cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/28480950
In 2015, Cookie Monster filmed a viral video titled “Simply Delicious Shower Thoughts with Cookie Monster” for the Mashable YouTube channel. In the video, he explores various New York City museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, while pondering deep “shower thoughts” about food.
Ketchup is a fruit butter, not a jam.
Cooked, pureed fruit with sugar and spices, no pectin. Not a jam
So to make ketchup, aka a fruit butter, we must first milk the tomatoes, then separate the cream, then churn the tomato cream, then separate the tomato buttermilk.
I had no idea so much went into ketchup.
Tomato butter is a little different, after you separate the tomato buttercream and add seasoning and vinegar, add back the tomato buttercream until the consistency is where you like it
Like…melted butter?
Not sure if joking so I’ll answer seriously…
Like apple butter, or pear butter. Maybe it’s an Appalachian thing, I dunno. You chop up the fruit, let’s say apples, and slow cook them for a few hours. Then puree them, add cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, whatever, and a bunch of sugar. Can the results. We always used small mason jars that had been in the family for God only knows how long.
Grandma wouldn’t use a blender, she was old school. She’d add all the ingredients together in a big stock pot, drop a silver dollar in the bottom, and stir for hours, until she couldn’t hear the coin move around anymore. I say she stirred for hours, but she’d “enlist” the help of the kids, and later, daughters-in-law, and eventually grandchildren. She was born in 1912, so I reckon it was just her way
Oh shit, that sounds exactly like Lekvar or Powidl, that might point to a mostly eastern European, maybe German but more likely Slavic origin.
So I got curious and went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. Here’s the first paragraph from the apple butter article:
The roots of apple butter lie in Limburg (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Rhineland (Germany), conceived during the Middle Ages, when the first monasteries (with large orchards) appeared. The production of the butter was a perfect way to conserve part of the fruit production of the monasteries[1] in that region, at a time when almost every village had its own apple-butter producers. The production of apple butter was also a popular way of using apples in colonial America, well into the 19th century.
So yeah, apple butter has roots in Germany, at least for central Europe. However, other fruit butters have other origins, such as Lekvar and Powidi, as you mentioned. At the same time Latwerge and Apfelkraut were developing in Germany, monasteries in the British Isles were also developing apple butter as a preservation technique. It seems the tradition/technique developed in parallel as a communal way of preserving fruit.
Since grandma’s recipe included a sweetener it likely has its roots in the British Isles, where honey would be added to the preserves as a sweetener. Her apple tree produced a fairly sour soft apple, which also would inform that decision. The pies were amazing
Replace cookie monster with Philomena cunk and the picture stays the same
Does anyone else now kind of want to see them do a video together? And, no, im not talking a porn video, although…hmmmm…
I would cunk Philomena so hard…
Dude Muppets cannot exist without being sexualized
Ketchup is a soft drink. It’s fluid, made with fruit and sugar
You wouldn’t drink mayonnaise
You don’t know me
Well yeah, it has no fruit.
And it has no sugar
Depends.
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Vodka is an energy drink
Pretty sure my stomach does not think.
Not just your stomach, but your entire digestive system actually. It’s called the enteric nervous system, and it’s absolutely fascinating (the disfunction of which has recently been linked to a lot of different diseases and disorders). From Wikipedia:
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the others being the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). The ENS is formed from the myenteric plexus, and the submucosal plexus, and consists of a mesh-like system of neurons that governs the functions of the gastrointestinal tract, including motility and secretion, and is known as the “second brain”.
The enteric nervous system is capable of operating independently of the brain and spinal cord
The enteric nervous system in humans consists of some 500 million neurons, 0.5% of the number of neurons in the brain, five times as many as the one hundred million neurons in the human spinal cord, and about ⅔ as many as in the whole nervous system of a cat. The enteric nervous system is embedded in the lining of the gastrointestinal system, beginning in the esophagus and extending down to the anus.
extending down to the anus
Brings a whole new dimension to the phrase “shit for brains”.
But on a somewhat more serious thought, could we possibly see evolutionary pressures for adding extra gyri folds in the digestive tract to beef up ENS neuron numbers and density? I wonder if anyone has looked into it from an evolutionary biology perspective yet.
In the future, could we all have a secondary hind brain like they used to theorize sauropods had, or possibly turn into Krang with his android body if Gordon Ramsey is the next step of human evolution?
Only in the sense that the gut is deeply tied to your emotional state. Example: “that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach”
You have a separate nervous system in your gut that operates it. Also does that thinking for that gut feeling.
The stomach and heart both have neurons in them.
Your stomach hires your brain to think for it.
Cereal is runny oatmeal, which is thick soup, which is heavily dressed salad; thus, cereal is salad.
let him cook, eh
If, to scorpions, lobsters are mermaids, what are mantis shrimp?
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/mantis-shrimps.html
Mike Tyson in his prime.
How is cookie dough the sushi of deserts? Does the meme author mean sashimi?
Maybe because you eat both raw? Maybe
Sushi doesn’t have to be raw. Sashimi is raw by definition. But yes, that’s what they were aiming for.
It’s a compote
Unlike mermaids, lobsters have legs.
Only scorpions have legs. Clearly lobsters have arms instead.
You must be a lot of fun at parties
I’m glad you’re having fun! 🥳
Cookie Monster is very wise
Only while being fisted
What in the fuck? Is fisting Cookie Monster your fantasy?
Well someone has to do it. How else do you expect him to look lively?
I was fine 10 seconds ago… now I’m questioning everything 😭
With how much sugar is in that shit it is jam
Explain the cookie dough to me please. That one doesn’t make sense to me
Sushi is raw fish. Cookie dough is raw cookie. And some people eat raw cookie dough as a thing; there are cookie-dough ice cream flavors, for example.
Sushi is not raw fish. Sushi is vinegared rice.
Correct. If anything, cookie dough would be sashimi.
I know about the ice cream, I’ve had it before. I never really saw it as raw, just as another ingredient or flavor, but I guess it makes sense.
The cookie dough they use in cookie dough flavored things is safe to eat, mainly the raw egg is not there.
There’s no way they would purposely sell us anything with immediate health risk that can be easily pinned on them.
Also not all sushi is raw fish, some is cooked. Improperly handled raw fish can be very dangerous, so only eat it at places you trust (I.e maybe not the buffet or grocery sushi).
The problem with cookie dough is the raw flour, not the raw egg. You can make cookie dough for eating by roasting the flour.
This works best if you roast all the ingredients together. I like to take my cookie dough and mould it into fun shapes before roasting, gives it some lighthearted humour
I think they mean in a mass production environment. Raw egg would require a lot more additives and preservatives to keep the product safe to eat and from spoiling quickly, something eggs are infamous for. Also the occasional salmonella outburst and recall and lawsuits. It’s just one of those things people avoid.
But you are right, you can totally eat raw eggs safely if they are fresh
In an industrial environment, you’d just pasteurize everything before making the dough. You can do it at home (I want to say it’s something like 60C for 2 hours, but don’t take some rando’s word on time and temp). There are a few brands that sell ready to eat cookie dough.
Raw cookie dough isn’t save to eat in general though.
You can make raw cookie dough that is safe to eat as well by altering the recipe slightly to replace the egg with alternatives or, industrially, it can be pasteurized which most all store-bought cookie dough will be made with to reduce their liability.
The egg isn’t nearly as much of a problem as raw flour.
Agreed but people act like it is
Lot of people love to eat the cookie dough raw.
