ITT: things about food that everyone knows but is too afraid to say out loud

ill start

mexican food relies so heavily on tomatos, onion and cilantro and salt because otherwise the food has no flavor unless you use overpowering vegetables like onions with lime juice

>>21477349 (OP)

*the meat has no flavor

>>21477349 (OP)
where do the tomatoes go on tacos?

>>21477349 (OP)
>the meat has no flavor
>so it has to be seasoned
wow you just described all of poor people’s food, how insightful

>>21477355
WHeRE dO tHE TomaTOes Go?
In the taco, retard.

>>21477364
i arent think so

>>21477364
Mexicanos don't put tomatoes in the taco. Maybe if they're using beak of the rooster as the condiment, but that's a condiment. They put meat, onions, and usually coriander on their tacos, and garnish with sauce, salt, and lime juice.

>>21477349 (OP)
>mexicans use alliums and acidity to give their food flavour
so, like pretty much every other fucking cuisine in the world?

>>21477416

give me an example? french cuisine, german, italian, they don't do this. they dont add fuck ass huge chunks of a pungent vegetable like onions, they blend it in subtly so it contributes to flavor, not overpowering.

>>21477448
all of those cuisines heavily utilize onions, wtf are you talking about? french onion soup is one of the most famous french dishes. germans eat a lot of raw onions. italian uses a fuckton of tomatoes, and have dishes like friggione which is literally just tomatoes and onions.
basically every cuisine uses some kind of acid. the french and germans use more vinegar, mediterranean cuisines use more lemons. but acidity is a basic component of any cuisine. same with salt.

>>21477453

what about chinese food or japanese food? they get along fine without tomatos or onions, your reaching

Using a fork is the superior way to eat Japanese food but we all LARP that chopsticks are somehow superior so we don't seem "white".

>>21477448
you have no fucking idea what you're talking about please stop posting

>>21477456

i like using chop sticks and pretending im in mulan (the 1998 one)

>>21477460

show me 1 (ONE) just ONE picture of italian, german or french cuisine with 1cm cubic pieces of raw onion, JUST ONE PICTURE

>>21477486

>>21477487

you're moving the goal posts, OP was about pungent raw white onion, obviously shallots are something completely different

>>21477487

please dont ccomment in my thread with bad faith arguments

>>21477488
"Raw" isn't written anywhere in OP's post or in >>21477448
You're the one moving the goalposts here faglord

Local restaurants aren't generally better than chain restaurants

>>21477349 (OP)
It's to balance the richness of the meat and earthy chili flavors, cooklet.

Cilantro adds freshness, lime adds acidity, and onion adds spice and crunch.

Many many many cuisines do the exact same thing or something very similar.

>>21477448
Germans use saeurkraut to balance the richness of potatoes and sausage.

Italians use balsamic to balance the richness of evoo

French bourguignon has whole ass pearl onions

>>21477455
Tomato and egg stir-fry and gyudon (beef and onion bowl) are mega popular dishes just to name one example each respectively.
I cook mostly chinese and I go through a ridiculous amount of green onions and zhenjiang vinegar

>>21477448
This thundercunt derailed the thread with his idiocy and twattery

>>21477495

Apart from some wineries and other more upscale places, i've never had a local place that is considerably better than your standard chair fair, the typical mom and pop restaurant is pretty mid unless it's breakfast

>>21477349 (OP)
>(insert country) food relies so heavily on (insert seasoning) because otherwise the food has no flavor
what countries cooking doesn't?
honest just sounds like you don't enjoy tomato/onion/cilantro/lime that much, which is fine, but just be honest

>>21477666
Picky eater combined with being a shit cook.

You too >>21477495

>>21477747
projection combined with coping and malding

>>21477495
Imagine living in such a shithole where this could even be true. LOL. Sucks for you lil angry dude.

