Friday, August 29, 2008

What's the Point?


It's Friday, the end of another blogging week and I thought I'd end the week on a simple note. Why do people cook with poppy seeds? They're in our muffins, on our bread. Ok so I'm nit-picking again but just to demonstrate my point let me just list the criteria I personally think need to be met in order to use an ingredient



  1. Adds flavour

  2. Adds to the texture

  3. Adds to the presentation

First point to be disregarded is flavour. I have tasted poppy seeds by themself as a test of this and I found it to have no distinguishable flavour. There is however a definate texture, but is it really a desirable one? They're just gritty and unpleasant. They're like a more hygenic substitute for droping the dish in the dirt. Lastly, the presentation. Well I can't deny that the orange and poppy seed cake LOOKS better for having the poppy seeds in them. I guess that's the point, it looks cool. But the enhanced appearance of a desert seems like a small benefit in regards to the reduction in your own appearance when you beautiful smile is compromised by all the small black poppy seeds stuck in your teeth.

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