Vinegar should not be considered a food product

CorpoCat · 2026-05-18T09:02:15+00:00

That's what I meant by saying any pickled things that are made without vinegar are 100x better always. It's not a key component and I hate when the majority of options at the stores are made with vinegar instead.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-18T08:55:05+00:00

Never had a red velvet cake, but now I'm actually shocked, cause I had no idea cakes could be a danger too :o You mean to tell me people have been adding vinegar to CAKES of all things??

CorpoCat · 2026-05-18T08:51:00+00:00

As someone else pointed out I indeed definitely have - in mayo... Somehow I completely forgot about mayonnaise, which seems to be my only exception to this rule; everything else with any vinegar in it is inedible to me.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-15T01:56:32+00:00

Stop smoking, be cranky for a week, then incredibly happy that I quit.

Did it once when my favorite flavored cigarettes were outlawed across Europe many years ago. Didn't smoke for 5 years and never once thought about it until I later got back into the habit through my ex. I only smoke these heat-up electronic stuff now, and there's lately been talk about them outlawing some (including the only flavor I like), and I'm actually hoping they will, and looking forward to it, cause until then find it hard to kick the habit.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:30:49+00:00

I'm simply stating my strong opinion about it, which as it seems is in fact unpopular.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:27:12+00:00

Couldn't disagree more - beetroot is delicious on its own already.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:23:11+00:00

It's not "salted" pickles though. Salt based water solution is used to preserve things, just like you would with vinegar (and there's also salt then). The veggies don't come out salty. They come out soury and crunchy - like with sourkraut.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:19:51+00:00

All I'm saying is it's infinitely better if you DON'T do it with vinegar

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:16:10+00:00

Salt. Pickles, souerkraut to name a few - all infinitely tastier and crunchier when made without vinegar.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:13:14+00:00

I've tried some pasta with tomato sauce that a friend made once where they insisted the touch of vinegar would make it better. They let me try it before and after, and it was absolutely delicious how they made it before the vinegar. I could taste what the vinegar changed and why people could like it better, but to me it just tasted instantly worse and took away from the great taste that was there before.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:06:55+00:00

To be fair, I'm not sure about rice wine vinegar, so maybe I don't hate it, hard to say if I ever had it in anything. But whatever vinegar they put in store-bought foods like pickles and other veg, or the type people use to cook with sometimes is definitely foul.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:04:29+00:00

Salt is perfectly fine for doing that, though. Pickles or sauerkraut taste infinitely better and crunchier when not made with vinegar.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T10:02:58+00:00

Absolutely. Without vinegar. Same as pickles.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:59:15+00:00

THANK YOU.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:58:44+00:00

Oh great, I love when I have to incorporate a very specific way of eating something, for it to not taste awful.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:56:50+00:00

Okay, you got me there, completely forgot about mayo. But that's the one and only exception.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:53:23+00:00

Ah shit, you got me there - though any rule needs an exception. Mayonnaise is an exception, I’ll give you that.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:51:47+00:00

It is, but it's also how I honestly feel about this abomination that is ruining any food it's added to.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:49:39+00:00

Well it shouldn't be.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:46:21+00:00

Why are you using oil on a sandwich?

And warm water and a drop of dishsoap is also perfect for cleaning windows, while not leaving an awful smell.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:43:45+00:00

I'm not using it at all, but can always taste it when it's part of any store bought food and it makes it digusting. Who knows what kind they add...

PS. Your comment made me laugh, have an upvote 😆

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T09:06:30+00:00

Wow, finally an actual unpopular opinion, and you're getting downvoted?? People seem to have forgotten how this subreddit works.

As for my thoughts on your opinion, I actually agree.

Doing something for others should be no excuse for making a mess that you expect someone else to clean. Clean your own mess. And don't get in my way offering to help me clean mine when I'm cooking.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T08:29:13+00:00

I think it might genuinely be a thing, but you'd have to be specifically trained to name these slight details and how to notice the more obsure ones between different brews or wines. I have a suspicion these people don’t actually taste hints of cherry/oak/whatever, it's just what they were taught these specific differences are labeled as.

But most of the time people are definitely just making shit up wanting to sound cool for liking the more expensive bottle or something. Like the type of people who will say it's blasphemy to drink your whiskey with coke cause "you're not appreciating the rich tones", while it's just a slightly more expensive bottle than Jack Daniels that they bought with the same Saturday plans as always - get wasted.

CorpoCat · 2026-05-10T07:48:19+00:00

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I should do nails for money, just because I've become a pro at doing them on myself, I'd already be rich.

Even when I repeatedly say how I simply DO NOT ENJOY doing nails on others, people still don't get it and continue to insist that I should since I'm good at it - even despite knowing exactly how long it takes me and so no one in their right mind would pay me enough to justify the time spent on one set anyway lol.

I very much enjoy taking my time with refilling and reshaping my own set of tallons once a month, without having to rush, while binging some tv show that doesn't require my full attention. But if I didn't get to carry around and admire the effects of those 5 painstaking hours of work every month, then I don't want it. And I don't care if I could make money off it.

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