People who make anise cookies are HIGHLY suspect. I'd watch 'em.

And yellow and orange. I don't like the taste of green peppers, but I don't hate them enough to pick them out of my salad.

I like cauliflower best when it's cooked to the consistency of home fried potatoes, or chick peas, then smothered in something unhealthy, like butter or cheese sauce. Yum.:yum:

Hazelnut, Just the thought.......:greenface

that bit of red stuff you need to remove from round pecans....

I forgot: marzipan. But that puts me over 5. Oh well. Never mind. I guess I like it after all.

Defy the Five!

Whoops, I forgot to answer.

Store-bought pickles
Chicken cooked by me (I always mess it up somehow)
Iceberg lettuce
Frozen or canned spinach
Vanilla soy milk

In that case, cry havoc and let loose the dogs of urgh....

- Margarine
- I don't hate all nuts, but I dislike the fact that they are so ubiquitous. People put them places they were never intended to go.
- Dried Apricots. Because I dislike the flavour coupled with the texture of dried scrotums.
- Cheese & Onion crisps.
- Celery. I can only accept it if the taste is completely negated by other ingredients. Which it isn't in a salad. Off it goes to the side of the plate!
- Sick in my throat. Well, it is a taste after all.

I love almost all flavors. Except...

I dislike Avocados because my first one was spoiled. Can't even tolerate the color. Do.not.let.it.touch.my.food.

I don't like licorice. It looks and tastes like someone else threw up in my mouth.

That's it.

I no-one going to say getting butt-fucked in the mouth?

Stewed tomatoes and bread crumbs
sea urchin

Ooh! I meant to say in the Happy thread - my Mum's bowel cancer scare was a red herring.
(I suspected as much as she did not have attending symptoms, but kept it zipped). Turns out people with upper digestive system problems shouldn't have liquorice. The small amount of Liquorice Allsorts she had gave her black stools for five days. It may also have caused the pain she was in, but that's more likely a coincidence....

So you see people - it IS bad for you.
And peanut butter kills.

Who ever died from raw onion, eh?

The more sensitive members of the audience, perhaps.

I'd compare dried apricots to nibblesome earlobes, myself.

Figs are the more scrotumlike. But who cares?

I'd already put in that I dislike Chinese baby corn and its sauce. Couldn't really think of another four I disliked as much, though raw carrot is in there unless mixed with other things that rescue it.

This thread would simply have to drift anyway, from food group to food group.

Nobody's remarked on anything dairy? Some have distinct likes and dislikes among, say, the cheeses.

I never saw the point of cheese with dried fruit or nuts in it....I don't particularly dislike, just would rather eat other things given the choice.

Actually, I'm not a big fan of gorgonzolla on a cracker, but it's nice in cooked recipies that call for a blue cheese, or made into a dip with caramelised onions.

I really like that apricot cheese stuff with the almonds sometimes, but I'd still go for a nice cheddar or bree first.

Must try before I can comment.

Bleurgh! As you're going for my gag reflex with a hammer, why not make a cheese with peanut butter and banana and just be done with it? :headshake

Nothing wrong with peanut butter and banana. YUUUUUUUUUUM. And peanut butter on fruit bread toast. YUUUUUUUUUUUUUM. Adding cheese would ruin it though.

Ya know how sometimes ya belch, but, it ain't a belch, and, it ain't quite vomit, but, ya got to re-swallow something?

I hate that taste.

Oh, now I'm craving a toasted cinnamon-raisin bagel with PB on one half, and cream cheese on the other. Can hardly wait for breakfast tomorrow...

And honey. Don't forget the honey!

Honey in its raw form (i.e. not in a cake etc...) turns my stomach. I had one of those tests done once which indicated that I'm mildly allergic to it.

Oh well, leave off the honey then. I'll have your share. :)

Sounds good to me.

pickles (I am with wolf on this...no pickle of any kind)
mustard
burnt anything
ranch dressing (overdose in high school)
pecans/walnuts (I like other kinds of nuts, but these two I thought I could group together since they taste the same to me)

Olives. Even the sight of them makes me gag.

Aniseed in anything other than an aniseed ball.

Okra/Ladies Fingers

Puffball mushrooms (Dad used to pick them on his way home from work. One time he tried drying slices of them out. The smell will stay with me forever.

Quorn, unless heavily flavoured it reminds me too much of puffball mushroom...

What is quorn? Sounds like porn for ducks.

From wiki:

Okra...agreed. I remember selling it at the farm market and wondering what the heck it could actually add to anything. Weird, but fun to pop apart. I thought lady fingers were a dessert? Is this another opportunity for me to learn some new phrases from across the pond?

I wonder why they call it Quorn...not expecting an answer, just musing. I'll check it out later.

yes.

What Americans call Lady Fingers, are Sponge Fingers to Brits. Brits use the term Lady Fingers to refer to okra

http://www.amazon.com/Bisconova-Clas.../dp/B00092M46C

re Quorn as a name.... I wonder if it's a variant on corn, given that it was developed as an aminal feed and uses the waste startch from cereal processing?



/OK, OKAY I'll get on with the cleaning and stuff... after this cup of tea......

We call it maize

Shellfish
Corn
Mushrooms
Cola

That sounds absolutely horrible. Does one have to have tasted a food to put it on one's list?

Quorn is okay. It takes up flavours really well. If you make a chilli with Quorn mince you have to be careful with your seasoning as it will be hotter than using a beef equivilant.

Having lived in Leicestershire I always assumed the village of Quorn had something to do with the name, or at least the famous Quorn Hunt.

