Food for thought

[bcipam]

Escargot is not really food. I think its a joke the French have played on us... "let's get those stupid Americans to eat snails... hee hee hee! The joke's on them!"

Also anything they eat on Fear Factor is also not food, it's just not...

[bikerchick68]

OMG! The snail on the Razor is hysterical!

[MomOnBike]

Um, I think of escargot in garlic butter as an aphrodesiac, and so does DH.

I can't force bananas past my teeth. *Shudder*

Or tomato soup. Or soggy bread (think French dip sandwiches). Not fit for human consumption. Bleh.

Other than that, I'm pretty non-picky, as long as the food is is good quality - and I define quality.

[Technotart]

Cant eat bugs...I gag just watching fear factor

Cant eat the pecans in pecan pie, but I like the rest

Cant eat gu without something to wash it down

[betagirl]

Tomatoes. I like the little cherry ones in salads, but why does every sandwich come with a big ol' boogery tomato slice on it? Blech.

Liver and onions. I have a friend who eats that stuff like it's the best food on the planet.

I'm with you on the bugs, even though I'm sure I've eaten more since I've started biking.

[emily_in_nc]

I think it pretty much goes without saying that most of us won't eat bugs (or anything else featured in the "Fear Factor Cafe"), so we probably don't need to list those things.

I like most foods. Not fond of Brussels Sprouts, but I bet if they were cooked exactly right (like with bacon), I probably would like them. Just about everything else mentioned here so far I like pretty well. Never had snails, but I would try them. Love green peppers (but red are better). Oh, I don't like liver, but how often am I offered it (Answer: never). I don't care for olives; that's probably the one I run into most often (on pizzas, in food someone else makes), and I don't care for capers.

My don't like list is much shorter than my do like, which isn't always good for my waistline!

Emily

[betagirl]

Ew yeah Emily, black olives on pizza. Barf. My b/f is big into that. It's a constant source of disagreement I do like olives in their natural form though, especially green. And of course you have to put black olives on your fingers first before you eat them.

[Steph_in_TX]

No mushrooms...they are a FUNGUS for cryin out loud! And the one that causes people everywhere to make fun of me....cheese. I can't stand the stuff. Mozarella on pizza is ok, other than that...yuck!

[spazzdog]

Let's see...

I love sushi, any tartar, and eat my steaks screaming rare. I guess i don't have a problem with meat, unless somebody cooks it too long (or at all in some instances)

I don't like cake, except the one my roomie makes (death by chocolate).

I don't like to be in the same room as brussel sprouts or cauliflower. I'll eat brocolli in chinese food only. I cannot abide cooked bell peppers of any color. Most other veggies I'll eat raw or cooked.

And due to a childhood of eating hamburger meat 6 of 7 nites (blast the creation of Hamburger Helper) I don't touch burger, unless it's on a hamburger bun with all the fixin'.

Organics - yuck to tofu and unsweeten fruit juices and unsalted nuts. Ditto on "natural" peanut butter.

Wow! I'm hungry... I gotta go hit the fridge

[nuthatch]

All the filter-feeders and bottom-feeders - oysters, winkles, clams, carp. Organ meat of all kinds. Smoked or dried fish. Rasberries (taste like cough syrup). Pardon me while I heave over the side....

[wingsonwheels]

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.

[MomOnBike]

Like Spazz, I now love and will only eat steak rare

Me too.

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.

[bcipam]

Me too.

"Sides, after a good long bike ride, 'most anything becomes edible.

Even LIVER?????

[singletrackmind]

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.

[Irulan]

The local delicacy-Brain Sandwiches. Super-barf.

dare I ask?