The tastes you hate (no more than 5)
green pepper
raw onion
cumin
grapefruit
seafood (mostly the smell, but taste and smell are extremely intertwined)
green pepper (agreed)
raw onion (agreed)
vinegar
raw tomato (this time, mostly the texture)
Those last four make me extremely picky about salads.
fish avocado cilantro liquor peyote
green pepper
curry
olives
shrimp (aversion therapy)
meatloaf
seafood/fish (all)
cilantro
mushrooms (all)
anise
horehound (sp?)
Peppers
Horseradish
Coconut
Brussels sprouts
Sauerkraut
Barium contrast for small bowel series
All of the colonoscopy prep stuff
Brussel sprouts
Asparagus
Cabbage
Olives
Green peppers
Sea urchin
Pimiento Cheese
goat cheese
goat milk
cooked green pepper
most mushrooms
sea urchin roe
seafood/fish
canned spinach
canned asparagus
avocado, unless prepared in my SIL's guacamole recipe - but only her recipe
mushrooms
And that pretty much covers it.
green, yellow, orange and red peppers and chilis and all of that ilk
pork
milk
cilantro
cinnamon
coconut
brussel sprouts
cooked spinach
raw mushrooms
rust (in water, etc.)
sea urchin roe
See I would never hate sea urchin roe.
Cause I would never have tried it in the first place.
pork
I think you might change your mind if you had some of my BBQ ribs. :D
meatloaf
cilantro
warm mayo on a burger
texturized vegtable protien
idodized salt
There isn't much I don't like, excluding organs.:greenface
Brussel Sprouts
Avocado (texture)
Asparagus
Chinese baby corn and the sauce flavored with it. Defies comparison with any other taste I know.
See I would never hate sea urchin roe.
Cause I would never have tried it in the first place.
Comes up in sushi. Salmon eggs, too.
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.
Brussels Sprouts
Anise
Never went down the road of colonoscopy, so I cannot pass a judgement on that but any medecine one has to ingest is usually awful.
And I love sea food and fish.
Hard to pick just 5. I kept thinking "hey yeah, I hate that too!"
Still, I'd like to add cilantro.
I left mushrooms off because for me it's a question of texture, not really taste. Since it was tastes you hate, I went for the stuff that makes me actually want to barf if I eat it. Some of the stuff I can't even stand to smell: coconut, green peppers.
I'm going to tell Pete right now that I hate pork (I dont' really) so he can persuade me with his BBQ ribs, though! :)
scotch
licorice
celery
brussel sprouts
not in order of disgustedness:
Pickles (can't even have them touching my sandwich or potato chips ... nasty)
Coconut (allergy, even small amounts make me retch as I need to eject it from my body before damage occurs ... betcha didn't know that some of the cheaper cocoa powder mixes use coconut as a filler ingredient? ... and some chocolate covered ice cream bars and nuggets do the same thing?)
Mushrooms
Goat's Milk (never tried fresh, might be different, overpaid for a quart of the commercial stuff in the hippie aisle of my supermarket, couldn't manage it, even with chocolate syrup)
Snails (okay, I've never actually HAD snails, but I choose to dislike them on general principle)
Pickles (can't even have them touching my sandwich or potato chips ... nasty)
All pickles? A sweet gherkin tastes so different than a dill that it's hard to image that you hate both.
avocados are just gross. I know lots of people like them, but they make me gag.
and cinnamon? That's a new one on me.
I think you might change your mind if you had some of my BBQ ribs. :D
I don't like BBQ either. But pork makes me puke.
All pickles? A sweet gherkin tastes so different than a dill that it's hard to image that you hate both.
no, it isn't. They would be on my list if I were allowed six.
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:
and I agree with wolf about snails too.
has matured and I like them now, who knows?
Wait.......
Where is UG?
:lol:
haha, I hadn't even made it to the second page. I thought it was weird he hadn't showed up yet to criticize the avocado haters. :D
I'm just more
Another opportunity missed to shut the fuck up.
