For no reason whatsoever I would like to remind you of this evergreen post from The Awl explaining carefully how bay leaves are bullshit.
https://www.theawl.com/2016/03/the-vast-bay-leaf-conspiracy/
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@ryansingel My mum used to make spaghetti sauce basically by combining tomato paste with packet of seasoning mix whose principal ingredient, IIRC, was corn syrup solids. And then she'd throw in a bay leaf.
Took me half my adult life to learn to appreciate food.
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