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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 717949)

Mushrooms

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Snails (okay, I've never actually HAD snails, but I choose to dislike them on general principle)

These are two of my favorites.

Snails are prepared like some seafood. The sauce is made of butter mixed with garlic and parsley.

I love it. Same with frogs' legs.

Well... I'm French.

Any doubts as to your Frenchiness have been washed away! ;)

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 717930)

scotch
licorice
celery
brussel sprouts

And saur kraut.

I've had snails. They are yummy. Frog's legs too. Although frog's legs are a lot like chicken wings, so there isn't too much point in going to the trouble of getting frog's legs. Just eat some wings.

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Originally Posted by casimendocina (Post 718102)

offal

:lol2: Offal tastes awful.

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Originally Posted by bluecuracao

Interesting how many folks don't like green peppers. My mother, who is also a farmer, recently informed me that we are not really supposed to eat green peppers because they are unripe.

This is what I've always said! I love red bell peppers. Green ones are hideous. On the other hand, I greatly prefer tart green apples over red ones.

Anise.

Ick.

I will trade snails for anise. I had an aunt who was crazy about anise. Every year her tin of Christmas Cookies went straight into the trash. EVERY year.

Do we need a field of 64 thing?

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 717965)

Another opportunity missed to shut the fuck up.

Right back atcha, Toad. Goose sauce, gander sauce. Consider a philosophical question: since when are forums ever an opportunity to shut up?

Anise cookies are quite all right. Wouldn't want to overdo the anise or it would be like a cross between cheap liquorice -- the molasses-y Australian and Scandinavian liquorices are much better -- and Buckley's Mixture.

Snails -- hey, butter and garlic. Good eatin'. And one experience the unadventurous, I guess, shall never know.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 718205)

This is what I've always said! I love red bell peppers. Green ones are hideous. On the other hand, I greatly prefer tart green apples over red ones.

I see Clod's point here -- in that Delicious-variety apples don't keep very well, and puckery Granny Smiths do, besides being the thing for pie baking.

Delicious eaten the afternoon they are picked is another story; they live up to their name then. Keep 'em around, though, and they go mealy. In the supermarket I'll buy any other variety first.

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 717959)

and avocados. Only I thought, well, I haven't actually tried one in so long maybe my palate has matured and I like them now, who knows?

Wait.......

Where is UG?

:lol:

Post #18, same page I got this. :D <--avocado-eatin' grin

And man, was that a memorable avocado... (sighhhhh)

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 717965)

Another opportunity missed to shut the fuck up.

Yeah actually I was wondering why you said that UT, and only put a few words which were sure to be taken out of context in the quote by the anti UG crowd.

If there's any forum on this site where UG actually does normally speak with knowledge and skill I'd say it's this one. Certainly in politics and sometimes current events his views might sometimes cause that sort of reaction, but surely not the food forum?

Simple question: 5 tastes you hate.

Everyone answering.

UG response:

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I'm just more adventurous than Pete is. Edible things rather seem to outnumber inedible things, as the late Ewell Gibbons taught us. If you're lost in the mountainous pine woods in early spring, you can probably make it out of there eating the just-emergent new tender pine needles right off the tree. Also prevents scurvy, if you're, uh, really really lost. Those and the hearts of cattails, which probably don't taste like all that much but would fill your stomach with something digestible and in some degree nutritious. (So never be without your knife to get at them.)

I can see where some people think cilantro tastes like soap, but it just doesn't go far enough in that direction to read like soap to me.

Some of you guys have the oddest dislikes. Avocado?! Couple months ago I had me the best avocado I've ever dug a spoon into: slowly slowly paperbag-ripened -- I was wondering if it ever would ripen -- until it had the slight yielding of the ripe avocado but not the squashiness of a 'cado past its peak. (Discolored avocados have lost it. Not much fun there.)

Halved, pitted, and lightly salted, it was so fresh and creamy -- it was like eating Gardevoir pussy. (Or the Firefly episode with the fresh strawberries.)

Cumin?! Good Lord. Without cumin, chili simply... isn't. And it puts depth in curry powders too -- which are at their peak made up and ground up the day they are used. It's good curry when you and the wife have been to an Indian restaurant, then make love that night, and the whole bedroom smells of curry in the morning.

No answer to the question.

Well I didn't really respond to the question either, and there are a few others who haven't, and other general discussions seem to be going on too. I guess I just don't get why you singled UG out.

I thought thread drift was accepted in this community. Even encouraged at times.