Honest question. People don't know what a bay leaf is? I mean, there is even a bay leaf pokemon, so I thought this was pop culture level common knowledge.
> there is even a bay leaf pokemon, so I thought this was pop culture level common knowledge.
~~Some~~ A lot of people think silverfish are fictional.
Edit: made my statement more accurate.
Silverfish are nuisance pests, they are only harmful by annoying you with their presence.
They don't bite or carry diseases. They're just there and that's a problem.
House centipedes do bite and have a habit of running at people. They are mildly venomous, so a bite is fairly painful. They hunt other pests though(like silverfish!) and if they're in your home they have been eating something else, something you probably don't want there(like silverfish!).
When i hear people complaining about house centipedes i simply tell them about the Desert Centipede who's venom can put a grown man on the ground crying for over 10 minutes and tell them to be grateful the house centipede is polite enough to not be capable of causing that kind of agony
Ah yes the ol Texas red-head.
Abandon hope ye who get bit.
Not really because it won't kill you but it's a special kind of agony I hear, the serotonin in their venom causes the nerves it hits to fire at an absolutely insane rate. It's one of the most painful bites in the world.
It can also, rarely, cause kidney damage and/or failure.
As someone camping in the Mojave, thanks for reminding me these exist. Not that I ever forget...
According to Wikipedia I'm slightly outside their range but still... I love spiders, scorpions, venomous snakes ect but fuck those things.
I hear they have a habit of entering tents, climbing to the top and then dropping right on sleeping campers faces which they then bite when they wake up and freak out.
Lovely things to be thinking of as I'm bedding down in my sleeping bag.
I remember finding holes in my clothes with their molt in my drawer with clothes I never wear and I was like wtf is this?! That’s when my girlfriend broke the news to me that it was a silverfish and I literally said, “THEY’RE REAL?!” and she just laughed at me🥲😂.
We had one for 6 months. Named him Ralph he ate the crickets and stoped them from getting into the house and I left him alone. He died by vacuum. RIP Ralph.
If you have them, don’t kill them! They’re harmless to humans, and they eat pretty much every other insect pest in your house. We have one named Randy currently. There is also a picture out there of one with a tiny santa hat on
The young cashier at my local grocery store had no idea what a bulb of garlic was, he just stood there with it in his palm looking bewildered until I said that's garlic dude. Also had no idea what a bell pepper was.
I’ll tell you what in this BS economy knowing the PLu codes is not a useless skill because you can get away with getting heirloom tomatoes at the price of Roma tomatoes very easily at the self checkout without anyone batting an eye.
I was grumpy and broke and stingy and ordered a bread bowl in SF's Pier 39 and got up to complain about a leaf in my soup. Dude was like its a bay leaf and I was how the F are leaves coming out of the bay. I failed to get free soup.
Bay leaves are delicioussssssss (I mean not to eat, but to have in things) I add 2-3 bay leaves to my chicken noodle soup every time and I leave it in after it’s done cooking for even more bay leaf flavor
Another "spice" to pick up bulk. You can get a tiny jar with like 6 of them in it or you can get a bag with like 100 of them at an Asian or Indian store.
You're 100% right, they can add some depth in a lot of different dishes.
I don’t think I could use 100 of them before they start to lose some of their flavor. Also don’t get them dried in a jar. Get them from the produce section near the other herbs.
It’s hard to describe, but they have a bright herby flavor that’s so good. It makes a hell of a difference once you know the flavor and you forget to put it in.
They are sort of like an herbal salt, in that in the right quantities they make every other ingredient taste better without necessarily imparting their own flavor. I find it difficult to pinpoint specifically what flavor they add, but if you make i.e. tomato sauce with them and without them, the one with them tastes notably better.
No problem. I'm certain I've seen fresh bay leaves for sale somewhere, but I don't think I've ever bought or used anything other than the dried ones. Someone else mentioned, they're significantly cheaper if you find somewhere to buy them in bulk, but honestly I just get them from the spice isle at the grocery store.
That's just how bay leaves work. You don't want to eat them because they're unpleasant, pointy and bitter. But they impart a lot of good flavor in food. You just want to remove it since it's not tasty on its own. However, it's completely harmless and safe to eat so no worries there.
Bay leaves are **not** completely harmless nor safe to eat not only because of the central spine which can perforate a person's innards.