Reason I asked was that there's a town in SA called Quorn which according to the Wikipedia entry was named after Quorndon in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

And now info on the original Quorn in the UK:

Quorn is a village in Leicestershire, England, situated next to the university town of Loughborough. Quorn's name was shortened from Quorndon in 1889, to avoid postal difficulties owing to its similarity to the name of another village, Quarndon, a few miles away. Its original name is said to derive from the Old English cweordun. Dun, Old English for Hill, where cweorn, Old English for millstones, are quarried.

Did some more googling and found this review of Quorn products. Those who have tried Quorn can perhaps let the rest of us know how much the writer of this article was paid for the following review:

http://www.foodie-central.com/2010/0...ct-launch.html

Having tried Quorn once (there's a clue right there) I glanced briefly at the article's photos. I've always held that nearly everything tastes better when it is breaded and fried. Quorn makes up for its lack of flavor with its appalling texture. I suppose the breading and frying treatment helps one choke it down.

I am distrustful of all things fungal.

I dont mind some quorn products. Mum's a veggie so she quite often cooks quorn. Their 'chicken' fillets and 'beef' pieces are pretty decent especially if curried. But I can only eat it if it's in something very flavoursome and spicy. The natural flavour of quorn is horrible.

Note, all the food in the review is highly flavoured and/ or a replacement for junk food.
And they served wine.
It's no great surprise it tasted good.

Again, I have no probs with Quorn.
I'd rather eat it knowingly than having soya replace much of meat in my "meat" pie.

I LOVE tofu (the firm kind, not the silken).

Anyway, I'm subletting an English person's apartment for the next four months (:) x 10) and it's about 10.30 p.m. and I'm hungry so I go to the cupboard and find Marks and Spencers Oat Cakes. Tried one with philadelphia cream cheese...have I just eaten food or cardboard? Will I need to try another one to confirm this. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Marks and Spencers are noted for their underwear, so....


;)

I wondered if the word quorn might be related to quern, a grindstone. Turns out it is, but not the way I expected (i.e. nothing to do with grinding the fungus, just a coincidence of place names).

I LOVE M&S food. It's all on my Treat List.
But oatcakes, whoever they are made by, are essentially edible cardboard.
I have never warmed to them.

Whenever I read about Hard Tack I think of oatcakes.

I came here to tell you a sad story.
I had an intense cold last week - really extreme symptoms for 24 hours only. Yes I did go to work. But it did amuse me that it was the quintessential 24 hour bug.

Trouble is, it's hung around in the form of catarrh. I've never been a big cougher. Sneezer, yes. Cougher, no. But I keep having to clear my throat because it's catching as I breathe.

So Mum asked me this morning - after an extended bout that I think annoyed her - can we get you something from Tesco?
I generally think cough mixture is a waste of money, but I was so flattered that she asked, I said yes.
Anyway, they got home about 30 minutes ago and I had my first swig.
IT TASTES OF LICORICE!

:(

I simply cannot use it.
Same as when I was four and we got food poisoning from Co-op pork sausages. The Doctor prescribed kaolin & morphine, but Mum had to let it run its course, because I heaved so much when she tried to give it to me that I was making myself sick.

Sundae - the only cough syrup worth using has narcotic in it. Can you get some of that?

TBH I only agreed to this because I felt flattered.
I've not intention of spending my own money on it, narcotic or not.

Rotgut cider is £1 a can. That will do :)

fify

When we were kids there was one cough medicine which I couldn't stand which was called Senegrenamonia :greenface and then there was another one which was raspberry flavoured which we were hardly ever given:thepain:.

Warm 'em up to about the temperature of toast right out of the toaster.

Commercial, packaged oatcakes ain't generally worth the powder to blow 'em up if the few I ate were any sample. Edible drinks coasters. Seems they have to be homemade, using home-kitchen dripping, to taste like much of anything at all. Had 'em that way, not bad in a fats-and-starch way.

Thanks. I'll give it a go and report back.

We used to have Pripsen when one of us had worms. One of us had them, we all got dosed.
It was supposed to be taste of raspberries, and you added milk to it.
It was the most disgusting taste in the whole world and I gag now just writing about it.

To this day I still get suspicious of anything raspberry "flavoured" in case it carries a hint of the taste.

Kids today can have tablets.
Lucky fuckers.

Wait. What? Worms?

Yup.
What?
You don't get worms in America?

Turns out you call it pinworm, we call it threadworm.
It's grim anyway, with the female coming out of your anus at night to lay her eggs. How disgusting is that for an adult, let alone a child to comprehend?

They are often spread hand to mouth, when hands are not washed after going to the toilet, but can become airbourne after contact with clothes - not much you can do about that - you simply breathe them in.

Classic symptoms - itchy bum.
Not verified medically - hunger.
Still said today by adults, "I can't believe I'm still hungry! I must have worms!"

I've not known of anyone to actually get worms, unless they were cats who liked to hunt wild mice.

Headlice seems like the big parasite here.

I don't know that I've encountered it, though I think I have heard of it. My kittehs can get worms, dogs can...why wouldn't humans?

Yeah, I think I would totally freak out.

However, if I could get my hands on a modest tapeworm I'd love worms and all things wormy. ;)

I don't think I'd even contemplated the idea of worms until I was in my late teens. Combantrin is widely advertised as the medication that deals with worms in Oz.

http://www.jnjaust.com.au/products/combantrin/

My sister had ringworm once, which turns out to just be a fungus on the skin. She and my mom were freaking out after the doctor announced she had ringworm, but before he explained what it was.