Foods with darn-near universal appeal

[Ike_Witt]

@Abby_Emma_Sasha

The banana! Come on, who among us hates bananas?

You’d be surprised at the number of banana haters here.

[StinkyBurrito]

I like bananas, but they make me sick to my stomach, so I don’t eat them in large portions. ducks as palm frond barely misses

I am going to re-nominate potatoes. I don’t really enjoy them, but I’ll eat them if they are served (I’ll eat anything if it is served). So I uniquely know that I am a very rare breed. Very few people are like me in that regard. They are found in many ethnic foods from around the world, and they can be cooked in a bazillion different ways.

[Abby_Emma_Sasha]

adam yax I have the palm frond ready right now…

[Abby_Emma_Sasha]

StinkyBurrito said:

I like bananas, but they make me sick to my stomach, so I don’t eat them in large portions. ducks as palm frond barely misses I am going to re-nominate potatoes. I don’t really enjoy them, but I’ll eat them if they are served

You say you like bananas but do not enjoy potatoes. The purpose of the thread, I think is to find a universal food everyone likes. In that case, do not bananas trump potatoes for you in the “like 'em better” field? You don’t have to eat large portions.

[nashiitashii]

@racer72

I would like to ask for a clarification of the term “dumplings”. Dumplings in my house and to everyone I know is a gooey biscuit dough that is cooked on top of various types of stews. We have them with beef stew and one of my favorite foods is chicken and dumplings. Someone else used dumplings to describe tortellini, ravioli and perogies. Tortellini and ravioli is a type of pasta in my book and a perogy is a meat filled biscuit that is baked in an oven.

Well, with me, any bit of pastry with a filling (savory, sweet, spicy, whathaveyou) all falls into the same category. Of course, “dumpling” may not be fitting, but neither is my concept of “mini pie/pasty” type thing. The basis of these things seems to be “dough wrapper + filling,” which is simple enough, and just about every region of the world fills a bit of dough with something and then cooks it. Well, maybe not the Yanomamo in the Amazon basin or some of the other groups that don’t do much cooking aside from boiling starchy tubers.
Ah, wait! Tubers! Everyone eats tubers! Root vegetables are found almost everywhere and people put them in all sorts of dishes.

[Abby_Emma_Sasha]

I love tubers too, but dumplings, not so much. They’re just a bit of boiled dough and I can do without that. Yes, I even dislike chicken and dumplings.
So, we can take dumplings, nuts, chocolate , coconut, lettuce, off the board. Too many people don’t care for them. I still cannot imagine anyone hating bananas.

[zweisamkeit]

@racer72

… and a perogy is a meat filled biscuit that is baked in an oven.

What the…?

[Ephemera]

@Abby_Emma_Sasha

I love tubers too, but dumplings, not so much. They’re just a bit of boiled dough and I can do without that. Yes, I even dislike chicken and dumplings.
So, we can take dumplings, nuts, chocolate , coconut, lettuce, off the board. Too many people don’t care for them. I still cannot imagine anyone hating bananas.

I hated bananas growing up.

[Abby_Emma_Sasha]

I hated bananas growing up.

Well, did you try bananas growing down?

[nashiitashii]

@zweisamkeit

@racer72

… and a perogy is a meat filled biscuit that is baked in an oven.

What the…?

I guess in all technicality, because pirogies are boiled and/or pan-fried, they’d be more “pasta-like” than “biscuit-like.”

Abby_Emma_Sasha, “chicken and dumplings” is an abomination to the meaning I’m trying to convey with the word “dumpling.” Lobbing a wad of dough into a dish does not a dumpling make. It’s got to have fillings and preferably be steamed, pan-fried, deep fried or occasionally boiled.

[devilsknew]

Sticking to my fruit guns, I’ll get specific and say Watermelon. I don’t think I know anyone who dislikes a nice ripe chunk of watermelon.

[wonky]

@devilsknew

Sticking to my fruit guns, I’ll get specific and say Watermelon. I don’t think I know anyone who dislikes a nice ripe chunk of watermelon.

I hate all melon, and that doesn’t seem particularly rare (not like my bacon avoidance).

[devilsknew]

@jsgoddess

I hate all melon, and that doesn’t seem particularly rare (not like my bacon avoidance).

Freak.

[Skywatcher]

@chowder

@davidm

I think I need some more edifercation. I’ve been under the impression that “chips”, at least in the context of “fish and chips” referred to what we Americans call french fries. Are you saying that they’re not french fries?

Nossir they are most definitely not FFs. :eek: These are an abomination in the eyes of man. Scrawny little fuckers

Real mans chips are, as I said, big fuck off slices of spud deep fried to a golden brown and crispy on the outside but meltingly delish on the inside.

We call these Texas fries.

[Seven]

@Abby_Emma_Sasha

Okay, now look here. There is one food that is beloved by vegans and carnivores to end all.
The banana! Come on, who among us hates bananas? They are the quintessential fruit. Not too sweet, not too tart, just right. And if someone comes in and says they hate bananas I’m gonna hit them with a big old palm frond.

I’m not a big fan of bananas. I don’t hate them, but I don’t go out of my way to eat them.

I like banana bread though.

[devilsknew]

@Seven

I’m not a big fan of bananas. I don’t hate them, but I don’t go out of my way to eat them.

I like banana bread though.

Ahhhhh… yesss. But do you like orange juice? (Brow bend inquiry.)

[chowder]

@Lute Skywatcher

We call these Texas fries.

Now you’re just being awkward

They are chips man, CHIPS

[Stillwell_Angel]

@Abby_Emma_Sasha

The banana! Come on, who among us hates bananas?

There was a thread awhile back, something about foods you hate I think. Anyway, there were many posters (myself included) who proclaimed a deep hatred of bananas. Just the smell of them makes my stomach lurch.

[Seven]

@devilsknew

Ahhhhh… yesss. But do you like orange juice? (Brow bend inquiry.)

Only with Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies!