@goldnectar hah I’m strictly clitly. But if my woman wants to squirt all over my food, I’m down af lol I would’ve been eating every meal soggy for the past 3 years. But she lacks that ability
@shahnm Reminds me of a joke my mother’s middle-aged female cousin once told us while we were sitting at a table in a restaurant waiting for our food to arrive:
A duck walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for prophylactics. The pharmacist says, “Here you are. Would you like me to put these on your bill?” To which the duck replies, “I should say not – just what kind of duck do you think I am?!!”
I was young and supposedly innocent, so I tried to hide the fact that I was ROFL inside.
@mike808 I’ve tried it. It smells like dog farts (seriously and literally - my flatulent pit bull was the perfect prep, and it kind of made me homesick), and tastes like diluted dog farts (see above), but the whole screaming and puking thing is a bit much. The video my wife took of me trying it is incredibly boring (“No offense, guys, but this stuff’s kind of nasty”).
Sprinkle cilantro in my otherwise delicious spicy anchovy ghost pepper broccoli tomato casserole, and I’m throwing it out the window. Because soap goes in the dish AFTER you eat!
@Nate311 I’ve never seen that. I would absolutely love to get some crinkle cut carrot sticks. But you can have all the spit and semen. And the eggplant, which is probably worse…
yeah, there’s actually not much you can put on a plate that I won’t eat…
I’m sort of a “see food diet” kind of guy. If I see food I’ll eat it…
so send those eggplants etc my way.
Things that are still moving.
I have a simple rule - if it stops moving it’s food. Until then, no. Though to be fair, cooking, hammering, chopping or adding sauce can enhance the desirability of things that are just marginally food.
Oh, and I’m not a big fan of tofu.
@mike808 I had durian once. A nice lady owned a local Asian food shop decided to give me a bunch of samples of stuff. I remember being amazed at the steamed pork buns. She then grabbed the durian and took it outside so I could try it. It was fine. I wouldn’t bother buying it because of the hassle and there’s just so many more nicer fruits out there that don’t smell like rotting flesh.
@mike808@RiotDemon As explained to me, Singaporeans consider durian a “heating fruit” which is supposed to be eaten with mangosteen, a “cooling fruit.” Also, you are not allowed to take durians on public transportation there, due to the stench. On the last night of a trip in Singapore with some friends, our hosts realized that they had forgotten to introduce us to durians. Oh, the shame. The outdoor durian market was closed, and though we thoroughly assured them that we were OK without durians, they felt it a manner of honor that we have some before we leave. They found some, vacuum wrapped, in an upscale grocery store, but no mangosteens. So we sat on the steps of a public building and cracked open the durian package. So as not to offend our hosts, I ate some. It actually was pretty good, but I understood the term “heating fruit.” My friends, not being as concerned about our hosts’ feelings, politely declined to try the durians. So I finished the whole package, and thanked our hosts. They seemed impressed and amused that I had killed the whole package, and all was well. About four hours later I woke up in my hotel room and made a dash to the bathroom to discover the REAL meaning of “heating fruit.” Something like mango and guava with habanero and the atmosphere of a large red giant star mixed in was emitting from every pore, and most importantly from my posterior. My sleep was then interrupted every half hour, as my body expressed its displeasure at the spicy intruder. For the next 24 hours or so, little wafts of durian goodness were being released into the confines of the plane back home. My friends loved me. I told them that I didn’t want them to completely miss out on the durian experience.
@blaineg@chienfou@medz I love things like macaroons and almond Joy candies. I hate coconut on cakes and pies. It ruins the texture of cake in my opinion.
@chienfou@medz Yes, please take my piece! German chocolate cake is one of the worst abuses of chocolate there is. Such a wonderful cake rendered inedible!
@blaineg I like most peppers - I just finished off a bowl of Thai curry stuffed full of Thai dragon peppers, which are about as hot as a “mild” habanero.
If it doesn’t burn on the way out, it’s not too hot!
@Fuzzalini A pepper without spiciness failed to live up to its potential and should be shunned. Begone, bells! You overpower everything with your terrible taste!
I try to keep a policy of there being no dealbreakers. There are a few things I don’t like, but nothing so much that I absolutely won’t eat it, and I don’t have any food allergies to fall back on. (On the list above, the only one I don’t like is cilantro, but I’ll eat it if it’s put in front of me.)
