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Are there any types of food which you absolutely love which all your friends/family/acquaintances LOATHE?

― MarkH, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For me it's Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies. I adore them, yet I've lost count of the number of people who say "Eurgh! It's like DOGFOOD!"

― MarkH, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um, I fear this thread may have been designed for me. Offal, spam, eels, you name it - I love it.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Pete is just SHOWING OFF. I told my mum that Pete claimed it was a family Valentine tradition round Baran Towers to eat stuffed heart on Valentine's Day and she said 'oh my God are they cannibals', it not even crossing her mind that he meant animal heart as round Hamilton Towers we feed these to cats not humans. I put her straight but it just shows what she thinks of Pete.

My only one is peanut butter but that's not very weird really.

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my father likes eating peanut butter and apricot jam on the same slice of bread. The rest of us just can't see the appeal.

― MarkH, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uni (sea urchin). I love it.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmmmm spam. Yesterday in TSTUBY (the shop that used to be yellow) BING (but is now green) I found PICKLED COCKLES AND PICKLED MUSSELS. They looked gross. And in Woolworths I am pretty sure I saw Stilton in a jar ie YOGURT JAR. Blurgh. It is fun going to supermarkets with RickyT as he can usually be found gazing over racks of different types of olive oils and VINAIGRES ect whereas I am fondling all the different types of processed cheese in awe at their strange and unnatural ways.

― Sarah, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mustard mayonnaise is most num num yet Starry refuses to even acknowledge its existence.

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lordy, don't even start with my pickle fetish. And Whelks, Whelks - the snails of the sea. Let me count the ways I love thee.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IT IS TOO EVIL TO EXIST!!!!!

― Sarah, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Go on then Pete, please enumerate the ways in which you love whelks.

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

gingerbread with saltless butter and bovril!! i invented this peerless tidbit aged eight and so far have been told i can keep it thank you!!

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mustard mayonnaise is soooo nice with a sausage sandwich.

The bloke in the new deli in Walthamstow sells the ponciest processed cheese product in the world, Pecorino spread. num num.

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love them straight, as I get them from the fish man. I love them in the pub with a pickled egg and a pint of Carlsberg in my Dad's local. I love them as part of a seafood medley which my mum would do as a lunchtime treat - especially as it reminds me that I was not allowed to eat them until I was fourteen and my jaw was deemed sufficiently tough to chew them. I love to cut them up, add pepper and put them into a heavily buttered sandwich, and I love them softly sauteed in garlic butter (though no too much as the heat makes them stringy).

That's five so far.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See, Sarah! I didn't invent the concept just to torture you with it. Other people like it too.

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your jaw was too weak to chew? Ha ha ha. That is very funny. As is 'seafood medley', my mum never called anything she made a medley.

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

RickyT I believe you have posted under false names. It is too gross to exist. And now let's forget it exists as it is lunchtime! Mmmmm now I want some gingerbread. Are there any nice BAKERS round Whitehall I wondah?! Mark S do you deliver??

― Sarah, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seafood medley sounds like something you might get in a Harvester.

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me? Post under false names? Nevah! Check the records, check the IP records.

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought medleys were something to do with jive bunny. however- whelks, cockles and all other alien sea scran are ACE. like disgusting fishy chewing gum yumyumyum. i draw the line at Tripe boiled in milk. Bleurgh.

― misterjones, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, did your mum call it a melange then or something equally poncey?

Sarah, tis true, mustard mayonnaise does exist, I usually mix it up myself using coarse grain dijon mustard, however there is a horrid processed version of it available in squeezy tubes called Dijonnnaise DO YOU SEE???????

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We were the kind of family that went to proto-harvesters Toby Inns. When you say mustard mayonaise do you mean Dijonaise by Hellmans...?

It was the considered opinion of my parents that whelks, for being quite tough and large, were grown up food.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes i deliver, but only when i haf actually made gingerbread, which = not this weekend as last time i did — december? — i broke my electric whisk on a pebble of rock-hard brown sugar

today you will have to have boughten which is not as good obv

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You may see Cabbage, but where you see this 'mustard mayonnaise' (ha!) my eyes see an empty shelf, with potential to be filled with ooh I dunno... MOCK DUCK!!! Now, mock duck is SUPREMELY yum.

