Question Of The Day, Friday, July 20

[miagi's_mommy]

Brussels sprouts. I’ve tried to like them many different ways but they’re just a gag reflex to me. Used to be that way with asparagus but now I love asparagus!

 

[mikameek]

Cilantro is HIGH on my list because it does taste like soap and ruins anything it touches. I always wondered what it tastes like to people who eat it and DON'T taste soap..

I don't know that I can describe the taste of cilantro. It's like a zing? I like it in few things fresh because it does definitely spread its tastes to the things around it.

 

[1 bruce 1]

Brussels sprouts. I’ve tried to like them many different ways but they’re just a gag reflex to me. Used to be that way with asparagus but now I love asparagus!

I mentioned hating beets in my first post on this thread but have been told as a young child I LOVED beets.
Our tastes do change!

I can take or leave Brussels Sprouts but do like asparagus if it's quickly seared and half-raw. (Steamed? Throw it out!) =D

 

[neely]

Cilantro is HIGH on my list because it does taste like soap and ruins anything it touches. I always wondered what it tastes like to people who eat it and DON'T taste soap.

There's nothing I despise more than cilantro - absolutely disgusting, both taste and smell.

 

[1 bruce 1]

MUSHROOMS! So, so, so creepy. You couldn't pay me to eat one.

ETA: All you black licorice haters can send it to me.

Mushrooms are fungus.
Athletes foot is fungus.
I don't want moldy toenails on my food so I avoid mushrooms.
Problem solved =D

I will add that our neighbor is a whiz with mushrooms in food prep and can work them into anything and make it taste excellent.
They shared soup with us once and I was like "" when I saw mushrooms floating in it.
So I picked them out (yea I was called "prissy". I deal with it) and the soup had a really good flavor, so I left a few in next batch and then it kind of blended in. Somehow, they make mushrooms something I don't need to spray with anti-fungals.
I think I mentioned before a really good place nearby offers home made pot pies that used to be mostly veg, or meat and veg but are now mostly mushrooms.
Home made and "home made" are different.
My own cooking with mushrooms is not good so I no longer attempt it. Court order and all.

 

[1 bruce 1]

American Cheese - it's mislabeled plastic!

Water chestnuts - no flavor, all gross crunchy texture. Like eating nails on a chalkboard!

Oh damn I used to eat water chestnuts like a coke addicted junkie as a kid. We ate them like candy and called them "crunchers."
...You couldn't PAY me to eat them now. I won't pitch a fit if I go to a restaurant and they're there in whatever dish I order, but I stealth vomit in my mind because I ate so many as a kid I think I kind of over did my personal limit and now my body's like "nah, bruh" and refuses them.

 

[Kat0121]

Not all American cheese is created equal. I get Boar's Head American cheese from the deli at Publix and it's good. Those Kraft singles? Oh no. Same with Velveeta. That stuff is repulsive.

I love olives. All olives. When I was a kid, I loved the green olives and hated the black ones. Now I love them all.

I still love water chestnuts and could (and have) eaten them directly from the can. I have also eaten horseradish (which I adore) straight from the jar on a spoon.

Eggplant is good if it is peeled, sliced thin, breaded and fried until crispy. Sometimes I eat it like a deconstructed eggplant parm. I melt cheese on the slices then dip them in sauce. Other times I just eat them as is. Eggplant is one of those veggies that (like okra IMO) should not be mushy when eaten and I do not like it when the peel has been left on.

 

[Lari]

MUSHROOMS! So, so, so creepy. You couldn't pay me to eat one.

ETA: All you black licorice haters can send it to me.

Mushrooms are fungus.
Athletes foot is fungus.
I don't want moldy toenails on my food so I avoid mushrooms.
Problem solved =D

I've been trying to eat mushrooms lately because the bf loves them. I've found them edible in a few dishes, but I don't love them and I hate how they feel in my hands when I'm prepping them.

I'll also take the black licorice. Love it.