When I was 12, my grandma took me on a trip. There was a buffet at the hotel we were staying at, and I loaded up my plate with what I thought were onion rings. The texture was weird, though, and it turned out to be calamari. Now, what 12-year-old is going to voluntarily try squid for the first time? But I found I loved it. That was a revelation: try everything, 'cause if people eat it, there must be a reason.
Someday I’m going to go somewhere where they eat scorpions or something, and I’m going to regret this policy. But I’ll try to stick to it.
@dannybeans LOL. I think I was a couple of years younger but my brother and I had a similar experience at the Holiday Inn (?) in Vienna, GA. A lunch buffet
Was really enjoying the BBQ. Nice and tender. I’d noticed that the bones were a little different from what I was used to but didn’t give it another thought.
We went back for seconds and the lady was there filling the pans, so I asked what kind of BBQ She smiled sweetly and said “rabbit”.
I think we cried the whole way home to Camp Lejeune…
@llangley@shahnm Sounds like the time my (other) grandma called every kid in the neighborhood and told them “Uncle Frankie brought home Santa’s reindeer!” - after his annual hunting trip. I don’t think she was trying to be mean . . . .
@blaineg@dannybeans@llangley I’m having a hard time with this, conceptually. Isn’t piglet supposed to be filled with stuffing the same as Pooh? Rabbit and Owl are made out of meat, but I thought the rest of the characters were all supposed to be stuffed…
@dannybeans@llangley@shahnm My wife is originally from Belgium, and their family used to breed rabbits and chickens for eating. A nice plump bunny was usually “the other dark meat” on special occasions. (I got used to counting drumsticks at special dinners, as bunny and chicken look about the same when they’re cooked. As in "Ooh, yum! Mandarin Chicken! Ohhh - with four drumsticks… That took some years to come to terms with.) The first year we were married, she offered to host Easter dinner at our house. I had to explain to her why rabbit was not a first choice for protein on Easter.
Raisins! Gross little smashed grapes with nasty skins. YUCK. They disguise themselves as chocolate chips and sneak into cookies. Damn the little stepped on ba$tards!
@blaineg supposedly it’s a genetic trait where chemicals in the plant smell like soap to some people and since smell is important to taste, and taste is important to “don’t eat that it might kill you” it makes it revolting to a certain percentage of us.
@blaineg@evbarnstormer People called “super tasters” have a difficult time with cilantro. It doesn’t mean we taste everything stronger but… certain elements are stronger… we have too many taste buds. We generally like a lot of salt but can’t abide bitter herbs. They taste excruciatingly bitter. It doesn’t taste like soap to me but… I can’t really describe how it tastes… it’s awful.
@blaineg@lseeber Definitely like too much salt to the point that I try not to use it in general knowing it will get in there anyways. I like other bitter flavors though like black coffee, really bitter beer, etc.
@blaineg@evbarnstormer Same here on the salt. Even as a kid my dad yelled at me… “why don’t you take the damn cap off and just pour the salt on!”
Certain other bitter flavors or herbs I like also… and even with cilantro… I can handle a little of it all blended in with Indian cooking but not a lot. My daughter had me try the Panera Mediterranean sandwich. I didn’t realize it had a bunch of cilantro on it and I almost spit it out in the middle of the restaurant. It was horrid to me. I want to like it tho.
@blaineg@lseeber agreed about Indian food, probably because it’s cooked and usually crushed before cooking. I hate it raw on Mexican food though, even in salsa.
@blaineg Underwater crawlies. Shrimp, lobster kinds of things…crayfish may be an exception to the crawling bugs rule . Brain, spinal tissue, blood are way too risky even when cooked.
How is it that hard-boiled egg is not on the poll? A chicken squeezes something out of its butt; it gets boils it until it congeals into a gooey mass. The result is slimy, smells like sulphur, and gets diced up and added to otherwise perfectly good food. WTF?
@dannybeans I’m not throwing shade on eggs, per-se.
I love a good, fluffy omelet.
I make world-class creamy scrambled eggs.
Poached? Fried? In recipes? Bring it!
But boil it into a slimy, gelatinous, stinking glob of protein? In the name of all that is holy… why?
I eat most things. Not too keen on overly vinegary food though.
Also Americans use peanut butter mixed with way too many things that it doesn’t taste good with.
Peanut Butter and Jam? Yuck.
Salty Peanut Butter and chocolate? Barf.
