Oh no, I can't eat that.

[Carl East]

Recently, my brother and his girlfriend moved into my home, along with their six year old daughter. Now until they turned up, the food in my house was a bit of everything, in fact there's almost nothing I don't like. That has now changed, for their daughter doesn't seem to like anything.

It's taken a week or two to learn just what she will and will not eat, I've never known anyone as fussy as this child, where food is concerned.

Anyway, it made me wonder, how many of you had something they hated to see on their dinner plates as a child. Personally, the only thing I can remember hating as a child were onions in gravey. The reason might seem silly now, but as a child I had a vivid imagination. You see I used to think they were worms, and it put me off the rest of my dinner.

Carl.

 

[Juliangel]

I wouldn't eat coconut because I thought it was onions. being from the rural south it could get me hung but I hate fried green tomatoes and collard greens.

 

[CreamyLady]

I didn't eat voluntarily until I was seven years old, so I can sympathize with your niece.

I hated peas. I'll eat them now, because they are good for me, but the sight of peas on my dinner plate would make me sick. Also eggs, canned fruit, hamburger patties (not on a bun, just on the plate), ham, iceberg lettuce, celery -- I was a very picky eater.

I remember being told I couldn't leave the dinner table until everything was finished, and falling asleep there. I was also stubborn.

 

[Bobtoad777]

I never had the opportunity to not eat what was given me. My mother had the rule If you complain you get another scoop full. I remeber my first bout with fiddle heads, I refused and complained quite vehemetly{sp?} about it she keep dumping another Scoop of fiddles heads down until i had 4 plates of fiddlesheads in front of me to eat. After that I never complained I merely swallowed everything that was infront of me that i didnt like.

 

[Purple Haze]

Ther were things I hated as a child that I can eat now, and thanks to my wife, I've learned to try some things that I wouldn't have otherwise. Gravy, mustard, salad dressing, onions, stuffing, and pickles have become part of my regular diet.

These are things I won't ever eat:

Liver: Why the hell do people eat organs, think about this organ's function.

Mayonaisse: It's recipe says it all, take one part eggs, one part grease, add two parts stink. That goes for "Miracle Whip" too.

Raw Tomatoes: Full of seeds and goo.

Picnic Salads: See mayonnaise. I look away as it travels toward a mouth.

Cottage Cheese: Looks like somebody ate it already.

Sauerkraut: Pew. On pizza, really?

Meatloaf: The texture nauseates me.

Lutefisk: I am not alone.

I went inside a meat packing facility once and saw a huge rack of green hotdogs roll into a machine, they were red when they came out. I have a theory that hotdogs and bologna are the same thing, just a different shape. There's your solution to the toxic waste problem, put it in hotdogs, people will eat them no matter what they're made of.

 

[Treat]

The only things I hated as a child and still do to this day are green peas and liver. I can't stand the sight, the smell, or the taste of either one.

 

[CreamyLady]

I had blocked liver from my mind, and other organ meats. I, too, wonder at people eating them.

Keep this up -- it's doing wonders for my diet!

 

[Expertise]

Where were ya' bornnnn BT wherrre werrrre yaaaa boorrrrrnnnnn. Are you forgetting your roots big dog?

Fiddleheads with butter and vinegar and salt and pepper, seved alongside a salmon steak mmmmmmmboy now thats good eatin'!

 

[Cheri]

Lima beans, still don't like them that much but I tolerate them for the children's sake.
Oh yeah, liver and anything in that little bad that comes inside the chicken....being forced to pull that out and carry it to the trash reminds me why I toy with vegetarianism

[Edited by Cheri on 09-27-2000 at 11:37 AM]

 

[Bobtoad777]

Don' worry Expertise, I love them now but it was the first time I had ever eaten them. lightly steamed dipped in melted real butter and vinager with some salt and pepper is the way i eat


[Edited by bobtoad777 on 09-27-2000 at 11:35 AM]

 

[Purple Haze]

Thanks for that, bobturd.

