TheKillersHand t1_j9xofo3 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:34 AM

Looks great and everything, but... Does cutting up some cheese, emptying some bags of chips, opening some dips really and placing them on a board count as "homemade"?

FriendoftheDork t1_j9y9hhx wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:13 PM

How is this any less homemade than a sandwich?

TheKillersHand t1_j9zuru4 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:02 PM

So if I go to McDonald's and buy a bun, a burger and some cheese and put it all together in my kitchen I've a homemade burger. Right

FriendoftheDork t1_j9zxf91 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:20 PM

If you go to the supermarket and buy bread, cheese, ham, mayo, lettuce etc. and combine it to a sandwich you made a homemade sandwich. If you go to a restaurant and get a finished one you did not.

I never heard of anyone going to a McD to purchase their uncooked bread, meat, cheese to fry it at home, but If they did then yes it would be a homemade MacCheese or something.

TheKillersHand t1_ja06qzu wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:24 PM

I completely agree.

But by that same logic nothing on the board is homemade. Zero ingredients have been combined, nothing had been "made" simply rearranged.

If I went to the shop and bought a loaf of break and placed it on a board that is not homemade.

FriendoftheDork t1_ja14nls wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:38 AM

Making one is arranging one - that's how you make a Charcuterie board, or smörgåsbord, or similar dishes with multiple basic ingredients or dishes. I bet OP even sliced the fruits and vegetables himself, which constitutes preparing a meal.

And as noted, there is no "prepared meal" tag in this subreddit so Homemade is the only one available:

[Homemade] - Food you made. This includes food made from scratch, or food assembled from pre-made ingredients.

MaryN6FBB110117 t1_j9xydah wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:56 AM

>[Homemade]
>
> - Food you made. This includes food made from scratch, or food assembled from pre-made ingredients.

And the only other options are [I ate] which is for food you were served by someone else, and [Pro/Chef].

TheKillersHand t1_j9y3488 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 12:01 PM

We have a different take on what homemade means. For example, popping a McDonald's burger on a plate doesn't make it homemade.

MaryN6FBB110117 t1_j9y3k7j wrote on February 25, 2023 at 12:07 PM

Nobody said it does. I was pointing out that of the three available tags for the title of a post to this sub, [Homemade] was the one that applied to a charcuterie board. A McDonalds hamburger would be best suited to the [I ate] tag, whether you put it on a plate or not.