Food Fight: Mayo Discourse

I took a quick trip down google lane and learned the difference between red beans and rice and what I think of when I hear beans and rice. The former makes a lot more sense as a full meal, but even a 'meal-sized' portion of just the latter wouldn't feel like a proper meal to me. I think it's the presence of a sauce/gravy that makes the difference to me.

 

gdi now i want a whole bowl of the giant white beans in tomato sauce the greek restaurant across from my parents does.

 

Okay. If you eat [food] by itself and a drink, is that a complete meal? If yes, it can be a main dish. If not, it’s a side.

Fries and a drink isn’t a meal, but a good burger and a drink can be.

 

my extremely sad working-at-a-childrens-attraction lunch breaks disagreed with you
(we had 75% discount on food, I could get fries and a lemonade for a dollar, so that was my lunch. every day. for months)

 

Disagree, anything can be a complete meal if there's enough food to satisfy you

 

I feel like anything can be had AS a side, like a side salad versus a salad thats a meal bc its made with One Whole Romaine Heart For Me, Specifically

 

Counterpoint: fries with Stuff On is still very much a meal. Chili-cheese fries in vast enough quantities is a meal for many.

 

I feel like the interplay of flavour has something to do with it too; one-note dishes aren't a meal. Steamed cauliflower is a side, steamed cauliflower in bechamel and black pepper could be a meal. Similarly, plain chips are not a meal, but a poke of chips drenched in salt, vinegar and sauce of choice is (brown sauce, or for proper nostalgia, a mix of brown and red sauce).

Edit to add: Proper British chippy chips, not those limp strings of French fries.

 

A poke?

 

From my understanding, a cone

 

Like a paper cone??? I've literally never heard of fries in a cone

 

paper cone what you can carry, kinda like fair food?

 

Ime fair food usually comes in these:



Edit: and fries too, they're called fry baskets

 

Poke of chips can be a cone or like, a little folded paper baggy. Made of newspaper for preference.

 

I had to get yogurt today and it brought this to mind but

does anyone else go through a period where like. Normal yogurt has an abominable mouthfeel? like I like yogurt but once in a while i will put it in my mouth and immediately feel like 'this is not something that should be in my mouth at all'

like i was so 'mmh don't need to go through that today' that i bought the whipped yogurt cause i need to know i will eat it.

 

That's why I only get whole milk yogurt, the creaminess makes the texture less weird. Doesn't work with the cream on top stuff tho

 

I don't like the texture of non-greek yogurt... too gloopy (unless it's those whipped yogurts)

 

i'll have to try some! it's not an always thing but better to know what is always a food compared to 'this is only sometimes actually edible.'

 

All I know is true Greek yogurt is disgusting and I don't like it.