Ten Questions

[Veritable Quandry]

Tex Mex is an actual style. Arizona/New Mexico cooking blending Spanish and native influences. We tend to forget that Mexico, China, India are big places with lots of regional cuisine. The American generic versions are their own thing based on an amalgamation of regional dishes with locally available resources made for America tastes.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

7. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?

Milk Bones. Do they still sell those for dogs? What can I say, I was a weird kid.

Heh. My brother-in-law used to eat these *as an adult*. I didn't know what to do with myself the first time I watched him grab a box of them and begin eating them as though they were some snack food. I believe my look my have appeared as such:

 

[Lady Darnk Juniorette]

I've tryed dry cat food and dog food before and cat food I'd say is far worse than dog food.

I am not trying wet.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I've tryed dry cat food and dog food before and cat food I'd say is far worse than dog food.

I am not trying wet.

 

[Sid]

I agree with you about gnocchi.

A few years ago I was on a vacation in Salzburg Austria. In one of the off tourist streets I discovered a small Polish restaurant.
No other costumers there at that time, and I talked a bit with the chef.
Because I'm not familiar with Polish food, I asked for a recommendation and he said I should try his gnocchi.
He made a few different varieties of them for me.
They were delirious.
A few months later I tried the ones that are offered in supermarkets over here. They come no way near the ones that the Polish chef made.

 

[Sid]

I've tryed dry cat food and dog food before and cat food I'd say is far worse than dog food.

I am not trying wet.

When I was a kid we had a dog and she was totally fond of one particular brand dry food.
So I tried them myself, and I must say, they tasted not bad at all.
I mean, if it doesn't kill the dog, how much harm can it do to a human trying a hand full...

 

[Kara Spengler]

Number 2 is easy: snots. Okay, that needs a bit of an explanation, it is cheese fries (which I make a vegan variety of).

Back in college there was a food truck that sold them and other things. Only noobs ordered off the menu. Everything on it had both a PG name and an R name. A typical order might be, oh, snots, several buckets of rag, a pink cow, and a big guy (cheese fries with extra ketchup, a strawberry milkshake, and a cheeseburger sub).

 

[Khamon]

1. What food are you curious about but too scared to try?
I've always eaten anything someone put in front of me and called "food" provided they were willing to eat it with me.

2. What food do you like that others may find disgusting?
Chicken feet and eel though I don't understand why because they're cooked.

3. What food that you expected to be wonderful that turned out to be disappointing?
Seafood dishes that totally disguise the flavour of the seafood.

4. What food will you never eat again for ethical reasons?
"Pats, you have no morals, darling." - Edina Monsoon

5. What is your childhood-based comfort food?
Pizza, any time, any where, gimme gimme gimme

6. What food fad do you find baffling or irritating?
I find foam baffling and also don't understand why people smother seafood in butter and sauces.

7. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
That depends on where you're from but I'll say brains after a hog killing.

8. What would be your perfect lunch?
Dunno, I eat an apple for lunch, so maybe pizza.

9. Picnics: yea or nay?
Picnics are nice deep in the forest but hell on a windy beach or really on any beach.

10. Does food taste better, worse, or the same when you make it?
Better in the sense that I know what it is and, often, where it came from.

 

[Free]

>> 2. What food do you like that others may find disgusting?

I can't think of anything offhand. I mean on the scale of what people find disgusting, with an outlier like Darnk I could mention almost anything and get a hit. But in general, there's a wide range of foods I like, but nothing in the way of a Crunchy Frog or Spring Surprise comes to mind.

 

[Myficals]

he said I should try his gnocchi.
He made a few different varieties of them for me.
They were delirious.
A few months later I tried the ones that are offered in supermarkets over here. They come no way near the ones that the Polish chef made.

Gnocchi might just have one of the severest quality drop off curves between the fresh-made versus supermarket versions of any foodstuff there is. Even freezer isle pizza is more reminiscent of actual pizza than chilled section gnocchi is of the handmade stuff. Some foods translate to convenience meals, gnocchi is not one of them.

 

[OrinB]

Gnocchi might just have one of the severest quality drop off curves between the fresh-made versus supermarket versions of any foodstuff there is. Even freezer isle pizza is more reminiscent of actual pizza than chilled section gnocchi is of the handmade stuff. Some foods translate to convenience meals, gnocchi is not one of them.

I really don't even like it fresh. That clowey, doughey middle is just urgh to me. I have the same reaction to dimsum cloud dumpling thingys, potato dumplings and other such stuff.

 

[Clara D.]

3. The first time I tried lobster I was "eh, it's fine I guess. Why am I supposed to be excited by the sea bug again?"

Crab is way better than lobster.

 

[Clara D.]

Answer them all or pick and choose

1. What food are you curious about but too scared to try?
2. What food do you like that others may find disgusting?
3. What food that you expected to be wonderful that turned out to be disappointing?
4. What food will you never eat again for ethical reasons?
5. What is your childhood-based comfort food?
6. What food fad do you find baffling or irritating?
7. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
8. What would be your perfect lunch?
9. Picnics: yea or nay?
10. Does food taste better, worse, or the same when you make it?