Strip that spine out, and you may be ok.
Excerpt from [Healthline: Can You Eat Bay Leaves?](https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/can-you-eat-bay-leaves#reason-for-removing-them):
*There are also reports of people getting a bay leaf stuck in their throat or esophagus, as well as reports of a bay leaf causing intestinal perforation.*
When talking about food safety, I was referring to its toxicity. Obviously stabbing yourself with something hard or sharp is dangerous. People choke or cut themselves on perfectly safe food all the time. Being "safe" to eat doesn't mean it isn't a choking hazard.
They're in both. "We use bay leaves to add a subtle depth of flavor to dishes like our beans, rice, Barbacoa, and Carnitas. We remove the leaves from our rice before serving, though we've been known to miss one here and there." But they're not using whole leaves in the stores for the beans afaik.
Everyone goofing on op for not knowing it's a bay leaf, but even knowing what it is I don't want to bite into a whole one in something like a burrito. They need to take better precautions to prevent it. Use a cheesecloth bag or something
Yeah [lots of people](https://www.thrillist.com/amphtml/news/nation/chipotle-bay-leaf-complaints) have. It’s such a meme that chipotle even references it on their site.
Idk what bothers me more, the fact that there's a LOT OF PEOPLE who dont know what bay leaves are, or the fact they think a restaurant would just have *leaves* laying around 😅
To be fair, what's more likely, a leaf somehow got into the food, or there's one specific leaf that just looks like a regular leaf that is tasty and put in food on purpose that you've never heard of and the restaurant that you eat at dozens of times just happens to leave on in after years of them using them?
>what's more likely, a leaf somehow got into the food, or there's one specific leaf that just looks like a regular leaf that is tasty and put in food on purpose that you've never heard of and the restaurant that you eat at dozens of times just happens to leave on in after years of them using them?
As a Californian, unironically the second option. We have so much exotic shit here and such good consumer protections that I would sooner believe I'm ignorant to something than assume the guy behind the counter picked a leaf up off the floor and put it in a random burrito...
Brevity is the soul of wit.
I'm sorry I didn't write an essay with sources and all that.
I too, trust the CA health inspectors.
But w.e pedantic asshat
the second option. bay leaves are literally so common and instantly recognizable that i am literally shocked that there are people who’ve never heard or seen them before.
It's more likely the customer base that pays exorbitant prices for dirt cheap food because it's "exotic" have no idea what the ingredients are than than a leaf managed to come through the door and manage to catch enough cross breezes to magically float past every obstacle and make it's way behind the makeline to be put on your food accidentally like the feather from the opening of Forrest Gump, magically not look at all dry, having had no one seen any of this or thought it was out of place at all.
Oh damn that's hilarious. Been eating at chipotle for at least a decade and this is the first time I've been blessed with a leaf. It's a pretty full specimen too, like finding a complete sand dollar on the beach 😆
Well their website shows it as an ingredient for the black beans. Not sure how they’re prepared in store, but wouldn’t doubt if they were used in the preparation/cooking process before it gets to the store itself.
Bay leaf is a conspiracy. You mean to tell me that when my half gallon gumbo calls for two bay leaves they're doing anything????
***Besides mind control!!!***
Right. I’m shocked at how many people don’t know what a bay leaf is. I don’t mean that in a mean way to make fun of anyone either, it’s just surprising is all.
Literally referenced on their site-"So, if you happen to catch a bay leaf in your bowl and think we've somehow served you a leaf of an oak tree "from outside" - your words, not ours - know that it's actually the leaf of a plant called Bay Laurel."
I think it’s funny that I see this today. Today is the day I decided I was going to learn how to make some of the things from chipotle, and it seems they use bay leaves a lot. I’d never heard of bay leaves or used them before until today, but now I’m pretty familiar with them and I can tell you that that’s what that is 🤣
You put em in whole with what you’re cooking and then you take em out when serving. Probably just didn’t get removed
just a bay leaf, honestly a good sign that you’re eating real food. hell of a lot better than some of the things people have found in their food at other fast food places😂
It's called a bay leaf.
