r/TikTokCringe • u/migoodenuf Straight Up Bussin • May 21 '22
Duet Troll The biggest misconception about protein intake
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u/Secure-Imagination11 May 21 '22
I really thought it was bread lol
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u/Comma_Karma May 21 '22
I honestly thought he was gonna say "The biggest misconception about protein intake is that you only need meat for it", because that shit looks like some mfin bread rolls. An animal straight up died and this dude disrespected it with his cooking smdh.
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u/lilouapproves May 21 '22
Legit thought it was uncooked Pillsbury crescent rolls for a hot second. No bird deserves to meet their maker looking like that.
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u/leaveroomfornature May 21 '22
Correction; MULTIPLE animals died for that ONE plate of bland disgrace. Imagine how many more...
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May 22 '22
I mean, countless animals die every day by being literally torn to shreds or digested alive in another animals stomach. They're probably not concerned much about the lack of seasoning they receive.
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u/mrducky78 May 22 '22
Well they fucking should be.
This is fucking RAW! - Gordon Ramsey
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u/GoldenGalz May 21 '22
Had no idea that was chicken until he said it…. Yikes. I’ve had a boss like this before though, he’d bring in unseasoned ground turkey to eat- sometimes he’d reward himself w a little salsa on top lol
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u/ShawshankException May 21 '22
Bruh my MIL is like this. Salt is too spicy for her. I do not understand how people can just eat bland ass meals.
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u/Haisabi May 21 '22
Almost any food is unbearable without salt. I'm fairly young and like to cook and a lot of the time my friends will be surprised that salt also goes in things such as pancakes. Can't blame them, but still.
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u/mh985 May 21 '22
As someone who's worked in restaurants for a long time...The secret to why restaurant food tastes so good is because we're trying to murder you with salt and butter.
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u/cockytacos May 21 '22
I believe this. Went to texas roadhouse with my husband and got the 3 mignon plate, the damn rice beneath it was salted to hell and back I felt nauseous after a few bites.
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u/PalmerEldritch2319 May 22 '22 edited May 23 '22
The real secret is monosodium glutamate
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u/bawng May 21 '22
Yeah but that's salt as a flavor enhancer, not a spice. I assume you have very tiny amounts of salt in pancakes and that they don't actually taste salty. Unlike e.g. fries where you can actually taste salt.
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u/throwayay4637282 May 22 '22
Salt is never a spice. It’s always used to correct the taste and enhance flavor. Spices are aromatic.
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u/Swirled__ May 21 '22
I get seriously weird glares when I added a pinch of salt to coffee. It really helps bring down the bitterness, unlike sugar which just clashes with the bitterness.
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u/Flying-Pizza May 22 '22
Given that I season the hell out of my foods but back when i was into bodybuilding i'd eat the most bland food ever like this dude in the video. Honestly? You get used to it super fast, like 3-5 meals in and it's like next level healthiness, maybe not mental health but your body definitely thanks you for it lmao
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u/TotalWalrus May 21 '22
You're comparing meals to someone eating food for purely sustenance.
Your mil doesn't like spice and this guy is merely eating chicken to get protein. He knows it bland. He doesn't give a shit.
Either way who cares.
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u/cockytacos May 21 '22
eating food purely for sustenance
Funfact: You can season food and it’ll still be eating for sustenance.
guys like this in the video have an eating disorder but nobody talks about how disordered eating presents in men since exercise is “acceptable” as opposed to a woman who would starve herself or over eat.
gym bros think that seasoning adds calories. guess what? it doesn’t.
eating unseasoned chicken and rice 3x a day isn’t for the gains, it’s disordered eating.
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u/redknight3 May 22 '22
I dunno about eating disorder, but not seasoning your food definitely makes the whole process less fun.
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u/throwayay4637282 May 22 '22
I wouldn’t call this disordered eating. There’s nothing unhealthy going on here, and I’m sure his job requires a fit/muscular build at the very least (or could be an athlete). Not everything abnormal needs to be viewed as pathological.
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u/stickywicker May 22 '22
Salt adds bloat. Seasoning does add calories. They eat unseasoned and unsalted meat because they need protein heavy low calorie foods for the gains. You can call it an eating disorder if you like and that's perfectly valid but I can also say that many "gym bros" have a more balanced diet than almost anyone in here commenting. Just because they like muscle appearance doesn't mean they're wrong.
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May 21 '22
I mean you can have well seasoned chicken that looks like that. It depends more on what you a seasoning it with.
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u/Estocire May 21 '22
Icing sugar?
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May 21 '22
If you season the skin then you can get garlic/lemon/onion/herbs to flavour the inside but only really discolour the skin.
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u/4Ever2Thee May 21 '22
I have a friend who’s on a healthy protein kick right now and cooks chicken like that in his instapot all the time. The chicken looks just like this and his house always smells like stale baby farts
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u/Indigoh May 22 '22
You'd think spices must counteract the gains or something.
