Caviar was a free bar snack

Post by NikolaeVarius » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #53

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Similarly, there is a vegetable known as the heart-of-the-palm, or otherwise known as millionaire's cabbage, which can be harvested from a fully grown coconut tree, but which will kill the tree once harvested.

"Millionaire's cabbage?" That's funny. Go to Brazil, heart-of-palm is in basically every salad bar anywhere, as common as lettuce and tomatoes. Just a normal and normal-priced vegetable, very mild flavor. A lot of vegetables kill the plant that produces them... and the heart-of-palm that is canned and sold is produced from farmed palms that aren't coconut palms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_palm

Post by kgwgk » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 4:10 PM UTC

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You're ahead of the curve, soon nobody will be able to.

Lobster population is actually exploding as a result of global warming. Real beef hamburgers are the food we will probably have to say goodbye to first.

Post by allannienhuis » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 4:16 PM UTC

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #71

crazygringo wrote: post #53

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"Millionaire's cabbage?" That's funny. Go to Brazil, heart-of-palm is in basically every salad bar anywhere, as common as lettuce and tomatoes. Just a normal and normal-priced vegetable, very mild flavor. A lot of vegetables kill the plant that produces them... and the heart-of-palm that is canned and sold is produced from farmed palms that aren't coconut palms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_palm

I did some extra research because I find this sort of HN style dismissivness extremely annoying. Millionaire's cabbage seems to refer to Millionaire's salad which seems to be specific to the use of Deckenia nobilis, which are a protected species due to illegal over-harvesting. So the assertion that the term "millionaires cabbage" is funny because heart of palm is common in brazil seems disingenuous. https://en.wikipe…

Post by SomeOtherThrow » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #22

L_226 wrote: post #10

I enjoy beluga caviar - very expensive for what it is though. A much cheaper alternatve is (homemade) black olive tapenade - almost as good for similar usages, and far more sustainable. But I suspect the consumption of caviar is more about signalling than actual taste anyway.

That's like saying that Trabant is a much cheaper alternative to Bentley. Technically it is... but not quite. Edit: I don't know how to be any more clearer here, but "Olive tapenade as a beluga caviar alternative" is straight from the /shit-the-hn-says department, it's beyond ridiculous. "Ketchup as a San Marzano tomato alternative."

Post by WorldMaker » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #74

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>> Also why it's eaten in small amounts, since it's so strong. Fact check- It's eaten in small amounts because it's extremely expensive at this point due to people realizing the difficulty in producing it. If you look back to the heyday of caviar consumption (turn of last century and earlier), there were recipes that would call for as much a cup of caviar per serving. Tastes will always be personal, but the "strong f…

Wow, a cup per serving? That must have been a very different type of caviar? With modern caviar commonly sold today, I feel like the salt content alone would make that impossible, beyond just the taste. Tody it would be like eating a cup of canned and salted anchovies instead of just a couple in your caesar salad... it just doesn't make sense no matter what your personal preferences are. Or like eating an entire jar…