>>21477765
>t. projection combined with coping and malding

FTFY, Champ
keking out loud rn

>>21477349 (OP)
problem: dried out and potentially rancid meat.
solution: peppers, tomato, too much seasoning, lime, onions, cilantro

>>21477349 (OP)
>otherwise the food
tomatoes, onions, and cilantro are 'food', it's all 'food' not just the completed recipe incorporating all of it
you tell poopoo secrets anon

>>21477486
You should probably just shut the fuck up because you sound retarded

>>21477355
in OPs mind

>>21477448
did you know those toppings are optional in your taco?

>>21477355
The hot sauce you put on it

>>21477970
That's Dutch

>>21478187
Lets be honest the Dutch are just the retarded hybrids of German and English

Worst thread on /ck/.
OP just pretend you were trolling and we can all pretend you aren't braindead

>>21477490
those are pearl onions not shallots

>>21477349 (OP)
>tomatoes, onion, cilantro
So what, you're mad that they make sofrito? Do you get pissed that chinese use ginger+garlic or cajun use the holy trinity? What a stupid fucking argument, all cultures use some kinds of aromatic mix in their cooking.

>>21477448
cajun cuisine, french cuisine, chinese cuisine, there is not a single culture with a notable cuisine that doesn't incorporate activated aromatic veggies and herbs in most of their dishes. You're a fucking idiot.

Maybe one day we'll get a thread like this with actually good cooking tips and techniques instead of a retarded foodlet who hasn't eaten anything that didn't come from a backwoods walmart spreading his incredible ignorance.
(probably not)

>>21477349 (OP)
Cake anything is overrated. Cakes, pancakes, cupcakes.

>>21477970
>>21478199

>the only example of a "non overpoweringly pungent dish containing raw onion" is literally raw fish and raw onion

lol

>>21478639
Does it physically hurt your head when you're this retarded

>>21477349 (OP)
Horseradish is nasty and overpowers anything it goes on

Steaks cooked rare through medium are virtually exactly the same. Cooking above medium well is bad though. Fag plebbitors who kvetch about everything above blue rare being a boot are totally performative.

>>21478967
You're putting too much in nigga. For a two people meal if youre adding it to a sauce only do 1/4th teaspoon. Soups add more.
It adds a lovely flavor when added in right proportion

>>21478974
Medium rare is the optimal temp. I usually order medium at some places if I think they are in a rush or don't know what they're doing because a lot of times they will rush it and it comes out completely rare.

OP needs 12 oz friend cock sweat on his tacos to taste anything

OP needs 12 oz of fried cock sweat on his tacos to taste anything

>>21477349 (OP)
>Mexicans use tomatoes, onion, cilanto and citrus because if you don't add those things to meat then the meat just tastes like yucky meat
/ck/ in charge of food and cooking.

why is everyone in this thread so hostile

>>21479452
start a thread with a shitpost, get shitpost replies.

>>21477490
bite into a shallot and see just how "mild and delicate" the alum flavor is.

>>21479459

no one disproved the original point, their best attempt was posting pictures of rotten fish covered in raw onions and i'm not sure what point that was trying to make

>>21479464
you're really gonna die on this hill op? jfc

>>21479470

let me lay it out for you, the example of onions not being used as a crutch to cover up hideous flavor was using raw onions to cover up the hideous flavor of rotten fish

>>21479475

>>21479475
more

>>21479475
also pretty funny that you are doubling down specifically on the raw onions (which are not even used that widely in authentic Mexican cuisine) and ignoring the tomatoes and citrus you brought up initially, which are both used widely in European cuisines and others, probably because you know you don't actually have a leg to stand on

>>21479478

pale mystery meat, probably loaded with salt

>>21479480
>>21479481
raw beef
more examples of onions used to overpower fetid delicacies that are otherwise unpalatable, citrus isnt used so much generally for this purpose but tomatos and lime are definitely used to cover up flavors

>>21479452
Because while being a retarded foodlet is fine, doubling down on it and not admitting it is not

>>21479491

i meant tomatos (makes bitter flavors more mild) and cilantro (makes rev

>>21479464
Anon, your original point was "mexican food relies so heavily on tomatos, onion and cilantro and salt because otherwise the food has no flavor unless you use overpowering vegetables like onions with lime juice"
Then people started pointing out how every cuisine worth its salt makes heavy use of aromatics, so you moved the goalposts to demanding dishes from other cuisines with large chunks of raw onion, which isn't even in most mexican dishes. Most of the time onion is roasted with peppers, or sweated down in a sofrito, which you credit with other cuisines as "blending it subtly so it contributes to flavor."

