Unpopular opinions about food that you will defend

[Outlaw92]

The food opinion thread. Not looking for deliberately provocative takes for the sake of it. Looking for genuinely held views about food that the majority would disagree with and that you would actually defend if challenged. The more specific the better.

[StuckOnDestiny]

Brown sauce is better than ketchup on a bacon sandwich and this is not close. The vinegar, tamarind and spice complexity of brown sauce does something that ketchup's pure sweet tomato cannot. I will defend this

[FrostBear]

Tinned tomatoes make a better pasta sauce base than fresh tomatoes outside of August. Fresh tomatoes in a British summer are watery and flavourless. San Marzano tinned tomatoes are picked and processed at peak ripeness and are consistently superior for nine months of the year

[alwaysRock40]

A properly made instant coffee is better than a poorly made filter coffee and this is heresy in specialty coffee circles but it is true. A Nescafe Gold in a clean cup with good water at the right temperature beats a stale filter coffee that has been sitting on the heat for forty minutes

[SlowSocket]

Raisins in savoury food are fine. Raisins in a tagine or a biryani or a pilaf are correct and the revulsion people perform at the idea of fruit in savoury food is cultural conditioning not a genuine taste preference

[Molly_62]

Pizza should not be folded. I understand the New York structural argument. I reject it. A pizza slice that needs to be folded was either cut too large or made too floppy. Both are failures of the pizza