These Are the Foods That Gave Us Major Trust Issues
You've just gotta learn to expect the worst.
(SPOT.ph) Trust issues can manifest in so many ways—it could be a cheating partner after another cheating partner, or a backstabbing friend you once thought was your ride-or-die. For some, though, it can manifest in the (seemingly) smallest, most trivial things. Say, for example, opening a tub of ice cream on a hot afternoon only to be shocked that it contains raw, frozen tilapia with its dead eyes staring right back at you. Sure it's food and sure it's cold, but it sure as hell can't satisfy an ice cream craving.
How do you even completely heal from such? Therapy websites say to "acknowledge your trust issues," and so that's what we're doing. We're recognizing five of our food-related trust issues to finally heal from them... and laugh at them a little.
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Here are five nostalgic food items that gave us major trust issues:
Menudo
The confusion of menudo, kaldereta, mechado, and afritada is a different battle altogether from removing all the liver chunks from a serving of menudo. For liver-hating menudo lovers, there's nothing more disorienting than gobbling down spoonfuls of the Filipino pork stew and rice, only to bite into the squishy chunks of liver. What's even worse is when the liver has a strong pungent taste—indicating it wasn't cooked right.
Tip: Maybe next time, for the consideration of those who don't have the taste for liver, people should not cut the liver the same size as the pork. It would help in distinguishing the pieces to eat, with a 100% no-liver success rate.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
In terms of difficulty, trying to distinguish the raisins from the slightly melted chocolate chips is one of the most difficult sports to master. This is why, as adults, we learned to check, and then double-check, the label if the cookie has raisins in them or not.
Our observation is that the majority of people seem to hate raisins, whether it's used in a savory viand like embutido or even in a sweet dessert like chocolate chip cookies. It's better to ask and clarify than to get its characteristic unpleasant and unexpected tart bits by surprise.
Royal Dansk
The repurposing of Danish tin cans, more commonly of Royal Dansk, is said to date back to World War II. It was passed down to generations and generations of moms (usually the culprit) who insist on using these blue tin containers to store the needles and threads.
What's unnerving is that in the present time, it's no longer just the container of Danish cookies. From what we've noticed, any tin containers, even if it was a different shape or from a different brand, are also repurposed into sewing kits. So there's really no assurance of the container being stuffed with different types of cookies or different colors of yarn until you lift its lid.
Ice Cream Tubs in Freezers
Moms, a.k.a. the OG upcycling pros, didn't stop at cookie tin cans. We're sure there's more, but the repurposing of ice cream tubs deserves an honorable mention.
In every Filipino household, moms (the usual culprit) would repurpose emptied-out ice cream tubs and use them as containers for something else. What once held ice cream is now the container for frozen raw meat—be it pork, beef, chicken, or fish. Sometimes it can be used for marinating raw meats too.
Why not just use Tupperwares, you might ask? Simply put, these treasured and expensive containers were too valuable for such purposes. As ice cream tubs are repurposed, even if they were to get shattered from being frozen, it wouldn't have nearly as heart-shattering of an impact. There's no pain from losing the matching lid, either.
Ginger Strips in Arroz Caldo
Observation also tells us how, similar to raisins, the majority of people don't like ginger. There are more tolerable versions of the root—think powdered, grated, or candied ginger—but it's the ginger slices that seem to repulse people, especially when in dishes like tinola or arroz caldo.
The emotional damage comes from eating the chicken rice porridge, thinking that you're about to eat the shredded chicken, only to bite into the crunchy ginger slices. We get it: who wouldn't feel betrayed when you're expecting to eat the protein, only to taste this rhizome's strong spiciness?
As a former ginger hater, it's one of the easier traumas to heal from. If you want to join the other side, our tip is to take those baby steps and eat the thinly sliced ginger that comes with xiao long bao's dipping sauce.
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