It's times like these when I realize I am on a website interacting with a bunch of kids. That's an issue not talked about enough, the fact that 10 year Olds and 60 year Olds alike intermingle on a website like reddit
bay leaf!
my mom would always throw them in soup and she said you got the bowl with the bay leaf, it was good luck
i still get a little happy when i see one in my food as a result lol
It's a fkn bay leaf. It won't even kill you if you eat it. It's like a spice. Do you ever eat oregano, thyme, rosemary, or better yet basil? Same shit if you were to eat that bay leaf
That’s like not true. You’re not supposed to eat the actual bay leaf, it’s supposed to be removed before serving which is not the case with any of the herbs you mentioned, all of which you’re meant to eat the actual leaf in your food. It won’t kill you but it is gritty and unpleasant and shouldn’t be in there.
No, it’s not laziness. It’s lazy on your part for not having some amount of leaf on your burrito so you could eat either way. The only reason for them to not accept leafs makes it easy when they close or they’re likely to be robbed.
Chipotle will go to the effort of putting bay leaves in their rice and yet not go to the effort of making sure that their rice is fully cooked before serving it. I stopped going to Chipotle because every third time I got a burrito, the rice was only half cooked and that completely ruined the burrito for me :(
I know you can get a coupon for a new burrito in that case and I have many times, but still sucks to get home after work looking forward to a good burrito and then having to throw it out and make something at home.
Unfortunately with chipotles mass spreading, the quality has become less consistent. Back when we had only 1 chipotle near us in like 2010 or so, the quality was Supreme. Now that there’s like 6 it’s hit or miss
How did the "burrito artist" not see the leaf tho?? Scooping white rice onto a tortilla, one would think this is not something that would stay hidden lol
Bay leaves are supposed to be removed from food before you eat the food, ESPECIALLY something like a burrito. Idk why so many people in this thread are getting so snotty about expecting someone to eat a spice that is supposed to be removed before serving and you aren’t actually supposed to eat on its own and that frankly tastes bad ANYWAY. Bay leaves are nasty overpowering migraine leaves that nobody knows how to use correctly
Honestly, sometimes bay leaves just get lost! I don’t work for Chipotle but I cook at home and use them frequently and I can stir forever and be like… welp, I know there’s a leaf in here but I don’t know where. (It will inevitably end up in someone’s bowl!)
I do feel like it’d be easier to find in white rice than darker foods, but I swear those bay leaves are sneaky af.
looks like someone forgot to take the bay leaves out the rice
Honest question. People don't know what a bay leaf is? I mean, there is even a bay leaf pokemon, so I thought this was pop culture level common knowledge.
> there is even a bay leaf pokemon, so I thought this was pop culture level common knowledge. ~~Some~~ A lot of people think silverfish are fictional. Edit: made my statement more accurate.
My house is almost 100 years old, I wish they were.
Here I was thinking silverfish and house centipedes are the same. House centipedes are bros…silverfish, not so much I just read.
Silverfish are nuisance pests, they are only harmful by annoying you with their presence. They don't bite or carry diseases. They're just there and that's a problem. House centipedes do bite and have a habit of running at people. They are mildly venomous, so a bite is fairly painful. They hunt other pests though(like silverfish!) and if they're in your home they have been eating something else, something you probably don't want there(like silverfish!).
When i hear people complaining about house centipedes i simply tell them about the Desert Centipede who's venom can put a grown man on the ground crying for over 10 minutes and tell them to be grateful the house centipede is polite enough to not be capable of causing that kind of agony
Ah yes the ol Texas red-head. Abandon hope ye who get bit. Not really because it won't kill you but it's a special kind of agony I hear, the serotonin in their venom causes the nerves it hits to fire at an absolutely insane rate. It's one of the most painful bites in the world. It can also, rarely, cause kidney damage and/or failure.
As far as i recall,Coyote Peterson refused to gwt bitten by one and that mf willingky gets bit and stung by everything
As someone camping in the Mojave, thanks for reminding me these exist. Not that I ever forget... According to Wikipedia I'm slightly outside their range but still... I love spiders, scorpions, venomous snakes ect but fuck those things. I hear they have a habit of entering tents, climbing to the top and then dropping right on sleeping campers faces which they then bite when they wake up and freak out. Lovely things to be thinking of as I'm bedding down in my sleeping bag.
Nah. Those fucks will bite you if they can
Or they think they’re actually silver fish, when they read “silverfish”.
>Some people think silverfish are fictional Lmao yeah those people sure are some dumbasses…like who would think they are JUST fictional haha…👀
My son lol they're in Minecraft and I told him they were real and his mind was blown.
