I've Discovered Bisquick; Will I Become a Fat Whore?

Already a fat whore, like OP, can only be fatter. Learn your comparative and superlative now, fat ho OP.

Even worse, you’ve become a fat frau whore

I've discovered making flat bread. Cheap, easy and pretty good. Wish I had discovered this at the start of the pandemic.

Of course it's a problem! My mother had Bisquick in the house all my life throughout childhood. She swore by it. So I have it in my house. And I use it for pancakes and waffles. I make biscuits too, but here, let me make things worse for you" Scones: I use basically the same recipe asfor biscuits, but add a bit more butter, some sugar and vanilla, then orange zest and dried cranberries, or lemon zest and blueberries, or just plain scones and I LOVE them. And drop biscuits are great for a chicken pot pie casserole, and sweetened drop biscuits over a cobbler are to die for. Yes, I am a Bisquick queen. YOu're probably getting fat (er) but so what. Next time you make biscuits, slather them with butter, then drizzle some warm honey over them. You'll die.

Cancer food!

My father was addicted to eating Bisquick classic drop biscuits (with the gnarly outer texture) every night before he went to bed.

He apparently was raised on them as a boy from his mother cooking breakfast every day of his 1950’s southern childhood with scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, and biscuits.

By the time he reached his 60’s he would eat about three or four almost every night at bedtime, freshly made, cut in half with margarine (not butter), and covered in regular over the counter pancake syrup. He claimed he couldn’t sleep without eating them. My mom got so sick of making them every night, he just did it (and enjoyed it). Whenever I’d visit you knew the house was winding down for bed when dad started making his biscuits.

My father was otherwise quite healthy, and avid runner up to a certain age, didn’t smoke or drink. Normal weight. He never had cancer or heart issues. He died of a brain fluid disorder in his early 80’s.

Doesn't Bisquick already have powdered buttermilk in it?

R6 All that Bisquick went to his head!

My mother used to make oven-fried chicken with Bisquick.

R8 Leave that poor man alone!

I like using the Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit Mix. Just add water, butter, and shredded cheddar cheese. I feel trashy for doing so but it is oh-so-delicious!

If you eat a disproportionate amount of simple carbs then yes you'll become fat. Whore? I dunno, do you sell your fat and out of shape ass for money?

There are two states that have biscuit franchises, North Carolina and West Virginia.

Wait, what is so dangerous about eating Bisquick…? Is it the carbs or some chemical ingredient?

I love Bisquick for pancakes. I'll even take a spoonful of the mix and eat it. Weird yes...I know.

R7 No. It's basically flour, vegetable oil, corn starch and baking soda.

[quote]He apparently was raised on them as a boy from his mother cooking breakfast every day of his 1950’s southern childhood with scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, and biscuits.

I didn't realize Bisquick was that old, so I Googled it, and it's even older!

Invented in 1930 and introduced to the public a year later.

[quote]There are two states that have biscuit franchises, North Carolina and West Virginia.

What the hell is a "biscuit franchise"?

My grandmother made biscuits Monday through Saturday (toast on Sunday) all her married life. She wouldn’t touch bisquick. No boxed stuff for her!

I have made biscuits from scratch many times. I like Bisquick. It's easier and it makes great biscuits. And I can use it for other stuff too.

Bisquick was a staple food in my family as a child and growing up. My mother made the best biscuits using it. I thought about buying it as an adult a few times but never did for two reasons: it would make me a fat whore, and it contained partially hydrogenated oil which is an extremely unhealthy food additive.

I shaved my taint

^^ You don’t actually think your lame non sequitur is humorous, do you?

R18

Try making the Bisquick coffee cake. The recipe should be right on the box. It's best to eat the same day. But if you have leftovers, you could microwave it or heat it up.

Loved that coffee cake when I was a child. (There's no coffee flavor in it.)

What are those ones that involve giving the container a good whap on the edge of a kitchen counter and then twisting it so they come swarming out? I hate kitchen cleanup that’s any more involved or time consuming than this-goes-in-the-garbage/this-goes-in-the-recycle.

They're called whomp biscuits. The brand name is Pillsbury Grands.

[quote]They're called whomp biscuits.

R15 It starts with a spoonful. Seek help.

I also grew up with Bisquick in the house.

Mom used it to make pancakes. The over fried chicken was good as well and the biscuits were really good and easy to make.

I read an article that stated that Krusteaz was best for pancakes and now that’s all we use. Don’t use it for anything else.

We used Bisquick for pancakes, growing up. My mom taught me to add some extra oil to the batter. I guess that stops it from sticking to the pan (we used cast iron).

My friend makes a casserole involving ground beef, a cream sauce and lots of cheese and Bisquick. Serious fat whore territory, but good.

OP, if you ever run out of Bisquick you can also get some flour, salt ,and baking powder and make your own! It's called "baking".

r33 Bisquick has fat in it (shortening or oil.) What you're describing is self-rising flour (self-RAISING flour for our British viewers.)

