Mmm, I glanced through the thread again. Actually, it turns out I used your (false) claim that food aversion is a modern Western phenomenon to segue into a discussion of sauce béarnaise syndrome, and after that, I only quoted your posts in order to reply to specific points you made in each one. So you don’t have any claim to have been misrepresented. If you think pointing out the lies and unjustifiable claims you explicitly made is “misrepresenting” you, you’ve got an excellent career ahead of you as a litigator. If you’d like to take back your use of the phrase “prima donna” to describe folks who don’t like certain foods, you may do so, but I think you’ve demonstrated your attitudes quite clearly at this point, and the fact that your attitudes are moronic is not my problem.
I probably shouldn’t bother posting, after 11 pages it’s highly unlikely I’ll have anything new to add, but anyway…
I don’t know that you’d class me a “foodie”, but I do love food and I love to cook. I have very varied taste - the only thing I actually cannot stand is Marmite, but even that I could probably acquire a taste for if I was so minded - I did with anchovies and olives. I love trying new things and there’s very little that makes me squeamish. But I accept that not eveyone feels like that, and therefore, when I ask someone round for dinner, my first question is “What don’t you eat?”, and I’ll design a menu around that. No point me slaving over a meal someone else doesn’t want to eat. So - vegetarian/no seafood/no carbs, fine, I can accomodate that. If, however, you have so many dislikes that it’s getting impossible for me to think of anything you might like, I’ll suggest we order take-out, and in future, if I want to spend time with you, I’m more likely to suggest we go out for a drink, or to see a film.
My main problem - grievance, you could say - is because I have such varied taste, I invariably end up going along with what everyone else wants to eat. For example, I don’t mind sushi, but I’m not wild about it either. But everyone else I know seems to love it, so it seems churlish of me not to go along with what the majority wants - afterall, it’s not like I hate it, or it makes me gag. So now I seem to go for sushi on a weekly basis, and maybe I should speak up, but when 10 people agree on it, and couldn’t agree on anything else…well, I think it would be rude of me to make a fuss. But it would be nice to something I really want for a change.
For the record, apart from poking fun at the vomiting thing, which I apologized for, I have not once insulted anyone’s taste or called them names for not liking certain things. My arguments were solely about what I feel is a point of etiquette. I just want to make that clear in case anyone’s tempted to lump me in with Shagnasty or pizzabrat, etc.
Finally! Something useful from this thread. I learned a new word.
This is rapidly becoming an exercise in the completely fucking surreal.
Let’s have a look at some of the shit you’ve done, shall we?
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You assumed the stance I take (re manners etc) to be the complete fucking opposite of the one I actually do. You fucked up royally there. An apology would be nice, but no instead we’ll just gloss over that little business.
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You directly quoted me, then go of on a long fucking diatribe in the second person with “you” this and “you” that, but now I’m supposed to take it that you were actually addressing a whole bunch of other people.
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You’ve generally been a complete twat.
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You’re now being a back-pedalling complete twat.
Fuck off.
Hey, just fighting ignorance. Now you know.
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Nope. Don’t know where you get that - but I suspect it relates to point number two.
No, I directly quoted you, and wrote a line responding to it and seguing into five paragraphs on a neurological phenomenon. After that, I started making more general statements, but as they were (1) nowhere near the quote and (2) had nothing to do with the contents of the quote, your assumption that they had anything to do with you indicates either a pathetic failure in reading comprehension or an even more pathetic need to feel victimized. You tell me which one it was.
You’re right, and you’ve been a picture of civility, restraint, and general good breeding to beat everyone in the thread except Diogenes. Congrats.
If you wish to continue to excoriate me for things I never said about you, you may. I called you and Diogenes “ignorant assholes”. I don’t think it’s necessary to cite Diogenes’ sins within the thread, especially after he owned up to 'em and slunk away. You, meanwhile, called people who modify their orders at restaurants “prima donnas”. You posted this in reference to Miller, who God bless him can be a handful sometimes but certainly didn’t deserve what you said:
Before you throw another temper tantrum over someone referring to you as a “foodie”, you can start by fixing the part where you assumed that anyone who doesn’t like every food you do is functionally a child - because that’s a pretty ignorant, assholish thing to say. In fact, you generally spent the first part of the thread being a big fucking asshole to those who have food aversions. My first post in the thread (it’s on page 9 somewhere) will demonstrate why that attitude is ignorant. Your own conduct makes it quite clear why “asshole” is deserved.