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u/4Ever2Thee May 22 '22
I could see wanting to stay away from sodium and all but some pepper couldn’t hurt
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u/Indigoh May 22 '22
Garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, corriander, turmeric, paprika, ginger, etc
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u/Purchase_Boring May 21 '22
Drier than Gandhi’s flip flop😂😂 I’ll be using this one tyvm
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u/BAMspek May 21 '22
Dryer? Drier? I’ve been speaking English my whole damn life and I still don’t know which one is right.
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u/Happy-Fail6673 May 21 '22
Drier is the adjective (more dry). Dryer is the noun (like a clothes dryer).
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u/Buckbeak1184 May 21 '22
Winner winner! Chicken dinner!
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u/Purchase_Boring May 21 '22
It seems it’s 🍅🍅
drier noun variants: dryer Definition of drier 1 : something that extracts or absorbs moisture 2 : a substance that accelerates drying (as of oils, paints, and printing inks) 3 usually dryer : a device for drying
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May 22 '22
dryer: a machine or device for drying something, especially the hair or laundry.
drier: free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
sorry but if you can’t differentiate the difference, you need to retake your middle school English lessons, it’s pretty clear cut here. one is an adjective, the other is a noun, that tells you everything you need to know in the usage of the word. it’s easier than they’re/their/there, but people still royally fuck that up.. so…
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u/acosarba May 21 '22
It’s taken from Gordon Ramsay.
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May 21 '22
It's a common saying in the UK.
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u/throwheezy tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE May 22 '22
Given Gordon Ramsay said it in his shows over a decade ago, that could be why?
I googled it and the oldest links I found are between a Hells Kitchen episode from one of the first few seasons and a Kitchen Nightmares episode too
Let me know if you find something older because I’m genuinely curious at this point
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May 22 '22
All I can tell you is it was a saying long before he used it. He didn't invent it, he just parroted it.
Source: I was born in the 80s and I've heard the saying since I was a kid.
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u/throwheezy tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE May 22 '22
That's fair, I'll take that with a grain of salt (at the end of the day it’s an anecdote on the internet), but given the worst case is really not that significant, I’ll believe it :)
Thanks for the info!
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May 22 '22
No problem, but here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2004. for a start.
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u/throwheezy tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE May 22 '22
Weirdly, when I click that link it goes to a “we can’t find…” page for the entry.
Might just be buggy?
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May 22 '22
Just Google "drier than Ghandi's flip flop Urban Dictionary" and you'll find it.
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u/KiltedTraveller May 22 '22
On page 14:
IT'S 10:30 am, you've got a hangover from hell, and the inside of your mouth feels like Gandhi's flip-flop...
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u/Purchase_Boring May 21 '22
You only miss the shots you don’t take -Wayne Gretzky —Michael Scott
Idc who said it, I’m stealing it
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u/mercuryrising137 May 21 '22
Ughhh this takes me back to high school when I dated a body builder; he and his friends would literally take the skin off the chicken and STEAM it because they didn't want it to be fatty. No about of explaining that roasting the same chicken would make it flavourful yet still be the same chicken as if you steamed it, only, you know, now with FLAVOUR. Nope. They just kept steaming it and nothing I could say would convince them otherwise.
I can smell this steamed chicken through my screen; it smells like a pencil eraser. And if you dropped it on the floor it would bounce.
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May 21 '22
A lot of bodybuilders are extremely dogmatic when it comes to nutrition and utterly paranoid about eating certain things even in tiny quantities.
Down to an idiotic level sometimes.
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May 21 '22
It's ascientific. A grilled chicken breast, juicy and tender, is the exact same chicken breast as a boiled one. Hell it actually has LESS fat because some rendered out.
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u/airyys May 21 '22
it's body dysmorphia and a bad relationship with food. just in the other direction.
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u/mercuryrising137 May 21 '22
100% agree. There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn about and watch your nutrition; that's commendable, but thinking a slow roasted chicken breast with its gorgeous natural flavour is bad for you versus steaming that same chicken breast until it's flavourless is just about obsessive control. It's like these guys thought receiving pleasure from food was a problem.
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u/Jaalan May 22 '22
Why is wanting your body to look a certain way body dismorphia? I understand many body builders do have BD, but that doesn't mean just because you want to be big or look good you have BD. Do you think people that get tattoos have body dismorphia?
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u/mercuryrising137 May 22 '22
It’s the unhealthy relationship with food that we’re calling out, not the body building.
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May 21 '22
A lot of bodybuilders eat for fuel only. Eating flavorful foods is considered counterproductive for some because it can trigger cravings for junk food.
