Any foods whose names dare not be spoken?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Anything that absolutely will NOT grace your plate?
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Almost all "innards" for me (I DO like things like liverwurst and
sausages).
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I grew up DETESTING asparagus -- would literally GAG if I tried to
swallow it... now it's my no-question-about-it favorite veggie.
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[nolabear]

1. Two. Beets and anise.

I guess anise isn't a food per se but licorice is. G-A-G. And beets taste like dirt.

[laundry_queen]

3. LOL, that's what I first thought when I first tried beets

although in my case I thought they tasted like basement, because they smelled like my Grandma's dirt basement. But now I make a mean borscht and love them in that. I try to get them from Farmer's markets though because the storebought ones seem to taste more like 'basement' than the farmer's market ones. I peel them too. That helps a lot.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. Not fond of beets, but LOVE pickled beets (everpresent in salads when you eat out in Germany)...

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...and I'll have to take your word about the anus.
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Is that some sort of Creole/Cajun spelling?
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Is the liqueur actually pronounced "AY-nuss-ett"?
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"Last night, I got drunk off someone ELSE'S ass!!!"
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[siligut]

2. Baked beans....blech

I love other types of beans, but cannot even let baked bean sauce touch my food. It's a childhood thing that I haven't out grown.

[laundry_queen]

4. *nodding*

One of my parents' favorite 'eat and run' meals was beans and weenies. I hated baked beans from a can. I used to refuse to eat them. A few years ago I decided to try making my own baked beans, thinking maybe my dislike of them was because they came from a can and were overly processed. I made everything from scratch and used organic beans too (I like the taste of all organic beans better). It tasted exactly the freakin' same! LMAO. That was one crockpot full that went in the trash. Good thing dried beans are cheap!

[siligut]

6. Never even tried making them from scratch.

Thanks for saving me that effort. My mom used to make hamburger and beans. The two were mixed together, it was one of my brother's favorites, mom made it often. One time she put leftover baked beans into perfectly good vegetable soup, I went to bed hungry and early that night.

[MiddleFingerMom]

40. I love baked beans... but hamburger & beans sucks BIGTIME.

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Beanee Wienees RULE -- expecially with grilled andouille sausage.
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Used to be, back when we had canned C-rations, beanee-wienies
AND beans & hamburger were both major trade items at dinnertime.
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On the unspoken aesthetic side, I guess we wanted the beans to be
inside US instead of inside our tentmates.
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[rrneck]

5. Souse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

And most seafood.

[laundry_queen]

7. Cooked green peas.

I absolutely hated them as a kid. I was made to eat them and would totally gag on every bite. I'll eat them raw right out of the garden but HATE them cooked. So as an adult I refuse to have them in my house. Recently, I went to a function that was catered, and they had these hors d'oevres wrapped in phyllo pastry. I didn't know what was in them, but thought they looked good. I took a bite and ew! It was totally stuffed with cooked green peas. My mom used to say "You'll grow out of it, I used to hate them too" but I never did.

Other things I'll never eat include sardines, headcheese, chicken feet (my dad will eat anything, honestly), cow tongue, liver, and seaweed (I think I'm allergic, I get wheezy with it, no sushi for me!)

My dad thinks that makes me picky, lol.

[siligut]

9. Chicken feet were served up at the Expo in Shanghai.

I saw people eating them, while waiting in the queues.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Green peas...

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...I LOVE them cooked (and add frozen cooked peas to most of
my quick thrown-together dinner recipes).
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Gardening chores were a big part of my youth and I absolutely
HATED doing that work.
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EXCEPT... ... ... picking peas. Ambrosia!!!! "Four for the
bucket. Four for me. Four for the bucket. Four for me. Etc."
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I'm with you on everything else (add beef LUNGS to that --
banned in this country due to long-ago common TB in the herds --
but a delicacy in Germany - BLECH-BLECH-BLECHBLECHBLECH).
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[kentauros]

8. Meats and beets!

[Skittles]

11. spaghetti

ugh.....nauseating

[WillParkinson]

14. Wow...

Someone needs to find Skittles to kick Skittles ass.

[KamaAina]

19. That is one of the imponderable questions of Teh Longue

How does one schedule Skittles for an ass-kicking? :shrug:

[WillParkinson]

20. As anxious as she is to kick ass I'm sure...

That if anyone could kick her own ass Skittles would be the one.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. The pasta? Or do you mean the tomato sauce that often goes on spaghetti?

