# Do you like/hate these things (food related poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 22, 2001, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763 "2001-06-22T11:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/21 "2001-06-23T05:02:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > **Soy sauce is the only one of those I like. Forget Kikkoman; the Pearl River Bridge brand, imported from China, is the best.** In [_The Sydney Morning Herald_](http://www.smh.com.au)’s breaking news section just now, a [list](http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/06/23/FFXYU3X9AOC.html) of soy and oyster sauces which The Australia New Zealand Food Authority has advised consumers to avoid, on advice from the the UK Food Standards Agency. I’d check it out if I were you, **Jomo Mojo**. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/22 "2001-06-23T05:05:25Z")
Forgot to add in my last post, the safty concern is due to [high levels of carcinogens](http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/06/23/FFX3Z1X9AOC.html). ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/23 "2001-06-23T06:08:34Z")
3 and 4 are the only ones I’ve ever had. They are both good when not over used. I have a vague idea what 1 and 5 are, and I think they would be horrible. ---
**Author:** ![boomvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@boomvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boomvark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/24 "2001-06-23T06:31:34Z")
1. Mmmmmm-mmmm, beer sludge. Love it! 2. Never had it. Actually, never _heard_ of it until just now (okay, so I’m culturally deprived). It sounds edible, though, if not necessarily appetizing. 3. Indifferent. 4. Love it. Put it on virtually everything but Vegemite. 5. Ugh. Just the ‘oyster’ part was enough to gross me out. Giant boogers on the half-shell, they are, and I can’t imagine that any bottled by-product of the slimy abominations would be any significant improvement. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/25 "2001-06-23T18:38:22Z")
1. never tried it, never want to 2. don’t know what it is 3. sure, for cooking, using sparingly 4. same as # 3 5. I hate sea food ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/26 "2001-06-23T19:42:09Z")
I’ve had them all and found them to each be edible. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/27 "2001-06-23T20:05:18Z")
1. Never tried it. Not a big demand for it here in the sticks of Alabama, I’d wager. 2. Never heard of it until this thread. 3. Absolutely adore Worcestershire. My burgers swim in it. That and Tobasco. Mmmmmmm… 4. Yep, love good ol’ Soy, as well. Can’t eat shrimp lo mein (or any Chinese or Asian cooking) without at least a little of it. 5. I have to agree with **boomvark** on that one. Bleccch. Oyster anything makes my stomach heave. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/28 "2001-06-23T20:44:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spooky \* > **Isn’t it weird how vegan’s won’t eat honey?** I posted a question on this very topic, but I think it’s been deleted. The conclusion, I think that it’s not weird at all, or at least it’s entirely consistent with the vegan dietary regime (bees are animals). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/29 "2001-06-23T20:47:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*1. never tried it, never want to > 2. don’t know what it is > 3. sure, for cooking, using sparingly > 4. same as # 3 > 5. I hate sea food \*\* This made me laugh, Worcester contains anchovies, but I suppose you meant that you don’t like shellfish? Incidentally, Oyster sauce isn’t all that fishy or unpleasant at all; it’s just like a sort of thick salty stock(bouillon). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/30 "2001-06-23T20:49:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by boomvark \* > \*\*1) Mmmmmm-mmmm, beer sludge. Love it! > 2) Never had it. Actually, never _heard_ of it until just now (okay, so I’m culturally deprived). It sounds edible, though, if not necessarily appetizing. > 3) Indifferent. > 4) Love it. Put it on virtually everything but Vegemite. > 5) Ugh. Just the ‘oyster’ part was enough to gross me out. Giant boogers on the half-shell, they are, and I can’t imagine that any bottled by-product of the slimy abominations would be any significant improvement. \*\* If you like Marmite, you’d probably like Bovril; it’s quite similar, just a bit more ‘meaty’ tasting. ---