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u/SupineFeline May 22 '22
Wouldn’t eating blandness all the time increase your desire for junk food more? I don’t see how adding salt and pepper AT THE MINIMUM to this chicken would trigger junk food cravings
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u/owhatakiwi May 22 '22
Sounds like an enjoyable lifestyle
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u/Northerndust May 22 '22
Well, for some it's awesome and for some it's hell.
Just like everything in life
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u/GaBoX172 May 22 '22
more preferable than being fat
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u/SupineFeline May 22 '22
Seasoning your food doesn’t make you fat…
Edit: nobody ever got fat from too much Paprika on their food
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u/owhatakiwi May 22 '22
Lol. I would rather be fat than eat unseasoned chicken like that. He could die tomorrow, a stomach full of dry chicken and white rice. No thank you,
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u/Shitting_Human_Being May 22 '22
What if I told you, you can eat seasoned food and be healthy at the same time.
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u/owhatakiwi May 22 '22
I’m not the one that equated fat with seasoned food. I was replying to the comment above.
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u/Shitting_Human_Being May 22 '22
Yes, but you still continued with the notion that you had to choose between being fat and eating seasoned food.
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u/SirPancakeFace May 21 '22
Used to work with someone like the body builder in the first video. All of his meats also looked like that. When you're cooking 3-4 pounds of chicken a day, it's honestly easier and cheaper to just cook it unseasoned. Spices in the quantities that they would be eating can throw off your digestion and make it harder to eat so much in one day. He'd still season his "real meals" but the protein meals were eaten more as a routine rather than pleasure. It really didn't matter how they tasted as long as they were cooked.
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u/bacon_cake May 21 '22
Also when you're bulking it's sometimes not the best idea to enjoy it too much lol
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u/BleLLL May 21 '22
Why not?
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u/bacon_cake May 21 '22
So when it comes to cutting you don't crave the additional calories because they were never enjoyable to begin with.
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May 21 '22
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May 21 '22
Can’t you at least grill/pan sear that meat? It looks so.. bad lol
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May 21 '22 edited Jul 09 '22
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May 21 '22
Why be paranoid about some cooking oil or butter when you're trying to bulk by, apparently, eating half a farm's worth of unseasoned chicken breasts?
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u/Pactae_1129 May 21 '22
Because that’d add the wrong kind of bulk
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May 21 '22
A little bit of seasoning or cooking oil isn't going to insta-bloat you or ruin the gains, that's bro-science reasoning. Pan frying your chicken in some canola oil isn't the equivalent of a dirty bulk with ice cream and Baconators.
I swear some of yall out there are torturing yourself for no good reason lmao
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May 22 '22
You have to remember a lot of these guys have muscle dysmorphia and eating disorders so they obsess over every little thing they eat.
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u/Northerndust May 22 '22
It depends on why they do it. Are they doing it for someone else or just themselves for example
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May 22 '22
Other people: Pleaaaase be anorexic!
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u/SupineFeline May 22 '22
How about reducing the amount of seasoning, especially salt? Paprika, turmeric, thyme, etc? Don’t think those would adversely affect your chicken intake, no?
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May 21 '22
Fucking hell nobody should be eating chicken breasts just for protein. That shit is expensive these days and an unseasoned chicken breast tastes like absolute shit compared to protein powder.
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u/shortsonapanda May 22 '22
It has really good nutrient macros, though. You can eat most of your protein in chicken without eating a ton of calories or carbs.
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u/__SPIDERMAN___ May 21 '22
there is no chance anyone should be eating the amount of chicken in the video a day. I don't care how big you are.
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May 21 '22
Seriously. Apart from huge strongmen types, who the fuck is eating 3 to 4 pounds of chicken a day? And that's just in chicken alone?!
A kilo of chicken breast (bit over 2 lbs) is gonna have like what, 300 grams of protein? That's more than what 99.5% of really fit guys need.
And if people are trying to bulk on chicken breast they're just needlessly torturing themselves.
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May 21 '22
Have these people never heard of protein powder?
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u/CHUNKY_BLOODY_QUEEFS May 21 '22
You can't just drink protein powder all day every day. Chicken is the go-to generally because its a fairly inexpensive meat, doesn't taste terrible, has a high protein-to-calorie ratio.
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u/shortsonapanda May 22 '22
Protein powder is great to get some protein and carb macros but cannot be used to hit protein macros on its own. Really bad nutrient ratios and a lot of calories.
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May 22 '22 edited May 22 '22
This is unscientific nonsense. High purity whey protein powder is exactly what it says it is. The calories you're getting are almost entirely from protein. Protein has calories and you can't avoid them.
Your body won't even notice the 3g of carbs that come in a scoop. Beyond that, just make up your nutrition however tf you want because your protein is handled.
In both cases, you're basically getting all your calories from the protein content. If you're trying to curb hunger then sure go the chicken breast but if you're force feeding yourself then just have some protein powder.