 

[Expertise]

Iused to like fiddleheads until about ten seconds ago

Thanks BobToad....I feel so MUCH fucking better now that I know that. Never tell me about anything involving your gastro-intestinal tract and its functions EVER AGAIN!

 

[CreamyLady]

This thread is a better appetite suppressant than Sparky's Raymond Burr thread yesterday.

Please -- do keep it up.

 

[Bobtoad777]

ROTFLMAO, there i removed it I was getting overzealous in my love for fiddle heads

 

[Purple Haze]

Those of you that joined us late, bobtoad777 described the color of a substance resting in the bottom of his toilet. He has since deleted it. I feel obligated, for the humor of this thread, to.....god, I can't say it.

 

[April]

I was gonna ask what a fiddlehead was, but now I don't really want to know. Geeze, bobtoad, didn't you read the thread on censorship? Yack!!!

 

[Expertise]

Fiddleheads are the shoots of a type of young fern found on riverbanks and other bodies of water 'round these parts. Usually available from May to early June. They are 3"-4" tall green and are formed onto concentric circles at the top (before they unfurl in to a fern and grow taller) that resemble the top of a violin or "fiddle". Quite deliscouse they taste like a milder version of asparagus. Traditionaly served with butter vinegar salt and pepper or hollandaise sauce as a side dish for that other great spring tradition in NB .... Black/Spring Salmon.

 

[Gaucho]

This thread is a better appetite suppressant than Sparky's Raymond Burr thread yesterday.

Please -- do keep it up.

No shit?

 

[Guest]

Dog poop on a cracker, didn't like it as a child, still won't eat it.

Fresh afterbirth, not bad with rice.

Day-old boogers, crispy.

Hog lips sauteed in a little crotch butter, mmm, mmm!

You know Aunt Bea would put a bay leaf in each armpit, that way she always smelled like soup.

 

[April]

Thanks, Exp. I thought that was what they were, but wasn't sure.

I like asparagus. Hate lima beans, and mixed veggies for some reason. I like them seperately. Yes, I'm whacked in the head! Can't stand food covered in sauce or cream, unless it's salsa. I like to see what I'm eating. Chalk it up to mealtimes = battlefield as a kid, and I'll leave it at that.

 

[CreamyLady]

Ha ha, Gaucho, but I feel light as a feather right now; I may not eat until spring, when the fiddleheads --

No, I don't think I'll eat then, either.

 

[Silverlily]

I had major food issues as a child. I wouldn't eat meat, cooked veggies, bologna and hotdogs (they are NOT meat), apple juice, or grape juice. I also remember being buckled into my chair at dinner because I didn't like to eat sitting down.

Now, I still don't like cooked veggies, balogna, or apple or grape juice, but I've gotten better about trying new things. It seems to be somewhat hereditary, my oldest is super picky too. As long as she eats a fairly balanced meal and takes her vitamins, I don't make a big deal out of it. If she doesn't like what we're having, she can always have a sandwich and some carrot sticks. (I do make her make the sandwich herself.)

 

[R Nitelight]

I would eat just about anything as I kid. It was only when I grew up that I became finicky.
Suggestion: cover everything in ketchup and chocolate syrup. By the time the kid figures out what it is, it's already half-gone.

 

[Laurel]

Mayonaisse: It's recipe says it all, take one part eggs, one part grease, add two parts stink. That goes for "Miracle Whip" too.

I'm with ya brotha...I HATE that slimy, smelly goo. Blech

I went inside a meat packing facility once and saw a huge rack of green hotdogs roll into a machine, they were red when they came out. I have a theory that hotdogs and bologna are the same thing, just a different shape. There's your solution to the toxic waste problem, put it in hotdogs, people will eat them no matter what they're made of.

Speaking of which, Soylent Green was on cable last night. What a disappointing ending! And can Charlton Heston overact!

I'm NOT a picky eater. No mayo, no cooked mushrooms, and that's about it.

 

[Silverlily]

Oh gack, R Nitelight! CL, I think I'm going to join you on that diet.