What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Richard S. Ta]

I haven’t seen Terminator in far too long.

 

[Kor]

Pizza and beer sounds good right now.

As long as it's not Michelob.

So it's not a Star Trek opinion, but it is a controversial one – I don't like pizza. It's just Welsh rarebit with ideas above its station.

Except that pizza itself is a traditional rustic food of the working-class poor that was traditionally looked down upon as "peasant food."

Kor

 

[Vale]

Except that pizza itself is a traditional rustic food of the working-class poor that was traditionally looked down upon as "peasant food."

I'm not quite sure why that merits an "except". I'm not saying I dislike pizza because its roots are as a peasant food.

 

[fireproof78]

I'm not quite sure why that merits an "except". I'm not saying I dislike pizza because its roots are as a peasant food.

Then why compare it to peasant food with delusions of grandeur/ideas of above it's station?

 

[Kor]

I'm not quite sure why that merits an "except". I'm not saying I dislike pizza because its roots are as a peasant food.

I took the opposite meaning. I read "ideas above its station" as meaning that pizza is some kind of frou-frou fancy food, as opposed to Welsh Rarebit. Strangely, a lot of people a derisive of foods that they perceive as fancy or ostentatious. I see that a lot with sushi, which is also a traditional working-class food in its culture of origin.

Kor

 

[Oddish]

I eat pizza because I like it. I eat sushi because I like it. Seems simple enough, right?

 

[Vale]

Then why compare it to peasant food with delusions of grandeur/ideas of above it's station?

I read "ideas above its station" as meaning that pizza is some kind of frou-frou fancy food, as opposed to Welsh Rarebit. Strangely, a lot of people a derisive of foods that are perceived as fancy.

It was more a throwaway remark to indicate that I don't know why people bang on about pizza being the best food ever when it's basically just cheese on toast. My point is that it's overhyped, not that it's somehow beneath me. I'm not exactly sitting here dining on caviar and truffles every night. Also – who the hell thinks pizza is a fancy food!?

I see that a lot with sushi, which is also a traditional working-class food.

I adore sushi. I love fish and chips. Can't get enough of curries of all sorts. Haggis, lorne, black and white pudding, bubble and squeak, rumbledethumps, stews, chillies, and casseroles of all kinds – I will cheerfully eat any number of peasant dishes with gusto and ask for seconds. I still don't like pizza.

 

[Farscape One]

I've always viewed sushi as fancy for one simple reason.

How much it costs in relatjon to how little food you really get.

 

[fireproof78]

Also – who the hell thinks pizza is a fancy food!?

Depends on the pizza. Usually the term used is "gourmet" and I know one seafood restaurant was doing that.

Maybe not fancy but there are definitely levels that I find enjoyable. Pizza has the benefit of basically being a variety food that many people can enjoy.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Yup. And nix the silly Burnham/Spock connection, too.

Nope. Michael Burnham is the best thing to happen to the Spock character since the Genesis wave.

 

[tesral]

I'm not quite sure why that merits an "except". I'm not saying I dislike pizza because its roots are as a peasant food.

More peasant food please. My wife is making fresh pizza tonight with bulla mozzarella.

 

[Oddish]

I want to try Bubble and Squeak for the name alone!

 

[Orphalesion]

A lot of dishes that are today seen as "nice" or "trendy" food started out as dishes primarily cooked and consumed by peasantry. Ratatouille for example. And there's even places were tripe of all things is making a comeback in modern trend cooking.

 

[Oddish]

I just wonder whose idea it was to eat a snail. I mean, escargot is good and all, but live snails look about as appetizing as a brick.

 

[comsol]

As long as it's not Michelob.

Kor

I thought that we were talking about beer.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I just wonder whose idea it was to eat a snail.

Someone hungry?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

A lot of dishes that are today seen as "nice" or "trendy" food started out as dishes primarily cooked and consumed by peasantry. Ratatouille for example. And there's even places were tripe of all things is making a comeback in modern trend cooking.

Lobster History:

It was not until the mid-19th century that lobster trapping, also first practiced in Maine, became a more popular way to collect the sea creatures. Dirt-cheap because they were so copious, lobsters were routinely fed to prisoners, apprentices, slaves and children during the colonial era and beyond.

 

[Orphalesion]

I just wonder whose idea it was to eat a snail. I mean, escargot is good and all, but live snails look about as appetizing as a brick.

Who's idea was it to eat curdled milk (which eventually evolved into cheese)?
Well, there just used to be a time when people just ate everything they could get their hands on and snails are pretty easy to gather.

 

[Vale]

I just wonder whose idea it was to eat a snail. I mean, escargot is good and all, but live snails look about as appetizing as a brick.

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster" – Jonathan Swift

 

[1001001]

I thought that we were talking about beer.

I thought we were talking about Star Trek.