Weird Eats in LA

[robert]

They ate bottarga by the slice? By itself?

Oh, I guess karasumi is not as dry and salty.

[Ns1]

@paranoidgarliclover

Yes, but… grease streaming down my hand from a pizza seems totally organic (in all senses of that word). There is nothing organic about the JiTB taco, which made the oil just that much weirder.

That’s amateur hour technique. Gotta handle the taco using the 1cm non-greasy section.

[Gr8pimpin]

@Ns1

Gotta handle the taco using the 1cm non-greasy section.

Since I inhale my food (can I call these food?) the taco doesn’t spend enough time in my hands to transfer any grease to them.

[js76wisco]

I don’t think this is necessarily new but recently seeing some IG posts about ramen with an ice cream cone on top. Anybody have this?

[CeleryVictor]

@paranoidgarliclover

That might explain a lot. It’s been, like, 15 yrs I’ve had one, but I’ll agree w/ @JeetKuneBao that the JiTB ones are super weird (but I don’t think they were that tasty). I wouldn’t even know how to describe the (skimpy) filling other than to say it had some stringy bits that seemed like meat and was otherwise some weird light brown-ish mash that seemed like some alien substances designed to be an approximation of refried beans.

And then they were just so, SO oily. As in, your hand is an oil slick by the time you’re done (which only takes a few secs per taco).

Definitely some highly engineered fast food there – tasty though, in moderation. As for oiliness, I think it depends upon the condition of the oil, and also if the product is left frying after the alarm goes off. I’ve seen that happen, and they do come out very oily. As for the filling, I believe it used to contain chorizo, which would account for the orange grease we used to see. It was less homogenous than it seems now – I even used to see a whole bean in there occasionally. However, that was decades ago.

I still have a couple once in a while, but usually regret it later. Taking a cue from @Ns1 , I dip them in ranch sauce.

[paranoidgarliclover]

@CeleryVictor

orange grease

Yes!!! I remember that orange grease now. Okay, the chorizo explains it. But, again, w/o that tidbit, it was like, why is this weird substance creating such a strongly colored oil???