My brother-in-law has feelings similar to ChefGuy regarding beets. He calls them dirtballs, and borscht is mud soup. Personally, something that turns my urine an unnatural color is worth trying.
Vlad/Igor
Milwaukee has some great eastern European restaurants! Three Brothers, Old Town, Mader’s, Polonez! You can always come North. All but Mader’s are on the south side of town anyway.
Drink a bottle of red food coloring. Then you won’t have to eat the disgusting things.
I dunno. Maybe canned veggies just don’t have the defenders that other things, like wearing the the color pink, do.
Anyway, I just wanted to remind the beet haters and pee-artists of this anti-beet thread.
I searched one of those bible sites, hoping peas were mentioned somwhere so I could quote it and get us back on track, but alas. Peas are such an abomination they’ve been completly ignored.
Three and a half years on this board and you haven’t yet realized the paucity of topics that won’t get hijacked?
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I heart peas. It makes me cry, what canning does to them.
Canned peas are about the only canned vegetable I absolutely refuse to eat. I don’t really like most other canned veggies, but at least they don’t make me queasy.
I second the vote for frozen veggies from Trader Joe’s. Even their frozen green beans (haricot vert, actually) are yummy. Not quite like fresh, but VERY edible.
Of course, I also like beets (try them raw with lime juice and salt), so my vote may not actually count.
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I once had a meal in an Italian restaurant – one with a big reputation, at that – which had canned peas in the pasta sauce.
:eek:
This sounds so good, I may have to go to the store and buy some beets just to try it. 
I’m the one in my family that likes all of the usually hated veggies (i.e.- beets, brussels sprouts, etc.) and dislikes the usual favorites (peas, beans, greens, potato salad). No accounting for taste, I suppose. :rolleyes:
I see you your anti-beet thread, and raise you this thread which started off as an honest question, but turned into an Ode to Beets, much like Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to an Onion”:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=200218&highlight=beets
And anyone who can’t find good Polish or other Eastern European food in Chicago sure isn’t looking very hard. Not to diss Milwaukee, but you sure don’t need to go that far. Damn, I’ve got a stove full of pseudo-Indian food, and now I’m craving roast duck and sweet-an-sour red cabbage and apples. And blueberry pierogies, which aren’t even in season.
How awful would they be if I made them with frozen blueberries? Or maybe a bit of a drive to the Healthy Food Lithuanian Restaurant…everything is made from scratch, but other than that, the name is a mystery - everything is either fried in bacon grease or butter, or topped with sour cream, or both.
In retribution for my anti veggie tirade, the Ms. made me eat asparagus tonight for dinner. Now I’ll have to hold my breath whenever I take a leak for the next 12 hours. Damn her macho headgames!
I like canned sweet peas…
You’ve got issues dude, serious issues…
The only peas I can eat are stir fried snow peas or sugar snap peas.
I even pick them out of my fried rice half the time because they’re just gross. Bleh.
Canned mushy peas are fine; really, but they aren’t really a vegetable any more (if you haven’t ever heard of mushy peas, you might be better off not knowing - they are (I suppose) very, very approximately the British cultural analogue of hoummous).
But yes, canned vegetables are generally evil, except tomatoes and sometimes those little minted new potatoes - they aren’t anything like real potatoes, but they are an almost obligatory part of the camping culture.
Canned peas actually caused me to completely go off eating peas for over ten years; we found a snail inside a can and that was the end of peas for me - I like them now, but I’ve not eaten canned peas since (although mostly for aesthetic reasons now).
While fresh veggies almost always taste the best, I like all canned vegetables except asparagas. I only like fresh asparagas. I do love me canned peas though. Of course I’m also a notoriously non-picky eater. My mother says that if it will sit still long enough for me to put some seasoning on it, I will eat it. Which is almost true, because there are a few things I don’t have to wait for them to stop moving.
You should only pee when she’s also in the bathroom, preferably doing something she can’t just put down and run away, like applying mascara.
This is one-time only advice for Chefguy. Do not apply to other situations.
Mmmmmm . . . leeks
. . . and pickled beets
. . . and pickled okra.
Me too! I guess we’ll just both have to be abominations together jayjay. Hmm… together with jayjay. Well, now that can’t be anything but good.