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Offline cayenne

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Re: Ingredients (and Dishes) You Loathe
« Reply #60 on: June 18, 2018, 08:50:19 am »
Witchetty grubs look plump and juicy and I like to imagine they would taste something like pork fat if they were fried. I have no plans to test that theory, though.

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« Reply #61 on: June 18, 2018, 09:34:58 am »
My husband hates ricotta cheese. So, while he's out at training, I have eaten manicotti and lasagna and other ricotta cheese goodies. Gotta get my fix.

I have a hard time digesting "tough" meats, so we tend to avoid red meats and certain cuts of pork. It's not that I hate it - I miss steak so much - but it makes me sick.

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« Reply #62 on: June 18, 2018, 10:34:12 am »
The don’t yuck someone else’s yum rule seems like a good one.

I need to know where you heard this. I have heard one other person use it, and I've always thought it was eloquently fun.

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« Reply #63 on: June 18, 2018, 12:20:07 pm »
The don’t yuck someone else’s yum rule seems like a good one.

I need to know where you heard this. I have heard one other person use it, and I've always thought it was eloquently fun.

Not sure. Quite likely it was someone on the old forum. It’s not something my mum said.

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« Reply #64 on: June 18, 2018, 02:26:39 pm »
Well, I wouldn't say I loathed it, but tonight I ate the Aldi black bean spaghetti, and I'm not going to bother again. It looked like seaweed, and tasted like string.
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Re: Ingredients (and Dishes) You Loathe
« Reply #65 on: October 03, 2018, 09:29:29 pm »
I typically don't like strong flavoured foods like broccoli, cabbage, turnips, liver or aniseed (which is weird, because I love Licorice Spice tea, but hate black licorice). Strong flavoured foods taste bitter to me.

I don't like rice pudding - it's the chunks of stuff in the pudding that I can't tolerate. I love pudding just fine.

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« Reply #66 on: October 04, 2018, 05:10:33 am »
I typically don't like strong flavoured foods like broccoli, cabbage, turnips, liver or aniseed (which is weird, because I love Licorice Spice tea, but hate black licorice). Strong flavoured foods taste bitter to me.

I don't like rice pudding - it's the chunks of stuff in the pudding that I can't tolerate. I love pudding just fine.

Is it a texture issue, then? Or the mingled tastes?

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« Reply #67 on: October 08, 2018, 12:33:41 pm »
I love Mexican food and the Tex-Mex & Arizona-Mex variations (have visited California and New Mexico, but I haven't lived there enough to try their regional variations and form a culinary opinion).  I cannot stand the slightly soapy taste with heat that I get from cilantro (leafy green bits in many salsas) as the soapy taste really doesn't appeal to me.  I understand that crushed leafy bits will have a different flavor than the uncrushed leafy bits (enzymes released by crushing change the chemical that tastes soapy) - but not many people are crushing the leaves in their kitchens...so - "soapy" taste to the fore.

I will try the salsa & chips at most restaurants - but if it doesn't appeal to me, I'll order some queso instead. The salsa is usually "free" but you have to pay for the queso (cheese dip) - I don't mind and if my son or husband are along - I have some help eating it.  If both are along or I'm out with DD & the grandkids, there won't be leftover queso.  If everyone (son, grandsons, daughter, husband, and son-in-law) - we order more queso when it runs out.

But I have been known to go to a new restaurant and knock half the menu out of consideration because they mention cilantro in the description of a dish.  VorGuy loves it when I hand him a plate of delicious food - but he isn't always happy to have to order a second plate for me because there turned out to be cilantro in a dish. 

I've also learned to ask about salads - if they are made with "spring mix" or there is arugula in there, I'm going to ask for substitutions or order something else - that one is an actual allergy, though, so nobody asks for more details after I mention "I'm allergic to....".

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« Reply #68 on: October 13, 2018, 05:10:43 pm »
Cilantro seems to be a love or hate item for people. I'm OK with it, but a lot of people I know loathe it with a passion.
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