Liver is nasty

[Contestant #3]

I love food and I love to eat. I'm not too picky either, but there are just some things that I WILL NOT eat. One of them high on the list is liver. What a nasty smelling and tasting organ!

How can you liver-eaters put that shit into your mouths? ewwwww!!



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Contestant #3

[pricciar]

Are you Fonzie?

pat

PS:
I hate liver, but then again, I pretty much hate all food, i am very picky.

[Sycorax]

It may depend on how it's cooked. I hated liver when I was a child. But a few years ago, I arrived at my boyfriend's for dinner to discover he was preparing...LIVER. Yikes! He cajoled me into trying it. Much to my surprise, I liked it. About a year ago, I bought some and even prepared it and cooked it (I thought) like he did. I ate it. It was nasty. I could still taste it the next day - thought I was going to puke.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Liver is the toxic waste dump of the body. I won't touch it, though not for that reason. I just don't like the taste or texture of liver. It's not even good for you.

I know that SOME people regard it as a gourmet treat, but I've always hated it.


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Lynn the Packrat

[Contestant #3]

That's what I was thinking too Lynn, that that the function of that particular organ is enough in and of iteself to raise red flags to me about eating it, but then combine that with the taste (of which the thought makes me shudder) and I just can't comprehend the consumption of it.

You mention that it's not good for you (and I don't care if it is or isn't, but...)...others claim that it is very healthful and nutritious...what's the scoop?

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Contestant #3

[BoBettie]

Maybe if they called it something else...
Anything else. I will never, ever in my life (unless starving to death) eat something like an organ food. I mean, nothing gets my appetite going like:
liver
pancrease (sp)
tongue (oh, my GOD that's gross)
pigs feet
pigs knuckles
pigs ears
Anything that actually names the body part is unacceptable to me. Major gross. Oh, and how about Tripe? Mmmmmmmm. No thanks! I'm with ya', C3!

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[Contestant #3]

Confession:

I love somebody that eats liver...


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Contestant #3

[t.g.]

Of course liver is nasty, it is a big blood filter after all. It's job it to clean out the blood of the animal or person it came from. Of course I guess 99 % of us grew up having to eat it, because our moms made us, Iron and all that. But now I don't cook it at all.

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t.g.
sweet innocent little old grandma type person

I'll eat virtually anything, but I've never had the opportunity to eat plain liver. I have had liver sausage though. (I think it's also known as liverworst) I admit it smells gross, but put some of that paste on a Ritz, and you've got yourself a yummy snack.

As for foods I hate? If you paid me, I would not eat mushrooms, or watermelon. In fact I believe watermelon is of the devil.

Adam

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[Pooch]

Liver is good (said like Travolta saying pork chops are good in Pulp Fiction). Try it 'yakitori' style. MMMMM. I like tongue, too. Tongue is good.

[Pooch]

In fact I believe watermelon is of the devil

Arg has a sense of humor!! Arg has a sense of humor!! Way to go, Arg!!

[Lynn Bodoni]

C3:

It's the texture of liver that turns my stomach. Liver is high in iron and other nutrients, but it's also high in cholesterol. And as someone mentioned, it's a filtering organ. This means that pesticides, hormones, whatever the animal ate will concentrate in the liver. Liver USED to be recommended to people with low iron, now it's not. The iron in liver is not readily accessible.

Same thing with spinach, it used to be recommended as a way to get iron in your blood, now they're saying that the body can't extract the iron easily.

::shrug:: But the nutritionists will have a new theory out tomorrow. I say, if you don't like something, don't eat it.


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Lynn the Packrat

[C K Dexter Haven]

::: singing :::
I hate liver,
Liver makes me quiver,
Liver makes me curl right up and die
Oh, my!

Any wonder that we call a dislikeable person names like: yellow-livered?

Or that we say: liver-wurst?

[NicePete]

You guys are like a buncha six year olds. Liver is great --- mmmmmm liver 'n' onions. Fried chicken livers..... chicken livers sauteed in burgundy... pate de foie gras...