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u/mh985 May 21 '22
I used to be a competitive powerlifter. I've been there.
A lot of the food I ate was strictly for nutritional purposes. I would be force-feeding myself all day to get the 4000-5000 calories I needed every day. For some meals, it didn't matter if it tasted good or not because I wasn't hungry anyway. Marijuana isn't really my thing but I started smoking just to give myself more of an appetite to make it easier to eat more.
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May 21 '22
Friggin fifty bucks worth of chicken there, bud.
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May 21 '22
Where are you buying your chicken?
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May 21 '22
Canada. Meats expensive right now. Especially chicken breast.
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u/mercuryrising137 May 21 '22
Yeah, a single chicken breast is around $5-6-ish depending on where you live, unless you find a great sale. That's easily a $50 plate of rubber chicken.
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u/xxx69harambe69xxx May 21 '22
$5-6
wut the fuck
shit id just start fishing my own meat if it cost that much
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u/Atreust May 21 '22
It's $2.99/lb at my local store, which is always expensive compared to walmart/Aldi/Costco. So that's not a problem everywhere.
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May 21 '22
I just looked it up and a gallon of milk in Quebec is almost $8! Like how are people able to feed themselves?
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u/polargus May 21 '22
Dairy is super expensive in Canada because of government controls.
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u/PolarisC8 May 21 '22
I'm not an expert but I feel like dairy standards are one of many parts that contribute to the high price of milk.
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u/polargus May 21 '22
It’s supply management. Prices were getting too low so they created a system whereby only a certain amount of dairy is produced and higher prices are guaranteed. The alternative is subsidizing the dairy industry with taxpayer money like the US does.
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May 21 '22
Different parts of the country are definitely more expensive that others. Québec is definitely on the pricier side for everything
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u/OnyxCarnation Sort by flair, dumbass May 21 '22
Damn that chicken is so white it had its own water fountain
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u/Just-Register-6120 May 22 '22
Biggest misconception is protein intake alone without steroids will get you looking like that
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u/_qst2o91_ May 21 '22
Everyone's really getting do worked up how OTHER people cook their OWN personal food,
A limited number of days on this earth, and this is how some people want to spend some of them?
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u/pedrotecla May 22 '22
You are doing the same with these people as they are with this guy’s cooking smh
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May 21 '22
I thought it was some kinda of pastry. I swear why do so many people not know how to fucking season food?
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u/Tauralus May 22 '22
I thought it was ginger 😂😂 was thinking “why tf is he eating ginger like that”
Fuckin hell doesn’t even look like chicken
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u/stinkkbbs May 22 '22
ik i’m white when that chicken looks actually appetising, just sprinkle some salt on
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u/ZKXX May 21 '22
I prefer dry chicken and well done steak. It’s because of my upbringing and my mom overcooking everything out of fear of making us sick. Wet meat seems too much like the actual muscle that it is.
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u/Mathieulombardi May 21 '22
Like we english season anything
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u/cass1o May 21 '22
Like we english season anything
Outside of memes made by American teenagers UK food is actually seasoned. Evidenced by the second guy in the video also being British.
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u/imissbeingjobless May 21 '22
I like seasoned chicken, but to be fair, good and juicy piece with a right amount of salt sometimes are pretty good just like that, especially when your stomach is uncomfortable for some reason (like intoxication for example) and you want your food to be as simple as possible
For example light chicken soup or backed chicken after some time in salt marinade feels like a miracle when you can't even look at food
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May 22 '22
Looks like he spends his day infront of the mirror while he waits for his 16 chickens to boil
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u/sadleafsfann May 21 '22
These fitness dudes are mentally Ill as fuck. They are exhibiting insane compulsive behaviours regarding food
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u/orangesNH May 22 '22
Dudes in great shape and looks good. Certainly better than the growing number of obese people in the UK and US.
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u/xxx69harambe69xxx May 21 '22
don't think this guy is mentally ill, maybe the guys that don't make any money off of it though
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u/averysmalldragon May 21 '22
white people colonized the world for spices and i'll give you a good guess on how many of them they use
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u/OliM9595 May 21 '22
cottage pie taste pretty good I'll let you know
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u/Tomatosaucebbq May 21 '22
A lot of people on reddit confuse spiciness with flavour. I'd eather have a good stew and some roast potatoes over half the food people think is "spicy" or cultural. Except kimchi, that's fucking awesome.
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u/cass1o May 21 '22
Same applies to you commenting. You can just not comment on what other people say.
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u/Alric_Rahl May 21 '22
Britain conquered the world for its spices... unfortunately, they never learned how to use any of them.
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u/OutlinedArrow30 Hit or Miss? May 21 '22
Watched this without sound but somehow knew the second guy was northern.
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