Last week, I bought some figs. A friend saw me eating them and I offered him some. He declined, saying he didn’t like eating them. “Uhm, you ate a whole package of FIG Newton last week,” It remind me of another friend who likes ketchup, but hates tomatoes. So, are there any foods (fruit, vegetable, meat, etc) that you can eat in one form, but can’t in another one?
Sure. I hate olives - a real handicap here in the Middle East - but I’m fine with olive oil.
Also, I don’t like strawberries, but I prefer strawberry jam.
I like buttermilk doughnuts, but actual buttermilk? Horrid stuff.
I like tomato sauces, but can’t eat raw tomatoes - yuck!
Obligatory reminder of recent thread…
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=680432&highlight=Olives
Raw mushrooms are evil. Cooked mushrooms are divine.
Oyster sauce = essential cooking ingredient.
Oyster = aquatic gobbet of phlegm
I can’t really eat egg - scrambled, fried, boiled, omlette. Gives me reflux.
But egg-containing foods (cakes, baked goods and the like) are fine.
The line between quiche (not ok) and frittata (maybe ok if I make it) is a fine one to tread.
I like tomato sauce and fresh tomatoes, but I refuse to eat stewed tomatoes due to their consistency.
I would never eat a live cow, but I loves me some steak.
Actually, “oyster sauce” is made from oyster mushrooms – A variety of pleurotus.
It has nothing to do with the aquatic gobbet of phlegm (and I completely share your appreciation of those bivalves shudder).
Me neither. I can eat cooked tomatoes and even sundried tomatoes, but raw tomatoes gross me out.
Well that is true of fake, vegetarian “oyster sauce” but not so the real thing.
I hate raw onions, but I’m fine with them heavily cooked-down and in small bits. That sulfurous smell and taste of more “intact” onions makes me gag.
Interesting! Ignorance fought! In my discharge I should say that the only “oyster sauce” I’ve seen here (“here” being The Netherlands and, to some extent, Western Europe) is the one made from mushrooms.
I love cucumbers, but I cannot stand pickles
You are not alone. Here in Australia we have decades of exposure to Asian cuisine and I often see amazing misconceptions about Asian food from both Europeans and Americans.
I probably have more Asian things in my pantry, including oyster sauce, than you would find in many European and American stores.
Huh, I thought the thread title was “Foods You Can Eat In One Forum, But Not In Another”. Boy, if Ed Zotti is keeping that close an eye on us, he’s worse than the NSA. :mad:
I am fond of tomatoes, but won’t touch tomato juice.
Love dried figs, hate the slight perfume flavour of fresh ones. My sister likes grapes and hates raisins, my brother won’t eat fresh cheese but is a big fan when it is cooked and melted.
Weirdly enough, corn on the cob: awesome. Corn in any other way…sweet, salted, whatever: revolting.
Those little individual kernels give me fits. But I do like popcorn, cornbread and so forth.