Stop ruining peanut butter by mixing it with sweet things… For that matter stop putting sugar in everything in general. There are more flavours than “sweet”.
@OnionSoup@zinimusprime A coworker would get a PBJ sandwich at a restaurant when we’d go out to lunch. We thought he was nuts, but he said it was the only way he could get it. His wife hated peanut butter so much she wouldn’t let it in the house.
out of those, broccoli. but out of everything - any cooked or wilted leafy greens (can’t even watch other people eat them). peas. and pancetta - only because i don’t enjoy projectile vomit.
@OnionSoup Yeah, I’ll eat pretty much any other conventional food in at least one form. Like, I’ll never really enjoy liver & onions, but I like liverwurst. Roasted eggplant isn’t enjoyable, but eggplant Parmesan is fantastic. Outside of licorice, I can’t think of anything else that is completely stomach turning.
If it’s made for me in good faith by someone who would like me to have sustenance, I’ll eat it because I’m a polite adult without allergy issues. If I’m cooking for myself, I usually avoid eggplant because I haven’t figured out how to prepare it in a manner I really like aside from baba ghanouj, which is somewhat limited in culinary scope.
Wow, didn’t realize how non-picky I am! (As a kid I’d get whipped if I didn’t clear my plate) So now I eat just about anything… liver, custards, runny eggs, overly-boiled eggs, rare meats, sushi, ghost pepper (or hotter), raw oyster, squid, all veggies (okra is just barely tolerated but not enjoyed though)… I do draw the line at the off-the-wall who-ever-thought-to-eat-this-stuff type things… like tripe, cow brain, tongue, snout, etc. But I have had them. Of the stuff I’ve never even tried I’d have to say, the king of all nasty foods is: balut (baaaarf)
@jester747 Tripe is actually a lot like squid, in my opinion. I don’t see why people would think it was gross. It’s just cow stomach.
And what’s weird about tongue? I like it, but it doesn’t seem that special. I think it’s a lot like heart…
@Limewater I guess my thing with tripe is how much it stinks while preparing it. Our home would truly smell like a sewer, as the stuff was boiled and boiled to make it suitable to eat. I’d always think, uh, maybe we’re NOT supposed to be eating this particular part of the animal, hmm. After a day of nausea we were expected to be hungry for this exquisite dish. Probably more mental than anything.
With tongue, it’s mainly just a texture/chew thing for me. Off-off flavor. Just nothing at all going for it. I used to love heart, but was once given a heaping serving and I became saturated for life.
@jester747 Huh. I like tripe a lot, but I’ve honestly never been around while it’s been prepared. I’ve only just gotten to enjoy the end result. So, if it stinks a lot during prep, I can see how that would be a turn-off.
I have been around when the stomach of a freshly-killed deer was accidentally cut open, and it had quite a stench, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised.
Chocolate.
@heartny What the hell is wrong with you?!?
@shahnm I don’t cook, so chocolate is always the answer
@heartny I’ll trade you my celery for your chocolate, and I’ll throw in anything with Old Bay on/in it. Old Bay is just stale celery salt in disguise.
@heartny I am so confused. Saying “chocolate is always the answer” suggests you like chocolate.
Did you mis-read the question?
And by that ^^ I actually mean eggplant.
Eggplant. Fuck you, eggplant, and your little dog, too.
@shahnm Except baba ganoush, and I’m still not sure if I really like eating it or just enjoy saying it.
Mushrooms
I thought you had me at anchovies. Then along came ghost pepper.
@katbyter I will gladly take all of your anchovies and ghost peppers if you spare me even one eggplant…
@shahnm I’ve never actually had eggplant, but I’ll take that deal.
Peas and peanuts.
@mvalleeis I will gladly take all of your peas and peanuts if you spare me even one eggplant…
@shahnm I’ll take that deal! I don’t mind eggplant at all.
Olives, definitely. Especially those green ones.
Most I can handle without heaving are those black ones cut up on a Combo Pizza.
@travo I will gladly take all of your olives if you spare me even one eggplant…
Lima beans. Can’t abide them!
@Ambiverbal I will gladly take all of your lima beans if you spare me even one eggplant…
@Ambiverbal me neither. Slima beans is what I normally call them. I LOVE my legumes… But not Slima beans.
Spit or semen. Yuck!
@uebergod Yeah… Um… You can keep those.
@shahnm @uebergod awe come on!
