Posted on 01/13/2008 1:33:14 PM PST by Graybeard58
All beef or all pork hot dogs and bologna are just fine, the regular kind have chicken in them.
My wife eats it but no kisses from husband until those teeth are brushed.
I’ll eat just about any thing thats set down in front of me but there are some foods I tend to avoid due to the hassel factor.
Corn on the cob and chicken top the list.
I’m one of those freaks who happily scarf down whole fried soft-shelled crabs, snails, squid, octopus, even sea lice but weird stuff from the land: chicken gizzards and organs, beef liver, veal in any form, ‘sweetbreads’ (whatever that is), tripe, even venison cause me to nearly faint just thinking about them.
I don’t like any kind of fruit. Too sweet, too sticky and weird textures. Not to mention I’m allergic to bananas and I think I subconciously lump all fruits into that awful reaction.
I’m not as bad as a lot of people. Including my “I don’t like fruit” wife. ;-)
I don’t like much of any seafood aside perhaps from basic fried fish. I’m not good with leftovers...lots of foods that are leftover I have to almost force myself to eat, they just don’t taste the same to me. I have gotten better about it though, especially as I’ve been trying to save money on food and lose weight. Not a big fan of spinach by itself either.
Do you like turkey, Graybeard? And you can eat bologna, which is made from stuff we don’t want to know about, but not chicken?
Come the crunch, picky eaters will die
I’m a Picky eater too. Sadly I haven’t had a good Picky
in years, I think they must be endangered.
(I don’t eat the gouuuushy parts though, ugh!)
By the way, there are some nutso people in this world with regards to food!
Organ meats and weird British foods like blood sausage and blood pudding...ugh, no, sorry, no sale.
While I have followed her directive pretty much I would rater not eat chitterlings, rutabagas, durian or kidney.
Hey! I do like bananas though, especially when they turn brown and all that starch is truned to sugur.
ABSOLUTELY NO, NO, NO, BANANAs on my BOAT!!!
That will get you turned to jetsom in a heartbeat.
ARRRRRRGGH, chuck the scurvy tar over the side!!!
I’ve always hated chicken, too. In fact, it always gave me the hiccups for some reason (too dry, I think).
The main reason I hate it, though, is because it’s such a total waste of an eating opportunity. It tastes like “nothing.”
Now, in middle age, I’m forced to eat chicken for many meals because it’s protein, it’s cheap and it’s plentiful - but I have to dress it up in a lot of disguises to get it down.
I did read one time that chicken meat has larger molecules than other protein, which makes it indigestible to a lot of people (and here I was thinking it was practically hypoallergenic as ubiquitous as it is) - so I think that might be the cause of others’ hatred of it and my hiccups.
Nope, it's a first cousin to the disgusting chicken.
Picky eaters must have had sheltered and cosseted childhoods. When I was a kid, you ate what was put in front of you, as fast as you could, because if you didn’t a big sister or brother would finish it for you. You just didn’t waste good food. Going to bed hungry a few times (and not because you are dieting) will do a world of good for reforming any picky eater.
American kids grow up with some traditional dislikes — I still don’t care much for liver and would probably never order it at a restaurant — but if it was put in front of me I’d probably eat it. I do like liverwurst, however. Hard as it is to find in Tokyo (and expensive when you find it.)
Living in Japan and other places in Asia, I have occasionally run into food items I wouldn’t touch, but those are generally so far outside the western concept of edible products that 99.99% of other Americans wouldn’t try them either.
My grandmother tells me they used to eat BRAINS with their scrambled eggs! And calf testicles!
This was in the depression, though.
How funny - I too love all the foods you mentioned in your first line - especially soft-shelled crabs, yum! - but also love your most hateds.
Exceptions: octopus (In MX, my standing instructions to waiters: no pulpo!) and tripe. And menudo.
But, I will kill for lamb fries, or calf fries, if lamb aren’t available!
My ex wife was a picky eater and I noticed that her sons didn’t like the exact same foods as their mother. Me being me, I bought some ice cream and convinced my wife to proclaim it “Nasty tasting”. You should have seen the look of confusion on those kids faces. LOL
Same here and that included chicken. I ate my last piece about 1955 or so when I was about 10 years old. If we had chicken I was no longer made to eat it but nothing else got substituted for it.
I’m fine eating boneless chicken. I just don’t like the mess of gnawing it off the bone.
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