I like my eggs over cooked. Most people would call them rubbery but that is how I like them.
I like pizza crusts that have been heated in a microwave and are soft and chewy. of course fresh pizza is better but I don’t mind reheating my pizza in a microwave because you get the chewy crust.
I like shoestring french fries that most people would call soggy. When they are limp they are yummy.
What foods do you like “wrong”?
when I was a teenager, I liked my Raisin Bran soggy as in I poured the milk on it and let is sit for 5 minutes or so.
I like my pasta completely cooked, not al dente, as is proper, and I always break spaghetti in half.
I like my scrambled eggs tinged brown. I like my Guinness ice cold. I like my Caesar salad anchovie-less and with chicken and my chili with meat.
I like lumpy mashed potatoes. And lumpy gravy to go with it.
I like my eggs overcooked for sure, at least by classic French or high-end restaurant standards. Give me eggs over hard, crispy around the edges, diner-style. I want a fried egg that will give a breakfast sandwich drip-free structure.
I prefer dry turkey (with gravy) to moist turkey (which seems somewhat slimy to me).
I like to make chili with onions, tomatoes (not too much), and BEANS. I hear the wail and lamentation of Texans, and it is MUSIC to my ears.
I soak my cereal in milk at least 5 minutes. I like it soggy.
I buy canned chili. Wolf Brand tastes so good that I almost never make it anymore.
I like a little bit of iced tea in my sweetener.
I like my breakfast potatoes overdone. When I go out I just order them, “as burnt as the cook is willing burn them.”
I like toast and bagels to be toasted until burnt.
I like pretty much all my drinks room temperature. Water, I prefer hot.
It might distress you - but if you are brave enough, and can avoid the canonical Texas Chili debate about beans in chili, visit Houston. There are restruants there that are changing that belief and it is all delicious.
I also enjoy a buttered bagel with Genoa (pork) salami. Gives my observant Jewish buddies the vapors.
Visiting Texas would distress me.
Oh and I like my liverwurst sandwiches with mayo on the bread and mustard in between the wurst and the American cheese. I once went to a diner where the “cook” refused to make it. Absolutely refused to put mayo and mustard in my sandwich. He then told the busboy/waiter not to give me a mustard packet after he made the mayo only sandwich. It was a Greek diner that I swear SNL copied in their diner skit.
P.S., the waiter gave me a mustard packet.
Pancakes ever so slightly underdone, so the middle is juuuuuust a little bit raw. Yum!
I can’t tell the difference between completely cooked and al dente; I suspect I let mine boil too long. And, yeah, I break it in half too! Much easier to eat in shorter strands!
I let my rice boil too long also, and I don’t drain it. I only put in as much water as will be completely absorbed in boiling and cooling.
I like my steak and burgers and other meat very well done. “Burn it, Sam.” Aficionados decry this as ruining the meat, but it’s how I prefer it.
A friend of mine chides me for putting shredded cheddar on top of French Onion Soup. He says only shredded Swiss cheese is proper. I never learned that as a rule, and like cheddar (or Swiss, or both!)
I don’t eat cereal, but when I did I never put milk on it.