― Sarah, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ALIEN SEA SCRAN! misterjones your brand-name has made our fortune wiv ver kids!!

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hellman's Dijonnaise is not very nice, but it is undoubtedly a variant of mustard mayonnaise. It's much nicer when concocted at home using half-decent mayo and Colmans English mustard. Combined with proper ham and crusty white bread it gives you a very fine sarnie indeed.

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nobody in my family likes olives. And very few people I know like anchovies. Was there a giant pizza evil-overlord alien invasion at some time that put all these people off, as they are natch YUM. Most people are aware of my madness for the cinema nachos.

It's when you find people who don't like the MOST delicious things. I know people who profess not to like: chocolate, mushrooms, onions. Now that would be a great pizza.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anchovies are fine. What's their problem?

My mum did not give any of her concoctions daft Harvesteresque names as she is a very Classy Lady. I am baffled by Pete's mum's logic though - cos whelks are large they are for grown ups? Did she only feed Young Pete on small foods e.g. peas and rice? Eh? It all sounds ridiculous to me. Mustard mayo sounds OK though I cannot think of a single thing I would use it on (mayo on sossidge sarnie surely = fattiness overload?).

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but Emma, the tartness of the mustard cuts through the fattiness of the mayonnaise/sossidge combo nicely.

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The whelk is best put in the mouth whole. The whelk is however very large and may take about a minute to chew. If they came in KP peanut style packaging I am sure that they would say "not suitable for children under 14".

Oh - Lift Lemon Tea powder either straight from the jar or sprinkled on Ice Cream. I have been banned from this though because it makes me hyperactive.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another example: pork scratchings! Not the mingey KP ones, but the really big ones which are sold in transparent bags!

― MarkH, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No one I know seems to share my enthusiasm for halva. Or uncooked egg noodles.

― alix, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One of my esteemed colleagues has brought a delightful lardy cake to the office today, following a visit to the Westcountry. It seems to divide opinion sharply: I love it but there seem to be many here who find the concept of a very sweet cake steeped in lard somehow distressing. Weirdos.

― Tim, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it a well-known factoid that at the age of 14 your mouth suddenly gets bigger then Pete? And I am still not convinced about mustard mayo, I generally use the tang mustard to get through fatty food and fear that when diluted by goopy mayo its powers would be diminished.

Anyway you have to have brown sauce on sausage sarnies. Is there such thing as brown sauce mayo?

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

HA, once again i performed the sunday morning sacrilege that is mixing brown and red sauce in my fried egg sandwich. SLURP! or was it saturday? What a nice w/e it was.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even I am not sure what exactly I meant by the tang mustard. The Wu Tang mustard? Oh well.

Lardy cake. Eww. You people sicken me.

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe you should get a job with Heinz, Alan? There may be a market for it. Thousand Island Dressing is just salad cream and ketchup mixed together, after all.

― MarkH, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lardy cake = num num num and something I can eat now I'm a carnivore again mwah ha ha ha

Halva is lovely Alix, you are not alone, especially the pistachio laden stuff, curiously though, not the chocolate which is nasty.

My flatmate has started mixing brown sauce and mayo together, maybe it should be called Thousand swamp dressing? Mind you he is the bloke that the other day cooked a dinner of broken up hash browns, chopped veggie sausages and beans mushed together in a wok and fried, the animal.

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Careful we are getting near the evil of stripy sauces here - those who fought in the peanut butter & chocolate spread wars will never forget.

I think my Mum's reasoning was similar to the "No Coffee before you at fifteen rule". Pointless, based on adult prejudice and completely correct - if I had eaten them befor ethamay have rejected their subtle fishy chewiness. cf Olives as food for adults.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thousand Island also has little crunchy bit in, tho. These are the eyes of potatoes.

Oh oh I forgot my othah gourmet invention: Three Eye Salad (eg potato, sheep, bulls).

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you at 15 rule, though? And is your mum one of the Surf Elves mentioned in the Silmarillion?

― mark s, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, how do you feel about stripey toothpaste?

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete are you deliberately making your poor mum out to be a mentalist?

