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JackieG

  I don't like sour cream, buttermilk or yogurt.  They all smell like spoiled milk to me and in fact that's what they are, sort of. lol  I cook with them in some recipes but only if the flavor of those foods covers up the soured milk flavor. 

Have you ever had spoiled milk? If you have I doubt you would think that about sour cream.  ;)  Spoiled milk is BAD.  ugh.  I am not a huge fan of sour cream as a topping but mixed in with stuff it's good.

I have texture issues, mostly with seafood. Sponginess is a no go for me. That includes gristle and fat from steak and chicken. blech! I will spit it right out!

I am willing to try new things but I am not as adventurous as DH.  I watched him eat a small octopus once and *I* about puked.  Couldn't do it. If it looks like an animal, no frickin' way!

There are some foods I don't like. Tomatoes. I love pasta sauce and ketchup but not plain tomatoes. I've tried them over the years and nope, still a no go. I do however like a good fried green tomato.    Peas are another thing I do not like and will avoid, oh and celery.  Yick!  lol..

kpwlee

The lamb shanks were wonderful but then she brought out a pasta dish that included whole de-feathered songbirds (finches or swallows I think) stirred into the pasta.  I thought I would pass out.  I did pass on trying it but they convinced DH to try it.

Fascinating! Rather like the Balut egg, with the entire duckling inside? I wonder if they were cleaned inside or if all the squishy bits were still inside? Weren't the bones terribly splintery? I might have cut off a tiny leg at least cut it in half to get out what I didn't want...regardless of if that was how it was done or not...but I probably would have tried it.

ETA: this totally reminded me of the show "Rome" where they were eating tiny spitted Dormice on skewers...whole!

rwbeagles

Fascinating! Rather like the Balut egg, with the entire duckling inside?

I saw that on Anthony Bourdain No Reservations... I like all the background info you get on the area he is visiting and food prep.

My fathers side of the family are from Newfoundland!  I can't BEGIN to tell the stories of stuff I've tried and wouldn't try that he used to eat!!!  They waste NO part of an animal there!

rwbeagles

Rather like the Balut egg, with the entire duckling inside

In general I am not picky.  I eat sushi (even the raw fish kind), like foods in the medium/spicy category, eat frog's legs, squid, octopus, alligator, and steaks on the rare side.

I don't like organ meats though, with the exception of liver pate, and I don't eat anything that at one time was a hand, foot, hoof, snout, tongue, brain, etc.  My mom and granny used to eat pigs feet and they were soo soo soo gross.  We always knew they were going to have it because #1 my dad would be out of town and #2 she would make us tacos.

I was surprised once when I ordered pasta made from squid ink.  It didn't taste like squid at all but the pasta was black as the night.  It was so unappetizing that I just couldn't eat it.  Never had that happen with pasta before.

mrstjohnson

I was surprised once when I ordered pasta made from squid ink.  It didn't taste like squid at all but the pasta was black as the night.  It was so unappetizing that I just couldn't eat it.  Never had that happen with pasta before

off color stuff is tough. Dirty Jobs had an episode where Mike went to a potato farm and they had SCREAMING PURPLE potatoes. See, that'd put me off. I need food to be a traditional color. LOL. Even Blue Corn chips kinda freak me out.

I love pretty much all vegetables and fruits but I am picky that they do not have "bad spots" on them (ie: bruises). I am picky with meat in the sense that I do not like fat/gristle etc. I also do not like organ meats. I must peel all apples before eating them to inspect and cut off bruised parts.

I suppose where I am the pickiest is with pre-packaged and frozen foods. I generally do not eat them. We usually make everything ourselves. Like dinner and lunch meals - obviously not snack food.

My thing with having to try new foods is that a lot of countries are MUCH healthier than we are, and I believe that food plays a large part in that. So, why not try things other cultures eat?

I don't think I am too picky.  I do not eat any type of seafood, straight across the board, none.  And no organ meats.  Anything usually is fine.

I LOVE sushi!  and I eat no seafood!  I get the cucumber rolls, and tempura vegetables!  (battered and deep fried veggies, like sweet potatoe and zuchini) yuuuummmm!

One thing I have decided that I will never do, though, is force my kids to choke down food they obviously don't like.  Adults have likes and dislikes with food, why can't children?  I mean, they should at least try it, but I still remember sitting at the kitchen table for three hours, crying, trying to choke down stone cold liver. I don't think I could do that to any kids I might have 

tashakota

Have you ever had spoiled milk? If you have I doubt you would think that about sour cream.  ;) 

Yes, unfortunately I have and there is some whiff of that same odor/taste in sour cream or at least to my sniffer there is.   It's probably all in my head but I can't seem to get past it. 

I love fish and almost every kind of seafood but I don't like fish served whole with the head on.  I'll eat it but I have to cover up the eyes or I feel like their looking at me. 

I saw a food show the other day (I think it was man vs food or at least that guy maybe not that show) and he was eating shrimp heads because that's where all the flavor is, supposedly.  I've been to several crawfish boil parties and the true crawfish lovers suck the stuff out of the heads but Adam on the tv show was chomping down and eating the entire head.  No thanks to eating eyeballs and antennae looking things.

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l.michelle

One thing I have decided that I will never do, though, is force my kids to choke down food they obviously don't like.  Adults have likes and dislikes with food, why can't children?  I mean, they should at least try it, but I still remember sitting at the kitchen table for three hours, crying, trying to choke down stone cold liver.

That's how it was at our house too and I never had kids but any kids that eat at my house are never forced to eat something they don't like.  I agree they should be encouraged to try new foods but I'll never forget the misery of sitting at the table trying to choke down something I hated.  Not to mention, my mother's not original but oft repeated line of "the starving children in China would give anything for this food".  My unspoken thought was "send it to them".

no brussel sprouts, Jackie?  Mmmm yummy!  DH is terrified of them as well, he calls them "pods" LOL. 

both DH and I are super picky, in random ways.  Like, I like brussel sprouts but not broccoli.  I have a lot of food "oddities" that my coworkers are still working on figuring out completely

I'm with Lauren and Jackie on the forcing people (kids) to eat food they don't like.  Try it, yes, but gag it down, no.  Hence my total distaste for peas.

JackieG

No thanks to eating eyeballs and antennae looking things.

My ex and I traveled to Turkey and tried some interesting food, including a kefir like drink that had my ex in the bathroom most of that night. We ordered scampi for lunch one day and when they set the plate down, we looked at each other and said "what is this?". Neither of us realized what scampi really looked like before it was all cleaned up. It was actually the best scampi I've ever had but getting past the sight of the head and tentacles was a bit of a challenge.

 I'm picky to a point.  I don't do seafood anymore. Growing up, my dad worked on the fish farms so we ate a lot of seafood.  I'll try almost anything once.  I hate mushrooms (texture), and onions, black olives and veal. I refuse to eat anything that is looking at me.  Having worked in a Chinese restaurant, I was the taste tester. So I got fed duck feet (grossed my dad out ) and other stuff.

I'm bland. I wish it was different but I'm set in my ways when it comes to what I eat or what I'm willing to try but trying tofu was a big step for me because for years I would pick it up and it just scared me. I don't like spicy food, don't like anything that smells but what I'm told is what I think smells nasty it actually smells good to others. My thing has always been if it looks nasty or smells nasty I'm not eating it. I have never ate fish and I will never eat it.

I'm with u on the cabbage and brussel sprouts. I haven't eaten meat since I was 11 or 12 so 20yrs Most of the time the smell of meat just makes me sick. I don't think I'll ever eat meat again. Do I think it ruined my taste buds and my health by not eating meat yes it has.