Eggplants are disgusting - Nature's cocks

[Contra Pozz]

It tastes like ass and doesn't make up for that in nutritional value, but at least it appears to be less poisonous than other species in the Nightshade family (Solanaceae). PSA: it you ever get recurrent joint pain, make sure to avoid potatoes, tomatoes and peppers for a while and see if it subsides.

 

[Incitatus]

Eggplant is used pretty regularly for ratatouille. It's bland and mostly takes on the flavor of everything else in the recipe, but makes for pretty good filler and rounds out the dish.

Spoiler

 

[Margo Martindale]

It has the shittiest texture of any plant and tastes like nothing or shit

 

[OfficerBagget]

Too many people over cook their eggplant that it becomes a nasty mush. Eggplant is also good at soaking up flavors, if you're a shitty cook your Eggplant will have no flavor because you're not adding the flavor.

 

[HolocaustDenier]

like most modern vegetables its slave food, its almost devoid of nutrients specially after cooking the water soluble vitamins are gone, you cant eat nightshades raw because they are poisonous, you might get some potassium out of it, disgusting.

 

[Kaktus Kompot]

Eat some eggplant-walnut-garlic rolls then say the same to my face, I dare you.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I've eaten eggplant lasagna and it's fucking delicious.

 

[Ero]

>clearly never tried baba ghanoush, melitzanosalata or zacusca.
Ngmi

 

[Lichen Bark]

Undercooked eggplant has a sponge-like texture. I can understand why someone might not like that. Once you cook it long enough/at a high enough temperature it becomes soft/creamy/delicious. I pity you fools who have never had a good eggplant and basil dish from a Thai place, or never bothered with an eggplant parm.

Usually I find the people who hate X vegetable fall into a couple categories either "my mother/father let me eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches/hotdogs for every meal," or "my parent's couldn't cook worth a damn during my formative years, and subsequently I developed a hatred for X vegetable because they couldn't cook for shit.. eg. my mother boiled every vegetable to mush" If you weren't exposed to the food enough at a young age, you're going to carry that with you for the rest of your life. It's like the people who didn't know fish has bones, and you can, in fact, eat a whole fish, and it doesn't have to be a boneless filet ever time.

This fucking thread OP, I swear it just brings out my food autism. Next one you should do "I hate tomatoes" or "I hate onions." REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

 

[WaveBreak]

horrendous things. Literally nothing redeemable about them. Every dish would be better without it. Wonder why people are pretending it's good. Why not just eat slime instead?

 

[WonderWino]

Anti-Semite.
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....Don't give twitter any ideas. I can see it now:
if you don't eat eggplant you're an anti semite
if you do eat it you're trying to commit genocide against jews

baklazhan (Pickled Eggplant) is pretty good.

Dollarama used to carry jars of picked strips of eggplant that were surprisingly good in stir fry

like most modern vegetables its slave food, its almost devoid of nutrients specially after cooking the water soluble vitamins are gone, you cant eat nightshades raw because they are poisonous, you might get some potassium out of it, disgusting.

That depends entirely on the nightshade in question. Tomatoes are a nightshade and you can eat those raw just fine. You can eat eggplant raw as well, its just horrible tasting and can cause an upset stomach cause of the level of nicotine in it that causes its bitter disgusting taste

tldr its all about ensuring its properly prepared, or it'll be terrible

 

[cumrobbery]

Eggparm. Your argument is invalid.
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Stuff them with rice and cheese, herbs, tomato, and then bake in the oven.

Eggplant is used pretty regularly for ratatouille. It's bland and mostly takes on the flavor of everything else in the recipe, but makes for pretty good filler and rounds out the dish.

Spoiler

Too many people over cook their eggplant that it becomes a nasty mush. Eggplant is also good at soaking up flavors, if you're a shitty cook your Eggplant will have no flavor because you're not adding the flavor.

