What are some foods that you enjoy, that others find repulsive?

Sashimi and squid are the only two that I sometime get a “yuk” reaction to.

@DarkScribe yes but, you would expect to get a reaction to those right? I’m talking about hot pockets here.

Spinach: Raw – yummy; cooked – yucky.

@patg7590 I’m talking about hot pockets here.

I have no idea what hot pockets are – at least not in relation to something edible.

Sashimi, cooked spinach, liver and onions, whole grain cereals and bread, beets, – they are normal food.

@NewZen Spinach: Raw – yummy; cooked – yucky.

Spinach lightly steamed with a blue cheese sauce, crumbled bacon, and vinaigrette dressing is delicious.

@DarkScribe Hot Pockets!

Black Jelly Beans

@J0E everyone I know who likes those fits the Dirty Old Man stereotype, how about you?

I love hot pockets, but they are very unhealthy. Maybe that’s why your friends have an aversion to them.

Hot Pockets are disgusting, not to mention a heart attack waiting to happen.

I love artichokes but my husband can’t stand them, so I never make them for the family. The only other thing I can think of is putting ketchup on my scrambled eggs. I know. I’m so adventurous.

Artichokes are delicious!

@laureth try telling that to my husband :(

@jonsblond I put ketchup on my eggs… I didn’t know that was weird.

my friends father puts an over easy egg on top of a stack of pancakes, drowns it in syrup and eats it all together. pretty gross if you ask me

@patg7590 I am neither dirty nor old, but I am a man.

Pickled eggs.

@J0E fair enough lol

@patg7590 You should see the looks I get sometimes. It’s the equivalent of putting ketchup on a brat to some people.

<—Puts ketchup on eggs, as well.

=) ketchup lovers unite!

The Kraft (mac ‘n cheese) with HP sauce.

pickled beets
licorice
kipper snacks (canned smoked herring fillets)

Kraft mac ‘n cheese with mustard.

Or brown rice with Worcestershire sauce and imitation bacon bits.

squid and sushi. hard boiled eggs. CANDY CORN…....

@rangerr really? mustard? talk about the blue box blues…
@jmah what is hp sauce?

@patg7590 HP sauce.

It’s tangy, brown and delicious. It’s Bri-ish…

—Has anyone tried Baconnaise ?

I haven’t, but I’ve seen Jon Stewart try it with a chocolate chip pancake wrapped around a hotdog.

Gribbenes!

@Sarcasm yes but he spat it out.

BACONNAISE?! Oh god is that really actually good? I’m gonna ssssspew just thinking of it

this thread is making me hungry and nauseous at thew same time

@deni I’m afraid to try.

I have been known to dip my fork lightly in ketchup before taking a bite of mashed potatoes. I have also been known to use ketchup on ramen noodles.

I like to cook pieces of bacon, carmelize onions, and dump that over a pound of penne pasta.

I like scrambled eggs on my cheeseburgers and cheesesteaks.

Cut up hot dogs in spaghetti sauce (over spaghetti as usual)

I love Hot Pockets AND Hamburger Helper.

Mine aren’t so gross, but a few my family’s are:
-PB&J with ham
-Fries with mayonnaise
-Hot dogs with mayonnaise
-Kraft mac & cheese with pepper or stewed tomatoes

AND I put ketcup on my eggs!

@poofandmook Fries with mayo is pretty common, and great with a little malt vinegar. I am eger to try mac and cheese with tomatoes, I love lots of pepper and a little garlic powder. Ketchup isn’t bad, but what’s the point when Sriracha exists?

