Baked eggs with added faff

December 27, 2017 11:50 PM

You can tell a lot about a culture by the food that fuels it – and in the annals of culinary progress, 2017 has not been an altogether glorious year. If you thought 2016’s avo toast was bad, take a look at these horrors. (Although the linked story about raindrop cake makes it sound kind of awesome.)
posted by Johnny Wallflower (90 comments total)

The raindrop cake is mineral water, a pinch of vanilla sugar and some agar. There you go.
posted by Samizdata at 12:01 AM on December 28, 2017 [7 favorites]

My friends who've had the rain drop cake have all been pretty underwhelmed so it's continuing 'popularity' is mystifying.
posted by viramamunivar at 12:11 AM on December 28, 2017

"Bowl food" just sounds like what I have for food fairly regularly. Rice/noodles & stuff in a bowl, tadah, what's so hard about that.

The Guardian seems to not be fond of fun though.
posted by divabat at 12:29 AM on December 28, 2017 [15 favorites]

What's wrong with charcoal bread, this Asian person is asking. (no, really, it's not even bad-tasting, it's frankly unobstrusive, unless of course Westerners have managed to ruin this too)
posted by cendawanita at 12:53 AM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

And yeah raindrop cake is just a piece of agar jelly.
posted by cendawanita at 12:55 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

Actually this reminds me, I need to get me some seed money so I can scam some more unsuspecting Western food bloggers.
posted by cendawanita at 12:57 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

Love the author generally, but this feels a bit woke up half an hour before deadline with an eggnog hangover. Turmeric lattes - Actually Good, but in this case it's bad that they were a trend, so they still qualify as a bad food trend?
posted by ominous_paws at 12:59 AM on December 28, 2017 [10 favorites]

This is third world solidarity

that's right, pure sugarcane juice is healthy for you. healthier than coconut water.
posted by cendawanita at 1:00 AM on December 28, 2017 [7 favorites]

I mean we've all handed in halfarsed work at some time in our lives so if she's getting paid more power to her I guess.
posted by ominous_paws at 1:02 AM on December 28, 2017

Those food bowls are a bit daft if the meats and other bits haven't been properly chopped into spoonable sizes, definitely. Learn from the Chinese, people. You don't just dunk a heap of roast duck thigh into that congee, you fool.
posted by cendawanita at 1:12 AM on December 28, 2017 [8 favorites]

My entire life is a continuous struggle between the desire for unicorn food and the desire for giant Yorkshire pudding burritos.
posted by darksasami at 2:06 AM on December 28, 2017 [21 favorites]

Like, I seriously don't think I could describe my gender identity any more clearly.
posted by darksasami at 2:07 AM on December 28, 2017 [25 favorites]

cendawanita: at one point there was a craze of "a spoonful of ghee every day will make you lose weight" and i'm like WHAT

mmm sugarcane juice. I am pretty happy that coconut milk is healthfood trendy, even if I don't understand why, because I could drink santan for dayssss
posted by divabat at 2:57 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

Predictions for 2018:

puddle crust
willow bark tea
pixie nectar
the turtle diet
paleo beer
seednut pizza
prison wine
the burrizza
human cheese
weed and eggs
steak tartarus
baked bean
Elder Danish Scroll
cookie salad
spiders
lithium ion surprise
buffet lottery
the tick tax
emuturducken
the plate is a pizza
3d printed candy (serious about this one)
posted by adept256 at 3:09 AM on December 28, 2017 [69 favorites]

3D printed candy is already here.
posted by poe at 3:10 AM on December 28, 2017 [7 favorites]

I know I just think it'll go mainstream next year.
posted by adept256 at 3:12 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

i love santan, but i do not love it enough to drink it straight up as a dairy alternative lmao. that will always be wtf for me forever and ever. otoh, i twigged a little bit why though! because most of the coconut milk/cream available in the West comes from Thailand and Indonesia, and in combination with something about the packaging process, it really keys up the sugar. It's way sweeter than what I'm used to. still, i really did miss the boat! I used to finish up my tinned santan by adding it to coffee, and it turns out it's a thing now in some hipster cafes. YEESH!