On the sauce front it came to my attention yesterday that we have no sauce of either the brown or the red persuasion in our useless flat. I hadn't noticed before then due to insane Nu Year Dieting insanity, however yesterday I made myself 2 bacon and fried egg McEmmaMuffins and had to do without sauce. Mind you I would have found myself in a sauce quandary as I would have had to break either my bacon+red sauce or my egg+brown sauce and never the twain shall meet rule.

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fried eggs on toast + sweet chilli sauce and chopped coriander = wowsa

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is that what you young folk call 'fusion cooking'?

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

young folks?? awww thanks Emma that's so nice.

I suppose it is, but they do fried eggs with chilli sauce in the far east, I just like a bit of toast too. num num

― chris, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did indeed rule at 15 - as a few bus shelters in my area would still testify if the kids who ruled after me had not thought it good to set fire to the previously thought inflammable Adshel hoardings.

I like stripey toothpaste. Each colour has a different task.

You want sauce Cully, you buy sauce. (Odd fact that sauce = communal in our house, mayonaise does not).

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cully!?

― RickyT, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

EmmaMuffins!?

― MarkH, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Cully some kind of Borehamwood slang, Pete? And McEmmaMuffins are clearly my version of the classic McMuffin structure only without cheese and about 400 times nicer.

And I don't know where this non-communal mayo thing comes from. I haven't had mayo at home in AGES. We do have communal mozzarella though, innit?

― Emma, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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Pumpernickel is black horrid German bread isn't it?

Soy milk is horrible and it is me drinking it since my New Year decision to have less milk to reduce snot production.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark H refers to Pumpernickel methinks, ok with hummous if toasted, otherwise = chewy nonsense

― chris, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

awww poor Emma! even the sweetened kind? even the mmmmmmm banana flavour?

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want some french toast!

― alix, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Katie you are the only person to take pity on my self-inflicted suffering. Having read the ingredients on the soy milk carton I have less than no desire to drink it neat even if it is banana flavoured.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

soya substitute for dairy milk is ok in tea, but otherwise the drink of satan. even in tea it is grim if used too liberally.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm... filtered hulled soya beans.... :) honestly the flavoured ones are OK. if you're used to the taste of milk it does take a little time for your tastebuds to readjust (and the gag reflex to go away, hehheh) but then again, if you've been drinking it for nearly 3 months now and it still hasn't worked... so *ahem* has your snot production reduced?

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that question for Emma, obv. RickyT;s snot production = in full flow :)

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I don't gag any more thank god. I only put it on my muesli and just enough to dampen it - I haven't tried it in tea since the first time when it was a total gag-o-rama. I reckon snot production has reduced though my mates do not believe me and have even suggested that if I am serious about snot reduction I would be better off giving up the Marlboro lights. Humph.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also, milk has got pus in it. there are apparently acceptable levels of pus in milk... not that i'm trying to put anyone off but that ALONE is enough reason for me to not drink it.

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pus, pus, glorious pus
There's no snack that's quicker and less filled with fuss
So let us all squeeze
With consumate ease
Until we make zit cheese and glor-i-ous pus

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have to live with this.... this..... creature. God help me.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pus in milk vs mouse shit in bread, you pays yer money etc

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are you accusing me of having mouse droppingsy bread Mr. T?

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes i am

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Katie, you don't eat that horrible Bergen bread do you? the rubber stuff with the mouse shit in it? for shame!

― chris, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are you sure they're not just little seeds?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i believe Mr T is referring to WHOLEMEAL bread. as we do not and have never had Mice. WHOLEMEAL bread is another thing i often eat with my tahini and marmite.

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If it's Bergen then it's definitely mouse shit, that stuff makes the worst toast I've ever had.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you (Mr T and Ms G) go through this every time food is mentioned/imagined/in view? mealtimes must just fly by :-)

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there is an acceptable level of contamination of grain by mouseshit => most bread prolly contains a bit of mouseshit.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Considering I eat pigs blood (in pudding form) for breakfast about every second day, I'm not going to worry about eating mouse shit.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Black pudding? I miss that from my student days in Bristol, when I would regularly eat it for breakfast. Beautiful Badock Hall!

