Post your food absolutes here
 

I just saw a commercial for some sort of breakfast sandwich that had a piece of unrecognizable folded egg substance, it looked like a small yellow blanket, between the questionable bread and what i hoped was some delicious sausage.

Eggs should have their own little venue. they can be the star, or a calming sidedish...but please don't lump them with bread and meats and gravies. a little touch of salt is sufficient.

what combos make no sense to you?

Bell peppers when combined with actual foods are right out.

Try them grilled with onions, mushrooms, cheese and chicken. But put the peppers in last... once they go drab, it's over. Bright green.

My BIL eats mashed potatoes with Hellman's mayo every day of his life. Honestly it looks like curdled milk. barf

Cilantro and my mouth are two things that should never, ever be in the same place at the same time. Ever.

Blech.

Word.

Ruins guacamole. Tastes like metal.

I said right out! I can't taste anything but nasty peppers when they're introduced to food. They ruin sauces and sides alike.

Now cilantro is awesome with anything.

Yes to cilantro
No to Goat cheese

(sorry Griff)

cilantro and peppers are both out for me

I'm not big on peppers.

Eggs are outstanding mixed with other foods. Stirred into a wonton soup, mixed with other stuff into a quiche or casserole. Thrown in a salad.

The only bad egg dish I can think of is in Germany where they have a pizza where they crack a raw egg on top when the pizza is almost done and they put it back in the oven for a minute to just firm up the edges of the egg a little bit.

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Bananas
Peanut butter
Fennel/ star anise/ anything licorice or aniseed flavoured really
Celery/ celeriac
Cucumber

I'm not fussy (don't listen to Limey) and will try anything.
But once I don't like a taste it ruins a dish or sandwich for me.
Luckily the swankier the menu, the more likely I am to find said ingredients; their loss.

Although the Chinese are far too fond of nuts (probably a major source of protien during one of their many periods of starvation.)After they wiped out whole bird populations.

Still it means it's the local Harvester for me.
Cheap n cheerful.

I'm with u, V on Cilantro. What is the point, other than it sounds exotic.

yes to cilantro
yes to aged Manchego (sheep's milk cheese)
no no no no no to okra

Okra is a weed. It should be plowed under and something useful planted.

Black olives. Or basically any of the shitty olives I grew up around. Can't stand them even coming in contact with my food, as even the slightest taste is repugnant to me. I love _good_ olives though. Kalamata olives? I'll eat them by the hand full.

All olives are verboten in my book.

Cilantro, on the other hand, is fantastic.

I don't like peppers.

I don't like seafood, though I don't mind canned salmon if it's salty enough. Or breaded shrimp if they're breaded enough.

Snails and insects no, pretty much everything else

I don't like mixed meats in a dish. With the exception of bacon because that goes with everything else.

For instance: Indian takeouts offer various curries with a selection of meats (lamb, or chicken or beef etc) but often they also do a medley dish, with chicken and lamb and pork or whatever. Yech. I find the idea really repulsive.

I also don't much like mixing egg and chicken. Seems kind of gross as a concept.

mushrooms...neverever

The right olives ... like kalamata or Mount Athos green ... are heaven in your mouth. Too many complex tastes to describe. I close my eyes and give myself up to my senses when I'm eating a Mount Athos olive ...

Snail ... no. I ate one, long ago, on the principle that I couldn't say I didn't like it if I hadn't tried it. Well, bullshit to THAT principle. All I could think of, as I chewed and chewed this rubbery, dirt-tasting thing, was that I was chewing on a f***ing snail. I wanted to retch it up but couldn't, as I was standing in the middle of my parents' 25th anniversary party. But I've never touched a snail since, and now I adhere to my own principle of 'if you think it will make you vomit, say HELL NO (i.e. pass on it gracefully, with a smile)'.

Brussel sprouts smell like old socks. My mom used to create dishes of them every Thanksgiving and my cries of 'this is child abuse' went unheard for years.

I can't think of anything I can't stand. Some things I wouldn't cook for myself, but I will eat it if someone puts it in front of me.

Old sock soaked in old piss.

My sister missed Halloween one year because she threw hers in the trash and lied about eating them. I ate mine. She got the better end of the deal.

I don't mind brussel sprouts if they're sauteed with garlic and onion in lots of butter. A bit of chilli is quite good too.

They are pretty yuck if they're just boiled or steamed.

Cilantro........
Whenever I want something to taste like soap I just add a little cilantro.......the more cilantro you add, the soapier it gets.....:greenface

They feel like they have to add that in everything here in the Southwest.

also;
[John Pinette/ When I was a kid, I don't remember anyone ever saying, "Go out to the garden and pick some arugula"]

JR

Cilantro: sucks!

Brussels sprouts: suck! Mom tried to make me eat them once. Mine ended up in the garbage too, after I barfed trying to eat the mudderplucker.