@uebergod Just as a side comment - what sort of cuisine are you talking about here, in which those things would be described as ingredients?
@shahnm @uebergod this whole thing cracks me up. I’d gladly swap spit with my partner, but he better not be spitting in my food.
@uebergod Ahh yes, you’re using a food delivery service.
@RiotDemon
… I saw what you did there…
@shahnm @uebergod bird’s nest soup? It’s functionally bird’s spit soup.
@uebergod stay away from Olive Garden then.
@uebergod somebody is never going to get a boyfriend.
@goldnectar hah I’m strictly clitly. But if my woman wants to squirt all over my food, I’m down af lol I would’ve been eating every meal soggy for the past 3 years. But she lacks that ability
@shahnm - The things I learn from surfing this site:
Shirako
Coconut. Yuck!
The bill.
@phendrick The bill, along with the feathers and some other parts, isn’t really supposed to be eaten…
@shahnm Reminds me of a joke my mother’s middle-aged female cousin once told us while we were sitting at a table in a restaurant waiting for our food to arrive:
A duck walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for prophylactics. The pharmacist says, “Here you are. Would you like me to put these on your bill?” To which the duck replies, “I should say not – just what kind of duck do you think I am?!!”
I was young and supposedly innocent, so I tried to hide the fact that I was ROFL inside.
Surströmming
@mike808 As long as you don’t taste it or smell it, it’s fine.
@mike808 This is the funniest shit ever!!
@mike808 I’ve tried it. It smells like dog farts (seriously and literally - my flatulent pit bull was the perfect prep, and it kind of made me homesick), and tastes like diluted dog farts (see above), but the whole screaming and puking thing is a bit much. The video my wife took of me trying it is incredibly boring (“No offense, guys, but this stuff’s kind of nasty”).
@dannybeans That explains why you have 2 views and these two youtube chuckleheads have 27M views.
Sprinkle cilantro in my otherwise delicious spicy anchovy ghost pepper broccoli tomato casserole, and I’m throwing it out the window. Because soap goes in the dish AFTER you eat!
@awk I will gladly take your spicy anchovy ghost pepper broccoli tomato casserole (with cilantro), but you gotta keep the spit and semen…
@awk @shahnm
Where’s the damn eggplant?
@awk @mike808
Black eyed peas
Arugula. People say it’s supposed to taste peppery but to me it’s bitter as hell. Fuck that shit.
@natevberg
Crinkle cut carrot sticks in Chinese takeout.
If you serve me these uncooked lies mixed in my meal, I will never order from your establishment again.
@Nate311 I’ve never seen that. I would absolutely love to get some crinkle cut carrot sticks. But you can have all the spit and semen. And the eggplant, which is probably worse…
@Nate311 I’m not fond of the mutant mini corncobs. What kind of abomination is that?
The souls of the damned.
Don’t get me wrong, saved souls are fine, but I’m not chowing down on damnation…
Wait, what? Oh, well, boiled okra is just nasty, with the possible exception of using it to make gumbo gummy.
OTOH, Eggplant Parmesan is fucking awesome. You should eat some of that.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
Raisins. Too many imposter chocolate chip cookies have given me trust issues.
@tharri1
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/raisins-ruin-everything
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(I do like oatmeal raisin cookies.)
@narfcake Yes, I purchased that shirt way back when during its initial run.
@tharri1
yeah, there’s actually not much you can put on a plate that I won’t eat…
I’m sort of a “see food diet” kind of guy. If I see food I’ll eat it…
so send those eggplants etc my way.
Things that are still moving.
I have a simple rule - if it stops moving it’s food. Until then, no. Though to be fair, cooking, hammering, chopping or adding sauce can enhance the desirability of things that are just marginally food.
Oh, and I’m not a big fan of tofu.
@mehcuda67 Gagh?
@blaineg One of my favorite TNG episodes! Yes, I totally identify with Riker there.
@blaineg @mehcuda67 eh. Who picks moving worms over a nice tit?
Entree and sides touching!!! Well, except for eggs and grits, or meatloaf and mashed potatoes, or on a pizza.
@hchavers I have a grandson like that…
@hchavers I prefer the meat loaf and mashed potatoes on my pizza to not touch.
@hchavers I would make your food touch and then eat it every day.
Surprised nobody’s mentioned Durian Fruit yet. Oops.
@mike808 - Never actually had the fruit, but durian ice cream is delicious.
