: I would not have thought of calling it “natchos” (cause it ain’t), but brussel sprouts (same family) with cheese-substitute sauce doesn’t sound inedible. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/30 "2015-05-28T05:19:47Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I do most of the cooking for my Wife and I. This is fine by me. We have a natural way of splitting up chores. > > Sometimes though, my Wife will cook. Also fine by me. I usually do the tried and true stuff I know we like. She tends to experiment more. > > We’ll, she found a recipe she wants to try. I always try to encourage her, and will try just about anything, but this… THIS does not sound good at all - > > Brussel sprout nachos (umm… what??) with fake cheese sauce made out of soy milk and yeast. Reading over the recipe left me speechless. She wants to try it though. > > Help. I wish I could, but this sounds truly awful. Brussels sprouts are bad enough, the “sauce” sounds bad enough, my best guess is the combo would be horrific. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/31 "2015-05-28T13:15:06Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I wish I could, but this sounds truly awful. Brussels sprouts are bad enough, the “sauce” sounds bad enough, my best guess is the combo would be horrific. It’s the nacho twist that gets me. And since we are not in anyway lactose intolerant, what’s with the lack of cheese cheese sauce.? Brussel sprouts roasted with some olive oil and perhaps some fresh pamesan, now that’s pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881/32 "2015-05-28T14:08:54Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > “feminine attempts”? Do you know for sure it was a woman who wrote the recipe? > > What if it was a gay man? Would you be as comfortable saying “faggy attempts”? Calm down… I was just saying that in my experience, when recipes are inexplicably veggied-up and made “healthy”, it’s almost always women doing it. Few men would adulterate nachos in such a way- they’d either eat them straight up or do without. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-does-not-sound-remotely-edible/720881.md?page=1)