What's for dinner, DL?

[Shale]

It pains me to hear you making such a good argument about flavor in support of such a silly result.  Seriously, how many bread/spread/cheese combinations wouldn't be improved by a slice of tomato?

Philly steak subs/sandwhiches? They're much better with onions/green peppers/mushrooms/hot peppers.

And if you put lettuce or tomato on one, you die.

Ketchup is acceptable, though.

[superaielman]

Ketchup? Ew. Lettuce just doesn't fit that type of sandwhich. Peppers are much better there.

[Ultradude]

Ketchup? You mean that's for something other than french fries and an ingredient in savory baked foods?

[Dark Holy Elf]

Sandwiches with heavier stuff on them, unless they have some very specific condiments which conflict (such as peanut butter), badly need something cool and light like lettuce to balance them out. Peppers also work... depends what sort of flavour you're going for and what you're balancing out.

[Shale]

Ketchup? Ew. Lettuce just doesn't fit that type of sandwhich. Peppers are much better there.

Ketchup? On beef and cheese in a roll? Yeah, that'll never catch on.

(Edit: Peppers, mushrooms and grilled onions are also excellent additions to a cheesesteak. I haven't had one without at least two of the three in years. Ketchup also works, though.)

[Dark Holy Elf]

The key there, and a bit of a constant, I think, is that the ketchup goes with things that are (recently) cooked. Never really seen it as a sandwich condiment, and I've eaten a lot of sandwiches. I guess it might be okay, but it sounds kinda strange. I'm not too likely to try it since ketchup is probably about the last thing I need more of in my life, its tastiness:unhealthiness ratio is alarmingly low for something I don't dislike.

[Shale]

Cheesesteaks are recently cooked. Ideally they go from raw beef to grill to roll to stomach within fifteen minutes.

[superaielman]

Ketchup? Ew. Lettuce just doesn't fit that type of sandwhich. Peppers are much better there.

Ketchup? On beef and cheese in a roll? Yeah, that'll never catch on.

(Edit: Peppers, mushrooms and grilled onions are also excellent additions to a cheesesteak. I haven't had one without at least two of the three in years. Ketchup also works, though.)

Steak and ketchup is just wrong. Burgers? It works, much like pickles do. I wouldn't put pickles on a philly steak sandwhich ever.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'll just chime in on this healthy convo about ketchup that my eldest sister used to put ketchup in everything. Literally everything - I swear she put ketchup on ice cream once.

Tangentially, ketchup infuriates me far more than anything made out of tomato ever could. And, while I do not like tomatos, I can even eat those things raw without fuss. Eating anything with ketchup is asking too much, though.

[Lady Door]

I'm going to completely ignore any discussion on ketchup except to say that it belongs on hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries or cooked into something.

The bean salad thingy was a swing and a miss. It's a lot closer to a supremely chunky salsa than a salad. Conveniently, tonight's "dinner" will be grilled chicken with rice and this bean "salad" wrapped up into a corn tortilla or two.

[Shale]

I think you may have something there.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

The bean salad thingy was a swing and a miss. It's a lot closer to a supremely chunky salsa than a salad. Conveniently, tonight's "dinner" will be grilled chicken with rice and this bean "salad" wrapped up into a corn tortilla or two.

So, you managed to create a salsa burrito frankenstein out of a salad? I have no idea how that even -works-. Nothing wrong with grilled chicken and rice, but I can't help but feel the beans on that bean salad were wasted, since basic beans compliment a vanilla meat-and-rice dish so damned well.

[Grefter]

Macaroni and Cheese, the shit stuff.  Not real cheese, but powdered shit in a shit sachet which is shit (Buy real stuff next time).  Made the Macaroni, went to make the cheese, whoops we are out of milk.  Need 250 mL of milk.  Chocolate milk drink with 250 mL was located, joked about using it.  Stuff going to waste anyway, fuck it.

Turns out it is shit.  This -may- be due to the shit ingredients, but still, we do what we must for science.

[Cotigo]

Dude.  Just add a little bit of water and use a little bit more butter.  It turns out creamier than when you do it "properly" but frankly it's far easier to chomp it down that way.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Eh, macaroni and cheese is food for the desperate anyway.

[Shale]

Better macaroni and cheese: Take pasta, mix in tuna, broccoli and generous amounts of shredded provolone and mozzarella. Mmm, casseroley.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

That's a better use of pasta, yes. Granted, I'm just not awesomely fond of pasta unless it's done with garlic and slickly dry.

[Grefter]

Better macaroni and cheese: Take pasta, ruin it.

Okay.

Sure there was better ways to fix it (Using Water did come up), but fuck that, we had science to do.  Will just get the good stuff with tinned cheese sauce instead of shitty fucking powder that tastes like dick anyway.

[Cotigo]

Eh, macaroni and cheese is food for the desperate anyway.

He was using chocolate milk in mac and cheese.  What else would you call that?

[Grefter]

Science.

[Idun]

The only Mac and Cheese I've ever had was baked. I don't really like the soupy kinda stuff - the thick and cheesy is very pleasing.

[Cotigo]

Science.

Science looks a lot like desperation from some angles.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Science.

Science looks a lot like desperation from some angles.

Science usually is desperation.

[Grefter]

Nah.  Science is well we can either just throw it out now and eat something else, or try this out and then throw it out and eat something else.  Like I said, it was shit macaroni in the first place.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Science sounds a lot like boredom, then. It's an improvement from desperation, I guess.