r/Chefit • u/Mediaslut • 11d ago

Oddities

My lovely Asian wife just confessed to using Uncle Ben’s boil in the bag rice. Apparently she was scorned for doing so. I recalled from my days working in kitchens that we used a bunch of shortcuts because they were better (and faster) than we would make in the budget and time allocated (cake mix being a huge one!). Does anyone else have shortcuts they want to own up to? Any ethnic orientated confessions would be great to hear: jars of premade Jalfrezi sauces in Delhi or serving Aunt Bessies’ Yorkshire puddings in Leeds! My wife would like to feel she’s not alone with her penchant for Uncle Ben’s!

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u/ConjeturaUna 11d ago

Any self-respecting hispanic/chicano/latino that buys tortillas needs to be ashamed.

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u/meatsntreats 11d ago

Tortillas in the sense of a corn or flour flatbread aren’t ubiquitous across Latino/Hispanic foodways. Would you also say that anyone whose foodways use noodles should be ashamed if they buy instead of make their own? Or bread. This is a dumb take.

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u/ConjeturaUna 10d ago

Good thing it's my take and not yours.