rwbeagles

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 used to work at a bakery. We served ice cream, and had a flavor called "Superman". It was plain, vanilla ice cream with red, blue, and yellow food coloring. It looked like Play Doh swirled in the tub, and I never could put it in my mouth. So gross!

 

I am picky. Picky is what I do.

rwbeagles

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

eek just googled that LOL

basically it looked like that embryo - well a bunch of them on top of spaghetti - i don't know about how cleaned they were - featherless but.................. I seriously can still hear DH crunching the head. Oh dear need to stop recalling this night LOL

It is apparently a traditional dish and they use nets to catch the birds - which they had done on their property

 No gristle! No fat! Nothing rare! No canned veggies!

Love steak, med. well. Love shrimp. Like scallops, but the texture is a bit much for me. Sushi, yum.

I'll try most things unless there's raw meat or raw seafood involved. I don't like liver, but I did dutifully try tripe when it was served at a friend's house in France. Didn't like it (really no taste just weird texture the way it was made--but ate it). I would have a really hard time eating chicken feet, eye balls, etc. I do like spices and spicey food.

I like to cook simple food and I like to cook a bit fancy every now and then. Indian food--love it! Eat it about once a week--chicken tikki masala is a favorite. Lamb vindaloo is another favorite. I'm getting hungry!

 Oh Karen, stop before I

I am a picky vegetarian. I wish I wasn't so picky. I'm also not a very good cook. I grew up in a meat 'n potatoes kind of family. We always had good meals but they were always centered around meat. When I was 13 or so I decided to become a vegetarian. I just got more and more grossed out by meat I just couldn't eat it anymore. Luckily my parents were really cool with it and my mom started changing things up a bit. She would make smaller, meatless versions of what we were having whenever possible.

I've never really been that adventurous with food. I don't like onions, mushrooms or peppers. Going out to eat is always difficult because restaurants around here all serve the same things, and it's all meat-centered.

DH isn't vegetarian, and sometimes I cook meat for him. But he is even pickier and much less adventurous than I am, so I have pretty much given up on trying to make new things. It has been something that's been bothering me for a while. I really want to try to cook healthier meals, but he is so reluctant to try something new. And when I do make something new, he rarely comments on it. If I ask him he's honest and usually says, "Eh. It's ok."

I will try anything once. I love all forms of seafood with the exception of swordfish, I find the texture...odd. I adore calamari. I will not eat any fish that looks back at me.

My steak is cooked enough to look cooked, I like it walking off the plate, I hate anything over cooked or to dark.

I can not for the life of me wrap my lips around sauerkraut. I will eat the sausage cooked with it, but not that stringy sour smelling stuff. On the other hand I love cabbage.

Last year my husband and I, or I should just say I, decided to venture out. We did a different countries cuisine twice a month. So I had to learn to cook 12 different styles, we did not go with those we already knew like Italian and so forth. We picked odd meals from different countries, it was fun and educating.  Until last year I had never had  white asparagus...I love them now.

This year it is regional food once a month from the states. This month for the first time ever I made a New England Dinner...or corned beef and cabbage, we are currently deciding on what to do next month, maybe something from Louisiana in ref. to Mardi gras?

My parents never forced us to eat stuff we did not like, but they did insist on us trying new things before saying yuck. I found I like many foods as adult that I despised as a child.

The only other meal I cannot stand, is burgers and potato's with gravy. I just cannot stand it. I was never so grateful to finally grow up and tell mom, I am NOT eating that, I will eat pb&j first. And usually did.

rwbeagles

eating tiny spitted Dormice on skewers...whole!

 Sorry THAT makes me think of the 'near the end' of the first Shrek movie where Fiona is having the "rat on a stick' -- *grin*

 

My new eclectic favorite is Japanese food. Japanese food is very simple, so it's pretty easy to get in to. There's a Japanese cooking blog I ADORE called JustHungry.com - if you're interested, check it out :) It's mostly Japanese food recipes and information about Japanese culture, but sometimes she will throw in a more Western-inspired recipe instead (the author grew up in Japan, but lived most of her adult life in the U.S., Switzerland, and France).

Cita

My new eclectic favorite is Japanese food.

Just tried my hand at Chicken Tonkatsu with Katsu Sauce... oh so yummy!

 

I love my New Mexican food and miss it so much now that's it's impossible to get unless I go to NM myself.  I brought back a freezer load full of green/red chili, tortillas and tamales that my grandma made.  My family's farm grows New Mexico Green Chile Peppers so It's what I grew up eating and what is normal food for me, everything else is strange food.  Bring on the heat, I love my food spicy.