I like to eat the following, all of which have elicited negative comments from someone, somewhere, sometime:

Spinach with olive oil and lemon juice
Dandelion greens ditto
Macaroni and cheese (the real, home-made kind) with olive oil and vinegar
Mashed potatoes with olive oil (and cheese if I want to break my diet)
Kim chi of various sorts, not just the lovely cabbage and pepper kind
Sushi and sashimi
Steak Tartare
Eggs with ketchup
Kippered herring
Butter and sugar sandwiches on squishy white bread
Oatmeal
Chicken gizzards
Pickled herring
Liver and onions
Liverwurst
Fish sauce
Japanese stinky tofu
Stinky cheeses of assorted types
Fish-flavored pork
Peanut butter and mayo sandwiches, but only with crisp iceberg lettuce.
Finnan haddie
Lamb
Lamb kidneys with herb butter
Steak and kidney pudding
Tapioca pudding
Sweet breads and all the other goodies offered at a true Argentine grill
Nopalitos with scrambled eggs and chorizo
Barbacoa
Broccoli with soy sauce and mayonnaise

And yes, I like gribbenes, even though I didn’t know what they were called.

I put salt on watermelon. I too used to put ketchup on scrambled eggs, but I have developed an egg allergy, so unless the eggs are extremely fresh, I can’t eat them. Commercial eggs make me violently ill, ketchup or no… sigh.. I miss the incredible edible egg!:(

Sauerkraut.

@Darwin . . .folks just don’t understand that you can’t make a proper pork fried rice without a generous splash of fish sauce.

I was the only one in my family of origin who didn’t like catsup on toast. Bleaach. On a side note, I’m noticing that everyone else seems to be spelling it “ketchup” I didn’t realize I was in the spelling minority on this word.

My goodness. I feel like a complete snob here, but a lot of the foods mentioned here don’t seem to me to be foods.

I have a friend who can’t stand bananas. He almost hurls when he smells them, says they are mushy and taste like dead people. I find it very odd, being that bananas are clear proof of God.

Anyway, I’m just going to chime in on Hot Pockets because this is the internet and I can. I assert that Hot Pockets, Ramen, and anything made by Kraft, is not food. It is rather the product of a precession of the simulacra (see also second order simulacra) that has made it as far as our very food supply, something which one might think would always have to be real.

There is not one whole food ingredient in a Hot Pocket. The wheat is mass farmed and bleached, the meat is grade D, hormone-pumped, mass farmed, left-over, flavored goop. The “tomato” fillings and “cheese” are also industrial waste products. For anyone accustomed to eating food that comes out of the ground without being saturated in pesticides and quick-fix fertilizer, a Hot Pocket causes severe digestive discomfort, usually culminating in explosive diarea, hence this comedy sketch.

Pre-packaged, processed foods encourage people to eat alone and eat too much. Compared to real food, they taste like crap and aren’t nutritious. There are inter-subjectively valid metrics of good and bad food. Agribusiness may have succeeded in making “food” into a commodity for at least two generations of americans, but food remains at its core a mainstay and nexus of human culture. As Dr. L.H. Bailey has said, “Agriculture is the bottom condition of civilization.” How we eat and how we interact with each other to obtain and enjoy our food is a sign of our civilization.

In my opinion, there are some foods whose quality is a matter of individual taste governed by genetics, but for most foods, whether or not someone likes a food is an indication of their experience and accuracy of aesthetic judgment, and ultimately their thoughtfullness.

@Blondesjon Anyone who doesn’t like sauerkraut is crazy.

@Darwin We should cook dinner sometime.

baconaise sounds really gross
@poofandmook way too much mayonaise in yuor diet
@scamp ive heard of salt on watermelon, my grandpa does it.
@Darwin ok, you definately win, I’ve never even heard of about half of those dishes
@MagsRags- where are you from? or perhaps its a generational thing?
@Capt_Bloth- sauerkraut is the debbil
@aeschylus I wish I could eat better things but when you have 2 mins before you have to leave for work, what else can you do?
@everyone- what’s this Sriracha stuff? Is it just really fresh raw fish? or is it something more?

Asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes.

@janbb what is that? lol

@patg7590: If you’ll take a second to re-read my post, you’ll note that the mayonnaise falls under the things I mentioned that my family eats.

Capers, pickled beets, sauerkraut, pickle and cheese sandwiches, mayonnaise, bologna, and I’m one of those weirdos who likes ketchup on my eggs.

@poofandmook : Pb&j with ham has to be just about the worst thing I can imagine!

@ubersiren: Actually, my father got so tired of me making faces when he did it, that one day he made me try it. It’s not all that bad. I wouldn’t ever make one for myself, but if it was the only food left to survive and I wasn’t allowed to pick the ham off, I wouldn’t die or throw up.