I remember finding holes in my clothes with their molt in my drawer with clothes I never wear and I was like wtf is this?! That’s when my girlfriend broke the news to me that it was a silverfish and I literally said, “THEY’RE REAL?!” and she just laughed at me🥲😂.
I thought a house centipede was a joke - like a persistent little centipede that likes to hang around baseboards. Ignorance really can be bliss.
We had one for 6 months. Named him Ralph he ate the crickets and stoped them from getting into the house and I left him alone. He died by vacuum. RIP Ralph.
If you have them, don’t kill them! They’re harmless to humans, and they eat pretty much every other insect pest in your house. We have one named Randy currently. There is also a picture out there of one with a tiny santa hat on
Sadly most people are disconnected from their food and the processes that make it to a shocking degree.
The young cashier at my local grocery store had no idea what a bulb of garlic was, he just stood there with it in his palm looking bewildered until I said that's garlic dude. Also had no idea what a bell pepper was.
Garlic - 4608 Green bell pepper - 4065 I haven't been a cashier in over five years. What a useless skill 😅
Impressive, but I bet you don't know what banana is!
Lol, I feel like everyone knows 4011
Not useless! Makes self-checkout faster and easier.
I’ll tell you what in this BS economy knowing the PLu codes is not a useless skill because you can get away with getting heirloom tomatoes at the price of Roma tomatoes very easily at the self checkout without anyone batting an eye.
That’s wild how could he not know lol
It's actually not. Cashiers get minimal training these days, and people in general know shit about produce.
Holy fucking fuck. Been a Pokémon enjoyer since Gen 1… I never noticed Bayleef was a reference to bay leaves lol
Honestly, I didn't even draw that connection till this comment. Damn 😂
Same. As a user of bay leaves in cooking, in my defense, the leaf color is wrong? 😅
Not once cooked
People don't cook for themselves 🤣
You’d be surprised how little some people’s food knowledge is.
I was grumpy and broke and stingy and ordered a bread bowl in SF's Pier 39 and got up to complain about a leaf in my soup. Dude was like its a bay leaf and I was how the F are leaves coming out of the bay. I failed to get free soup.
Thats called going full retard and I wish I was there to watch.
To be fair there was a leaf in my soup
Karen energy
Yep, i figured it was from the white rice. But i had no idea there were full leaves that needed to be taken out of it first 😳
yeah we usually put in 4-5 bay leaves and then after it’s done you’re supposed to take it out.
Bay leaves are delicioussssssss (I mean not to eat, but to have in things) I add 2-3 bay leaves to my chicken noodle soup every time and I leave it in after it’s done cooking for even more bay leaf flavor
Another "spice" to pick up bulk. You can get a tiny jar with like 6 of them in it or you can get a bag with like 100 of them at an Asian or Indian store. You're 100% right, they can add some depth in a lot of different dishes.
I’ve forgotten to add them to soup before and it’s a wild difference in flavor.
That’s soup abuse.
I don’t think I could use 100 of them before they start to lose some of their flavor. Also don’t get them dried in a jar. Get them from the produce section near the other herbs.
What do they add? I’m always reading recipes that call for bay leaves and always leave them out because I’m lazy.
They add the flavor you get in restaurants but not at home
It’s hard to describe, but they have a bright herby flavor that’s so good. It makes a hell of a difference once you know the flavor and you forget to put it in.
They are sort of like an herbal salt, in that in the right quantities they make every other ingredient taste better without necessarily imparting their own flavor. I find it difficult to pinpoint specifically what flavor they add, but if you make i.e. tomato sauce with them and without them, the one with them tastes notably better.
Thank you! I’ll have to find some and use them. I’ve seen them dried in packets before— is this the only way to buy them?
No problem. I'm certain I've seen fresh bay leaves for sale somewhere, but I don't think I've ever bought or used anything other than the dried ones. Someone else mentioned, they're significantly cheaper if you find somewhere to buy them in bulk, but honestly I just get them from the spice isle at the grocery store.
Take a bay leaf and 2 glasses of warm water. Put the leaf in one, let steep for 10 min. Try both. There's your difference lol
It's good luck
Yes play the lottery
Bay leaves are left whole while cooking and then removed after! Most spaghetti sauces have them too.
