Best Bitter Blettuce

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They are not lettuce, but I must know which is best. Options from here and probably incomplete.

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Option	Votes
The best bitter not-lettuce isn't listed here. But it is my secret.	2
Curly endive (frisée)	2
Escarole (batavia, endive, ‘scarole, broad-leaf endive)	1
Belgian (French) endive (witloof)	1
Radicchio (red chicory, Italian chicory), of which there are several Italian-named varietals	1
The best bitter not-lettuce isn't listed here. Let me tell you about it.	0
Common chicory (succory, coffeeweed)	0
Puntarelle (Catalonian chicory)	0
Sugarloaf	0
These not-lettuces are sub-iceberg torture for my discerning taste buds.	0

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 February 2016 18:31 (nine years ago)

thread inspired by today's lunch of leftover all-raw-radicchio salad which I am kind of dreading. there must be a better way.

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 February 2016 18:48 (nine years ago)

yea a lot of these are better wilted, eg grilled radicchio or endive is very tasty, skillet-wilted escarole is too

― marcos, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:51 (nine years ago)

they can look a little dingy when cooked but they are delicious

― marcos, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:52 (nine years ago)

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― odysseus (imago), Monday, 29 February 2016 18:59 (nine years ago)

xp yeah, they are great cooked or mixed with some other greens, but the raw endive/radicchio salad seems to be common enough that someone must love it.

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:00 (nine years ago)

xp this thread will be as secret as good chicory

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:01 (nine years ago)

Anyway, apart from chiding Sufyoung Thugton here, I gotta say that radicchio is one of the prettiest foods. Needs shitloads of olive oil if eaten raw tho.

― odysseus (imago), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:03 (nine years ago)

but olive oil is the mattress, radicchio is the pea, and I am the princess in this case

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:07 (nine years ago)

It just looks so spectacular

― odysseus (imago), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:10 (nine years ago)

i love braised belgian endive, sauteed escarole, and frisee (not together). but will vote radicchio cuz that and gorgonzola team up to make a killer salad ime

― Edgard Varese is god (of music anyways) (outdoor_miner), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:27 (nine years ago)

had piave with the radicchio today, but only a small bit of it in there. had lots of difficulty rationing the piave between bites. tried to only add enough to make each bit tolerable.

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 February 2016 21:38 (nine years ago)

there's this chinese place near me that has wok-charred romaine (not very bitter at all though) and it is delicious, meant to be eaten at once. i probably would've preferred it with a bitter not-lettuce though

― marcos, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:50 (nine years ago)

Definitely endive for eating, but I love me some chicory coffee

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 February 2016 22:09 (nine years ago)

i hate chicory. never ate it but a bunch of the plants grow in the pavement in front of my house and i can't get rid of them.

― #amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 01:46 (nine years ago)

lots of fashionable recipes out there treating endive like it's fritos SCOOPS!

― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 11 March 2016 17:51 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 14 March 2016 00:01 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 00:01 (nine years ago)

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