I was just thinking the same thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
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I was just thinking the same thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Hrm. I'm trying to think of foods that I won't eat and the only thing that comes to mind is haggis. :) I had a bad haggis incident when I was younger. Maybe if I go to Scotland and try it there, I'll give it a try again, but I won't touch it till then. :p
But, I love all kinds of food from the ordinary burger & fries, to sushi/sashimi, to tripe, menudo, and sun dried squid heated over an open flame (it's alot like jerky). I've even walked around work before absentmindedly chewing on a tentacle covered in suckers. :eek: My coworkers give me odd looks. :rolleyes:
I do have to say that there are some foods I'm sure I wouldn't like much if I tried them. I remember eating one thing called amuck (not sure of the spelling). It wasn't bad... just... odd... :p
Mel
SadieKate "I was just thinking the same thing!"
Sadiekate, great minds think along the same lines.
And Melody, are there GOOD haggis incidents??
Also isn't there a Christmas carol about:
"sun dried squid heated over an open flame"
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Tiny tots with their ....
never mind, sorry ;-)
off food topic, Hillslug and Bikegoddess (anyone else???) are setting off for the STP today I think. Let's give them a rousing TE Bon Voyage.
OK what is yerba matte?Quote:
Originally Posted by snowtulip
Capers: a small berry usually pickled. Adds a peppery taste to food. It's delicious in dishes using butter and lemons. My favorite (and I make it often) is Chicken with Lemon/caper/butter sauce. Mmmmmm good! Also like them in my salads.
Its amazing to me that so many people don't like green peppers, and most fruit and vegetables for that matter. I love all fruit (although bananas and mango are not faves) and all vegies, including gross ones like okra and especially love artichokes. Just not a fan of some meats but I think its the way my mother prepared them when I was a kid. She cooked everything to death. Like Spazz, I now love and will only eat steak rare. I haven't eaten or been offered lamb since I was a kid and I don't go out looking for it. Liver, well there is just no reason to eat liver.
Tend to stay away from some ethics foods but only becuase of the use of garlic but love Japanese, Mexican, Greek, Persian, Indian, Thai and Chnese. Just need to find someplace that will prepare dishes without garlic.
Ditto on the bell peppers -- raw is way better than cooked. Can't do cooked, never could. Beets, except juiced. Always been like that.
Dead critters... I do give in to "flesh lust" and eat fish occasionally, but not much.
Somebody told me escargot is all about the garlic butter. I guess it would have to be.
Me too.Quote:
Like Spazz, I now love and will only eat steak rare
The line I quote is from an otherwise deservedly obscure song: "I like my steak with a chance to get well."
As for a potluck, we're pretty easy to get along with. I won't be hurt if you bypass my green chili if you won't make a fuss when I ignore your banana blast. "Sides, after a good long bike ride, 'most anything becomes edible.
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Originally Posted by MomOnBike
Even LIVER????? :p
Hominy.
Asian dishes.
Most everything that came out of the water with the exception of canned tuna, fresh salmon, cod and tilapia and I barely deal with all but the first one.
Meat subjects with more or less than 4 legs and no baby ones.
Chicken. Turkey ok, chicken yucky.
Overly spicy dishes.
Sausages, except sometimes the breakfast kind that I use for biscuits and sausage gravy.
Bratwurst, etc.
Any animal's recognizable part ie:feet, tongue, tail etc.
The local delicacy-Brain Sandwiches. Super-barf.
I could go on ad nauseum but I'm already nauseous thinking about all this.
ick.
Jeez, food is a hot topic, yes?
I have a complete texture rating system, since I seem to have more of an issue with texture than flavor.
Class I: can't even put it in your mouth
Class II: it tastes good, but still is routinely passed by because the texture is just WRONG
Class III: it tastes good and the texture is not the best, but not so bad that you can't eat it.
Class IV: good texture and flavor
Typically I only refer to classes I and II and supplement the descriptions, calling them "Class I (or Class II) texture violation". Examples for me are Class I: whole (itty bitty) octopus; and Class II: raisins (yes, I'm with V on this one). For me, chicken is a class III.
This system was formulated on a long bird watching trip where we didn't get much sleep, drank a lot, and didn't shower for 5 days.
Second Runner Up in the '05 Weekend Warrior Princess Competition and durn proud of it!
What's this? :D
V.
I assume the first was required due to the latter? This must have been one long trip and how did you remember all the details of this scale when BWUI?Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow
Had to read that one a couple times. Ewwwww!! Problem is with all the hormones Amurica feeds their livestock this probably isn't so farfetched. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by singletrackmind
Have you ever driven through Kansas??? 5-legged cows! 6-legged cows!! Giant prarie dogs! Oh wait, I guess I'd have to eat that one-unless they went and sewed another leg on......