Bisquick sausage balls! Yummers!

Yeah, Bisquick has small clumps of fat in it.

R27

R33 I put dough in a hot oven until it's cooked. What's the word for that?

Idea for Bisquick came to a General Mills salesperson who asked a chef for a fast and simple mean while taking a trip by train.

Given the time period (1930's) that "chef" most certainly was an African American man working for the Pullman Company or at least employed by railroad in question. Name of chef is not know to history nor did General Mills ever give him any sort of credit.

Both on trains and in their own kitchens railroads employed blacks almost universally, usually via the Pullman company. This is why it is universally accepted that the General Mills salesman must have spoken with a black man and taken down his recipe or whatever on how he made biscuits so quickly.

Another thing borrowed from railroads are "Pullman kitchens"

If you've ever eaten in a dining car on a train, or know history of Pullman you then understand why that chef had to be creative with his biscuit mix.

Basically a Pullman dining car kitchen was very tight quarters indeed. But passengers had to be fed and higher paying customers weren't going to be fobbed off by just sandwiches.

Famous square "Pullman" loafs of bread got their name because chefs and staff on Pullman dining/kitchen cars found that square loaves of bread were easier to stack and store. Again given tight confines of those kitchens this was a plus.

R35 - according to that link, those sausage balls are 49 grams per serving - which means it's probably even more than that.

[quote] This is why it is universally accepted that the General Mills salesman must have spoken with a black man and taken down his recipe or whatever

From the article you posted:

[quote] He asked the cook how he made them, and was shown a pre-mixed blend of flour, salt, baking powder, and lard kept on ice

It does not say the pre-mixed blend was the cook’s recipe. And the ingredients for biscuits haven’t changed much. It does say that General Mills company took the *idea* of a pre-packaged biscuit mix and improved it (no ice). The pre-packaged idea belonged to the Pullman Company not the person who was making the biscuits.

Try Bisquick crustless quiche. Recipes are all over the internet. Really, you can whip up a quiche in minutes using Bisquick.

And pancakes. The basic Bisquick pancake (recipe on the box) is better than all those other boxed mixes.

However, the ingredients of today's Bisquick is full of crap that I prefer not to eat:

"wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Corn Starch, Leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate), Dextrose, Vegetable Oil (palm, sunflower, canola, and/or high oleic soybean oil), Sugar, Salt, Monoglycerides."

You can make your own with just 4 ingredients. Buy good un-enriched flour.

Could always find Bisquick in my mother's kitchen. Besides pancakes and biscuits, she made a delicious beef stew with fresh vegetables and Bisquick dumplings. Just so delicious, with the rich brown gravy. She also used Bisquick to make a topping for chicken pot pie.

At R43, I meant to say 43 grams of FAT per serving.

I make those sausage balls for breakfast every Thanksgiving. My partner would riot if I didn't.

Every time I miss biscuits or pancakes, and think I'll rediscover the taste of my childhood, I go to the grocery store intending to get some Bisquick.

And when I get to that aisle and pick up the container of powder, I realize it's half fucking empty, and don't buy it. RIPOFF!

Bisquick is loaded with trans fats, the artery clogging, heart destroying kind that should be avoided.

OP, it would be interesting to compare you LDL, HDL and triglycerides after a year of your Bisquick bingeing on the road to becoming a fat whore.

Of course it was very very likely some Black Chef who gave them Bisquick in all its earliest forms, and yes, GM "perfected it" . But the concept and the basic ingredients were not General Mills'.

I would love to see some kind of thread about the history of various foods and cuisines, and cultures and how they began. Beer, and wine, too. And maybe in that new thread someone can tell us why so many ancient Norse customs were so horrible. That crap they drank and the way they prepared fish for fuck's sake. OK. THis was not germain to this thread. Sorry.

There is a heart healthy Bisquick and a gluten-free Bisquick.

[quote] But the concept and the basic ingredients were not General Mills'.

Biscuits were being made decades and decades before Pullman trains. GM didn’t need a black chef telling them how they were made.

Cooks were mixing together flour, lard (or butter) and baking powder together since the invention of banking powder in the 1800s (invented in England BTW).

It was the genius of General Mills to create the pre-made mix.

^ of baking powder

Karen...get your shit together and eat dem bisquits.....

"And maybe in that new thread someone can tell us why so many ancient Norse customs were so horrible. That crap they drank and the way they prepared fish for fuck's sake. "

Well, foodstuffs like the lutefisk and rotten shark meat reeking with uric acid started because it was eat them or starve. That's pretty clear, because if the choice is rotten shark dug up from the frozen beach or death, most people will give the rotten frozen shark a try.

I have no explanation for the religious customs. The Paganism practiced by my ancestors was really horrible, a real death cult.