Pajiba

Ok Serious Eats, I'm with you on the Tater Skins and Ecto Cooler (that is so weird, I mentioned Ecto Cooler in the dvd thread today)...BUT HOW COULD YOU LEAVE OUT JELLO PUDDING POPS??!!

Oh sweet and holy Bill Cosby, what I wouldn't give for a chocolate Pudding Pop right now. If Rumplestiltskin popped up underneath my desk right now and offered me a Pudding Pop in exchange for my firstborn child, I would happily agree so I could have one more taste of that creamy puddingy deliciousness.

I always can have more kids.

That etsy shop is way cool. *sigh* Yeah, money. I remember what you looked like.

Pudding Pops! Julie, you took the words right off my tongue. (But you'd never take an actual Pudding Pop off my tongue, as I'd suck 'em down faster than Lindsay Lohan at a blowjob competition.)

Wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, and I want the Mario/Zelda cereal back, too.

Crystal Pepsi sucked ass. I had one sip when it first came out and that was enough for me. I had no idea there were people out there who wanted it back.

My grandparents always kept a steady supply of pudding pops in their freezer - all the flavors. You guys are so jealous right now.

Stacey-ha! That would be some fast sucking indeed. Nascar fast. Superman changing the earth's orbit so that time goes backwards fast.

Sarina will beat me with her pot of gold for saying this, but when I was twelve, thirteen? I liked Pepsi Kona. Coffee flavored Pepsi...I was insane.

Coffee-flavored Pepsi? You shut your mouth.

Also, that squirrel is seriously bad ass. It must have been either very hungry or pretty damn insane to just start nawing on a snake like that.

I swear to God I recently saw that exact bag of Tato Skins (no, wait, they were Steak and Potato flavoured) in the vending machine at my work. Maybe they're only back in Canda?

And by "Canda" I mean "Canada"

Oh, and um, McDonalds fried apple pies are now Taco Bell's Caramel Apple Empanadas.

... they are delicious.

Erm... losing weight makes you turn from White to Black? Or are those just horrible tans?

"Sarina will beat me with her pot of gold for saying this, but when I was twelve, thirteen? I liked Pepsi Kona. Coffee flavored Pepsi...I was insane."

...puke.

Pepsi is insanely sweet and syrupy, and coffee is foul on all levels. Why would you do this to yourself? Do you hate your innards? As soon as I remember what the hell I did with that pot o' gold, your ass is gonna be black and blue, missy. Where is that thing? I had it right here! Anybody seen it? Heavy, shiny, screams when you touch it? Anybody...?

And I am fascinated by the fact that anybody would miss McDonald's fried apple pies, but that might be because I don't believe in McDonald's and I don't believe in pie.

i had a pudding pop the other day. vanilla. mmmmm.

Stacey - does your friend realize that she created a Godtopus pendant?

Julie, i guess virginia is not just for lovers, but for pudding pop lovers. i swear when i saw these in the store, i was tempted to buy their entire inventory just in case i was in some strange alternate narnia-like universe and could never return.

i miss waffle-o's and morton's beans and weenies TV dinner. that thing was awesome.

I refuse to be intimidated by someone who doesn't believe in pie. Let me love my syrupy drinks dammit!

KELLEY!! I am moving to Virginia now.

Not long ago I was reminiscing about how, when we had a variety pack in the freezer, no one wanted the banana pudding pops so they were always all mine. I was then told that pudding pops were no longer sold.

Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. I mean, I know I hadn't hung around the freezer aisle that much but...could things have really reached this state? Then just now I see kelley's comment. Ain't nothin on the Kraft site but then I found that Popsicle brand had reintroduced them. Reintroduced them with chocolate, vanilla and chocolate-vanilla swirl.

No banana.

These pudding pops are therefore made of solid bullshit.

I love that whenever Sarina encounters something she hates, she simply flat-out denies its existence.

My roommate freshman year in college liked to drink warm, flat Crystal Pepsi. For real. He'd buy a six pack, open all six of them, then leave them on his desk in the morning so he could drink them at night and the following day.

shudder

Kolby -- Oh man, that is totally Godtopus! She's had that pendant listed forever, and it never even clicked! I guess she'll have to make more now, huh?

TK,

Were you rooming with, perhaps, a cyborg, or some sort of demon hellbeast?

Warm flat Crystal Pepsi? Good god. I got off light with my freshman-year pre-sorostitute and her poor, poor soulless boyfriend shell.

Magic Middles! I haven't thought of those in years. I was in a local store in the coastal CT town where my in-laws live and, I shit you not, I saw a bottle of Clearly Canadian. I almost died.

Pudding Pops were amazing. I had no idea they were gone!

