Do you like any foods that disgust others?

In My Humble Opinion
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I have noticed a lot of people are squemish about condiments.

If I get a lump of butter dropped on my plate while buttering bread, I just pick it up and eat it. The whole table will say “eyeew, that’s disgusting”. And two seconds later, they will be licking the odd bit of butter off a finger themselves.

If I put mustard on french fries I hear “ewweew”.

If I’ve made spaghetti and find there’s no Parmesan, I’ll use grated swiss. This also gets “yuck”, but if I have cheddar, it’s only yuckky until I point out it it now Mac and Cheese.

And I add saurkraut to stew.

2

I LOVE chicken gizzards.

My dad and I used to fight over who got to eat the one that came in a whole chicken. Now they don’t even give you the “innnards.” What is this world coming to?

Scotti

3

I’m the only one in my household who likes:

Candy with coconut in it (actually anything with coconut)
Black licorice jelly beans
Coffee
Beer
Beer Nuts
Pineapple chunks on green salad

This guarantees me any and all such candies, and the guarantee that I always know how much beer we have available, and that no one will swipe the last cup of coffee that I wanted for myself.

4

Dave, no one in your house likes coconut, coffee, beer or beer nuts? What kind of wackos are they? :wink:

I don’t usually say this too loudly, but I do like tongue. I also won’t shy away from blood pudding in an Irish breakfast.

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I will eat vanilla frosting with a spoon. I will
eat the vallia frosting other people leave when
they cut a piece of cake. I will eat the vanilla
frosting that sticks to the box.

This grosses people out. I don’t know why.

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All right, question time. What exactly are “beer nuts”?

Are they the same thing as “corn nuts”, in which case I still don’t know what they are?

Do they refer to peanuts, the “nuts” (yeah, legumes, I know) that are commonly eaten with beer?

Are they like soup nuts, not nuts at all but little pieces of bread shaped like nuts that you are supposed to eat with beer?

Are they, mayhaps, nuts that are actually soaked in beer?

                   I'm confused.

(Black licorice jelly beans are the devil. But they sure are tasty, aren’t they?)

7

Beer nuts are peanuts with a thin candy coating on them, plus lots of salt, so that you get a sweet and salty taste (to ensure that you continue drinking lots of beer, of course).

Corn nuts are large kernals of corn that have been toasted & salted - think corn chips in a different form.

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Dave: Your family seems to lead a sheltered life.

Thanks to a Mom who was raised in the Deep South and practiced the “finish your plate” faith I developed a craving for things that seem to make other people squeaminsh.
Scotticher touched on chicken gizzards (don’t forget the liver). Stewed okra and tomatos. Turnip greens with cubes of turnip.
A number of people on this board have mentioned a distaste for blackeye peas, which means they probably never tried it with cornbread. Which also means they probably never tried cornbread in buttermilk. On a side note: if you don’t like blackeye peas, what do you eat for “luck” on New Year’s Eve?
Never could get into pigs feet.

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Forgive me, but I can’t let a straight line go by…

What’s the difference between Beer nuts and Deer nuts?

Beer nuts are $1.49, but Deer nuts are under a buck.

Thank you! I’ll be here all week! Don’t forget to tip your server!

10

i like peanut butter and lettuce sandwiches. they are quite good.

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Pork and sauerkraut of course, what are you talking about?

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I will eat anything other than liver or raw sewage.

This is evidenced by the fact that I did not become emaciated in boarding school, which is the equivalent of cafeteria food.

I’ll even eat brussel sprouts and like them.

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Wimps. I like everything here with the exception of peanut butter. I eat saurkraut and pickles with strong mustard on dark rye. I eat liverwurst with onions. I’m annoyed that no pizza place in town actually sells anchovies. I eat any and all kinds of chicken parts including livers, gizzards, etc. I also like beef tongue, brains, and any other parts. Heck, I’d eat rocky mountain oysters if I got the chance. I also like sushi, things like raw squid and raw fish, etc. That wrapped in seaweed with rice and veggies in a bite-sized bit is more that many of my friends can stand. Unfortunately, there are no restaurants nearby that do Japanese, only a very non-authentic Chinese place. The closest is the Sushi Hana in Missoula, a four-hour drive away. A good lunch place, but not every day. Anyway, I like most anything except spicy things (gradually building up my tolerance with curry), spam (not a real food if you ask me), plain ketchup (I eat it on things like burgers, but only with plenty of other condiments, many with pungent flavors and aromas), and plain butter/peanut butter (just tastes too sickly sweet, and greasy besides). This thread brings back memories of odd things I shoved in my mouth when I was but a tyke (ants taste oddly sour, and they bite on the way down).

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Fillet, don’t know about the blood pudding. But a nice tongue sammich is pretty yummy.

Doug Bowe, since my mom was raised in Tennessee, I’m qualified to say that a lot of people on this board probably don’t even know what real cornbread tastes like!

People! Cornbread is not sweet! It is grainy, tastes like unsweetened corn meal, is made with bacon or sausage grease and is nothing like the ersatz, muffin-like cupcakes popular in the areas above the Mason-Dixon Line. Beware the faux cornbread! Turn back to real, honest cornpone.

(back me up, here, Doug, they’re turnin’ ugly!)

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Weird things I like: black jelly beans, peanutbutter/banana/jam/potatochip sandwiches, ketchup on mac n cheese, french fries dipped in a chocolate shake, and tuna puffs (secret family recipe).

16

I like potted meat with cream cheese on toast or popcorn.

17

I there’s ranch available, I’ll use it. Whether I’m eating fries, a steak, even lasagna, I’ll dab it in some ranch dressing.

18

I loooove those buttered popcorn Jelly Bellies, and I love tomatoes. I don’t know why, but everyone I know has some sort of pathological fear of tomatoes.

Oh, and mblackwell: ketchup on mac-n-cheese rules!! What’s even better is if you add onions, deli mustard, and tobasco sauce to the cheese sauce before dumping it over the macaroni. Mmmmmmmmm.

19

I mix diet Mt. Dew (“spew”) with Dt. Pepsi. I call it “wolf juice”. People stare at me as if I have gone crazy. Tyr it, tho!

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I love frozen durian drinks. Durian is a fruit of, I believe, Southeast Asian origin. I’ve never had the fruit itself but a lot of Vietnamese restaurants make frozen drinks out of it.

Durian has been described as one of the most repulsive, foul-smelling fruits in existence. It smells (not to me, but to others, I guess) like a combination of mold and old stinky sweatsocks. I really don’t think it smells like that at all, but whenever I order it with dinner delivered to the office everyone makes me drink it outside.

I guess it’s a flavor that you either love or hate. Even when I order it in a restaurant, the Vietnamese servers are always hesitant to bring it to me until I assure them that I’ve had it before and that I really do like it.