# You're enjoying food wrong. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260 "2016-02-26T22:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/81 "2016-02-28T15:04:22Z")
> [@Satellite\_Guy](#): > > Just to clarify, when you guys talk about hashbrowns, which of these are you talking about? > > 1. [McDonald’s style](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1543092.1386689395!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/hashbrowns11n-4-web.jpg). > > 2)[Shredded.](http://bakingnana.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Crispy-Hash-browns-013.jpg) I call these Denny’s style. > > 3)[The right way](http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2003/9/29/1/ig1a10_hash_browns.jpg.rend.sni12col.landscape.jpeg). > > Incidentally, I eat #1 plain, #3 with ketchup, and #2 only under duress (and more ketchup.) 3 is closer to “home fries” to me, but the terms seem to be used somewhat interchangeably. Personally, I don’t prefer any of the above styles, though I will eat them all. I worked in a breakfast restaurant many years and we used home fries that were not uniform in size or appearance. We used sliced potatoes and chopped them on the griddle. I don’t like ketchup on potatoes, but I will use it to choke down inferior/tasteless french fries. I find that well-made, well-seasoned potatoes don’t need it. Vinegar is good. As I’ve posted before, I grew up in a town with a very popular french fry stand that does not stock ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/82 "2016-02-28T15:07:00Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Alcohol - love it. Drink it. But I NEVER ever drink alcohol with any meal. I simply don’t understand why people do. I’ll order a drink before dinner, but never drink it with the meal or a few hours after. I have no desire to pair a chardonnay with a shrimp dish or scotch with a steak. It’s only water and/or soda with meals, and I’ve lived with a beer gut for years. I don’t believe in drinking anything without food, except for water. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/83 "2016-02-28T15:09:48Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I like scrambled eggs that are only eggs with no liquid added to make the final product mushy. Normal to me, also normal from my decade as a cook. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/84 "2016-02-28T15:10:38Z")
I dip my fries in mayo. It’s a Euro thing. Peanut butter and mayo sandwiches. Peanut butter and sriracha on hot dogs. Deli ham or turkey with whatever jam is handy. I don’t like cold pizza, to the shock and horror of the rest of the world, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/85 "2016-02-28T15:13:46Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I add the ginger and “wasabi” to the soy sauce and dip the sushi into it so the soy sauce gets flavored by it rather than consumed directly (except for the occasional spike of wasabi). > > Except at Benihana, where they have a ginger-flavored dipping sauce that comes with their entree: even if I am not ordering an entree I ask for that on the side and just dip my sushi into that rather than a soy sauce mixture. Other teppan-yaki places have a mayonnaise-based sauce and a non-ginger savory sauce but I haven’t found other places with ginger. As God is my witness it wasn’t until recently that I found out the ginger was supposed to be used to cleanse your pallet. Not sure what the wasabi is for. Clean your sinuses out so that you can taste the food better? I’m not sure I would survive a visit to Japan because I also put sugar in green tea. Would probably need to get a tattoo that says 馬鹿. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/86 "2016-02-28T15:34:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I don’t like cold pizza, to the shock and horror of the rest of the world, apparently. It takes a certain kind of pizza to taste good cold. many of them take on a quality that is best described as a food hangover. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/87 "2016-02-28T15:45:34Z")
When I cook rice, I usually eat a bit of it raw/dry, in much the same way I’d eat hard candy. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/88 "2016-02-28T15:50:43Z")
> [@Satellite\_Guy](#): > > Just to clarify, when you guys talk about hashbrowns, which of these are you talking about? > > 1. [McDonald’s style](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1543092.1386689395!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/hashbrowns11n-4-web.jpg). > > 2)[Shredded.](http://bakingnana.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Crispy-Hash-browns-013.jpg) I call these Denny’s style. > > 3)[The right way](http://foodnetwork.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/food/fullset/2003/9/29/1/ig1a10_hash_browns.jpg.rend.sni12col.landscape.jpeg). > > Incidentally, I eat #1 plain, #3 with ketchup, and #2 only under duress (and more ketchup.) I don’t call #3 hash browns. Country fried. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/89 "2016-02-28T17:49:10Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I don’t call #3 hash browns. Country fried. Yeah, or ‘home fries’. Hash browns are shredded. –Chefguy, former short-order cook ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/90 "2016-02-28T19:13:15Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Alcohol - love it. Drink it. But I NEVER ever drink alcohol with any meal. I simply don’t understand why people do. I’ll order a drink before dinner, but never drink it with the meal or a few hours after. I have no desire to pair a chardonnay with a shrimp dish or scotch with a steak. It’s only water and/or soda with meals, and I’ve lived with a beer gut for years. I think there is no better combo than beer and pizza. The wife hates it. Crazy. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/91 "2016-02-28T19:30:26Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > I eat knishes the way my Mom made them for me - with cream cheese and mustard. I once asked a NYC food cart guy if he had any cream cheese, and got a Look. Depending on what else he was selling, you might have asked him for something that wasn’t kosher. I like yogurt on pancakes. In fact, it’s the only use I have for that blended tastes-like-candy yogurt. Second ketchup on my (soy) hotdogs. I also put cheese on them, seeing as they’re soy and all. I never liked meat hotdogs, but I love soy dogs. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/92 "2016-02-28T20:11:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > \I don’t like cold pizza, to the shock and horror of the rest of the world, apparently. I’m with you on that. I’m never in so much of a hurry that I can’t at least nuke it. ---
**Author:** ![JillBeatDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@JillBeatDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillBeatDown)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/93 "2016-02-28T20:20:03Z")
i dont think i ever enjoyed my food wrong But how i enjoy my food is that i like chicken Shrimp and salads and wash it all down with either a smoothie or… na just a smoothie 😃 im a smoothie freak ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/94 "2016-02-28T21:35:10Z")
I prefer my fried chicken cold. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/95 "2016-02-28T22:13:55Z")
Eggs poached hard enough to bounce off a wall. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/96 "2016-02-28T22:25:24Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I prefer my fried chicken cold. Arguably, eating fried chicken cold is not “wrong,” since its popularity to a large extent was based on its relative portability and usefulness as a travel/picnic food in a time when black people would find it difficult to find a restaurant to serve them when they were traveling. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/97 "2016-02-28T23:18:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I dip my fries in mayo. It’s a Euro thing. This is very good… but so very unhealthy. I sometimes indulge with just a taste of mayo per fry. If you like flavored or spiced mayo as well, there’s almost no bad options out there. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/98 "2016-02-29T00:51:28Z")
Nothing wrong with mayo with fries, but it is a bit overkill on the fat front. I do prefer cold pizza vs nuked pizza, though. If I’m going to heat pizza, it’s in a pan, at the very least. Chicago born-and-bred, though I may be, I will sometimes put ketchup and even mayo on a dog, when I’m doing it Sonoran or Tijuana style. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/99 "2016-02-29T02:14:49Z")
Here’s a different one: I just had a white chocolate-macadamia protein bar with a dollop of Valentina’s extra hot sauce. Despite the “extra”, it’s not all that spicy, but a little salt/hot goes well with the sweet. I’m pretty sure that outweirds most sauces that people put on potatoes. Let’s face it, potatoes’ main purpose is to be a substrate for sauce and/or salt. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260/100 "2016-02-29T03:26:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I do prefer cold pizza vs nuked pizza, though. If I’m going to heat pizza, it’s in a pan, at the very least. Nuked pizza is awful. I turn the oven on to 350 and toss the slice in there on a piece of foil. When the oven reaches temperature, I turn it off and wait ten minutes. By that point the cheese is re-gooeyed, the crust is re-warmed without getting crispy, the beer is poured, and I am SO READY for that pizza. When I panfry chicken, I let it cool to room temp before tucking in. Hot fried chicken just ain’t right. I use the time to make gravy in the pan for the rice or mashed potatoes. But hell, those things are CORRECT. Everything I eat is CORRECT. You guys stop doing it wrong. Especially you ketchup-on-hot-dog people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-enjoying-food-wrong/747260.md?page=6)