What common food have you never tried? Why not?
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CurlyCockney wrote: »Oooh just thought of a common food that I have no intention of ever trying! Jellied eels. Just no.
Where is this a common food? (Based on your username I'm guessing England? I've just never heard of it.)
Yes England, and mainly in the East End of London. Growing up, it was pretty much a staple for a seafood supper on Sundays, but I'd just eat the prawns (shrimp to US), cockles and winkles.
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Mashmarrow... I don't even know how to spell it correctly lol0
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Cor blimey, look at them jellied eels ... brings back memories of Walthamstow market on a Saturday, fish stalls with buckets of live eels at the side and the old jellied eel, pie and 'liquor' (mushy peas?) shop. Never tried em though, and never will.0
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MommyL2015 wrote: »
Ugh, yeah, you're certainly not missing anything. Continue saving yourself. Growing up, my mother made liver and onions at least twice a month and I came from a house where we ate what was put in front of us, or we sat there until bedtime and if we still didn't eat it, we went to bed hungry. After the first time eating it, I went to bed hungry many other times she cooked it. And the smell. OMG. Like something dead and rotting in our kitchen.ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »Liver. I just won't.
My mom made it too and we all had to try it. Only my eldest brother could get it down so that was one meal she eventually made for herself and him and Dad (who couldn't stomach liver either) would cook burgers for the rest. Otherwise we ate what everyone else ate.
My mother hated it so we never had it. I was curious about it, so made it (from a cookbook) one time when my mom was out of town, since my dad had always said he loved it. I ended up loving it too, and we (yes, this is wrong) lied to my younger sister about what it was and she liked it too.
The things I hated as a kid are all super common foods, like canned tuna (I like pretty much all other seafood except catfish) and packaged bread and cold cereal. I was a weirdo.
Still love liver and onions. Don't have it nearly enough.0 -
There's an Office Space Michael Bolton quote that's very appropriate here but I'm not going to give the hypersensitive a reason to report me. It's easy enough to find.
Also, @rabbitjb, if you haven't eaten a taco by the time of my daughter's senior trip over there, we'll make you one if we have to smuggle the proper ingredients through customs.0 -
TrickyDisco wrote: »Cor blimey, look at them jellied eels ... brings back memories of Walthamstow market on a Saturday, fish stalls with buckets of live eels at the side and the old jellied eel, pie and 'liquor' (mushy peas?) shop. Never tried em though, and never will.
Hehehe nearly every pub in Stepney had a fish stall outside, and my brothers used to scare me with the live eels as we passed (gits!). Liquor is parsley sauce btw.0 -
Eels (jellied or otherwise) aren't common around here. I haven't tried them jellied, but I was excited to try them (and liked what I ordered) when I saw them on a menu during a business trip to Hamburg.
I mean, if people eat a surfeit of them and die, they must be good.0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »TrickyDisco wrote: »Cor blimey, look at them jellied eels ... brings back memories of Walthamstow market on a Saturday, fish stalls with buckets of live eels at the side and the old jellied eel, pie and 'liquor' (mushy peas?) shop. Never tried em though, and never will.
Hehehe nearly every pub in Stepney had a fish stall outside, and my brothers used to scare me with the live eels as we passed (gits!). Liquor is parsley sauce btw.
Oh, wondered what the liquor was! Yeah, those nightmare buckets - then at the end of market day there'd be a few heads in the gutter ... yuk!!0 -
Kidneys. It just seems gross to eat something that creates urine.0
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Steak and kidney pie is awesome!0
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snickerscharlie wrote: »Steak and kidney pie is awesome!
And now I want steak and kidney pie and chips0 -
Steak. I stopped eating meat when I was 14 and never tried it before that.0
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Hard boiled eggs. I just can't. Just the thought... *herk!*0
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BethAnnieT wrote: »Hard boiled eggs. I just can't. Just the thought... *herk!*
Totally agree. Also - yogurt. Being around it gives me the gag reflex. I put some plain yogurt in soup one time, and ended up giving the pot of soup away.
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I have never eaten Quinoa, even though it seems to be 'all the rage' at the moment.
For something of a local speciality..I have never had Laverbread (It's a Welsh thing
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CurlyCockney wrote: »
My OH mother makes them on her Rayburn...yum yum....and now I want one (or 3!)0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »
My OH mother makes them on her Rayburn...yum yum....and now I want one (or 3!)
My mum used to make them on a big circle of cast iron. Asda sell them but they aren't the same :-(0 -
Pumpkin is the big one for me. Never had a slice of pumpkin pie, never had a pumpkin muffin and certainly never tried a pumpkin flavored coffee. Also, calamari is a big Nope also. Its often ordered by friends when we go out and I admit it looks good, but once the word tentacle is mentioned I am alll set!0
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Deviled eggs. Something about them just rubs me the wrong way0
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I've never had quinoa before either. I don't eat seafood, except tuna and haddock. I've never tried anything else because of the ick factor, so, yeah, that's weird of me. Can't bring myself to eat an oyster or a shrimp. Eel? Uh, no thanks.
I have tried pumpkin, but don't like it. I've never tried sweet potatoes or avocado.0 -
Kale. Just doesn't appeal to me, although I guess I could have ordered some dish at a restaurant that had some in it, who knows.
I think I've tried pretty much every common food I can think of otherwise (doesn't mean I like it though).
In the uncommon kind I'd say frog leg or bugs...0 -
Probably depends on what you'd define as 'common'...especially considering 'common' changes a lot depending on ethnicity and geographic location.
For example, being stuck smack dab in the middle of USA - there's a lot of types of seafood I haven't tried, but more as a result of good, fresh seafood being not too common around these parts.
I've never had 'poutine' as a dish, but I've had french fries, cheese curds, and gravy separately.
I've never had liver or any organ meat - that's probably about as 'common' a food item as I can think of.0 -
CurlyCockney wrote: »CurlyCockney wrote: »Oooh just thought of a common food that I have no intention of ever trying! Jellied eels. Just no.
Where is this a common food? (Based on your username I'm guessing England? I've just never heard of it.)
Yes England, and mainly in the East End of London. Growing up, it was pretty much a staple for a seafood supper on Sundays, but I'd just eat the prawns (shrimp to US), cockles and winkles.
yuk, gipping just looking at that jellied eel not something I'm ever willing to try.
I've never had boiled or pickled red cabbage. It was the one vegetable my mum didn't like or cook so I've never had it as a child and I've just never had the inclination to give it a go as an adult.
I'm very much on the if it doesn't smell nice I'm not going to eat it, prime examples that fall under that rule brussels sprouts and broad beans yuk.
Also don't do any kind of organ meat, ive tried liver as a child but it wasn't nice and that was as extreme as I'm willing to go in that category.0 -
Any organ meats, pretty much any fruit pies since I don't like mushy fruit I just imagine pie as mushy fruit with crust, Almost all seafood, Brussels sprouts. Probably a laundry list more but, you get the jist.0
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Most seafood. It doesn't appeal to me.
Most alcoholic drinks. Too expensive, don't like the effects, would rather drink other things.
Most coffee drinks. I don't drink coffee and feel a lot of those drinks are too expensive/fussy.
I can't think of any other super common thing here that I haven't at least tried.0 -
distinctlybeautiful wrote: »I'm talking about food common enough that people are usually pretty shocked that you've never tried it.
Mine's not that good, but I've never eaten shrimp or really any seafood other than fish. I just stopped eating animals before I ever had it..
What about you?
I don't think there's any common New England food I haven't tried at least once.
I haven't had a lot of the foods Anthony Bourdain eats, but they are not common here.0
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