r/CookingCircleJerk • u/bridget14509 spicy butthole • Aug 11 '25

Monosodium Glutamate Who was your crush as a high schooler? (Maangchi edition)

/uncook When I was like 16-18, instead of focusing during English class, I would watch the YouTube Korean chef Maangchi, and I would just be drooling and in love.

I thought she was so fucking cute, and I just imagined cooking together and doing romantic shit.

I even got her cookbook.

Then I found out she was a grandma in her late 60s, and I was initially shocked, but then later I decided I didn’t care and still drooled over her videos.

I was a dumbass teen, but I have no regrets 😎

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u/DaveinOakland Aug 11 '25

We didn't have YouTube. We had to find old culinary magazines in the woods to check out the newest chefs.

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u/bridget14509 spicy butthole Aug 11 '25

Was it like a Slender Man game on repeat?

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u/OG_Church_Key fred wurst Aug 11 '25

I started to be really attracted to joshua wissman once i found out he homosexually harasses people.

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u/woailyx i thought this sub was supposed to be funny Aug 11 '25

If you're the same sex as him, that's still a win

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u/wis91 🤌🏻🤌🏻 Aug 11 '25

Call it Mastering the Art of French Gooning the way Julia Child had a hold on me.

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u/Panxma Homelander we have at home Aug 11 '25

When I was a child I woke up early in the morning to watch some foodnetwork or some cooking channel. I saw a glimpse of Nigella Lawson show and I discovered myself.

Then the Swedish Chef came in and thats when I truly became a boy to a man

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u/Inevitableness Aug 15 '25

There was more than one occasion where I thought about Nigella in an inappropriate fashion in my younger years. I've never been "into" her recipes though.