That’s where food comes from - trees, bushes, grasses, dirt.
Also - if Minecraft has taught me anything - punching animals until some chops appear in my inventory.
Who the fuck uses bay leaves in Mexican food?
People who know how to cook? 😆
There’s literally a species of laurel native to Mexico that indigenous Americans used in their food for thousands of years.
Bay leaves come from various plants and are used for their distinctive flavour and fragrance. The most common source is the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). Other types include California bay laurel, Indian bay leaf, West Indian bay laurel, and Mexican bay laurel.
Use it in with rice all the time. Its a very subtle flavor but it definitely adds to it so it goes in.
Apparently it is common in Mexico itself. I had to look it up because I was also incredulous at using a bay leaf in a burrito.
Many Latin American countries always add bay leaves when cooking any type of bean. There are beans in a burrito.
I’m gonna have to try the mexican variety becsuse the kind I am used to adds literally nothing to dishes other than a leaf in the food. 🤷♂️
it’s the exact same plant. if your grocery store has a latin section they probably sell hojas de laurel for cheaper per ounce than mccormick.
Or even hoja de laurel molida. And then you don’t have to fish it out.
I was curious, here is what I found: “We use bay leaves to add a subtle depth of flavor to dishes like our beans, rice, Barbacoa, and Carnitas.” - this was off a reddit post, so who knows.
Classic carnitas flavor absolutely has bay
I use it in Chili Colorado.
“Mexican food”…
Just checked out a map; turns out Mexico does exist.
Chipotle is to Mexican food what Olive Garden is to Italian cuisine.
I feel like it’s closer than Taco Bell at least
Why is it Mexican FOOD and Italian CUISINE?
Eurocentrism
Well fuck, do the Spanish have food or cuisine?
Because despite not realizing it yet, human consciousness is just a next-word-predicting LLM, and the dataset most Americans are trained on has those as the most common next words.
Big if true
The number of people who think Mexico isn’t a North American country is worrying
Try asking Americans to point out South America on a map. You’ll have to not giggle as they point to Texas or Florida.
👀😬
Mexicans, for one. Bay leaves are common in lots of cuisine.
Mexicans. At least some of them.
Every good pot of Mexican beans has bay leaves in it.
Birria? Rice? Caldos?
WTF do you mean who uses leaves in Mexican food?
Mexicans.
Chipotle is really resting on its laurels.
Wait til she finds the bird meat in her chicken bowl or that they served her food on paper and metal
Flavour in my food?!
Might be a good time for them to learn about the curry leaf.
Real, natural flavour.
And likely also water, like from a toilet!
guess who gets to do the dishes!
What’s this shit pot-le I hear so much about?
Complaining will not keep future leaves at Bay.
When you’re dumb as door knob
At least door knobs are useful for something.
From the right perspective they do two things, relatively.
The saddest part to me is how little more and more people know about cooking. Each generation seems to know less and less about the basics and rely more and more on fast food and restaurants to survive.
What are you talking about? Every generation in the US knows more about food than the ones before.
Boomers were raised on canned/frozen nonsense and basically had no variety. Their vegetables were underseasoned and overcooked. Their pickiness about cuts of meat left many delicious parts of the animals underappreciated scraps. They knew each fruit as basically one cultivar, like how all apples were the utterly mediocre red delicious. Even their bread was boring.
Their restaurant scene was pathetic, with Italian American food representing the pinnacle of exotic cuisine. Any immigrant opening a restaurant for American diners would have to carefully water down their traditions to fit American tastes and the American supply chain.
No thank you, I’d never travel back in time to eat or cook the way people did 50 years ago. Food is better now, and it’s largely because today’s cooks and diners know way more about food than people did back then.
My grandma boils vegetables like nobody’s business.
Shit the acceleration of public cooking knowledge, ingredient availability, cuisine variety, food media, etc since the 90s has been incredible.
Yeah maybe the average person doesn’t know how to work with lemongrasss or whatever but you can look it up in a minute and people are doing that.
The upvoted comment you replied to is so demonstrably false. Sometimes Lemmy is just like Reddit where you come across a topic you’re actually familiar with and see all the bullshit comments for what they are.
No matter what they might think, history did not actually start with the Boomers
No, but by referencing their childhoods I’m covering their parents and grandparents, too, while avoiding the complications of the discussing food culture during the total war posture of World War II. Of every generation still alive today, each generation generally knows more about food than their parents.
I can’t speak for everyone, but since the COVID inflation I’ve swore off most fastfood and exclusively cook for myself now. I’ve learned baking bread, making stocks, processing meat, canning, and so much more. It’s so much healthier, tastier, and more affordable. I think folks are coming back to cooking for themselves. It may not be the majority, but there are many of us that have mostly swore off eating out.
Just as intended.
In Brazil’s version of the Shark Tank TV show, they sometimes call for guest “sharks” to show up besides the regular hosts. Once, the founder of China in Box, Brazil’s largest Chinese fast food chain (and one of the first in general) was there.