You're just assmad that mexican food will occasionally have raw white onions diced on top, which are milder than yellow, red, or green onions to begin with. Of course, raw onions top salads all over the world but you'll conveniently handwave that too I imagine.

>>21479500
>>21479500

man your first paragraph makes a little sense, and then you say that white onions are more mellow than yellow and that salads have raw white onions on it? i'm legit confused right now, are you guys fucking with me?

>>21479504

for reference

>>21479504
White onions are more mellow than yellow, yes.
Salads from elsewhere are commonly topped with raw onions, yes.
You asked here
>>21477486
and here
>>21479475
about using raw onions in food. Guess what retard? Salads all over the world are often topped with raw onions. Mexicans just tend to use white onions as raw topping when they do.

>>21479513
>using AI as a reference
Oh hey I can do that too. Is this where you're getting your information about mexican cuisine? Fucking idiot.

>>21479518

here's what chatgpt says, and you don't have to insult me every time this argument isn't a personal one just an objective one

>we've reached the chatgpt point of retarded arguing
This should be a new internet law

>>21479528
So we both have an AI telling you that either is milder. This is a great reason to not trust AI for teaching you things you don't know shit about, and you clearly don't know shit about mexican cooking.
Be honest with me, did you know what a sofrito was before this thread? Or the effect of roasting onions? Because the widespread use of these two preparations in mexican cooking BTFOs your entire argument about how mexican food doesn't "subtly blend" onion flavors in its cooking.

>>21479542

im from san diego buddy, mexican food was invented here

>>21479550
>buddy
cool your jets, no need to be so aggressive

>>21479550
So why don't you know what a sofrito is, or that mexican food roasts onions more often than it tops with raw onions in its dishes? If you knew about either of those then you would not have made the earlier comment about other cuisines "subtly blending" onions into their dishes as if that was a differentiating point between those cuisines and mexican cuisine?

>>21479557

I agree that onions can be cooked to make more subtle and flavorful dishes. But the original point still stands, mexican cuisine uses raw onion, tomatos, cilantro and lime to cover up the lack of flavor in their meat (sofritos, fajita veggies isn't meat btw)

>>21479560
No mention of cumin, oregano, chili powder, garlic, rosemary, roasted peppers/onions/tomatillos? Forgetting that tomatoes, cilantro, and lime are just valid flavorings in their own right. So no, that dogshit point does not stand because there are many more things that spice mexican meat and mexican food generally. Carnitas alone makes you look like an idiot for what you say.
At this point it's obvious that the only experience you have with mexican cooking is with taco trucks, which is why every mexican dish you're familiar(just tacos) with is coincidentally commonly topped with the things you complain about being too prevalent. I will no longer be responding to you seriously, and only insult you from here forward.

>>21479579

so would you eat a carnitas taco without pico de gallo/salsa roja/salsa verde? you just raw dog tacos? or do you use something to cover up the flavor? same with burritos

>>21479588
Most powerful cooklet?

>>21479588
Carnitas is better with more things but by no means lacking in flavor on its own. Good carnitas is delicious even by itself. Just because your attempts at mexican cooking taste like your mother's fishy vagina doesn't mean everyone else has that same problem.
Do you concede that mexican cuisine also makes use of cumin, oregano, chili powder, garlic, rosemary, roasted peppers/onions/tomatillos, and many other things for flavor in addition to raw onion, tomatoes, and cilantro? You dishonest jewish rat? Because you seem to have forgotten about all of those parts of mexican cuisine and keep on forgetting about them, you fucking retarded peabrain cooklet.