I have to go get something to eat now, you culinary philistines.

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"Owls will deafen us with their incessant hooting!" W. Smithers

I know y'all aren't going to try this, but here's a yummy chicken-liver recipe: Just fry 'em up in a pan with chopped onions and soy sauce. Delish! I had to stop eating liver for health reasons, but still think fondly back on that particular dish . . .

[kellibelli]

in keeping with the nauseating nature of the thred...2 words: HEAD CHEESE
retch!

[BunnyGirl]

Liver: Food of the Gods! I love it even as a kid.
For those concerned about it's function in the body, you'll probably want to stay away from all organ meats for that matter.

Flora, you're recipe sounds great. Since I'me the only one between my husband and I who'll eat it, I'll have to try a small batch. I had the BEST chicken livers at a small town restaurant in Tennessee (Waverly, for those of you who must know.) Real, homemade pan fried with lots of onions. Not the normal, greasy deep fried and battered variety.

[Mr.Zambezi]

I am a huge liver fan. The trick to preparing it is to rinse it and rinse it until it starts to blanch. It is all of that congealed blood that gives liver its bad taste.

Soak it is slightly warm running water for about 20 minutes, then knead it repeatedly.

Cut the liver into 1" strips and fry in a pan with a lot of bacon, mushrooms, onions and peppers.

Of course, you could prepare cardboard the same way and it would taste good.

[Dirty Devil]

Many years ago, on a hunting/survival trip, I was "forced" (the peer pressure was just too much) to eat raw deer liver, fresh from the animal and still steaming. I took two bites, held it down for about 15 minutes until I could get away from the guys I was hunting with, and threw it up (along with everything else in my stomach). Repulsive only begins to describe it. And god only knows what the health risks were!

[Mr.Zambezi]

Devil, When I was a kid a friend fo my dad talked me into the same thing. He said it was the "mountain Man initiation." Yeah, right.

[Byzantine]

At a Asian restaurant we ordered what I think is called a Poo poo platter; it's a bunch of different appetizers. One of them was a small piece of liver wrapped in bacon. It was good but I wouldn't eat too much of it since it's loaded with fat.

The only time I cooked liver was when I made some for my cat after she had given birth. She liked it but I didn't eat any.

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Kellibelli, in keeping with the nauseaous nature of the thread:

PORK BRAINS!!!!!

[Ukulele Ike]

Liver? That's for tyros. KIDNEYS...now there's some REAL eatin'.

I was consuming a mixed grill at an Argentine restaurant a week ago...small pieces of flank and rib steak, beef sausage, blood sausage, sweetbreads and kidneys. The sweetbreads went first, of course, but by meal's end I found I left beefsteak uneaten in favor of those kidneys...

[shrug] Guess I was making up for a urine deficiency in my diet.

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Uke

[tracer]

Contestant #3 wrote:

I love somebody that eats liver...

You love somebody? Wow, Connie, that IS a first!

(Okay, okay, I'll stop picking on the poor guy for now .)

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[Contestant #3]

Tracer,

I also LOVE to point out what a dumb fucker you are...

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Contestant #3

Liver is nasty

So are you C#3, but at least they WASH the liver before it's forced down our throats!

Heard on A Prairie Home Companion: "Lips that touch liver will never touch mine."

I can do without beef liver, but fried chicken livers with onion and salt-n-pepper is absolutely divine! I get hungry thinking about it. I also like pate and liverwurst. I don't eat it often, but I am concerned about the health risks. I know about the cholesterol, but is it really high in toxins?
After all, the toxins are supposed to be flushed out, not stored.

And to all of you who are being so high-and-mighty about not eating organ meats, do you ever eat any of the following?
sausage
bologna or salami
hot dogs

Yes? You eat organ meats. Case closed.

It really bothers me when people talk about "hating a certain type of food". IMHO, hate is a really strong word and an indication that one has lost some respect for food. Trust me, you never know when you may go hungry and anything nourishing would be welcome.