I was thinking more along the lines of things like snails, insects and spiders of all varieties, stuff like that. People'd be another example, being bipedal. Worms, snakes, monkeys.
There are some 4-legged things I won't touch either, like horses, dogs, cats, turtles, hamsters, etc. etc. but my list was getting long and my time short...
dare I ask?Quote:
Originally Posted by singletrackmind
I refuse to!Quote:
Originally Posted by Irulan
You can get 'em from Dave And Jay's Back Door in south St. Louis. Friends tell me they taste like scrambled eggs. I think I'll stick to scrambled eggs!
What a funny topic!
I loved reading everyones' dislikes (and likes)
i like sushi!
i like peppers and tomatoes
but
i DON'T like rhubarb...and sardines, well, ew...
and turnip.
Pickled bologna (gag me, and the BF loves the sick stuff)
very ripe bananas
Brussel Sprouts - I can only get down three before I just can not eat!
Avacado
Curry
Hmmm I guess my list is pretty short, it prolly explains the extra gut I carry with me!
Here is my new list. I am trying very hard not to like Coke, Ice Cream and Chocolate. Those things make me hurt, but ohhh I love them. :(
Barb, your post just made me hungry for a chocolate ice cream, coke float. All the basic food groups in one glass, umm.
Jones
Brain Sammich's... now that I'd eat! Assuming its calf or lamb as grown up cow and sheeps brain have grown cynical and tough. But it is a bit richer than scrambled eggs...
I've had rattlesnake and gator meat.... tastes like chicken :D I make a damn fine gator tail chili!
I had lamb tonight at my roomies b'day celebration... though it was Morrocan, so I can't identify the sauce. It was on a bed of cous cous with goat cheese. YUMMY!
I'd have to agree on some of the other no-no's though:
tripe, pig knuckles, haggis, capers, any thing with dill (except I love dill pickles), sacerin, nutrasweet, passion fruit, yams, sweet potatoes (aren't they the same thing?), "stuffed" things (mushrooms, peppers, artichokes).
But heck, a potluck is a good idea. I'll just bring a tupperware full of sliced jalepenos and I'll be OK. Everything tastes better with some "hot" on it.
spazz-burnin' burnin'-dog
If your bologna is pickled does it have a different first name? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Barb
Gu is gross or any other "gel" food cholate flavor reminds me of ummm Gack.
"Tastes like chicken" never works on me- I HATE chicken!!
for example singletrackmind detests
"Hominy.
Asian dishes.
Most everything that came out of the water with the exception of canned tuna, fresh salmon, cod and tilapia"
all things I like, well I can take or leave Hominy
"Meat subjects with more or less than 4 legs and no baby ones."
ok I need an explanation of this. I've had bear chili, Bambi, Rudolf (reindeer steaks and roasts in Norway) all good, well the chili was a lil' greasy.
"Chicken. Turkey ok, chicken yucky."
both fine and I love
"Overly spicy dishes.
Sausages, except sometimes the breakfast kind that I use for biscuits and sausage gravy.
Bratwurst, etc."
"Any animal's recognizable part ie:feet, tongue, tail etc.
The local delicacy-Brain Sandwiches. Super-barf."
these I probably would order something else. I'm finding out that I'm not picky.
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Originally Posted by Barb
There is no such thing, is there?????? Where would you buy it???? :( :confused:
Alright Trek420! I could have used you around the house when I was a kid! If I didn't like it I'd sneak it onto your plate.
You'd have been well-fed.
I would have to agree with some of the others, cooked green peppers. To me they seem to "contaminate" all other surrounding food. What i mean by that is they seem to make everything else taste like pepper then.
I was in rural mississippi once and the guy I was working with got some "imitation bologna". What the heck there is to imitate to begin with, I don't want to know.
Government cheese is pretty nasty.
For those who eat sushi, Uni (sea urchin). AHHHHH - tastes like a big ol' snot.
What's up with people who can drink a glass of raw eggs?
Greenish bananas. They need to have spots.
Cooked spinach. I'll eat it raw, but cooked.... blech.
Head cheese. I've never tried it but I'm pretty sure I'd not like it. It just looks scary.
Liverwurst, olive loaf, and other various scary lunchmeat type products.
Bran muffins.
Hormel Chili.
Spam.
*shivers*
singletrackmind "Alright Trek420! I could have used you around the house when I was a kid! If I didn't like it I'd sneak it onto your plate.
You'd have been well-fed."
