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DEL.ICIO.USWhat foods turn you off?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Recently I wrote about foods that make me weak in the knees and it was great seeing what you can’t resist. “What food turns you on?” But for every turn on, there’s usually a turn off.
I know as a food writer I am suppose to be an adventurous eater, willing to try every morsel offered without question. While there is no doubt my palate has expanded exponentially since I started cooking professionally, I have to confess, there are some things I still haven’t warmed up to…namely, organ meats.
This came to a head during a visit to the Colonnade with my in-laws from New Jersey last week. We wanted to give them a true Atlanta experience, which to us means good old fashioned fried chicken with all the sides. Instead, my father-in-law, after much debate, decided on chicken livers (the debate was over that or calf’s liver). Trust me, there was enough liver on that plate to supply a caterer with pate for a year.
There’s no doubt, everyone has their own hot button. My friend, Lisa, is a great cook. Whenever we head over to her house it’s always an unexpected and yummy treat. But as experimental as Lisa is, she just can’t stand sun-dried tomatoes in any form.
What makes you turn and run? Is there a food that sends shivers down your spine, and not in a good way?
Comments
By kara
March 31, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
I hate olives but I am pretty good at picking them out of meals so I can deal with them. I won’t eat liver. And I hate the flavor of most mushrooms. So I won’t cook or order anything with mushrooms and I have found any recipe that calls for (yuck) cream of mushroom soup does just as well with cream of chicken or cream of celery.
By Stan
March 31, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
Raw tomatoes, ick. Sun dried are fine with me and I cook a LOT with cooked tomatoes. I add diced to soup weekly. A common meal for us is stew beef (browned) add lots of diced tomatoes, chilies in slow cooker and serve over rice.
I’m fine with shrooms, though I hated them as a kid. Oddly I liked olives as a kid but don’t care for them now, though I love olive oil…
I guess to the point of the topic is any item that is grossly over priced and snooty is a turn off for me. I prefer working with what I can afford to eat often rather than spend a bunch of money on something as a treat for myself then screw it up because I don’t know how to prepare it.
Stan
By Dave
March 31, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this
Anything that once was a living. breathing, heart beating animal. If it’s OK to eat a pig, chicken or cow, why can’t I roast your dog or cat? or better yet, eat another person? Who are we to decide what living things get “factory farmed” as if they were mearly soy beans or wheat?
Eating a slice of steak is as apealing as eating an arm or toe to me.
By Stan
April 1, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
Dave,
Thanks! That leaves more meat for me! If you want to eat a dog or cat, I for one have no problem with that. However I would warn you against eating MY dog. Go buy your own.
Different cultures eat different food. Some do eat dog/cat/rat. It’s what they have. While I suspect I would not find those suitable to my palate, I don’t judge others for how they live their lives.
SO if you wish to not eat meat, that’s fine, good for you. Just don’t judge me or tell me how it grosses you out, or say the poor animals!! I don’t care. I eat meat and I love it!
Stan
By kara
April 1, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
I agree with Stan: survival of the fittest. Humans eat meat because we can.
By Julia
April 1, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Nothing gets me to revert to acting like a kid than when I see, smell, or am in eye distance of Split Pea Soup. For me, that strange green soup will always remain a “bowl full of hate”!
By Stan
April 1, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
LOL! “Bowl full of hate”! LOL too funny
By FCM
April 1, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this
Indian food or mushrooms…Indian food just smells and looks bad. Mushrooms are just a texture thing.
By JJ
April 2, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
Hi FCM Good seeing you over here…….
I’m not a fan of ‘shrooms either. I’m just now starting to like onions. I use them to cook, but still cannot eat them raw. Don’t like any peppers either, red, yellow, orange, etc… I don’t care for tomatoes either, maybe once in a while on a salad, if they are really chopped up small.
I dont’ care for fish either. Salmon just grosses me out. But I am starting to like Tilapia, and cod, mild white fish. Love Crab, ok with shrimp and scallops.
BEEF, now that’s what I like, and pork and chicken.
By KHM
April 3, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
Anchovies. Gak.