I don't like BBQ either.
What are you - UnAmerican?
Oh, wait.
Seriously, though. I think you are the first person I've met who doesn't like BBQ. To each their own.
I'm going to tell Pete right now that I hate pork (I dont' really) so he can persuade me with his BBQ ribs, though! :)
It's true that my ribs are very persuasive.
scotch
I will save you from the ravages of scotch, especially fine single malts!
All pickles? A sweet gherkin tastes so different than a dill that it's hard to image that you hate both.
They are all pickles and therefore tools of the Evil One™. Jew, spears, bread and butter, sweet, sour, all bad. I am pickle aversive. I do not relish relish.
. I do not relish relish.
lol:D
I do not relish relish.
And a pickle, puts you in a pickle?
crow
foot
brussel sprouts
Wow.
So many people dislike the things I love!
Makes me feel even weirder.
Some of the other things mentioned I could eat stright from the jar/ packet..
Anyway, my loathe list:
Peanut butter
Banana
Aniseed/ licorice/ star anise etc etc (it's all the same to me)
Cucumber
Am debating the fifth (pleading the fifth?)
There are some bubbling under.
For example sliced tomato in sandwiches makes me gag.
But that's probably too specific, given that I can't tolerate any of the above in ANY way.
I'm glad I put four originally, so that I could add anise to the list
As far as I'm concerned, it's pronounced with the long a.
anything in vinegar (including, but, not limited to, pickles)
black licorice
kraut
McDonald's and Hardee's biscuits
cauliflower (which is in the same category as broccoli, I don't mind the taste so much as the texture)
Damn, I shoulda put Jägermeister as number 1, I hate that shit.
Celeriac
Aniseed (and all related flavours, including Pernod etc)
Cow's udder (though that is a texture thing)
Earl Grey tea
Violet cream chocolates (or any of those floral flavour ones).
I'm glad I put four originally, so that I could add anise to the list
As far as I'm concerned, it's pronounced with the long a.
Yeah, I blew it. Anus bumps everything but green peppers.
Man, you lot sure are picky. I can't think of anything I just can't eat. There are a few things I'm not partial to, but I'd still eat them if they came as part of a meal (especially one I didn't cook, which probably wouldn't contain things I don't particularly like).
Yeah, I blew it. Anus bumps
taken out of context for lulz
Violet cream chocolates (or any of those floral flavour ones).
ooh I just remembered
Parma Violets. Those were REVOLTING. They made me hurl at many a kids' party 'til I finally made the connection....
I loved what Ina Garten (The Barefoot Contessa) said about Brussels sprouts...
"Most people hate Brussels sprouts because they remember the awful boiled things they had as a child.
"But they haven't had Brussels sprouts with pancetta."
:yum:
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. That seems to explain a lot. Although I don't hate the flavor, my digestive system has never been able to take them.
I really hated all pickles until very recently. A lot of the new restaurants that have popped up in Philadelphia have very interesting cuisines, such as house-made versions of everything from sausage to pickles. House-made pickles are delicious!
If 10 were allowed I'd be adding spearmint. love peppermint, hate the spearmint.
Mushrooms
....
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! ;)
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.
offal
:lol2: Offal tastes awful.
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?
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.
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.
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)
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:
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.
...Every year her tin of Christmas Cookies went straight into the trash. EVERY year.
People who make anise cookies are HIGHLY suspect. I'd watch 'em.
This is what I've always said! I love red bell peppers.
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.
cauliflower (which is in the same category as broccoli, I don't mind the taste so much as the texture)
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.
Simple question: 5 tastes you hate.
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?
Well I didn't really respond to the question either, and there are a few others who haven't . . .
I thought thread drift was accepted in this community. Even encouraged at times.
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.
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.
Actually, I'm not a big fan of gorgonzolla on a cracker...
Must try before I can comment.
I really like that apricot cheese stuff with the almonds sometimes, but I'd still go for a nice cheddar or bree first.
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
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.
