Radical Feminist Chicks Are Not So Bright...

[Bennn]

I find it pretty funny that a thread about radical feminists turned into a thread about cooking. I bet that would irritate them if they saw that.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='09 April 2010 - 10:23 AM' timestamp='1270823003' post='2089922']
Disliking five out of hundreds of thousands of foods makes me picky?
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I'm afraid so friend.

It would be one thing to say that you dislike Quorn Chik'n Nuggets, or tofu ch[s][/s]eese, but to say that you simply refuse to eat five fairly essential foods does some like picky eating to me. But to you I am probably a picky eater so it is fine. I avoid foods that I consider to be illogical. I simply refuse to eat foods that I consider to be highly illogical. There, I'm a hypocrite.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Bennn' date='09 April 2010 - 10:38 AM' timestamp='1270823881' post='2089930']
I find it pretty funny that a thread about radical feminists turned into a thread about cooking. I bet that would irritate them if they saw that.
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In my opinion disdain for cooking is a sure sign of feminism gone awry.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='09 April 2010 - 10:23 AM' timestamp='1270823003' post='2089922']
Disliking five out of hundreds of thousands of foods makes me picky?
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I must take issue with this rhetoric. There is food, as in edibles that are produced by farming, hunting or foraging, and then there is food in the sense of countless individual dishes made from those constituent foods. If we're talking about the former category of foods (which is what we seem to be talking about given the nature of your black list), there are hardly hundreds of thousands of foods. But let's say we mean food in the broadest sense, okay, then when you say that you refuse to eat onions I take that to mean that you reject all dishes in which alliums have a prominent place. I imagine the meals I've had in the past year or so and conclude that you would have rejected a substantial percentage of those meals had you been living here, therefore, you're a picky eater by my standards. If you simply rejected Soup No. 5, Limburger c[s][/s]heese and General Tso's Chicken I wouldn't think of you as a particularly picky eater.

Don't worry, many people live on categories of food that I have renounced (packaged foods, fast food, etc.) so it is largely a matter of perspective I suppose.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='09 April 2010 - 02:41 PM' timestamp='1270842095' post='2090089']
I must take issue with this rhetoric. There is food, as in edibles that are produced by farming, hunting or foraging, and then there is food in the sense of countless individual dishes made from those constituent foods. If we're talking about the former category of foods (which is what we seem to be talking about given the nature of your black list), there are hardly hundreds of thousands of foods. But let's say we mean food in the broadest sense, okay, then when you say that you refuse to eat onions I take that to mean that you reject all dishes in which alliums have a prominent place. I imagine the meals I've had in the past year or so and conclude that you would have rejected a substantial percentage of those meals had you been living here, therefore, you're a picky eater by my standards. If you simply rejected Soup No. 5, Limburger c[s][/s]heese and General Tso's Chicken I wouldn't think of you as a particularly picky eater.

Don't worry, many people live on categories of food that I have renounced (packaged foods, fast food, etc.) so it is largely a matter of perspective I suppose.
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Hm...... I understand the concept of this post, but mostly it went over my head and I don't know how to respond.
Rofl.


If we're talking about food in the broadest sense, couldn't we conclude that I reject maybe a few hundred thousand dishes out of a technically infinite pool of food choices? In that case, my pickiness must objectively remain undefined.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='09 April 2010 - 10:53 AM' timestamp='1270821208' post='2089906']
Mmm, sweet potatoes! I like all potatoes, really. I have a butternut squash I'm going to roast. Mushrooms are awesome. And I get pretty excited about purple or red veg (carrots, broccoli, cabbage). And orange or green cauliflower.
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I've always wondered, does orange and green cauliflower taste different than normal white cauliflower? (I've seen purple cauliflower as well.)

Every time I go through the produce section and see them... I spend a good minute or so pondering putting it in my basket. However, right now, I just can't bring myself to spend the extra dollar to buy it. Maybe on a feast day I'll have to try it out.

Also, I think we might be vegetable twins. I get that excited as well about said veggies! Hahaha!

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='09 April 2010 - 10:36 AM' timestamp='1270820167' post='2089896']


Only because I so love pictchas!

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The orange varieties are the most common type of sweet potato around here.

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The best sweet potato I ever had was of this variety (see below). Btw, I've had this variety many times and only that once was it absolutely epic. It is always a great variety though.

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Here it is alongside the more common variety.

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How could you (nihil) renounce so lovely a food!?

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Purple sweet potatoes make me mirthful.

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Oh my goodness - the PURPLE!!!! Is this the same as Philippino "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ube"]Ube[/url]"? Sweet purple yams?



I [i]heart[/i] ube.

And pretty much all sweet potatoes.

I think I'll have a sweet potato with my dinner tonight...

