Although I’ve always loved your channel, you have no idea how important this is. You’re trying foods and teaching people how to make inexpensive food at a time where it’s crucial. Thanks for the upload in the information.
Especially as the price of these once "Inexpensive" meals has gradually risen and gotten worse! I used to ALWAYS go for the Michelina's steak and peppers meal as one of the few 1$ microwave meals that genuinely tasted good. But ya know what happened? It's "Beef" and rice now, full of "beef" tidbits that are mostly soy, and it's a whole damn .25 cent more now! Never thought I'd grow up to be one of those men who said "BACK IN MY DAY" shit was better but like, damn it actually fucking was better hahaha.
I am laughing way too hard!!! I stopped the screen to show my husband what you were eating. I asked him isn't General Tsos chicken what you eat? I asked him if that is what his looks like. He said yes. lol I had no idea. He said he likes them anyway even if they are full of rice.
I'm going through something similar with the "K.J. Poultry Ready Meals 'Chicken Chow Mein' " that I bought a 6-pack of. It's basically glorified Chicken&Rice with green bell peppers added, and looks nothing like the box top picture. Do they ever? 🙄 But it actually tastes okay.
Haha I guessed General Tso only because you said 'the person it was named after' and this is the only thing I could think of that could have been named after someone.
love your content. maybe a series titled "what are they eating" or "meals for kids after camp or school"? we all worry about our children's diets. and who better than you to help us out. easy meals for kids to have ready for them to just heat n eat ❤️
Love all the various savory pies in Australia! Yum. We don't have that in the USA although a company called Boomerang did introduce savory bake at home handheld pies but the taste isn't the same
LOL. I was wrong with my guess; my hubs was watching over in his chair and busted out laughing when he saw the repeated shot of the cat hacking up who knows what. Bloody genius.
tip... throw some chiickenstock in there, perrhaps it makes a good soup. We don't have heneral zho's chicken in my country so I can be completely wrong, but we have similar things and often making them into a soup by adding chicken or beefstock is the way to go.
Chicken Tikka Masala has a similar origin story behind it. Invented in UK, but is quite common in a lot of UK and NA Indian restaurants. Although, if it's not on the menu, don't ask if they have it. It was British colonial dish, and not all Indians want to be reminded of that sad era. :/
@@BELCAN57 first one went down in flames, second marriage was absolutely wonderful. But she died. I'll be damned if I'll try again in today's world. It's not that I think today's women aren't worthy, just not gonna take a chance, I'd rather die alone and happy than be miserable until I go.
Actually, broccoli stems are delicious. You just need to peel away the tough outer layer and the center is delicious! It's actually better than the florets. Same with cauliflower. 😊
Yes! I love broccoli stems. (And unsurprisingly, I love kohlrabi, which is basically the same plant, but bred for making a fat stem instead of a giant flower.)
Most of the Chinese food we love here in the states was made with what cooks could find eith combining cooking techniques from home. It's actually sort of of amazing once you look st it because it's food in evolution. It's the same with pizza because the environments in Italy vs the US varied so differently, including a finer details of where common ingredients like what type of animal the milk from the cheese came from.
The thing about General Tso’s is that the protein HAS to be crispy! Then you put the sauce on at the last minute. There’s no way you can do that with a frozen dinner. Even if you heat up the sauce separately, the protein will not be good after it’s microwaved.
I really thought this was going to be about "Chop Suey"--which is also a song from a mid-20th century musical by Rogers and Hammerstein, "Flower Drum Song" (and should not be confused with the heavy metal song about suicide).
Some of the dishes from China had to Americanized because some ingredients are outlawed in the United States If you ever saw Bizarre Foods back in the day would remember it's quite different from Panda Express 😊
I mean that's not how Americanized Chinese food came about though. It was because Chinese people were only allowed to work as cooks or do laundry so they needed to cook food that attracted the American pallet.
It’s not about ingredients being outlawed or the chefs needing to cater to American tastes. The most significant reason is that in the 1800s, when Chinese immigrants first came to America en masse, many ingredients from China - especially the produce - simply were not available in USA. The same story can be told of basically any immigrant group. So their cuisines all had to adapt to locally-available ingredients, at least until they started producing their traditional ingredients locally themselves. But with even the raw materials being different, the resulting product is often different, too. (The only Chinese ingredient which was illegal for a long time was Sichuan peppercorns, which were banned because they can carry citrus canker, a disease that has already wiped out entire citrus farms in the past. As of a few years ago, there’s some process by which they can sterilize the spice before importing it, so now it’s allowed if so treated. Largely irrelevant to American Chinese cuisine, though, because Sichuan peppercorns weren’t a significant ingredient in the Cantonese and Hunan cuisines of that wave of Chinese immigrants.)
