/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12018784]

>61 year old fathers idea of a good meal is spaghetti noodles with campbells mushroom soup dumped on top

[Anonymous No.12018787]

food is subjective

[Anonymous No.12018796]

Advertisers told 61 year old fathers that spaghetti noodles with Campbell's™ Cream of Mushroom Soup® on top was a good meal

[Anonymous No.12020119]

>>12018784
My mom makes "tuna casserole" buy dumping a can of tuna into boxed mac and cheese.

[Anonymous No.12020126]

>>12020119
that's sounds disgusting

[Anonymous No.12020129]

>>12018784
>boomer dad cooks everything to the point that it carbonises because he's thinks raw onions are dangerous somehow
>freezes bread and meat the day that it's bought

[Anonymous No.12020138]

>>12020129
I honestly don't get this at all. My grandpa does the same thing. He will buy it then as soon as he gets home stuffs it into his deep freeze. Then he'll just toast the frozen toast every time he wants to have toast.

[Anonymous No.12020143]

>>12020138
Old people develop weird habits. My grandma used to always switch the tv off at the wall because she was worried it would start a fire.

[Anonymous No.12020146]

My millennial son thinks that rotting raw fish prepared by gay men with double AIDS is the height of cuisine. He also spent his $200,000 inheritance, from selling his grandpas farm, on avocado toast. Oh and he also thinks he is a little girl trapped in a 6 foot four body and hopes to grow up someday to be Justin Beiber

[Anonymous No.12020147]

>>12020138
the bread thing is easy to understand. before the days of industrial bread it went bad very very fast, like in a day or two. You froze it to stop it from going bad so it's easy to see where the habit came from.

[Anonymous No.12020149]

>>12020143
that's because most of them are fucking autists.

[Anonymous No.12020153]

ITT kids who think it's not food unless it's taco Bell or little Caesars

[Anonymous No.12020158]

>>12020153
Go defrost your bread, gramps.

[Anonymous No.12020667]

>>12020153
Dont you have a jello salad to make old man?

[Anonymous No.12020674]

>>12018784
>spaghetti noodles
Culinary opinion discarded.
You fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.12020682]

My ex did this shit. She picked up lots of weird old white guy habits from her dad, who hated my guts. I told her she was born way too late for the Honeymooners era.

[Anonymous No.12020691]

>>12020138
Old people often live alone and have smaller appetites. The bread will mould before they are 1/2 done with the loaf. It's not hard to understand.

[Anonymous No.12020701]

>>12020143
This actually was a serious problem with older houses with old wiring: no ground lugs led to frequent problems, and old wires were cloth wrapped, and some houses legitimately had newspaper insulation. Massive fire hazard.

[Anonymous No.12020787]

Hurr Durr why don't old people eat guzzle sips and eat McChicken hurr they so stupid why not be smelly fat blob like me haha they can see there penis. Haha losers can see there peepee

[Anonymous No.12020874]

>>12018784
The real reason why he cooks like this is because he lived through the depression and this WAS a good meal during that period.

[Anonymous No.12020882]

>>12018784
Cream of mushroom on pasta is pretty fucking good anon. It's not high cuisine but it's hard to beat for 2$.

[Anonymous No.12020893]

>>12020882
Well you could just mince up some garlic and saute with chili flakes in olive oil before tossing the cooked pasta in then finishing, a bit of parsley. Even cheaper and even gooder.

[Anonymous No.12020996]

>>12018784

Swap out the spaghetti for egg noodles, add a can of tuna, a can of spring peas and the Campbells mushroom soup and you got some fine dining my friend

[Anonymous No.12021002]

>>12020787
COPE
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[Anonymous No.12021774]

>>12018784
Cars were great in the 50s.

Food was not.

[Anonymous No.12021789]

You blame boomers but they didn't have any YouTube or internet to make them realize they are retarded.
Just companies telling them what to buy and some old family recepies at best.

[Anonymous No.12021794]

>>12020119
This is why white women get memed on.

[Anonymous No.12021800]

I'm glad my parents who were born in the 50's are in good health and actually know what good food is.
>English descent Dad
>Italian descent Mom from Grandma born in 20's

[Anonymous No.12021804]

>>12020119
>>12020129
>>12018784
>>12020153
>>12020882
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[Anonymous No.12021842]

>>12020143
My mom still thinks that hard resetting a computer can somehow cause problems with its functionality. It seems like people simply learn how to work with objects without ever learning how they function internally and then just assume technology is static and that whatever they learned ~30 years ago is still true today

[Anonymous No.12021862]

>>12020119
this with frozen peas and mustard is a decent way to gussy up mac and cheese

[Anonymous No.12021867]

>>12020146
Started strong there anon
>4/10 I replied

[Anonymous No.12021870]

>>12020129
bread makes sense especially if it doesn't have preservatives

[Anonymous No.12021874]

>>12020701
>the good ol days
>when magic pixies could be free

[Anonymous No.12021876]

>>12021870
You do it the day after you buy it. Take advantage of it while it's fresh.

