That’s how my parents ate it too. When mom was serving liver, heart, or beef tongue I knew we were close to butchering.
She’d boil the tongue, slice, and reassemble it.
I would eat it with a big scoop of horseradish.
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That’s how my parents ate it too. When mom was serving liver, heart, or beef tongue I knew we were close to butchering.
She’d boil the tongue, slice, and reassemble it.
I would eat it with a big scoop of horseradish.I love liver and onions. Maybe cooked with some garden tomato. Delish. Love kale, too. With tongue you either braise it for hours or pressure cook it. Lots of garlic, bay leaf, whole peppercorns, etc. Let it cool down, fridge it, slice it and eat. Oh, and pickled herring in cream. Would eat a pound of the stuff with bread.
Only two come to mind: Liver with onions, and iceberg lettuce. I can eat them, but I don’t like them.
And just because i like a popular food doesn’t mean I eat it, as some don’t agree with me in some fashion; others are pure evil. Certain species of doughnuts come to mind.
But I like them.
And just because i like a popular food doesn’t mean I eat it, as some don’t agree with me in some fashion; others are pure evil. Certain species of doughnuts come to mind.
But I like them.
Had brains, and ... other parts ... the latter were delicious.
Thought that's all probably outside of popular in the context of this thread
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Really? I find that amazing, it's such dramatically different food, any one or even two ... but pasta? Do you eat bread?
No not much bread. Outside of pizza crust and breading on chicken, not much at all. Pasta just grosses me out.
I am not too fond of cheese either, but a good mozzarella on pizza (sparingly applied) I will eat.
I'm on the other side of that fence. Okra.. um... but I love eggplant. We should have been kids next door and sneaking plates off the table to swap when what we didn't like turned up at home.
Does fast food count? It’s got “food” in the name, but that’s a stretch.
Liver was always accompanied by lots of bacon when my Mom cooked it.
Fish tops my list of popular foods that I don't like......and beet greens, but I doubt they're popular
You should try strawberry tarts. They taste good on the way down and on the way up!
[doublepost=1530587438][/doublepost]I must say, reading through people's dislikes made my mouth water
It turns out that there really isn't a popular food I don't like, except of course fast-food, and those disgusting pizzas they sell at Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc.I love all kinds of cheese, almost all sushis and sashimis (don't care for some of the sweet glazes and drizzles they use), liver, tongue, blood sausage, Brussels sprouts are lovely (as are all green vegetables). You name it, I cook it, I eat it.
Almost. There are some foods I avoid, but mostly for health reasons, not because I'm repulsed by them. White bread, margarine, ready-made BBQ or tomato sauces come to mind. Any just-add-water concoctions.
I much prefer wine (mostly red) to beer.
Ah, found something popular I hate: Bourbon whiskey. I'm a Scotch whisky man. Islay or die
I also love a nice gin, cognac or port.
yah I avoid fast food in general because I loathe it, but I love potato chips and don't regard them as fast food. I avoid them because they're a mortal sin.
I do avoid processed foods most of the time, but confess to keeping some around even if I have to doctor on them to make them less salty and more interesting and healthful. I've been known to put tofu and fresh kale into the mix with Dirty Rice along with a half-cup of extra rice and a cup extra water, for instance. I know I can make dirty rice from scratch and I have the spices and dried peppers, but... sometimes I just don't want to be bothered. When I read the labels on boxes of stuff like that though, it does give me pause.
You should try strawberry tarts. They taste good on the way down and on the way up!
[doublepost=1530587438][/doublepost]I must say, reading through people's dislikes made my mouth water
I love all kinds of cheese, almost all sushis and sashimis (don't care for some of the sweet glazes and drizzles they use), liver, tongue, blood sausage, Brussels sprouts are lovely (as are all green vegetables). You name it, I cook it, I eat it.
Almost. There are some foods I avoid, but mostly for health reasons, not because I'm repulsed by them. White bread, margarine, ready-made BBQ or tomato sauces come to mind. Any just-add-water concoctions.
I much prefer wine (mostly red) to beer.
Ah, found something popular I hate: Bourbon whiskey. I'm a Scotch whisky man. Islay or die
I also love a nice gin, cognac or port.
Not a fan of Bourbon whiskey, either.
But love pasta, sushi, sashimis, and yes, salad green and green vegetables.
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yah I avoid fast food in general because I loathe it, but I love potato chips and don't regard them as fast food. I avoid them because they're a mortal sin.
I do avoid processed foods most of the time, but confess to keeping some around even if I have to doctor on them to make them less salty and more interesting and healthful. I've been known to put tofu and fresh kale into the mix with Dirty Rice along with a half-cup of extra rice and a cup extra water, for instance. I know I can make dirty rice from scratch and I have the spices and dried peppers, but... sometimes I just don't want to be bothered. When I read the labels on boxes of stuff like that though, it does give me pause.
Chips are not fast food.
Good chips are a treat.
If they're not fast food , why is it when you open up a bag , they're gone fast? The best chips are the ones you make via slicing up a potato with a mandoline and deep frying the slices .
No: The best chips are the ones you steal (or beg, or borrow, that is, permanently borrow) from someone else's bag or plate. For some reason, that makes them even more tasty.
Agree about very good homemade ones, though; they can be amazing.
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Mystery meats…
Hotdogs… Burgers… etc.
If people knew what kind of "meats" go in there.
Mechanically Recovered Meat. What a godawful process.
*shudder*
Edit: I mean, junk food, ****** industrial mass consumption sludge.
