CraigM
1801
You are mistaken. Cincinatti chili Mac is… an odd choice for local pride. It certainly ranks in the bottom quarter for local food specialties.
jpinard
1802
Why do people or companies feel the need to add artificial coloring to their foods (St. Patrick’s Day aside)? I’d select a non adulterated version every time.
RichVR
1803
Pandering to the lowest common denominator? Red velvet cake used to be red because of the cocoa used. Now it’s loaded with so much red dye that I thought I had colon cancer the last time I ate some.
CraigM
1804
I’ve been known to overindulge in watermellon and blueberries in the summer. And my wife made red frosting for our daughters birthday not too long ago. The amount of food coloring to make red, not pink, meant that… you know ;)
Today, red velvet cake gets its coloring from a huge amount of red food coloring dumped in mix, staining the cake a vivid red, but it wasn’t always so. Original red velvet cakes got the “velvet” part of their name not because they resembled bright red velvet dresses, but because their texture was so smooth and velvety. Their texture was, in part, influenced by the special ingredients put into the cake. Cake recipes varied, but almost all contained baking soda and either vinegar or buttermilk. Both buttermilk and vinegar are acidic, and anyone who has made a volcano in elementary school knows the copious bubbles that erupt when vinegar (or any acid) is mixed with baking soda. The bubbles fluffed up the cake, making it light and smooth.
The vinegar and buttermilk didn’t just react with the baking soda. They also reacted with the cake’s cocoa. Cocoa powder traditionally has anthocyanins; these are compounds that are also found in foods like red cabbage (which also features in many elementary school science projects). Red cabbage leaves can be used as pH indicators, getting redder in the presence of strong acids. It’s the anthocyanins that change color in the cabbage, and they do the same in the cocoa, giving it a red finish.
From this: https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-red-velvet-cake-was-originally-red-and-why-it-can-1464992225
I’m just providing a good summary of what Rich is talking about. Devil’s food cake gets it’s name from the same reason.
But then there’s this little mention!
Devil’s food cake and red velvet cake share a similar backstory: Both were born from Victorian-era cakes made with cocoa powder and sometimes sweetened or moistened with red beets. In fact, rumors abound that Devil’s food was once tinted red, from the combination of cocoa powder and baking soda, as red velvet cake was. Modern versions of both cakes share the same flour and similar leaveners and sweeteners, but each call for a distinct cocoa powder and different liquids.
Is Bon Chon considered a chicken brand in this category? They mostly just sell wings and tenders so I don’t know if they qualify. But they make some damn fine chicken!
My favorite place is chicken tenders, fries, texas toast, an coleslaw, full stop. So I say yours has to count!
Banzai
1808
Cincinatti chili is sweet. It’s an abomination.
Skipper
1809
(Sorry, some fellow over-50s humor for those of us who get the ol’ colonoscopy check due to our age. Remember when your doc didn’t put scopes up your butt? Pepperidge Farm remembers.)
A pizza joint I worked at added a bit of whole wheat to the dough just because it looked too pale without it.
Skipper
1813
If I can eat the McDonald’s sandwich that tastes like pancakes, I probably would try this as well.
Isn’t putting egg on French toast a bit like pouring chocolate sauce on chocolate icecream?
LockerK
1815
You mean delicious?
I would try this if I were a breakfast person. The rare occasions I’ve had it Taco Bell’s breakfast has been at the top of the local fast food breakfast game.
The only question I have is, “why?”
Where do you even get tarantulas to eat? Just hit the Petsmart up and say you’re breeding them when you buy a dozen or so?
RichVR
1819
Long ago when I owned a Burmese python we would buy white rats from a pet store to feed her. We never told them what the rats were for or they would refuse to sell them. So yeah, I’m guessing they just buy them.
Timex
1820
They never caught on that you kept buying rats?
