Ok, what's a food we can all agree we don't like?

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Let me nip one in the bud right away: I like okra.

I propose that no-one here likes tripe and onions.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never had tripe

everyone should hate lychees and brussels sprouts

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Onions, mmm. Well, on sandwiches.

Okra? Yikes. When I first moved to New Orleans I had okra for the first time ever in life and immediately gave up the notion that New Orleans people know anything at all about good food.

I would guess "anchovies" but I'm sure some weirdo or another here likes them. Perhaps the only one we'll be able to agree NO ONE likes is: "other people's puke." Or even "your own puke." Because, you know, there's food in there, so I would call puke food.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see already this is going to be a very frustrating thread. I like lychees, brussels sprouts, okra and anchovies. I suspect that "tripe and onions" is a dish, which I haven't tried, but if it isn't and mole's referring to those two foods separately, I like onions, and I've had chitterlings, which are a kind of tripe, and thought they weren't bad.

― antexit (antexit), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I like anchovies. I contend that no one here likes tripe.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hear anyone speaking up for puke. Do I win?

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what does tripe taste like? can you fry it and make fried tripe sandwiches?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

find me a menu with puke on it (printed, not sprayed) and you win

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Who said it has to be food offered on a goddamn menu? If you're just going to make up the rules as you go along, well you can kiss my sweet ass goddammit.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tripe and onions is a British recipe:

http://www.andmas.co.uk/womansworld/food/recipes/tripe/tripeandonions.html

Note how the link here winningly describes the recipe as "uncompromising".

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

well you could just as easily say poo is food otherwise!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with surface noise. If we can suggest anything, then it needs to be either on a menu or in a cookbook somewhere. Otherwise, I would of course propose radioactive waste. Or indeed, poo.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmmm... radioactive waste.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked tripe in small doses when i ate meat, especially in korean or italian food. it can be horrifying if it's badly prepared.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Tripe is great either in a nice Phô or as endouillettes.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, Ok. When all else fails resort to the Potted Meat Museum. Does anyone out there like tinned meat pudding (?!), elk in its own juice, or rattlesnake?

http://www.pottedmeatmuseum.com/meatpics/150.jpg

http://www.pottedmeatmuseum.com/meatpics/152.jpg

http://www.pottedmeatmuseum.com/meatpics/154.jpg

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Potted meat is great. I wouldn't not eat tinned meat pudding.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I had flacki when in Poland which is basically tripe in an onion soup and enjoyed it, so yes I would like tripe and onions.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

To be honest you might as well give up on the offal line of enquiry, all that will come of it is a sense of false victory before all the hungry Brits wake up tomorrow.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey I'm still awake and I haven't found a piece of offal I don't like.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, offal tangent abandoned. You're right of course.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep misreading "tripe" as "trife," and it's getting very confusing/disturbing.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose I'm surrounded by demented masochists who like asparagus. Cauliflower cheese? Bread-and-butter pudding? Brussels sprouts?

― lint (Jack), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

lint: yes, no, don't know, NUM NUM.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Headcheese

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

How could you not like bread and butter pudding, you just haven't had it made right. Asparagus, Cauliflower cheese and sprouts; all good.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't like anything listed on this page so far. keep up the good work!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

not even bread and butter pudding?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

One last try at the potted meat offal tangent. Roast pok brains in milk gravy:

http://www.pottedmeatmuseum.com/meatpics/003.jpg

Who's hungry for some of that then?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, sorry, they're not roasted, they're boiled. Still delicious?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

don't knock it till you've tried it. I've not had pigs brain but I've had calves brain

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't say I've had the pleasure of that one.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm - what *is* the correct method of stewing buttered white bread in milk?

― lint (Jack), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

well for a start its a stale bread recipe. its all in the balance of the egg vanilla, double cream, sugar and spice

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I very much dislike broad beans. I love anchovies, though.

Okra is unfairly judged, by the way. Of course, it tastes like nowt on its own, but with a nice sauce on it in an Indian restaurant it is tasty as well as being an aphrodisiac. Spaghetti isn't much cop without sauce, either.

When I was a boy we used to have pink custard at school dinners, and that was about the rankest food ever; but it's probably not available these days, so I won't nominate it. My vote goes emphatically to broad beans, which are to food what Norway is to the Eurovision song contest.

― Roderick the Visigoth. (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

any Fear Factor dishes

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 22 December 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey I'm still awake and I haven't found a piece of offal I don't like.

Even liver? *shudders* What about "mountain oysters" (testicles, usually beef)?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I've not had testicles but I'm willing to try. They are just glands after all, and sweetbreads are just great. Liver is a fabulous food.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

well you could just as easily say poo is food otherwise!
-- the surface noise (electricsoun...), December 21st, 2003.