I'm picky about fish, especially salmon.  I don't eat farm raised or pink because the flavors are just not as full as good ol' Alaskan Wild King.  After spending some time in Alaska, nothing can compare to the good stuff.  I love smoked salmon as well.

As far as unusual foods go, while in the Bahamas I've eaten conch, a giant snail farmed locally in the Bahamas.  It was a little too chewy for my taste.  I also tried turtle but was not impressed and felt a little guilty for eating it.  I'm open to trying almost anything at least once.

 

What fun this thread has been to read.  Funny how we all have so many things in common but are so different.

I grew up in the same century as some of you and although we didnt have to eat things we didnt like at home, we were encouraged to try it.  However when you were at Granny's you ate what she fixed including....yucky liver.  I have always disliked the taste of liver but love the way it smells when cooking.  I dont mind cooking it for the furry boys..but hubby and I dont eat it.

There are things I didnt like as a child but like now.  I am open to trying anything at least once.  I love all kinds of food but...food is not a big event to me.   My hubby  and my mom love to cook and experiment.  They have a very keen since of smell and I do not.  I have always thought this was why he and my mom enjoy the "event" more than I.  I would just eat what I had to in order to stay alive, lol.

When I met hubby he was a meat and potatoes man, I have since convinced him that veggies are good.  He doesnt like celery or coconut. 

The only thing besides liver that I dont like is...prunes, dates, raisins or anything licorice.  I like grapes and wine but nothing "grape" flavored.

 

I'm very adventurous and not picky at all. However, I have been a vegetarian for the past 5 years, so that cuts out a lot of things. It's not that I didn't care for meat, believe me I loved it, but I did it for ethical purposes. I'd probably eat everything in the world if it weren't for my vegetarianism! I still eat seafood, which is one of my favourite foods. I like a lot of things that some people might find gross or weird. I love anchovy, olive and feta pizzas. I love cottage cheese, depending on the brand though. There's very very few things that I flat out hate. I can honestly say that I don't like blue cheese though. Tried it once and that was enough for me, and I love cheese! I love all cuisines, Indian, Italian, you name it! My favourite food has to be sushi. If I had a last meal before I died, it would be a huge platter of sushi. Mmm. Pretty much, if you put a meatless dish in front of me, I'll eat it.

I'll try anything except spicy stuff...

Except now I've become so sensitive to so many foods that I swell up uncomfortably, so that has limited my diet to veggies, meats, fruit.  No grain, no sweets/sugar.  It's a pain but I am adjusting.

So I guess you can say I'm "picky"

I'm in between picky and adventurous. I have eaten grasshoppers, mealworms and earthworms. For the most part if I'm interested (and hungry) and it looks/smells good I'll try it. There are a lot of things I don't like, though. Thanksgiving dressing/stuffing -- cannot eat it. I do refuse to eat organs, though I think I've had bits of liver in gravy and that was my favorite part. I have tried raw sushi, but got extremely sick, so now I stick with cooked sushi (Crunchy roll, yum!). There are some restaurants that I cannot or could not eat at, Olive Garden being one of them. I like Italian food, but when I was very sensitive to certain meats and other things I could only eat vegetarian without getting violently ill in 30 minutes. There are some cooking oils I cannot eat. I tend to get a restaurant 2 times, if I get sick both times, it's off the list forever. I also pretty much don't eat pork products. I allow myself ham when I want it, but nothing else even appeals to me anymore -- even BACON. I don't like cabbage or anything made with cabbage (I'm a bad German). I don't really like a lot of fish, but I can eat it if I have to. I love shrimp in most forms, as well as beef and chicken. I also love eggs, I just learned that most people don't put egg salad on a sandwich as a condiment. You know, turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, lettuce, egg salad?

I'm not terribly picky but I'm not super adventurous either.  I'm not so much into meat so if there's a good vegetarian choice, I'll choose that.  Chicken and seafood definitely come before red meat, but if I find myself having to have red meat, it has to be super well done all the way through.  One little bit of pink and it's all over. I actually prefer a good hot dog with mustard & relish to any kind of steak.  My dad was one of those "you're not leaving the table until you've cleaned your plate" people but I was never like that with my kids.  I always told  them if they didn't like what was for dinner,  they could make themselves a PB&J or heat up a can of soup or chile or dig for leftovers in the fridge.  They just had to eat something reasonably nutritious or they had to stay out of the cookie jar.

Joyce