@mike808 had a durian smoothie once. Damn it was good
@mike808 I had durian once. A nice lady owned a local Asian food shop decided to give me a bunch of samples of stuff. I remember being amazed at the steamed pork buns. She then grabbed the durian and took it outside so I could try it. It was fine. I wouldn’t bother buying it because of the hassle and there’s just so many more nicer fruits out there that don’t smell like rotting flesh.
@mike808 @RiotDemon As explained to me, Singaporeans consider durian a “heating fruit” which is supposed to be eaten with mangosteen, a “cooling fruit.” Also, you are not allowed to take durians on public transportation there, due to the stench. On the last night of a trip in Singapore with some friends, our hosts realized that they had forgotten to introduce us to durians. Oh, the shame. The outdoor durian market was closed, and though we thoroughly assured them that we were OK without durians, they felt it a manner of honor that we have some before we leave. They found some, vacuum wrapped, in an upscale grocery store, but no mangosteens. So we sat on the steps of a public building and cracked open the durian package. So as not to offend our hosts, I ate some. It actually was pretty good, but I understood the term “heating fruit.” My friends, not being as concerned about our hosts’ feelings, politely declined to try the durians. So I finished the whole package, and thanked our hosts. They seemed impressed and amused that I had killed the whole package, and all was well. About four hours later I woke up in my hotel room and made a dash to the bathroom to discover the REAL meaning of “heating fruit.” Something like mango and guava with habanero and the atmosphere of a large red giant star mixed in was emitting from every pore, and most importantly from my posterior. My sleep was then interrupted every half hour, as my body expressed its displeasure at the spicy intruder. For the next 24 hours or so, little wafts of durian goodness were being released into the confines of the plane back home. My friends loved me. I told them that I didn’t want them to completely miss out on the durian experience.
@mehcuda67 @mike808 @RiotDemon
That. Was. Awesome!
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
@mehcuda67 The night before you leave, your “friends” give you durian.
They weren’t your friends, pal.
Corked wine.
@mike808 So boxed wine is fine?
Coconut. Hey, thanks for adding saw dust to my food.
@medz Isn’t it more like eating a brllo pad?
@medz Great way to destroy a desert.
@blaineg @medz so, no German chocolate cake for you… can I have your piece?
@blaineg @chienfou @medz
Fun fact: German chocolate cake is not named after the country, but after the man that invented it.
@blaineg @chienfou I just eat around the coconut. That frosting is tasty, but texture sucks.
@blaineg @chienfou @medz I love things like macaroons and almond Joy candies. I hate coconut on cakes and pies. It ruins the texture of cake in my opinion.
I also don’t like sprinkles.
@RiotDemon I don’t like jimmies.
@Barney jimmies can get bent.
@chienfou @medz Yes, please take my piece! German chocolate cake is one of the worst abuses of chocolate there is. Such a wonderful cake rendered inedible!
@DVDBZN Kinda like the Salisbury Steak. Nothing to do with either England or Rhodesia.
Ghost pepper is yummy
@ThatsHeadly I’m not sure I believe you. I can stand the heat (just barely), but I can’t remember any flavor.
@blaineg I like most peppers - I just finished off a bowl of Thai curry stuffed full of Thai dragon peppers, which are about as hot as a “mild” habanero.
If it doesn’t burn on the way out, it’s not too hot!
@ThatsHeadly idk about yummy, but I do enjoy it and season with ghost pepper from time to time.
I just had some of these, which are actually pretty good:
/image Carolina reaper cheese puffs
Green peppers. Or red ones, or yellow ones. They all taste gross.
@Fuzzalini A pepper without spiciness failed to live up to its potential and should be shunned. Begone, bells! You overpower everything with your terrible taste!
@Fuzzalini I always pick them out of any take out ‘combination’ or ‘supreme’ pizza that gets ordered at work.
Eggplant is purple – so an extra serving, please.
I also like broccoli, brussel sprouts, olives, peppers, cilantro, and tofu.
Deal breaker is any dish with seafood or peanuts (because of food allergies). That means Chinese restaurants are an automatic pass.
@narfcake
Liver. Or any organ meat for that matter. Yuck.
@phonorad No barbecued Wurlitzer or Hammond on a half-shell?
Pity!
@Ambiverbal @phonorad You left out Lowry, for the flyover crowd…
@phonorad More sweetbreads for me. Yum!