My grandfather had brain cancer and once my grandmother boiled a cow's heart for him. Sure it looked horrible to me, but I've never seen anyone eat purely to get an ounce of strength.

My grandparents also told me stories about starving people during WWII. The most depressing story is of people who would eat rotting horse flesh.

I'm sure in America we'll never be faced with that kind of famine but when people are starving, they'll eat anything (i.e. "Alive"). I'm sure you would love a piece of liver in that situation, C#3.

Sorry if I'm being rude or something, but seriously, don't eat it if you don't like it, but it's totally unnecessary to knock it. This also goes for making comments about food other people select to eat. In that way, food is sort of like music - pure opinion and taste.

[Contestant #3]

I hate liver. Liver is nasty. I would gladly chose to die of starvation rather than to eat it.

knock knock knock knock



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Contestant #3

Umm, Melanie, I think the purpose of this thread is to talk humorously about the kinds of food we don't like. Bringing in the "there are children starving in China!" arguement sorta sucks the air out of the room.

[kellibelli]

snicker...thanks flora, needed a chuckle.
(sucks the air...tee hee)

[tracer]

Contestant #3 wrote:

Tracer,

I also LOVE to point out what a dumb fucker you are...

I beg your pardon! I consider myself a very thoughtful, intelligent fucker. It can thrill a lady no end when, while she's in the throes of ecstasy with me, I start explaining Special Relativity to her. "All observers measure the same speed of light no matter how fast the light source is moving toward or away from them," I'll say. 'Oh yes OH YES OH GOD!!' she'll say. Whew.

<Han Solo>
Sometimes I amaze even myself.
</Han Solo>

[Narile]

Banana's are evil. Banana's are everything that is horrid. I have loathed banana's since I was born. I wouldn't eat them when I was being weaned, and I won't eat them today. The mere smell of a banana can sometimes make me gag.

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>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry....unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<

---The dragon observes

Yeah, Flora, you're right, I'm sorry. I guess (as an avid food lover) I feel the need to defend it. It's also a pet peeve of mine when people comment on what I'm eating by saying, "EIWWW! You're eating THAT?!" Happened to me today and I think I'm feeling a little sensitive.

That's OK--I'd post a little smiley face, but I haven't the vaguest notion how to do it.

And anyone who says, "Ewww--you're eating THAT?" deserves to get a big heaping pawful of it thrown at them!

See my post regarding sexual activities during menses.....

[tracer]

Narile wrote:

Banana's are evil. Banana's are everything that is horrid. I have loathed banana's since I was born. I wouldn't eat them when I was being weaned, and I won't eat them today. The mere smell of a banana can sometimes make me gag.

I take it you weren't a very big fan of Banana Quik [TM], then?


Okay, confession time:

I don't eat vegetables.
I don't eat fruit.
I don't eat seafood, except for fish sticks.
I don't eat condiments.
I don't eat nuts, except for the occasional peanut.

I have the diet range of an 8-year-old.

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I'm not flying fast, just orbiting low.

tracer: I certainly won't condemn your taste (or lack of it) but I pity you. To me, your diet would be like seeing the world in black & white or always having sex in the same position.

[tracer]

Well, if I didn't LIKE sex in anything but one position, I'd think that wouldn't be too bad. It'd be kinda boring for any partners I might have, though.

Fortunately, unlike sex partners, vegetables don't care if you don't eat them. (rim-shot)

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I'm not flying fast, just orbiting low.

[ChrisCTP]

Liver is gross, other organ meats are gross (including sausage, hot dogs, bologna, etc.) I've never eaten tongue, the various aforementioned pig parts, or haggis, but I'm absolutely certain they're disgusting.

I hate onions and mushrooms.

Goulash is nasty. Feta is nasty. Tofu is nasty. Eggrolls, baklava (OK, I may try baklava one more time), meat cooked under medium well, fishsticks, pizza rolls, Mountain Dew, shark, sushi, eggs cooked in any manner that leaves the yolk soft,
Hollandaise (sp?) sauce, and gyros are all nasty.