Love your channel. Had to comment because you said in America our Chinese food has been "Westernized". My sister married a man from Mexico and he cooked a lot. His food was great but very simple. Only complicated part was the different types of chiles and their preparation. He would get indignant when we went to most " Mexican" restaurants and would make a clear distinction between Mexican food and TexMex. I think it's probably that way with many ethnic recipes. Also wanted to comment that because of your spam recipes I will now eat it. Not my favorite, but not nearly as bad as I remembered. Thanks and please keep posting.
There are good fats and salt isn't the issue people think it is. But I do agree with your statement, the sugar and high carbs are literally killing people.
Anyone who cheated instead of making an honest guess has no honor. TheWolfePit a does all of this for us, the people. The least we can do in return is watch his videos with integrity and honesty.
Im a weido l know. But l actually much prefer broccoli stems over the florets. When it comes to General Tsaos chicken, the only restaurant l ever enjoyed it in was blown away by a hurricane. They made it GOOD. By GOOD l mean NOT JUST SWEET! It was sweet, but it would also light you up! It even had whole, little, red oriental chile peppers throughout the dish! It was so good! 🔥 Everywhere else I've ever gotten it, it was barely, if at all discernable frim sesame chicken. We The People love you too Larry! You've really spoiked us this week!
It's General Tso's Chicken, named after Zuo Zongtang. There's a great documentary, In Search of General Tso, that covers its history and that of American Chinese food too.
I actually made General Tso tofu once, just to try tofu. I dusted the cubes of tofu and stir fried them with vegetables. It looked a lot better than that🤮 At least mine was golden brown in color, not grey😂
Hehehe! Now I recognize you! You've been a bit... off(?) for quite a while and I've been missing that humour and edge of yours. Sorry it took a General Tso's Tofu thing to bring you out! ;)
I think cooking it in the oven would have made the tofu in the over all dish more crispy, but 40min, mayb microwave and use my own broiler for a few minutes, or use an air fryer.
I think this looks delicious. But I am not picky and injest all sorts of stuff that others think are gross. Put it this way, I eat dinner at 7-11 at least 1-2 times a week.
Yeah I have these quite often, I work from home and they are a good decently healthy microwave meal. I didn't know you'd shit on them so hard ha One big point I thought you should make is these guys aren't cheap, they are usually around $5 a pop at my local grocery store. So it's important you stress that in the video. Also I'll agree, the tofu texture is.... almost rubbery so I guess direct me to that brothel cause I still enjoy eating these lol. I'll forgive you for this scathing review, it's an acquired taste I'll admit.
Geez, thanks for the warning about the appearance of the food. I've seen nicer looking stuff come out of my dog's back end compared to the tofu! (The broccoli did look pretty good, though) I mean, tofu isn't pretty in the best of recipes, but I didn't know it could look THAT bad!
@@sjmoorez You doubt what? That the broccoli looked good? that I didn't know tofu could look that bad? or that I have seen nicer looking poop from my dog? For the last one, my dog had poop that looked like chocolate pudding after she ate something I didn't see off the sidewalk when we were out. Chocolate pudding looks much better than the tofu from that frozen meal. Sadly, her poo that time was really really nasty smelling, so I vomited while cleaning it up. REALLY sticks in my otherwise bad memory!
@@shadodragonette that this frozen meal looks as bad as you said. You've never regularly eaten frozen meals before. This is par for the course. I don't care about all your descriptions but if you say this looks like your dogs worst shit good on you. You don't eat anything frozen and you live a very healthful life.
@@sjmoorez I survive on canned and frozen food from the local food charities. I am disabled. I would suppose 75% of my food is frozen before I get it, probably more. YOU should be concerned that his tofu meal looked like something that came out of the behind of a dog. The very fact that the tofu I get through charity looks better than that... mess, should be a very clear warning! I subsist, I don't have a healthy menu. I would like to call you a piece of cow manure, but cows are not so rude or judgemental. I will suggest you volunteer for a charity that distributes food to the poor so that you can learn what poverty actually is. The nice part of me hopes you never suffer poverty, the hurt part of me hopes you suffer worse than me. Canned green beans for lunch for the 60th day in a row? that is better than NO lunch! Go get hungry for a day or three!