But if you think that I need to apologize for apparently somehow insulting your manners as a host because I quoted one line of yours and then, after six paragraphs (only the first of which made even vague reference to you), indicated my disgust with hosts who wish to force their guests to try foods the guests don’t like, you’re wrong. You need to get over thinking that you’re the center of the cosmos and that every line I write, if I don’t explicitly implicate otherwise, refers to you. You wanna continue playing the victim and crying like a pathetic little bitch because of some imagined insult? Go right ahead. Have a nice life, retard.
Well it doesn’t look like this strange twilight zone you inhabit has changed any. I’ll leave you to it.
So after being dumped by the millionaire, Suzie visited the milk bar, where she had a word with Alex and his droogs, who later that evening visited the millionaire at his mansion, where they raped his wife in front of him (she later died), and beat him so severely that he was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his miserable life. Following the excursion, Alex and his droogs returned to the milk bar for a nightcap.
Moral of the story? When your companion asks for milk, don’t be a jerk.
Weren’t you going to leave the SDMB anyway? Why don’t you work on that, you pathetic little fuck?
I’ve never done this before, but - Cite? And why only developed WESTERN cultures? Does no one gag on certain foods over in Japan?
Some of you are fucking psychotic. Throwing fits over food choices? I have a friend who always removes the tomatoes from his burgers. Since a lot of you like making up dialog to hypothetical situations, here’s mine:
Carnick: Why are you taking the tomatoes off?
Friend: I don’t like tomatoes.
Carnick: Oh.
Yeah and that’s not all. One of my cats loves saltines, the other loves carpet fibers. Me, personally, I like salted WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK.
Hosts being offended if someone turns down a sidedish? If you have that fragile of an ego, you shouldn’t be hosting dinner parties let alone communicating with other humans. Talk about childish. Are some of you really that thin skinned?
I have a little problem with food. You see, my mouth doesn’t open very wide and I can’t chew well due to medical issues. I also have some trouble swallowing. As a consequence, I can’t eat anything that’s remotely tough or large in size. I’ll have to pass a lot on food offered to me simply because I cannot eat it or I may choke and DIE. Then some fucking stuck up “foodie” (Foodie? What the FUCK? I like Queer Eye as much as the next person, but this metrosexual thing has gone WAY too far) will ask me why I turned down the food offering. Since my problem isn’t visible and it’s uncomfortable to tell people I don’t know well my long, tiresome medical history, I sometimes just shrug and say “sorry, I don’t like X.” It’s just easier that way. I didn’t realize I was being silently JUDGED though! From now on I’ll carry around a doctors note so I’m not unfairly deemed an asshole for something as simple as saying “no, thank you.”
Hear, hear, Carnick. Well bloody said.
One of the reasons I’ve participated in this thread, is that I’m stunned that this seems to be such a problem. I don’t consider myself a picky eater because I don’t like sea food. And I’m certainly not a Picky Eater.
I don’t know anyone that would be so Picky and rude that they would whine about restaurant choices, or tell some one how gross their food is.
I also don’t know anyone (at least IRL) that would be so rude as to tell me what I should or should not eat.
I think the problem is being blown way out of proportion. I think that many (not all) of the ‘foodies’ in this thread are just food snobs. It somehow makes them feel superior because they have no aversions to specific foods. People that are more discerning about their choice of food may actually enjoy food more.
[QUOTE=singular1No fucking rolleyes is the world is big enough, you pretentious horse’s ass (served on a bed of braised kitten lungs and clam knees).[/QUOTE]
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Clams got knees!
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Sorry, I’ll try that again:
<Johnny Hart>
Clams got knees!
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I always thought that it was legs.
Yay, Biffy the Elephant Shrew!
I didn’t think anyone else was gonna pick that one up. Good catch! 
Ya can’t have knees if ya don’t have legs…