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The most polarizing food: where do you stand?
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Before our trip to Cambodia a few years ago, I ordered the guacamole with fried grasshoppers at a pretty authentic Mexican restaurant in London.
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I figured I should get over any aversion to eating insects prior to the trip. In Cambodia there was only one occasion where there were tree ants, tarantulas, and crickets on the menu. I ended up ordering the chicken that night.
Incidentally, the deep fried grasshoppers on the guacamole in the Mexican retaurant tasted like peanuts.5 -
Initially I forgot what this thread was about and was confused that this was the response to taleggio.
I love most cheeses. A favorite place because they have great cheese plates (and a great selection of cheeses which they will let you taste) is https://www.pastoralartisan.com/
I had forgotten they had a cheese club, and really must look into it.
I live in a very small community, so there aren't any really big grocery stores here - the one at the county seat is lucky to have a small deli!
But I was in Cincinnati last year in a huge Krogers that had all sorts of specialty items, including a cheese bar with types of cheeses I'd never heard of. The girl running the bar was happy to allow my sister and I to sample some of them - it was an unexpected but neat addition to our vacation, and I came home with all sorts of cheese for the family to eat
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rmacdonaldpdx wrote: »Fine if you are under 21, if you are an adult, it's time for grown-up food. I've literally never seen anyone over the age of 20 eat one of those in public.
I think the adult palate can't really tolerate the intense sweetness of these cookies without a lot of practice first. Mostly, the cookies will make your throat burn and eyes water due to the intense amount of sugar. Kids can eat sugar straight and feel fine.
That is just silly.
IMO they (the cakes in OP) are not very appealing - I dont like pink icing and the cakes are too sweet and bland for me
But making your throat burn and your eyes water???
Serious nonsense there.
Just because you dont like them doesnt mean you should make bizarre inaccurate statements about them - or strange judgments on others who do like them
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bmeadows380 wrote: »Initially I forgot what this thread was about and was confused that this was the response to taleggio.
I love most cheeses. A favorite place because they have great cheese plates (and a great selection of cheeses which they will let you taste) is https://www.pastoralartisan.com/
I had forgotten they had a cheese club, and really must look into it.
I live in a very small community, so there aren't any really big grocery stores here - the one at the county seat is lucky to have a small deli!
But I was in Cincinnati last year in a huge Krogers that had all sorts of specialty items, including a cheese bar with types of cheeses I'd never heard of. The girl running the bar was happy to allow my sister and I to sample some of them - it was an unexpected but neat addition to our vacation, and I came home with all sorts of cheese for the family to eat
Was it a Kroger or did you go to Jungle Jim's?
Because you should have gone to Jungle Jim's. Lol0 -
rmacdonaldpdx wrote: »Fine if you are under 21, if you are an adult, it's time for grown-up food. I've literally never seen anyone over the age of 20 eat one of those in public.
I think the adult palate can't really tolerate the intense sweetness of these cookies without a lot of practice first. Mostly, the cookies will make your throat burn and eyes water due to the intense amount of sugar. Kids can eat sugar straight and feel fine.
Ask me how I know you don't work in an office.
I've never seen anyone under the age of 30 bring them in and someone brings them to every food day.7 -
I like them but I could live without them.0
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Another food and travel anecdote. We like to try to eat where the locals eat, where there won't be an English menu. One of our strategies for ordering in those places is to simply point to another table of 2, and just generally gesture "We'll have what they are having."
This strategy did backfire once in Phnom Penh. We were at a food stall just outside the gates of the University. There was a table of students having a late lunch so we gestured for the stall owner to just bring us whatever they were eating. It turned out to be a pretty polarizing soup containing cubes of congealed blood and bits of lung plus a lot of other stuff I couldn't identify.5 -
Carlos_421 wrote: »bmeadows380 wrote: »Initially I forgot what this thread was about and was confused that this was the response to taleggio.
I love most cheeses. A favorite place because they have great cheese plates (and a great selection of cheeses which they will let you taste) is https://www.pastoralartisan.com/
I had forgotten they had a cheese club, and really must look into it.
I live in a very small community, so there aren't any really big grocery stores here - the one at the county seat is lucky to have a small deli!
But I was in Cincinnati last year in a huge Krogers that had all sorts of specialty items, including a cheese bar with types of cheeses I'd never heard of. The girl running the bar was happy to allow my sister and I to sample some of them - it was an unexpected but neat addition to our vacation, and I came home with all sorts of cheese for the family to eat
Was it a Kroger or did you go to Jungle Jim's?
Because you should have gone to Jungle Jim's. Lol
just a Kroger - never heard of Jungle Jim's. I'm a country gal visiting the big city, so I stuck to the main routes and pretty well stayed in the area I was in 0 -
The third and last time I tried to eat broccoli in Sicily. The first time in a Sicilian spaghetti with broccoli, it was so overcooked that it was greyish, and when I complained to the waiter he sent the cook out to chew me out. (How dare a Chinese woman tell an Italian how to cook broccoli?) I ordered the same dish somewhere else few days later and broccoli was again overcooked to a mush. Started to see a pattern forming. The last time I ordered broccoli was in this mixed vegetable side. Broccoli doesn't look terrible here but it was the texture of mush.
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seltzermint555 wrote: »I HATE those Lofthouse sugar cookies. They look like they might be good, guilty pleasure type of sugary sweets...but they are VILE!
Why do I feel like people aren't responding here because they have not tried this horrible trick of a cookie?
I used to love those "vile" cookies..would eat the whole pack in one sitting. another reason I gained 100 lbs!1 -
The third and last time I tried to eat broccoli in Sicily. The first time in a Sicilian spaghetti with broccoli, it was so overcooked that it was greyish, and when I complained to the waiter he sent the cook out to chew me out. (How dare a Chinese woman tell an Italian how to cook broccoli?) I ordered the same dish somewhere else few days later and broccoli was again overcooked to a mush. Started to see a pattern forming. The last time I ordered broccoli was in this mixed vegetable side. Broccoli doesn't look terrible here but it was the texture of mush.
Were you there in the winter when broccoli is in season or during the summer when they would have had to use frozen (mushier)? When in Italy it's a good idea to always eat the vegetables in season. As a side note: when I moved to Italy from Minnesota over 30 years ago my mother-in-law, who comes from Puglia, always overcooked vegetables. Green beans were never bright green, always army green. I wasn't used to it.2 -
snowflake954 wrote: »The third and last time I tried to eat broccoli in Sicily. The first time in a Sicilian spaghetti with broccoli, it was so overcooked that it was greyish, and when I complained to the waiter he sent the cook out to chew me out. (How dare a Chinese woman tell an Italian how to cook broccoli?) I ordered the same dish somewhere else few days later and broccoli was again overcooked to a mush. Started to see a pattern forming. The last time I ordered broccoli was in this mixed vegetable side. Broccoli doesn't look terrible here but it was the texture of mush.
Were you there in the winter when broccoli is in season or during the summer when they would have had to use frozen (mushier)? When in Italy it's a good idea to always eat the vegetables in season. As a side note: when I moved to Italy from Minnesota over 30 years ago my mother-in-law, who comes from Puglia, always overcooked vegetables. Green beans were never bright green, always army green. I wasn't used to it.
We were in Palermo in April. Does that mean that we would have been getting frozen broccoli?0 -
snowflake954 wrote: »The third and last time I tried to eat broccoli in Sicily. The first time in a Sicilian spaghetti with broccoli, it was so overcooked that it was greyish, and when I complained to the waiter he sent the cook out to chew me out. (How dare a Chinese woman tell an Italian how to cook broccoli?) I ordered the same dish somewhere else few days later and broccoli was again overcooked to a mush. Started to see a pattern forming. The last time I ordered broccoli was in this mixed vegetable side. Broccoli doesn't look terrible here but it was the texture of mush.
Were you there in the winter when broccoli is in season or during the summer when they would have had to use frozen (mushier)? When in Italy it's a good idea to always eat the vegetables in season. As a side note: when I moved to Italy from Minnesota over 30 years ago my mother-in-law, who comes from Puglia, always overcooked vegetables. Green beans were never bright green, always army green. I wasn't used to it.
We were in Palermo in April. Does that mean that we would have been getting frozen broccoli?
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Thanks for the tip for only eating seasonal vegetables in Italy. It makes me realize how decadent I am, expecting year round fresh broccoli, imported. I will try the pasta with broccoli again if I am in southern Italy in late fall.
Having grown up on Chinese food, thoroughly cooked veg is a struggle for me. There are very few vegetables I can tolerate in an Indian restaurant, for example.0 -
I love them as an option for my son with nut allergies, but I personally don't eat them. I'm a low-carber though (PCOS and insulin resistance).0
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I would vomit if I tried to eat those ...just can't do icing.0
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MotherOfSharpei wrote: »I would vomit if I tried to eat those ...just can't do icing.
really?? for me it's the cookie that I can't tolerate.0 -
I haven't tried Lofthouse specifically, but they look the same as a local brand I have, and I tried them exactly once. To me, the cookie had no flavor, and the icing had that bitter edge that comes from too much food coloring. To each their own though... Personally, I eat my hotdogs with ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise and sweet relish, which I know is sacrilege to some.
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I freaking love them. The soft sweetness 🤤
I have definitely killed a number of these cookies in my day.1 -
I can and have literally eaten an entire box in one sitting lol. They're dangerous!
Yep. Me too. Lollynn_glenmont wrote: »seltzermint555 wrote: »I HATE those Lofthouse sugar cookies. They look like they might be good, guilty pleasure type of sugary sweets...but they are VILE!
Why do I feel like people aren't responding here because they have not tried this horrible trick of a cookie?
I don't think I've ever seen that particular brand. But I'm suspicious of any product that thinks "soft" is a plus for a cookie. I imagine they're all cake-y and bend-y. No snap. No crunch. Blech.
Omg soft cookies are the best kind!! I hate when they snap like a cracker!2 -
Also, I’m team pineapple on pizza 😁4
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The cream filled chocolates in a cheap box of chocolates - orange, strawberry or the coconut ones are the worse!
Also the 'coffee'...not really sure - I just know it's awful too!!
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Gross cookies
Powdery dry thing shaped like cookies. They taste like flour paste that just happens to have some sugar in it. Not like cookie dough.... just sweet flour paste.4 -
Is this polarizing? I feel like it is. I actually really enjoy prepackaged ramen of all kinds (I like the good stuff I can get from a restaurant even more, of course):
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