also lol tht ghee one, HAHAHA.

maybe i should work on making cendol a thing. I can see the Insider video caption for it now... "Do You Want Some Green Worms in Your Drink?" "a healthier alternative to lattes, cendol is a drink made with shaved ice, coconut milk and palm sugar." tht's still saturated fat and glucose yo
posted by cendawanita at 3:15 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

i love santan, but i do not love it enough to drink it straight up

Time to go through bed when my eyes start reading culinary advice as theology.
posted by Joe in Australia at 3:33 AM on December 28, 2017 [8 favorites]

HAIL SANTAN
posted by divabat at 3:51 AM on December 28, 2017 [25 favorites]

I dunno. I don't think I could do coconut milk all that much, but, a while back I had someone give me a SLEW of individual coconut water boxes. Stuff kinda grows on you.
posted by Samizdata at 3:51 AM on December 28, 2017

Coconut water is a different beast than coconut milk, drink-wise. Please note that afaik no Southeast Asian culture drink it straight lol
posted by cendawanita at 3:55 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

I don’t know that you can drink coconut milk. It’s really fatty!
posted by oceanjesse at 4:04 AM on December 28, 2017

Do desserts where it's sort of like santan soup with stuff in it not count as drinking it straight up?

I would totally drink it straight up
posted by divabat at 4:22 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

oceanjesse: Coconut milk milkshakes were A Thing when I was in the Bay Area - supposedly healthier because it's vegan. I didn't care about that, I was just happy it existed.
posted by divabat at 4:23 AM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Nah, i wouldn't count that as straight, because you add other liquids and ice etc into it right. You don't drink it as milk traditionally. The mouthfeel is too much.

In any case who knows, if I can depend on one sure thing it's my people changing their minds if it's big in the West (see: santan coffee)
posted by cendawanita at 4:29 AM on December 28, 2017

I eat while I cook. If I'm slicing a carrot, then I'll try it out. I use coconut milk in curries and of course I try it. It's good!
posted by adept256 at 4:34 AM on December 28, 2017

I don't think I understand the concept behind "smoothie bowl." To me that sounds like calling melted ice cream a "milkshake bowl."

Just call it fruit soup.
posted by soren_lorensen at 4:45 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

Here are some faces I made while eating it.

That is excellent food journalism.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:04 AM on December 28, 2017 [7 favorites]

If you thought 2016’s avo toast was bad,

What if I didn't?
posted by svenx at 5:34 AM on December 28, 2017 [13 favorites]

Predictions for 2018:

puddle crust

oh adept256 is a neural net now.

mmmm

neural nets
posted by lalochezia at 5:36 AM on December 28, 2017 [5 favorites]

Cloud eggs Standard baked eggs, but for the fact that the whites are whisked up to a meringue-like consistency to give them the appearance of a cloud emoji. Lauded in the press as “popular among health nuts due to coming in at just 161 calories”, despite the fact that either poached or boiled eggs have slightly fewer and are considerably quicker to make.

I don’t understand this at all. You literally just whip the whites into a meringue and put the yolk in the middle. Why wouldn’t the calories be the same?
posted by leotrotsky at 5:36 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

Coconut milk milkshakes were A Thing when I was in the Bay Area - supposedly healthier because it's vegan.

I once tried making a milkshake using coconut milk and chocolate sorbet and it was glorious. If you're into Mounds bars, try this.

And yeah raindrop cake is just a piece of agar jelly.

Thus spake a Facebook friend earlier this year:

I was thinking about making a raindrop cake because it looks cool and I wonder what it was like. Turns out it is flavorless jello. It isn't a secret, it is just an entire isle of a grocery store. I mean if I cut jello into letters and call it "spelling pie" can I start a food trend?

I briefly checked out Smorgasburg this summer, and the only outre thing I ended up sampling was a funky Persian ice cream. All the other stalls were either real proper barbecue or burgers or old-school sandwiches of some kind, or were things that I looked at and thought "oh, honey, you're trying too hard".