[Nihil Obstat]

It's the texture and the flavour. The combination of the two, not one or the other.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='09 April 2010 - 05:12 PM' timestamp='1270843958' post='2090112']
It's the texture and the flavour. The combination of the two, not one or the other.
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Oh.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='09 April 2010 - 03:05 PM' timestamp='1270843554' post='2090106']
Also, I think we might be vegetable twins. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif[/img] I get that excited as well about said veggies! Hahaha!
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I think there is something in my DNA that rejects vegetables. Even growing up in California where we had access to very fresh, locally-grown vegetables hasn't changed my mind. I think it's because my mother learned to cook from her English grandmother, who overboiled everything. But, it's not just the cooking--I'm not wild about salads, either.

I'm sure if I lived with a master cook, I would enjoy his/her vegetables. And there are only a few vegetables that I have rejected outright, brussel sprouts being my least favorite food. (Have you ever driven by a brussel sprouts farm? I have, and the smell is foul.)

I make exceptions for mashed potatoes and sweet potato pie. (I worked for several years in South Central LA, and learned to appreciate homemade sweet potato pie--I like it better than pumpkin pie.) I also REALLY like Chinese cabbage, cooked well. Go figure. I've never pretended to be consistent.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='09 April 2010 - 03:13 PM' timestamp='1270844028' post='2090113']
Oh.


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On the other hand, I have an enormous love for fresh pepper. Red, yellow, orange, green, I don't even care. I love peppers so much. Raw, fried, chopped and thrown into things..... it's like my favourite vegetable.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='09 April 2010 - 05:17 PM' timestamp='1270844237' post='2090116']
I think there is something in my DNA that rejects vegetables. Even growing up in California where we had access to very fresh, locally-grown vegetables hasn't changed my mind. I think it's because my mother learned to cook from her English grandmother, who overboiled everything. But, it's not just the cooking--I'm not wild about salads, either.

I'm sure if I lived with a master cook, I would enjoy his/her vegetables. And there are only a few vegetables that I have rejected outright, brussel sprouts being my least favorite food. (Have you ever driven by a brussel sprouts farm? I have, and the smell is foul.)

I make exceptions for mashed potatoes and sweet potato pie. (I worked for several years in South Central LA, and learned to appreciate homemade sweet potato pie--I like it better than pumpkin pie.) I also REALLY like Chinese cabbage, cooked well. Go figure. I've never pretended to be consistent.
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I've driven through a mushroom farm multiple times. I have a feeling it might be just as foul smelling as the brussel sprout farm, if not worse. If you're curious, try driving through Avondale, PA. Supposedly, it's the "Mushroom Capital" of the U.S. (Or so I've been told.) Hahaha!

However, I greatly enjoy eating both.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='09 April 2010 - 05:22 PM' timestamp='1270844553' post='2090126']
On the other hand, I have an enormous love for fresh pepper. Red, yellow, orange, green, I don't even care. I love peppers so much. Raw, fried, chopped and thrown into things..... it's like my favourite vegetable.
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I was wondering -- so, for the other five groups of vegetables that you do not like, do you avoid any meals cooked with them, or do you tend to pick them out of what you're eating. (For example: picking onions off a pizza.)

ETA: Peppers are fantabulousness.

Edited April 9, 2010 by laetitia crucis

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='09 April 2010 - 03:26 PM' timestamp='1270844814' post='2090136']
I was wondering -- so, for the other five groups of vegetables that you do not like, do you avoid any meals cooked with them, or do you tend to pick them out of what you're eating. (For example: picking onions off a pizza.)

ETA: Peppers are fantabulousness.
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It depends how much of that food is in the dish. If it's, say, onion based, I'd probably avoid it, but at home I routinely eat garden salads with green onions, so I just pick those out.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='09 April 2010 - 04:01 PM' timestamp='1270843305' post='2090102']
Hm...... I understand the concept of this post, but mostly it went over my head and I don't know how to respond.
Rofl.


If we're talking about food in the broadest sense, couldn't we conclude that I reject maybe a few hundred thousand dishes out of a technically infinite pool of food choices? In that case, my pickiness must objectively remain undefined.
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I don't have the data with which to definitively define your pickiness, but I do believe in the possibility of such a definition. The number of edible plant and animal species on this planet is finite, and the number of combinations, although astronomically large, is not infinite. You might say, touche! but what of edible plant, animal, fungi and other unknown creatures that we could theoretically engineer thanks to biotech? Or what of all edible matter on all planets in the universe for all time? We'd be talking about an even more vast set of theoretical components that could be combined in an unfathomable number of ways, but then I must suggest that the combinatorial potentialities of all matter in the universe are ultimately finite, although probably uncountable. What about multiverse cosmologies? Still finite--and I'd have to play the old argument from authority. I would point out that people have been burned at the stake for, among other things, obstinately asserting the eternity and infinity of the universe (or multiverse); it is a denial of creation. Extrinsic aeviternity is kosher. But, if you could clarify your multiverse cosmology and reconcile it with Catholic theology and metaphysics I'd be open to accepting that you're not a picky eater, perhaps.