@Ambiverbal @phonorad @shahnm
Are trying to say we’re just a bunch of offal people?
@phonorad so no ground burgers from McDonalds, although to be fair, there’s probably also a little meat in their burgers too
mushrooms
I try to keep a policy of there being no dealbreakers. There are a few things I don’t like, but nothing so much that I absolutely won’t eat it, and I don’t have any food allergies to fall back on. (On the list above, the only one I don’t like is cilantro, but I’ll eat it if it’s put in front of me.)
When I was 12, my grandma took me on a trip. There was a buffet at the hotel we were staying at, and I loaded up my plate with what I thought were onion rings. The texture was weird, though, and it turned out to be calamari. Now, what 12-year-old is going to voluntarily try squid for the first time? But I found I loved it. That was a revelation: try everything, 'cause if people eat it, there must be a reason.
Someday I’m going to go somewhere where they eat scorpions or something, and I’m going to regret this policy. But I’ll try to stick to it.
@dannybeans LOL. I think I was a couple of years younger but my brother and I had a similar experience at the Holiday Inn (?) in Vienna, GA. A lunch buffet
Was really enjoying the BBQ. Nice and tender. I’d noticed that the bones were a little different from what I was used to but didn’t give it another thought.
We went back for seconds and the lady was there filling the pans, so I asked what kind of BBQ She smiled sweetly and said “rabbit”.
I think we cried the whole way home to Camp Lejeune…
Guess I’m still a little traumatized?
@dannybeans @llangley Reminds me of the story my wife told, about the time when she was a kid that her family had rabbit. On Easter.
@llangley @shahnm Sounds like the time my (other) grandma called every kid in the neighborhood and told them “Uncle Frankie brought home Santa’s reindeer!” - after his annual hunting trip. I don’t think she was trying to be mean . . . .
@dannybeans @llangley
@blaineg @dannybeans @llangley I’m having a hard time with this, conceptually. Isn’t piglet supposed to be filled with stuffing the same as Pooh? Rabbit and Owl are made out of meat, but I thought the rest of the characters were all supposed to be stuffed…
@dannybeans @llangley @shahnm My wife is originally from Belgium, and their family used to breed rabbits and chickens for eating. A nice plump bunny was usually “the other dark meat” on special occasions. (I got used to counting drumsticks at special dinners, as bunny and chicken look about the same when they’re cooked. As in "Ooh, yum! Mandarin Chicken! Ohhh - with four drumsticks… That took some years to come to terms with.) The first year we were married, she offered to host Easter dinner at our house. I had to explain to her why rabbit was not a first choice for protein on Easter.
@mehcuda67 Because it’s not kosher, right?
@blaineg @dannybeans @Limewater @llangley don’t let the facts get in the way of a good joke
Olives
Raisins! Gross little smashed grapes with nasty skins. YUCK. They disguise themselves as chocolate chips and sneak into cookies. Damn the little stepped on ba$tards!
How has nobody said mayo? The devils condiment, that
@Susan I was just scrolling down to see if it had been mentioned before posting it myself. I don’t even allow that stuff in my house.
@Susan Mayo is the nectar of the gods.
@Susan @zinimusprime
Well only on a technicality because Hades is a god.
@Susan Yeah, I forgot about that. I hate mayo and sandwich ships pour that crap on. And then ignore you when you say no mayo.
@Susan The British really abuse mayo. Mayo on fries (chips). Mayo on pizza???
I like it in moderation. No, I like it sparingly.
Though I came across a brilliant use of it last year, grilling. Apparently the magic word is “emulsion”.
https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-fo-grilling-with-mayonnaise-recipes-20170610-htmlstory.html
I’ve used a thin coat of it on burgers and steaks, and it works wonderfully.
Anchovies are oily little delights while cilantro tastes like soap made out of metal.
@evbarnstormer It’s funny how polarizing cilantro is. So many people say it tastes like soap, but don’t get that at all.
@blaineg supposedly it’s a genetic trait where chemicals in the plant smell like soap to some people and since smell is important to taste, and taste is important to “don’t eat that it might kill you” it makes it revolting to a certain percentage of us.
@blaineg @evbarnstormer People called “super tasters” have a difficult time with cilantro. It doesn’t mean we taste everything stronger but… certain elements are stronger… we have too many taste buds. We generally like a lot of salt but can’t abide bitter herbs. They taste excruciatingly bitter. It doesn’t taste like soap to me but… I can’t really describe how it tastes… it’s awful.
