The picky eater test......
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Hard to believe that doggie adobo didn't make the cut.....
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8 for me. California, you can keep your Avocados
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+1 on balut. San Miguel helped wash down the feathers. Also ate monkey during jungle survival training. Boot leather would have been more tender.Integrated Amp: Marantz PM-10
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Oh, man. Avocados are like bacon to me. Love 'em!
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Man, how do some of you dudes go out to eat in a group or at someones house ? Does mommy still cut the crust off your bread ?
Picky picky
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White chocolate is garbage.
Besides that one, there are 2 or 3 others that I could go without.Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!! -
When I said 1, it means that if a friend ask me over for dinner, the only this I would turn down would be the liver.
There are items that I don’t buy or eat due to being in a can, or just not on my mind to eat
Canned tuna...if I’m out camping etc
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2 - raw fish & tofu. Don't seem to be many offal fans here. I was brought up eating calve's liver and onions, stuffed lambs hearts and pig's kidneys (kidneys as a part of breakfast or a mixed grill). Tripe I left to the heathens in the north of England. My mother's rendition of liver was, however, of the flour dredged boot leather kind, and it was only when I had liver in a French restaurant that I realized how delicious and melt in your mouth it could be, so I learnt how to cook it like that.
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2 for me coffee and escargot, the rest is edible as far as I'm concerned. Smoked oysters on a Ritz with a splash of red hot that's some good eating right there.Home Theater
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I can eat mayonnaise as an ingredient in something, but a huge spoonful of it would make me gag. Maybe it's a textural thing. Generally I like my fish cooked (fried catfish sandwich anyone?), but I do like ceviche and will eat sushi. At one point I would have said escargot, but a chef friend shamed me into trying one he had prepared years ago and I ended up eating them like popcorn - they're good if you like shellfish and can get past the snail thing. It's getting past the snail thing...Polk Audio first generation RTA-12s; 12 inch Polk Stands; DHS Speaker Service upgraded crossovers w/ Sonicap/Mills; the "westmassguy anti-lobing mod" (hyperdamped outer drivers/mirror imaged); tweeter anti-diffraction mod; Cardas binding posts; Neotech UPOCC internal wire; foam-lined inner driver baskets; xschop phase plugs; deleted fuses; Hurricane nuts; Sonic Barrier; Dynamat XtremeAyre K-5xeMP preamplifierCambridge Audio 840C CD player; Herbie's Audio Lab Super Black Hole CD MatD-Sonic Custom Audio M3a-600M monoblock amplifiersNAD 4155 FM/AM tunerSilnote Audio Morpheus Reference II Series II balanced interconnects; Virtue Audio single-ended interconnectsKimber 12TC speaker cable w/Furez connectors; VH Audio Flavor 4 power cables w/Furutech connectorsHerbie's Audio Lab system isolation: Tenderfeet, Big Fat Dots, Grungebuster Dots, Little Fat GlidersDedicated 20A/10 AWG circuit; Furutech GTX-D (G) outlet; Furutech eTP80; Shunyata Research Venom Defender; Synergistic Research Orange fuses
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I can eat mayonnaise as an ingredient in something, but a huge spoonful of it would make me gag. Maybe it's a textural thing. Generally I like my fish cooked (fried catfish sandwich anyone?), but I do like ceviche and will eat sushi. At one point I would have said escargot, but a chef friend shamed me into trying one he had prepared years ago and I ended up eating them like popcorn - they're good if you like shellfish and can get past the snail thing. It's getting past the snail thing...
There's no getting past the snail thing.Home Theater/2 Channel:
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As far as eating at other people's houses, I listed things I wouldn't eat if I didn't have to. If I was at somebody's house, I could choke down most of my 17 (not including snails, oysters, raw fish, and eggs, along with a few more.)
edit: With a recount, there are ten things I couldn't choke down; eggs, snails, oysters, cucumbers/pickles, raw fish, liver, Brussel sprouts, and raisins. The other seven things I wouldn't eat if I was given a choice, but I would if I had to. -
I score a 0. One of my favorites on the list is escargots. My wife wouldn’t eat them at gunpoint! Let’s add tripe to the list!! Yum! I have tripe whenever I see it on the menu. About 3 months ago, I went out to lunch with my 99 year old aunt,and I ordered the tripe. She saw how much I was enjoying it, and she asked to try some. Afterward,I asked her if she liked it. Her response was,”I tried it”. Lol!See my profile for list of gear.
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I can't wait to eat some of those items. Have not had oysters in awhile. A nice BBQd Portobello, yum!
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3. Liver, cucumbers and beetsGustard X26 Pro DAC
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3. Liver, cucumbers and beets
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I can't wait to eat some of those items. Have not had oysters in awhile. A nice BBQd Portobello, yum!
BBQ followed by Portobello is the craziest thing I have ever heard!? Go back to Canadia!
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Who eats beets? That's like a Yellow jacket. They serve no purpose other than to cause pain and discomfort.
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Who eats beets? That's like a Yellow jacket. They serve no purpose other than to cause pain and discomfort.
Tom
I do, they're healthy for you and make great juices too...but just a warning when you drop the deuce the next morning...."no you're not suffering from internal bleeding"2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
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txcoastal1 wrote: »
For a double whammy eat beets and asparagus. -
txcoastal1 wrote: »
For a double whammy eat beets and asparagus.
You’ll swear you are dying!Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!! -
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There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
I score a 0 too! Surprised actually, as my palate is not super sophisticated. But I've tried a lot of schieze! Almost a waste on the Mrs cooking, as she makes some excellent dishes. Vietnamese dishes are some of the most sophisticated and subtly delicious meals out there!
Traveled a lot, and ate some, well, unusual stuff. Never ate BATS though. But a chicken salad in Japan with raw chicken, steak tartare (liver variation) in Germany, frog eggs in China, and a Mexican dish made from insects, are probably the most extreme.
Oh boy, now just remembering all that, now I have to go back to therapy!
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I score a 0 too! Surprised actually, as my palate is not super sophisticated. But I've tried a lot of schieze! Almost a waste on the Mrs cooking, as she makes some excellent dishes. Vietnamese dishes are some of the most sophisticated and subtly delicious meals out there!
Traveled a lot, and ate some, well, unusual stuff. Never ate BATS though. But a chicken salad in Japan with raw chicken, steak tartare (liver variation) in Germany, frog eggs in China, and a Mexican dish made from insects, are probably the most extreme.
Oh boy, now just remembering all that, now I have to go back to therapy!
Just.... Stop.... Posting.....
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2. snails and liver
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you guys that don't like snails -- have you had 'em?
They are most nommy, but it's mostly the garlic, truth be told
When I was in Israel once, long ago, I was taken to an "Oriental restaurant". Turns out, this is Israeli-speak for Arab food. It was a fantastic meal -- but the best thing were skewered, grilled cubes of meat (for lack of a better word) that were (at least) as rich and flavorful as filet mignon, but far more tender. My host wouldn't tell me what it was until after I tried it. Any one care to guess? (It's nothing too disgusting, but a little off the beaten path, at least for a good ol' boy from Brooklyn Park, MD)
I ate some weird things in Japan, most of which were actually pretty good. One thing that wasn't good was raw octopus. The issue wasn't taste -- it was like eating a hunk of rubber; virtually un-chewable. I also had smoked octopus, which was amazing.
