Entry: 13 Things I just won't eat. No Ma'am. Wednesday, June 21, 2006

 

1) Bananas - First and foremost. If you sit near me and peel one of those damn things, I'm out of here. Proof of God's fallibility.

2) Menudo - It has guts in it. I don't do guts. Take out the guts and you have posole, which I'll eat right up.

3) Just about any kind of melon - They're not as bad as bananas but there's still something wrong with them.

4) Lamb heads - I mention this because the grocery store in my old neighborhood stocked them on a regular basis.

5) Liver and onions - It amazes me that people can go to a retaurant, where they can order anything they want, and choose THIS. Most eventual matricides begin with liver and onions.

6) Pineapple on pizza - I LOVE pineapple. I LOVE pizza. They DON'T belong together. No. It's just WEIRD.

7) Cauliflower - How does anyone get past that smell?

8) Sauerkraut - Ditto.

9) Cottage cheese - When milk does that at home, we throw it out. If it does it somewhere else, we pay for it and eat it with a slimy piece of melon......

10) Lima beans - Gee, how did those never grow on me?

11) Peeps - Those nasty little marshmallow chicks with neon glitter on them that they sell every Easter,  and make 3 Easters before. Even as a child with a sweet tooth, I couldn't hack those. Paula makes me think of the damn things almost every day.

12) Anything from the vietnamese restaurant on the corner which happens to occupy one half of a very small building. The other half is a vietnamese emissions tester. Carbon Monoxide on rice noodles, anyone?

13) My words - Nuff' said.
   14 comments

nat
June 22, 2006   06:24 AM PDT
 
I'm with you on liver & onions. I'd walk into the house after school sometimes smelling onions cooking and ask, "What are we having?" Mom would say, "Steak!" She always lied, but I knew better.

Sauerkraut! YUMMY on hot dogs with brown mustard.

Who actually eats menudo? Those crazy latinos!!!
O' Tim
June 22, 2006   10:30 AM PDT
 
1. Bananas - Good mountain biker food (potassium prevents cramps and you can toss the wrappers in the woods). Great on cereal or in bread!

2.Why would you name your band after this shit?

3. Honeydew is the bomb-diggity!

4. I'm with you on any animal part that's not pure sinew.

5. Fried chicken livers are a big southern delicacy. I always like to remind people that the liver is what filters all the crap out of the blood.

6.Ditto

7. Great dipped in ranch dressing. What's NOT great dipped in ranch dressing?

8. Kraut and weenies rocks!

9. I can take it or leave it, mostly I leave it in the fridge too long.

10. Perhaps lima beans never grew on you because you shower regularly? I had a fraternity brother who resembled a lima bean. He smelled bad too.

11. Ditto, and those nasty circus peanuts, too. The only way I can stomach marshmallow is with chocolate, like s'mores or Moon Pies (a Chattanooga original!)

12. Hmm...

13. It's simply not possible to "eat" your words after they have been released. "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34

'nuff said
Paula
June 22, 2006   10:58 AM PDT
 
I love bananas! Unless they're too ripe cuz then they're gross. Ever have canary melon? Yummy. The rest of 'em though...eh. Liver and onions is GOOD! I just had pineapple on pizza for the first time recently and it was mighty tasty. Doesn't seem like it should be, I agree. Also agree on 2, 4, 8, 10, 11 & 12 (not that I know what posole is). Neutral on 7 & 9.
Mark
June 22, 2006   01:24 PM PDT
 
With you on the bananas, bud. I once grabbed banana-flavored string cheese by accident. Spewed it all over the street at lunch time when i realized what it was.

Mayo sux big time.
Dawn (webmiztris)
June 22, 2006   01:30 PM PDT
 
damn, and I thought I was picky! You're missing out with the sauerkraut, dude. I didn't start eating it until I was about 28 and now I'm addicted.

But I agree re: the Peeps. They seem more like packing material - not something that should be ingested into the body.
Joe the Troll
June 22, 2006   04:36 PM PDT
 
Paula (and probably others)-

I never heard of posole until I moved to NM, now I make it with the best of them. It is a stew made from pork, hominy, and onions in a red chile base. Yumsters! Just keep the damn tripe OUT of it!!!
Mark
June 22, 2006   07:23 PM PDT
 
"Lima beans - Gee, how did those never grow on me?"

Good hygeine?
ruth
June 22, 2006   08:46 PM PDT
 
Good lord - you are fussy aren't you? ;-)

Put a bay leaf in with the cauli and you don't get the odour. Don't like the idea of lamb heads though.

I am having an American guest next week and I have found you peeps to be very conservative in your food likes. So maybe I will play safe and give him chicken.
Joe the Troll
June 22, 2006   10:38 PM PDT
 
Ruth-
Actually, I'm not THAT hard to feed. 11 items, a place, and a metaphor don't quite fill up a grocery store. Ironicallly, I'll eat sushi all night, which some think is gross. And I'm pretty brave wwith the Mexican/ New Mexican foods, with one caveat.

You got it- NO GUTS.
Hillbilly tim
June 24, 2006   07:37 AM PDT
 
I remember pissing the Troll off by sticking a banana in his face on a regular basis. AQlso I thought you hated raw tomatoes. For me the worst is broccoli, followed by the dreaded lima beans and just about any national US beer brand. I have tried and tried to reaquire a taste for them but they have no taste. But, maybe i will try again this afternoon. "some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you"
Princess Becky
June 24, 2006   07:48 AM PDT
 
I love pineapple on pizza :( ....with ham...
Joe the Troll
June 24, 2006   08:07 AM PDT
 
Hillbilly-

Yes, I remember the banana thing, you bastard. And you are correct about the raw tomatoes, it just wasn't one of the first 13 things I thought of. I remember your hatred of broccoli, although I came to love it as I got older. Go figure.

I'm surprised about the beer, though. Things have changed since I moved away! Not doing it "Dog Style" anymore, eh???
Hillbilly tim
June 24, 2006   08:16 AM PDT
 
If they sold "dog pile" in kentucky id probably still be drinking it . as a form of self mutilation. I can find "elephant beer occasionally but for the most part it is miller litee and makers mark whisky"yep thats how they spell whiskey" oh and maybe some locally grown swag if you know what i mean. i also used to hate radishes but now it is just a rabid dislike.
Joe the Troll
June 24, 2006   11:02 AM PDT
 
"Miller Lite" is redundant. They don't sell Old Stool down here either, but I don't mourn. There are actually a lot of regional microbrews available down the street, so I experiment a lot.

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