@MagsRags I think they might be different things Hunts makes both.

@poofandmook ah, my bad. you have what I consider to be a normal amount of mayonaise in your diet :]

@patg7590: Since I’m on Atkins and can’t eat sandwiches, the amount of mayonnaise I eat has now dropped to about none ;) LOL

@patg7590 When you render down chicken fat and skin bits and onions to make the spread chicken fat or “schmaltz,” the crispy bits of skin left from the rendering and the onions are called “gribbenes.” Chicken fat was a staple in Jewish cooking because you couldn’t use dairy products, i.e. butter, with meat in kosher cooking. My mother would make chicken fat from time to time and we would eat the girbbenes on rye bread spread with some of the warm schmaltz. I imagine they taste sort of like pork chitterlings.

Now that my mom doesn’t cook any more and I am a wishy-washy vegetarian, I don’t get to eat them any more, but I would break my vows if I had the opportunity.

@patg7590 Sriracha is a hot pepper sauce.

@patg7590 I learned to put salt on my watermelon from my grandfather too!!

The pastry shell of Hot Pockets are sealed with an egg wash, so if I eat them, I get very ill from my egg allergy, so I can’t eat them, but I wish I could!—

@The_Compassionate_Heretic thanks I got Sashimi and Sriracha mixed up.
“what’s this Sriracha Sashimi stuff? Is it just really fresh raw fish? or is it something more?”

@patg7590 Sashimi is raw fish. It’s all in the preparation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashimi
Very tasty!

@The_Compassionate_Heretic My co-workers at a medical office I worked in love sashimi! Phizer reps took the whole office out for dinner, and I tried the salmon, and I really liked it too. I didn’t realize at the time that I was eating sashimi, but it was very good.

@MagsRags – Here is a better explanation than I can give about ketchup versus catsup. Most of the big companies now call it ketchup, although they used to be mixed. Apparently we can blame Jonathan Swift for “catsup” and Charles Lockyer for “ketchup” and Thomas Harman and other authors of The Dictionary of the Canting Crew for “catchup.” As I understand it the original word in Malay was ketsiap or kecap, meaning a dipping sauce of some sort.

cottage cheese!

@aeschylus – Your house or mine?

@holden – Cottage cheese with black pepper, or ketchup, or tomato relish, or pineapple or peaches. Yum!

Hmmm, on the ketchup vs catsup question, it looks like ketchup is the earlier version, derived from a Malaysian sauce that didn’t actually have any tomatoes in it – that got added when it was brought to Europe. Catsup is apparently an Anglicized term for the same thing, used to be the more popuar term in the US but now mostly over ridden
@patq7590 I grew up in a small German farming comminuty in the midwest.

@MagsRags – In any case, the spellcheck in Firefox insists on ketchup.

@Darwin yes, I concede. ;-)
Here is another perspective on differences between the two.

ive never heard of half the foods said, but i like cellery sticks, peanut butter on my poptarts, and mushrooms.

btw hot pockets are the bomb, ur friends must have weird taste

Octopus sushi rolls. I love the little chewy suckers on the tentacles. I like sardines from the can too.

Salted licorice.

Buttermilk.

Pizza crusts dipped in milk. And wheat grass shots. It’s heaven to me, but disgusting to some of my friends.

yuck. hot pockets.

i like brussel sprouts.

Orange slices with hot sauce.

Snails. Sauerkraut with tons of lard.

Pickled pigs ears.

They are so good and crunchy!

Smoke roe smoked fish eggs

Tofu

@proXXI yes salted licorice great stuff!

@Adagio I LOVE tofu.

Salami.
corn dogs
lunchable pizzas!

@noelasun lunchables are the best.

I’ll put hot sauce on almost anything.

@patg7590 i’ll be in your hot pocket appreciation group. i love em

@TitsMcGhee I’ll put hot sauce on almost anything.

I guess that would make your girlfriend a screamer.

@DarkScribe: Ah, but see, I’m a straight girl, haha. But I will put hot sauce on my Hot Pockets!