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I agree with surface noise. If we can suggest anything, then it needs to be either on a menu or in a cookbook somewhere. Otherwise, I would of course propose radioactive waste. Or indeed, poo.
-- the music mole (colinsbarro...), December 21st, 2003.

Did you people think I would give up that easily? Baby birds and other animals eat their mommies' regurgitated food -- not poo -- so puke is food, case closed, YU AR ALL PEEPLE WUT HAV SAYM SEKS ORIUNTASHUNS

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

haggis? wait, whatabout lutefisk? it's that big fish that you bury in the ground for a month and then you dig it up and cook it and eat it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stand liver.

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

bobby hill to thread

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Jewelly does have a point.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Lutefisk, originally cod caught in the cold waters off
northern Norway, is dry-preserved in rock-hard slabs called
stock fish. To be table ready requires soaking in water, then
lye (lute), then more water. Lazarus-like, one pound of dried cod balloons to eight pounds
for the table. Beware – along the way the smell may offend. Cooked correctly, it is soft and
flaky; over cooked it quickly gels. Much of todayÕs lutefisk is really "ling," a cousin of the
cod. Ling processes easier and produces a whiter meat which Americans prefer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Lye!!! do you know what lye is? it's deadly poison!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Lutefisk! Ha! That's probably what Jesus used to feed all those people that one time when everyone thought there wasn't enough food, that tricky bastard, thanks Scott, I'm off to dismantle Christianity.

― jewelly (jewelly), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand why brussel spouts are so disliked.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

baby bio. it's plant food - says so on the bottle on my desk. never eaten it. still reckon none of us would like it, though. offal is brilliant in all its varied glory. even tripe is actually okay. never thought i'd like it but the turkish make a mean soup out of it, i have recently discovered. wouldn't go nuts about it, however. brussels sprouts are also fabulous.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, cuspidorian, I like brussel sprouts too. They're bonsai cabbages and they fascinate me.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://rics.ucdavis.edu/postharvest2/Ipm/img013lg.gif

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

they look like they will hatch and Critters or the Ernest Scared Stupid monsters will come out.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.scooteraway.com/img/kensprout.jpg

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose I'm surrounded by demented masochists who like asparagus. Cauliflower cheese? Bread-and-butter pudding? Brussels sprouts?

num num! maybe you don't know how to cook them? The asparagus and sprouts need to be verrry lightly steamed & served with a little lemon or lime juice; the cauliflower cheese grilled on top so the sauce golden, and more cheese-like than floury; bread and butter pudding needs good stale bread and lots of nutmeg & currants, so it's like a french toast trifle!

Hmm...what about marrow? i made one stuffed the other night (it just turned up in the garden...i swear that thing was a wee zuchinni just a day before!) and while it wasn't unpleasant, it was just completely bland and the texture disappointing.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, marrow lover here.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

how do i make it taste...well, like something? cooking tips pls!

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Headcheese

I haven't tried this, but I think it's just meat in aspic. I'd try it once.

Ed and other liver-lovers: have you tried scrapple? That stuff is nasty.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

scrapple is fucking great!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

(btw, yes i am aware of the "!!" irony there, but it was a point which needed to be hammered home.)

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Jess: There is a reason that you can't spell "scrapple" without "crap."

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

scrapple is fucking great!!

you can take the boy out of pennsylvania...

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't spell it without "apple" either, but that doesn't mean it tastes like them. :P

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

you like scrapple cuz yr from pennsylvania

everyone i've ever met from pa likes scrapple

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

and they're all mental!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

scrapple is a big great gray squishy square lump of love.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

much like myself.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I love cauliflower (without the cheese, though), brussels sprouts (Chris P converted me), and onions. People who think they don't like anchovies usually wolf down Caesar salad, which is laughable to me because hello, one of the ingredients to the Caesar salad dressing is anchovies! Um, I would seriously doubt that anyone likes the cloyingly oversweet, mass-produced fruitcake that's made from that neon-colored candied fruit. Homemade fruitcake, on the other hand, is something to be joyful over.

(If someone does like the mass-produced fruitcake, though, I'd be surprised and enlightened.)

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

*waves hi to jewelly*

― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't please all of the people all of the time.

similarly, you can't displease all of the people all of the time.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

petra jane, I suck the marrow out of veal shanks when having osso bucco:

http://www.abc.net.au/gippsland/stories/s691073.htm

Tasteless marrow isn't a problem for stews such as this, which are heavily seasoned.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

marrow is really good for you. but you all probably knew that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I suck the marrow out of veal shanks

oh, i meant the vegetable. not the nerve tissue.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom used to make tripe soup, korean style when i was a kid. at our house, we called it "chewy-tube soup" and i loved it until i found out what it was.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two words: tamarillos - why??!

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

'i loved it until i found out what it was'

That is just madness

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 December 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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