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Darnit, now I want a burger!

Burgers are NOT overrated. You're off topic.

Topicality is overrated!

Oh, yes! The effort it takes to crack open a lobster is not proportionate to the taste!

Rihanna and Bruno Mars are overrated. Not for their singing voices; I admit they're amazing singers. It's their songs. Lyrics are too simple and often repetitive.

Rihanna's We Found Love repeats the same line over and over and over and overrrrrrr. "We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place"

(Although a lot of songs do that nowadays, so fine).

But Bruno Mars? I can't give him a pass! He writes a song about crazy wild sex and names it Gorilla?

"I promise it's a killer,
You'll be banging on my chest
Bang bang, gorilla

Ooh, yeah
You and me baby making love like gorillas
Ooh, yeah
You and me baby making love like gorillas"

Because thinking about hairy, smelly giant apes that could snap me like a twig gets me in the mood. Right.

Look, he's flirting with you.

It seemed to be thing with DC in the '60s though. All their bedrooms were decorated in go go checks.

Vanilla bean ice cream.

It's like someone mixed dirt into your ice cream.

That's the only vanilla I like but yeah, there's some overdo in some brands.

Vanilla ice cream in general is overrated, except for when it's eaten with apple pie.

The Brain certainly seemed to agree.

Mallah 's fashionable beret helped too.

At first glance I thought it said Vanilla Ice is overrated. Yeah, I thought, his career nose dived after one hit.

I used to think so too, although now I quite appreciate it.

I think salted caramel is overrated and overused.

or apple strudel!

Grocery store had limes on sale so I had some handy and got the idea to squeeze juice over the vanilla ice cream and put some kosher salt on. It was good!

Now that sounds like something awesome to try!

Huh. If vanilla bean ice cream looks "dirty," what does that say about most of the Ben & Jerry's flavors?!



Sometimes I think the extras-in-ice-cream arms race has gotten way out of control. Some vanilla with a few toasted nuts sprinkled over the top is just the ticket.

We do have a super-gourmet ice cream place near my last job that I think is overrated. Their stuff's okay, but people will literally wait in line for an hour to eat it. They'll also pay two bucks more for a cone than they'll pay a competitor fifteen minutes away. I think that's pretty silly.

I like salted caramel the candy. I don't like salty ice cream. It weirds me out.

Some of the Ben & Jerry's flavors I love. It's not the looking at the vanilla bean ice cream that puts me off, it's the dry, flavorless crunch of the black specks.

The so-called best hotdogs in Reykjavik, that hotdog stand where Bill Clinton and Princess Diana ate, was overrated IMO. It was good, but not that much better than the other hotdogs I tried.

I've never noticed that the specks of vanilla have a crunch. Then again, my spouse has never noticed that salted caramel ice cream tastes like frozen seawater.

Amen to that, sister!

The thing is: if you took some salted caramel candies and just chucked them on top of the ice cream, I'd have no problem.

Food is weird stuff, but the people who eat it are weirder. Last month, mr_cleome brought home this cookie-chocolate-nut bark... something, from Trader Joe's. As a snack straight from the bag, it wasn't really a success. But as an ice cream topping or frosted cake topping, I bet it would have been perfect.

I'm not much on the whole fusion movement, be it ice cream, coffee,.... This pumpkin spice thing that shows up every Oct was another one but I got this vegan pumpkin spice walnut muffin.... I didn't know it was even legal for vegan stuff to not taste like plastic but that was one nice muffin.

Oh, and back when this thread was all about the unnecessary Greek yogurt craze, I don't think that I'd even tried it. Now mr_cleome is hooked on a certain brand, and... sure. Okay. It's his cash, and once yogurt is in a smoothie its origins don't matter anyway. Mmmm... smoothie...

Okay, I've recently gone to a more vegetable/fish based diet with about 2/3 of my meals (i can't seem to replace beef in pho, or pulled pork, bacon and chicken). This has been an amazing shift in terms of weight loss and feeling healthier but...

I'm SOOOOOOO over quinoa and kale in things. Seems like restaurants put these once-humble ingredients in things for a huge mark up.
Ugh

Kale is okay in those specialty mix salads from the grocery store (asian themed usually) but trying to do anything with it on its own? It doesn't steam. I suppose it would boil. Raw is like chewing bits of plastic. Haven't tried quinoa.

Healthy foods I've found tolerable include bacon, ice cream, and eclairs. You should maybe try those.

The best way to eat kale is pan-sauteed. Use the biggest pan you own. If it's cast-iron, even better. What you want to do is:

Pour a thin layer of olive oil in the pan. Heat over Medium.

Add some chopped or crushed garlic. Maybe some onion slivers too. Stir with a wooden spoon until they begin to cook, but not brown.

Take your kale, which you've washed, de-stemmed and cut in thin slivers (almost like you were making a coarse slaw), and add it to the pan. Cook until it wilts. Salt to taste and add a squeeze of lemon if you're feeling fancy.

Kale is not like kissing God. But this is the same preparation I use for things like spinach and chard. It's pretty tasty, and a nice break from eating salads every day.

The last time I had lobster (quite a while back), they brought this giant dish of butter that I barely touched. I'm more a lemon + Tabasco kind of girl, when it comes to shellfish.

It's weird to think that lobster used to be food forced on poor convicts.