Is that something you are generally pro/against? I spent my whole day in Flushing today, which is Queens' Chinatown-ish area, so therefore I had Chinese food for both lunch and dinner. I was okay with it. Though I usually like changing things up.
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I take it for granted that this is one of those things I simply must not do, although I have no justification. Remember when you and DIM and I were deciding where to go to dinner and you said you'd rather not go for Mexican since you'd had it for lunch? I readily sympathized.
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Yeah... I try to avoid doing that. It depends. In a pinch, obviously.
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Yeah, I usually tend to avoid it but it's not strictly necessary. It cuts across cuisines, too: If I have Mexican rice for lunch, I'll be less enthralled with Chinese rice for dinner. I wouldn't rule it out, though.
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As DIM said, I'd be more opposed to repeating ingredients than repeating spice profiles. Like if I have a legit sandwich at lunch, I'm less likely to want pizza (because it's all just bread), but if I have pizza for lunch it doesn't preclude Italian as a category.
Though certainly there's a lot of overlap there.
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I think there may be something to that. Perhaps, in Kodi's example of Mexican, the problem is that a lot of Mexican food is the same ingredients, but in different permutations.
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I usually try to avoid having the same meal twice in one day, and the easiest way is to avoid that genre, if you will, of food.
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Yeah I don't even like Chinese twice in the same week (exception for leftovers from the original order, of course).
Yeah. I'll honestly do leftovers from lunch for dinner, or from dinner for the subsequent lunch or even breakfast. That's a different thing maybe?
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Interesting. I'm usually fine with leftovers crossing over days, but leftovers from lunch for dinner seems weird somehow. Like I'd want a different meal for Second Dinner or even Second Lunch that is too substantial to be mistaken for a snack.
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I wonder why we make some sort of mental exception for leftovers. I guess our inherent frugality.
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I don't think it's something that comes to mind as a bad idea, but also not something I would necessarily seek out.
Back in 2011 I was on a work trip for a week out in a small city in central/eastern WA (in the middle of nowhere) and I stayed in this hotel for a week nearly by myself. On my second to last day there I looked up the location of a sushi restaurant and tried it for laughs thinking it wouldn't be very good; turns out it was one of the best sushi restaurants I've been to in a very long time staffed by the only Asian people I'd seen in the entire city all week. I liked it so much that I decided to go back for dinner. I did not count on most of the staff still being there when I went back for dinner and thought I got away with it until one of the chefs came out and said, "Hey, aren't you that guy who was here for lunch?" I'm not entirely sure why, but I felt this wave of embarrassment come over me like I'd committed some great crime.
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I wonder why we make some sort of mental exception for leftovers. I guess our inherent frugality.
Yeah, or something about the vague notion of wasting food.
I'm not entirely sure why, but I felt this wave of embarrassment come over me like I'd committed some great crime.
Oh man, I would've felt the same way. I'm particularly self-conscious around workers in service industries to whom I'm a total stranger. I don't know why.
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Part of the reason I wanted to ask if that I might have thought that such a feeling comes from me living/being raised in a city with a very diverse set of cuisines available, and that if someone lived somewhere less culinarily diverse, they might feel differently.
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The suburbs of Detroit have a lot of restaurants. I'm sure they're not as high-quality as New York, but I think we have just as much variety from a genre perspective.
Well, one probably also doesn't need as much variety to maintain a schedule of eating different things. If you said you didn't want to eat the same cuisine twice in 3 days, that's only 6-9 cuisines needed (assuming all meals eaten out, which they aren't).
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I would happily eat Mexican food multiple times a day for the rest of my life. Merry Christmas.
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You know, then I had the thought: well, people in Japan eat Japanese food all the time, right? Is this then because we don't have a proper "American" cuisine, but rather one made up of several parts/heritages?
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I always think burgers, hot dogs, pizza, ribs, things like that when I think of American cuisine. Oh and maybe meatloaf or something. There's not really a lot of variety there... most of that is beef with a tomato flavor of some sort.
Well what we have as "Japanese food" is a kind of Disneyfied version, right?
Like if you think about it a "meal" is really just a grain, a protein, a vegetable, a sauce, in various proportions. "Japanese food" isn't necessarily sushi or hibachi or whatever, it's just rice, probably fish, some seasonings, I dunno, seaweed? Does grass grow in Japan or is it all robot grass now?
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
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Right, like Wil was saying, I have a feeling Japanese food offers quite a lot that's simply not seen on the menu in an American Japanese restaurant-- much of it just in the form of different permutations or seasonings.
Most of our food tends to be different mashups of the same things. Chicken, sausage, shrimp, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, garlic, some herbs and spices... how many dozens of different dishes can we make with these things? That's the ingredient list for gumbo-- and can be used for a lot of other stuff, too!
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Well yeah of course. I guess I just think of mild flavors, when I think of American food. Salt is probably the one thing we go bold on. Well, traditionally anyway. I did read that Americans have surged ahead into bold new flavorings in the modern day.
Right, typically American cuisine is pretty muted on flavor and heavy on meat. I think with the global collision and interest in other cultures (which is easier to accomplish when you're not militarily afraid of them) has created a new palate. The things I see now, diet-wise, are radically different than the norm growing up. Of course, maybe that's just a result of who I'm associated with now versus when I was growing up.
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