I thought this might be a bit of fun. I was in the kitchen just now polishing off the remains of a tin of anchovies when it occurred to me that most people would turn their noses up at what I considered a treat. So, what three things do you like that others dismiss and what don't you like that others seem to love?
To start the ball rolling I love anchovies, celery and olives and hate chocolate, ice cream and custard.
G x
G you are odd!! although chocolate isn't in my top 5 I've never met anyone who doesn't like it!!
I love
1. Licorice
2. Ice Cream!!!!!
3. Marmite
Hate
Anchovies!!!
Quote from: Biscombe on March 13, 2008, 20:37:01
G you are odd!! although chocolate isn't in my top 5 I've never met anyone who doesn't like it!!
You have now. ;D
G x
PS I prefer perverse to odd. ;)
;D ;D
Ok I will play!
Love Green Olives, Scallops and Haggis.
Hate Prunes, Prunes and Prunes.
;)
I cannot get enough of herring roe, sprats, grilled sardines, in fact anything edible from the sea, apart from plaice because it tastes too fishy. Good job I am surrounded by the sea.
My hates are any dish that has tinned tomatoes in. They seem to smother the other flavours. Fresh, sundried, tomato puree all work all right for me. Tinned tomatos belong on bread fried in lard or dripping and covered in crunchy sea salt.
Another hate is the tasteless broccolli that is used on every hotel meal, which is purely decoration, they might just as well us a plastic one and wash it with the dishes for next time. I am not talking about lottie broccii.
I don't like icecream, pastry but do eat some now and again as it is easier when serving them to John.
Dislike cooked celery, unless homemade celery soup full of cream.
I absolutely hate breakfast cereals..all of them!!
I love fresh cooked shellfish, like clams, crab, lobster but only really adore it if I cook them myself these days. it ain't what it used to be.
Dislike English bacon, it goes stiff rather than crisp and I only like smoked.
Love duck eggs
Hate olives.
Hate green peppers, probably cos I am deathly allergic to them but I love ripe ones.
here is good one...I like mushy pea sandwiches
I do like a little anchovy but the salt gets to me after the first bite
Quote from: katynewbie on March 13, 2008, 20:47:16
;D ;D
Ok I will play!
Love Green Olives, Scallops and Haggis.
Hate Prunes, Prunes and Prunes.
;)
You mean there are people out there who
like prunes? ;)
G x
Love em
Having problems with this as I enjoy food!!
Love - champagne, oysters and shellfish, samphire,asparagus, puy lentils, first new potatoes of the year
Hate - tripe and orange flower water
Love oysters if picked fresh from the beach!! Love tripe too and champagne with strawberries
Jeannine, I suspect you are the only person who is going admit that they like mushy pea sandwiches. That said, when I lived in the Midlands I was rather fond of f a g g o t and mushy pea baps which we used to buy from the chip shop after the disco to keep us going on the long walk home. ;D
G x
Love prunes as well espcially with rice pudding
My daughter wants to add her list
Loves peanut butter, spaghetti bolognaise, butternut squash, mango, coconut., prunes as well
Hates black pepper,salt, vodka [I want to know when she has been trying it!], blackcurrants
Ooh love faggotts haven't had those for years..love good old fashioned haggis too. not the modern junk.
How about tinned sliced peach sandwiches with jalapeno jelly..mmm
I am off to find a f*g**t recipe, can you still buy the caul that went around them?
XX Jeannine
Had forgotten chip butties with real butter!
Peanut butter is good but only with Jelly(jam). I crave this about once a year, then give the jar away....time for a shop.
Daughter - straight peanut butter, me - with a sprinkling of salt on top.
Quote from: Tin Shed on March 13, 2008, 21:07:42
Had forgotten chip butties with real butter!
Oh come on, everyone loves chip butties, surely? ;D
G x
Tripe? Aaaaarrrggghhh :-X. Now prunes, I love prunes.
Best favourite is potato- anyway anywhere anyhow,
Herring roes, have them for lunch regularly,
Plain choc digestives.
Worst is all offal
smoked haddock,
cold beetroot.
Now we are feeling hungry - daughters gone off to chop a sharonfruit/persimmon to share.
hi,hates.. anything from the sea,curries.sprouts.love,, liver,marmite and anything sweet
Love smoked haddock, and beets are my favourite veggie, Bread and butter with cold beetroot mmmmmmmm
I like herring roes...fresh milts, love squid and octy too and whelks
Yup, herring roes, smoked haddock and beetroot, as well!
adore passion fruit and figs
..adore passion, fruit and fags. ;) ;D
G x
I'd better let you know when the figs on our fig tree are ripe and then you can come and eat them straight off the tree, Jeanine!
