Foods that freak out SWMBO (or HWMBO)

[onthekeg]

I eat venison and the 'friend isn't appreciative too much. Tenderloin in butter in a cast iron pan is to be revered, not hated. Oh well, at least she has an opinion. The ones that don't care are dangerous.

 

[passedpawn]

I hear ya Passedpawn. Thinking about trying one of those beef Hackepeter sandwiches!

In Germany, in a pub, I got a snack platter that came with a mound of raw ground beef. First time I got it I was sure it was tomatoes. Dip toast bits into it.

 

[Bold]

SWMBO is a huge healthy food eater, so basically anything I eat with salt, butter, or fried....she let's me hear it.

I did try haggis for the first time the other day and it wasn't that bad, and I grew up on wild game meat, eating turkey necks and chicken feet with grandma was common (back in the day)

SWMBO does enjoy oysters, which I hate, and I can't stand the texture of rice pudding or tapioca.

 

[Dan]

I can't stand the texture of rice pudding or tapioca.

Not trying to put your whole post out of context. The quote above is all I'm talking about.

Rice pudding (in High School; early 80's) was the cafeteria cooks go to and it was tasty sort of, good not great. Tapioca pudding - I think it was my grandma's favorite and she served it every time we had dinner at my grandparents' home.

I didn't particularly love either of these foods. I label them both as comfort food, I think that's the right phrase. Haven't had either one since I moved away from home, what? 30 years ago.

 

[Redcat]

Zwiebelmett is one my families favorites. Hard to get others to try it.

I can easily eat 4 or 5 brotchen with Zwiebelmett in a single sitting. And that is probably a pound of Zwiebelmett, and 1/4 pound of onions.

 

[Erroneous]

My wife hates most German food. I love a good Reuben with a little bit of mustard, 1000 island, kraut, and shaved corned beef. She also doesn't like smokey flavors much at all (cheese, meat, beer).

On a sadder note, she only likes certain kinds of beer. I haven't found a dark beer she likes, she hates hoppy beers, many yeast esters, and any off flavors (which she is really good at detecting). She really likes Piraat and Magic Hat #9, and hates the smell of me brewing.

 

[Dan]

Reuben samwiches! FTW! (am I really 48 years old?)

 

[clamflats]

Brussel sprouts. If I get just a wiff of them I give an instant demonstration of projectile vomiting before I know whats happening.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Brussel sprouts. If I get just a wiff of them I give an instant demonstration of projectile vomiting before I know whats happening.

Really? but they are such a good vehicle for bacon and olive oil goodness!

 

[clamflats]

Maybe for you, but I have no choice in the matter. My body reacts before I know whats happening. One woman thought I was lying until she got her kitchen plastered in an impromptu demonstration. This is something I don't joke about because it is a reaction that is almost instant and I have no control over it.

 

[passedpawn]

Maybe for you, but I have no choice in the matter. My body reacts before I know whats happening. One woman thought I was lying until she got her kitchen plastered in an impromptu demonstration. This is something I don't joke about because it is a reaction that is almost instant and I have no control over it.

You'll want to avoid Half Moon Bay, California (just south of San Francisco). Wall to wall brussel sprout fields.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Does the same apply to other members of the cabbage family, or just brussels sprouts? I'm wondering if it is the sulfer compounds...

 

[clamflats]

Just brussels sprouts. I even try turnip once or twice a year and still don't like them, the only two veggies I don't like.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

SWMBO claims that the canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce I like to use "taste like armpits." This brings to mind not one but two questions I dont want answers to.

As for turnips, my grandmother used to make them mashed like potatoes with butter. I never liked them (one of maybe 10 things she's ever made that I dont emulate). Once I had stew with beef and mushrooms and turnips cooked in stout, however, I was hooked. clam, I dont know if you are a married man, but let me tell ya... if the wife has done something you are feeling passive aggressive about, eating said stew before bed is a way of getting back at her. In my house we call it the FP, the dreaded Fart Punishment.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

I work with quite a few people from Africa, and they eat stuff like fermented fish, goat's head, bones, eyeballs, and teeth. I'm starting to enjoy the smell, actually. I've decided that I'm going to ask to taste any different foods they're eating. Other non-African staff freak out and make faces about the food, which must be very insulting.
I don't eat any offal, except liverwurst once in a great while.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I work with quite a few people from Africa, and they eat stuff like fermented fish, goat's head, bones, eyeballs, and teeth. I'm starting to enjoy the smell, actually. I've decided that I'm going to ask to taste any different foods they're eating. Other non-African staff freak out and make faces about the food, which must be very insulting.
I don't eat any offal, except liverwurst once in a great while.

