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Are you a picky eater?

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There's nothing nasty about squid ink. You guys never had squid ink pasta?

Nasty is fermented seafood. Raw and cooked seafood are easy grade school stuff. Fermented seafood is another level. Like college level. You have to be hardcore to eat and enjoy the stuff. When I think of nasty seafood, I think of fermented shark. I never had it but I can imagine how it tastes. I've had fermented skate and that stuff is pretty nasty. But it grows on you and I imagine it's the same way with fermented shark. The strong ammonia taste and smell definitely clears your sinus in a hurry. Likewise with fermented raw oysters. If you enjoy that, raw or cooked oysters are piece of cake.
 
sandorski said:
Nasty.
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How would you know?

This was so good. Even that black little netted looking thing was made of squid ink.

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Staples said:
I eat just about anything.
Strange as it is, a lot of fat people are picky eaters.
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That does sound really strange. I don't know any overweight folks that are picky about what they eat, although they will not eat some things at all.
 
Incredibly.

And I hate it. I try to expand the palate but, for many things I imagine never and any personal hell would offer only those things.

I've been meaning to take some of those taste tests - because there are things that I've tasted and it is just incomprehensible that others could find that enjoyable. I'm looking at you, most vegetables. There's more or less something wrong with me, in a way, and that wouldn't surprise me. lol some taste sensitivity that just ruins things for me.

There's a texture aversion going on as well, but for the most part I can overcome those for otherwise edible foods. I'll eat foods that I don't enjoy, just knowing that those are foods I need to eat more of.

Some just don't make the cut in their standard unfit for human consumption forms, but I try to supplement as best I can.
 
Staples said:
I eat just about anything.
Strange as it is, a lot of fat people are picky eaters.
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Not strange in the slightest. Picky eaters tend to dislike some of the healthiest things out there, which often have a lot of fiber, protein, and/or fat that keeps you full longer. What supplants those foods in the diet? Foods that are the exact opposite, chock full of sugars and saturated fats, and it feels like they need more food sooner because of the crashes and lethargy. All of which tends to then make assuming a healthy lifestyle more of a chore and rebound after rebound leads to lower activity levels, weight gain, depression, which then amplifies the weight gain and lack of energy. A rough loop to fall into, and easy to both find and stay on that path if you aren't mindful.
 
JEDIYoda said:
anchovies.....frog legs and grasshoppers...…...why be picky? You only live once!!
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Anchovies i will eat with others foods like pizza and olives stuffed with them, I will not in Hell consume frog legs or grasshoppers. That really sounds gross.
 
Not in general, but at any given time there are only a few things that I want to eat. I get in phases where I'll eat the same thing every day for a week or two, then have no desire for that thing for a month.
 
Chaotic42 said:
Not in general, but at any given time there are only a few things that I want to eat. I get in phases where I'll eat the same thing every day for a week or two, then have no desire for that thing for a month.
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I try to avoid eating the same things nearly everyday to keep food from getting boring.
 
whm1974 said:
Anchovies i will eat with others foods like pizza and olives stuffed with them, I will not in Hell consume frog legs or grasshoppers. That really sounds gross.
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Skip ordering anchovies on pizza unless you see the anchovies they're using. Unless that pizza restaurant serves lot of anchovy pizza, the anchovies you're getting are old and nasty and not fit for consumption. If you like anchovies so much, just buy a can and top it on normal pizza you order at home. That separates real anchovy pizza lover from pretenders who claim to love it.

Frog legs are just chicken with slightly fishy taste. Grasshopper is just like eating any other bugs. Most people eat fried grasshopper. When it's fried, it tastes sort of like eating fried shrimp with the shell. Most of the time the fried grasshopper is seasoned pretty spicy with chili powder and coriander so it basically tastes like fried seasoned shrimp shells. Crunchy and highly addictive snack. The biggest risk to eating grasshoppers are the dangerous pesticides used to kill the grasshopper. That's why I won't eat it even though I like the taste. I would eat whole bowl as snack if I knew the grasshoppers were pesticide free.
 
Frog legs were kinda meh. I liked them ok, but not at the cost premium. Never had grasshopper, but I'd give it a try.
 
ponyo said:
Skip ordering anchovies on pizza unless you see the anchovies they're using. Unless that pizza restaurant serves lot of anchovy pizza, the anchovies you're getting are old and nasty and not fit for consumption. If you like anchovies so much, just buy a can and top it on normal pizza you order at home. That separates real anchovy pizza lover from pretenders who claim to love it.

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First of all most pizza places use canned Anchovies or Anchovies in a jar! The shelf life of those anchovies is several months! Due to storage requirements and health departments checking on such things as well as others, you are not about to get spoiled or rotten Anchovies! There is nothing to worry about when ordering Anchovies on a pizza.
 
JEDIYoda said:
First of all most pizza places use canned Anchovies or Anchovies in a jar! The shelf life of those anchovies is several months! Due to storage requirements and health departments checking on such things as well as others, you are not about to get spoiled or rotten Anchovies! There is nothing to worry about when ordering Anchovies on a pizza.
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Well the anchovies I had as an extra topping on the Domino's pizza I ate recently wasn't bad at all, if a bit strong in flavor. Granted not something I would get very often but every once in a while.
 
lxskllr said:
I don't eat internal organs. If that's what you're serving me for dinner at your house, I'll eat them out of politeness, but *I'd never buy them myself.


*AFAIC, one of my favorite meats; sausage, is made from the finest cuts available, and I don't want to hear otherwise :^P
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Hot dogs.
Lips, cheeks, eyelids, and arseholes.
 
lxskllr said:
Frog legs were kinda meh. I liked them ok, but not at the cost premium. Never had grasshopper, but I'd give it a try.
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Exactly. Chicken leg is like $0.69 /lb. There's really no reason to buy frog legs in the States. Now if you catch your own frogs, that's different.

I wonder if being picky eater is more generics or product of the environment. My nephews are picky eaters and they pretty much only eat meat and potatoes. Their dad is like that.

My parents ate everything and I'm the same way.
 
ponyo said:
I wonder if being picky eater is more generics or product of the environment. My nephews are picky eaters and they pretty much only eat meat and potatoes. Their dad is like that.

My parents ate everything and I'm the same way.
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Could be a combo deal. But I expect a lot could be genetics, because it's possible certain taste factors can be inherited. There are people called super-tasters who can taste some pretty foul things in a lot of greens for instance -- there are chemical paper strip tests you can do to determine if you are one, and one of these days I'll finally order them on Amazon lol I'm curious if that's my excuse all along, or if I'm just picky in other ways.

I've also read that people more prone to ADD/ADHD are likely to be picky eaters for a few different reasons, like textures or certain flavor profiles.
 
ponyo said:
Exactly. Chicken leg is like $0.69 /lb. There's really no reason to buy frog legs in the States. Now if you catch your own frogs, that's different.
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for the purest the differences between chicken and frog legs are tremendous!
There are a lot of reason to eat frog legs! especially if you are in a part of the country where it is possible to catch your own and prepare them!
But that's ok -- believe what you will!!
 
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JEDIYoda said:
for the purest the differences between chicken and frog legs are tremendous!
There are a lot of reason to eat frog legs! especially if you are in a part of the country where it is possible to catch your own and prepare them!
But that's ok -- believe what you swill!!
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The very thought of consuming frogs make me sick to point of vomiting.😡
 
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