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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 20, 2020 21:10:49 GMT
Mrs Cactus will only eat prawns in prawn cocktail but not in any other format all e.g. prawn curry.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 20, 2020 22:11:31 GMT
I have a friend who says she will only eat shrimp in New Orleans. I think the last time she was in New Orleans was 25 or 30 years ago. Mrs. Cactus's prawn rule seems very relaxed by comparison!
Cheerykins, I'm not criticizing you. It's just that I was such an omnivore even as a child that I find it hard to wrap my head around most food dislikes. Under social circumstances, I'll even eat stuff I don't like very much unless there is something really wrong with it.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 21, 2020 5:57:04 GMT
Mrs M will only eat raw tomatoes if they are cut up small. I dislike the texture of citrus fruits but will happily drink all the juices. I won't eat any sea food like prawns, whelks, cockles, oysters etc at all.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 21, 2020 8:10:43 GMT
Reading through these fussy food fads makes me wonder if it has everything to do with ones childhood at the dinner table. I was brought up to eat everything on my plate and it was always delicious as my mother was an excellent cook. I can only recall one meal at a lodging house where I refused to eat a piece of fried liver. I was put off by the texture more than the taste. But then my mother had not cooked it so maybe it was also a bit tasteless. Parents do worry when kids turn their noses up at good nutritious food and do all kinds of things to disguise that spinach hiding under a piece of chicken. I was interested to hear about Kerouac's brother and onions, Mrs. Cactus and her prawn problem, but Cheery is my star pick for fussy eating! Friends thought that introducing their child to 'strange' tastes would cure it of any fussiness so fed the kid olives, camembert cheese, prawns, and suchlike. I don't know the result except it might have a very sophisticated pallet by now!
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 21, 2020 10:12:04 GMT
My main dislike is bouncy food. Food, that when you go to chew it, your teeth can't get all the way through and bounce off. It makes me gag.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 21, 2020 11:44:35 GMT
Halloumi?
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Post by tod2 on Jul 21, 2020 11:58:40 GMT
Chewy calamari …..
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Post by casimira on Jul 21, 2020 12:04:56 GMT
I'm not really sure of what you mean when you say "bounce" Mark. Can you give some examples of what types of food "bounce" for you. I am very confused by this.
My only food disdain is egg whites cooked in certain forms. For instance, I could never eat a poached egg. The white surrounding a fried egg I cut away. Hard boiled eggs I can manage to eat maybe half of the white. Egg salad with the whites chopped up I can eat just fine. Egg whites whipped into a meringue are just fine. Weird, I know.
The "blintzes" you speak of BJD and Tod, I remember being served as a child and they were always a treat.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 21, 2020 12:37:18 GMT
Halloumi squeaks when you bite it and isn't quite bouncy enough. The squeak is worth the fun factor alone. Tod has the idea with some types of calamari. Other than that, chewy meat or some other seafoods. Imagine cutting a normal bit of meat but then you have to bite it three, four or five times to get through it and make it a smaller piece. Octopus, squid etc the same. But also sliding an oyster down my throat fills me with revulsion. Snails........ jesus, no. Cockles, mussels, whelks........ kill me first before making me eat them. Shrimps, prawns, the look puts me off before I even consider eating them. But crab and lobster I can get along with eating the meat but not getting at the meat first.
It's the amount of biting through it in the mouth needed to make it a smaller piece to swallow that is the main problem, never mind anything else. That's also why I avoid fat on meat or fatty meat as much as possible.
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Post by casimira on Jul 21, 2020 12:53:16 GMT
I understand now. "Rubbery" like foods it seems.
Reading about Woolworth's makes me so nostalgic. We had them here in the US when I was growing up (If it's the same chain you describe Tod). The last of them shut down sometime in the '80's. It was a "5 & 10" store. Most if not all had a lunch counter.
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Post by bjd on Jul 21, 2020 15:05:41 GMT
I thought I was a fussy eater but finally, maybe I'm not so bad after reading these posts. I didn't eat when I was a kid, assuming I wouldn't like it without tasting. I remember still in England, so I must have been about 5 or 6, my mother took me to the doctor because I wouldn't eat. He said, "She'll eat when she gets hungry." I did get better as I got older.
I like spicy food, but not strong cheese like Roquefort. Not keen on fat around meat either, but does anyone actually eat that? I agree with Mark about slimy stuff -- I won't eat raw oysters or any seafood eaten raw. But I like mussels, shrimps and prawns, lobster meat.
As for fruit and vegetables, I will eat them all if forced but prefer not to eat Brussels sprouts, kale and stuff like that -- I just don't like the taste. I like all fruit except papaya.
There used to be Woolworths stores in Toronto too but I don't remember any food or lunch counters. It was a cheap kind of department store.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 21, 2020 16:01:03 GMT
bjd - funny you should say that "Woolworths being a Cheapside dept. store" - Here in South Africa Woolworths is the number one store for good quality clothing ( although more Chinese stuff creeping in) but their Food Store is THE place for high quality food. They set extremely tough boundaries for the suppliers so you are more or less guaranteed superb meat and veg. They have a big opposition food outlet called Food Lovers Market. But it's only food.
I'm with you on oysters (raw and slimy) Now smoked , that's different. Talking Papaya, well that is food of the gods! Roquefort or any blue vein cheese is wonderful. So Obviously I also love the strong flavours of Camembert and Brie. My finest moment was taking the train to Meaux just to buy a hunk of Brie! Yes, I know., Any good cheese merchant in Paris has it by the gallon but buying it there was so special. Fat around meat - ONLY when it's lamb fat or pig fat that has been crisped. I'm not keen on beef fat on steaks for instance. I must admit I find Halloumi quite delicious when it has been grilled. Out the fridge cold - NO!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 21, 2020 16:12:26 GMT
My biggest no no are eggs. Fried, boiled, scrambled etc but ok in things like cakes when the final product is not egglike.
