Food quirks

[Beach Runner]

Hubby has relatively few food hates: mayonnaise, ketchup, olives, coffee, turnip/collard greens, tuna/chicken salad/pimiento cheese sandwiches. Also anything in Asia with seaweed.

Daughter and I adore ketchup. Hubby cringes as we douse our fries and even our burgers in large quantities of ketchup.

As a child I loved mayonnaise sandwiches with fresh white bread. Now one of my go-to lunches in the warmer months is a sandwich made from Hellman's low-fat mayo with cheese and white bread. If we have good tomatoes, I'll leave off the cheese. This time of the year I like a toasted English muffin with cheese and EVOO (and a few basil leaves if I have them) for a rapid lunch.

 

[ClintClint]

I'm kinda with you on this one. This also reminds me of our maintenance man at the NH. I call him Tim the Toolman Taylor. One day we were all sitting at a table eating lunch and someone had brought Jason's Deli. And they brought all those little packages of mayo, etc. He was just sitting there playing with one of the mayo packs and all of the sudden, it just exploded right in his face. Oh my gosh! I guess you had to be there, but I about wet my pants.

The size of the packet, it does not matter
Like the bug on the windshield, it's the size of the splatter

Scattered, smothered, and covered works at Waffle House
But not in the new hairdo of your lover or spouse

It's not hair gel or skin cream, purposes not meant
Think of it more as love's condiment

So don't dabble with the packet, one of many wrongs,
Just put the damm thing where it belongs

 

[sunspotbaby]

The size of the packet, it does not matter
Like the bug on the windshield, it's the size of the splatter

Scattered, smothered, and covered works at Waffle House
But not in the new hairdo of your lover or spouse

It's not hair gel or skin cream, purposes not meant
Think of it more as love's condiment

So don't dabble with the packet, one of many wrongs,
Just put the damm thing where it belongs

I think you missed your calling CC.

 

[scooterbug44]

One day we were all sitting at a table eating lunch and someone had brought Jason's Deli. And they brought all those little packages of mayo, etc. He was just sitting there playing with one of the mayo packs and all of the sudden, it just exploded right in his face. Oh my gosh! I guess you had to be there, but I about wet my pants.

We were bored at lunch one day during ski school and were playing w/ the mustard packets while we waited for our food - punching it from one side of the packet to the other w/ our tiny fists. FYI, you can only do that so many times before you spray someone's new white ski jacket and the cafeteria wall w/ mustard and all hell breaks loose!

 

[sunspotbaby]

Okay, I've looked at this thread since day one, but couldn't really come up with any quirks. There's not a lot that I won't eat. There are things I'm not fond of but if it's all I had, I guess I could stomach most anything.

I will not eat turtles though. And after just seeing a photo of dead frogs and reading what an appetite France has for frog legs, I will not eat them either.

 

[ASH]

This thread has had me in stitches for the last half hour. You folks are just hilarious. :funn:

I don't have too many quirks myself except like the monkey brains. I don't get the whole idea of an abuse to satisfy some wierd craving.

I will comment that things I didn't like when I was younger have since grown on me and vise versa.

I hated peas as a kid and now I can't get enough of them. Still haven't learned to like sauerkraut though.

 

[Matt J]

Okay, I've looked at this thread since day one, but couldn't really come up with any quirks. There's not a lot that I won't eat. There are things I'm not fond of but if it's all I had, I guess I could stomach most anything.

I will not eat turtles though. And after just seeing a photo of dead frogs and reading what an appetite France has for frog legs, I will not eat them either.

Actually frog legs are really good, taste like chicken. Cafe Provence (sp?) has some awesome frog legs. If you eat them just right you can leave the bones together and then do this across the empty plate.

About 1:14 in on the video.

YouTube - One froggy evening

This thread has had me in stitches for the last half hour. You folks are just hilarious. :funn:

I don't have too many quirks myself except like the monkey brains. I don't get the whole idea of an abuse to satisfy some wierd craving.

I will comment that things I didn't like when I was younger have since grown on me and vise versa.

I hated peas as a kid and now I can't get enough of them. Still haven't learned to like sauerkraut though.

I love peas now too, not sure why.

Sauerkraut is the only form of cabbage I'll eat.

 

[Gypsea]

We were bored at lunch one day during ski school and were playing w/ the mustard packets while we waited for our food - punching it from one side of the packet to the other w/ our tiny fists. FYI, you can only do that so many times before you spray someone's new white ski jacket and the cafeteria wall w/ mustard and all hell breaks loose!

- same goes with butter pats But who knew????

 

[Lynnie]

I'm not a fan of Shirley either, but y'all do have some strange quirks when it comes to food.

I like almost everything, except no olives or anchovies. I LUV fried chicken, mashed potatoes and lima beans, with sweet tea! Can do without intestinal stuff or liver. And, the only thing I like pickled are pickles - the baby kind.

No oatmeal and I agree with no hominy either - that's just plain weird lookin' - like a radioactive corn or something! And, zuchini does talk back.....what's with that???

No one here mentioned sweetbreads....... any takers?

 

[Beach Runner]

I don't have too many quirks myself except like the monkey brains. I don't get the whole idea of an abuse to satisfy some wierd craving.

Hubby has experienced the monkey brains thing. On signing an important business agreement, the Japanese will host dinners which my husband swears are designed just to gross out Americans. The monkey story -- a live monkey is strapped into a highchair, and then use your imagination ... I can't describe it.

On a lighter note, one night in Tokyo we (Big D, daughter, and I) were treated by some Japanese businessmen to dinner. I think it was in 1999 before sushi, etc., became fashionable is the South. We were served edamame. We tried chewing the pea pod with no success. So we tried to spit them out without our hosts noticing it. I am sure they were laughing their a$$es off afterwards.

I agree with no hominy either - that's just plain weird lookin' - like a radioactive corn or something!
No one here mentioned sweetbreads....... any takers?

HOMINY: Hominy is like Cheerios -- those round shapes feel really good in my mouth. When I was a child, a dinner that Daddy liked in the cooler months was Smithfield ham, hominy, applesauce, and biscuits.

SWEETBREADS: When we were in our twenties and hubby got a big promotion, we were in NYC on business and were dining at a tony French restaurant. We were really intimidated. My French skills in culinary terms were lacking, but I didn't want to ask for an interpretation. I saw "ris de veau" on the menu. I thought, well, veau is veal. So I ordered it. It was veal sweetbreads. Looked strange.