Wow. That looks violently delicious.
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It looks practically pregnant with murderous potential
That looks very unhealthy. I want it.
I have never tasted a meatball that size that wasn't poorly cooked.
and the ones that I haven't tasted but have seen looked dry as fuck
I am skeptical
Feels like some old fart just didn't feel like rolling 30 balls, so makes 4 instead and calls it marketing. And probably Gordon Ramsay restaurant show levels of delusion about how "everyone loves it".
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Fake: No. Anon went with their parents. Gay: No. Less than two balls present.
Fake: anon left the house. Gay: anon wanted more balls
Your assessment is wrong. Everything on 4chan is fake and gay
Gay: Anon is dissatisfied when he sees a ball that doesn't look like the balls he imagined
Aaah, giant meatball. The hallmark of a D grade Italian restaurant.
This isn't necessarily true. Italian meatballs are usually small, but polpette alla Napoletana are often on the larger side. You just need to be discerning. (The one pictured looks pretty mid and still too big.)
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I ate dinner at a friend's house way back when I was in middle school (not like overtly Italian, pretty WASP-y), and his parents made spaghetti and meatballs, and the meatballs were about this size. I remember the meal being pretty delicious though.
Why the fuck do I even remember this bullshit?
The question is whether it’s actually cooked. I don’t even know how long that meatball would need to sit, cooking in sauce. Small meatballs require 15 minutes to drink in the flavor but only 10 to cook completely through. This monster needs at least an hour on medium-low for a pink center. Is that even safe? How long can you let bacteria live in pleasant warmth and multiply before turning dangerous? Not to mention the lack of char, meaning this is just a boiled meatball with the texture of boiled meatball.
I would guarantee this thing is overcooked to hell, dry as a paper towel in the center. It probably swam in day-old red sauce in a pot for 90 minutes to prevent lawsuits, then cooled off, cooking another 20 holdover minutes. Then into the fridge to be microwaved when anon orders it.
My nan got a recipe from this Italian lady, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The recipe says to cook the sauce for one hour and then you add the meatballs and cook them for 1.5 hrs.
You must giveth the recipeth hereth noweth.
Sure! As requested
It says to roll into small balls, but small could be anything depending on context.
2 eggshells of water
What a random measurement! Does that mean just half the shell, full of water, twice? I realize precision here is probably unnecessary, but my brain is just really struggling!
You've got to work out the surface area of the interior and exterior of the egg and then extract the volumetric square footage in metric imperial flombles.
The difficulty my aunt had when writing down my nan's recipes is that, in a lot of cases, she had the measurements in her head. So, there was a lot of guess work and estimation.
My guess was always that it would be half of an eggshell, previously used, twice. So, maybe it would technically be 1 egg worth of water. Never really considered that before...
Who knew dinosaurs had color image printing!
It was actually a black and white stone carving. We had to do a pencil rubbing, imprinted that on another piece of paper and sent it off to be digitally enhanced and then printed in the colour you see before you.
You're awesome. We thank you!
No problems! If you end up making them, let me know :)
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Whenever I've made homemade meatballs, we just bake them in the oven to cook, then either add to the sauce or serve separately.
I guess you'd just cook this monster like a lil meatloaf.
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Betting this is (was?) Buca di Beppo. God I miss that place
Americans only know chain restaurants smh in sadness
They were just expressing they have fond memories of eating at a restaurant, calm down lol
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Well, I could mention local restaurants, but:
- That would dox my location
- You wouldn't recognize them anyway
It's still around unless you mean there's not one near you.
That says they only closed a few and filled bankruptcy the local one here is just reduced hours.
Right, my point is that it's not a sign of a healthy org. Closing stores just stops the bleeding, and if that was sufficient, they wouldn't file for bankruptcy.
Meatballs like that are a common dish in the Netherlands (gehaktbal). But mostly served with potatoes and vegetables. Or as a snack, cut in slices with onion slices in between and with peanut sause (bere bal or bere hap, bear ball or bear snack).
That looks like the meatball they didn't expect anyone to order.
Tablecloth checks out.
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