I was well fed ;-)
jalapeno, chilli, peppers, curries... any food that makes me heat up and sweat...
also, offal... I may have a huge ammount of Scottish ancestry, but no way am I going to eat haggis...
and I'm with everyone on fear factor delicacies... no way
Oh, you non-antipodean cretin!!! I, on the other hand, will eat pretty much anything other than Marmite... (A matter of principle, of course.)Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
Actually, I have been known to spit out toast after unknowingly spreading (barfpukegag) sweetened peanut butter on it. And I can't stand the texture of pears and fijoas.
Even though I certainly like some stuff a lot better than others, about the only thing I'm likely to find in a dish and pick out is excessive amounts of raw onion (mostly because of the onion breath burps hours later - TMI? :rolleyes: ), and when I'm going through the desert menu I stay away from sloppy, blandish things like custard (but why would anyone choose anything other than the chocky laden cake/mouse/whatever if it's on offer?).
I think I'm another texturally influenced diner. Crunchy is good. Chewy is decent. Sloppy better have a lot of flavour. Gritty is bad.
Probably would eat bugs if someone dared me... (See "crunchy is good." ;))
Ew - can't stand the texture of pears either. And I don't eat anything that is served in it's house - oysters, mussels, lobster, crab. No veal, no innards. I tried calamari - nih! It's OK, but not anything I'd go out of my way for. Oh, and keep cashews away from me, ick.Quote:
Originally Posted by tlkiwi
On the other hand, we have a new Vietnamese restaurant in town, Anise Cafe, I am in love with Corn Fritters. And Fondant au Chocolate from the Left Bank, and garlic fries at Rosie McCann's......
Well, if I ever find a good haggis, I'll let you know. :p :rolleyes: :cool: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Mel
Mmmmmmmm Gator...Quote:
Originally Posted by spazzdog
Ever had Gator jambalaya? :) Mmmmmmmmmmm
Mmmmmmmmm LambQuote:
Originally Posted by spazzdog
Nope. Yams and Sweet Potatoes are different. A true Yam isn't grown in the US, but Sweet Potatoes are. You can find more info at this link:Quote:
Originally Posted by spazzdog
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-23-a.html
My problem with jalapenos is, to me, they don't have alot of flavor. Give me habeneros any day. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by spazzdog
In fact, I think I'll grill some on the barbecue tonight. Mmmm roasted habenero peppers. My pain receptors are already firing just thinking about it. :D
Mel
do my thighs a favor and tell me why........Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
yup, I'm outta hibernation -
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Originally Posted by betagirl
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Originally Posted by tlkiwi
Mmmmm... me too...lurve vegemite.... on toast with honey... in a sandwich with cheese... mmm.... but MARMITE? Blech... disgustsing - it even feels gritty and wrong
For some reason I don't eat raw tomatoes, raw onions, lettuce and most other salad veges. So therefore, I don't really eat salads. Exceptions being Potato salad, Tuna Pasta Salad, Chicken Caesar Salad (minus the lettuce) and oddly enough, KFC Coleslaw.
I don't drink coffee (when I was kid I was given a coffee instead of a hot chocolate drink. I remember it had a yukky taste).
I refuse to eat weetbix with milk.
And if I consume too much dairy products or white bread products I get an upset tummy. And anything to do with citrus fruit, particularly oranges, gives me a bit of a headache. They're my food intolerances.
On the upside I absolutely love cheese, the stronger the better.
I am partial to most types of pasta dishes.
And as my parents back home own a bakery, I have a liking for pastries, fruit slices, muffins, cakes and sweet biscuits. Bad for you, but so yummy.
Oh, and I'd better meantion Diet Coke. I'm trying to wean myself of that stuff.
Marmite? Is this another yeast product that I'm missing out on? :D
mmmm salty.
Marmite and vegemite both yeast products... marmite bad... vegemite good
If you're a yeast freak like me then try a fresh bread sandwich (has to really fresh and soft and pref white) with a little olivani, butter or whatever you use... a healthy spread of vegemite and then sprinkled with Brufax (this is a flaked yeast as opposed to powdered or grains)
*best Homer Simpson drool*
Just divine when I am REALLY hungry or REALLY tired
Pickled bologna is truly vile. You can find it in any grocery store. It usually comes in a vat as big as your head!!!!!!!!!! Think ring bologna that has been pickled.
HAH!!! Now I am not even a bit hungry. I should use that visualization a bit more often!
OK - am I the only one, who at age three, tasted coffee and LOVED it? I used to snitch sips from my mom's cup when she wasn't looking. I still love it - it was my crutch when I quit smoking 12 year ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by enzed
Ok, I thought and thought about this and honestly, I can't think of anything I won't eat. Although, for the most part I eat healthy, I am a walking garbage disposal! :eek: :eek: :eek: