What foods do you DESPISE!

[bwoods]

to agree with Phil

First, what foods do I despise to eat (beside lobster because of the suffering)..almost none..unfortunately. That's why I could and should lose about ten pounds ha.

Phil, I thought I was just about the only person in this world who doesn't like to kill insects. I too try to trap spiders, and an occasional grasshopper and take them outdoors. When I do kill an insect I attempt to do it instantly so they don't suffer. With five cats, I try to catch a spider before they do, as it will see a fate worse than death at the hands (that is mouths) of my cats.

I feel less sympathetic toward roaches as they spread disease, but even then I try to make their demise painless. They didn't ask to be a roach and didn't ask to be put on this earth. They are only trying to live the life they have been given. But unfortunately I can't have my house be a sanctuary for them. And if I don't kill them, by cats will take care of it for me, and not so humanely. Fortunately, I rarely get them.

You know the expression. If it's in your house, it's a "waterbug" (said softly with a smile). But if it's in your neighbor's house...it's a ROACH!!! (said with loud disgust)

I remember when my family an I went to Florida. My mom found roaches in the room and my dad went to the desk to get another room. The clerk downplayed it and informed my dad that the hotel did NOT have roaches but what he saw, if anything, may have been a "Florida Waterbug." Right. the waterbug probably came in to spend the night after surfing all day.

 

[philr]

Since I live up north, we don't have to deal with as many insects as in the south.

I have never seen a roach here! Apparently there are, usually in older houses with people who don't clean much! My mother was raised in an old house in a poor neighborhood of my hometown and they had a convenience store in a part of their home. My grandmther took care of the store until her death (at age 36) in 1960, but after her death, the older kids were running the store and they started to have problems!
People would bring back empty Coke bottles with roaches in them so they eventually had some too! My grandfather wasn't the kind of guy who would call the exterminator just for a few roaches but he couldn't get rid of them with his Raid cans so when he noticed that the situation was a bit out of control, he did! Apparently, he didn't have to call many times to get rid of roaches! One time was enough! That's one of the few advantages of our cold weather!

Still, my mother and my aunts were traumatised with insects, they all remember roaches running to hide when they turned on the big fluorescent light over the table in the kitchen/dining room and others getting out of the toaster when they used it so they turned it on before putting bread slices in! They even saw some in their pull-out dishwasher!

Apparently, a family living nearby had so many roaches that they didn't bother to hide anymore in their house when they turned the lights on (or there was no space left for them to hide!) and they even had to get them out of their plates while eating! They were the ones suspected to have brought roaches in Coke bottles at my grandfather's place!

So my mother learned me to rinse thoroughly refundable bottles and cans and even the dirty dishes before letting them in the dishwasher unless it's ready to be started immediately after leaving the plates in! I even rinse packages that are going in the trash bin!

 

[tolivac]

Yes,large roaches out my way-not the smaller ones up North.At my place they get the "foot" or the vacuum.If the foot-the vacuum gets the remains.At a former workplace in downtown Wash Dc-the roaches in that building were HUGE-you could almost ride them!If you stepped on one-made a loud CRUNCH and left a greenish-yellow stain on the floor.and the remains would be there for a while to get "run over" again by other users of that building.What was also funky-you would be working at your bench and one of those things walks thru the overhead flourescent light and makes a weird shadow on your workbench.Sometimes would freeze them with electronics "freeze Spray"!The things would actually wake up again!Tough critters!!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Seen on Foodstuff, GOOD and BAD! How Ugly:

OK, somewhere I saw mushrooms in this thread--and once a co-worker and I split a personal pan pizza w/ four-slices on which everything EXCEPT MUSHROOMS was on it! --That thing even had anchovies...

 

The "N-Word": NATURAL... Been seeing it at a "Everything labeled Homestyle"-level and on foods ranging from nuts, breakfast bears/granola bars and produce, to meats & even beer...

 

Did not want to buy the Meijer store-brand of canned-tomato sauce due to it being labeled ax such--and even the national branded competitors...

 

--Nope! --Walmart Great Value brand that just says "Tomato Sauce" for me!

