I won't eat... What are your food limits?

[docsconz]

Brains from a BSE infected cow.

[Gifted Gourmet]

I detest anything slimy that has to be swallowed ... so I would have to go with boiled okra ... ewwww!

and it isn't as if one could simply swallow (but I prefer to "spit" here! ) the disgustingly gooey okra pods ... somewhere along the line, you just have to "chew" the okra ...

fried okra also is not a big "turn on" for me either .. on the theory that it would ultimately mix with one's saliva and turn gooey inside of me (and I would "know" that!!) ... ewwww redux!!

Edited February 16, 2004 by Gifted Gourmet (log)

[chezcherie]

docsconz,Feb 16 2004, 03:29 PM]Brains from a BSE infected cow.

well, yeah----i think i'll go with that, too.

[browniebaker]

Humans -- but I have never been pushed to my limits.

[dankphishin]

milk (drink, i guess)

[Katherine]

Brains from a BSE infected cow.

Nor from scrapie-infected sheep.

[ErinB]

Anything orange flavored.

[fifi]

I'll go with bugs and slugs. Nope. No escargot. Not on my watch.

[Kim WB]

beets. It's like eating dirt.

[hwilson41]

I'll go with bugs and slugs. Nope. No escargot. Not on my watch.

Fifi;

I believe we can also add okra to that list, can we not ?

THW

[Cusina]

Anything that is above 5 or so on the heat scale is out of bounds for me. I do like spicy stuff, just have a limit.

[bergerka]

I assume we're talking would rather starve to death on desert island than eat, right?

Cockroaches. Pretty much everything else, I could choke down if I had absolutely no other choice ever on this world.

I'd eat people before I'd eat most other bugs, though.

*shudder*

K

[fifi]

I'll go with bugs and slugs. Nope. No escargot. Not on my watch.

Fifi;

I believe we can also add okra to that list, can we not ?

THW

Okra slime would be in the do not touch group. I have been known to choke down okra well hidden in gumbo. Fried I will tolerate but I can't come up with a good reason to go to all of that trouble. Hell... just fry up some thin catfish filets if you want fried cornmeal. You know, I can't even come up with a mental image of what okra tastes like. All that being said, okra in general does not rise to the do not touch level.

[Raynickben]

Rocky Mountain Oysters

[Mabelline]

That cheeze the Italians and Greeks (and probably some French) make that has the maggots in it. Sorry, where I come from you fish for crappie and sunnies and other panfish with maggots.

[PopsicleToze]

Snake is the one thing I refuse to eat.

AB made me scream watching his show when he ate that snake.

[Gifted Gourmet]

Snake is the one thing I refuse to eat.

AB made me scream watching his show when he ate that snake. 

You mean you didn't enjoy Tony Bourdain eating the still-beating cobra heart with gusto?? Personally, it made me think twice about what I was willing to consume ...

and then there is that irritating question of what a good wine pairing might be with cobra heart ....

a red to go with the beating?

a white to accompany the facial hue of the diner?

Edited February 17, 2004 by Gifted Gourmet (log)

[lcdm]

Duck/chicken embryo semiformed in the egg (I forget the exact name). I saw it being eaten on a foodnetwork tv show.

[FistFullaRoux]

I'd have to be in a hell of a pinch to eat a lot of things, and I'd eat anything if it was my only option, but black eyed peas are right at the top of the list. I cannot abide by them. I've tried them a hundred different ways, and I've buried a couple of beans in a big mouthful of something else, but I just cannot get them down.

If it was my only option, I'd be in trouble...

[Gifted Gourmet]

so, just how does one survive in Louisiana sans black-eyed peas? isn't that a major food group there?

[FistFullaRoux]

so, just how does one survive in Louisiana sans black-eyed peas? isn't that a major food group there?

Not neccessarily where I grew up. I had to move to New Orleans to really discover red beans and rice. In Cajun country, it's rice, predominantly.

[Gifted Gourmet]

Since I have been here in Atlanta for many years, albeit a northern transplant, I pay due homage to the black-eyed peas with much reverence.... how might one properly celebrate New Years here without them? Local folklore ...they are a little too pasty in their "mouthfeel"....

[jo-mel]

Parsnips.

No matter how that vegetable is prepared, ---- mashed, candied, roasted----I just can't get it down. I've tried, my Mother tried, to no use. I just plain can't stand the flavor. Other roots are fine -- just not parsnips.

[Hest88]

Spiders, if talking about eat or die foods.

In real life, liver/kidney. (Unless it's foie gras, which tastes totally different.)

[birder53]

Salmon. Tried it many different ways - planked, smoked, cajun blackened, etc. -but it still tastes like salmon. It's so popular that I still give it a chance once in while, especially if the preparation makes it sound too good to pass up. But, nothing has changed my mind yet. Salmon