Do you eat other pastas?

[Skittles]

21. could be just the tomato sauce

a friend of mine, his Italian mom made me a cheese lasagna that I liked. But spaghetti - honestly, it just grosses me out.

[Capn Sunshine]

12. Spotted Dick

Not bad really, you just can't say it.

[Duer 157099]

22. I see that on the store shelves

and I wonder: do the store purchase agents only stock it for people who will buy it as a gag?

Or, is it a staple item for some?

I don't even know what it is, actually. Anyone know what the ingredients are?

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. It's a steamed (though most now are baked) "suet pudding"...

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...with sugar, currants, and/or raisins, often served with a custard.
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Apparently, it's a common and oft-loved dessert in England and, to
a lesser extent... Ireland (where it's more like a sweet soda bread).
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[Duer 157099]

29. Sounds good enough. I'd try it. In general. But not from a can.

The canned ones I see in the store can *only* be novelties, I hope. Right?

[MiddleFingerMom]

44. I kinda assume it's bread- or cake-like,, so back to my experience with C-rations again...

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...where the canned chocolate cake and canned pound cake were
two premium items when you wanted to trade for something (if
you had canned pound cake AND canned peaches... you could
pretty much start to barter for first-borns).
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Excellent cake -- and not just because we were desperate for
ANY kind of treat.
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There has been canned Brown Bread (associated with Boston, I
think) for many decades and there must be something tasty
about it for it to have survived this long.
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[Capn Sunshine]

13. oh yeah, and any Canned Animal

[mtowngman]

15. Freedom Fries. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. natto, balut, insects and worms and grubs, and green peppers. I *love* offal.

Yum yum yummmy!

[AwakeAtLast]

23. Peas, lima beans, beets and mushrooms

I've tried to like all of them, cannot eat any of them.

[rbnyc]

24. Ketchup!

I can't even stand to be around ketchup. I hate when the server brings it automatic ly with burgers, fries, etc. - especially if it's in a ramekin.

As for innards, I LOOOVES me some chicken hearts.

[alphafemale]

25. My hate list used to be much longer.

But I will try things still on my "ick" list every now and then.

I'm even getting to where I can "tolerate" mayonaise in certain things. Don't like at all but could probably choke lima beans down if it was going to hurt somebody's feelings.

The slime factor of okra is a hard one for me to get past. But deep-fried or in a gumbo it's no sweat.

And I tried venison again just a few days ago. It was OK. Of course it was in spaghetti as sausage with gr beef too. But still not something I could have done not all that long ago.

Can't handle even the smell of beef liver cooking. Have to leave the house.

[Demoiselle]

52. I still hate calve's liver.

My mother made me eat at least three bites of it whenever she served it...which felt like once a week but was probably less frequently.
but I always thought it smelled wonderful when it was cooking, Maybe it was the bacon she cooked it with.

[Dr Morbius]

27. Lamb. Veal. Rabbit. Duck. Goose. "Game Hen." Ostrich. Rattlesnake.

Notice a trend? I try to limit the different kinds of animals that need to die for me to eat. Chickens, turkeys, cows, pigs and the odd fish are quite enough. I don't even like shrimp, lobster, crab or the numberless other critters that live under water.

Dammit, where's my soylent green anyway?

[Ishoutandscream2]

28. Spinach, yuck!

Popeye I ain't.

[MiddleFingerMom]

32. Popeye you COULD be.

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If you like quiche, you'll LOVE this -- and it's a good way
to get kids to eat iron-rich spinach... when I've cooked it
for them, I simply call it "Green Souffle" instead of the
name I was told when my sister passed it along to me.
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Yeah, yeah... it's not really a souffle -- more like a
crustless quiche (and it looks absolutely GORGEOUS).
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It's my "go-to guy" for potlucks and such -- so simple, you
can have your kids make it (if you're OK with them knowing
the "secret" green ingredient). It's FUN for them to mix
such a disgusting gloop together.
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Spinach Souffle with Three Cheeses
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Cooking oil to grease dish
6 eggs, beaten
1 8-oz pk lowfat cream cheese,
softened and cubed
1 16-oz tub lowfat cottage cheese
8 oz Swiss cheese (small pieces)
1 10-oz pkg frozen chopped spinach,
moisture squeezed out
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1. Grease 8x8 baking dish (I use glass as the eventual dish is BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL)
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2. In a large bowl, mix remaining ingredients together (this will look very,
......VERY disgusting -- but never fear)
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3. Pour into baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Serve as large
......squares or rectangles (or dodecahedrons -- you're the boss).
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4. If used for a potluck, don't hold ANY illusions that there will be leftovers.
......None. Nada. Zip.
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[dbt]

30. Potted Meat

Desperation on a cracker.

