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Which is why it tastes so good! Shame really. Like restaurant vegetables - taste great but the secret is a ton of salt and sugar.
by NovaVeles 4y ago
Which is why it tastes so good! Shame really.
Like restaurant vegetables - taste great but the secret is a ton of salt and sugar.
- sbf501 4y agoI disagree strongly with you on the "secret" to vegetables. They have lots of salt/fat, because unless it is a puree of some sort, or a vegetarian/vegan restaurants, (places with a chef that is attentive), veggies are treated as a side no one wants to eat and are usually tossed in the trash by the busing staff. Which is why you often see frozen, canned, or the lowest quality presented slathered in salt/fat: the real taste has been obliterated by processing. The problem is they are trucked great distances so are harvested too early (since they are more robust when unripe). I've had local butter lettuce that tasted sweet and firm, and tomatoes and carrots that tasted like candy. But I'm lucky to live near a lot of local agriculture grown with intention (Portland). It's a bummer that every city/town in the US doesn't have local produce of some sort.
- NovaVeles 4y agoThat is a fair analysis of the situation. Producing better produce is the better path forwards and it is where we should be going. But in taking short cuts there are the four horsemen of flavor - Salt, Fats, Carbs and Sugar. A little is good, too much is bad. As for fresh produce, I used to work in food manufacturing and there was company pitching their new sterile, vacuum packed fruit range. The idea was that the fruit would be ripened and sealed up at the farm. Their pitch was "fresher than fresh". The idea was that they could stop the ripening process in a fashion similar to how NASA stores their produce for long hauls. Overall it was... ok but there is a reason why it never really went anywhere.