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I Didn’t Have Eggs

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[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 96 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I feel like you should at least have the ingredients that are in the name of the dish.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Crab Rangoon begs to differ, but that is an extreme example

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Tartar sauce enters the room.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I forgot about cream of tartar and thought you were a cannibal for a second.

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[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Theseus' recipe. How many ingredients can you replace before it's a different dish?

[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair in MOST things baking substituting some banana, pumpkin, applesauce, etc. for egg will work fine (and impart some flavor so, pick which one works for what you're doing) but in an uhh egg custard.... well... That is a bit different. (Really I would probably just use like potato starch to get something that would set correctly, but you would need to adjust flavor if you wanted to get it close since that won't give egg flavor.)

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

In recipes that have egg as the star ingredient I add just a teeny pinch of kala namak, it adds a bit of the background sulfur flavor. I'm allergic to egg whites, but honestly I'm not sure I'd even bother with an egg custard. There are plenty of alternative desserts that dont need to be a vegan dish that's 80% starch lol

[–] TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"NON-GMO"

Proceeds to use banana...

[–] Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I agree that most anti-GMO stances are silly, but Cavendish bananas aren't GMO. (The history of major banana cultivars is super interesting, though!)

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (21 children)

Almost all food crops are GMO through the practice of selective breeding. Bananas have been altered to be sterile, seedless, and have larger edible fruit.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes, but can us Pro-GMO get Gros Michels back into production? I'll let Monsanto inject me with 5G Tylenol vaccines for the rebirth of those yellow fatties.

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This has to be bait, "no gmo gluten free vegans"?!

C'moooooon

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (20 children)

My ex's Mom is a vegetarian (who also doesn't believe in using GMOs or a microwave) and her Dad has celiac and legitimately can't do gluten.

I hate trying to cook for them, and I REALLY hate it when they cook for me. Her Dad made these "dessert" balls that are made from flax seed and sadness the first time we met and I pretended to like them to be polite. Now he always makes me a bunch of them and I have to choke them down with a smile. I'll bee seeing them Friday and know I get to look forward to chomping on birdseed.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you keep that lie up?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Because he's a very sweet man and really enjoys sharing them with me. I'm not gonna take that away from him.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Flaxseed and sadness is a step up from cyanide and happiness

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

i use a lot of flaxseed and have experienced the "ah shit too much flax" very often

flaxseed-based dessert should be an internationally recognized war crime

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[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Also the reply says the recipe is for an egg custard tart. Why would a vegan even be looking at a recipe like that?

[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My wife was gluten free for awhile for health reasons on doctors orders. She would try to make the most outrageous gluten free versions of food because she missed them, but they were always terrible. I kept telling her, instead of making a bad version of a good food, make healthy food taste good.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep. For instance, making a vegan version of a non vegan food can turn out disappointing. But a food that is just vegan to start with? Delicious.

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The benefit of the doubt would be that they liked custard tarts before going vegan and wanted to try and make a vegan version?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Then wouldn't you search for "vegan egg tart"?

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've met people like this. They are real and usually not invited back.

Edit: same to anyone claiming to be allergic to msg! Mfer I just saw you drink a bloody Mary!

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thing is a ripe mashed banana can be used as an egg substitute for recipes. Not that one clearly.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Depends what the egg is being used for. As a binder? Absolutely! Works great in cakes. But you certainly are not making custard with it.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Ok, but ... sometimes one just has to acknowledge that a banana isn't an egg, you know?

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Probably not when it's the main ingredient like in this case

Might as well just make a banana pie

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Instructions unclear; what do I do with this circuit board?

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[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I just recently found out that (in some cakes) bananes actually can eb eggs. Pretty cool!

[–] udon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, basically in any cake that doesn't have "Egg" in the name :)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Someone should tell her that bananas are a GMO. So is rice, corn, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale, and mustard. They all exist because humans modified them, if humans didn't exist then neither would those plants.

Ironically the one thing that isn't a GMO is the damn egg.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I used to try and gauge how good a recipe I found online is by reading through the comments that people leave below. However, about 10 years ago or so, I had to stop because it seemed like nearly every single one had multiple comments like this, though not quite as extreme. I think some people are like me, they must enjoy pretending to be faceboomers and leaving ridiculous comments on random sites. I still remember one that I read a while ago that gave me a giant chuckle. But most of them just give me heart burn. Then again so does eggs.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love recipe comments like these. It is really just insight into how absolutely ludicrous and entitled people are. Why can't your recipe simply bend reality to my will, and modify itself into what I desire to give me the outcome of my dreams.

"Instead of chicken I used an unborn cow's fetus and it tasted a bit funny, 1/5 stars"

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We didn't have any potatoes on hand for the potato salad so we used diced up and used our pet clown fish instead. It tasted funny.

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[–] fishy@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like about ten years ago the Internet was invaded by non Internet people. As in there was a large influx of idiots who were previously unable to be online because it required an actual PC, stable internet connection and some know how. Then dipshits with iPhones started posting their dumbass stream of thought messages with voice to text.

I die a little each time I read something and some halfwit used "ewe" instead of "you."

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's called "Eternal September" and happened when AOL started.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried a recipe for a cake but I substituted the dry ingredients for buns because they're already baked, I replaced the chocolate with burger, and I replaced the frosting with sauce. Can anyone explain to me why my cake tastes like a hamburger now?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It's because of the oven, can't you read ?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago

A+ for diplomacy

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I would like to believe people like this don't exist. But sadly, they do.

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Mashed bananas and scrambled eggs are the same!

[–] peridinium@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Purchased a bunch at church.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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