The one thing that surprises me are teeth. What is edible on a tooth?

 

[SharonaZamboni]

The one thing that surprises me are teeth. What is edible on a tooth?

I saw the guy eating part of the jawbone with teeth in it. I suppose if the bones are cooked long enough they get soft. Same guy ate the bone from a crockpot pork shoulder I'd cooked.

That coworker doesn't say too much about his homeland, but from what I've learned, there wasn't much food. I asked him about native wildlife and he laughed, then said that if you saw some food walking by, you'd chase it down and eat it. So no wildlife. Gives a bit of reality to the concept of "starving".

 

[Subsailor]

SWMBO hates anything cabbage and I love Kim Chee (my favorite hot dog topping). I also have a thing for organ meats, especially livers and hearts. My folks raised us on Scrapple and Head Cheese and a limberger, onion and liverwurst on rye is arguably one of my favorite sandwiches (I say arguably because there are so many).

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I saw the guy eating part of the jawbone with teeth in it. I suppose if the bones are cooked long enough they get soft. Same guy ate the bone from a crockpot pork shoulder I'd cooked.

That coworker doesn't say too much about his homeland, but from what I've learned, there wasn't much food. I asked him about native wildlife and he laughed, then said that if you saw some food walking by, you'd chase it down and eat it. So no wildlife. Gives a bit of reality to the concept of "starving".

Indeed. I didnt know that the enamel on a tooth ever broke down, but that makes sense seeing as how bones that have been braised are so soft.

I have noticed a certain cultural reluctance against talking about food. My wife's coworker is from Ghana, and they are on friendly speaking terms. There is no language barrier. When she asked what was in a soup he brought in that smelled ridiculously good he would only say "its wonderful, my mother makes it too." Not sure why that would be.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

I have noticed a certain cultural reluctance against talking about food. My wife's coworker is from Ghana, and they are on friendly speaking terms. There is no language barrier. When she asked what was in a soup he brought in that smelled ridiculously good he would only say "its wonderful, my mother makes it too." Not sure why that would be.

I think they've gotten so many bad reactions that they just don't want to get into the ingredients anymore.
Last week, coworker was eating chicken foot soup, but I didn't believe him until I saw it, because it smelled a lot like the fish. Maybe there's a common ingredient/seasoning.

 

[Quaker]

During my time in China, I haven't held back at the dinner table. My wife wonders why she still kisses me after the things I've eaten. The chicken foot soup is common. You can actually get the feet cooked, covered in sauce and vacuum packed as a snack at train stations and convenience stores.

Definitely one dish I'd prefer never to have again is sea cucumber. I have had it twice, but once was too much. hands down my favorite dish here is a Hunan dish; large butterflied fish head cooked in a carpet of chili peppers. After the fish is picked over, you dump some noodles into the pan, place over a flame and heat it up again. I love it.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

That sounds fantastic!! Is sea cucumber similar in flavor and texture to uni?

 

[Quaker]

Sea cucumber has the texture of coagulated snot. It's like a beautifully dressed up, slimy slug about 4-5" long on the plate. I like snails. But this ain't no snail.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Does it taste like snot too?

 

[Rivenin]

sea urchin eggs.
crickets/bugs in general
chicken hearts
had durian, wont do that one again, although it may not be a bad idea to give it another go
gator, so friggin good
anything raw that i can.
she gets pretty grossed out at just about everything i eat lol

 

[Quaker]

Honestly don't recall the flavor other than to confidently say I didn't like it.

 

[thepartsmancometh]

Oh, for any Haggis haters out there:

A) its frickin delicious

B) leftover Haggis is hands down THE BEST baked potato topping!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Never had haggis but I would be STOKED to try it.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Today I ate something from the African guy. They wouldn't tell me what was in it. Just said a round, bitter vegetable

 

[jgln]

SWMBO is grossed out by the sounds I apparently make when I am eating pistacio nuts. Our upstairs and downstairs neighbors must wonder whats going on when they hear her shouting "No! James Please! Please! Stop eating nuts! Stop! You're still eating nuts!" followed by me cackling evilly.

This made me laugh because our female dog humps a throw rug at the bottom of the stairs all the time so my wife is always yelling out "NO HUMPING!!!" If we only had neighbors near by enough to hear that every other day I can only imagine what they might think.

On topic my wife eats just about anything including calf brains.