Georgie that is really funny!!!
Tin shed you are on...but I dread to think what the next day would bring.
My fif is very young, it had 5 little tiny figs on right now, left from last year I guess.
I think the beetroot thing dates back to school dinners-the nasty little chunks made my mash pink :o
Love all fruit, fresh ,dried, crystalised etc.
give me ginger any way you like.
Ooh I have a lovely recipe for ginger bars,
I love roast lamb with mint sauce (well anything with mint sauce), marmite, marmalade, crumpets and roasties. Oh and sprouts (dipped in marmite).
I loathe peppers (thanks to my mums vegetarian "phase" where she made me eat them and I was sick), lentils (why would I want to eat gravel?), avocado and olives.
OK Jeanine, you are on. We could always have a plate of cockles from Old Leigh to start off with!
Quote from: Jeannine on March 13, 2008, 21:24:15
Ooh I have a lovely recipe for ginger bars,
yes very please if you have the time and inclination J. ;D
Roast lamb with mint sauce is my favourite roast with beetroot of course.
I am not in to the cockles , rather spoiled with the US ones which are 4 inches across, UK onesmake OK chowder though if fresh.
I really miss clam digging and being able to make proper clam chowder.. mm might just have a go with tinned clams tomorrow though as I am craving now
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmushy peas!!! glad we've got some in for tomorrow! thanks J !!
4 inch cockles - you'd only get one on a plate!!!!!!!
Oooh i'll play!
Love: green olives, gherkins, sprouts, lentils :P
Hate: oysters, sandwich spread, offal (or insides as I call it) :-X
Thanks for a great thread G x
Love Cod Roe, prawns, gammon steak with pineapple. faggots. sprouts (with lots of salt and pepper which I am not supposed to have!!) most sweets especially wholenut chocolate
Hate Coffee, chocolate cake, tripe ( when I was evacuated to Wales the lady asked me if I liked trifle, yes please, but it turned out that she said tripe)
Quote from: kitten on March 13, 2008, 21:52:38
Hate: oysters, sandwich spread, offal (or insides as I call it) :-X
Thanks for a great thread G x
Okay I'm waiting to be proved wrong but who in their right mind likes sandwich spead? :o
G x
My husband as a sauce on his fish, he thinks it is tartare sauce
The same people who like sandwich spread probably like salad cream...Bleeeuuuugghhh!
Marmite? Only fit to tarmac a road with IMHO!
OMG salad cream? I'd rather eat tarmac. ;D
G x
He doesn't like salad cream.
I use it as an ingredient for making other things butI like tomato sandwiches with salad cream, that is the only thing I ise it for.
I like salad cream, mayo, ketchup and tabasco mixed together to make a seafood dip
Quote from: posie on March 13, 2008, 21:24:27
I love roast lamb with mint sauce (well anything with mint sauce), marmite, marmalade, crumpets and roasties. Oh and sprouts (dipped in marmite).
Did you see Tim Wannacott [from Bargain Hunt] then Posie the other day he loves marmite and marmalade mixed in sandwiches. Something for you to try.
I really really hate HONEY yukkkkkk.
Love curry, roast dinner & salads.
I hate fish but I love seafood such as snails, prawns ect, and typical full roast chicken diner with all the trimmings being my fav
Loves.......Homemade Irish wholemeal soda bread, humous, all fish and seafood, chocolate, roast beef 'n' yorkshire puddings, Ben &Jerry's chocolate ice cream, apple pie n cream, crispy chips, curry, pink grapefruit, pizza, most game, red wine, Baileys
Hates.......Sago pudding, escargot, white supermarket bread, monster munch, tripe, cheap sausages, white chocolate, oysters, sangria, sherry, roibush tea, parma violets.
Feel hungry now ::)
Can I play too?
Love - homemade fresh bread, real butter and homemade marmalade, cheddar cheese and chutney sandwiches (ditto the bread!), all fish (but not shellfish), fresh garden peas just taken out the pod, - all fresh fruit and veg really, ginger and ..... CHOCOLATE! :)
Hate - andouillettes (disgusting French sausage-like things made with all the left over chewy bits of tripe - yuk!)
I'm not fussy really!
Jeannine, tin shed and georgie, share these out you three are in the lead.
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Love...cheese on toast with Worcester sauce, mashed potatoes with butter, dry Cava, marmite, good cheese and pickle sandwiches, peas, beautifully cooked fish, king prawns. :D
Really dislike....coconut, asparagus, peanut butter, anything sweet apart from fresh fruit! :P
Hi I love beef stew, curry, pasta, a really good floury potato with butter and cheese, Salad, veg, roast dinners, nutty chocolate.
