I guess the texture is similar to a lobster tail, but I’ve never heard it called that - monkfish is actually quite expensive (at least where I live). It’s a surprisingly meaty fish, not very strongly flavoured and boneless, so people who don’t really like fish like it. Good in stews.
To the OP - peas. Common, garden peas. I was one of those children who spurned all vegetables, and peas were the one thing I couldn’t bear the thought of right up until I was about 45. Now I bloody love them!
I just bought a can of spaghettios with chicken meatballs from Dollar General. I’m looking forward to lunch today.
Monkfish texture is similar to lobster tail, and it tastes much better IMHO.
A few years ago, I bought some cans of stew made with “mystery-meat” meatballs. I got through part of one before I quit pretending to like it, and the rest went into the Christmas charity bin at my local supermarket.
A long time back, when I was co-hosting a radio show, I bought a can of meatballs-in-gravy at a kiosk on my way to work. It was imported from Denmark, so I assumed it would be good.
I took one bite and gave the rest to the studio cat. He turned his nose up and refused to eat it.
I was introduced to Nutella back in 1989, when I was a graduate student in Moscow. A couple of classmates had landed an off-hours job guarding the equipment of a foreign film company (I think tit was the one then filming The Russia House). Anyway, they showed me how to eat it spread on bananas when I went to visit them in their hotel. I was hooked immediately.
Ever had Marmite? I was introduced to it in the summer of 1976, when I went on a camping trip with some kids from a children’s home in Brighton, England. (A good friend of mine was one of the supervisors.) I learned right away that it has to be spread very thin on whatever bread you’re eating.
I tried hummus for the first time a few months ago. I got the super spicy variety, (two actually, it was a BOGO) thinking that would increase my chance of liking it. I wanted to like it. I thought it would be an easy, healthy thing to add to my less than ideal diet. Nope. Couldn’t get past the texture.
I also had my first pork chop in 40+ years, Hated them as a young child and never bothered to reacquaint myself until my sister served them one night when I was visiting. Unfortunately they were way overcooked (though I appreciated the effort and ate most of mine anyway). Still, they were better than my mother’s and while they won’t be my first choice, I have taken them off my “hell no” list.
Sounds good to me!
To this day, I’ve never had a Big Mac, although I worked at McDonald’s for years. That piece of bread in the middle just doesn’t make sense to me, and the special sauce doesn’t look appealing either. (Back when I worked there, one guy liked to fill his mouth with the sauce and then pretend to vomit in the kitchen garbage can, letting it slide slowly out…)
Anyway, I’m sure it’s a fine sandwich but I don’t expect to ever ingest one.
Basically it’s thousand island dressing, tweaked.
Tried some Chef Boyardee ravioli (a childhood fave) awhile back. Um, no.
OTOH I tried Scotch when I was in my 20s, thought it was terrible. Now, I like it pretty well. I’ll have to see if martinis are as gross as I once thought.
It took me a while to adjust to appreciating truffles. On my initial exposure, they tasted of petroleum based products. Likely due to my first exposure being truffle “flavored”, not actual truffles. I still find truffles a bit too funky for my palate, but have grown to enjoy the perfume-y nature of them in small portions.
Further nitpick…I’ll be eating spaghettios for lunch, but they are now a Campbell’s product. Not looking forward to the chicken balls.
Years and years ago, when I would eat fast food, I’d discard the top bun and flip the top half of the sandwich so that middle bread layer would be the top. The way it was constructed at the time, the bottom of the middle bun layer was not covered in any kind of sauce so it wasn’t messy to hold or eat. Essentially I turned it into a double burger with Big Mac fillings. I thought it was particularly clever of me.
I still miss a Big Mac, but I’m pretty sure I would not enjoy it now.
That’s amazing! We had burgers from a burger food truck last night. They had eight different burgers to choose from (plus waffle fries). I asked the food truck owner which burger sold the best that day (they rotate a menu of 20 burgers). He told me anytime the McBurger was on the menu, it wins easily. It tastes like a Bic Mac. (I got a Pennsyltucky)
Ooh, me too! I just don’t like lettuce in readymade sandwiches, particularly hot ones, as I can’t stand the inevitable soggyness, so I’ve always avoided them. Wet lettuce always has a vague whiff of rotting vegetation for me.
I might go for that just for the novelty and to see how much it tastes like a Big Mac.
I grew up on Eggo frozen toaster waffles but in my twenties a friend invited me to the Sunday brunch at his country club (this was the IBM employee country club when IBM still had that as an employee perk) and there was a chef there making fresh Belgian waffles. And wow, that was a thousand times better.
I’m torn between the Jam On It and Pimento. Guess I’ll have to come back 
Let us know if they’re “Mmm-mmm, good!”, okay? 
(I wonder how they got their little legs apart? 
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Heh, boy-o-boy were they awful. Luckily, Rocco (African Grey Parrot) loved both the meatballs and the noodles, so we shared.
Yeah, I imagine a creature descended from dinosaurs would eat just about anything! 
I had a generic Pop-Tart type pastry in my 50s for the first time. It was even worse than I imagined. This was at a camp where I was chaperoning some kids. The kids didn’t think much of it either. Many of them had never had it before. It was a very affluent demographic, so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. There were a couple of kids in my cabin who had professional chefs employed at home. Another’s father arrived on visiting day in a helicopter (from Nantucket).
I was going to ask if the stories about him are greatly exaggerated, but decided against it. 
Seriously, generic pop-tarts? I never imagined such things even existed!
I know of a rival product produced by a competitor, but even that is gross!
I eat Pop-Tarts (the real thing) once in a blue moon, but my daughter (age 26) loves them. When I have them, I go for the so-called fruit-filled ones, and avoid those covered with sprinkles.