I love:
herring, pickled or otherwise
sardines
liverwurst
fruitcake
white sausage
okra
chicken ‘n’ a biskit crackers
raw oysters
really sweet tea
hard cider
banana flip snack cakes
honey mustard pretzels
broccoli
but vegemite? Tried it. Afterwards the jar sat unopened for months, and it DIDN’T MATTER. Isn’t it really just the sludge from the bottom of a brewery vat? I still gag if I recall that taste.
I adore cabbage–didn’t realize it was all that unpopular and that puzzles me. Gods, cabbage is my all-time favorite vegetable! I love sauerkraut, too, as long as it’s rinsed and drained.
Mushrooms, but only fresh ones; the canned ones are gross.
Ham spread is good, but not something I’d make myself–and on the ‘mock ham spread’ subject, here’s something my mother made that apparently came out of Depression days: chop up a pound of bologna or hotdogs, brown with onions, add a large can of diced tomatoes, serve over rice. She called it ‘machunka’, which is some Russian dialectical word that I don’t know the proper meaning of. It’s delicious.
My mother made a killer meatloaf and so do I.
And I’ll come boldly out and confess to the world that, YES, I LOVE fruitcake!
I love Spam. I love Spam so much I try to make all friends eat it. On the Fourth of July I make Spam musubi and convert everyone around me to joys of eating Spam. Low Sodium Spam, for the health conscious. As long as you can bear the occasional bone chip, culinary heaven awaits. I love liverwurst, too; used to eat a lot of sandwiches as a kid. But only at a friend’s house, because my mother wouldn’t allow it at home. I’ve liked pimento loaf, which I haven’t had in years but I think it’s time again. Kim chee is the balls Marie. I stank like it all last week because I ate it with every meal. Someone once opened my fridge, saw a jar of kim chee sitting on the shelf, and thought it was preserved organs. In my fridge. I want to try durian, but I’m afraid my vomit phobia won’t let me get one bite in or even down. And kippers for breakfast? Hell yes, spread 'em on some bread. And abandon the premises pronto.
Oh, and bibliophage? That fruitcake sounds awesome.
And in all that time it took to load my post, I forgot dessert:
Turkish Delight, which I know grosses some people here out. (I also wanted to include my new sig, which is soooo appropriate here.)
I’m going to agree with Gonzoron - much of this is cultural.
I looked at the list posted by TheLoadedDog and read the description of KimChee, which has been mentioned here. The description is:
fermented mixture of vegetables, meat or fish, and very strong chili peppers, pickeled and aged. Legend has it that people bury it for extended periods of time, THEN eat it.
What the fook is that? I’ve been eating Kimchee my whole life and have yet to have it with meat or fish. If you go to ANY Korean restaurant and request kimchee, you’re going to get napa cabbage that has been pickled with chili peppers - if you’re LUCKY, you’ll get cucumber kimchee. But like bloody fookin’ hell are you going to get something with meat or fish. Makes me more than a little skeptical of that list.
In the spirit of the OP, I enjoy pickled herring.
Those of you who eat durian…I see them all the time as the Asian grocery store and never knew what they were until now. So let’s say I bought one…how would I eat it and what would it taste like? Can I just cut it open and dig in? And really, how offensive of a smell are we talking here?
Yeah, with the inclusion of Spotted Dick where it is as well; I don’t think it belongs alongside jellied eels, brawn, and kidney pie. The kim chee I have in my refrigerator now lists fish sauce as one of the ingredients; perhaps that’s a cause of confusion for some, but I’m with Tiburon here; kim chee is pretty much vegetable-based.
I love frying Spam n eggs. My cholesterol is naturally low, so I can eat as much as I can stand. Usually once a week.
TANG…I cant be the only one who still drinks this? A quart a day for 25 years, extra strong…almsot chunky.
Kippers (kippered herring). the little tins of oily salty nasty fish that my mom made me eat out on the porch when I was a kid. I got my fiance to like them now, so we stink up the house. I love being a grown-up.
Pork rinds!
Asparagus!
Kippers!
This nifty cracker spread that my mama taught me how to make: liverwurst and cream cheese with chopped onion!
Hard likker, straight up!