1. If I'm too scared to try it, then I'm not very curious about it and I don't scare easy. My limits are balut and that cheese with live bugs in. I don't want potentially crunchy hard-boiled egg and anything with bugs in gets thrown out.

2. Anything with intact small squids in -- either Asian or Italian.

3. Nothing, but there are a few things I wonder what the fuss is about. Marzipan.

4. The more "exotic" seafoods, I'll stick to squid, shrimp, clams, oysters, tuna, etc.. Nothing like swordfish/shark/etc.

5. Grilled cheese and tomato soup.

6. ZOMG GLUTENS EVERYWERE. It's about as stupid as anit-vax for "bad science." Yes, there are some people really sensitive to it, but avoiding it for I RED IT AM BAD ONNA INTERNETWEBS isn't a valid reason to avoid it. Mankind has been eating bread-things for a very long time.

7. Fried fish Columbian style. It was a fish. It had been deep fried . . . completely intact. Once I got over the "Um the head's still on even," it was tasty. But took me an annoyingly long time to eat because of bones.

8. Depends on my mood that day. I don't have a specific go-to.

9. Highly over-rated. Outdoor BBQ is yum tho.

10. Better or worse, depending on what it is. Among other things I make awesome scrambles, pickled things, beans, cornbread, and tacos. Other things can turn a bit odd because I over-spice with random spices. I do like my cooking because I can make everything Teh Very Spicy -- example would be putting Serano peppers in the cornbread instead of wussy bell pepper. And my bean soup is a guaranteed sinus cleanser The only restaurant food that's my level of spicy is Thai, and that's after I've convinced them to "don't make it for white people."

 

[Beebo Brink]

The only restaurant food that's my level of spicy is Thai, and that's after I've convinced them to "don't make it for white people."

LOL! I go through the same routine for my beloved natto. I have to reassure the waitstaff several times that yes, I do know what I'm ordering, and yes, I really really want it.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

LOL! I go through the same routine for my beloved natto. I have to reassure the waitstaff several times that yes, I do know what I'm ordering, and yes, I really really want it.

I tell Thai waiters "I want it hotter than you think I want it."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

LOL! I go through the same routine for my beloved natto. I have to reassure the waitstaff several times that yes, I do know what I'm ordering, and yes, I really really want it.

You know they'll get it right when they make you sign a waiver.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

2. What food do you like that others may find disgusting?
--- Mushrooms! MMmm

3. What food that you expected to be wonderful that turned out to be disappointing?
--- Bao Dumplings - wasn't a fan of the texture / flavor

4. What food will you never eat again for ethical reasons?
--- Pork - but more for allergy reasons

5. What is your childhood-based comfort food?
--- Saltine Crakers on soup

6. What food fad do you find baffling or irritating?
--- BACON & chococlate or on donuts - (Barf!)

7. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
--- Alligator? Monkfish?

8. What would be your perfect lunch?
--- Udon and Asahi from my favorite noodle house that closed years ago.

9. Picnics: yea or nay?
--- Not a fan of sitting on the ground or sun, but yes if those are avoidable.

10. Does food taste better, worse, or the same when you make it?
--- My vegan pie crust never turns out right, and I don't make anything else, so 'worse'.

 

[Essence Lumin]

5. What is your childhood-based comfort food?
--- Saltine Crakers on soup

Maybe this is common knowledge, but someone pointed out to me if you take one of those restaurant two cracker packs you can squeeze and crumble them in your hand before opening the package.

 

[Tigger]

1. What food are you curious about but too scared to try?
Whelks. I've eaten smaller snails and sea-snails (Winkles forever!) but whelks are just big and rubbery and chewy and so, so ugly.

2. What food do you like that others may find disgusting?
Rollmops! aka pickled herring

3. What food that you expected to be wonderful that turned out to be disappointing?
Heston Blumenthal's tasting menu. Worse than disappointing, bordering on inedible.

4. What food will you never eat again for ethical reasons?
Battery farm chicken. I've been in one of those farms, it's like hell.

5. What is your childhood-based comfort food?
Mum's Sunday roast.

6. What food fad do you find baffling or irritating?
"raw [X]" where what they mean by raw is unpasteurised or untreated. For example "raw milk" and probably the worst of all "raw water". Seriously people food and water safety were hard problems for civilisation to solve.

7. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
Pickled Walnuts. These are odd. I don't understand them.

8. What would be your perfect lunch?
See #5

9. Picnics: yea or nay?
I live in Snowdonia so its not unusual for me to pack a small picnic for lunch and drive off in some random direction to find a spot. On the other hand, this is Snowdonia so the average picnic involves sitting in the car while the rain hammers on the roof.

10. Does food taste better, worse, or the same when you make it?
No one else is going to cook it for me (except, see #5) so I can only say "the same"