Food loves and hates

[Jeannine]

yes to the rollmops, no to the pickle but yes if it was my own chutney, and no way to the sauce, not swigging it...sprinkle on potato crisps, but swigging it..how!!

[Jeannine]

[markfield rover]

 Love  -   good bread , cheese, duck.
Hate-      broad beans.

[springbok]

Love:  Liver with onions
Hate:  oysters

[Melbourne12]

Things we like that (quite a lot of) other people don't:
Mr Melbourne12  Marmite, sweetbreads, spinach
Mrs Melbourne12  Sandwich spread (though I only buy it "for the children"  ;D ), salade tiede with gesiers, toast and dripping

Things we dislike that other people like:
Mr Melbourne12 All oily fish and most shellfish, beetroot
Mrs Melbourne12 Too many courgettes, Jerusalem artichokes, calves liver, okra

[Georgie]

The three things I'm regularly caught secretly scoffing in the kitchen:

1.   Rollmops
2.   Branston pickle straight from the jar, mostly with a spoon
3.   Worcester sauce, swigging

Come on now, don't tell me you haven't!

;D

Well, not quite.  But when I was about ten I used to drink vinegar and that so called lemon juice in the plastic lemon - Jif is it?  Strange child, strange adult.   ;D

G x

[debster]

I love mashed potato sandwiches, fish finger sandwiches (seperately), chocolate, peanut butter (though never get much of a look in cos a certain parroty fella likes it too) love anchovies

i hate cous cous, tripe, salmon, runny yolks on eggs  :-X, blue cheese

[RosieMcPosie]

mmmmmmmm food, good thread Georgie!
love- asparagus, marinated artechoke hearts, stuffed vine leaves, sun dried tomatoes, olives and feta cheese. fresh white crusty bread from the bakers and quorn ham and salad samwiches... mum's veggie goulash, veg korma. mashed potatoes, hard boiled eggs and grated cheese with fresh salad! yum. one more- marmite and peanut butter on toast. mmmm.
hate- meat, smoked salmon. brussels sprouts (haven't tried home grown ones yet) best of both bread, corgette, aubergiene.

[antipodes]

hmm ok so it's food that I like that everyone else hates and vice versa?? Is it worth including stuff that most people like, like fresh raspberries, ice cream or lovely fresh bakery bread? methinks not...

Like:
Vegemite (so superior to Marmite, hee hee, but all the French think it is absolutely disgusting)
most veg, even Silverbeet/chard and Brussel Sprouts (my 7 year old daughter's favourites!!!)
Baked beans or tinned spaghetti on toast (again, an abomination for the French)
Snails in garlic butter
Smelly cheeses that run all over the plate
Very strong continental coffee
Doner kebabs even without the 5 pints of beer running up to it  ;D

Dislike:
Most of these French foods that are made of strange bits of animals' insides (like Tripe, andouille, andouillette, gesiers - gizzards - etc)
Most seafood, altough sometimes I will force myself so as not to offend as they are a delicacy here - tolerate mussels and cooked prawns but baulk at oysters
Any bony fish like sardines -puke-
Funnily enough I am not keen on pears, about the only fruit I don't like. And I can't eat bananas once they have started to go past pale yellow colour...

[aussiedigger]

Like just about everything except:

Vegemite (yes, a disgrace to my country I know!!)
Sausages (always suspicious of the contents and the preservatives can't be good for you)
Mussells and oysters (but love most other seafood)

[cleo]

Too much to take in but I feel a "Tripe Challenge" coming on.

Serve a tripe dish that I would like. Maybe if it was sliced thinly and then fried with a herby sauce I might be willing

But boiled nappies are a no no

[Jeannine]

Doner Kebabs.................no way..................no way


When I first saw that in a  take away shop I asked what it was, the lady pointed to the menu on the wall and I read doner..immediately I thought of left over human body parts, I said I couldn't eat anything called doner(pronounced it like a blood doner), she said said no... like Donna................oh that is even worse, that is the name of the folks in the covered wagon that ate each other when they got snowed in!!

I have never been able to even think about eating it. it seems to sit there day after day rotting on a spit too.

Actually I think it is the only thing I truly could not eat.

XX Jeannine

[valmarg]

My sister always reckoned that if you trod on my foot my head would fly open, so loves = nearly everything.

Hates, oysters, fennel, and I'll have to think a bit about the other things ;D

valmarg

[Georgie]

My sister always reckoned that if you trod on my foot my head would fly open, so loves = nearly everything.

valmarg

What a fabulous expression.   ;D

G x

[Barnowl]

Doner Kebabs.................no way..................no way

........

I have never been able to even think about eating it. it seems to sit there day after day rotting on a spit too.

Actually I think it is the only thing I truly could not eat.

XX Jeannine

Hi Jeannine, I think an aspect of British culture has escaped you -  everyone knows that that doner kebabs can only be eaten after the pub has shut, you are hog whimpering drunk and irrationally starving - so I can't see them being on your menu anyway  :)

In my case I eat most things but with reference to earlier postings, the only place for Worcestershire sauce is in a Bloody (or Virgin) Mary.  Wouldn't have it in the house otherwise.

There are quite a few things I like one way but not others e.g. celery soup but not raw celery, cooked oysters but not raw, love olive oil but dislike olives and much prefer raw tomatoes to cooked.

[valmarg]

My sister always reckoned that if you trod on my foot my head would fly open, so loves = nearly everything.

valmarg

What a fabulous expression.   ;D

G x

Yes Georgie, it amused me at the time, particularly as my sister was not very witty.

Also, part of it must have been post WW2, and food was scarce.

valmarg

[Paulines7]

Love:  lamb, beef, prawns, freshly dug potatoes, home made bread, Greek, Indian and Chinese food, creamy blue cheese, avocados, raspberries, strawberries, apricots, fish, shellfish, squid, octopus, meringue, chocolate, all garden vegetables especially cabbage with butter and plenty of ground pepper, ginger especially in stir fries, Chardonnay, Sheridans and Baileys.

Hate: Supermarket sliced white bread, blackcurrant juice (reminds me of when I was 17 and sick after drinking too many rum and blacks, whiskey, escargots, some of the French cooked meats/sausages,

[Georgie]

hmm ok so it's food that I like that everyone else hates and vice versa??

Well, that was the idea but what the heck.  Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.   ;D

G x

[Hyacinth]

For Cleo - the Tripe Challenge :-*

Get some proper tripe....not the bleached pappy white stuff, but the greyish real stuff & cut it into strips. Saute loadsa garlic & chilli (Apache, natch 8)) in olive oil & add the tripe & sizzle. Add a beaker of white wine, a little chicken stock and some cubed potato. Bring to boil.Cover the pan, reduce heat & cook til al dente. Uncover, throw in a handful of peas, turn up heat if there's too much liquid. Loads of chopped parsley over it when it's on the plate.

PS Remember that beaker of wine? Top Tip is to drink the remainder of the bottle while the trips is cooking and to get the 2nd bottle opened before the parsley goes on.....you may not like the tripe but I promise you'll feel no pain ;D 

[DenBee]

My grandad used to love tripe.  And cow's heart.  And brain.  And brawn.

Me I thought it was really offal.  (Ba-boom, tish  ;D )

[Emagggie]

At the risk of causing a feeling of unwellness amongst you, I would like to say that I will NEVER EVER eat haddock again after the events of the weekend. :-X.........I will leave it there. ;D