Unbayleafable.
came here to make a silly comment. i can see im not needed here.
Man, just wait until someone tells her where the rest of food comes from
I know folks, my boss and his family, who - if it doesn’t come from a box, powder, and/or plastic bag, will not be eating it. It’s really sad and I eat whole food in front of him all the time in hopes…
It’s probably very tasty, but looking at the image I couldn’t help myself thinking “at least something edible and healthy in there”.
Bay leaves are technically not that edible. You can’t really digest them, they’re pretty tough even after hours of cooking, and are mainly used for their intensive flavour…
So, no, it’s actually neither edible nor healthy.
I mean the cheese is high-fat, but the chicken, rice, and beans?
Imagine now knowing what a bay leaf is. I have to assume this is just a rage bait post.
This chode sucks down ultra processed meat and is concerned about a leaf?
Since when is chipotle ultra processed? Can we be a littler more responsible about how we talk about things so that we don’t make the fight harder since just convincing people that ultra processed food is shitty is shitty already.
Not if everything is the max then there it’s all just noise that’s gets harder and harder not to just dismiss
It’s just hilarious they don’t understand a bay leaf, but as Randal said that one time, they are one of today’s 10,000
Finding out how things get flavoured is a great learning experience when you are 5 or going on 85
Can we be a little more compassionate and kind to each other, even the people that will never see us or know how we respond. Just makes you a more pleasant and wonderful person
Edit: I’m in Canada and chipotle is relatively new so perhaps there are giant regional differences that I’m not aware of?
The saddest part to me is how little more and more people know about cooking. Each generation seems to know less and less about the basics and rely more and more on fast food and restaurants to survive.
In Brazil’s version of the Shark Tank TV show, they sometimes call for guest “sharks” to show up besides the regular hosts. Once, the founder of China in Box, Brazil’s largest Chinese fast food chain (and one of the first in general) was there.
So the participant shows up and his pitch was a device he invented for peeling garlic faster at home. It’s basically a blender motor, but with attachments to vibrate the garlic against the container rather than cut through it, so the skin peels off and the garlic is ready for usage. After the pitch, of course, they ask the hosts if they want to invest into their company.
So the Chinese food guy says “oh no, no way I’m investing into that, it’s a kitchen appliance - in ten years, nobody will have a kitchen in their homes, they’ll use delivery apps for every meal, they won’t ever need any cooking apparatus”
And honestly his comments still fill me with rage every single time.
I mean, that dude makes money each time you dont cook. Of course he’s going to pitch “kitchenless” homes as a real thing.
Its abject bullshit, but also a clear cut case of “follow the money” to understand stupid reasoning.
I wouldn’t invest in that because all you need to do is smash a clove with a knife and the skin falls right off, but I see what you mean.
If you need to peel a bunch of cloves, put them in a small mason jar and shake the shit out of it.
Yeah but your hands do end up smelling like garlic for a couple days
When seasoning meat, remember that you are also meat and therefore susceptible to be seasoned.
That’s a feature.
That’s a bonus!
Wash them but use salt instead of soap. The smell will go away. It works for onions and probably a bunch of other stuff too.
Are you sure you’re trying to help and are not a cannibal?
Rubbing against stainless steel gets rid of the smell also works
What are you talking about? Every generation in the US knows more about food than the ones before.
Boomers were raised on canned/frozen nonsense and basically had no variety. Their vegetables were underseasoned and overcooked. Their pickiness about cuts of meat left many delicious parts of the animals underappreciated scraps. They knew each fruit as basically one cultivar, like how all apples were the utterly mediocre red delicious. Even their bread was boring.
Their restaurant scene was pathetic, with Italian American food representing the pinnacle of exotic cuisine. Any immigrant opening a restaurant for American diners would have to carefully water down their traditions to fit American tastes and the American supply chain.
No thank you, I’d never travel back in time to eat or cook the way people did 50 years ago. Food is better now, and it’s largely because today’s cooks and diners know way more about food than people did back then.
My grandma boils vegetables like nobody’s business.
Yeah I mean nowadays I feel like something like hello fresh or whatever meal delivery service (that still requires you to cook) is a big convenient treat. Delivery is so goddamn expensive, I ain’t made of money!
I can’t speak for everyone, but since the COVID inflation I’ve swore off most fastfood and exclusively cook for myself now. I’ve learned baking bread, making stocks, processing meat, canning, and so much more. It’s so much healthier, tastier, and more affordable. I think folks are coming back to cooking for themselves. It may not be the majority, but there are many of us that have mostly swore off eating out.
Just as intended.
Bay left there’s no a beach for miles
She is a dangerous type of white person.
We call them Karen
Flavour in my food?!
Real, natural flavour.
Chipotle is really resting on its laurels.
That just means your meal was freshly picked from the burrito tree. Geesh, some people…
The cook really should be picking the bay leaves out. No one wants to eat a bay leaf.
While that is true, not recognizing a bayleaf is a sign of embarrassing stupidity.
ignorance, but yeah. Who hasn’t encountered a bay leaf by adulthood?
They probably do, but finding them all every single time is almost impossible. I know I’ve had a few pop up in my own food over the years.
we just tell the kids whoever finds the bay leaf “wins” and gets first dessert.
i can’t remember the last time i served dessert.
It’s always been framed as “good luck” in every family I knew growing up.
Yeah this is pretty much where I’m at, her reaction seems pretty stupid but I would be a little annoyed if I had to pick a bay leaf out of my mouth.
Like a cat with a hairball.
Who the fuck uses bay leaves in Mexican food?
Mexicans, for one. Bay leaves are common in lots of cuisine.
People who know how to cook? 😆
Mexicans.
Birria? Rice? Caldos?
WTF do you mean who uses leaves in Mexican food?
Every good pot of Mexican beans has bay leaves in it.
Apparently it is common in Mexico itself. I had to look it up because I was also incredulous at using a bay leaf in a burrito.
Many Latin American countries always add bay leaves when cooking any type of bean. There are beans in a burrito.
I’m gonna have to try the mexican variety becsuse the kind I am used to adds literally nothing to dishes other than a leaf in the food. 🤷♂️
it’s the exact same plant. if your grocery store has a latin section they probably sell hojas de laurel for cheaper per ounce than mccormick.
There’s literally a species of laurel native to Mexico that indigenous Americans used in their food for thousands of years.
Bay leaves come from various plants and are used for their distinctive flavour and fragrance. The most common source is the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). Other types include California bay laurel, Indian bay leaf, West Indian bay laurel, and Mexican bay laurel.
I was curious, here is what I found: “We use bay leaves to add a subtle depth of flavor to dishes like our beans, rice, Barbacoa, and Carnitas.” - this was off a reddit post, so who knows.
Classic carnitas flavor absolutely has bay
Use it in with rice all the time. Its a very subtle flavor but it definitely adds to it so it goes in.
“Mexican food”…
Just checked out a map; turns out Mexico does exist.
Big if true
The number of people who think Mexico isn’t a North American country is worrying
Try asking Americans to point out South America on a map. You’ll have to not giggle as they point to Texas or Florida.
Chipotle is to Mexican food what Olive Garden is to Italian cuisine.
Why is it Mexican FOOD and Italian CUISINE?
Because despite not realizing it yet, human consciousness is just a next-word-predicting LLM, and the dataset most Americans are trained on has those as the most common next words.
Eurocentrism
I feel like it’s closer than Taco Bell at least
Mexicans. At least some of them.
👀😬
I use it in Chili Colorado.