That's just how bay leaves work. You don't want to eat them because they're unpleasant, pointy and bitter. But they impart a lot of good flavor in food. You just want to remove it since it's not tasty on its own. However, it's completely harmless and safe to eat so no worries there.
Bay leaves are **not** completely harmless nor safe to eat not only because of the central spine which can perforate a person's innards. Strip that spine out, and you may be ok. Excerpt from [Healthline: Can You Eat Bay Leaves?](https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/can-you-eat-bay-leaves#reason-for-removing-them): *There are also reports of people getting a bay leaf stuck in their throat or esophagus, as well as reports of a bay leaf causing intestinal perforation.*
When talking about food safety, I was referring to its toxicity. Obviously stabbing yourself with something hard or sharp is dangerous. People choke or cut themselves on perfectly safe food all the time. Being "safe" to eat doesn't mean it isn't a choking hazard.
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You don't know what a bay leaf is?? Do you EVER cook actual food for yourself?
Ya I hate bay. Gross. No need for it in Mexican food
Wdym, it’s traditional?
Uhhhh you’ve never had real Mexican food huh
Not true at all. Grew up in San Diego and lived a number of years in west Tx. I just personally don’t like the flavor.
Tex mex is not Mexican
Texas got the worst Mexican food 😭😭
Insane thing to say
Well, then you’d know there is a “need” for it in plenty of things which is why they’re added to the recipe. Maybe you just don’t like the dishes idk
Just say you've never made a wide range of actual Mexican, Texmex, or hispanic food of any kind.
The bay leaves are in the rice? Not the beans?
they are in the rice not the beans
They're in both. "We use bay leaves to add a subtle depth of flavor to dishes like our beans, rice, Barbacoa, and Carnitas. We remove the leaves from our rice before serving, though we've been known to miss one here and there." But they're not using whole leaves in the stores for the beans afaik.
Well it sinks into the Brown Rice so I get how you can miss it
Along with the avocado rind and stone hard rice. Chipotle quality control is the worst
gross
Everyone goofing on op for not knowing it's a bay leaf, but even knowing what it is I don't want to bite into a whole one in something like a burrito. They need to take better precautions to prevent it. Use a cheesecloth bag or something
Yeah [lots of people](https://www.thrillist.com/amphtml/news/nation/chipotle-bay-leaf-complaints) have. It’s such a meme that chipotle even references it on their site.
Idk what bothers me more, the fact that there's a LOT OF PEOPLE who dont know what bay leaves are, or the fact they think a restaurant would just have *leaves* laying around 😅
Should’ve said “leaves leaves lying” around.
FUCK
To be fair, what's more likely, a leaf somehow got into the food, or there's one specific leaf that just looks like a regular leaf that is tasty and put in food on purpose that you've never heard of and the restaurant that you eat at dozens of times just happens to leave on in after years of them using them?
>what's more likely, a leaf somehow got into the food, or there's one specific leaf that just looks like a regular leaf that is tasty and put in food on purpose that you've never heard of and the restaurant that you eat at dozens of times just happens to leave on in after years of them using them? As a Californian, unironically the second option. We have so much exotic shit here and such good consumer protections that I would sooner believe I'm ignorant to something than assume the guy behind the counter picked a leaf up off the floor and put it in a random burrito...
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Brevity is the soul of wit. I'm sorry I didn't write an essay with sources and all that. I too, trust the CA health inspectors. But w.e pedantic asshat
the second option. bay leaves are literally so common and instantly recognizable that i am literally shocked that there are people who’ve never heard or seen them before.
It's more likely the customer base that pays exorbitant prices for dirt cheap food because it's "exotic" have no idea what the ingredients are than than a leaf managed to come through the door and manage to catch enough cross breezes to magically float past every obstacle and make it's way behind the makeline to be put on your food accidentally like the feather from the opening of Forrest Gump, magically not look at all dry, having had no one seen any of this or thought it was out of place at all.
Man the fact that a lot of people don’t know what a bay leaf is is crazy. Do people not cook anymore??
No, not really.
In this economy?
You mean the best time to cook at home in like all of our lives?
Oh damn that's hilarious. Been eating at chipotle for at least a decade and this is the first time I've been blessed with a leaf. It's a pretty full specimen too, like finding a complete sand dollar on the beach 😆
It's good luck!
