A Five-Star Recipe With Over 17,000 Reviews Built on Canned Staples

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA coconut curry chickpea dish with pumpkin and lime has more than seventeen thousand reviews, and the New York Times reports it's built on canned staples.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOne can of coconut milk, not lite, one can of pumpkin puree, and chickpeas. Thirty minutes, serves four.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNine out of ten.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe coconut milk, and I'm told it mustn't be lite, arrives with the confidence of a can that has never been shaken, and the pumpkin carries a faint note of the shelf.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEight. Sea salt, one and a half teaspoons. I get a note of Tuesday, and the lime is doing its best.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEight? Seventeen thousand people disagree with you, Hank.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeventeen thousand people reviewed it. I'm judging the one thing nobody has mentioned, which is that I haven't tasted it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFair. My lunch was a cold sausage roll from a petrol station, eaten standing up beside the wiper fluid.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChat, what's in your pantry that you'd trust with a five-star review? Dale, I'll score yours a three, for the wiper fluid.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMine was a granola bar from a drawer, and I'm fairly sure it was from the last time they changed the logo.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI ate the wrapper too, to be thorough.