What impresses you more when you go over to someone's house

your mom

>>8494560
>good cooking is meant to impress and not be enjoyed
You insecurity is showing.

>>8494560
the taste

The booze

>>8494560
The latter would probably impress me more considering it's a lot rarer in my experience

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>>8494568
ok
replace
>'impress you' with
>'tastes better'

>>8494568
>>good cooking is meant to impress and not be enjoyed
>You insecurity is showing.

Not OP, but well, duh. If you are so happy and content and have so many other things going for you that you don't strive to impress people with fancy cooking, good for you, but that's not reality for most of us.

>>8494580
>happy and content and have so many other things going for you
These things are not connected. And yes, if the principal value you receive from social interaction and dinners is in the form of impressing or being impressed upon, you should re-evaluate your relationships. There is no pot of gold on top of the social ladder. Only more ladders.

>>8494577
Then I say as a professional chef that price is not a good indicator of taste, and obscurity only loosely correlates to novelty value and experience and not at all with price. Many very good meals don't live on because of taste, but they have a novelty factor and creative element that makes them interesting.

>>8494609
Fuck, I'm not ready for this. Thank you for trying though.

>>8494560
well executed _basic_ meals like pasta or meat and veg.

i don't think i've had anyone try to impress me with fancy ingredients. the closest would be when someone turns up to a bbq with rib fillet and gives it to the host with that shit eating grin because it's impossible to fuck up and everyone will say how good it tastes compared to the $4/kg sausages.

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>>8494623
....yes.... i understand.....

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>>8494660
reals pickles my gherkin

>>8494580
>not reality for most of us.
Your reality must suck.

>>8494560
expensive ingredients
time on their hands isn't impressive, their money is

>>8494560
As an anime watcher I learned from the anime shokugeki no Souma that innovative and unusual techniques to elevate cheap ingredients is better.

>>8494570
this desu. the taste.....

>>8497999
fucking kill yourself