>>21477349 (OP)
Your thread had potential but you screwed it up immediately with your shitty example, kek.

>>21479598
He thinks that adding lime juice and cilantro cover up the flavor rather than enhancing the flavors from the meat. Bro probably thinks he is an expert on mexican food because has had every item off the taco bell menu.

>>21479611
I'm 100% sure at this point that all he's had for "traditional" mexican cuisine is food from taco trucks and he's never really engaged with the cuisine in good faith, just written it off because he had too much onion on one taco. I myself downplayed chinese cuisine for a long time(not to the retarded extent that OP is with mexican) until I really deep-dived and tried cooking as many recipes as faithfully as I reasonably could, and I have a real respect for it now and use some of the ingredients in other things when I'm doing other recipes.
OP should spend a few months actually trying to do the cuisine justice instead of coping and asking chatgpt about food he's never cooked. But he'll just keep sucking cock instead.

>>21479627

the funny thing is you think my critique of using raw onions to cover up the taste of their meat is a negative one, when in fact it's at technique that works in that the end product is good, the point was never that it was a bad thing just a technique that is used.

i've had some truly revolting mexican dishes involving onions, have you had cheese enchiladas with onions in them? imagine the texture of stringy rubber and the taste and olfactory sensation of literally garbage

>>21479640
No anon, what's funny is you've never made carnitas in your life, or you personally would have been flavoring it to great effect with many things you did not list in your original post, preventing the retarded thought you had to start the thread. You'd have taken the spices out of your pantry, smelled them, flavored the pork, and tasted the results of using them after braising(you braise carnitas, for reference). You're a faggot that can't cook and asks chatgpt for answers to basic questions because you've got no idea. And now you're pretending that mexican cuisine is good actually, and using the raw onions is a nice technique actually, now that you've been fed your own asshole for hours by a dozen people.
>have you had cheese enchiladas-
Yes and I don't believe you've had them. You don't have a clue and you should be on your knees thanking me for keeping your thread bumped by reaming you after everyone else got bored of watching you be a dumbass and left. Thank me now, dog.

Horrible thread

>>21479649

hard to have an earnest conversation with someone who is so sensitive that they take every point as a personal insult onto their being

>>21477448
>german
>food
choose one

>>21479721
You got rekt sweetheart

>>21477349 (OP)
but lots of mexican dishes don't feature onion maters or cilantro
pozole is normally made without them
chile rellenos too
tamales
menudo
carnitas
chilaquiles
huaraches
flautas
sopes
etc

>>21477455
but they love leek, ginger, and radishes, which serve the same purposes. And they readily adopt tomato and onion when relevant.

>>21477490
Mongrel cretin

>>21479452
I'm mad at the disparaging quality of ongoing discussion on ck

>>21477349 (OP)
>the food has no flavor unless you add flavor

>>21479452
retards deserve to be shamed

>>21477486
u r dum

add corn flakes to ice cream

>>21479475
>>21479640
>the point was never that it was a bad thing just a technique that is used
>the example of onions not being used as a crutch to cover up hideous flavor was using raw onions to cover up the hideous flavor of rotten fish
You described the taste of Mexican food as a "hideous flavor". The backpedaling is fucking pathetic.

>>21477448
Gaylord of the week award goes to this humongous retard

>>21477349 (OP)
>mexican food relies so heavily on tomatos, onion and cilantro and salt because otherwise the food has no flavor unless you use overpowering vegetables like onions with lime juice

For thin crust pizzas you don't need to preheat the oven. It can go directly under the broiler 1:30 minutes each side.

Saves electricity.

>>21477364
I've yet to see an authentic taco, and even most not so authentic tacos that put tomatoes in them.

