In reply to Trans_Maro:
Can't agree with that statement. I am a hardcore omnivore but this chain https://www.nativefoods.com/ Is the best fast food I have ever eaten.
My "can't go there" categories are pretty much narrowed down to "offal" and cooked peas.
KyAllroad wrote: Tiger Mom is Filipino. Everything her family eats was a challenge on "Fear Factor" at some point. And yes, I chowed on balut last year as her closest 20 relatives watched to see if I would be squeamish.
My wife is also from there. Have you tried the little dried fish that are the size of silver dollars.
Seriously they smell like dead body's that have been left in a shipping container in the Florida everglades for a month. I will not let her cook them in the house for feet that it will hurt my property values.
BUT they tast fantastic. Weirdest thing I have ever tried.
Them eggs you speak of are just crunchy hard boiled eggs. Every time I see them i think of Forest Gump and his box of chocolates line. I don't really care for them but I have had much worse.
Then there is this stuff we call Rot Chees"
It smells like gym socks after a week of work outs. But it to tastes great.
I like Brussels Sprouts. SWMBO will not let me cook them when she is in the house or expected home in the next few hours.
I often just go out for them. I think my favorite is Brussels Sprouts Tempura at Jinya Ramenbar
In reply to Jumper K. Balls:
Vegan restaurants shouldn't be allowed to use the words "Cheeseburger" and "Meatball sub"
That "stuff" does not taste like meat, don't call it that.
They even list a Reuben sandwich on there??!!? That's borderline criminal..
There's enough tasty, satisfying ways to cook vegetables without trying to make fake meat out of them.
Korean food: All of the fermenty, slimy, sticky, sour things; flavors and textures generally absent from the western diet. I really liked the seafood pancakes, which look like the the ocean is indiscriminately robbed of all of its sea life and dumped into a layer of dough. I loved the baby octopi: They are like seafood gummies!
Speaking of Filipino food, Google Dinuguan... mmmm.
Morbid wrote: Saltine crackers and milk, in a bowl like cereal. It's so yummy, but my dad is the only other person I know who eats it. The husband nearly called it quits the first time I ate it in front of him. Other than that fries and ice cream is about as 'strange' as my food gets.
mixed ? 
Fish head soup is fantastic stuff. The eyeballs have a really weird consistency, but taste pretty good.
I did have a bowl of camel chili once. Once. Pretty sure there was an eyeball in it.
wbjones wrote:Morbid wrote: Saltine crackers and milk, in a bowl like cereal. It's so yummy, but my dad is the only other person I know who eats it. The husband nearly called it quits the first time I ate it in front of him. Other than that fries and ice cream is about as 'strange' as my food gets.mixed ?
Yes. Dip the fries in the ice cream, so good!
Oh, and potatoes. SWMBO could live on potatoes. I don't get it. What a completely worthless "food."
What's the point? To make it edible you load it up with all kinds of things i'd rather just eat by themselves. You like a baked potato slathered in cheese, sour cream, bacon, and chives? That's cool. Just give me a bowl of cheese, sour cream, bacon, and chives. It'll taste better, and be healthier/less calories.
Fries suck. Mashed potatoes suck. Potatoes au gratin sucks. Baked potatoes suck. Potatoes in stew suck.
GOOD roasted potatoes are acceptable and about the only way i'll eat them. But even then, once a year is fine.
Sweet potatoes are a bit better, they actually taste like something, but when people cover them in sugar and marshmallows, WTF are you doing? It's a healthy vegetable, let's not make this dish into a poster child for Wilford Brimley.
Mom used to tell me grandpa liked sardines.
A few years ago we were at what I perceived to be a fairly legit Italian-ish restaurant, so I bit the bullet and got a pepperoni and anchovy pizza. I enjoyed it. SWMBO could not STAND the smell. Especially when I brought the leftovers home and stuck them in the fridge.
Sardines are awesome! Legit health food in a can. Make a nice sandwich with a couple slices of fresh bread, a generous pile of double layer (small, so you won't notice the tails and bones so much) sardines in olive oil, and some mixed greens. MMMMmmmmmmm!
Someone at my work microwaves something for lunch that smells exactly like dead minnows in a cup of water being microwaved. I haven't seen what it actually is, but the smell almost makes me retch every time.
Frog legs, Chicken livers, and beef liver and onion. I'm pretty sure if I brought beef liver in my house, my wife would throw it and me out.
Fish heads fish heads
Roly poly fish heads
fish heads fish heads
eat them up, yum!
--Dr. Demento--
In reply to slowride:
I love me some seafood but the break room in the office is no place to be reheating it.
Swank hates peanut butter AND potatoes? KILL HIM! HE'S A COMMIE! KILL HIM!
Appleseed wrote: Swank hates peanut butter AND potatoes? KILL HIM! HE'S A COMMIE! KILL HIM!
Ever had a banana and mayonnaise sandwich? It's delicious.
Ed Higginbotham wrote: Ever had a banana and mayonnaise sandwich? It's delicious.
I love bananas. I love bread more than is good for me.
I view mayo about on par with peanuts and potatoes, maybe less.
My grandmother made pot cheese and head cheese when the butchered a hog. Acquired taste.
The pot cheese had nothing to do with the hog.
The thing I like that seems to bother a lot of people is beef tongue. My mom used to cook it for us when I was a kid. It was a special treat. We have lot of Latin immigrants where I live so it is easy to find cooked really well at local restaurants and food trucks.
Type Q wrote: The thing I like that seems to bother a lot of people is beef tongue. My mom used to cook it for us when I was a kid. It was a special treat. We have lot of Latin immigrants where I live so it is easy to find cooked really well at local restaurants and food trucks.
I think tongue might just be the best tasting part of the cow.
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