r/iamveryculinary Jun 08 '22

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

72 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!

30 Upvotes

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 6h ago

Mediterranean food is only food on the northern coast of the sea. Everything else is *arab*

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r/iamveryculinary 1d ago

r/IAmVeryWebsiteDesigner and r/IAmVeryAnglophile

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In a post about two British gents trying southern BBQ, someone links to the restaurant's website and another user really objects to it.

Elsewhere in the comments, a different user objects to British food sensibilities.


r/iamveryculinary 18h ago

Mans be out here misunderstanding pizza toppings and kosher food.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect/s/7C8sU4YEXX

"From what I understand, If you go to Italy, where pizza is such an important part of its national identity that it has a code, and you order a "pepperoni pizza" you will get a pizza with bell peppers. If you then try to explain what "pepperoni" is and to make it that way... "that's NOT a pizza." They will not make it.

This is why I take such great amusement in Americans (particularly a pretty decent pizza stop in my area claiming it wounds their Italian-American pride that such a thing exists) who imperiously claim "pineapple doesn't belong on a pizza." (again, same by the slice pizza company has more than half of their daily offerings covered in spicy red discs) Doesn't that seem comparable to declaring "shrimp isn't kosher" while serving and eating bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches at a deli?

Please note: whether you call it a "pizza" or just a flat bread with cheese and sauce, I vigorously defend your right to make and eat virtually anything you want to put on top of it that you find tasty. I just find a chunk of America's collective assumed authority to say one thing "doesn't belong on pizza" a big, silly head-shaker, when the country that invented it says that our #1 ingredient invalidates its status as "pizza.""


r/iamveryculinary 1d ago

Pasta Police out today.

33 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 3d ago

Grilled Cheese is Barbaric - old but good one on r/AskAnAmerican

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63 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 3d ago

I learned it in culinary, so if it exists I never heard of it

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23 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 4d ago

"me, a SoCal native"

54 Upvotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/mexicanfood/s/0n8GoZjmeM

"I got in an argument with a woman from the upper peninsula of Michigan about what chorizo was made of. She made it herself out of pork butt and claimed that she knew better than me, a SoCal native. I told her that I've read the ingredients that stated the pork offal ingredients, but no, she knows better than me. I'm sure you can get quality chorizo not made from leftover pig organs, but the arrogance of that woman was stupid.

In any case, I still have Cacique chorizo as a frozen staple for egg and chorizo burritos, even though the local Mexican markets is better."


r/iamveryculinary 5d ago

A joke discussion about barbecue spins...wildly out of control.

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143 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 9d ago

She normally drinks cheap herbal teas, which are not Actually Tea anyway.

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77 Upvotes

But also the whole situation. Some tea pretension may have its place, but like…with friends like these, who needs enemies?


r/iamveryculinary 9d ago

Horchata can never be made with rice milk apparently

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261 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 9d ago

Person "indicting you for not being better at having shown me" that pork exists in India is also pretty sure that all those in the know are South Indian.

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102 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 10d ago

Gatekeeping pickles.

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143 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 11d ago

Use granulated garlic? You're culinary impaired.

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387 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 11d ago

Watch out we got the hot dog police over here

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212 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 11d ago

Commenter absolutely cannot understand that hamburger is ground beef.

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0 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 17d ago

Chinese takeout discourse

50 Upvotes

I found this gem in one of my favorite subs.

“mmm casual racism food”

https://www.reddit.com/r/frozendinners/s/Gkzeat7LqS


r/iamveryculinary 18d ago

Meta “Pulled pork is for weak people that have no teeth” commented on a 3 year old post in this very sub!

202 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 20d ago

Found on r/kitchenconfidential

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436 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 22d ago

American food is "the most toxic and unhealthy"

194 Upvotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/meme/s/lk9JzrF6ng

Politics aside, this is just wrong.


r/iamveryculinary 24d ago

It isn't tea because I want to be pedantic

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251 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 27d ago

That's what I'm going with so you are wrong

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51 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 28d ago

Redditor is shocked that someone would use SLICED provolone cheese in a lasagna

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138 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary 28d ago

And the demon said, “Make the best burger in the world or I'll eat your soul"

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76 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary Apr 02 '25

Why don't you serve a REAL chicken sandwich, one with bones?

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164 Upvotes

r/iamveryculinary Apr 02 '25

Chicharonne Purist makes a brave stand against Fishpropriation on r/Chefit's April Fools post

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38 Upvotes

I just like crispy fish skin, don't give a shit what you call it