Not food you know the provenance of or prepared yourself.
Hotdogs… Burgers… etc.
If people knew what kind of "meats" go in there.
Mechanically Recovered Meat. What a godawful process.
*shudder*
Edit: I mean, junk food, ****** industrial mass consumption sludge.
Not food you know the provenance of or prepared yourself.
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Agreed. Industrially produced meat and such stuff is pretty grim.
But real burgers prepared by your butcher - proper minced steak with finely diced onions and spices - well, they can be very tasty.
Yes, I should clarify, real food — when I prepare it myself, same goes for sausages. We make them ourselves.
Luckily I like to cook. More to the point, I know how to cook.
Yes, I should clarify, real food — when I prepare it myself, same goes for sausages. We make them ourselves.
Luckily I like to cook. More to the point, I know how to cook.
Ah, you make your own sausages?
Wonderful.
We never buy any meat (or vegetables) in supermarkets, but from those who have grown them or reared them (and have treated them ethically prior to slaughter); meat from such sources is usually very tasty and utterly reliable, and their sausages - and the sausages my cheesemonger stocks from a small artisan producer - are excellent in quality but - precisely because there are no hidden horrors - do not have a long shelf life.
Either eat within a few days, or freeze for the future.
Yes, liking to cook and knowing how to cook - while intersecting somewhat - are not always the same thing, this is true.
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Coffee - I hate the taste and the smell, I find it disgusting but pretty much everyone in the world lives by it except for me.
I should have been less 'murica-centric: I meant American potato chips, which I think for some of the rest of the world are potato crisps.
I don't eat the crisps any more, but definitely regard home fries (your chips, no?) as integral part of my Sunday breakfasts at home...
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Same here, and/or with onions. I don't know if organ meats can be considered popular now at least in the US but I would no longer eat them from any critter unless I knew its provenance. Just the fact that antibiotics are used to control illness in mass-produced food animals makes the critters and especially organ meats on the skip-it list for me.
When I was a kid we consumed chickens except for the squawk and feathers, and beef organs including sweetbreads (thymus gland) and loved them but again there's no way I'd eat them from factory farmed animals today.
I'm not a vegetarian but I might as well be one sometimes for how choosy I am now about meat, poultry, fish and eggs. It gets less simple to choose well "for the farther away from the moo and and cackle one lives", my granddad used to say. And that was before most of us had any concerns about sustainability in food production.
I used to love sautéed chicken livers, and sandwiches made from them were a big seller in NYC delis at lunchtime at least when I worked in the city. You can make the spread with a mix of beef and/or chicken livers, eggs, onions, some schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) and simple seasoning. An Italian-American friend's mom's recipes for bolognese sauce included chopped chicken livers along with ground beef and pork. Scoff as you might, and as I guess some do, the chicken livers make the dish superbly rich and do not taste "like liver" at all. Soaking them in milk before cooking makes that more the case. But again, know where the chickens came from and how they were raised and fed...
Yes, "chips" to us (as in "fish'n'chips") are what you term fries (French fries). And yes, love em, especially with fish.
Ah, and crisps, in other words, what we refer to as crisps?
Well, those are another pure (and supposedly forbidden and illicit) pleasure. Brilliant with beer and er, on occasion, wine.
Ah, and crisps, in other words, what we refer to as crisps?
Well, those are another pure (and supposedly forbidden and illicit) pleasure. Brilliant with beer and er, on occasion, wine.
You should try strawberry tarts. They taste good on the way down and on the way up!
[doublepost=1530587438][/doublepost]I must say, reading through people's dislikes made my mouth water
I love all kinds of cheese, almost all sushis and sashimis (don't care for some of the sweet glazes and drizzles they use), liver, tongue, blood sausage, Brussels sprouts are lovely (as are all green vegetables). You name it, I cook it, I eat it.
Almost. There are some foods I avoid, but mostly for health reasons, not because I'm repulsed by them. White bread, margarine, ready-made BBQ or tomato sauces come to mind. Any just-add-water concoctions.
I much prefer wine (mostly red) to beer.
Ah, found something popular I hate: Bourbon whiskey. I'm a Scotch whisky man. Islay or die
I also love a nice gin, cognac or port.
Hahaha, same here, and I can't even with the "ew, gross", I certainly understand not preferring something, but it's just food, there's nothing "gross" about a Brussel sprout unless you're 5
Oh, I think maybe you haven't had the __right__ bourbon just yet
BTW, I'm a single malt drinker too, I'm a little more of a Speyside vs. a Islay, but I in any case, I tend to gravitate toward the smaller distilleries.In my email today:
It's easy to dogpile on foods like Brussels Sprouts (aka Satan's Testicles), but in keeping with the thread title, I don't know how popular those are. So even though that would be my #1, here's my list:
Black-eyed peas
Dr. Pepper (this is difficult, living in Texas)
Watermelon
Popcorn (I don't really dislike it, but I can take or leave it)
Beer (and no, it's not that I "just haven't tasted the right beer yet" - they all taste different, but they all taste like beer)
Black-eyed peas
Dr. Pepper (this is difficult, living in Texas)
Watermelon
Popcorn (I don't really dislike it, but I can take or leave it)
Beer (and no, it's not that I "just haven't tasted the right beer yet" - they all taste different, but they all taste like beer)
Agree but you wouldn't want to be cooking them this week!
I often prefer the idea of chips to the reality.
Aubergine being in almost everything vegetarian is probably the one reason I could never fully go veggie!