I really can't stand shell fish, cheap sausages, blue cheese, alcohol, smoked salmon.
Quote from: morton on March 13, 2008, 22:46:32
Quote from: posie on March 13, 2008, 21:24:27
I love roast lamb with mint sauce (well anything with mint sauce), marmite, marmalade, crumpets and roasties. Oh and sprouts (dipped in marmite).
Did you see Tim Wannacott [from Bargain Hunt] then Posie the other day he loves marmite and marmalade mixed in sandwiches. Something for you to try.
I did and I have to say :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X no thanks!
O.K. here goes,
Fish of any kind.
Haggis (but i love faggots)
Green Broccoli.
P.S. was going to put a few xtra words after faggots, but it might be taken yhe wrong way didnt want to upset anybody.
Quote from: lorna on March 13, 2008, 21:53:23
tripe ( when I was evacuated to Wales the lady asked me if I liked trifle, yes please, but it turned out that she said tripe)
;D ;D ;D ;D @ Lorna, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall.
Quote from: Georgie on March 13, 2008, 22:06:23
Quote from: kitten on March 13, 2008, 21:52:38
Okay I'm waiting to be proved wrong but who in their right mind likes sandwich spead? :o
I love sick spread but I never buy it.....maybe I will next shop. ;D
Emaggie. I was only 10 and being a Londoner hadn't got used to their accent. They were wonderful people but I did HAVE to go to Chapel twice on Sundays ;D
and I bet you still know every word to every hymn Lorna ;) ;D
Quote from: Georgie on March 13, 2008, 22:06:23
Quote from: kitten on March 13, 2008, 21:52:38
Hate: oysters, sandwich spread, offal (or insides as I call it) :-X
Thanks for a great thread G x
Okay I'm waiting to be proved wrong but who in their right mind likes sandwich spead? :o
G x
Unfortunately my hubby Dean loves it - omg it stinks, i'd much rather have real vegetables ::)
G. My OH does like Sandwich spread and he must have it on a bread roll at least once a week. I think its disgusting.
Not going to add my list of food because there are more dislikes that likes on my list being a fussy eater and having to be careful. My favourite food has to be Roast Beef though with Yorkie pudding.
What about chocolate spread and Nutella...yuck
Good stuff...who has bread and butter sprinkled with sugar, or bread and milk...childhood stuff
It's being to look like sandwich spread is a man thing. Can't think why that doesn't surprise me. ;) (Ducks)
G x
MY FAVOURITE FAVOURITES ARE ORIGINAL FARLEYS RUSKS AND MILK, THEN ICE CREAM, AND THEN ORIGINAL FARLEYS RUSKS MASHED UP IN VANILLA ICE CREAM.
I DONT LIKE PORK CHOPS, POLLOCK, OR BACON.
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
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!!
Love - good bread , cheese, duck.
Hate- broad beans.
Love: Liver with onions
Hate: oysters
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
Quote from: Amazin on March 16, 2008, 18:30:08
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
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
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.
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...
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)
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
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
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
Quote from: valmarg on March 17, 2008, 15:30:26
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
Quote from: Jeannine on March 17, 2008, 15:27:06
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.
Quote from: Georgie on March 17, 2008, 16:04:23
Quote from: valmarg on March 17, 2008, 15:30:26
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
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,
Quote from: antipodes on March 17, 2008, 13:25:54
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
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
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 )
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
will eat anything apart from Anchovies or offall, brains, hearts, liver etc, gross!!
Quote from: Emagggie on March 19, 2008, 11:29:29
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
Oh no you don't... you gotta tell us what happened? Pleeeeeeease? x
Umm-weeell, BW brought home the D&V bug, but was able to eat by Friday, so I bought some beaoootiful looking haddock. Baked it with a garlic, lemon and parsley crust and we all enjoyed it. By 9.30pm I felt slightly unwell. Wont bother with the rest except to say I still can't face much more than a jacket potato, and the very thought of fish has me green at the gills. ::) It was one of my best favourite meals too. :(
I love a bit of liver - with chips and brown sauce - food of kings!..
got to be lambs, not ox though - great big crunchy veins! - huurggh!
Speaking of liver reminds me of one of my (very few unfortunately for my waistline) food hates. Kidneys. I used to be able to eat them, but one day I bought steak and kidney from the butcher, and he hadn't trimmed or cut up the kidneys so I had to do it myself.
They absolutely stank of urine. Never been able to touch them since.