hey, matt long, who cares.
I live in Maine and CT and hate lobster and shrimp. But am okay with raw oysters - go figure.
A finicky eater who writes about being a finicky eater. Who cares?
Seafood? If it swims I’ll eat it.
Get hungry enough, Matt, and you won’t be so picky. In the meantime, don’t expect the whole world to cater to your whims.
LOL. I grew up in the midwest, about as far from the ocean as possible. “Seafood” was fish-sticks in the school cafeteria
Well done and fresh sea-food is an art-form. I have taken short vacations and journeys specifically to eat seafood.
He should move here to Arizona. Seafood has to be sought out here, and it is expensive. Beef, Mexican, and ethnic food from all the transplants dominate.
I could go for a Sonoran Hot Dog right now.
I could comment on what sort of "meat" he likes to eat ...
but I'll just say that picky eating is not a good survival trait.
People will write about anything and expect someone to care.
I don’t. Any more than I expect anyone to care about my antipathy for liver.
I bet Matt likes the lettuce, tomato, and pickles (cucumber) that are on his hamburgers. All of those are vegetables.
Children whose mothers indulge them excessively often grow up with such infantile palates.
Hugh and Series Post of the Day!
Worthless waste of time discussion like this is why most “events” offer 3-4 choices, chicken, steak, fish or veggie.
If you are a frequent traveler internationally and you won’t eat seafood, your options may be limited in some places
He just hasn’t eaten fish when it’s cooked the right way.
I’ll take the shrimp but leave the octopus. I tried some deep fried octopus when I went to Rota, Spain during my Navy days. Disappointment. It tasted like Rubber Band Tempura!
Clowns like this, if all he had to eat was fish. He would be wolfing it down.
The only things I won’t eat are bugs and lab grown meat. But I would eat them if I were starving, with no other food around. Fugu is a famous Japanese poisonous fish. I would eat this too, if there was no alternative. A few people die each year from eating Fugu
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Stop the presses, big news. why do I even care.
I have a couple of friends who don’t like fish or seafood. That’s OK, it leaves more for me.
I was a picky eater when I was a child, but eventually I grew up. There are a few things I don't care for now but I'm pretty much an omnivore. I travel all over the world for work and I've pretty much come to the conclusion that if it's not moving then I eat it. There are only two places I commonly go where I'm careful about what I eat, those are India and China. I actually love Indian and Chinese food but I don't trust their sanitation practices in India and China themselves. Any time I'm in England though I'm all over the Indian food. They have tons of good Indian restaurants because there are so many Indians there, with the advantage of a functioning health department to keep things clean, unlike India itself.
As an Alaskan I love smoked salmon and deep-fried beer battered halibut.