12x these are the very worst culinary crimes
If an Italian sees you cutting your spaghetti with a knife, or even worse: quickly breaking the strands before they go into the boiling water, they almost burst out of their skin with despair. Can’t imagine that? Then read what these people get up to with their food—it’s simply criminal.
Strange combinations—we know all about them by now. We previously wrote about people who pour hot chocolate sauce over their fries, or top their sandwich with peanut butter and pickles. Recognition on the one hand, disgust on the other: the reactions on Facebook went in every direction. I wonder what readers think of these, because these weird food habits did make us frown a little…
12 culinary crimes
Lukewarm salad
‘My mother puts her salad in the microwave. And I don’t mean chicken salad or egg salad—no, just a green salad. It goes in the microwave, plate and all, for a full minute.’
Pasta in the pan
‘Spaghetti or tagliatelle, plain on a plate, with a spoonful of sauce on top. I’m Italian; I can’t get used to it. Please, for God’s sake, put that pasta in the pan with the sauce before serving.’
Licked clean
‘As a child, I would open the bag of Doritos, lick the herbs and salt off the chips, and then put the chips back in the bag. So when my parents ate chips, they would sometimes come across cold, soggy chips.’
Chomp chomp
‘I had a friend who ate butter straight from the packet. Seriously, she bit into it as if it were a Mars bar.’
Sweet wine, please
‘My aunt always stirs a spoonful of sugar into her wine. I had never seen that before, and I find it unforgivable. An ice cube is one thing, but a sugar cube? Absolutely not.’
Quick and easy
‘When my mother prepares fish, she does it in the microwave. No herbs or salt, nothing—she simply puts a piece of salmon on a plate, covers it with foil, microwaves it on full power for eight minutes, and that’s it. She says she finds it delicious; it sounds awful to me.’
Salt-free
‘Some people don’t use any salt or herbs on their food at all. I don’t understand it. My parents never did either; for the first twelve years of my life, I thought food only really tasted good in restaurants.’
Pineapple with… what?
‘My classmate always ate pineapple with mayonnaise. If you ask me, that should be a criminal offense.’
Straight from the packet
‘People who don’t warm up their wrap or tortilla, but put it straight from the packet onto your plate. Straight to jail, do not pass Go.’
Break it before you bite
‘Biting straight into a KitKat instead of breaking it into four bars first. A friend once bit into the side of a KitKat; I found it truly horrifying.’
Toast that
‘Some people only put the cheese on their hamburger after it has come off the grill. Why? Those same people don’t toast the hamburger buns on the grill either. I don’t get it.’
Vitamins: check
‘My brother is allergic to milk. So he pours orange juice over his cornflakes. Horrible.’
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Source: Buzzfeed