[Anonymous No.12021898]

>>12020146
Dong worry about the farm. The Agria Corporation will take good care of it and make sure they only export the best illegal labor to toil themselves to death on it.

[Anonymous No.12021912]

>>12020129
>because he's thinks raw onions are dangerous somehow
What do you expect? He's from the generation that was taught to treat raw eggs like they're nuclear waste.

[Anonymous No.12021967]

>>12018784
sounds based

[Anonymous No.12023733]

>>12021774
>Cars were great in the 50s.
>no safety tech of any kind
>had to change spark plugs as often as you changed oil
>every gas station had at least a single maintenance bay with a guy analogues to Goober from Mayberry because every car had to be worked on regularly
>lol drum brakes all the way around
go tell /o/ you think cars from the 50s were great and watch them stroke out

[Anonymous No.12024436]

>>12023733
>go tell /o/ you think cars from the 50s were great and watch them stroke out
ok

[Anonymous No.12024487]

>>12020874
When do you think The Great Depression took place exactly? I could understand if you said that he would've picked up habits foisted upon him by his parents who would've lived through it, but you clearly didn't mean it that way.

[Anonymous No.12024583]

>>12018796
they've always told us that, its just that they didnt have any other source of info to tell them otherwise
Unless you read books, which are for nerds

[Anonymous No.12024605]

>>12024436
He did it! The absolute madman!
>>>/o/20522751

[Anonymous No.12024608]

>>12018784
>noodles
pasta is italian. noodles are asian

[Anonymous No.12024614]

>>12021842
>My mom still thinks that hard resetting a computer can somehow cause problems with its functionality
If she's using a windows computer, that's not too far off. Especially windows 10. Though in all fairness, doing ANYTHING with it will cause problems with functionality.

[Anonymous No.12024762]

>>12024436
>>12024605
HAHA

[Anonymous No.12024769]

>>12020119
dump some pico in there and i dare you to complain

[Anonymous No.12025036]

>>12024614
Oh God please tell me you're a Linux fag and not a Mac fag.

[Anonymous No.12025076]

>>12020143
My mom does that when taking the clothes our of the washing machine because she thinks you can get electrocuted

[Anonymous No.12025227]

>>12021794
Don't the spics have something where they basically dump a bunch of shit into a bag of cornchips? Every culture has that stuff.

[Anonymous No.12025258]

>>12024608
Pasta is the romance (italian to be precise) equivalent to the germanic word noodle. Both mean the same. Do you call tomatoes pomodori everytime you cook an italian meal?

[Anonymous No.12025285]

>>12025227
Yeah dude chili-fritos, but that's the shit you get from food trucks at the park not a "casserole" mom makes for dinner.

[Anonymous No.12025327]

>>12025227
a pickled egg in a crushed bag of chips in the UK

[Anonymous No.12025331]

>>12020119
Add canned peas to this and you got a fucking delicious poverty snack.

[Anonymous No.12025731]

>>12020701
If anything, old people unplug their tellies because they no longer come with a "hard" power switch. When standby -feature came there was a big scare of televisions catching on fire when off. Maybe one or two actually did.

>>12021774
And because of this, you completely lost the tast for the glorious meat aspic.

[Anonymous No.12025738]

Okay.
Why not just make him mushroom stroganoff from scratch?
It's like that bad meal, but well-made. It'll show that you love your dad and want to make his favorite stuff even better.

[Anonymous No.12025744]

>>12025285
I've been the dude scraping the last of everything in the fridge into a single casserole.
It's nothing to brag about, but it can be cheap and tasty.

[Anonymous No.12025748]

>>12020874
>61
>lived through the depression

[Anonymous No.12025833]

>>12018784
I cook for my elderly grandparents because neither of them are capable of it anymore. The two of them went for 50 some years eating baked potatoes, raw carrots and unseasoned pork chops overbaked to a white chunk that shredded like cardboard cut with a serrated blade.
Also, my grandfather occasionally likes spaghetti with the sauce replaced by a cup of hot milk and butter, and a little salt. I have no idea where this 'recipe' comes from, only that his mother did it, and I ate it as a kid too finding nothing strange about it at the time.
It's not bad, but weird.

[Anonymous No.12025849]

>>12025833
>his mother did it
Probably was entirely too misinformed about some white creamy sauce and tried making one by herself in her kitchen with what she had.