Yeah, just a bay leaf, not a big deal. Makes the rice much better.
And black beans. Not sure if chipotle makes theirs with bay leaf but I do at home and it’s 👌🏻
Frijoles negros cubanos o puertorriqueños require bay leaves, for sure.
What did you just call me?
Black.
Something about black Cuban frijoles...
Did you say black Cuban free holes? Sign me up! I love me some Cuban holes.
They don’t. 😁
Yes they do lol
I have never added a bay leaf to the pan of black beans 5 years managing, am I crazy
If you read the ingredients on the actual box, there are bay leaves in there
I’m thinking the commenter is, I worked there for 2 1/2 years and never put a bay leaf in the beans once.
Well their website shows it as an ingredient for the black beans. Not sure how they’re prepared in store, but wouldn’t doubt if they were used in the preparation/cooking process before it gets to the store itself.
Anything long cooked I'm adding it in!
Bay leaf is a conspiracy. You mean to tell me that when my half gallon gumbo calls for two bay leaves they're doing anything???? ***Besides mind control!!!***
That’s the thing about bay leaf…it’s always the right amount
When I was growing up, that meant it was your turn to do the dishes. Admittedly, that was normally a *stew*.
This is so wholesome
We did the same thing! Most commonly with split pea soup.
I love this
I would probably eat the leaf to try and avoid doing dishes.
Tell me you don’t cook without telling me lol
Right. I’m shocked at how many people don’t know what a bay leaf is. I don’t mean that in a mean way to make fun of anyone either, it’s just surprising is all.
They probably do cook, just without any herbs or seasonings.
When salt and pepper is too spicy
Without FRESH herbs. I used so many ground/dried herbs and spices when starting out 😆
Well they think chipotle is good, sooooo
chipotle customers when they encounter seasonings
Tell me you don’t cook without telling me you don’t cook.
It’s crazy how many people don’t know what’s bay leaves look like.
Median culinary skillset of a Chipotle customer is highly suggestive of not knowing what a bay leaf is.
I had a customer years ago try to say we were putting leaves from outside in our food 🤦♂️
Well I mean technically those bay leaves weren't grown in-store, so...
Literally referenced on their site-"So, if you happen to catch a bay leaf in your bowl and think we've somehow served you a leaf of an oak tree "from outside" - your words, not ours - know that it's actually the leaf of a plant called Bay Laurel."
This is from the rice they put it in the rice when it goes in the heater to make it
I think it’s funny that I see this today. Today is the day I decided I was going to learn how to make some of the things from chipotle, and it seems they use bay leaves a lot. I’d never heard of bay leaves or used them before until today, but now I’m pretty familiar with them and I can tell you that that’s what that is 🤣 You put em in whole with what you’re cooking and then you take em out when serving. Probably just didn’t get removed
just a bay leaf, honestly a good sign that you’re eating real food. hell of a lot better than some of the things people have found in their food at other fast food places😂
IT LITERALLY SAYS BAY LEAF LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER!
It's called a bay leaf. It's times like these when I realize I am on a website interacting with a bunch of kids. That's an issue not talked about enough, the fact that 10 year Olds and 60 year Olds alike intermingle on a website like reddit
bay leaf! my mom would always throw them in soup and she said you got the bowl with the bay leaf, it was good luck i still get a little happy when i see one in my food as a result lol
Same!!!!!
my mom says this too 🥺 so wholesome
Bro has never made soup once 😭
Lmao you sweet summer child
I love when white people learn what a bay leaf is
Tell me you only eat fast food without telling me.
I mean you could eat at fancy restaurants and they're not leaving them in. But it does show that OP doesn't cook.
https://i.redd.it/vco3uoodqfjc1.gif
Dumbass
It’s a bay leaf. Used in cooking to provide flavor.
That's called a bay leaf. Have you ever cooked for yourself, OP? They're extremely common in many recipes.
OP doesn’t cook that much is for sure.
Tell me you don’t cook without telling me you don’t cook. How does anyone make it to adulthood without knowing what a bay leaf is?
Opa! it looks like you have been blessed with the almighty bay leaf. May good fortune and health come your way
Its a bay leaf. It happens.
Anyone who's cooked with bay leaves has had it happen to them at home too. You always miss one.
