Meat ends up getting reprocessed for sure. A buddy is a fireman and had to go to a call at a rendering plant and said it was unreal gross. Piles of meat scrap everywhere rotting away and being loaded into huge vats to render down the fats.
I just found an extremely cringy food/travel show on netflix called Someone feed Phil. It’s a filthy rich jewish dude who once wrote a bad sitcom. One episode is in Tel Aviv and it starts off at Dr. Shakshuka, which is a real place and very famous dude.
The scene in general was awfully condescending (his two guests are extremely Ashkenazi making fun of a very Sephardic person), but the majority of the filming takes place in Shuk Hakarmel which is 3 minute walk from where I lived the majority of my adult life.
The Hummus place he goes to (the 2nd one) as my favorite place in the whole world. My Army service was across the street and I ate there every single lunch for 2 years.
He then goes to the Sabich place I wrote about here as well.
(I’m live blogging this but he basically walks around my neighborhood)
lol pretty much 100% of the historical facts he says in the episode are completely wrong.
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Phil is, like, literally a billionaire and one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. The show is literally just dozens of people being extremely nice and gentle with a rich person hoping that some of the scraps trickle down to them.
It’s unwatchable in general, but he was just literally walking on the street I lived for 15 years so that episode was funny for me.
I am a sucker for food travel show so it’s a real accomplishment to make one so bad that I can’t bring myself to watch it unless they are filming my apartment.
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Haven’t seen this show but the genre in general is heavily in the “rich privileged people on eternal vacation” category. I say this loving it myself.
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Fair, but alternatively they could be using their money to fund libertarian think tanks or something. Let them fly to Laos and eat chicken, IMO.
Phil is the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond. I know nothing about him but I heard him interviewed about the show on a podcast and thought “Wow I can not imagine spending 10 seconds with this guy on television.” Corny humor and complete lack of charm on top of simply being annoying.
Apparently not everyone from Everybody Loves Raymond is horrible though: my brother is friends with Rob Burnett, who is one of the producers and also super rich, but apparently he’s a pretty good dude, at least according to my bro.
Just wanted to let you know that your discussion of Sabich itt inspired me to deviate from my standard order at my local Israeli restaurant (I usually just go with falafel). This was one delicious sandwich!
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Has anyone here cooked with Thai eggplant? I picked up some at the farmer’s market this weekend. If I go back next weekend, I will consider buying ground cherries, if anyone has experience with that.
They go great in green curries
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Ground cherries are interesting but not something I ever want to eat more than a handful of and then I’m done until next year. Kind of like my one annual pint of Pumpkin Ale.
Made a homemade corn chowder. The corn couldn’t have been much fresher as they came in from the fields with a new truckload just as I arrived at the farm stand. The time between the field and the completed chowder was about 3 hours. Garnished with fresh bacon bits and chives.
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The first 7 minutes of this explain why I hate Bon Appetit so much.
How did he become a billionaire? Quick skim of his wikipedia page make it seems like his one big score was Everybody Loves Raymond. He actually made a billion off of that?
The internet tells me his net worth is more like 200 million. I guess it was just very lucrative to produce a successful sitcom in the 90s. Larry David and Seinfeld are insanely loaded as well.
Why? I mean i agree with the analysis, but don’t see what’s wrong with it.
Theres no way that pita held up but looks delicious
Anyone know what the difference between a hummusiya and a hummusiyot is?
That seems a lot more believable.
I think one is singular and the other is plural.