 

[raysmyheart]

I just can't eat liver, eggs, seaweed, sardines but many people do enjoy these foods.

 

[KarenKat]

Not all American cheese is created equal

Agreed, and while I can tell it is higher quality from the deli, I still don’t like the taste

 

[jcat]

Bananas. Everything about them is revolting. The smell, the taste and the texture

I'm with you there! Mowgli is, too, oddly enough. The funny thing is, now I'm not allowed to eat them because they interfere with my blood pressure med.

 

[debbila]

Those fancy boxes are so deceiving.
Cherry filling in chocolate does not work for me. Neither does weird pink fluffy stuff.
If I want chocolate, I want chocolate...not chocolate laced with weird stuff.
What sucks is many folks give us these boxes as token thanks for Christmas, and we DO appreciate it but we usually send them off to someone who will enjoy them. We feel guilty as hell for this but there's no sense in throwing them out when someone else will like them..

Oh no! I did my Christmas shopping early and that's what I got for YOUR gift.

 

[debbila]

I love seafood but oysters? Fried or in oyster stew is great but you can not make me eat them raw!
I've never tried eel, but just the thought of it is nausating.
Spam, tongue ( the jellied stuff is even horrible to think about ), calamari - too chewy.
I like corned beef but hate saurkraut so i order coleslaw on my rueben sandwhiches instead.

 

[denice]

I like cilantro but do not care for licorice flavor. I read somewhere that licorice is also a genetic thing like cilantro.

 

[Winchester]

You guys are hilarious! I forgot about things like tripe, eel, etc. Tongue (my mother used to make blood tongue sandwiches and then wonder why her children left the table), calimari. No oysters, esp raw. Not going there. No sardines, no anchovies, no olives. Keep your cilantro. Keep your okra, too. And your cottage cheese. Keep it all.

Love pizza, but not the thin crust. Like 1 bruce 1 the crust must be thick and crusty and chewy. I dearly love my favorite toppings, but well, the crust is really important.

Rick's mother gave me a recipe for creamed Spam on toast. It seems it was one of Rick's favorites as a kid. Yeah, I'll make it for him. I guess it's a kind of comfort food? He likes it.

Agree with you about American cheese, although The Beast does not; she loves the stuff. We have a cheesemaker out the road from us, so we're pretty spoiled when it comes to cheese products. They specialize in baby Swiss cheeses, but are branching out into forms of cheddar now. I do use Velveeta once a year or so when I make the Ro-tel dip, usually around football season.

Rick despised Brussels sprouts as a kid. He was forced to eat them one time; he got them down....but they didn't stay down. He will eat them when I roast them and add bacon (everything really is better with bacon!) and dried cranberries. But that's it. We grew them in the garden a few years ago. He will not eat coconut (when he broke down and tried a lemon coconut cookie a few weeks ago, my jaw hit the floor), he will not eat liver. For years, he refused to eat any kind of salad at all; thankfully he changed his mind and will now eat salads. He didn't used to eat blueberries either; he'll eat things made with blueberries now, but he won't sit down and munch on a bowl of them.

Buttermilk? I'll bake with it, but I refuse to drink it. Our son can sit down with a glass of buttermilk, but I don't know how. Disgusting stuff. Same with ricotta. Our son loved it when I made lasagna and had some ricotta leftover. He'd sit down with the bowl.....and make me ill. Bleah.

There's a way to make eggplant so that it's not so . It is salted and drained very well, then made in whatever way you wish. I'm simply not going there. Not worth it.

At the office, people used to give us boxes of chocolates around the holidays. I always looked at the box lid to see what was what; that way I didn't get any "surprises". The big thing now for the holidays around here is chocolate-covered potato chips with chocolate-covered pretzels a close second. It's war in the office when they come in! Sometimes the Mennonite farmers' wives will bring in a small box of homemade cookies; they don't last long.

 

[LTS3]

Miracle Whip. Invented by the devil to fool people into thinking it's mayonnaise.