 

And like-wise, "Natural" better mean Natural Selection, (Scientific term, I take it) New Naturals's, as in GE's appliance-color selection or  Natural Gas...!

 

Think I'll go "au natural", now...! (LOL!) "Naturally"...

 

 

-- Dave

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[mrsalvo]

What an interesting thread, it's left me wondering what everyone DOES eat!!! A persons body changes every 7 years, hence the taste buds change as well, so I can tolerate some foods that I used to not could stand and vise versa. There are a few foods that never go into my grocery cart at the grocery store:
1. Peas (canned or fresh)
2. Spinach (canned) 2A. Quiches
3. Any type of body organs or feet. None period.
4. Sushi and Oysters.
5. Totally avoiding Genetically Modified Foods.
6. Wild game. (Includes frog legs.)
7. Brussel Sprouts and Asparagus.
8. Turnips and collard greens. Nope.
9. Egg Nog.

Onions are very good for a person, and I try to eat a fair amount in my cooked foods. They are good for cleansing the body of poisons and viruses. (During the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918 when so many died within 24 hours of catching it, those families who ate a lot of onions never got sick or died. My grandmother believed in them.)

I've modified much of my diet, since I've gotten older and after a really bad physical. I try to do my own cooking, I eat a lot of soups and healthy salads.
I'm really growing leary of sugary sodas, ie. Cokes, Pepsi, etc. Even drinking one Coke a day they say can lead to diabetes. I'd welcome any comments or experiences concerning Cokes.

 

[ovrphil]

PhilR storey - posted above

Sobering to read - many people, like myself, have been fortunate never to experience that level of roaches. Once, when I was living/studying in S.Carolina, a few of us students went to a restaurant for dinner. I saw a huge mouse run across the wall. I said, "Was that a mouse that ran across the wall?" My friends,all from the south, laughed and told me it was a Palmetto bug(which are as big as a bus, imho).

Coke question: We had a neighbor(childhood neighborhood), who drank alot of sodas daily- especially Coke. I mean, not one a day, but liters. Not to give Coke a bad name, but she developed diabetes and brain cancer(luckily, she is alive). A nurse, one would think she would have developed some perceptions about health(not blaming,just sayin').

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[jamiel]

Dave, I've had very good luck with the Meijer Naturals brand of canned tomatoes/products...I believe they come either from Hirzel near Toledo or Red Gold in Indiana...in the gold colored label. I first thought they were organic, but they sneakily use "Naturals" as the brand name to give things a "halo".

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

If you like Natural I won't spoil your enjoyment!

Hmmmmm, kinda got so wrapped up in my rant about "product labeling" that I forgot to mention that the co-worker was the one who didn't like mushrooms... Me, I love 'em! (It was his idea to order the 4-slice-pizza & both of us chipped in, each taking our two slices...)

 

I remember being the only one in a class room who wanted them on a pizza for a party we were going to have, but the teacher refused to have the rest of the kids make a pile of mushrooms they didn't want to be offered to me w/ their dirty hands or get torn off their slices of pizza and thrown away... (We could have ordered "half", but not 1/4-3/4 or just a slice or two, or "personal size" for me; least not back then...)

 

 

-- Dave

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[norgeway]

Something else NASTY

Anything Whole Wheat, We had that awful bread at home growing up, I begged for white bread, but no, whole grain is GOOD for you, YUCK, I haven eaten it since, my Aunt bought Roman Meal, and it was THE WORST, I don't give two hoots if its bad for you, give me good old white bread and good old bleached flour, I want my biscuits pretty, not grey like the are if you use that damnable unbleached flour, also raw tomatoes, cooked are wonderful, Hogs head is for SOUSE MEAT!! Now that and Liver Mush are wonderful, Squirrel makes the best dumplings ever.I had a great Aunt who cooked possums, GREASY and NASTY!!!!LOL

 

[alr2903]

Peach and mincemeat.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I guess I have seen liver mentioned in another thread here that I have to say (if it hasn't been said here already) that I, too, hate liver--tastes so much like old shoe leather, doesn't it?!  Liver & Onions? I'll eat the ONIONS!

 

However, gimme that same liver chopped-up with some seasoning--and that I will like and eat! (And that has happened, that I couldn't believe the liver I didn't like & would not eat last night, became something I loved!)

 

Ditto for "mock liver"--made from beans and/or peas (probably chick peas) somehow liver flavored, I at least like, or will eat, albeit it being meatless...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[polkanut]

For me it's squirrel & rabbit meat, squash (any type), sweet potatoes.  

 

[tolivac]

Yes,I will include liver&onions-the smell of it being cooked was almost as bad as burning out selenium rectifiers!!!

 

[mark_wpduet]

gosh

Black olives are disgusting tasting to me. It's like this funky chemical taste or something...and I love most vegetables and fruits, but black olives are gross..

I won't eat any meat that isn't beef chicken pork or turkey...

 

[mercer]

I'm probably going to gross out some folks here by admitting that I really like liver and onions. Snails too. And anchovies!

As for stuff I won't eat:

1. Pickles, be they sweet or dill (unless they're on Krystal burgers -- for those who live outside the Southeast, Krystal is essentially White Castle's southeastern counterpart).

2. Canned asparagus.

3. Green olives. Black olives aren't much better, but I'll eat them occasionally if they're on pizza or perhaps pasta salad. I really like Kalamata olives, though.

4. Licorice. Nasty!

5. Bananas with even a tiny amount of brown (I like them when they still have a little bit of green on them; they taste more fruity then).

6. Beets. They smell awful!

7. French dressing.

8. Thousand Island dressing.

 

[warmsecondrinse]

Oh wow! I'm such a garbage pit. There are aren't too many things I won't eat:
1. RAW apples. I love them cooked in any way, shape, or form.
2. Asparagus. NFW!
3. Insects, Jellyfish, & Rocky Mountain Oysters ... just NO. Never tried. Never will.
4. Plain stewed tomatoes.
5. Kraft Mac & Cheese
6. Rootbeer, Anise, or anything even remotely close to that whole family. Even the smell makes my stomach roil.
7. I'm not overly fond of sweet and savory combos of any type.
8. Cloves! GROSS!!!

There are 1 or 2 more things I won't eat but I'll eat all sorts of stuff most people won't: organ meat (inc. brains & tripe), snails, nearly all the "gross" veggies...

Random thought: Has anyone found a food or food combination that affects them the way oysters are reputed to? Thai style curry&coconut soup/sauce does it for me.

Jim

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

To Tame A TAB:

Not necessarily a dislike but Diet Pop is something you couldn't pay me to drink...  I can understand the principal of it in order to consume less calories, but I believe something not so good for you should stay something not so good for you, not made into something that is good for but is really BAD for you!

 

I wonder about Tab Cola: It used to be popular, and even served in restaurants and it had catchy commercials ("Tab, Tab Cola his Beautiful..."), but after being turned onto a case of it, I would rather be drinking battery acid--it tastes like a regular cola pretending to be a diet cola--however, since I got a case of 12 cans, which my wife won't even drink, I found a way to learn to like it:

 

Just add COKE...!

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

 

[ilovewindex]

Carrots (unless brined and there's some kinda hot pepper with em)
Olives
Black Liquorice (And the seasoning that tastes like it)
Scallops
Anchovies
Capers
Pepporoni
Tofu
There are a few other odd things here and there
I wont eat bugs or anything exotic like that either

My tastes have changed... I love pb and miraclewhip sammichs

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Fea. AMKrayoPeeCan, Markdown Blueberry Bread & Cran-Pine!

Sauerkraut! I LOVE eating it (well, meals-dishes w/ or what has sauerkraut in 'em) but HATE what it gets STUCK on or in!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[firedome]

used to hate sauerkraut...

until I tried my (100% German ancestry) wife's homemade ... wunderbar!

I like almost everything ... and you can tell LOL!

The exceptions: Miracle Whip (work of the devil!), strong oily fish, liver, organ meat, insects. Other than that - I'll take seconds please!

Being a MD native, I LOVE raw Chesapeake 'ersters (as the Eastern Shore waterman call 'em) and crab in any form.