Eat some eggplant-walnut-garlic rolls then say the same to my face, I dare you.
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>clearly never tried baba ghanoush, melitzanosalata or zacusca.
Ngmi

>it's only good when you stuff it with so much other crap to completely mask its shitty flavor and texture

 

[Eggplant Parm]

 

[Un Platano]

Undercooked eggplant has a sponge-like texture. I can understand why someone might not like that. Once you cook it long enough/at a high enough temperature it becomes soft/creamy/delicious. I pity you fools who have never had a good eggplant and basil dish from a Thai place, or never bothered with an eggplant parm.

Usually I find the people who hate X vegetable fall into a couple categories either "my mother/father let me eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches/hotdogs for every meal," or "my parent's couldn't cook worth a damn during my formative years, and subsequently I developed a hatred for X vegetable because they couldn't cook for shit.. eg. my mother boiled every vegetable to mush" If you weren't exposed to the food enough at a young age, you're going to carry that with you for the rest of your life. It's like the people who didn't know fish has bones, and you can, in fact, eat a whole fish, and it doesn't have to be a boneless filet ever time.

This fucking thread OP, I swear it just brings out my food autism. Next one you should do "I hate tomatoes" or "I hate onions." REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Unlike eggplants, onions are an inherently good vegetable. There's no way to screw up onions short of burning them and they're delicious any way you prepare them. By comparison, eggplants are awful. Don't cook them long enough, it's like eating a sponge. Cook them too long, they turn into slime. Don't add enough spices and flavorizers, it's bland mush. All the while it's devoid of vitamins and minerals and you will most certainly not grow up strong eating them. Why do we even bother with these things?

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

Dice an eggplant into large chunks, toss in olive oil with herbs and seasonings, and roast that shit in the oven at a high temp. The high temp is key to prevent mushiness

 

[Incitatus]

>it's only good when you stuff it with so much other crap to completely mask its shitty flavor and texture

This is true and with good reason. Eggplant is historically associated with peasant/lower class recipes, due to the fact that it's cheap, grows easily and in abundance, and is rather large. Taking an eggplant and adding it to a stew or as a side basically doubles the size of the dish with very little extra cost.

TL;DR: Eggplant is basically filler

 

[Lichen Bark]

Unlike eggplants, onions are an inherently good vegetable. There's no way to screw up onions short of burning them and they're delicious any way you prepare them. By comparison, eggplants are awful. Don't cook them long enough, it's like eating a sponge. Cook them too long, they turn into slime. Don't add enough spices and flavorizers, it's bland mush. All the while it's devoid of vitamins and minerals and you will most certainly not grow up strong eating them. Why do we even bother with these things?

Variety is the spice of life. They also taste good to my tastebuds.

Edit: I just wanted to point out we don't know everything about fruits and veg, we are limited to the studies done on them. We are always discovering new things about x, y, z, plant. There are other things in veg that aren't listed in "nutritional facts" phytochemicals etc. To drag covid into this apparently they may have "Quercetin equivalents" I know quercetin is talked about a lot for being beneficial in term of your health against Covid.

Eggplant fruits protect against DNA damage and mutations - PubMed

Eggplant belongs to the Solanaceae family, and it has an important antioxidant capability that has been shown to counteract oxidation, which is harmful to health and many diseases. In this present study, we evaluated the antigenotoxic effects of six eggplants ((Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308814618310665?via=ihub (paywalled unfortunately, but abstract is there)

 

[Mulva69]

Best emoji EVER

 

[Alexander Thaut]

eggplant parm is really hard to fuck up.

 

[mucksnake]

I like baked eggplant, but it's really more of a carrier for a good cheese and sauce than anything else.

I once had pickled baby eggplants. They were the size of golf balls, they looked like little translucent pumpkins, and they popped in my mouth and filled it with a barrage of hard, crunchy seeds.

I'm cool with regular eggplant, though, as long as it's lubed cooked right.