I must also introduce into the record the evidence presented by Dave Barry. Granted, Dave is not a biologist, but rather a fellow who once built a potato gun that he shot off the roof of the Miami Herald building, and also once picked up his son from high school in the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile. But Dave is a philosopher and deep thinker about the nature of our world. Dave’s definition of an “insect” is “any creature that has way more legs than necessary”. This indisputably makes the lobster and its ilk insects. I rest my case.
Best description of Applebees I’ve ever heard is “For people who are too lazy to microwave their own frozen food”. Bingo
Prime rib. Barf. Also, cooked bell peppers. Raw is fine.
Amen, just like I don’t want to pluck my own chicken, or scale my own fish, or butcher my own cow. Just bring me the meat, not the whole damn critter.
Grits. The flavor was fine when I’ve tried them, but the texture is right outta there.
But I’ll eat malt-o-meal or oatmeal daily.
I’m another who dislikes eggs. They’re fine if used in, say, baked goods; but by themselves (as in scrambled, sunny side up, over easy, boiled, fried, poached, hard-boiled, omelette, deviled, etc.), no way.
Makes it really hard to get breakfast at a diner, where every item on the breakfast menu seems to begin with, “Two eggs, any style…”. I can usually make do with a la carte items; or if I’m really lucky, they’ll have pancakes or a BLT.
Ugh. Agreed. Every time I go to Applebees, I get sick.
Ranch dressing is tasteless white goo. Why it’s popular I’ll never know.
Another item to add to my list of “I’m amazed that some people don’t like this”. Aside from pancakes which I love, eggs are my favourite breakfast. My ideal breakfast is eggs sunny side up (except covered while frying, so the yolks get cooked but still runny) with bacon, toast, some form of potato, like roast potato or hash browns, and a couple of slices of tomato. The purpose of the toast is to soak up the runny yolk, or sometimes I’ll load up egg and bacon on a piece of toast. Yumm! 
Honestly, I prefer this simple breakfast to fancy omelettes, or even Eggs Benedict.
I think one factor in a dislike of eggs is the sulfurous note to their smell, which affects some people more negatively than others.
Beets is the first thing I thought of.
You may as well go out to the yard, scoop up a handful of soil, form it into a ball and plop it on a plate.
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A thousand times yes. They taste like badly prepared dirt.
Exactly! I was never able to describe the way in which beets taste foul, but you’ve nailed it.
I’m with you on this, have had a deep aversion to cottage cheese since I was very little and I like most cheese, even goat cheese which my family generally hates but they’ll eat that rotten, curd-y crap.
Green peppers are horrible and should not exist. Red & Yellow peppers are delicious but green peppers are bitter and sharp even if you cook them.
I used to spend weekends playing at ranching with my horse- common delicacy at calf brandings is calf nuts cooked on the branding iron fire shovel. Half raw, ashy and disgusting. One of the rancher’s kid used to eat them like candy and called them “Easters” (i.e Oysters) . I ate some of the best food in my life after a day working cattle but could definitely have skipped those.
Mrs. J. sometimes makes herself tomato soup. I find any kind of liquefied tomato concoction to be mildly revolting, though tomato sauce, salsa and fresh sliced tomatoes are just fine; indeed essential to life.
In general I too hold by Dave’s pithy pronouncements on all things. Living as I now do in the same metro area as The Great One, I can certainly see how many excess-legged critters share our shared town. Lots and lots.
Especially these little millipede things about 3/32" in diameter & 1 to 1-1/4" long and dark brown. They’re everywhere. Including in the house, where you usually find them deceased and curled into a 270-degree arc. But once in a while you find a mover zipping (more like ambling) unconcernedly across the floor. I don’t know what they eat, but I’m glad they’re not 1 foot in diameter and 12 feet long like they were back in the dinosaurs’ era.
Polar opposite here.
Oatmeal particularly is like snot with some thicker spots in it. Cream of wheat is a bit better, but not much. Whereas grits is more like polenta or grainy mashed potatoes. It’s solid enough to hold together and, although not quite crunchy, is at least a smidgen toothsome. The fact you eat grits with a fork, and oatmeal with a spoon is very telling. Oatmeal is just snot with disturbing darker brown flecks in it. Shudder.
Further, grits are usually gussied up with savory, not sweet. As a low-carb diabetic that matters a lot to me. Butter, hot sauce (!!), cheese, etc. Whereas ISTM that oatmeal is usually topped with sugar, cinnamon, maple syrup, etc. As a no-sweets person that further tips the scale towards grits (now eaten in small doses for carb control).
I grew up in SoCal and first tasted grits in USAF after grad school. So it’s not like I grew up on the stuff. It won me over on the merits and decades before I had to worry about carbs.
But it was a revelation, and I was an instant convert when I did first encounter them. Finally!! A warm cereal worth eating as a meal or as a goopy and filling side dish to eggs, etc. Nowadays I’ll finish my OE eggs then use some grits to sop up the last of the loose wet egg stuck to the plate. Not quite as effective as wiping with toast but has a better carb profile.
One thing’s for sure with this thread:
De gustibus non est disputandum
Well here is my answer to the OP! I only eat eggs well cooked (DH says burned) so that sentence seriously made me shudder! I’m going to be thinking “loose wet egg” to the point of being unable to eat any eggs (or anything) for a while.
Thanks for reminding me. I’m a little overdue for making my breakfast; it’s been a lazy morning here. I’ll be back in a bit.
Anyhow, the central feature of breakfast will be one microwave poached egg in a ramekin. With fully liquid yolk, a bunch of semi-liquid white, and a small amount of milky-looking boiled water left in the bottom of the whole thing. One could eat about 1/3rd of it using a straw if one chose, but most of the white it too solid for that. Most.
You’re welcome! :evil leer emoji:
Where is that throwing up emoji?
It’s the ‘taste’ of ranch dressing I object to! It must be really cheap, they used to offer little cups of blue cheese dressing with the pizza and wings, and now it’s just ranch ranch ranch everywhere.