>>21477349 (OP)

beer is bitter and nasty

wine taste like rotten grapes

hot dogs are not made with floor sweepings and pig anus.

the color of egg yolks does not matter

salt does not cause high blood pressure, not does it make it worse.

seed oils are not bad for you unless you're horking it down.

there is nothing wrong with butter

margarine is shit

HFCS is the single worst thing you can put in your body.

veganism is not healthy

most people who say they are allergic to food are just picky eaters that lie so people don't argue with them.

there is nothing wrong with being picky.

people who eat any shit put in front of them are not better than other people and are in fact inferior.

being able to drink milk past the age of 2 is a genetic mutation (yes I can drink milk).

>>21477349 (OP)
You don't need to thaw frozen berries, you can just mix them with yogurt and eat them as is

>>21480581

competing with OP for most retarded comment

>>21477364
lmao you got called the fuck out tastelet

>>21481421
Types in a suspiciously similar way to OP though

>>21480581
>guy that thinks to whiteknight hotdogs is in fact a picky eating autist
IMAGINE MOI SHOCK

Full English / Full Irish are not the same thing. There is the included of blood and white pudding in a full irish, thus making it the superior dish. A full scottish has haggis too ontop of the pudding. So actually that might beat all of the others as haggis is great.

Taco Bell does not cause diarrhea. Your drinking until 3 am does.

>>21477448
Unterzwiebelte Mettbrötchen sind ein Grund für Mord.

>>21482165
>ESL opinion
Discarded.

>>21477349 (OP)
The real unspoken secret is how poor /ck/‘s understanding of Mexican food really is

>>21482380
>yank can't read english
post discarded

>>21482380
?

>>21477349 (OP)
>>21477448
>>21477486
>>21477490
>trying so hard to be elitist that you just out yourself as a retard

>>21482383
Theres nothing to understand or learn from subhuman spic savages

>@21482419
>t. disposable wagie with at least one drug dependency

Medium well steak is the best steak. Too much blood is disgusting.

>>21481421
and yet I'm not wrong on anything I typed.

>>21481536
why because I'm the only one to respond to this thread as it was meant?

>>21482987
that's not blood.

>>21478650
not him but I have the answer to your question

>>21483516
No it's because you don't capitalize your sentences and beat on your Enter key like a disobedient wife

>>21482383
Yep. Taco bell and if you're lucky some shitty local taqueria where they've only had steak burritos.

>>21483554
nta, this is a good quote

>>21477486
I’m not going to google it but you can:
>Mettbrotchen
>Handkäße mit Musik
>Steak Tartare
>SALADS

OP is somewhat right. you retards can keep posting pictures of mettbrötchen, pickled herring and other oddities that generally arent consumed on a large scale, it still doesnt change the fact that mexican food is literally 48 different types of essentially the same dish with tasteless meat and large chunks of onion, tomatoes, cilantro and salsa.

>>21483965
you are not german and you DID google some of that. handkäße mit musik wich you obviously copy pasted from somewhere is made with pickled onion and practically no one eats it. mettbrötchen is a little bit more common but people eat it rarely. steak tartare, again is not something people eat that much and the onion is finely diced and mixed with egg, capers etc wich makes it part of the entire flavour instead of being an overpowering one. salad ill give you. lots of people eat salad and a lot of the time it contains sliced onion (not diced 1cm2 pieces)

why does mexican and indian food filter /ck/ so hard?

>>21483992
>gets factually proven wrong multiple times
>"n-n-no im right!!"
pathetic

>>21484002
Returdo.
Handkäße mit Musik is the cheese (Handkäße oder Bauernkäße) with raw onions, caraway seeds, apple cider vinegar, and optional a bit of oil, salt, and black pepper. I make it myself on rare occasions and used to often have it while living in Frankfurt. It’s a super lean cheese with high protein but the dish makes you fart like crazy hence; with music.
Steak Tartare is done according to individual tastes. I enjoy extra onions, capers, and tabasco.
Some dishes in basically every culture have raw onions. Look up raw onions with sumac for fucks sake.

