Does Veeky Forums like healthy food?

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Veeky Forums might laugh at guys like him, but bitter gourd really is amazing in stir fries. Personally, I'd add shredded pork and black-bean chilli sauce to turn it into a full meal.

The appeal of eating it is in the bittersweetness, like sampling fine liquorice. It's a taste well worth acquiring.

What do you think of dandelions, then?

I know it seems like a radical idea from your point of view, but please try to understand some people grew up eating bitter melon. while the exact details vary, it's common in chinese, viet, thai, flip, bengali, indian, burmese, and cambodian food

what Veeky Forums is laughing at is the fact that this guy seems to think it's a taste that needs to be "acquired"

if you have to "acquire" a taste for something, maybe you didn't like it to begin with, ever consider that? no need to pretend just to impress the internet, it's not like you're running into this stuff by accident unless you grew up in an asian family

i kind of disagree with what you are saying, most people on this board are not of asian heritage and many caucasians are turned off by the name "bittermelon" alone,also the appearance, additionally they have no idea what to do with it. the guy in the pic posted is obviously an idiot, but i think theres nothing wrong with promoting an ingredient that isnt known very well, maybe someone will pick it up on their next supermarket visit just for trying, then it was already worth more than a lifetime of jackposting

If they are independently motivated and want to play around with "weird icky alien vegetables omg" it's fine with me, but "most people on this board" are fear-gripped morons who live in an eternal struggle between pressure to eat and drink how they think "regular normal guys" eat and drink, and pressure to keep up with the breakneck pace of fads and memes that come around once per decade or so. Do we really want some redpill from /pol/ raging about the new bittermelon meme and how it's a conspiracy to make him fap to trannies? It's bad enough with the avocado and sriracha idiots shitting up the board, I'd rather take more jackposting and joey threads.

>if you don't like it now you won't like it ever!

Surely you can think of plenty of things you hated before you got a taste for them. Why should that be any different for food?

And FYI, I'm Chinese, and I really did hate bitter gourd when I was a kid. Now, I eat it semi-regularly. Try being a little less jaded, user.

Good for a vitamin tea, though it's mostly all the same stuff as nettles. Dry the leaves and the roots someplace warm and then just steep that shit in boiled water for a while. Not too much/too often though or it gives you ass trouble.

>Surely you can think of plenty of things you hated before you got a taste for them.

Nope. Sorry but I do not buy the concept of "acquired a taste". If you don't like something, don't eat it. Simple as that. This notion that you have to trick yourself into not gagging just to be "cultured" is fucking stupid. You want to call me a picky eater, fine with me. There are very few foods or drinks I don't like: Sorghum based baijiu is pretty awful, if you enjoy that your mouth is broken. French press coffee in general, fuck your mud, paper filters all the way or make espresso if you want oils, oil only belongs in espresso. Buffalo wings, steamed nasty vinegar and gelatin mess. The Israeli version of "baba ghanoush" with mayonnaise, holy shit Hitler did nothing wrong. Orange roughy, this is not a good fish. Monkfish too, I don't care how trendy it gets, it is not good.

I don't pretend. But I like bitter melon because it's good. Stop pretending to like stuff just to please others.

while i do agree that very little tastes are "acquired", you seem to think it always has to be a process through which you have to force yourself.
Food is always a sensual thing, involving eyes, taste,smell and also your ideas about the fooditem.
Take monkfish for example, i disliked fish as a little child because of the smell, then i liked fish but monkfish looked creepy so i didnt want to eat it (also as a child), then randomly at some point in my youth i had a dish with monkfish in it which i liked so i realized monkfish can be great.
beer+wine are also prime examples, its not like i hated it when i first tried it but it definitely want something id crave, but you get exposed to wine and beer so often that you develop a liking over time, up to the point where you become actively interested in knowing more ab out it and trying different kinds.
1000year old egg, and the fertilized duckeggs are something i definitely didnt need to try, the idea and the visuals were kind of repulsive, but the taste is great so i eat them more regulary now.Same with the smell of durian, but i love the taste. So my point is, while you dont necessarily need to "acquire" a taste, you definitely should at least try everything and keep an open mind and challenge your preferences sometimes, also its an important realization for a cook/hobbycook that anything can taste good if prepared properly, i hated brussel sprouts as a child which my grandmother boiled to oblivion, now i love them with just a quick heavy sear almost raw.

Didn't think this thread will take off.
What does Veeky Forums think of sour cabbage?

