Foods that freak out SWMBO (or HWMBO)

[dfc]

She doesn't like my peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Comfort food for me.

On the other hand I retch at the thought of her beloved poi. Makes me think of what wall paper paste must taste like.

I've had poi. I'll probably never eat it again. It didn't taste good whatsoever.

 

[bgeek]

SWMBO loves to eat bread and milk with a bit of sugar. She really hates jello and gelatinous foods (squid,octopus,cooked barley). She also doesn't appreciate my love for gizzards, hearts, kidneys, etc.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

What exactly is poi like? I envision white ectoplasm that tastes like ground aspirin...

 

[HeadyKilowatt]

SWMBO is extremely adventurous when it comes to food- we eat lots of wild game and organ meat. For example, we frequently go to the butcher and ask "Do you have chicken hearts today?" (chicken heart tacos are amazing)... BUT she gets mildly disgusted when I eat pickled herring for breakfast. Go figure.

 

[david_42]

Mustard - I have four types in the fridge and my wife will not eat anything with mustard on it. She stopped going to Five Guys when they accidentally put mustard on her burger.

What exactly is poi like?

There are three kinds of poi: One finger, two finger and three finger. Depends on thickness. It tastes like raw starch, aka library paste.

 

[mbauer013]

I grew up really poor with a lot of ethnic neighbors so there are a lot of stuff I'll eat that makes my wife nearly puke.

Kibbi - raw ground chuck on flatbread with onions and bulgar wheat
Budain - a kind of blood sausage
Squirrel - NOT from the city, but when I'm at the cabin chicken fried squirrel with gravy = MMMM
lutefisk - lye soaked whitefish
Salt cod - literally rotted and salted cod we make a stew out of it and serve it on biscuits
pickled herring and pickled eggs
beets

Many more, but the king of the above is the squirrel, she usually runs out of the cabin when I come back with one or two on my belt, ahh the things that make me laugh That's what she gets for growing up in Chicago!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

youve had lutefisk! Im so curious about how that tastes you have no idea.

 

[TheBrewinator]

Squirrel is good stuff, I miss the days of going to the farmers woods and cleaning out some squirrels. Cook them up in some cream of mushroom and put it over potatos, good stuff. The one thing that gets my wife is the gizzards and hearts in gravy over mashed spuds.

 

[Dan]

SWMBO loves to eat bread and milk with a bit of sugar. She really hates jello and gelatinous foods (squid,octopus,cooked barley). She also doesn't appreciate my love for gizzards, hearts, kidneys, etc.

When I was young my parents gave us kids something similar as we were recovering from the flu and starting to get our appetite back. Toasted bread, torn up in warm milk with a little sugar and cinnamon. It was comfort food really and always meant you were near the end of feeling like crap.

 

[Camping57]

I have been all over the world and sea cucumber was one of only two things I couldn't finish (I had one of our office guys order for me and one of the other guys said to him, "why did you order that? I won't even eat that **it!") The other one was "hundred year eggs". Fertile, half hatched eggs that are boiled and then pickled and I think fermented. The look and smell sent me over the edge. Whole baby turtles were not very good but that was a texture thing, they tasted fine.

 

[onthekeg]

youve had lutefisk! Im so curious about how that tastes you have no idea.

Lutefisk has the texture of fish, has absolutely no flavor, and pretty much tastes like the melted butter you dip it in.

My parents love it, I despise it. Cardboard or unflavored jello has more flavor.

 

[Camping57]

Is there any kind of nutritional value to lutefisk? It looks like clear jello.

 

[onthekeg]

Maybe there is. It tastes like clear jello, probably not much there after is soaks in lye.

 

[mbauer013]

youve had lutefisk! Im so curious about how that tastes you have no idea.

Like others said it's not really the flavor that get you, its the texture. If it's cooked badly its kinda like congealed snot.

 

[Goofynewfie]

Squirrel is good stuff, I miss the days of going to the farmers woods and cleaning out some squirrels. Cook them up in some cream of mushroom and put it over potatos, good stuff. The one thing that gets my wife is the gizzards and hearts in gravy over mashed spuds.

Porcupine is pretty good when done like a pot roast

 

[dwarven_stout]

The other one was "hundred year eggs". Fertile, half hatched eggs that are boiled and then pickled and I think fermented. The look and smell sent me over the edge.

lol. My wife ate one of those while she was pregnant. She had a Chinese developer at work telling her that they were the best thing during pregnancy, and surprised the girl by not only asking for one but finishing it.

(Also, I think the process involves wrapping raw, shell-on eggs in a mud/wood ash/lye mixture and letting them "cure" for a while. No cooking or fermenting involved.)

 

[mbauer013]

Porcupine is pretty good when done like a pot roast

I've heard this before actually, since they are an unproteced species here, maybe I'll have to try to tag one while hunting this year. I normally see two or three a year.

 

[HeadyKilowatt]

Porcupine is pretty good when done like a pot roast

As is groundhog. Which SWMBO will not only eat, but help field dress. :rockin:

 

[Whattawort]

SWMBO can't watch me eat eel or any game meat. Conversely, the two things that she eats that makes me want to gag every time is scrapple and asparagus. Scrapple is like an organ meat pancake and asparagus (and pretty much any cooked cabbage) smells like a wet fart. I've tried it so many different ways to like it, but I just can't get past the smell and texture.

 

[passedpawn]

SWMBO can't watch me eat eel or any game meat. Conversely, the two things that she eats that makes me want to gag every time is scrapple and asparagus. Scrapple is like an organ meat pancake and asparagus (and pretty much any cooked cabbage) smells like a wet fart. I've tried it so many different ways to like it, but I just can't get past the smell and texture.

Scrapple is excellent. I grew up eating balkenbrij, which is the dutch version of this delicious fried treat. My grandma used to grind every odd part of the cow to make this. I ate a lot of scrapple going to school in PA (amish like to use every part you know).

And, I can't believe you're knocking wet farts!

Head cheese grosses me out.

 

[Erroneous]

Head cheese isn't that bad. Kinda weird texture though.

 

[Whattawort]

Scrapple is excellent. I grew up eating balkenbrij, which is the dutch version of this delicious fried treat. My grandma used to grind every odd part of the cow to make this. I ate a lot of scrapple going to school in PA (amish like to use every part you know).

And, I can't believe you're knocking wet farts!

Head cheese grosses me out.

Yup, pretty much gagged at that pic. My fam is Irish and German and I get the stink eye for turning my nose up at cabbage. I'll eat the hell out of some corned beef and any kind of pork, but you can keep your cooked cabbage. If it's in a cold salad or in the form of sauerkraut and/or cole slaw, I will gladly take part though.

 

[bobbrews]

Head cheese grosses me out.

Not all head cheese looks like that, or probably tastes/smells as bad as it looks. A lot of people do it a diservice. Try googling the more chefy term, "terrine". Here is a hog terrine. It's the mystery we're wary about, but this is really as close to pure pork flavor that you can get, and it's no where near dry or chalky.

 

[petie]

Blood pudding and fried bull nuts drive my wife right out of the house. She's lucky that I have pancreatitis and can't eat them anymore.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Stuff she will eat that I cannot stand;

Fish. Especially these little whitefish (size of guppies) she fries and uses like a topping.
Rice gelatin sweets. Hate the texture.

Stuff I eat that she cannot stand;

Alcohol.