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Post by chariset on Dec 15, 2010 16:30:15 GMT
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Post by Jacksgirl on Dec 15, 2010 21:05:43 GMT
Very intersting i must say i'm a fussy eater lol.Isn't it funny with kids espically they don't like a certain food but when it comes to having meal with that food in it they like it&i'm like  lol(i work in childcare so i see it at times) But having said that i'm like to.....it's strange how the mind/taste buds works |
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 15, 2010 21:56:51 GMT
It's partly the eye - I guess it's hard to make a connection between a big round shiny tomato and the sauce on pizza, especially when you can hardly see the sauce with all the other stuff loaded on top as well.
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Post by eshalda on Dec 15, 2010 22:58:11 GMT
I eat anything and everything and have done from an early age. I am willing to give everything a go. My gran was particularly fond of the tripe and offal shop, hence meals of tripe, cows heel and udder. My son had one dislike as he was growing up, and that was peas. I guess if we shut our eyes to eat we would all like a lot more things
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Post by xjsarah on Dec 15, 2010 23:55:56 GMT
Good article.  I really must try to read more of Mindy's writing. I'm the same as Izzy; I can't stand cheese, but I love pizza. It's the only time I'll touch cheese. I suppose the other flavours camouflage it enough for me to be able to manage it. All I know is that pizza is yummy!  ;D |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 16, 2010 0:25:33 GMT
I'll eat almost anything - the other day I cooked pig's trotters for dinner and they were nommy - but I draw the line at tomatoes. Tomato sauce is fine, and ketchup is fine, but tomatoes  They are like big gigantic squishy bugs, with shiny shells and squidgy guts! |
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Post by From Afar on Dec 16, 2010 13:24:50 GMT
tomatoes They are like big gigantic squishy bugs, with shiny shells and squidgy guts! What a marvellous description of a tomato! ;D |
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 16, 2010 15:50:36 GMT
*feels this might be the wrong time to mention that the Daisy Garden of Goodness produces tomatoes, amongst other things, in the summer ;D*
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Post by chariset on Dec 16, 2010 16:02:02 GMT
I love fresh tomatoes, and I like tomato pastes and sauces, but I don't like stewed tomatoes.
A cool tomato on a hot day can be a wonderful thing.
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 16, 2010 16:02:27 GMT
I tried to grow tomatoes in the summer because although I hate them, I do like tomato sauce. Do you know how many tomatoes my three growbags achieved? None. Absolutely none at all. I had twelve beautiful bushy plants that I grew myself from seed. They flowered. They looked brilliant. They didn't make any tomatoes. At all. Clearly, they hate me as much as I hate them  |
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 16, 2010 16:06:25 GMT
Tomatoes come in all sorts. I always use the ones like Tasty Tom. Very solid. Don't have much patience with picky eaters, I'm afraid. I'm doing the family Christmas diner this year and have now been told my teenage niece and nephew don't like vension or potato gratin. Well, they will be served the first microwave diner I'll encounter when I'll be doing my final shopping next week. No way, I'm cooking two meals.  |
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Post by chariset on Dec 16, 2010 16:11:43 GMT
My brother-in-law is a picky eater (either that or he doesn't have much appetite) who typically has Thanksgiving and Christmas with my parents. My mother (who, it must be admitted, is a little touchy) is always somewhat hurt and offended by the way he takes four things, all beige, and turns up his nose at everything else.
And then goes out for McDonald's later.
She's been trying to vary the menu, he's been learning to at least sample everything. I hope eventually they'll meet in the middle. Neither he nor my sister really have the wherewithal to live on watercress and caviar, though they sometimes act like it.
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Post by lindenchase on Dec 16, 2010 16:18:37 GMT
I told my niece and nephew the first course would be "vegetable soup", which the pumpkin & ginger & parsley soup I have planned technically is. ;D
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 16, 2010 16:31:04 GMT
Apparently I'm picky - because I "won't" eat meat. I'm not picky though - the amount of times I've said that I'm perfectly happy with a large pile of potatoes and veg at Christmas...no need to start harrumphing and trying to find some wizened bit of well-past-its-best fish from the back of the freezer.
However, this year will be a good laugh, as my mum will also be there on Christmas Day, in the mouth of the Outlaw Butchers Christmas cave ;D and she's a mile worse than I am, and she's ill so they can't take it out on her ;D ;D might be I'm going to be milking this Christmas for all it's worth.