I should probably add, though, that the cookbook that caught my eye over the weekend at my parents' - to the point that they noticed me poring over it and said "we never use that, why don't you take it home" - was a slow-cooker book, where fully half the recipes involved a block of cheese and a bag of Tater Tots. So I think my palate is turning a little un-refined these days anyway.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:46 AM on December 28, 2017 [5 favorites]

C'mon adept256, we all know the burrizza is really a calzone.
posted by frecklefaerie at 5:55 AM on December 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

no no no, instead of a tortilla, you use a pizza.
posted by adept256 at 5:57 AM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

tht's still saturated fat and glucose yo

I’m staying with family this week, and the other day someone made a big fuss about buying a particular something that had cane sugar in it instead of sugar. They said it was healthier for you. I was like “aren’t they the same thing?” but I kept it to myself for the sake of maintaining a pleasant environment.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 6:05 AM on December 28, 2017 [5 favorites]

I remember looking at breads at Whole Foods and seeing ‘dehydrated cane juice’ as an ingredient. That has a name, sneaky bread people, it’s SUGAR.
posted by betweenthebars at 6:13 AM on December 28, 2017 [19 favorites]

I don’t understand this at all. You literally just whip the whites into a meringue and put the yolk in the middle. Why wouldn’t the calories be the same?

I would guess because you're going to need to oil the baking tray. Even with silicone baking paper I'd personally be inclined to add a squirt of cooking spray or a drop of oil to ensure it lifts off easily.
posted by howfar at 6:17 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

the turtle diet

Is this only eating what turtles eat or only eating turtles? And, if the latter, the animal, the candy, or both?
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:23 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

> You literally just whip the whites into a meringue and put the yolk in the middle. Why wouldn’t the calories be the same?

Maybe ten years ago somebody told me, with complete seriousness and no sense of irony whatsoever, that they felt great since they started eating one or two whole bars of dark chocolate with green tea flavoring every single day for their health, because dark chocolate and green tea are so rich in antioxidants so eating a bar that combines both saves a lot of time.
posted by ardgedee at 6:24 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

Turtles live for a really long time, longer than us. We can learn from what turtles eat.
posted by adept256 at 6:27 AM on December 28, 2017 [6 favorites]

Old man yells at cloud (eggs).
posted by jonnay at 6:33 AM on December 28, 2017 [5 favorites]

most of her contention with 'tumeric lattes' was that it was corporations appropriating haldi doodh and calling it something stupid so people would buy it

re food bowls: it is totally not how you eat Chinese food, you don't preload bowls of rice with food, you pick up the food delicately from a shared plate, transferring your germs to the whole family group, drop it in your bowl and then shovel the rice up into your face because you're hungry and it's delicious and yr immune system is all the better for it

only white people would look at 'family style' eating and think 'ok but what if we had individual bowls just for me because fuck sharing.' it's that same individualistic thought process where white folks go to Chinese/Thai/Viet/etc places and order a fried rice for themselves or make it a special, exotic experience to share your damn food with each other. just a single bite of your meal, thanks, wouldn't want to infringe on the food identity that you had just picked up for yourself because you ordered that dish and I ordered this dish
posted by runt at 6:44 AM on December 28, 2017 [12 favorites]

One of the best smoothies I ever had involved coconut milk, mango, pineapple... This was in a Mediterranean country a few years ago though.. Surprised it hasn't caught on in more 'metropolitan' areas in the global west.
posted by some loser at 6:44 AM on December 28, 2017

human cheese

Way ahead of you
posted by JDHarper at 6:46 AM on December 28, 2017

food bowls: it is totally not how you eat Chinese food

Actually, there's 盖饭.
posted by FJT at 6:53 AM on December 28, 2017

that's a Singaporean dish and like a very regional Hainan thing. of course there's meat skewers and you tiao and bao zi that aren't rice and bowls but the universal mode of eating, like pizza in the US universal, are plates of meat and veg and soy stuck in the middle of the table that you pick out and eat with your bowls of sticky white rice
posted by runt at 7:08 AM on December 28, 2017

