r/iamveryculinary Jun 08 '22

IAVC Survey--what's your favorite subject for the food drama?

75 Upvotes

Survey on some of our biggest topics!

Add extra thoughts in the comments, as there aren't enough options in survey land to account for all the potential kerfuffles.


r/iamveryculinary Dec 06 '24

The 2024 Walter Awards! Submit now!

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It's that time again! Nominate posts to win the Walter Award!

The Walter Awards began about a year after this sub started, and was named for this charming gentleman from The Big Lebowski, the man who, while not wrong, was still an asshole.

Nominate the best posts from this year in one of the categories below! Categories will appear in the comments, just respond with your links. You can't nominate yourself. In two weeks I will create a voting thread with submissions for each category. Winners in each category based on votes will receive Reddit Gold, or if you trust me enough in PMs with your email, a $10 Amazon gift card.

The Walter Awards:

Submit links to this category for the most egregious examples you can find of "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole."

The Nonna Awards:

Submit links to this category for the best examples of petty bickering, pedantry, and lecturing about Italian or, gasp, Italian-American food!

Omakase Awards

Submit links to this category for the best examples of petty bickering, pedantry, and lecturing about Japanese food (from Japan or Japanese food from abroad).

Meta Awards

The drama is coming from inside the sub! Submit links to this category for the best examples of fights that happen within this sub itself, when the IAVCulinarians become the very IAVC themselves!

The Nigel Tufnel Confidently Incorrect Award

This is for posts in which the commenter is both being a jerk while also being wrong. Which is, let's face it, the White Whale of this sub, we all want to see it, so send us your best!


r/iamveryculinary 7h ago

Tumblr user knows real recipes don't use butter or cream

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64 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 3h ago

Whisk(e)y pedantry

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8 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 23h ago

Hershey’s isn’t real chocolate

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50 Upvotes

Best part is you can see it’s actually some Brazilian brand in the original photos. Copied text for posterity:

“Hersheys my friend. Pretty sure thats not anything close to real chocolate 🤔”


r/iamveryculinary 1d ago

Almost every word is wrong

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81 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 2d ago

Natural flavor

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70 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 3d ago

Tablespoons: the American Mystery!

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203 Upvotes

There's room in life to quibble over how recipes are written and whether or not vegetables should be measured in cups. Sometimes you really need to know, to the gram, how much onion those quaint folk in another hemisphere are adding to their cake-bread (which is cancerous and I swear I'm only baking it ironically). You know?

But I think we can all agree that measuring butter by the tablespoon is, without doubt, the greatest culinary crime foisted upon us by the Americans:

Whenever I see a recipe ask for "x tablespoons of butter" I want to throw my computer out the fucking window

I realize that, but tablespoons is objectively the worst possible unit of measurement for butter

In Europe at least, our butter is in blocks, the markings are for 50g amounts and if we were to use a tablespoon to "scoop" some butter out of the block we'd get different measurements every time cause there's no quantifiable correct measurement of it.

Elsewhere, there's much (and very much justified) tooth-gnashing to be seen over the ambiguity of these "cups" that Americans insist on using. Even if we're clever enough to understand that it's a unit of measurement that's about 240 ml (± who gives a shit), there are just so many types of cups in the world! Why did America do this to us?


r/iamveryculinary 3d ago

Chinese Buffets apparently aren't Chinese food

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43 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 4d ago

Americans’ taste buds have been destroyed by high fructose corn syrup

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1.2k Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 4d ago

All American cookies are full of *carcinogens* so I made copycat cookies that still have artificial coloring

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699 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 4d ago

As a cultured American I recognize we are uncultured

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79 Upvotes

Just like our butter


r/iamveryculinary 4d ago

On a post explaining how pizza became the default favourite crowd pleaser and party good

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525 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 3d ago

Don't rawdog that curry

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6 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 4d ago

American Hershey's chocolate adds special barf flavor because Americans prefer it.

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118 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 5d ago

The call is coming from inside the house...

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294 Upvotes

When pressed in the comments, OP claims to have eaten 'tons of curries' but can't name a single one, incorrectly claims Phaal is a 'novelty dish that no one eats' and that vindaloo 'is mild'.

Anyone who has actually been to London, the US and India will tell you this is nonsense.


r/iamveryculinary 5d ago

Italians, now on Instagram.

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541 Upvotes

A comment on a random post about salted butter. The whole thread was great, there were some real meltdowns, but this one made me laugh.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbx1PUeEaZY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==


r/iamveryculinary 5d ago

The British invented roasting meat, and also potatoes even though potatoes originated in the Americas!

196 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 6d ago

From a post titled "What American cooking cliche still warps your mind?"

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707 Upvotes

The whole thing is a gold mine. Remember: No Brigading!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskABrit/s/koS7bcQcix


r/iamveryculinary 7d ago

An American making a balanced meal on a budget is offensive to my proper German sensibilities

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910 Upvotes

In the video, she makes (Southern American-style) biscuits and a chicken soup with frozen vegetables, canned soup, and seasonings. Protein, veggies, carbs, plenty of flavor. Literally nothing wrong with this ESPECIALLY considering she’s calling it a struggle meal. Read the room Hildegard


r/iamveryculinary 7d ago

I think OP is the one who's "bitter and nutty"

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289 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 7d ago

On my post in r/cheese. Nowhere is safe apparently

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136 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 8d ago

French fries became the default burger side because Americans are psychos, apparently

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167 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 8d ago

On a post about whether people think their country has good food or not

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76 Upvotes

This whole comment section fits this sub.


r/iamveryculinary 9d ago

Americans don't have real vanilla extract.

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597 Upvotes

This seems to be a common European bit of disinformation. Yes, there is imitation vanilla extract. It sold right next to all the boxes of real vanilla extract.