>also its an important realization for a cook/hobbycook that anything can taste good if prepared properly
And some things just never taste good, see the french press example. At best it can be made "properly" and then you can say "well, it has great typicity"

Beer and wine are perfect examples of this problem. People think they "should" like beer or they "should" like wine, so to compensate for the fact that they really don't like either, they memorize a bunch of buzzwords to sound like connoisseurs and they turn it into fashion, it becomes a contest over how many parker points you bought, or how many IBUs you can "handle". And as a result we get an influx of people who love the idea of liking wine, but don't actually like wine. So this becomes a growth industry for flavor engineers to develop wines that cater to the tastes of people who don't actually like wine:

nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/sunday/ignore-the-snobs-drink-the-cheap-delicious-wine.html?_r=0

It would be best if people stopped pretending. Then people who like a thing can have that thing, and people who like other things can have those other things. You want to drink frozen margaritas? Good! That doesn't make you a bad person. Go hire some engineers to make the best frozen margarita machine ever invented. Use the finest 100% agave reposado (reposado is better than anejo for mixed drinks). Make it into a rube goldberg machine for maximum aesthetics, like the Alpha Dominche of margarita machines. I am totally in favor of this. Just stop ruining wine please, and thank you.

I like all food that taste good, if it happens to be healthy=bonus

It tastes very good. I made more

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Wow. You are one pontificating, self-centred, insecure asshole, aren't you?

Neither I nor anyone in this thread pressured you into trying something you loathed. I merely shared my experiences and suggested that one's palate isn't set in stone. Instead, you chose to treat it as a personal attack on your values and lashed back at me for being a 'poseur'.

Well, guess what; the only guy here putting up a front is you. Do you think an 'independently motivated' gentleman like yourself could possibly stoop so low as to write tripe like ? Contrary to your projections, most of this board certainly doesn't give a damn about what others think; we share and discuss what we want for our own sake. If you can't accept that, then congratulations, your spineless need for validation from Internet 'cool kids' through conformity is feeding the insular, stagnant shitposting culture choking out actual fucking discussion on every board.

Here's some final advice, take it or leave it. Get off Veeky Forums for a day, and get some perspective back into your life.

I agree with him . It is an objective fact that tastes change across your lifetime. You should lay off the salt, maybe incorporate some self-acceptance practices or review what life is about. People aren't posers or aren't trying to make themselves look good all the time.
Cheers.

a french press is not an ingredient though, coffee would be the right reference and again a perfect example.
Most people only know shit coffee, to the extent that they think their nespresso is a magical coffeemachine made by the gods.
Truth is, people that "hate" something probably did not have it prepared in a great way yet, most of the times.
With wine etc there is obviously peerpressure involved in adolescent years, but do you actually believe most people drink wine just for show? Thats a strange assumption to have.
Im not american so i cant judge, but here in europe drinking wine is part of everyday life and not many people make a fuss about those things, and the people that do, are not people i want to be around anyways.

>most people drink wine just for show
I never said anything about percentages or ratios, only that they exist to a large enough extent that they influence the industry

and you yourself liked wine the first time you tried it?or was it - dare i say- an acquired taste?

Is that an actual question or just another way of saying you think everyone is like you and if they say otherwise they are lying and you just need to rephrase the question enough times to catch the inevitable inconsistency?

I like wine. I like bitter melon. Other things, even supposedly good things, I do not like and I will not tell anyone otherwise even if it's socially unacceptable. Is that clear enough?

i am asking you, as a serious question, if you liked wine the first time you tried it, because if you didnt, you "acquired" a taste for wine, and i for sure have never seen a young adult or child loving their first taste of wine

Yes. But I already said that.

You want to ask again just in case? I'll be here all day. It's no problem at all.

I'm not the guy you're in a dickwagging contest with, but I liked wine the first time I tasted it as a kid. Same with Campari, which is interesting because it's pretty damn bitter.

Beer on the other hand? No. I remember my dad offering me a sip when I was a kid and I thought it was nasty as fuck. Then again, maybe that was just his brand? I also remember visiting relatives for the holidays. They all had beer, and bought non-alcoholic beer for me. I enjoyed that!

you just described the mechanism by which some people acquired the taste - they grew up with it.

you do learn to like things. why would your preferences ever be set in stone?

Some Asians don't like bitter melon, despite growing up with it

OP here. Since you'll be here all day: I seriously want to ask you, and this is off-topic. You seem well-educated, with great mental processing. Do you mind telling me how I can do that?.

Such as, what activities do you partake in? Which websites or books you read. Any creative university or job activities? Do you like making essays, or playing music? Reading alot? How much?
Any other advice?

Cheers.
I am not ashamed to ask this on Veeky Forums.

Soak it in salt water to remove the bitterness if people are such babies about it.

>And FYI, I'm Chinese

It make me have the most outrageous boners of all time when eating healthy for several months, I'm talking demolition crew quality equipment boners

Sweet meme bro, can I save it ?