:freak:

[woo me with science]

31. okra. nt

[BreweryYardRat]

33. Okra and asparagus. n/t

[Cleanelec]

34. Pickles.

Absolutely the nastiest tasting thing on Earth.

I don't like the smell of them. I don't want them on my plate. I will send my plate back at a restaurant if they decide to "garnish" my plate with a pickle.

[Cleanelec]

35. Buttermilk runs a close second.

The smell of it is one of the few things that will make me puke instantly.

[rug]

36. Voldemozzarella.

[InternalDialogue]

37. Voldemortodella

[rug]

41. You topped me!

:thumbsup:

[KamaAina]

38. BRAINS!!!1!!11!!

They may not turn you into a zombie, but...



they might give you a heart attack! (Myelin, the natural insulation around nerve tissue, is made of cholesterol, hence the off-the-charts stats.)

[bikebloke]

39. Beets and neeps

In Scotland, I bought a plate of haggis, tatties and neeps. The haggis and tatties (fried potatoes) were good. I didn't care for the neeps (turnips).

[Lucy Goosey]

42. Raw celery is evil, and gelatine makes me gag

Celery has dental floss embedded in it. "Stringy" is never a good thing when it comes to food. I can eat it cooked, though, in soups and things. Preferably diced very small.

Jell-o and other things of that texture are just all kinds of wrong. Does Jell-o even qualify as food?

[dropkickpa]

46. I second Jell-o

it's that texture thing!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

43. Stewed okra...

it tastes like Admiral Akbar's sputum because ... IT'S A TRAP!

[IDemo]

45. Haggis

Which is the sound you make immediately after taking a bite..

:puke:

[lightningandsnow]

47. Creamed corn.

Creamed corn is disgusting.

[MiddleFingerMom]

50. MiddleFingerMomMom served this on a fairly regular occasion when I was growing up...

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...and it's something I had to gag down.
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I've ALWAYS considered it to be in the category of "Old People Food".
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I'm getting a kick out of one of my housemates who recently accidentally
bought a coupla cans of creamed corn. He must have taken them off the
shelf a half-dozen times to use, and each time he moans and puts them
back and tells us how he didn't mean to buy them.
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I think eventually he'll get smart and take them off the shelf for the
Food Bank.
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Once, I saw a cream soup recipe that called for creamed corn and it
sounded like the only justification I've ever known for this product.
It actually sounded GOOD (but I failed to write it down).
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[Ineeda]

48. Tripe -- looks and sounds disgusting.

[MiddleFingerMom]

49. I'm with you on this. Here in Arizona, virtually ALL the Mexican fastfood places...

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...sell menudo on Saturday and Sunday only -- it's a legendary
hangover-helper.
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It's supposed to be absolutely delicious, but the fact that one of
the main ingredients is tripe has kept me from ever ordering it.
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[Demoiselle]

53. I thought Menudo was a musical group....(?)

[MiddleFingerMom]

54. It WAS a musical group...

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This just struck me.
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Was it always an inside subliminal joke... that Menudo was justa buncha tripe?
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[Demoiselle]

56. My crack research team (that would be me and my laptop) tells me that

"menudo" means, in fact, a spicy soup made of, among other things, tripe.
I guess the group wanted us to think spicy mix. Heh heh.

Now if my crack research team could just tell me how to spell "calf's liver..."

[daggahead]

51. Bubble and squeak! n/t

[HappyMe]

55. Fish sticks! Brussel sprouts!

Mayo I will only eat in macaroni salad. I don't like peas either. You can also keep those 'organ meats' too.
:puke:

[KamaAina]

58. You don't like fish sticks in your mouth?

:shrug:

[HappyMe]

59. Um...no. I hated them when I was a kid.

Still do. I'm sure they are made out of the fish they use for bait on Deadliest Catch.

[KamaAina]

60. Not a South Park fan, I see.

:-)

[GoneOffShore]

57. Scorpions and beetles

And I wouldn't like balut, I'm pretty sure.

[Mojambo]

61. I have two: Eggs, of any kind, and Mac and Cheese. n/t