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 16, 2010 16:46:35 GMT
Daisy, I'm really pleased to hear that your mum will be able to join you for Christmas - that really is great news *hugs*
I'm not picky at all. Tomatoes and blackcurrants are about the only things I don't like, and even then it's only if they're raw. On the other hand, I will happily eat offal, last weekend I had pig's feet for the second time within a month, I regularly make stew out of pig's cheeks or cow's diaphragms (rather prettily known as 'beef skirt') and I absolutely love game. I probably wouldn't eat cat, partly because I like cats, but mainly because they're purely carnivores and carnivore flesh isn't generally very good to eat. I'm desperate to go to France and try Ortolan bunting, but the law makes that virtually impossible to get now. None of those things phase me at all. Whole tomatoes, on the other hand, are disgusting and nasty, so there.
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 16, 2010 17:40:03 GMT
I'm desperate to go to France and try Ortolan bunting, but the law makes that virtually impossible to get now. Are those the lil chaps that Jezza was eating, with his head under a blanket? It always struck me that you'd need a lot of them, as they're so little. I can do you a cut price zebra finch ;D some might say very, very 'cheep'. |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 16, 2010 18:50:45 GMT
Are those the lil chaps that Jezza was eating, with his head under a blanket? It always struck me that you'd need a lot of them, as they're so little. I can do you a cut price zebra finch ;D some might say very, very 'cheep'. That's the fellas. You only have the one, inside a hollowed out potato to catch all the juices. I suppose it would work with a zebra finch, but I don't think the RSPCA would be very pleased if I started drowning pet birds in armagnac...  |
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Post by chariset on Dec 16, 2010 19:17:10 GMT
Not sure what armagnac is, but if it's an expensive alcohol the bird might thank you.
Anyway, you'd want to scald the cheepies before devouring. Only cats like to eat feathers.
There's another food item, supposedly quite good but high on the gross-out factor, called balut, which is a fertilized duck egg near the end of development (if you're picturing a duck embryo still in the shape of an egg, you're right). Looks hideously vile, but it's a popular snack in Southeast Asia.
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 16, 2010 19:27:38 GMT
Ah yes, I've heard about that. Not sure whether I fancy it, but I'd probably try it anyway. It's supposed to be a delicacy, right? It's only polite to find out. I'm less inclined towards the idea of century eggs, but that's mainly because the smell of ammonia makes me gag a bit. Salted eggs are OK though |
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Post by dit on Dec 16, 2010 22:16:59 GMT
I didn't think I was a picky eater until I read what you lot are prepared to stomach. Ye Gods!
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 16, 2010 22:52:31 GMT
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Post by Mayfayre on Dec 16, 2010 23:07:09 GMT
Ooh, yum! |
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Post by Wyvern on Dec 16, 2010 23:33:46 GMT
That actually sounds fine to me - it's not made from cow's milk, so it won't give me a grumpy tummy Think I'd evacuate the maggots though, because although I have eaten meal worms, they were dead and cooked before I ate them... |
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Post by dit on Dec 16, 2010 23:37:08 GMT
You're all mad.......
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Post by chariset on Dec 17, 2010 4:53:46 GMT
I could have lived my whole life without knowing about that. Eeeeewwwww... |
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Post by antonia on Dec 17, 2010 9:14:44 GMT
My dad's Spanish and thats his fav cheese,good job he still lives in Spain. If you've ever been the markets over there you'd proberly never eat again.
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Post by TheDaisy on Dec 17, 2010 13:17:06 GMT
My dad's Spanish and thats his fav cheese,good job he still lives in Spain. If you've ever been the markets over there you'd proberly never eat again. He must have to do a helluva lot of travelling then......this is an Italian cheese. |
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Post by antonia on Dec 17, 2010 21:02:02 GMT
yep but they do get it other country.You don't have to live in China to get a take away.
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Post by From Afar on Dec 17, 2010 21:05:22 GMT
I could have lived my whole life without knowing about that. Eeeeewwwww... Thank you Chari that has made me decide not to click on the link *offers Chari a glass of wine as a reward* ;D |
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Post by rx7 on Jan 30, 2012 22:13:34 GMT
Sheesh! I know Richard doesn't like fish or crab, or even lamb brains.
I'm getting older and I'm trying more things. I've discovered a real love for haddock and salmon, also crab when I would previously never touch the stuff. Some things I cannot touch, not by like or dislike, but by allergies, nuts being the big one.
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lol(i work in childcare so i see it at times)
;D
They are like big gigantic squishy bugs, with shiny shells and squidgy guts!