Holy crap samantha t, I loved Clearly Canadian as a kid! I was a strange child. You know, as opposed to now, when I'm...hmm. Yeah, nothing's really changed.

Clearly Canadian...yuck. My mother used to give me that to settle my stomach. It's too seltzer-y.

But along with Pudding Pops, I would have to add Koala Yummies. Does no one remember those? They were the shit. That sweet koala painted on the strangely-thin cookie, then filled with delicious chocolate cream...I binged on those things.

clearly canadian was amazing! they still make it, but i long for the original packaging. and speaking of random sodas, does anyone remember Snapple sodas? I used to love those. They had "tru" root beer, which was clear like crystal pepsi, peach melba, and cherry lime rickey sodas! i would give a toe or two to get those back on the shelf.

also, there is something seriously wrong with not liking pie. hmmm

"also, there is something seriously wrong with not liking pie."

Of all the things about me that are crazy, it's the foods I don't believe in with which people have the most difficulty.

But seriously, pie is gross. Especially apple pie and cherry pie. And French silk pie? Guh-ross. But here's a fun fact which will only make sense to those of you who've smoked pot: if I'm high, I effing LOVE those gas station pudding pies. I don't believe in pie, and I doubly don't believe in pudding, but damn if those pieces of shit aren't delicious when I'm fucked up.

Brie, you can usually find Koala Yummies at asian food stores. Not sure why.

I have varying feelings on pie. I do like pecan, french silk, & apple pie, but I can understand why people don't like it. Something is very...off about it.

Thank you, Twig. I wiki'd Koala Yummies, and now they're called Koala March and only sold in Asian stores, or in Japan. Damn that. They'll always be Koala Yummies to me.

Again, confirming my belief that Sarina is not of this Earth. Who doesn't like pie? Crazy people, that's who. That's as nutty as my cousin, who doesn't like soup.

This past New Years, I tried explaining Gatorade gum to about eight bastards who thought I was drunk and mumbly. Granted, I was drunk and mumbly, but NONE OF THEM HAD EVEN HEARD OF IT!!

Or perhaps, ala Sarina, they simply chose not to believe in it...

And on another Gatorade note - WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO STARFRUIT?! That was the best goddamed flavor and one day they just up and pulled it. NOBODY CALLED ME TO ASK! Instead, they replace it with some watered-down milky lookin' shit and flavors called "Glacier" and "Sunfuckingbeam" and stuff that IS NOT A FLAVOR! What the hell does "Extreme" taste like, huh?! Well, according to the geniuses at Gatorade, it taste like someone spit a jolly rancher into some poorly mixed Kool-Aid, that's what. You wanna know what "Extreme" taste like, you sumsabeeyatches? Do you?! It taste coppery and thick and it's hot and salty and may or may not have chunks of your tongue it in (depending how hard you bit down). That's what "Extremeglaciersunbolts" taste like, motherfuckers!! GIMME BACK MY STARFRUIT!!

(...sob...)

sarina, maybe you just haven't had the right pie...I could make you a strawberry rhubarb to die for. or, for those who don't like cooked fruit - I get that that's kind of weird - how about key lime?
I served 6 kinds of pie instead of cake at my wedding, and it was awesome.

I happen to have the Starwars Holiday Special on dvd. It's WAY worthy.

Gatorade gum had a 30 second flavour lifespan. I remember going through a pack in half an hour.

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SM, there used to be a flavor of Gatorade called Xtremo Citrico Vibrante. that is so crazy you can't even make up a name that is more ridiculous.

Okay, Nosek, I was a little afraid to click on the link to see the "hardest squirrel you'd ever seen in your life," but that was a crazy-ass video!

TK, my hubby hates soup too. It is kind of silly. Hating pie, though, that's just nuts. My mom makes amazing apple pie, and I dig her butterscotch one as well. Can't get into the lemon meringue, though. *sigh* Drool!

Love, love, loved Clearly Canadian. That was awesomeness soaked in puppy tears and Godtopus's blood (or was it the other way around?).

Crystal Pepsi, though...was shit. Utter crap. Omigawd...I'm getting little chunks of vomit stuck in my throat just thinking about it.

Sarina...is you not liking pie indicative of some deeper problem? What about cakes? What about ice cream cakes? What about American Pie? I really want to know.

i loved clearly canadian too, but can only find it in nasty sugar free flavors around here. whatever happened to new york seltzer? and that system you could order off of television where you made your own soda at home--charlie-o's or something? i begged, begged, begged my mom for that.

Yeah, I was gonna say. I've never tried Clearly Canadian but I've long missed New York Seltzer. At age 10 it seemed like really crazy science. Clear flavors!! That just blew my little mind. Annoying that it was always in those little mixer-size bottles though.

