Fake Latakia???
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Bruh, that gym feet smell is delicious.
I always hated cheese, never could understand why people are obsessed with it. I'm sure they'd feel the same way about my love of latakia.
Curious about cheese distaste. From Velveeta to a great triple cream to a Stilton to dozens of distinctive types and flavors in just about every nation..... Nothing at all?
there are quite a few more of them then you might think. But I know it's not blenders lying about using latakia.
I don't know if the implication went through. Blenders might use somethings like this as it would basically be casing or topping but I am pretty sure there is no way they'd try to fake having leaf they don't have with it.
shit, I knew that going in.
Birds of a feather...
The only real Latakia is cured over smoldering Pirelli tires. It wouldn’t surprise me if some unscrupulous bastard is using Continentals to save some money.
As I have hinted at Turkish is being used and people are definitely starting to notice I wonder if this is what caused the rumor.
and tires that haven't been driven through cow pats as well. Really fires me up....
What if some companies have been using it? And if the Lat blend you have been enjoying has it in it? Would that make any difference? I don't think it will make any difference to me.
Better yet, what if they did a blind taste test and the two are a little different and they consistently preferred the fake flavoring over the real thing, what then?
Wouldn't matter to me either, as long as it tasted good. I don't think it matters if it's "authentic" or "fake", whichever one tastes good. For me, it's about flavor, not being pompous about metaphysical "value" concepts like "authenticity" that don't actually mean anything outside the human animal's fragile psyche trying to deal with cognitive dissonance in justifying some made-up concept in a meaningless universe.
Ahhh, you are smoking too much Peterson’s Nightcap. It’s not as good as the Dunhill Nightcap. Ha ha
After reading this thread, I immediately turned back to check Jim's review of Drawdown, and he described the latakia he tasted as cyprian latakia.
For the record, I don't believe it. BUT...
“Burger King's BK Broiler Chicken Breast Patty contains 'natural smoke flavor.' A firm called Red Arrow Products Company specializes in smoke flavor, which is added to barbecue sauces and processed meats. Red Arrow manufactures natural smoke flavor by charring sawdust and capturing the aroma chemicals released into the air. The smoke is captured in water and then bottled, so that other companies can sell food which seems to have been cooked over a fire.”
From “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal," 2001.
“Burger King's BK Broiler Chicken Breast Patty contains 'natural smoke flavor.' A firm called Red Arrow Products Company specializes in smoke flavor, which is added to barbecue sauces and processed meats. Red Arrow manufactures natural smoke flavor by charring sawdust and capturing the aroma chemicals released into the air. The smoke is captured in water and then bottled, so that other companies can sell food which seems to have been cooked over a fire.”
From “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal," 2001.
that's the rumor but it's bovine excretions.
I figure the idea came from somewhere, and was worth discussing! And what better place to discuss it? You can call that spreading it around if ya likeI deduce it comes from folks like you, spreading it around.
Good thought experiment! I honestly don't think i would mind, i smoke aromatics from time to time, and that could be considered a similar process.