I see I left out buttermilk, Brussels sprouts and sauerkraut from my list. In our family we have to have sauerkraut with our turkey, stuffing and gravy. And buttermilk with Ritz crackers or ginger snaps is a wonderful midnight snack.

Sardines from the can are great – sometimes you can find the ones canned in mustard sauce, or tomato sauce, or several other choices for variety.

Another thing I forgot about is schelvislever, a Dutch treat of haddock livers packed in oil. You spread them on buttered toast and add a squeeze of lemon. I also like plain yogurt on buttered toast or with baked chicken.

Smoked fish eggs – hmmmmm. That sounds tasty. Where can one get smoked fish eggs? I love caviar of all sorts.

But I am afraid that I fail to see the attraction in lunchables or Hot Pockets. You can do the same thing as a lunchable only tastier for half the price by just stopping at the deli, and Hot Pockets are just a strange laboratory-version of a calzone. Except for the cinnamon ones, pop tarts are less than tasty to me. They remind me of a cross between cardboard and those chewy fruit flavored candies the square ones, not Skittles.

@Darwin your first sentence made me laugh. My mother is HUGE on buttermilk. We have goats that produce way too much milk for us to handle so we have a ton of goat cheese and goat yogurt and buttermilk in the house at all time. I tried it once…gagged…ran to the sink…oh goodness even the thought makes me nauseous

@deni – I am not a fan of goat milk. It has too strong a goat taste in most cases. I have been told that it isn’t quite so “goatish” if the males are kept far away from the milk goats except for breeding, but since I don’t raise goats I don’t know if that is true.

@Darwin interesting. I don’t like milk in general but goat milk I don’t mind…I do not love it but compared to regular store bought milk I think it’s better. Sometimes it does have a weird barn-smell taste, and that is NASTY but usually I think it’s pretty tasty.

@deni – I love cow’s milk, always have. Right now we drink acidophilus milk because my kids and my husband are lactose-intolerant. It’s a bit sweeter than most regular milk but it keeps much longer.

I however did not forget the buttermilk.

@proXXi – I know. That’s what made me think of it.

Could you pick up some buttermilk on the way home please?

Sorry – already home because I work from home. But next time I go to the store, I’ll pick some up.

Thanks! I’ll be having mine with Chef Boyardee spaghetti an meatballs. You’re welcome to have some. I’ll understand if you’re not interested.

I don’t eat Chef Boyardee. It isn’t real food.

Understood.

@proXXi i eat chef boyardee and i enjoy it thoroughly! but only a few times a year at most.

@deni I had a roommate who ate chef boyardee, beefaroni. There were a few times where I tried to force myself to eat it. I could never eat more than 1 bite before becoming violently ill.

lamb’s brains and cow tongues :)

Cow tongue
Chicken guts
Jellyfish
Squid tentacles

@hungryhungryhortence You eat jellyfish???

Yeah, you eat jellyfish?

@Darwin, stinky tofu and steak tartare Lurve.

I won’t bother you with Chef Boyardee again.

Don’t forget the buttermilk Babe.

Apparently some people, (you know who you are) find a grilled cheese and egg salad sandwich to be repulsive, but I think that’s just nuts.

@janbb
@proXXi

Yes, I love blanched jellyfish cut into long noodlelike strips marinated in sesame ginger and then tossed with sliced octopus and tossed with crispy salad greens.

@hungryhungryhortence Well… who are you eating first?

@rangerr: haven’t seen the eponymoushipster around lately, have you? tee hee hee

@hungryhungryhortence what do monkeys taste like?

@patg7590 They taste like chicken.

so @janbb and @hungryhungryhortence are in cahootz over kidnapping, killing, and eventually eating @eponymoushipster
solid

@patg7590 And we enjoyed it (him?).

@janbb any leftovers?

@patg7590 Nope – from the tip of his tail to his beady monkey eyes, we et him all. (burp)

Could be worse. Could be guinea pigs.

I had a ground beef omelette this morning… I imagine most people would think it was icky.

@poofandmook Or is that “squicky”?

@Darwin Two more times and it’s mine.