Originally Posted by lkar

Great thread. I don't have many but the oneS I have are weird.

1) Nothing that has or had a pit. Except guacamole.

2) "Sundried" tomatoes? No.

3) Nothing made of soy, except soy sauce or tofu. I will not eat pizza from a restaurant that promotes its use of soy "cheese". (If they merely serve soy cheese plus cheese cheese, it's fine. If they brag about it, no thanks.) Soy beans are not mammals and do not otherwise have nipples. Accordingly, I object to "soy milk" (and its cousin "rice") as misleading marketing. I guess "soy juice" wouldn't sell as well, but I object.

4) Thanksgiving leftovers are best enjoyed as a single combined open-faced creation in particular order: bread, mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, dollop of cranberry sauce. The layers of starch are very thin. There should be more turkey than the other things combined. Gravy is repulsive. Mashed potatoes should be simple: butter, milk, salt, and pepper. They should be whipped enough to be light but not "fluffy".

5) When making s'mores, never use a microwave and only heat the marshmallow.

6) Don't mix things into my ice cream. If it comes that way, fine. If the rocky part of the rocky road or chunky monkey or cookie dough has made the journey with the ice cream from factory, on the truck, to the store, to the table, great. They belong together. But if it's not in the carton, I am not interested. I like chocolate ice cream enough as it is. Hold the kit kat. No sherbet except rainbow should be eaten unless they are out of rainbow. (Sherbet should always be incorrectly pronounced, as though it includes a second r. For similar reasons, it's ok to use "literally" when you mean exactly not literally. And I am ok if you want to call whales and dolphins fish. Throw the ignorant a bone or two. It's hard being ignorant. And no matter what anyone says, a tomato is not a freaking fruit. I love scientists, but they're not the boss of me. Pluto isn't a planet, though. Sorry.)

7) Whomever had the bright idea to put raisins in bread pudding should get the fourth circle of hell, but not the fifth, which is reserved for the one who put nuts in chocolate chip cookies and brownies.

8) Mayonaise and merengue are disgusting and not fit for consumption by any creatures with internal skeletal systems.