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[Henry Blanco]

i hate fish, and all seafood. This stems from two or three innocuous childhood experiences.

[Todd Gross]

Cold fried chicken is a tricky thing. I didn't used to like it at all, but then someone brought some on a picnic and it was good. It depends on how it's made though, I like cold KFC original, and there's a local place that I like theirs' cold, but most places I don't like as much cold. I think "original recipe" style is better than "crispy" style cold.

I prefer the crispy because of the crunch.

Cold, home-cooked fried chicken is the best

[Henry Blanco]

Isn't fried chicken a food you can cook and leave in a breathable container for a few days before it spoils?

[craggy]

Isn't fried chicken a food you can cook and leave in a breathable container for a few days before it spoils?

can't say I've ever even considered leaving fried chicken for a few days.

[Miqque Loveland]

Never fried that much chicken. Tell ya, the smell of tomato soup is the absolute worst. I had an experience when I was 2 1/2. Got plunked into what nowadays would be a round-the-clock child care center. Nobody bothered to explain this to me. (Lots of myteen/young adult problems stem from either no answers or plain wrong answers. Yes, 2.5, and I could read, thank you, and I do believe a straightforward response to a simple question of "Why are you abandoning me?" deserves a truthful answer.) Anyhow, I must be clear. I already had the tomato allergy, the hugh sensitivity to aroma. When, for dinner the first evening we were served bowls of steaming blood-resembling froth, I did everything I could to both be polite and not puke. I wa punished by being sent to bedwithout supper; and did not receive the single candied orange slice that was dessert. That made me angry. I could be angry at those who served me poisonous gruel and then withheld treats as a punihment. Turns out my mom wa in the hospital having a 9.75-pound benign cyst being removed from the uterus. Bigger than meby near a pound. No wonder everyone was o close-mouthed to the little kid, but I didn't appreciate the treatment. That took years of therapy, so appreciate the story! Amazing what baleful buds grow from small seeds.

Ex-roomie (stillfriend) is a real white-foods person. Milk,cheese, Wonder Bread, pasta - even pale coloured veggies in the pasta. Awesome cook, though.

As a kid I was a keep-food-separate one-at-a-time guy. Still that way a little bit. I tend to savour one dish at a time, but will mix stuff up if indicated.

I must go shopping today, and have not found any good suggestions of phreeky food. C'mon! Ugli fruit over sea cucumbers with arugala and baby corn in Worchestershire sauce with fish roe, all on a bed of room-temperature liver pate/

[craggy]

now, I do like to have a wee bit of a taste of everything all at once. it's just i like to be the one to decide how mushed up everything gets. i might, for example, feel that with this fork-full i'd like more dry potato, as opposed to a bit thats been sat in gravy for the past few minutes soaking up the gravy-y goodness. it's like sauce. i'll tend to put sauce in a big dollop at the side of a plate, and dip accordingly. don't know how these people who just splosh it all over the plate can cope.

[brucegray666]

Prawns - I hate their texture and the fact they look like alien parasites.

[Miqque Loveland]

Here's how I got past Thanksgiving snackery. Make a Thanksgiving dinner sandwich. Start with bread. Apply gravy. Layer sliced turkey, sliced cold dressing, cranberry sauce, and a bit of sweet potato. Eat in short order (as opposed to the formal dinner).

Food going off puts me right off. My friendthe world-traveller will consume milk I would have removed from the premesis with tongs and a face mask. Another will trim off eyes and sprouts from a potato, so long as it has not gone soft. I'd do more fresh if I actually ate it,not waiting a day or three and then snarfing greedily for a day or two. It's the grizzley bear / sasquatch genes. Oddly, what I need to do is eat more, like adding oatmeal as a breakfast. I just can't face food when I wake up - which leads to a slower metabolism and lots of other stuff. But,really.Yuch.

I bet Will wakes up starving.

[craggy]

Prawns - I hate their texture and the fact they look like alien parasites.

youtube failed at providing me a suitable district 9 clip. imagine your own.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Prawns - I hate their texture and the fact they look like alien parasites.

If only fennel looked like an alien parasite so it had at least one redeeming value. Man, but I do loathe fennel.

[Todd Gross]

youtube failed at providing me a suitable district 9 clip. imagine your own.

Craggy, you got...

[njerry]

I'm willing to try almost anything once. Except for thousand-year-old eggs (a Chinese dish involving preserved duck eggs that are really only about 100 days old, but still....); I can't get past how they look.

I have an allergy to seared tuna, which is really weird. I can eat raw tuna sushi, and I can eat tuna fish salad, but apparently searing a piece of tuna releases a histamine that actually causes me to pass out. Which is really sad, because I love seared Ahi tuna, and am always tempted to order it as an appetizer despite knowing what will happen.

[garjones]

I'm willing to try almost anything once. Except for thousand-year-old eggs (a Chinese dish involving preserved duck eggs that are really only about 100 days old, but still....); I can't get past how they look.

They call it Century Egg here, I haven't tried it yet. I probably would if offered but they do look disgusting.

[brucegray666]

I dislike the way leeks squeak against my teeth when I bite into them. The noise cuts right through me.

[garjones]

I dislike the way leeks squeak against my teeth when I bite into them. The noise cuts right through me.

Leeks are too good for the likes of you, go chew on a thistle.

[Todd Gross]

I'm willing to try almost anything once. Except for thousand-year-old eggs (a Chinese dish involving preserved duck eggs that are really only about 100 days old, but still....); I can't get past how they look.

I haven't had one of those since I was in elementary school.

[Sanjay]

I fucking hate aubergines/eggplant, the slimy bastards!

[Alan Taylor]

I can't eat bananas or anything banana flavoured, due to numerous trips to the doctor where they would give me a banana-flavoured nasal anisthetic spray then shove an endoscope down my nose.

The only other thing, is that I don't like non-melted cheese (with a few exceptions, mozzarella type stuff), the weird chalky texture just doesn't sit with me.

Other than that I'll eat anything, even warmed up lettuce! Must admit I do like braised baby gem lettuce.

[Ogul]

Oh, I forgot, I'm also not a fan of mint, since so many dental products use mint. I can still eat some minty foods, but I tend to avoid them.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

I fucking hate aubergines/eggplant, the slimy bastards!

Oh hell yeah, I hate those damn things too! They're tolerable when you blend them with stuff like tomatoes, garlic and tahini, though.

Oh, I forgot, I'm also not a fan of mint, since so many dental products use mint. I can still eat some minty foods, but I tend to avoid them.

The mint/chocolate combination is the worst.