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Rom's avatar

"I always keep a mix of Italian seasoning around, which I assume everyone in Italy uses all the time on everything." well there, they just call it "seasoning"

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SumGai1986's avatar

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode when they went to Brazil.

Homer: Ohh! You have Brazil Nuts here!

Brazilian: Around here, we just call them nuts

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Austin A's avatar

Apart from reading about your heroic struggles to shove food into your ass/mouth, my favorite part of these posts is Davida dunking on the food and your thoughts. It's the little things. : )

Looks like there are two James Beard food writers in one household, must be chaos all the time.

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Dennis Lee's avatar

She loved this comment!!!

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Austin A's avatar

That warms my heart, even more than the incoming midwest heat wave and the cloud of wildfire smoke! : )

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SumGai1986's avatar

I shit you not, I have a jar of disodium guanylate and inosinate in my spice cabinet (it's called I+G in the food additive world). It's the fentanyl of spices, 8x as powerful as MSG it will even make your spit taste good if you eat it straight. By all means, sprinkle some on your pillow, it will be glorious and you will be addicted forever.

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Dennis Lee's avatar

whoa...i didn't know you could just have it!

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Tori's avatar

Someone recently recounted an experience of attempting to add giardiniera to a frozen pizza snd when he opened said jar and there were olives in it so he had to go back to the store. Are olives classic?

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Dennis Lee's avatar

It depends on the blend. Not every one of them have olives; the one I have right now from a brand called Marconi does not!

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Tori's avatar

I have that one in my house too- just curious

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Dennis Lee's avatar

I really like this one too, which does have olives... https://tasterealchicago.com/products/hot-giardiniera

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m sailor's avatar

This is perfect.

Aight im about to get a hit put on me by the chicago mob....but....we made chicago dogs the other day, but didnt have sweet relish. They needed the hit of sweet....and.....a bit of ketchup kinda did the trick. 😬😬😬😬 it wasnt *right* but it was close.

Also, if you havent heard this bop, featuring Foods O Chicago:

https://youtu.be/GLI5OJsDO78

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m sailor's avatar

https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY

Oh shit first link is a newer remix i havent listened to and cant vouch for, this the original 😂

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Dennis Lee's avatar

this is one of my and davida's favorite songs! we listen to it frequently.

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m sailor's avatar

That makes me so happy!

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Maggie Cooper's avatar

this was truly inspiring, as always!! honestly, tempted to try it myself.

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Jeff Johnston's avatar

Unico spicy Muffuletta is right down to the celery the store bought Giardiniera you're looking for.

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Dennis Lee's avatar

i'll have to look it up!

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Squeegs's avatar

i was not prepared for the ancient times to link to the pizzle. am i fucking nostalgic for a dick joke.

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