**Author:** ![R3nergy8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@R3nergy8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3nergy8)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/31 "2001-06-24T11:26:41Z")
Marmite/Vegemite/Yeast exteact Bovril Worcester sauce Soy sauce Oyster sauce ok my two cents; 1.not sure what they are 2. same as 1 3. use it ALL the time when marinating,or just to add extra flavor 4.yes love it, and not just on chinese food but all different foods 5.this is something that I started using last year and found that I love this,anyway I LIKE oysters(oh stop frowning!) But as for 1 and 2, I live in Alaska and have never seen these items on the grocery shelf,are they like a specialty foods? like the kind you gotta go to an Asian market or some other specialty store for? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/32 "2001-06-24T12:46:25Z")
Oyster sauce bears about as much resemblance to oysters as soy sauce does to soy beans. If you saw a bottle of it without the label, you would never know its origins. My answers: 1. Never tried it. 2. Never tried it. 3. Only in very diluted form. 4. Sure, yummy. 5. Not straight out of the bottle or anything, but it’s good diluted in food. Ditto on Vietnamese fish sauce. For the record, no, this shouldn’t be interpretted to mean that I drink soy sauce straight. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/33 "2001-06-24T15:59:58Z")
**TheLoadedDog** , thanks for the headsup. Actually, the last time I had Pearl River Bridge soy sauce was about 19 years ago. I just remembered it as having better flavor than Kikkoman. After posting above, I googled it and found to my horror that it’s been banned in Germany Finland because of the carcinogens found in it. You know, I had misgivings about any food product coming from China. Maybe because of the unhealthy environment created by Communism in the old Warsaw Pact, the news that came out after the Berlin Wall fell, the terrible levels of pollution with no environmental controls. I am planning to go to Fresh Fields in search of some organic soy sauce that will hopefully be better than anything I’ve tried yet. No alcohol in my soy sauce, please. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/34 "2001-06-24T16:57:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > > \*\*1. never tried it, never want to > > 2. don’t know what it is > > 3. sure, for cooking, using sparingly > > 4. same as # 3 > > 5. I hate sea food \*\* > > This made me laugh, Worcester contains anchovies, but I suppose you meant that you don’t like shellfish? > > Incidentally, Oyster sauce isn’t all that fishy or unpleasant at all; it’s just like a sort of thick salty stock(bouillon). \*\* No, I mean I hate seafood, in total. It’s not a matter of some deep-seated belief that eating seafood is wrong, but a matter of taste. While worschestershire sauce does contain fish, it’s the second to last ingredient, and, I don’t know about you, but I sure can’t taste it in there. I don’t care if something I don’t like is a minor ingredient of a food as long as I can’t taste it. Tofu, for another example… ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/35 "2001-06-24T19:00:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SilkyThreat \* > **3. Absolutely adore Worcestershire. My burgers swim in it. That and Tobasco. Mmmmmmm…** Are we the only two to like this stuff? I love it on burgers but it also goes great on cheese on toast (as you can tell I’m an accomplished chef.) Bovril and Marmite, they seem sort of the same but Marmite for some reason is puky but Bovril is great. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/36 "2001-06-24T22:57:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by R3nergy8 \* > \*\*But as for 1 and 2, I live in Alaska and have never seen these items on the grocery shelf,are they like a specialty foods? like the kind you gotta go to an Asian market or some other specialty store for? \*\* I suppose one nation’s mainstay is another’s rarity, in the UK, there’s nowhere that you _can’t_ buy Marmite. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/37 "2001-06-24T23:15:01Z")
1. Never had it 2. Never had it 3. Like it 4. Like it 5. Never had it ---
**Author:** ![virtee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/38 "2001-06-25T00:24:55Z")
[list=1] [li] never had it but would try it.[/li][li] never had it but would try it.[/li][li] like it.[/li][li] like it.[/li][li] like it.[/li][/list=1] ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/39 "2001-06-25T03:22:29Z")
1. Vegemite is one of the yummiest things ever. Seeing as I’m Australian, I’m probably more inclined to say that, but it really is yummy. All of you people who think it’s gross don’t know what you’re missing out on. 2. Never tried it. 3. This stuff rocks my socks. I love it. 4. I love soy sauce. Any type. Sweet, plain etc, it’s all good. 5. I don’t like seafood and therefore don’t like oyster sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763/40 "2001-06-25T07:09:54Z")
1. Tried vegemite once, thought it tasted pretty good. 2. Huh? 3. Ok. 4. Ok, but a little salty for my taste. Use sparingly. 5. Love it. –sublight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-hate-these-things-food-related-poll/69763.md?page=3)