[Anonymous No.12025867]

>>12025849
That's entirely likely, they were 'can everything from the garden' people, he didn't have an indoor toilet until he was 12, and the idea of great grandma just winging it after reading a recipe somewhere and forgetting part of it seems to fit.
Still, weird how 70+ years later I still occasionally make it for him, and even myself, as a result of a kitchen error in the first third of the last century.

[Anonymous No.12025875]

>>12020874
>born 1958
>raised in the 60's
>The Great Depression

[Anonymous No.12025884]

>>12025867
Milk and butter are good, it sounds kinda tasty.
Seems like it wouldn't stick to/coat the noodles too well though.

[Anonymous No.12025892]

>>12021789
probably the only real reply in this whole fucking thread

[Anonymous No.12025898]

My grandpa every night would drink beers and eat slices of butter by itself.

He’s 80, built like a truck and has had two heart attacks and got shot in the leg in a war.

[Anonymous No.12025899]

>>12025884
It's not bad, but closer to a noodle soup than traditional pasta, since the butter forms little droplets throughout the milk which keeps it that way since it's heated first. In order to eat it normally with a soup-spoon, you use a fork/knife to quickly cut the spaghetti into manageable pieces, running the knife through the tines of the fork as you move around the plate mincing the pasta.
Again, none of this seemed weird to me until I grew older and realized nobody else seemed to do this, but by that point I'd had a taste for it since early childhood.

[Anonymous No.12025904]

Tater tots caserole is delicious although I haven't had it in ten years.

[Anonymous No.12025906]

>>12021789
>>12025892
This is a partially good excuse. That and the fact that when you program a person, you can't deprogram them to save your life. If they've been eating dry chicken in cream of mushroom soup for 50+ years they'll be happy with a moist chicken breast until they find a speck of pink that's touched a bone then they'll scream they'll die and cook everything to 190-200 again forever. Whatever was taught to a person as a child sticks with them forever. Don't abuse your child, very few are smart enough to recover.

[Anonymous No.12025916]

>>12021789
Never thought about it like that. Probably the only reason I'm reasonably knowledgeable is I've Googled near every question I've ever had.

[Anonymous No.12025924]

>>12025916
The scary part is how much/little you can remember when removed from the digital sum-of-all-knowledge. Having a few books on hand is never a bad idea.

[Anonymous No.12025931]

>>12025906
I hope you're not suggesting that cooking mediocre food is abuse.

[Anonymous No.12025945]

>>12025931
I'm not the anon you're replying to, but I do consider serving medicore food to be a form of abuse. No, it's not on the same level as beating kids, but it's still abuse nonetheless. If you can't do something well then don't do it at all.

[Anonymous No.12025952]

>loves traditional 3rd world shithole food
>hates traditional American food
doesn't get much more racist than this, lad

[Anonymous No.12025959]

>>12025945
>then don't do it at all.

>just starve your kids or feed them solely on pre-prepared food lol
>at least they won't have to eat a dry chicken breast
Fucking
What?

[Anonymous No.12025973]

>>12025931
I would rather be beaten than served shit food. Unfortunately for me my parents both beat me and served me shit food.

[Anonymous No.12025982]

>>12025959
How about if you can't cook well and you can't afford to buy good pre-prepared food you simply choose not to have kids?

[Anonymous No.12025987]

>>12025931
>>12025945
It's certainly abuse if it's damaging to the child's longterm physical and mental health when you had the option to provide them with good meals, and a desire to eat them later in life. Yeah not like beating, molestation, or even regular uncalled for verbal abuse or neglect. But it's still improper child care.

And current generations that have the RESOURCES to do better and should fucking know better rarely have an excuse aside from lying to themselves about their welfare.

[Anonymous No.12026008]

>>12020138
That is actually what I do. But I am a bachelor and if I don't do that, I end up having to throw half the loaf away.

[Anonymous No.12026025]

>>12025973
>>12025982
>>12025987
How bad are we talking here?
Like I'll fuck shit up every once in a while- burn my garlic a bit, under-season a soup, over-boil an egg.
Is this cause for my legally mandated sterilization?

[Anonymous No.12026044]

>>12026025
>How bad are we talking here?
"Hungry? Want me to go get you some Mcdonalds again?"

[Anonymous No.12026054]

>>12024769
Pico tuna and mac? This is a fucking crime to any decent pico. Sounds disgusting and you should be ashamed.

[Anonymous No.12026059]

>>12026008
But why don't you have some of it fresh before it goes stale? You can always freeze it after it starts to stale and before it goes moldy. That won't make a difference for toasting.