What do your friends and relatives eat that you find to be just plain nasty?

[kenobi_65]

@ekedolphin

My landlady’s son eats Chef Boyardee ravioli straight from the can, without heating it, like he’s a criminal on the lam or something.

I have a friend, in one of my D&D groups, who does this. Pre-COVID, the group would get together for a gaming weekend every fall – we’d rent a condo at a resort in the Wisconsin Dells, and play together for several days.

Part of the routine was that we’d all go to the little grocery store in the Dells once we got there, and buy food for ourselves for the weekend. My friend would buy several cans of Chef Boyardee pasta, and then eat it straight from the can. When everyone else would go “eeeeew,” he’d defend himself, by insisting, “Heat has no flavor!!”

[bump]

@silenus

That also applies to fish who spawn in fresh water, like salmon.

Them’s fightin’ words! Fresh wild-caught salmon is divine. Definitely a different ball game than the usual farm-raised stuff you get in grocery stores.

[JohnGalt]

Not from Minnesota, eh? There’s nothing better than fresh Walleye, deep-fried in a beer-batter coating, eaten on the shore just feet from where it was caught mere minutes before.

We were on a business trip to San Jose and went out to eat at The Fish Market (sadly now closed). One of our group was an avid Minnesotan fisherman. His first question to the waitress was “Where’s the walleye?”. We all laughed at him, but we knew what he meant.

[silenus]

Nope. Makes no difference. Relatives all over the PNW, lived in Alaska for a spell, had it BBQ, on a bagel, as a steak…I just hate salmon.

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

I do hope you mean mahi-mahi, sometimes known as the common dolphinfish.

(Pedantic Mode On) Dolphin, sometimes known as mahi-mahi or dorado. Let’s keep the naming order straight. They started calling it by the Hawai’ian name when NBC started showing Flipper in prime time.(Pedantic Mode Off)

[kayaker]

@JohnGalt

There’s nothing better than fresh Walleye , deep-fried in a beer-batter coating, eaten on the shore just feet from where it was caught mere minutes before.

Great example! Placed along side cod cooked similarly does anyone think there’s a big difference?

[puzzlegal]

@silenus

But halibut, sole, pollock, cod, dolphin…all delicious.

I’m not very familiar with mahi mahi, but halibut, sole, pollock, and cod are all bland white-fleshed fish, and are pretty inoffensive. I happen to like the stronger-flavored and oilier fish: mackerel, blue fish (both need to be extremely fresh, as they go “off” quickly) salmon, fresh tuna, trout, char, etc. But I can understand preferring the bland white-fleshed fish.

I’m not familiar with fresh walleye, either, fwiw.

[puzzlegal]

@bump

I never said it was GOOD, just that it’s not actually very spicy.

yeah, we have different thresholds. That stuff is far too spicy for me to consume.

[HeyHomie]

@kayaker

Catfish?

I could see someone not liking freshwater bass, but trout and catfish seem like they are inoffensive, at least.

You like saltwater fish, correct?

Catfish is the worst freshwater fish. As for saltwater fish – I’ll eat sushi with the best of 'em, and I love shellfish. But if you gave me a plate of swordfish or orange roughy or what have you I’d pass.

[carrps]

@kayaker

I could see someone not liking freshwater bass, but trout and catfish seem like they are inoffensive, at least.

I don’t care for trout or catfish, never had freshwater bass. Maybe I’d like it? But both trout and catfish are bland with an odd aftertaste. A muddiness? Hard to describe.

[Zyada]

@kayaker

seem like they are inoffensive,

Catfish are bottom feeders. Mom said that if they were wild caught, she could taste the river bottom.

Don’t ask me, though. I made myself sick eating too much catfish when I was a kid, and I haven’t been able to eat it since

[Son_of_a_Rich]

@Airman_Doors_USAF

Also, coffee. Smells great. Tastes like dirt water brewed with a pinch of distended asshole.

I drink Taster’s Choice. It doesn’t taste distended at all.

[salinqmind1]

Things sprayed onto coffee for $100, Alex.
I do like Colombian coffee, and Wegmans store brand is REALLY cheap - a container lasts me a week or more - but I use it now and it tastes like it has had an artificial spray on it…

[Dr.Strangelove]

@puzzlegal

yeah, we have different thresholds. That stuff is far too spicy for me to consume

Okay, but it’s an objective fact that bell peppers contain zero capsaicin and score 0 on the Scoville scale. Sure, there’s a lot of subjectivity in degree of spiciness, but that doesn’t apply when there’s zero heat in the first place. They’re as spicy as a tomato.

[Zyada]

I think you read the post as one statement when it was two statements. The post that started this was basically “I hate bell peppers and I hate people making every thing super spicy”. It sounds like you were thinking the person didn’t like bell peppers because they were spicy.

I hate bell peppers because they taste dusty to me.

[Dr.Strangelove]

Ahh, that may be. I guess the comment about spiciness wasn’t actually related to the one about the bell peppers.

There are some foods that I guess I could call “dusty”, but bell peppers aren’t them. Odd.

[puzzlegal]

And i didn’t make that post, but i hate cooked bell peppers (fresh raw green peppers are okay) which aren’t hot, but taste really nasty. And i also hate anything with capsaicin. The more the worse.

There are other foods that some people describe as hot or spicy that i like, including cinnamon, ginger, cress, black pepper, and (in tiny amounts) horseradish.