So the participant shows up and his pitch was a device he invented for peeling garlic faster at home. It’s basically a blender motor, but with attachments to vibrate the garlic against the container rather than cut through it, so the skin peels off and the garlic is ready for usage. After the pitch, of course, they ask the hosts if they want to invest into their company.
So the Chinese food guy says “oh no, no way I’m investing into that, it’s a kitchen appliance - in ten years, nobody will have a kitchen in their homes, they’ll use delivery apps for every meal, they won’t ever need any cooking apparatus”
And honestly his comments still fill me with rage every single time.
did he say that 10 years ago?
I wouldn’t invest in that because all you need to do is smash a clove with a knife and the skin falls right off, but I see what you mean.
If you need to peel a bunch of cloves, put them in a small mason jar and shake the shit out of it.
Yeah but your hands do end up smelling like garlic for a couple days
That’s a feature.
Wash them but use salt instead of soap. The smell will go away. It works for onions and probably a bunch of other stuff too.
Are you sure you’re trying to help and are not a cannibal?
If i was a cannibal why would I give you advice on how to un-marinate yourself?
Rubbing against stainless steel gets rid of the smell also works
When seasoning meat, remember that you are also meat and therefore susceptible to be seasoned.
That’s a bonus!
I mean, that dude makes money each time you dont cook. Of course he’s going to pitch “kitchenless” homes as a real thing.
Its abject bullshit, but also a clear cut case of “follow the money” to understand stupid reasoning.
This chode sucks down ultra processed meat and is concerned about a leaf?
Since when is chipotle ultra processed? Can we be a littler more responsible about how we talk about things so that we don’t make the fight harder since just convincing people that ultra processed food is shitty is shitty already.
Not if everything is the max then there it’s all just noise that’s gets harder and harder not to just dismiss
It’s just hilarious they don’t understand a bay leaf, but as Randal said that one time, they are one of today’s 10,000
Finding out how things get flavoured is a great learning experience when you are 5 or going on 85
Can we be a little more compassionate and kind to each other, even the people that will never see us or know how we respond. Just makes you a more pleasant and wonderful person
Edit: I’m in Canada and chipotle is relatively new so perhaps there are giant regional differences that I’m not aware of?
No, you’re right. Chipotle isn’t the highest grade food but there’s a reason it’s in a category above, say, Taco Bell. It’s servings are a little big, but it’s not unhealthy per se, except some of the more gimmicky items like “queso”, lol.
They do have a bad rep, but the hoopla about it giving you diarrhea is probably more because it sits out too long and/or spicy; fast casual is basically pre-prepped lower tier casual chain restaurant food (e.g. Olive Garden, Applebee’s, or whatever).
Taco bell gets grade D ground meat in a bag that was precooked and they set it in hot/warm water or w.e to get it ready for use.
Chipotle suis vide’s their steak and ships it in those bags, then they break the seal and sear it on a flatop to get it ready.
I’m hoping we consider the second more than a step above the first, but idk
Hehe, ok but I’m not sure what the intermediary is between those. I have much better options that are cheaper and tastier, at least for now (although 8 dollar chicken burritos are up to 12 now after obvious 2025 reasons… sigh).
I would say McDonald’s, Burger King, and every other restaurant that advertises 100% real beef, while still being bad quality is better than taco bells meat. The Bell doesnt claim it because it isnt even all beef. So while the 100% beef claim doesn’t mean much for quality, Taco Bell is a sin for the soul which is why it goes down so well drunk. (Sadly delicious) But I think quality wise it is something like Taco Bell < Arby’s < Burger King< McDonald’s< Wendys < Culvers/Five guys/ and shit like in and out because their stuff isn’t frozen in the last group. I’m sure I missed many, they are just off the top of the dome memories
The number 10’000 is calculated off of the birth rate of the USA.
Globally it should be one of the lucky 360’000.
Bay but there’s no a beach for miles
Imagine now knowing what a bay leaf is. I have to assume this is just a rage bait post.
I mean even if it was a random leaf, big deal? Better than a hair or sth
I’ve noted so this is anecdotal, but an increase in the lack of food knowledge among younger generations. They’re not being taught what botulism even is. I’ve had cashiers look at me funny when I realize one of the cans has a dent near the lid.
I can’t speak for everyone, but these last few years have given me the impression that more folks are picking up cooking. I hope that’s true at least.
I hope so too. People should understand where their food comes from better.
It’s probably very tasty, but looking at the image I couldn’t help myself thinking “at least something edible and healthy in there”.
Bay leaves are technically not that edible. You can’t really digest them, they’re pretty tough even after hours of cooking, and are mainly used for their intensive flavour…
So, no, it’s actually neither edible nor healthy.
I mean the cheese is high-fat, but the chicken, rice, and beans?
Unbayleafable.
came here to make a silly comment. i can see im not needed here.
Your presence is welcome, thanks for cumin.
Do you mean thanks for cumin?
Keep an eye out for another spice-related pun opportunity, your thyme will come.
That is fucking magnificent. If you’re not a dad your talent is being wasted on us mere mortals.
You won the internet today