PS: Although I don't like to eat gyros, I do know how to pronounce the word "gyro". Trivial pet peeve hearing people say "Jy-ro"... it's "yiro". [/end rant]



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[popokis5]

Liver is OK if I don't think about what I'm eating. I don't eat it very often though.
Papaya is the most disgusting, vile, nasty stuff-it smells like puke. Just watching people eat it makes me sick. That and brains.

[Ukulele Ike]

Chris,

I don't know about that pronunciation thing. Every time I go up to the counter (anywhere in NYC) and ask for a Yi-ro the guy looks at me pityingly and says "Ya wanna Ji-ro?"

Of course, if/when I say Ji-ro, I feel even stupider when he corrects me to Yi-ro.

But I suppose if your work is dishing up gyros, you get your kicks where you can.

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Uke

[vanillanice]

Arg, you hate watermelon? Wooo When I was young,my mom used to make liver dumpling soup, homemade. It really was good, I liked it, but it didn't taste a lot like fried liver. Haven't had it since. I'm leaning towards being vegetarian, and it really isn't good for you, but then neither are donuts. :0

[Valerieblaise]

Liver is repugnant, as far as I'm concerned. My mom and stepdad used to force it upon us kids because it was allegedly healthy, but we ALL hated it. Seven kids and two parents (or pseudo-parents, whatever) would sit at the table bitterly choking down that dreck.

My Dad (as in, my real father and Mom's ex) still complains to this day that he's never had liver and onions as delicious as my mother makes 'em. They've been divorced since I was a year old, which means that Dad's been craving Mom's L & O for about 24 years. Mom's take? "He LIKED that? Bleeeeeech! I wouldn't eat that if you PAID me!" The minute Mom & the step-daddy heard that liver wasn't chock full 'o goodness, they stopped considering it a meal. I haven't had to eat it in, say, 10 years, but the mention of it makes me feel like I need to yack.

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[Akatsukami]

Liver? Feh, a child's dislike.


If you-all really want to try disliking something (those of you who live, anyway), try stuffed derma.

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"Kings die, and leave their crowns to their sons. Shmuel HaKatan took all the treasures in the world, and went away."

[Fichchef]

Stuffed Derma...otherwise none to those who knows as "kishka," is a mixture of potatoes, onions, shortening and spices, stuffed into a casing, then either baked as is, or sliced and sauteed. Served with gravy or au nateur, it is a succulent savory appetizer or accompinament-type thing.
I can't think of anything adverse about it, save for the fact that in days of yore they used to use natural (read animal) casings (read intestines) to stuff it into. (It's mostly all wrapped in artificial casings now.)
If that were an object of disgust, than you better switch to kosher hot dogs..and for goodness sake, stay away from that italian sausage.
Now...let's talk really disgusting.....Head Cheese! ACKKK

[Fretful Porpentine]

BAKLAVA?!? How could anybody not like baklava? Food of the gods. Unless, of course, it was the soggy frozen kind ...

Hmm, I can't think of all that many foods I really hate. Except, of course:

All Hostess and Sara Lee products

Egg, chicken, and tuna salad

Hot dogs

Jellied pig's feet (actually, I haven't tried these, but my mom's family has them on the table every Christmas, and they look alarming.)

Miller Lite (beer is one of the four food groups, right?)

Those rolled-up slices of turkey breasts in trays of hot water that get served at school cafeterias

Most of these are quality things rather than type-of-food things, I guess. (I hate hot dogs, but honest-to-god German wurst is another matter). Well, except for the pig's feet ...

[tracer]

Ever had Low-Fat Twinkies[TM]? They have an ever-so-slightly fruity flavor. And they spoil faster than "real" Twinkies[TM] do.

[ChrisCTP]

BAKLAVA?!? How could anybody not like baklava? Food of the gods. Unless, of course, it was the soggy frozen kind ...

Hey, I said I might try baklava one more time... I'm just not much about walnuts.
If I could get it super-heavy on the cinnamon, with the walnuts chopped superultrafine, you know, maybe...

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