For the longest time Mom used Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise for things like potato salad and sandwiches It was gross. It wasn't until a couple of years ago when she started buying mayonnaise.

Black licorice and anything that tastes like it. My mom loves Good & Plenty. It was the one candy she could keep in the house that she knew for sure we kids would NEVER touch.

Licorice is gross. I cannot stand Twizzler candy. It does not make my mouth happy

Cheesecake.

Yuck to cheesecake And egg nog too.

You guys are hilarious! I forgot about things like tripe, eel, etc. Tongue (my mother used to make blood tongue sandwiches and then wonder why her children left the table), calimari. No oysters, esp raw. Not going there. No sardines, no anchovies, no olives. Keep your cilantro. Keep your okra, too. And your cottage cheese. Keep it all.

Growing up as a US-born child of immigrant parents I had no choice but to eat foods and dishes from my parents' native country. There was a lot I would not and will not eat: offal but chicken liver is ok, dried oysters which is commonly used in soups and porridges, octopus and squid in any form, sea cucumber, all those strange ingredients that show up during holidays.

 

[Mother Dragon]

Don't even say the word "liver" around me. I can detect one speck of liver in half a ton of food. My mom used to run me out of the house by cooking it. My other half loved it and she would fix it for them and fix something else for me. However, the smell would make my stomach turn. I can't think of words that begin to describe its vile taste. The same with liver sausage.

i grew up on Spam, especially fried Spam sandwiches. When I was an adult I went to a Spam festival called Spamarama. Everything there was Spam. They had cooking contests. I saw a sort of green lime gelatin molded in a fancy bundt pan that had chopped Spam in it. Spam pate, Spam quiche, Spam cheesecake, if you could imagine it, and even if you couldn't, it was there. They were giving away little fried Spam sandwiches. I tried one, nostalgically recalling my childhood. The thing was awful! I had an upset stomach the rest of the day.

Buttermilk. 'Nuff said about it.

Asparagus is another of those enzyme things. I fixed it when our daughter and her family came for dinner. She managed to choke down two bites so her daughter would try it (and loved it) but later told me it tasted like a used diaper. Neither I nor her father have any problems with it and love it stir-fried. Canned asparagus tastes like pond scum.

Cottage cheese tastes like buttermilk curds. No thanks.

No super-cinnamon-y things like red hots, either, although cinnamon in general is great.

Don't give me any offal meats. Too bloody and iron-y. However, I've eaten menudo (tripe soup) and enjoyed it.

No sauerkraut.

Nothing really vinegary.

I'm glad grapefruit juice and licorice are bad for blood pressure meds.

No tofu, please. I'd rather eat a sponge.

I love sushi and I can eat an entire bed of raw oysters. I can't think of any seafood I don't like. As a southern girl, I love okra just about any way, and eggplant, too.

I've eaten alligator, rattlesnake, gar fish, elk, bison, ostrich, kangaroo, frog legs, longhorn, crickets and grasshoppers, rabbit, squirrel, venison (too game-y), conch, sea urchin, caviar (too salty), jackfruit, and of course, lots of mystery "meat".

I'll try just about anything - except anything with liver.

 

[HellsBells80]

I can't stand anything that comes from the sea, hate the smell of it, the look of it the feel of it, everything about it
There's a lot of veg I wouldn't eat as well, sprouts, cabbage, turnip, parsnip, bell peppers, cauliflower, there's probably loads more too.
Hate the smell of lamb and duck cooking so nope to that as well, any type of offal
Oh and cottage cheese, brie and that horrible blue cheese

It probably would've been easier to list the food I actually do eat

 

[Kat0121]

I like Spam. I watch a guy on Youtube who is almost obsessed with it. He made his own from scratch and also candied some Spam and added it to cookie dough.


I like to pan fry thin slices of it until they are crispy and add them to a grilled cheese sandwich

 

[1 bruce 1]

Licorice is gross. I cannot stand Twizzler candy. It does not make my mouth happy

It's like there's a party in my mouth, and everyone's throwing up!