Nothing wrong with peanut butter and banana. YUUUUUUUUUUM. And peanut butter on fruit bread toast. YUUUUUUUUUUUUUM. Adding cheese would ruin it though.
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...
Nothing wrong with peanut butter and banana. YUUUUUUUUUUM. And peanut butter on fruit bread toast. YUUUUUUUUUUUUUM. Adding cheese would ruin it though.
And honey. Don't forget the honey!
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. :)
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:
Quorn is the leading brand of mycoprotein food product in the UK and Ireland.[1] The mycoprotein used to produce Quorn is extracted from a fungus, Fusarium venenatum, which is grown in large vats.[2]
Quorn is produced as both a cooking ingredient and a range of ready meals. It is sold (largely in Europe, but also in other parts of the world) as a health food and an alternative to meat, earning the Vegetarian Society's seal of approval.[3] As it uses egg white as a binder, it is not a vegan food.
When Quorn was introduced into the United States in 2002, the Center for Science in the Public Interest expressed multiple concerns over the product. [2]
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?
What is quorn?
I wonder why they call it Quorn...not expecting an answer, just musing. I'll check it out later.
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?
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-Classici-Lady-Fingers-Italy/dp/B00092M46Cre 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?
During the 1960s, it was predicted that by the 1980s there would be a shortage of protein-rich foods.[5] In response to this, research programmes were undertaken to use single-cell biomass as an animal feed. Contrary to the trend, J. Arthur Rank instructed the Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) Research Centre to investigate converting starch (the waste product of cereal manufacturing undertaken by RHM) into a protein-rich food for human consumption.
/OK, OKAY I'll get on with the cleaning and stuff... after this cup of tea......
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/2010/05/quorn-product-launch.htmlHaving 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).
Dun, Old English for Hill, where cweorn, Old English for millstones, are quarried.
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 :)
Sundae - the only anything worth using has narcotic in it. Can you get me some of that?
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:.
. . . 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
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.
Warm 'em up to about the temperature of toast right out of the toaster.
Thanks. I'll give it a go and report back.
there was another one which was raspberry flavoured which we were hardly ever given:thepain:.
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.
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.
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.
Didn't mrnoodle have them?
Didn't mrnoodle have them?
perhaps jebus made them go away?
tofu? oatcakes? worms? quorn? the mind boggles
and no, worms aren't too prevalent as a pest in the states as far as I knw
we so need a field of 64 on this. Who knows how to set that up?
field of 64? like in basketball?
It's true they're not particularly common here, but if you tell your doctor that your toddler won't stop scratching his ass, they will suggest the possibility of pinworms. The test is to check your kid's butt at night--they say you can see the worms crawling around on the outside since they come out at night--or to put a piece of tape across their butthole, and supposedly some worms/eggs will be stuck to it in the morning. Can't say for sure, though, since it turned out that's not why my kid was itching.
How do the worms know when it's night if they are where the sun don't shine?
Just curious.
That's a very good question. That's the kind of question that would come from a curious child. Something that an adult would just take for granted and not bother wondering about. I'm impressed, and a little envious (not jealous) that I didn't think of that question.
I'm going to hypothesize that the bowels are less active at night, and so they know that it's night time because nothing is moving.
I'll follow up with a question. How do they know which way is out?
I bet they go with the current, rather than upstream. (peristalsis)
How do they know which way is out?
I bet they go with the current, rather than upstream. (peristalsis)
They follow Carol-Anne into the light.
Here you are.
Sorry if you opened it at work.
You can pretend it's a bellybutton. Or the Pit of Sarlacc. Or something other than a threadworm ringpiece.
Oops, gave it away.
how the fuck did "the tastes you hate" lead to this
(please don't answer me. is rhetorical question)
makes more sense than "the tastes you love"
(please don't answer me. is rhetorical question)
damn! Where are we going to go from here?
User title: question everything.
(please don't answer me. is rhetorical question)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Well, if we had any more thread drift here, we'd all be posting from Pern.
...and eatin dragon drumsticks...
