>little do diners know that every restaurant uses safflower instead
>YOU, yes YOU can't even tell the difference, and YOU probably buy fake saffron made from safflowers
Face it. YOU, yes YOU, have no idea what saffron even is, what it tastes or smells like, etc. No restaurant uses real saffron. Period. Not fine dining, not ethnic places. None of 'em.
if I cant tell the difference who the frick cares
Precisely. You'd never care.
Mexican places just use a little food coloring and chop tomato skin to simulate the effect, they're too cheap to use even safflower.
I have saffron crocuses. But you can buy the real deal and pretty cheaply these days. Indian saffron is much better than Iranian, too.
>Mexican places just use a little food coloring and chop tomato skin
I thought they just use anatto.
Either way if I can get the same colour from my achiotes, why the frick would I spend a fortune on flower penis?
I'd never care if there was no difference, if theres no difference you are complaining about nothing
Oh there's a difference. But you'd never know, because you've never had real saffron.
genuine saffron is not hard to get a hold of, it would only take once to notice a difference
And yet, almost nobody ever buys real saffron because it's more expensive than the fake stuff, which is made out of safflower.
that would seem to be evidence that you are wrong anon, autism is not something to brag about
>indian
i don't eat anything from there. rather not get leprosy.
it tastes good, if you're into flowery flavors like rose, hibiscus, or herbal teas you can really come to enjoy good saffron.
>flowery flavors like rose, hibiscus, or herbal teas you can really come to enjoy good saffron.
Don't forget the dirt. Saffron has that dirt aftertaste. It's awful.
It's not "made out of safflower." It just is safflower. Dried petals, sometimes chopped to resemble saffron threads. That's all it is.
Speaking of rare (or in the following case outright illegal) flavourings:
I once had actual ambergris. A friend who owns an internationally famous ice cream joint with his brother likes to make weird concoctions at home and have us try them. He was experimenting with sorbets, making all sorts of odd varieties and combinations one of which was prickly pear and ambergris. Not too terrible but I would never have it again. Surprised whale barf could taste so floral.
You can find free ambergris on the beach. It's illegal to buy or sell it but IIRC it's not illegal to find it yourself.
That ambergris is used in a of perfumes and colonges, last time I checked it was worth more than its weight in gold.
>i don't eat anything from there. rather not get leprosy.
Yes Iranians are so much more hygenic.
i don't eat anything from iran either, i grow my own saffron
>YOU, yes YOU can't even tell the difference, and YOU probably buy fake saffron made from safflower
I can, in fact, tell the difference because u really, really, really don't like saffron. Too strong of an earthy/metallic-y flavour. Safflower, conversely, lacks that earthiness altogether and just tastes sweet and floral.
And I would never order saffron anything anywhere since I hate saffron so fricking much.
>Indian saffron is much better than Iranian, too.
My aunt used to grow saffron where I'm from (Italy) and would ask me and my cousins to pick them for her because we have tiny hands. Supposedly, Italian saffron is very good quality but being that I just don't like the stuff, I can't speak to the validity of that assertion
>he doesn't grow his own saffron
it's trivial to grow enough for one person, why would i pay absurd prices for something that's most likely fake anyways.
I don’t think I have ever eaten any of them.
Most shitty restaurants use annato instead of saffron, most people can't tell the difference they're just looking at the rice color.
>22-24 karat
This is how you know you got scammed, that's marketing aimed at people who don't cook, but want a teeny tiny container of saffron on hand in case somebody comes over and looks at the spice cabinet.
>oh yeah I totally keep "saffron" on hand, see? it's 22-24 karat!
karat is the grade of saffron anon, carat is the unit of mass.
There is no USDA recognized grade for saffron.
I'm making saffron rice and I'm not sharing any with you
I noticced that also
>22-24 karat
That's very suspicious to say the least.
they don't market it as such, it's just sold by weight. look into the company, they're legit.
If they're so legit then they wouldn't need to sell saffron by karat.
It's a made up thing like "all natural," it doesn't mean shit.
they don't, it's a measure of purity not weight you clown
It's made up. There is no regulation defining what a karat means in the context of saffron.
Might as well call it Neo S-Type Saffron.
>Neo S-Type Saffron.
TAKE ALL MY MONEY
sure, perhaps it's market wank, but it's certainly real saffron.
True, but don't be so pedantic. Anon obviously meant carat, which is indeed a unit of mass.
And he did just get back from a trip to... somewhere in Central America. I could see him finding the stuff somewhere and smuggling it back home.
I live by the beach and have found some. I also found some beeswax from a wrecked Spanish treasure ship that's somewhere off the coast nearby here. I've found nails, decking, all kinds of stuff. Searchin' for treasure, mate.
I remember chilling with my granddad on beaches in south florida and we'd find bodys washed up on the beaches. That was during those cuban exodus things when castro was releasing prisoners,.
what the frick
Checked but yeah, sometimes the bodies would have israeliteelry or gold teeth, you could get money for the whole summer at the ice cream truck. Granddad said you could eat them too, one time we made a little fire with driftwood and cooked some dude's leg until it was black and crispy, but I started crying and wouldn't eat any, so granddad ate the whole leg himself, he said "a man is a soldier and eats the pelican whole" (in Cuban Spanish, I don't think it really translates). But he gave me the leg bone and I kept it in my room in the secret box with my Pokemon cards until it started to smell and my Mom took it and threw it out, she was so angry, but it also discolored some of my Pokemon cards and the other kids wouldn't trade with me.
It was around that time that I started to realize that I was a Wolf trapped in a boy's body.
your writing is good enough to be AI but so deranged that I'm confident it's not. bravo.
In the ongoing arms race between Wolfboy and ChatGPT, always bet on Wolfboy.
That's pretty creepy dude, seek therapy before it's too late.
This you?
https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/3073263/#q3074330
who reincarnated Norm Macdonald as a chatbot
That reminds me of the last time I was in New York City, wading through blood and bone to get down to the Queensboro Bridge with fifteen dollars burning a hole in my pocket.
Norm was still alive at the time and I don't think chatbots that sophisticated were a thing five years ago.
oh wow didn't see the timestamp. funny to think 2019 was 5 years ago.
>if (true)
>response = "Crack prostitute"
Early 90s Normbots have always been within our grasp, but ChatGPT will never understand Janice, her beautiful fricking bangs, or her 100-foot deep grave in the woods.
Chilling discoveries made while chilling don't sound very chill at all.
Today I learned that cocaine tastes floral.
if you ever smoked a chewy you would know this is true
quite an unexpected flavor
Get a load of this guy he's crossed the line and smoking chewies. Once that line is crossed there's no coming back.
From central america it's likely either old relics or cocaine.
it's sold by grams. look more closely.
I just hope the waiter is financially secure and would accept my offer to buy him a coffee so he tells me stories from his youth in a world I cannot imagine.
I buy saffron at the store when it's needed. I can definitely tell the difference. Although I don't want to buy it because it's expensive for a spice
So they actually do use the term to denote purity. Neat.
They taste quite different. I worked in a high end store that sold both. I don't actually care for saffron, but it has a very distinct flavor that safflower does not.
I cram saffed Ron’s up my arse