I can only speak for myself but I’ve eaten at Michelin star restaurants all over the world and enjoy fine dining whenever I have the time and I love it, but sometimes I just want taco bell.
Alcohol, on the other hand; good Scotch and wine has ruined the cheap stuff for me. I can’t drink cheap, or even mediocre, whisky or wine anymore. If it’s not very high quality I’d rather just have something like a gin or vodka cocktail.
My experience as well. For me, good bread and cheese are my “will not compromise” food
My parents had decent taste and decent money when I was a teen. My first interactions with alcohol were expensive wines they were willing to give me a taste of and some expensive liquors I siphoned out of. I am now broke and all the liquor I can afford sucks. Their desire for bourgeois decadence ruined my college indulgences in cheap liquor.
There is legitimately good wine at just about every price point… You definitely should not write off a wine just because of the price.
And conversely, there’s lots of BAD wine that’s expensive.
Try everything and keep track of what you like! Your wine drinking experience will improve, and it’ll probably cost you less to boot!
Absolutely, I shouldn’t have used cheap as a synonym for bad, or vice versa, that’s my mistake.
There are a lot of very good wines at low price points, especially from underappreciated regions. A little experimentation will result in finding some great value.
The same goes for the whiskey. There are a lot of distilleries out there with great offerings far below the price of the big names everyone recognizes. Especially when you take fads into account. Many bourbons and Japanese whiskeys that used to be good buys are now ridiculously priced.
I’ve definitely tried a hand at some fine dining but honestly it only made me appreciate the simple stir fries, and soups my Chinese parents made me.
I now enjoy a mix of both.
Turning leftovers into fried rice generally results in one of my favorite foods. That’s not to say I don’t like more upscale options too, but man.
anecdotally, Ive gotten this with store bought basic sliced bread. I used to love it and snack on just bread as a kid, but Ive been making my bread with a bread machine for a few years, and now the store bread just tastes and feels like weak, dry, slightly sweetened insulation foam.
Sliced bread is like a store bought tomato, once you’ve had the homegrown/baked version, you are fucked.
No this is exactly what I mean! Ignorance sometimes is bliss.
Another example: I cannot watch mediocre television anymore
I really wanna know if our biochemical response is different to the same stimuli if we have experienced “better” before or not.
Similarly, I enjoyed cheap sake until I had expensive sake. I was better off before!
Tell me more about this bread maker you speak of 🤔
Artisan Bread in 5 minutes recipe. No machine no kneading. Best bread I have ever eaten. This one they updated to 1 tablespoon bread yeast, but old recipe was 1.5. i think 1.5 Tbsp of yeast tastes better. And use bread flour, rather than allpupose. https://artisanbreadinfive.com/2013/10/22/the-new-artisan-bread-in-five-minutes-a-day-is-launched-back-to-basics-updated/
I mean, it’s a kitchen appliance that makes bread? Throw the ingredients in and turn it on, and you have bread, in like, 4 hours. I have a slightly nice one, because I found someone selling it used for 20 bucks when that model new is like 200, but I think the more basic ones can get a bit less than $100, so while I wouldn’t call them cheap, they’re not exactly unaffordable luxury for most people lucky enough to live in a developed country. They’re just not really worth it unless you plan on using it regularly (and eating a lot of bread, because homemade bread lacks the preservatives of store bought food I’ve found I get maybe 5 days with a loaf from it before there’s a risk of the bread going moldy)
No science. But I have this with wine. If it’s not good wine, I’d usually rather just skip it. Wine snob they say. However, I’m there for the quality, and if it’s not there, neither am I.
Funnily enough there is science pointing to the idea that the more expensive somebody thinks a wine is the better it tastes to them
I believe it.
Microbiome changes can do this.
I’ve been homeless, nothing will gross me out if it is still edible.
Related: spicy foods. I used to be basically intolerant of it but now hate eating non-spicy versions of foods I’ve grown accustomed to. Spicy peppers and hot chili powder have become a crutch for my otherwise mediocre cooking skills.
I think it depends on the individual, I’ve eaten at fancy places in the past, but that has had no bearing on my enjoyment of the usual slop I make myself
Annecdotal, but I definitely enjoy the simplest foods specifically for their simplicity. Things like a fresh loaf of bread with no sauces, a plain bowl of rice straight out of the rice cooker (I’m Asian), or plain roasted sunflower seeds.
Why does rice smell like Cinema or Popcorn or smth.
I don’t know if its rice specific and neither do I know what rice I used to cook (I’m not Asian).
I can’t say I’ve ever thought rice smells like cinema nor popcorn. I associate the smell with China since I spent my earliest years there. My guess is your brain associated that smell with movies for whatever reason (maybe you always got Chinese food at the mall after the movies or something?)
Pretty sure its totaly wrong. There is no connection.
Chinese food, sushi or Indian Wok, all do not have thr smell, compared to me making a specific rice at home at is entirely unrelated.
Another Person commented with a prpbability of the Mailard Reaction, which sounds like it makes the most sense, but I didn’t broke up yhe topic scientifically to say “yeah, that is exactly it”
Puffy rice is popcorn without the shells that get stuck in your teeth
Probably the maillard reaction
I think this makes a bit sense. Yeah