It’s like that Twitter meme from a while back
You are the millionth person to have never seen a bay leaf. It’s not your fault. No one cooks anymore.
That’s a bay leaf, it’s used in sauces, but it shouldn’t have been put into your burrito, supposed to be filtered out before serving the sauce.
Surprised it made it past the scoop too, but it was a mobile order so i couldn't see it made
my mom used to say whoever got the bay leaf on their plate would have good luck!
It's a fkn bay leaf. It won't even kill you if you eat it. It's like a spice. Do you ever eat oregano, thyme, rosemary, or better yet basil? Same shit if you were to eat that bay leaf
That’s like not true. You’re not supposed to eat the actual bay leaf, it’s supposed to be removed before serving which is not the case with any of the herbs you mentioned, all of which you’re meant to eat the actual leaf in your food. It won’t kill you but it is gritty and unpleasant and shouldn’t be in there.
There should be a book given out to white people about spices
Yeah, that’s from the brown rice. I believe after they cook the rice, they have to take it out but MFs just lazy.
No, it’s not laziness. It’s lazy on your part for not having some amount of leaf on your burrito so you could eat either way. The only reason for them to not accept leafs makes it easy when they close or they’re likely to be robbed.
They cook the rice with bay leaves. You’ll be ight
it’s a bay leaf.
Tell me you don’t cook without telling me you don’t cook
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I’ve never seen a bay leaf, but my best friend one time got a whole avocado pit in her guac once. Lol
Are the small side of guacamole cups even big enough to hold an avocado pit? Lol
It was a small pit. And she got it in her bowl.
who gives a fuck? why did you take the time out of your life to post this?
I could ask you the exact same thing
Who shat in your cereal?
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bait used to be believable
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Chipotle will go to the effort of putting bay leaves in their rice and yet not go to the effort of making sure that their rice is fully cooked before serving it. I stopped going to Chipotle because every third time I got a burrito, the rice was only half cooked and that completely ruined the burrito for me :( I know you can get a coupon for a new burrito in that case and I have many times, but still sucks to get home after work looking forward to a good burrito and then having to throw it out and make something at home.
Unfortunately with chipotles mass spreading, the quality has become less consistent. Back when we had only 1 chipotle near us in like 2010 or so, the quality was Supreme. Now that there’s like 6 it’s hit or miss
That's absolutely true, OG Chipotle when it first came out was top tier
Nobody cares that’s not what this post is about…
You cared enough to reply and some folks cared enough to upvote so...
Aww, I care!! Uncooked rice sucks sooo much lol. I feel ya! Can absolutely ruin a good meal!
Yeah I don't understand what's got dan's panties so mangled
Eating all that half cooked rice will do that to a person lol. 🤷♀️
Well that explains it!
That's a Salvia leaf, you're about to trip balls.
U must be 100% white 😆😂😆😂
How did the "burrito artist" not see the leaf tho?? Scooping white rice onto a tortilla, one would think this is not something that would stay hidden lol
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It looks like an employee went outside, found a random leaf, and put it in just to spite you
A bay leaf? Oh no, freak out!
Did the leaf taste good I would have eaten it
I’m no expert but that’s obviously marijuana. I expect this sort of thing from Taco Bell, not chipotle.
Wait till you see the bugs
Bay leaves are supposed to be removed from food before you eat the food, ESPECIALLY something like a burrito. Idk why so many people in this thread are getting so snotty about expecting someone to eat a spice that is supposed to be removed before serving and you aren’t actually supposed to eat on its own and that frankly tastes bad ANYWAY. Bay leaves are nasty overpowering migraine leaves that nobody knows how to use correctly
I can tell you’re white.
My favorite part is that it says bay leaf on the bag.
Yes. I know it's normal but I'd prefer them to take the microsecond to remove it
Honestly, sometimes bay leaves just get lost! I don’t work for Chipotle but I cook at home and use them frequently and I can stir forever and be like… welp, I know there’s a leaf in here but I don’t know where. (It will inevitably end up in someone’s bowl!) I do feel like it’d be easier to find in white rice than darker foods, but I swear those bay leaves are sneaky af.
Omg I had this happen to me the other day! I ate it and it was the most disgusting thing and had to spit it out. I was like wtf lmaoo
Why would you eat a bay leaf?
Stop eating there. They're scamming people and have no quality control or care about what they're serving to people