An common food you have never eaten and embarrassed to tell others

[Peace Pilgrim]

I'm embarrassed to say I have never eaten polenta. I worked in the busiest ukraine cafe/eatery in the city.

 

[WelshBloke]

Hold on, you're talking about polenta.

Polenta sucks, bleegh.

 

[Drako]

Hold on, you're talking about polenta.

Polenta sucks, bleegh.

We get it, you don't like corn. :biggrin:

 

[Chaotic42]

Sounds like a bland version of couscous for people who need a liquidised diet.

I think they were developed by the native Americans. They're definitely a filler food for stretching the grocery dollar. Probably the cheapest calories you can get outside of plain sugar.

 

[CPA]

Lobster is awesome. Crab is awesome. Shrimps are awesome. Snails are awesome.

I prefer a balanced meal, so I ideally would get some prime rib or amazing ribeye and some lobster claws or a whole dungeoness crab or two ... king crab is tasty, and better work/reward ratio, but dungeoness crab .. or Kona crab .. so friggin tasty ...


deviled eggs and potato salad are awesome.


I wont eat mayonnaise or ketchup.
I also wont drink milk.

I consider them the holy trinity of poisons.


Of course I'll eat ice cream or a milk shake, or even chocolate milk. White opaque things do not strike me as edible.

Wait. How do you like potato salad but not mayo?

 

[WelshBloke]

We get it, you don't like corn. :biggrin:

I dont like food that looks like its been prepared for someone thats had a stroke.

I have teeth and the ability to use them, now that may change down the line but until then I'm going to enjoy not needing to have my food liquidised.

 

[IronWing]

Hold on, you're talking about polenta.

Polenta sucks, bleegh.

Grits is generally made with hominy instead of untreated maize.

 

[Chaotic42]

Damn it, WelshBloke, I'm making grits now because of you.

 

[blackdogdeek]

I dont like food that looks like its been prepared for someone thats had a stroke.

I have teeth and the ability to use them, now that may change down the line but until then I'm going to enjoy not needing to have my food liquidised.

No love for mashed potatoes?

 

[WelshBloke]

Grits is generally made with hominy instead of untreated maize.

Holy crap! Thats a lot of effort to go through for something that looks repulsive.

Damn it, WelshBloke, I'm making grits now because of you.

Well as long as I dont need to eat it. :thumbsup:

Edit: Actually if I was there I'd have a go and thank you for the experience.

No love for mashed potatoes?

I can live without mashed potatoes. Its certainly not something I'd ever get excited about. Has anyone ever gone "Oh Wow! Mashed Potatoes! What a culinary sensation!"?

 

[feralkid]

Atlantic. Preferably in Maine. Preferably in the Bar Harbor region.

Preferably at Beal's.

And now I want lobster.

 

[MongGrel]

I love Lobster, Calamari, and Eacargots.

I must say Maine lobster is sweeter, but Is used to go lobster fishing with my first father in law, who was a Native Hawaiian up at North Shore on Oahu.

They wouldn't even let me go till I was officially a relative at the time, then it became a something to do on the weekend thing, put the nets out in the evening get up early the next day and pull em in, then repair anything the reefs had torn up or a shark had swam through on the rack out back of the house.

Used to get some huge spineys, we'd hit the back doors of the local grocery stores and get good money selling em, one time we had some so big they were worried they wouldn't sell but they did.

Then we'd go back and have a big lobster boil Sunday afternoon with 4 or 5.

Bucky couldn't even swim and was a local, he'd have me and his son doing the swimming work, he usually even just wore reef boots walking around with a spear sling looking for octopus later on when we were messing around, he'd spear one and stick it in the fish net after cutting off about 3 or 4 inches of tentacle off one he'd caught and eat it raw. Was funny watching him walk around with the end sticking out of his mouth still flopping about.

After out of the service they came to visit one time when the wife and I moved back to Indiana, we went out to Red Lobster and he ordered a whole lobster.

Was pretty funny had a woman in the next both had said she had never seen someone eat one, and was all interested.

In Hawaii we usually ate everything, the brains, lungs, sucked the legs out, etc.

He proceded to eat it like normal and she started to look a bit green and lost a bit of interest, I just kinda grinned a bit.

We all had the slings just for fishing in general when reef walking or snorkeling.

Once you get good with one you could easily mess anything up with one, even out of water.

Nasty spears.

 

[feralkid]

I dont like food that looks like its been prepared for someone thats had a stroke.

I have teeth and the ability to use them, now that may change down the line but until then I'm going to enjoy not needing to have my food liquidised.

Good for you.

Let me buy you a beer.

 

[WelshBloke]

Good for you.

Let me buy you a beer.

That's going to get me drunk and give me plenty of roughage?

Win/win.

 

[CZroe]

Sounds like a bland version of couscous for people who need a liquidised diet.

Close. I was about to describe it as wet couscous, but it's probably closer to rice smoothie made in a blender.

 

[MongGrel]

Grits are awful. You aren't missing anything.

The wife and I both love grits in the rice cooker

WTF are grits?

My Cousin Vinny- Grits



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWC0sKCS5oA

 

[Chaotic42]

The wife and I both love grits in the rice cooker

Hmmm.... Interesting idea.

 

[MongGrel]

Hmmm.... Interesting idea.

It works fantastically.

 

[KMFJD]

Peanut Butter
Shellfish

 

[MongGrel]

Holy crap! Thats a lot of effort to go through for something that looks repulsive.

Well as long as I dont need to eat it. :thumbsup:

Edit: Actually if I was there I'd have a go and thank you for the experience.



I can live without mashed potatoes. Its certainly not something I'd ever get excited about. Has anyone ever gone "Oh Wow! Mashed Potatoes! What a culinary sensation!"?

That is Hominy, which I also love.

Grits can be made from it, that isn't grits.

 

[MongGrel]

Grits aren't meant to be eaten plain. You must add a bit of butter, bacon bits, salt/pepper, sometimes a little cheese.

Almost every time I've tried grits at a restaurant, they've been absolutely terrible. Overdone and they even smell bad. Make some Quaker (see what I did there?) instant grits at home and add some good stuff to it. It's sooo much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZkbtP-t_D8

 

[lxskllr]

I don't *knowingly eat internal organs. I've never had liver, scrapple, gizzards, whatever...

*I love sausages, but I just think happy thoughts, and don't read the ingredients too closely. I eat on the assumption they're made with the choicest cuts :^D

 

[MongGrel]

I love chicken gizzards, one of those things I haven't done in a while.

 

[Drako]

I don't *knowingly eat internal organs. I've never had liver, scrapple, gizzards, whatever...

Man, I have not had scrapple in a while. Now I'm hungry for scrapple and eggs. :biggrin:

 

[MongGrel]

Man, I have not had scrapple in a while. Now I'm hungry for scrapple and eggs. :biggrin:

And grits