Why would you do that?

[lliira]

Just because, I am browsing Valentine's Day recipes on allrecipes.com and giggling at them for a couple reasons.

1) Why would you cover filet mignon, an extremely expensive and delicious cut of meat, in a strong sauce? Strong sauces are for things that don't taste great otherwise. If you can't taste the filet mignon, why get filet mignon in the first place?
2)  What's with all the rich food? I have nothing against rich food, but it does make physical activity more difficult, and that's the last thing I would think one would want on Valentine's Day.
3) Why is there so much salmon? If it were oysters, I'd understand, but salmon? Is there a myth about salmon's aphrodisiac qualities that I haven't heard? Am I just not getting it because I hate salmon?
4) Turducken? Seriously?

Comments

[redsixwing]

But salmon is PINK!!1!~

Covering filet mignon in strong sauce is ridiculous. Maybe one eats rich food because status symbols? IDEK.

[lliira]

But the pink of salmon is a hideous pink. I probably only think that because I hate salmon though.

Status symbols... yeah, you probably have something there. Even so, there are less heavy foods that are expensive, like halibut or shrimp or various fruits, and those keep getting smothered in heavy sauces too! I thought that kind of thing had gone out of style in the 80s, but maybe it's coming back? Yuck.

[redsixwing]

I like salmon, but it falls at sort of an unfortunate intersection of orange and pink. It's not really an attractive color, and I really don't get why like half the shirts in my size are either mainly or partially salmon-pink.

People smother shrimp in heavy sauce!? D:

Halibut I can (almost) see because most people (over)cook it into blandness, but even then, a heavy sauce isn't going to improve things.

I freely admit that I have a bias, and consider most fish things best eaten raw (not to mention treat food, because I live way inland yet love fish) but still. D: That does not sound like a good dinner to me, much less a special occasion.

[redsixwing]

... am now browsing allrecipes and ogling some of those desserts. Super yum.