― MarkH, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey is black pudding rare in Britain? My brother asked me to bring him some last year when I was coming over. Possibly he wanted a particular type though. I remember the airport person doing the whole "has anyone asked you to bring anything in your bag", and I was like "yeah my bro wanted some black pudding". ha ha ha.

Some English comedian had a sketch about how funny it is that people eat pudding, and it was such a piece of shit. Whatever about a bad film or book or something, a bad comedian really makes me want to get the knives out.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Black pudding is not rare, no. Decent white pudding is hard to get hold of, though. I brought a stack of that back last time I was in Dublin. Then I SCOFFED THE LOT.

― Tim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Should have said is black or white pudding rare? White also is good.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shaws or Clonakilty are the best, generally. But it's all good.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am faced with the sudden and rather startling realisation that I have no idea what white pudding is made of. What is white pudding made of? Is it also blood? Key fact: it is tasty.

― Tim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always presumed blood. Is it something to do with how much they thicken the blood? That's just a rough guess.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe white pudding is made from white blood cells and black pudding from, er, black blood cells?

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pus!!

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there was a most excellent clip of a woman making blood pudding on "when TV chefdom goes remarkably wrong" or somesuch the other day. TV chef was watching 87-year old woman pouring lots of blood into a bowl and mixing it with bread, when he suddenly looked all green about the gills and had to rush out... cut to old woman's face looking incredibly smug... hehehh

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can't find what's in it but here's how to cook it, from Ronan's source I believe.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

apparently you should think black pudding with more oats and less blood, hope this helps.

― chris, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ok in all my shelf-full of cook books from eliza acton to nigella lawson, from the good housekeeping children's cookbook to advanced practical cookery, NO ONE mentions black pudding or blood sausage — except elizabeth david who (a) of course inists that french is better (english bp = bland yes yes elizabeth) and, more interestingly, (b) assumes you are buying it from a horny french peasant rather than making it yrself

actually i don't believe it's not in mrs beeton, it's just not known as black pudding (the index entry under "blood" is of course "blood, spitting of": mrs beeton roXoR!!)

― mark s, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So *this* is where you characters have been posting all day. We have theories in America about you UK people, you know, you and your clique. Why not just worship me instead?

What I like that others loathe...hm. Honestly don't have an answer, tuna salad might be the nearest candidate, but I'm sure some friends of mine enjoy that.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pumpernickel is yummy.

― rosemary, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Canned tuna! Dis-gus-ting!

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a fantastic blood sausage chorizo from Toledo which has been spitting up on all my home made pizza's recently.

I also have half hundredweight of mozerrella if anyone wants it.

― Pete, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not at all, the good Spanish and French brands are delicious and worth paying the extra, the difference between them and John Wests for example is large in both taste and texture.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But tuna sandwiches are the best sandwiches in the world! And salad Nicoise, one of the best salads in the world as well. Where would they be without tinned tuna?

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we'd be in a kerfuffle, that's what.

mmmmm, tuna Nicoise mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

― chris, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Look, I blame the chemo. Anything really smelly or rich used to set me off, hence I was a good vegetable-eater. But canned tuna mings. I was so put off by the canned variant that the only tuna I touched for ages came in sushi form. Had to work up to cooked tuna of any kind, but now I can handle steak tuna if some of it is still very pink.

― suzy, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SOME PEOPLE THINK I AM GROSS FOR LIKIN' CREAM CHEESE ON MUH PIZZA!

― MANDEE, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

the worm at the bottom of a mescal tequila bottle with green olives

― strange_girl243, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

creem cheeze on pizza sounds GROUSE.

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not gross

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(non-antipodeans - see recent slang thread)

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

revive!

a colleague has just returned from South Africa laden with billtong. Opinions are very much divided. I actually quite like it, tho some ppl are going YEEEEUUURGH. Or worse.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 November 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

generally most food falls into the category of disgusting for. however, the food i like is incredibly delicious. all of it.

disclaimer - i dont need to have eaten,smelled, seen, or even heard of a foodstuff to have the right to declare it 'disgusting'. also, my decision is final, for no reason whatsoever. ask ed and suzy (I am their nemesis) for more details.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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