Cloud egg? No, what you want is a crispy egg. Hot pan, plenty of hot fat, lots of crispy edge, gooey yolk.
posted by theora55 at 7:22 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

The only food trend that needs to be extinguished are articles like these. With all the other shit going on, someone managed to get their dander up over cupcakes with pastel frosting.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:02 AM on December 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

It's kind of cool that even after thousands of years, humans are still inventing new ways to prepare and eat chicken eggs.
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:03 AM on December 28, 2017 [8 favorites]

> With all the other shit going on, someone managed to get their dander up over cupcakes with pastel frosting.

People are capable of being angry at many unrelated things nearly simultaneously; rumors of an anger shortage have not borne out and it has not proven to be a reason to ration the number of things to be angry at.
posted by ardgedee at 8:06 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

I really don't get the hate for avocado toast. its an avocado delivery system!! this is a good thing!
posted by supermedusa at 8:28 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

I really don't get the hate for avocado toast. its an avocado delivery system!

I think because it's a cultural signifier of millennialism and we're at the "suppress that shit" state of generational warfare. For me, I have an issue with a supposedly woke generation embracing slave toast.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 8:52 AM on December 28, 2017

It's kind of cool that even after thousands of years, humans are still inventing new ways to prepare and eat chicken eggs.

Except when you read the article on Cloud Eggs linked in the piece, it turns out the technique dates back to the 1600s.
posted by dnash at 9:00 AM on December 28, 2017

re food bowls: it is totally not how you eat Chinese food, you don't preload bowls of rice with food, you pick up the food delicately from a shared plate, transferring your germs to the whole family --

but the universal mode of eating, like pizza in the US universal, are plates of meat and veg and soy stuck in the middle of the table that you pick out

Waitasec, point of information: do Chinese Americans not have restaurants/stalls/food trucks selling economy rice/chap fan? That's what those food bowls remind me of, except you know, in a bowl.

I distinctly recall Hawaiians having something of the sort.
posted by cendawanita at 9:01 AM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

I subscribe to Insider on my twitter feed (Don't judge me!) and I would estimate a good third of their videos are dedicated to Unicorn food. If it can be colored, covered in glitter, and/or rainbow sprinkles they will find it and videotape it. This morning it was rainbow colored mozzarella cheese. Who is asking for this?

It is sometimes so over-the-top it actually kills my appetite. One ice cream place frosts the outside of the glass mug and rolls the mug in sprinkles. Then the usual mess happens inside the mug: several scoops of ice cream, whip cream, lollypops, doughnuts, and deep fried twinkies on skewers.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 9:14 AM on December 28, 2017

prison wine

It's called Pruno, ya ignorant heathen!
posted by praemunire at 9:26 AM on December 28, 2017 [5 favorites]

Social media makes it so everyone thinks they have to put stuff on the internet every day, but the useful stuff is mostly all already there, so people have to make up new stuff, and most of that is stupid, gross, silly, or even just plain old lies.
posted by ernielundquist at 9:26 AM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

I think because it's a cultural signifier of millennialism and we're at the "suppress that shit" state of generational warfare. For me, I have an issue with a supposedly woke generation embracing slave toast.

So we should...starve the avocado farmers out so they have no money and the cartels straight up murder them? I'm not fully understanding what not eating avocado toast is going to do to help the farmers. It seems like the better thing to do is lobby for widespread decriminalization of drugs, and other policies that help take the teeth out of the cartels.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 9:27 AM on December 28, 2017 [8 favorites]

I think because it's a cultural signifier of millennialism and we're at the "suppress that shit" state of generational warfare

Generational warfare, eh? Is there some kind of Boomer gen food we can start disliking then?

