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Amanda's avatar

Don't make a joke about giving Lao Gan Ma the sausage...Don't make a joke about giving Lao Gan Ma the sausage...Don't make a joke about giving Lao Gan Ma the sausage...

Nice work, Dennis! Hoping you cross post the new videos onto BlueSky 🙂

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Arjun Basu's avatar

The thing about any Chilean dish is you can’t put enough mayo on it. If you think you’ve put enough mayo on something, keep going. If you think you’ve over done it, keep going. If you’ve cleaned out the jar, get another one. Chileans. Love. Mayo.

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Dennis Lee's avatar

Can I try shaving my eyebrows off with mayo?

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Arjun Basu's avatar

Only if you want to be “Big in Santiago.” Where mayo is magic and the belief that it can do absolutely anything is learned in nursery school.

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Arjun Basu's avatar

You could be the Viceroy of Valparaiso. The Captain of Concepción. The Asshole of Antofigasta. The Prince of Punta Arenas. The hottest chili in all of Chile.

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Squeegs's avatar

lao gan ma means old godmother in chinese. knowing this: what did old godmother ever do to you to inspire these culinary assaults upon her product?? good shit as always, hope the dog feels as weird going out as it did going in

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SumGai1986's avatar

Am I the only one who thinks lao gan ma tastes metallic if you eat too much at once?

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Bonnie Canelakes's avatar

Never have and never will TikTok. But hooray for chili crisp!!!! 🤡

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SumGai1986's avatar

Yeah kind of a bummer. Hey Dannis, maybe YouTube shorts as well 🙏

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Krissy's avatar

I think we should stay away from comments like these, we’ve got a great newsletter and should support our Stupid Food Hero in whatever he does, even if it’s not a good fit for you. ♥️

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Dennis Lee's avatar

No, no, it's okay. I dislike TikTok very much and video in general, I just kept getting all these requests for video, and frankly, I have to keep up with the times just to justify getting community support.

It wouldn't be a ton of work uploading the same video to different platforms, it's just that I'd have a million more things to deal with, which is what I've been trying to avoid on top of my current unsustainable workload. If Food is Stupid was my full time job, that would be a no-brainer, but I'm just about as frazzled as it gets. Working 7 days a week has been too hard.

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Neurozach's avatar

Sounds like you could use an unpaid intern personal assistant.

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Kimmi's avatar

BeezleBUTT amirite

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Guy Stella's avatar

As much fun as it would be to watch The Worlds Greatest Food Writer doing his dumbass thing, I refuse to be part of CCP spyware. Bing Bong!

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Dennis Lee's avatar

I know. Grappling with the idea too. There aren't any good options and Substack is also selling out in a bad way. Who knows, it may not work, but I gotta try something new!

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S Peter Davis's avatar

Whose idea was it that TikTok videos should have no progress bar so if you miss something you have to wait for the end of the video and then start it again from the beginning?

Anyway I'm happy that I now know how to pronounce tteakbokki. Your newsletter was my first introduction to it and recently I went to Korean BBQ buffet where I decided to try some and it was incredible I loved it I loved it Dannis I want more of it I want it right NOW.

I just realized I did not mention Chile crisp in this comment and will not.

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Kate Walker's avatar

I am terrible/great at reading too fast and putting letters in the wrong place, and when I was a kid for YEARS I thought it was Beezle-bub.

It is now clear to me that I'm an oracle and was foretelling the arrival of your greatness, oh Beezle-bub, Lord of the WHY???s.

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