[timeforsleep]

...and what food do you love that most people seem to hate?

[(JD)]

I learned years and years ago from my allergist that people crave or abhor what they are allergic to when it comes to foods. The allergy does that to them (make them crave them, or hate them.)

[LMo]

I have a long list of stuff like this:
- pickles
- condiments of any kind
- lunch meat
- cold pizza
- cold pasta
- any cold food that is normally served warm
- cilantro
- dill
- celery (oh god, when I was in my first trimester, the smell of celery made me gag for an hour)
- hard liquor, white wine, or champagne

[Sabrina]

I love steak and kidney pie ......... very few people will eat kidney!

I hate (strong word but ok, I'll use it) anything way too spicy, including chilli ........ so many of my friends adore hot, hot food!

[LMo]

oh, I also am extremely picky about salads - can't stand iceberg or other "light" lettuces, and I scrutinize what kinds of stuff they mix in with a salad before I ill order it.

I'm with LMO on the pickles. Can't stand 'em!

Maple syrup and waffles! I don't like maple syrup on anything, and I don't like waffles, so when you combine the two.....ew!

[(JD)]

I don't "hate" many things at all I have bad memories about eating cow's tongue. Eggs don't like me.

I don't like caviar.
I don't crave chocolate. (can take it or leave it)

[Perna]

Sky, everyone has bad memories of eating cow's tongue! I mean, tasting taste buds? Give me a break

I don't like smoked salmon, brussel sprouts or beets.

People think I'm really weird about the foods I despise, because they are generally "regular" foods that most people eat.

Keep in mind, I DESPISE these foods. It is not just a matter of take it or leave it:

eggs
ketchup
dark chocolate
black licorice
milk
white bread
mayonnaise
american cheese

I LOVE any other type of cheese, olives, any type of shellfish, gyros, all fruits, all vegetables.

I really really wish I'd like shrimp..... everyone seems to LOVE it--- yuk!! I can't stand shrimp! it's like a big neon light- enticing patrons to enter-- "Shrimp available" and when at a company dinner, people act like they hit the jackpot if it's announced that shrimp will be served. blah!! I tried it so many different times and ways.......
heh-- you'd think being a "mermaid" I'd like shrimp....

I can't think of anything that I like that most do not..... hmmmm.... oh-- there is one thing-- jarred, sweet cherry peppers. yum!

thanks for the distraction!

mandy

[Perna]

Actually, I wouldn't think mermaids would eat their "friends" the shrimp? Maybe that's why you don't like them :-) I like more seafood than my husband does but we don't like the same things! It's very odd as it's hard to fix a seafood dinner. He likes swordfish and scallops and I don't care for either of those and his white fish has be be "fried" and I'd rather eat fish broiled. I was raised around the Chesapeake Bay so like hard shelled blue crabs but he doesn't like anything with bones or that he has to "pick" like that though he will eat a crabcake if they're his only choice.

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Actually, I wouldn't think mermaids would eat their "friends" the shrimp? Maybe that's why you don't like them :-)

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Yes, my "friends"-- the shrimp! that does explain it doesn't it!

[katheryn]

thers a few thingsi dont like , comming from a long line of fisherman i hate mackeral, cant stand the stuff also liver and peas i havent eaten a pea since i went to a friends for tea as a youngster and was very sick that evening all i could remeber was peas even the smell makes me gag

[girlN]

I HATE onions celery any seafood mayo mustard meat and beer more than almost anything.
I LOVE any herbal tea (as long as it isn't fruit flavored) chocolate cheese pizza most cheeses mango and pineapple pesto and those stinking fire cracker pickled sausages.

OMG, how could I forget..... I LOVE COFFEE.

I also hate hard liquor.

LOVE soda, particularly ginger ale.

[_Hope_]

I pretty much enjoy anything that has been cooked for me . Food always tastes better when some one else makes iT.

I like many types of food, my favorite is New york style cheese cake

I really do not like liver

Oh yeah, I also don't like onions or mushrooms-seems most people like those.
And the other non-comformist dislike I have is coffee!! How can an American NOT like coffee?? Seems I'm a rebel all the way to my taste buds! I'd much prefer tea any day!! Just about any restaurant one goes to in the US-- the waiter or waitress will ask -- "would you like coffee?" they never ask "will it be coffee OR tea?"...... another of my oddities.

mandy

[Perna]

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chocolate cheese pizza

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You had me retching there for a moment girl! :-)

[LMo]

oh yeah - I love cheese, but only if it's not orange or anything deemed a "cheese-like product" (like American cheese, whose name is insulting, or cheese whiz)

[MyBestKids2]

Gosh, the list is endless..........onions, peppers, celery, mayonnaise, ketchup, barbeque sauce, mountain dew

I'm a very bland person

[LMo]

oh yeah - and raw vegetables except tomatoes and spinach. All other vegetables must be cooked.

I do love some vegetables that other people hate, like beets and brussel sprouts.

And I hate the word "veggies"

[AAAAA]

I'm not a bit sweet eater. I once really offended the Krispy Kreme guy. I went in to get donuts for my husband and kids and the "HOT" sign was on. I did not know this meant you got a free hot donut. When I politely refused, the KK guy insisted, I said no, still insisted. I finally had to say I really hate donuts, I was there buying for the rest of the family.

[Sabrina]

Thinking about this more .... I don't like fried meat - infact I hardly fry anything - even my fried eggs are "dry" fried. I will use a bit of olive oil in a stir fry though.

Brinjal / egg plant - yuk yuk yuk - but I think it's an acquired taste as I don't know of many that like it.

And how could I forget - I hate olives! I always ask for a greek salad minus the olives!

I love love love cheese - very comforting stuff - in any form!

[SeptemberMorn]

Broccoli!!!! In any form! YUK YUK YUK!!! All those little grains that get stuck in your teeth!! ...if it's raw. If it's cooked... MUSH! Green MUSH! Bahk!! Yechies!!

Sabrina, I'm with you on that eggplant, too! YECH!!