What do Boomer's eat? Jello molds? Canned tuna? Snackwells?
posted by FJT at 9:28 AM on December 28, 2017

You can pry my Instagram food out of my cold dead glitter-covered hands.
posted by redsparkler at 9:43 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

I briefly checked out Smorgasburg this summer, and the only outre thing I ended up sampling was a funky Persian ice cream. All the other stalls were either real proper barbecue or burgers or old-school sandwiches of some kind, or were things that I looked at and thought "oh, honey, you're trying too hard".

Smorgasburg is one of only two places in New York where you can get jianbing without having to schlep out to Flushing, but unfortunately it is the less good of the two by far.
posted by Itaxpica at 10:16 AM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

The raindrop cake article is extremely important because it calls into question the most abjectly questionable aspect of the raindrop cake experience: the fraudulent naming of this stupid jelly as a "cake". IT IS NOT A CAKE, FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE
posted by poffin boffin at 10:16 AM on December 28, 2017 [11 favorites]

From TFA: On the plus side, the avolatte – an avocado latte – turned out to be a joke.

Ok, except es alupkat actually is a thing, and it’s fucking great.
posted by Itaxpica at 10:20 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

In re the turtle diet: my husband just reminded me of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cereal so when you get tired of turtle meat and chocolate-caramel-pecan candy you can have cereal. But no milk because that’s cheating. Unless it’s turtle milk and since they are not mammals I don’t want to know what’s in turtle “milk.”
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 10:21 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

I'm really disappointed that "raindrop cake" didn't turn out to be, y'know, raindrop shaped.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:48 AM on December 28, 2017

The crispy egg discussed above was first named to me, with great West Country glee, as "egg with scrotes on", so I'll be enjoying that never.

And I'll choose to read "burriza" as "whole burrata sliced open over a pizza" as these beautiful mavericks do in Ho Chi Min City, if everyone's OK with that.
posted by ominous_paws at 10:59 AM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

Ok, except es alupkat actually is a thing, and it’s fucking great.

Picture this: five friends, Peace Corps volunteers scattered around the small West African country they are serving in, find themselves all with reasons to visit the capital on the same weekend. Each excited to have food options beyond the normal two choices (rice and beans with oil drizzled over, or cornflour mash with leaf sauce), they agree to visit one of the many Lebanese restaurants on the main strip. After dinner, in a post-protein haze, they eye the desert menu and discover the place has five different shake flavors. By the time the waiter comes, discussion has revealed that four of the volunteers have very strong preferences, each for a different flavor: strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, and banana. Which of course leaves the fifth volunteer with no choice but to take up the inevitably issued dare and order the fifth flavor, which none of them had tried before.

And that was the day everyone who thought they'd ordered their favorite flavor was insanely jealous of my avocado milkshake. So. Good.
posted by solotoro at 11:00 AM on December 28, 2017 [10 favorites]

cookie salad

beinmybunk.jpg
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 11:40 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

I had envisioned the burrizza as a pizza with burrito filling as topping, which I would totally eat...
posted by supermedusa at 11:42 AM on December 28, 2017

"Mexican pizza" has been around for a while, and it's pretty much exactly what you describe.
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:53 AM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

MetaFilter: transferring your germs to the whole family group
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 12:32 PM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

burrizza as a pizza with burrito filling as topping

Let's be real, life is cruel and it's definitely a pizza rolled up and wrapped in tinfoil.
posted by ominous_paws at 12:45 PM on December 28, 2017 [3 favorites]

What's wrong with charcoal bread, this Asian person is asking. (no, really, it's not even bad-tasting, it's frankly unobstrusive, unless of course Westerners have managed to ruin this too)
posted by cendawanita

I was thinking this too, but according to TFA, it may cause issues with prescription drug absorption.
posted by fiercecupcake at 12:57 PM on December 28, 2017

Let's be real, life is cruel and it's definitely a pizza rolled up and wrapped in tinfoil.

So, it's a Hot Pocket, but like $15.
posted by FJT at 1:03 PM on December 28, 2017 [2 favorites]

it may cause issues with prescription drug absorption.

