What's the food you find to be the worst thing you ever ate?
ie. Improperly prepared borsht.

120 responses total.

Animal flesh.

spinach.

Sweetbreads.  Does everyone know what they are?  I loved the taste until
someone told me.

 I have heard of what they are, and no, I never have tried them and 
probably will not. Tripe is something else that I would not eat on a 
bet.

Re #3: I find them quite disgusting, but edible.

Sauerkraut will be served daily in hell.

I'll eat that if it's served with grilled Bratwurst.

I married Luann because both of us hate mushrooms.  It's hereditary,
because Aaron hates 'em too.

Sweetbreads is either calf brains or pancreas. Xochimilco makes a wonderful
menudo, which is tripe soup.
You'd never know you were eating something disgusting:)

I, too, have eaten tripe. It sounds bad, but tastes good.  As for sauer-
kraut, all I can say is that if there were no sauerkraut, life would
not be worth living.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned okra.

Lima beans.  <blech>

  I like Reuben sandwiches, a lot, and to eliminate sauerkraut would 
be a sin against mankind. 

 sauerkraut by itself, well now that is another matter entirely.

how abour wax beans? I haven't met anyone who likes them

What the hel is a wax bean anyway?

Oh, no, don't dump on okra.  What would become of gumbo?  I mean you
could make the deep rich roux, mortgage your firstborn for a pound of
fresh jumbo shrimp, and prepare it while listening to authentic zydeco,
but without okra you're plain fakin' it.  

I get suspicious of foods that don't change flavor when they go bad.
Sauerkraut actually gets better.  I rest my case.

okra oozes slime for chrissakes

I like sauerkraut and lima beans (though not at the same meal).

Foods I find particularly disgusting are potato salad, Harvard beets,
and just about anything with olives in it (most especially green
olives -- el yucco supremo).

Re #14 -- what kind of potato salad?  I dislike any form of beets, myself;
someone brought us some pickled beets as part of a postpartum meal in 1990
and we were relieved to discover that young Jonathan actually liked them.
(It seemed crass to just throw the stuff out)

To me there's only one kind of potato salad -- YUCKY potato salad!

Actually, a consequence of my lifelong avoidance of potato salad
is that I am incognizant of the subtle distinctions between varieties
of the aformentioned dish.

I like plain boiled beets served hot, but pickled and most especially
Harvard beets are anethema.

 Obviously, remmers has sampled none of my mother`s potato salad, 
which is tres excellent. If posted her recipe, I'd be fingerless
to say the least... 

 wax beans are the yellow version of green beans. in addition to the
yellow color, the emit a foul, acrid odor that can be smelled for 
at least 15 miles when cooked.

 Pickled beets are OK, but Harvard beets are terrible. 

 Olives, both black and green are wonderful, and I have been known to
consume several hundred on selected occaisions.
especially on Pizza. (hold the anchovies)

Au contraire, my distinguished colleague -- anchovies are excellent.

re #15:  I, too, dislike olives, but didn't have the guts to admit it
first.  :)

Re #7:  Can't be completely heredity, most of the rest of the Farmer clan
loves mushrooms.

Don't you just love submission?

flame away:
cheesecake

The list of foods I hate is rather long.  Here's a few brief
highlights:
 - mushrooms
 - shellfish, any kind
 - fish in general, most kinds
 - brussels sprouts
 - okra (which is indeed slimily gross!)
 - saurkraut (my mother forced me to eat it as a child, because of
   its supposed high levels of vitamin c.  What was wrong with vitamin
   pills, anyway?
 - mayonnaisse.  I don't mind eggs, I don't mind oil, but mix 'em 
   together and add vinegar, and I get all grossed out.
 - vinegar.  (I substitute lemon juice when I deign to make salad dressing.)
 - A lot of other vegetables.  Mostly dislike, rather than hate.  Was
   forced to eat many many yucky vegetables as a child, and now I make
   up for it by avoiding most green things unless they are salad type
   vegetables (peppers, cukes, lettuce, etc...).

Whew!  This list is getting long.  I'll never forget the time I was 
invited to dinner in London (England) and my hostess asked me if I had
any particular foods I didn't like.  Not wanting to be burdensome with
my long list, I only mentioned hating fish.  Needless to say, I was
served a mushroom souffle for dinner.  Fortunately, the bread was good.

There's cold mayonnaise-y potato salad and there's "German" potato salad,
Bratkartoffeln, vinegar-and-bacon-flavored and best when hot.  Dave detests
the first and loves the second.

remmers even didn't like *my* potato salad, a recipe i adore.
o well.  different strokes for different folks.

The Souble meaning in that sentence is quite perverted.
(Opps, I meant 'Double')

[especially in the context of potato salad...]

I once carried on a !write session on mnet with a person who
professed to be calling from Scotland.  I took him at his word,
just for the fun of it.  I know, it was probably some local
twerp having pseudo fun.  Anyway, he wanted to know why there
wasn't more of a Scots "presence" in the states, and I told him,
in all seriousness, that it's because their food is so awful.
What do most Americans know or care about the Italians and
the Chinese?  Nothing but their food.  But the food takes both
of those nationalities an awfully long way here.  With unfortunate
folks like Scots and the Germans, whose favorite national dishes
are deemed inedible at best, and horrifying at worst, by the rest
of the world, there's nothing for them to offer.

The "good" ones are Chinese, Italian, Mexian, Indian, Thai, French,
and relative newcomers like the Japanese and the Koreans.  Who am
I missing?

The bad ones are most UK and northern European, most slavic food
except for Russian (which is good but for some reason never
caught on), most African.  Who else?

<valerie perplexedly tries to locate a perverted double meaning in response 26>

Re 28: Ethiopian food is *wonderful*!!!

Eating with your hands is certainly cooler than having to use silverware.
But I guess you can't call it 'silverware' anymore since it's rarely made
of silver.

"breadware"?

That only works if it's made out of bread.  And breadware don't work to well,
unless it's the plate.

I have a friend who's half Scots, half Chinese.  Interesting combination,
food and ethnically.  There are plenty of Chinese dishes he's had that
I won't eat, such as jellyfish, but at least we agree about Haggis.  He
says that the only way even the Scots will touch it is if they first
pour half a bottle of scotch over it, then pour the rest down their throats.

Booze and Stomach, sounds great to me.

re #28:  Slavic food is bad?  Bite your tongue!  Being a
Slovak-American I may be biased, but Eastern European food can be very
good.

i second *that* motion!

Yes!  Until you've been blinied (or blintzed) you haven't lived!

I see no motions on the floor.  What are you talking about, seconding a 
motion.  There was none.

i meant that i agree with what danr said: Slavic food can be wonderful!!!

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