>>21484021
that is my first post in this thread and you havent "FAKSCHUALLY proven" anything you melt

>>21484022
ive only had it where you make a base, put in the onion and then sort of marinate the cheese in the pickled onion base (vinaigrette). handkäße is the cheese, the musik is the onion being digested by your stomach wich makes you fart plus the sound from the clinging of oil and vinegar bottles. yer tartar is done many different ways but the classic one doesnt involve huge chunks of raw onion and certainly not tabasco. raw onion with sumak is not a white mans dish its turkish. how did you like frankfurt? did you try those marzipan cakes with almonds?

>>21484023
>"n-n-no your examples dont count!!!!"
even more pathetic

>>21484163
>look at these obscure oddities that practically no one eats!
the exception doesnt prove the rule. #1 most consumed food in mehiico are tacos, wich very very often contain large pieces of diced onion ,tomatoes and cilantro. when people think mexican food they think tacos and when they think euro food they think fx pasta or another very common food. they dont think "pickled herring" or "handkäße mit musik" how fucking dense are you

>>21477349 (OP)
The way Mexicans cook meat is a travesty, I agree.

>>21484372
>your 0.1 inch thick meat is ready sir - well done just how its supposed to be

>>21484422
Looking good! Hungry now

>>21484041
If you go to a café in FFM or ask anyone from the area it will be done just as I said. The onions aren’t pickled and the cheese should marinate a bit. Eat with a hefty Dunkelbrot and enjoy.
The musik is the farts.
I probably did but I enjoyed more than a little Äppelwoi. Still have a few souvenir Bembels from my long period there.
It was great. I learned to love techno, had a lot of fun, and still have friends from there.

Well,
>burgers
>hot dogs
>gyros
>sandwiches
can all have raw onion.

>>21484472
sounds pretty good anon
>burgers
>hot dogs
>gyros
>sandwiches
i get what you are saying, but is the onions dominating the pallette though? not imo.

>>21477349 (OP)
>>21477350
yea that's not a secret smart guy. It tends to lean far less on the flavor of the meat than from sauces, aromatics, etc. There's a reason Carnitas are like...the most popular meat for gringos, pork is naturally pretty tasty.

Oh yeah onions, tomatoes, citrus, and herbs are so overpowering. Only those damn Mexicans would think to combine them and only then to cover up bad meat.

>>21484913
Truly, no one would ever combine those ingredients for any other reason

>>21477409
>beak of the rooster
jesus christ don't do that.
i'm not even mexican and i almost hurled

>>21477448
it's fucking delicious btw

Bro give up, OP not only repeatedly showed that he's a retard who doesn't know shit about food but also that he won't ever admit to it

>>21484942
Me too. I hate pico de gallo, and latinx "food" in general. The thought of cilantro and garlic hitting my tongue makes me want to vomit.

>>21484971
Latin American food is very different depending on the region and country. You are thinking of Mexican / Central American food. And even then the Tex-Mex version of it.

For example, Peru has a diet that focuses a lot on seafood, with many dishes influenced by East Asia. Totally different diet and flavor profile from Mexico. Chile is also dominated by seafood. (But with less Asian influence)

Colombia, Venezuela is more based on rice, chicken, beans and corn flour (arepas). As well as cassava.

South in Argentina and Uruguay it's a more beef-based diet with Italian influences. Also very bland in terms of spices.

Brazil is a mixed bag with more rice and beans based foods in the North and more beef in the south. Generally spicier.

I hate the smell and taste of garlic
But only when I can figure out something has it
For example, I know pizzas have garlic in the sauce, but its never been a problem, but to see an sliver of onion in my veggies/meat makes me wanna hurl like crazy
And I'm not even allergic to it or anything, I think

>>21485025
The smallest sliver of garlic*
Does anyone know why it is, beyond me being a tasteless moron?
Been a heavy smoker and a moderate drinker all through my twenties, gave it up recently
But my hatred of garlic continues

>>21485035
Do you have ancestors in Transylvania?