Yeah, that makes sense, since we take charcoal for stomach bloat etc. But you also don't take grapefruit when you're on certain types of medication. It goes back to appropriation and exoticisation. Important info gets brushed out.
posted by cendawanita at 1:16 PM on December 28, 2017

So, it's a Hot Pocket, but like $15.

Honestly, if someone on Instagram drizzles sauce on it and does a pretty cross-section pic, I'd probably buy it at least once.
posted by FJT at 1:37 PM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

CharCoal Cheddar is the best cheese in the world, fite me.

Really though, I live for the day when gulab jamun becomes a food craze and I can actually get hold of it without leaving my tiny backwater town.
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 1:53 PM on December 28, 2017

So I agree the Yorkshire pudding roll up is an abomination but what about an English lasagna of layered pudding with beef in gravy and sliced mushrooms. Maybe peas.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 3:06 PM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

>Turtles live for a really long time, longer than us. We can learn from what turtles eat.

I had a turtle. He liked mashed potatoes.

I don't have an opinion on bowls except when I went to Quebec and had coffee in a bowl. That is the best way to have coffee.
posted by acrasis at 3:19 PM on December 28, 2017

I don't have an opinion on bowls except when I went to Quebec and had coffee in a bowl. That is the best way to have coffee.

Can I hear more about the size of this particular bowl?....
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 3:21 PM on December 28, 2017

There's this thing called a bucket...
posted by adept256 at 3:23 PM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

I was all curious about this cendol thing so I looked it up and it's my favourite four (or three)-colour drink! I do indeed have them for dessert. Or did, when I worked in the city and there were lots of Vietnamese restaurants nearby. Clearly I need to get into the city more often.

As someone who has recently developed an inability to eat garlic and raw onion without unfortunate and messy consequences, I would like to vote for 2018 NOT including @^%*! aioli with everything and the omission of raw onion from every salad ever.
posted by Athanassiel at 5:26 PM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Oh yeah, and the Unicorn Golden Gaytime has got to be the perfect example of unicorn food. It tastes just like a regular Golden Gaytime but those MAGICAL PINK CRUMBS.
posted by Athanassiel at 5:30 PM on December 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

It’s no secret that Aussies love Gaytime surprises," says Streets Ice Cream Marketing Manager Scott Mingl. "So why not give them a threesome they’d never expect!”

hmmmmmmm

HMMMMMMMMM
posted by Itaxpica at 7:38 PM on December 28, 2017 [6 favorites]

Trend or not, I am pretty sure that avocado batidos are a thing that exist.

Also, I am very glad that there are an abundance of takeout joints serving warm and healthy protein, vegetable, and grain combos. Even if I have to suck it up and order them in the form of a perkily named bowl.

Finally, please, please do not take warm turmeric beverages away from me. Are they going to solve my autoimmune problems?
Probably not. But they are calming and comforting and yellow, and I am so very glad that they have become widely available.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 8:53 PM on December 28, 2017 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: calming and comforting and yellow professional white
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:17 PM on December 28, 2017 [4 favorites]

Waitasec, point of information: do Chinese Americans not have restaurants/stalls/food trucks selling economy rice/chap fan? That's what those food bowls remind me of, except you know, in a bowl.

I distinctly recall Hawaiians having something of the sort.

cendawanita, are you recalling the loco moco?
posted by Songdog at 5:40 AM on December 29, 2017

are you recalling the loco moco?

Or the more general Hawaiian plate lunch, which I remembered immediately after I posted that comment?
posted by Songdog at 5:44 AM on December 29, 2017

do Chinese Americans not have restaurants/stalls/food trucks selling economy rice/chap fan?

not where I grew up and not where I am right now but I've definitely seen that at Vietnamese and Korean places in ATL. that said, I have not gone to / been in many of the tiny, older Chinese-American Americanized-Chinese food establishments here that serve the predominantly white/black audience of my city
posted by runt at 7:45 AM on December 29, 2017

thanks runt, that's fascinating to hear*. and Songdog, yes, those are it!

*business opportunity??
posted by cendawanita at 8:11 AM on December 29, 2017