I love green olives, they're awesome on pizza, and hate black olives. I like green (white) grapes and hate red/purple grapes. But I like red wine (not the sweet crap, a Pinot Noir or something more dry like that.)

Coconut can bite me...even the smell gags me, sort of like Jheri Curl.

Mushrooms don't know whether to be crunchy or mushy... *shudders*

And green peppers make me gag too. The big kind that are sometimes red or yellow. A little flavor of a jalapeno or something spicy hot is nice, but I won't eat it in big chunks.

I hate cucumbers but love pickles.

I hate crustaceans but love salmon, tuna, halibut, haddock, walleye...etc.

My tastes are quite unrefined. And I like it that way.

oh! Cilantro is coriander!?

Ahhh. I love coriander.

Brussel sprouts suck. My mom made a kind of spinach pie with brussel sprouts in it. I got spanked for not eating it and making rude comments about how yucky it was. Actually, I think I had to eat it. In addition to the spanking.

That was almost 40 years ago. That's probably a memory I'll have for my whole life.

Brussels sprouts should have stayed in Brussels.

And boo to cabbage and boo to stuffed cabbage and to stuffed peppers and to sauerkraut.

There is apparently a substance in brussel sprouts which is mildly toxic unless cooked out and which even when cooked often makes children feel sick.

Can I just be the Moana Lisa here?
Why do pizzas have to be all about one thing?
Italian pizzas (in Italy) are very, very different, but even they are not all about one thing. Or if they are, it's a yummy thing. BTW eggs on pizza are gorge... if they look cooked!

I do not want a Meast Feast. I want onions on there, some pinepple.
I do not want the only standard option including anchovies to be a Catch of the Day where all you get is fish and sliced tomatoes.
I quite fancy Tandoori Chicken from time to time, but not some sort of gimmicky Curry pizza, or as a Chicken Special pizza.

And yes, I can build my own, only to find that I one of my choices is my sauce (free change on menu), the FSMing sauce! And it works out twice as expensive all round, becuse the standard pizzas have about four toppings and the Make Your Own only allows you four. I guess they put the people who can read on the MYO and they are on a higher wage.

ALSO - if I substitute 2x veg for 2x meat why have I reached my limit?
Surely onions are cheaper than tuna?!

This thread reveals the following
- I have not had pizza for far too long
- I think about things way too much
- I have not had sex for far too long
- Pizza companies are like, really unfair

All of which I think y'all knew.

When we went for pizza in Leicester mine had egg on it like that one. It was teh yum.

I've only had brussel sprouts a handful of times. Every time they were roasted with lots of garlic, spices and bacon. I enjoyed them immensely.

Hated them as a kid; love them now.

Yay! Other people who like brussels sprouts! It's all in how they're cooked (I suspect most of our parents were guilty of boiling them into sodden lumps of bitterness). Done right, they're yummm. :yum:

Roasted brussels sprouts are delicious.

Thats what mine look like after being sauteed.

Last weekend I made my own dough for pizza. I use Unico spicy pizza sauce, add freshly sliced cremini mushrooms, diced cherry tomatoes, a little green pepper, lots of oregano and pepper topped with a sharp local cheddar and tiny blobs of Danish Blue. Just before popping it into the oven we mince about 12 green olives (ooo the salt:). Bake 15 mind at 350, then 5 on broil.
Voila

Minifobette adores brussels sprouts, they're one of her favorite foods. I roast them in the oven for her with oil, salt, and pepper.

I find them awesome as well.

Limeg - that pizza sounds yum. Photo next time. Or it didn't happen. You should know that by now.

Sprouts: my bessie in London loved sprouts; they were her favourite vegetable (and she couldn't even adulterate them with bacon, being a strict veggie.) Weird.

The 'rents are mad-crazy about them, but they do eat them even when it's not Christmas.

Big chunks of tomato in anything are NOT acceptable. (It's related to an ugly childhood incident that involved maggots. 'Nuff said.)

No star anise or licorishy (sp?) tasting anything. Barf.

Okra is great deep fried, but the slime factor makes it too nasty to eat any other way.

Oysters? Oh, FUCK no.

I've never encountered an oyster that I liked.

And I love clams and mussels. why are oysters so different?

'Cuz they're gray and slimy and eaten *gurgle* raw.

And yet, I like and eat sushi. Go figger. ;)

I abhor licorice-y-tasting root beer.

Is teh bleurgh.

Also, no black jelly beans...And I don't particularly care for any of the candies in a "box of candy" like you buy your sweety on Valentine's Day.

Toss your beans over to me Grav, I adore black licorice anything. Just purchased a tiny bag of the made in Australia kind-for snacking emergencies.

Mum thought she was bleeding from the bowel a while back. This involves black tarry stools and/ or coffee like granules.
Turns out she had pigged a whole box of Bertie Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts. They don't agree with one of the medications she is on and caused stomach ache (and intense fright.)

Funny in hindsight though.

Mammydigr gets my black jelly beans.:D