Don't do shellfish other than prawns.
Don't do Brussels sprouts or kale. Love spinach and chard.
Don't mind fatty bacon or cold lamb fat.
Quite like fish but don't have it very often.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 21, 2020 16:29:32 GMT
A lot of really picky eaters here!
Woolworths in North America was pretty low class in the latter half of the 20th century. I have not seen it in South Africa, but I saw that it was quite nice in Australia, albeit still a budget chain. I was very surprised to see a Woolworths on my trip to Berlin in December.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 21, 2020 18:18:07 GMT
And offal is awful.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 21, 2020 18:47:20 GMT
Tod, in Zambia we had several Food Lovers nearby and that and PicknPay was where I did most of the shopping. If I wanted to treat myself I'd go in the food section at Woolworths.
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Post by lugg on Jul 22, 2020 10:32:02 GMT
That's really strange to read that Woollies is a high quality store in SA , but I do have fond memories of their pic n mix.
I used to hate all veg as a child - my mum use to try to make me eat them but I would gag or worse. As I got older I found lots of veg that I love but some I still cannot abide like Brussels and garden peas. I later found out that there is a chemical in some veg that is only tasted by some people and that's the reason for their dislike. I also cant eat beetroot as I am allergic to it as have been many female members of the family for as far back as I know- weird hey ? The other odd thing is I can eat garden peas if they are pureed with butter and mint - I guess it hides that chemical?
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Post by bjd on Jul 22, 2020 10:54:36 GMT
Absolutely, I had forgotten about offal since I never eat it. I do like foie gras but that doesn't count as offal. I also don't like lentils and all those dried pulses or whatever they are called. I will eat them if I have to but just find they taste of cardboard, no matter what is added to them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2020 11:47:15 GMT
If you people were occupied by German and/or Nazi invaders for several years from time to time, I think you would learn to eat a lot of things.
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Post by bjd on Jul 22, 2020 12:43:06 GMT
If you people were occupied by German and/or Nazi invaders for several years from time to time, I think you would learn to eat a lot of things. Or if we lived in North Korea or the Soviet Union and had to stand in line for hours to buy something. As it is, we can be fussy.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 22, 2020 15:54:49 GMT
Oh heaven forbid I had to look at my pet staffie and tell her tomorrow 'You're lunch' - I was watching a video on when Prussia put the screws on Paris. People ate cats, dogs, horses, and and and! Rats. and they weren't cheap. We are so namby-pamby'd we don't have a clue what is is to eat shit. Not our fault, just our luck.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2020 16:03:18 GMT
It's kind of a moot point about what we would or would not eat under the threat of true starvation. People who hate certain foods are still aware that those things are healthful food, with no cultural or emotional taboos attached.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2020 16:23:27 GMT
Luckily there are times when two cultures can benefit from each other. Most of the French love offal, and the (observant) Muslim community refuse to eat it because it is haram, so the halal butchers sell their unwanted items to the traditional butchers. More for the rest of us!
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Post by questa on Jul 23, 2020 0:33:02 GMT
It's kind of a moot point about what we would or would not eat under the threat of true starvation. People who hate certain foods are still aware that those things are healthful food, with no cultural or emotional taboos attached. Have any of you read "The Killing Fields" about the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia after the Vietnam war. The writer is a doctor but has to hide the fact as all educated people were being executed. The people were being force-marched into the countryside with no food and were dying of starvation. At one point the doctor found some caterpillars (or something like that) and ate a lot. The richness of the meal made him vomit and his training told him that this source of protein was needed by his body, so he ate his stomach contents down again and says it saved his life.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 23, 2020 9:09:17 GMT
the (observant) Muslim community refuse to eat it because it is haram, so the halal butchers sell their unwanted items to the traditional butchers I found that statement very interesting. If I want fresh unfrozen lambs liver ( the only liver I will eat) I go to a Muslim butchery in the Casbah ( well that's what I call it for want of another word ). So it means that these Muslims are not Kosher I guess. Unless….they keep it separate from the normal Halal meats. Don't know if this would be allowed. Talking of offal and Halal - there is that butcher shop across the road from Hotel Crimee Kerouac. You know the one. I saw things there I have never seen offered in a butchery here - testicles for one. Wouldn't that be classed as offal?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2020 9:51:28 GMT
Yes, and Mick and Mark would find it awful.
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Post by mossie on Jul 23, 2020 10:16:25 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jul 23, 2020 10:23:29 GMT
Prairie oysters... Odd, my Moroccan butcher's does sell lamb's liver, which I find delicious. Another place sells duck's livers (not foie gras, but even if not force-fed, they are very rich). I don't like raw oysters either, but smoked or poached is fine, I simply dislike the sliminess.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2020 11:18:46 GMT
Some of the French do use the prissy name "rognons blancs" (white kidneys), but people know what they are, so why bother? They are sliced and rolled in flour, so you never have a sudden vision of having a whole testicle in your mouth.
Udders are prepared the same way, but frankly I have never seen any for sale in Paris.
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Post by questa on Jul 23, 2020 11:50:38 GMT
I had an old copy of Mrs Beeton's Cook book in which was a recipe for cooking a cow's placenta to make a nourishing stew for women to overcome the effects of anemia.
My brother used to spend northern summers in Greece teaching sailing. He came to like the local food including grilled sheep's penis...but it had to be sliced into rings, he did not like it cut into lengths.
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