GRALISTAIR

absolutely =1

Jeeves

I've never heard that before. What about them are evil? I'm curious. Please tell.

beachmouse

Part of the problem with eggs is the smell of them when they're cooking- it just turns my stomach. And part of it is the 'egginess' that I find to be unpleasant. It's a food aversion that I've had since about age 4, and I know it's totally irrational, but it just is, even as I recognize the value of the egg as a building block in many other things I do like.

braslvr

When I really think about it, eggs are probably my favorite food. There are very few things that I can eat every single day without ever getting tired of them. Eggs are the main one.

beachmouse

You can have my eggs then, and it's a win-win all around.

CMK10

It's amazing what a little hot sauce can do to an otherwise bland meal.

tfar

Wow, just WOW! I didn't read everyone of the 600+ posts in this 46 page thread (so far) but is there not one of you who finds all this very strange?

I mean so many specific like and dislikes and whims, mostly whims and dislikes. How come?

Does this have to do with the other thread where someone asked what your mother's most loathed dish was?

I have to think really, really hard and I still can't come up with a single one of these "rules". I mean, yes, I am allergic to some things and thus normally avoid those. And even those things I actually like and will sometimes just deal with the consequences or take medicine so that I can eat these things.

There are things that I am not particularly fond of like caviar or things that I would find gross like testicles or eyes but stuff like having absolutely nothing on a burger except the meat and the bacon or eating food at room temperature, nope.

You guys are strange. But I guess I might be the strange one because the strange guys seem to be in the majority. LOL!

Till

China Clipper

Oooh I keep coming back to this thread

Word up, it's all about the texture ^

I think it works better as a coaster for your beverage.

We are almost polar opposites

Agree but Stilton & Swiss are right behind

I won't even want to eat with them. I avoid Texas.

Perhaps a rare occurrence? I ask only because I have the smoked salmon often on planes, figuring that it's safer than most fish, having been cured etc. Now I wonder.

So many people do this--most are breaking the law, and it's a law with a good purpose.

998R

I hate surimi, and I don't like snails (except small sea-snails).

emma69

Hmmm, I wonder about the 'good purpose'. If I want really good cheese, I will sometimes buy it in Europe and bring it back with me (entirely allowed). However, I can only bring $20 worth. Now I suspect this is to prevent trade - but really, I could easily bring back 10 times that for my personal consumption (given cheese doesn't have an especially short shelf life). I think it should have the same sorts of rules as in the EU 'personal consumption quantitles' - and I could easily explain $200 (especially if I can also include French butter!)

I am also not sure confiscating an airplane cheese sandwich (when the beagle has once again ascertained that my airline lunch went into my bag unopened rather than consumed) has any good reason behind it.

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.

nkedel

The plain English and culinary distinction of fruit vs. vegetable vs. starch is different from the botanical distinction of leaf vs. root vs. fruit (etc.)

Knowing when to use plain English vs. terms of art is something pretty much any scientist learns very early; correcting people is the sign of an amateur or know-it-all rather than a professional.

(If you feel like one-upping them instead, you can point out that not only is a tomato a fruit, it's a berry -- while a strawberry is in fact NOT a berry, but rather an "aggregate accessory fruit".)

BuildingMyBento

I wish there was a guacamole fruit...

I'm mostly in agreement with you on the mayonnaise bit though, thanks to East Asia. It's used on too many things over there, particularly in bread and on fruit. I still like to use a bit of it on a blt though. Anything to make that sandwich even less healthy...

tcl

At home:
1) Garlic, onions, shallots, chives and other stinkies have their own chopping board and may not ever be cut on any other board even if their dedicated board is in the dishwasher. Only stinkies may be cut on the stinkies cutting board. Nothing ruins a homemade passionfruit pavlova or strawberry shortcake quicker than getting that tang of garlic from flavour cross contamination.
2) There is a cheese tupperware in the fridge and all cheese goes in there to prevent the fridge and its other contents from smelling like cheese. Maytag Blue-scented mango moussecake and St. Albans-scented chocolate-coconut squares are gross.

On the road:
1) Drink water
2) Buy water as soon as possible when landed.
3) Drink water
4) Make sure there is enough drinking water the night before for the next day.
5) Drink water

Reminding myself to drink water constantly has helped prevent getting ill on the road. I have a Platypus water bottle tucked into each travel bag and one in my tote ready to be filled from a larger bottle I buy at a convenience store (or from the plane's refreshment trolley). You can never have too many Platys (though I dislike Vapur) I find that once I get dehydrated on the road, it's almost guaranteed that I will fall ill.

ryanthekiwi

It's funny, this thread has very little to do with travel but it screams "FLYERTALK" more than any other I've read. Never change FTers!