@evbarnstormer cilantro is the leafy nectar of the gods. Chop it up with olive oil, garlic, & a little salt and you have the best sauce in the world.
@blaineg @lseeber Definitely like too much salt to the point that I try not to use it in general knowing it will get in there anyways. I like other bitter flavors though like black coffee, really bitter beer, etc.
@zinimusprime I love garlic and salt but not added to hand lotion
@blaineg @evbarnstormer Same here on the salt. Even as a kid my dad yelled at me… “why don’t you take the damn cap off and just pour the salt on!”
Certain other bitter flavors or herbs I like also… and even with cilantro… I can handle a little of it all blended in with Indian cooking but not a lot. My daughter had me try the Panera Mediterranean sandwich. I didn’t realize it had a bunch of cilantro on it and I almost spit it out in the middle of the restaurant. It was horrid to me. I want to like it tho.
@blaineg @lseeber agreed about Indian food, probably because it’s cooked and usually crushed before cooking. I hate it raw on Mexican food though, even in salsa.
@evbarnstormer @lseeber Strange Planet is a wonderful thing.
@blaineg @lseeber I love that comic! Way better than s o a p l e a f
@blaineg @evbarnstormer @lseeber
I like cilantro, but I get how it can be an herb too far for some people. Maybe I have a high tolerance for soap.
Onions. Hate them with the fire of a thousand suns.
@jdude727 My favorite food group!
@jdude727 @lseeber …Suns?
@chienfou @jdude727 onions
@chienfou Galactus hungers!
How does this survey tie in with what is being sold today?
@rtjhnstn Things that suck…?
@rtjhnstn @shahnm So… the semen comment DOES indeed fit.
@lseeber @rtjhnstn To be technical, that’s more the product of things that suck.
@rtjhnstn @shahnm Ok… well… to be more technical… that’s more the product of things that are sucked.
@lseeber @rtjhnstn Well, we have… er… beat… this dead horse quite thoroughly…
@rtjhnstn @shahnm Awww… come on.
Brain, spinal tissue, blood. Flying and crawling insects too. The underwater kind are fine though.
@carguyty Underwater brain, spinal tissue & blood? Or underwater crawlies?
@blaineg Underwater crawlies. Shrimp, lobster kinds of things…crayfish may be an exception to the crawling bugs rule
. Brain, spinal tissue, blood are way too risky even when cooked.
@carguyty I’ve always thought that the first guy that ate lobster or crab must have been really hungry.
“Yea, I bet that thing with all the spiky and pinchy bits would taste really good.”
How is it that hard-boiled egg is not on the poll? A chicken squeezes something out of its butt; it gets boils it until it congeals into a gooey mass. The result is slimy, smells like sulphur, and gets diced up and added to otherwise perfectly good food. WTF?
@simssj Yum… liquid chicken.
@simssj We like eggs so much that we have our own chickens. Our pets poop breakfast!
@dannybeans I’m not throwing shade on eggs, per-se.
I love a good, fluffy omelet.
I make world-class creamy scrambled eggs.
Poached? Fried? In recipes? Bring it!
But boil it into a slimy, gelatinous, stinking glob of protein? In the name of all that is holy… why?
@dannybeans @simssj You might be cooking them wrong…
@dannybeans @simssj I love premature chicken offspring for breakfast too!!!
@dannybeans @simssj boiled eggs are wonderful! Not sure how what this problem is you have with them, I am confused
@dannybeans @moonhat @simssj
“Slimy”? “Sulphur”? Hard-boiled eggs are pretty bland and dry, really.
@dannybeans @simssj @TheFLP with some salt they’re delicious and on weight watchers they are 0 points. Yay for eggs!
I eat most things. Not too keen on overly vinegary food though.
Also Americans use peanut butter mixed with way too many things that it doesn’t taste good with.
Peanut Butter and Jam? Yuck.
Salty Peanut Butter and chocolate? Barf.
Stop ruining peanut butter by mixing it with sweet things… For that matter stop putting sugar in everything in general. There are more flavours than “sweet”.
@OnionSoup Peanut butter & jelly is it’s own food group and literally one of the best things ever invented.
@OnionSoup You didn’t grow up with it as a child. It’s literally the food of the gods mixed with sweet things. Honey is my favorite to mix with PB.
