Comment on How Tortillas Lost Their Magic
JustAnIdiotPlsIgnore@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI’m going to be honest here, I’m highly skeptical of the quality of cornmeal leading to lower quality tortillas. This is mainly because we already know why they are bad in the states. Not to mention the comment iteself is written like it was a conclusion made in conjecture.
Please cite the study you read/wrote that concludes cornmeal is the reason behind why corn tortillas are so bad in the us and that the deterioration of cornmeal is what led to it.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
The quality of any ingredients has a huge effect on the intensity of flavors. Check out the differences in free range/ field chicken eggs vs indoor/caged/ feed eggs
JustAnIdiotPlsIgnore@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t need to check out the differences in other foods because that isn’t relevant to this discussion. It may be relevant but then you would need to provide evidence of that connection, when it would be probably easier to cite the original source they spoke of, instead of having to provide two different sets of data.
I’m also curious how the degradation of cornmeal even happened, which I’m sure this study would touch on.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
There are a few heirloom plants that bear fruit with more intense flavor than industrial crops, which is a pretty well known fact if you are into food as a business/ home cook/ attend farmers market etc
Tomatoes here scientificamerican.com/…/why-heirloom-tomatoes-ta…
Farmer brags about corn masienda.com/blogs/learn/about-heirloom-corn#%3A~….
Mentions of the distinct taste reddit.com/…/why_the_nostalgic_flavor_of_this_hei…
tinybutmightyfoods.com/why-heirloom/
Like this is common knowledge, it’s specifically selected for flavor and grown in different ways. Not sure why you think one plant is going to be the same as another variety of the plant.
JustAnIdiotPlsIgnore@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The point of my comment was to call out the comment poster because it’s obvious they were using their own conjecture and just saying “I did a study.” Very common in this community because people just trust what other people say on face value. The fact they never followed up with anything at all means it was a bot or a dumbass just spouting off at the mouth about some bullshit. I appreciate you taking the time to find similar studies though, thank you.