... and next morning we would have dragon's breath
... a mere dragon's breadth from Ali's house.
Cilantro--ptui!
I once went to a pot luck dinner... got my plate, took a spoonful of this, a spoonful of that. I'm interested in trying new tastes. One dish looked like a green cobb salad, all finely chopped--a spoonful. When I sat down and began to eat, I took a bite of this "salad" and found to my disgust that the main ingredient was cilantro. UGH. I don't mind a little (that is, I can tolerate) in salsa. But I'll pass on any dish that features that flavor. It definitely evokes "soap" for my palate.
Mercury.
The metal. When I was a little kid, I bit down on a thermometer with the expected disastrous results. Blood and crying and pain and spit and that taste. I occasionally get a whiff of it but I don't know where it's coming from. Very distasteful. *shivers*.
I'll stand pat. If I can come up with anymore, I have three choices in reserve.
I also hate cauliflower.
Yeeeech.
but I realize that puts me one over the strict limit of five.
I'm so sorry I opened the thread and its goatse. :(
Coriander!... Cilantro is coriander.
Google truly is myfriend.
Coriander!... Cilantro is coriander.
Google truly is myfriend.
corriander is the seed.
cilantro is the leaf.
they have different tastes. Indeed, some plants are so different that some parts are edible and different parts of the same plant are toxic, for example, rhubarb.
See this pine tree? Many parts are edible.
--Euell Gibbons
corriander is the seed.
cilantro is the leaf.
they have different tastes. Indeed, some plants are so different that some parts are edible and different parts of the same plant are toxic, for example, rhubarb.
Yah. I get that. But over here they're just coriander seeds, and coriander leaves.
Yesterday night we went to Qdoba and I asked for half the cilantro rice in my burrito, and that worked out nicely.
So does corander taste like cilantro/coriander leaves?
Not really. It is more of a spice. Kinda smells a little lemony not strong on flavor.
I dunno. The seeds make naan bread taste of soap.
We had a whole thread about cilantro quite some time ago. The seeds are called corriander seeds and the leaves are called corriander over here. It's all just parts of the same plant. Over here.
Coriander seeds taste like a component of curry powder, in which they often figure. Bust 'em up in a grinder. They're those little tan round things in pickling spice and pickle juice.
Coriander is from Latin coriandrum directly; cilantro comes from the same via a Medieval Latin mutation, celiandrum, and curiously enough is only attested to in the earliest twentieth century, per Mirriam-Webster online. The American usage is to distinguish between these two plant parts doubtless because they are seen in widely divergent cuisines, making the connection less than obvious. Except to lexicographers and other harmless drudges.
... lexicographers and other harmless drudges.
I like this image of the lexicographer as a harmless drudge.
Yah. That made me smile too.
Samuel Johnson: "Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."
Your countryman. His
Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.
Oo, oo! A
Time magazine book review of 1963.
But without cilantro, it just ain't salsa cruda hardly. An acceptable mixture of minced onion, chopped tomato, and minced hot green peppers (any chile, depending on desired fierceness) and garlic, yes... but this nice mixture (freshness of everything is key) wants its minced leaves too. To taste, of course.
It takes an interesting character to tailpost on himself.
Me. Me. Me. Let's go back and see what
I said in this thread. Because ME.
coconut
brussel sprouts
cooked spinach
raw mushrooms
rust (in water, etc.)
I forgot: marzipan. But that puts me over 5. Oh well. Never mind. I guess I like it after all.
I've since changed my mind about brussel sprouts. My wife makes a variety that is roasted in a little bit of olive oil and sprinkled with a dash of salt, and they are absolutely delicious. It turns out I just hate poorly prepared brussel sprouts. So that makes room for marzipan.
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rust (in water, etc.)
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It's not exactly common, but anyone who's ever taken a sip out of a water fountain and it's all rusty tasting knows what I'm talking about. You experience that a few times and then you learn to let all water fountains run for a few seconds before you take a sip. Or let your companion drink first.