@zinimusprime it’s ok without the peanut butter… Or without the jelly.
@OnionSoup I’ll eat it with a spoon! Forget the bread!
@OnionSoup @zinimusprime me too! just the spoon.
@OnionSoup @zinimusprime A coworker would get a PBJ sandwich at a restaurant when we’d go out to lunch. We thought he was nuts, but he said it was the only way he could get it. His wife hated peanut butter so much she wouldn’t let it in the house.
@Fuzzalini Honey!
@blaineg @Fuzzalini one of my favorite comics
out of those, broccoli. but out of everything - any cooked or wilted leafy greens (can’t even watch other people eat them). peas. and pancetta - only because i don’t enjoy projectile vomit.
I hate large mushrooms. Activates my gag reflex. Also, any type of cool whip fruit “salad”
Black licorice or anything that tastes like it is the only gross flavor in the world.
@zinimusprime “the only”?
@OnionSoup Yeah, I’ll eat pretty much any other conventional food in at least one form. Like, I’ll never really enjoy liver & onions, but I like liverwurst. Roasted eggplant isn’t enjoyable, but eggplant Parmesan is fantastic. Outside of licorice, I can’t think of anything else that is completely stomach turning.
@zinimusprime A local ice cream company makes licorice ice cream. It is wonderful!
@blaineg @zinimusprime sounds disgusting. My brother got the Scandinavian licorice enjoyment gene. I did not.
@RiotDemon @zinimusprime
I will gladly accept your licorice jelly beans.
@RiotDemon @TheFLP @zinimusprime Me too!
@lseeber @RiotDemon @TheFLP I’ll ship them all your way lol
With the exception of poisons, toxins, or gratuitous bodily fluids, I’ll try any food once. I’ve never ate anything that would be a “deal breaker.”
If it’s made for me in good faith by someone who would like me to have sustenance, I’ll eat it because I’m a polite adult without allergy issues. If I’m cooking for myself, I usually avoid eggplant because I haven’t figured out how to prepare it in a manner I really like aside from baba ghanouj, which is somewhat limited in culinary scope.
Crap…I was gonna say liver, but anchovies and ghost pepper…
I can’t decide
People are flipping out over raisins but I’m the only one around here who hates broccoli? (Well, me and @jerk_nugget.)
@TheFLP has the texture of moss and smells like ten thousand farts in a warm shoebox and they want us to eat it.
give me a big box of raisins over that any day.
Wow, didn’t realize how non-picky I am! (As a kid I’d get whipped if I didn’t clear my plate) So now I eat just about anything… liver, custards, runny eggs, overly-boiled eggs, rare meats, sushi, ghost pepper (or hotter), raw oyster, squid, all veggies (okra is just barely tolerated but not enjoyed though)… I do draw the line at the off-the-wall who-ever-thought-to-eat-this-stuff type things… like tripe, cow brain, tongue, snout, etc. But I have had them. Of the stuff I’ve never even tried I’d have to say, the king of all nasty foods is: balut (baaaarf)
@jester747 A filipino delicacy:
@jester747 even just the photo makes me sick.
@jester747 Tripe is actually a lot like squid, in my opinion. I don’t see why people would think it was gross. It’s just cow stomach.
And what’s weird about tongue? I like it, but it doesn’t seem that special. I think it’s a lot like heart…
@Limewater I guess my thing with tripe is how much it stinks while preparing it. Our home would truly smell like a sewer, as the stuff was boiled and boiled to make it suitable to eat. I’d always think, uh, maybe we’re NOT supposed to be eating this particular part of the animal, hmm. After a day of nausea we were expected to be hungry for this exquisite dish. Probably more mental than anything.
With tongue, it’s mainly just a texture/chew thing for me. Off-off flavor. Just nothing at all going for it. I used to love heart, but was once given a heaping serving and I became saturated for life.
@jester747 @Limewater
I’ve never been around to smell it, but the word “tripe” alone sounds awful.
@jester747 Huh. I like tripe a lot, but I’ve honestly never been around while it’s been prepared. I’ve only just gotten to enjoy the end result. So, if it stinks a lot during prep, I can see how that would be a turn-off.
I have been around when the stomach of a freshly-killed deer was accidentally cut open, and it had quite a stench, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised.
Yesterday someone snuck kale into my salad. It was like trying to eat cactus.
Curry.
Makes my face numb, just to smell it.
Allergic, I think.