Why is /ck/ full of triggered retards?

>>21484913
>>21484915
okay reddit

>>21485046
People being confidently fucktarded irritates me and I'm so jaded and numb anger is the only thing I can feel.

>>21485025
Same. I hate the smell of garlic. I don't care if it was roasted or cooked into a sauce or something, it's not even the heat of raw garlic that bothers me. It's just that the smell reminds me of rotten garbage and manure. It is rancid and foul, idk how people like the stuff.

>>21485046
4chan has been autist central since it's inception

>>21485009
I've tried South American food. I've had the Colombian soups, Peruvian chifa, Brazilian feijoada, and Venezuelan black beans. I've had Puerto Rican mofongo, Argentine chimichurri and Uruguayan pizza.
It's all still over-done, over-spiced nonsense. The dominant flavors are cumin, oregano, garlic and cilantro. It's uninspired and tiresome to the palette. Similar to Indian food, it lacks subtlety and gentle complexity. It's the Doritos dusted equivalent of a cuisine.

>>21485067
Its straight up there with rotting feces for me
I dont understand how people consume it like they do, despite its many benefits
I almost never go out to eat at friends/acquaintance's place cause most of them do put this abomination in the food without fail, and I dont wanna spend 10m picking it out like a kid

>>21485096
>all these wildly different cuisines taste the same
OK now I know you are trolling I can close the thread

>>21485130
okay you wont be missed. not him btw

>>21485139
This dude found an ordinary pizza too spiced for his palate. It's a trollpost anon.

>>21485153
americans don't travel, some cuban dude probably sold him a pizza with habanero chili peppers and told him it was uruguayan or some shit.

because uruguayan pizza is basically normie westoid pizza. there is no distinction, its not a separate thing.

uruguayans and argentineans basically use less seasonings and have less tolerance for spicy food than even euros or white americans. its probably the most milketoast cuisine in the americas.

>>21485229
>>21485153
It had the local chorizo sausage on it, in Montevideo, yes when I was there in person.

My opinion still stands, even though you're trying to nit pick a hole in it. Did I once say that I was offended by the use of spice? No, I was beleaguering the monotony of the chosen base flavors that are shared among the various Latin American cuisines.

>>21485404
Ok, I'll bite, what would be an example of "subtlety and gentle complexity"?

Because plenty of other cuisines have "cumin, oregano, garlic or cilantro" and plenty of Latin American dishes don't have these ingredients.

>>21485404
argentinean/uruguayan cuisine is basically a fusion of italian and spanish cuisine + copious amounts of beef.

there's some limited native american influences (mate tea, locro stew, humitas) as well as a few other euro influences (welsh black cake, english shepherd's pie known as pastel de papa, german jewish apple strudel, french pastries and wine, etc.) but basically if you don't like this cuisine you don't like italian or spanish cuisine which forms the baseline of this cuisine, either.

there's very little exotic elements about it that's why your opinion was troll-like.

as for peru, like the other anon said, it's very asian-like food, at least the food eaten on the coast (the interior of peru is heavily andean and native american with lots of corn-based stews), but ceviche is a very unique dish you could serve it to an ignorant foodlet tell them it was a japanese dish and they wouldn't know any better without more background info.

>hurrrr durrr mexican food is tacos with tomatos, onion and cilantro
You never had real Mexican food in your life
This thread is infuriating

>>21484022
OMG raw onions with Sumac you say???

green onions and chives are aliums that are used raw in foods all the fucking time but youre not gertting mad about them because youre just a picky eater

>mexican food relies so heavily on tomatos, onion and cilantro and salt because otherwise the food has no flavor unless you use overpowering vegetables like onions with lime juice
>now onto my super flavorful lunch

>>21477349 (OP)
Japanese people ain’t like spicy foodst

wetback trash are so mad lmao

>>21477488
Those are pearl onions, not shallots. Do you cook at all?