Speaking of Kona Pepsi (which I don't think I've ever heard of but wouldn't mind trying) and flat Crystal, Rob Heubel described Coke Blak on Best Week Ever as tasting like a cup of coffee left in the office overnight and drank the next day. I went out after I saw that episode and finally found a bottle, and he was exactly right. It tastes like old unsweetened milky coffee with a spritz of flat Coke. But I don't mind hours-old room temperature or colder coffee. With the size of mug I use at home I'd better not! I like taking the temperature journey. If you've put in some flavored creamer (Coffee Mate has totally taken the crown from International Delight, all their stuff tastes terrible and kinda oily now except that White Chocolate Raspberry thing that was out temporarily last year. They were great back in the pint carton days) and you go out for a while, when you come back you've got a sweet cup o' dessert.

I say this in full knowledge that old cold coffee is quite repellent to some people. I only mind the taste if it's cold and black. This is old as in sitting in the cup old, not sitting on the burner at Waffle House old. Nothing can lighten or sweeten that cup if you lost Russian Roulette and got the last cup out of that pot, cause they ain't makin more til it's empty. That is zombie coffee, and it doesn't even know it's long dead and corrupted.

"Sarina...is you not liking pie indicative of some deeper problem? What about cakes? What about ice cream cakes? What about American Pie? I really want to know."

I don't really like cake unless it's lemon chiffon, which I love (no frosting - I don't believe in frosting). I effing hate ice cream cake. HATE. Hatey McHate. Haaaaate. I will eat lemon meringue pie, though. Because it doesn't taste like pie.

Listen, I realise it's a little weird, but c'mon...it ain't as weird as not liking soup. I love soup! Also, I work with a lady who won't eat red food. ANY red food. And we're not just talking stuff with, like, Red #40 or whatever in it. No tomatoes, no strawberries, no licorice, no salsa, no spaghetti sauce, no cherries, NO RED FOOD. Craziest damn thing.

That woman's definitely got an edge in crazy when synaesthesia starts dictating food preferences.

But does she seek to destroy them like a negative Jimmy the Exploder? Cause that'd at least be entertaining to work with.

Also, I work with a lady who won't eat red food.

...

Ummm....

I won't eat anything green...

[shuts up and slinks out of room]

Speaking of Gatorade (even if nobody was anymore), after I moved to NY from Florida, I discovered that my favorite flavor, Citrus Cooler, was only sold in the Southeast. If you are lucky enough to live down there, have a gallon or two for me. I miss it so.

A product finder for pudding pops? Awesome...it says they are actually in my area...just not at my regular store...I'm totally going to drive the 3 miles to find them! http://www.icecreamusa.com/products/store_locator.cfm?b=4

I won't eat anything green...

Bad Shadows! Bad!! So does that mean you won't eat salads? Or delicious broccoli...or crunchy crunchy celery? What about green M&M's?! Or Kermit??!!

:)

If you love EctoCooler like I did, you'll be glad to know that if you get the Citrus Cooler it's exactly the same. Only without Slimer. Which was 85% of why I drank it's deliciousness every day of my life.

And Koala Yummies (now March) are also at Kroger (also Pay Less and a lot of other names) and WalMart. The last time I went shopping I saw them and bought 15 of them, no joke, I just wanted to relive the happier parts of my childhood. Like when I used to come in from the pool and sit on my gymnastics mat and watch Shannon Miller and the rest of the Magnificent Seven dominate everyone in the Olympics. I wanted nothing more than to emulate them later in life. And alas...

Annnyyyway. I miss Dunkeroo's.

And after further perusing the comments:

I hate pie, cobbler, and any of it's other forms.
I haaaaaaaate soup.
I despise many white foods (cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, ranch, you know, all that nonsense)

And this quote occurred earlier in my life around the time of release/hype of LoTR:

Friend Jessie:You don't like Elijah Wood? What happened?
Me:North happened.

That DVD list was BALLER. I actually remember many details about Meet the Deedles. My mom rented it for my brother, sister, and myself when it first came out at Lackluster. Oooohhhh Paul Walker.

Not a big fan of eating Kermit, Julie. Not into the same sex, different species thing, ya know?

But I do like celery. In my defense...celery's more of a clear, than a green.

Especially when you lob peanut butter all over it.

Kolby, Citrus Cooler is one of my favorite Gatorade flavors. Next time I'm chugging one down, I'll think of you...and try not to chortle with glee...

Wait, wtf? Tato Skins no longer available? I just bought some about a year ago. Admittedly, they might have been going under the name Tater Skins, but were still made by the same company and tasted just like I remember from all those years ago.

Damn, I need to go back to the store and see if they're still selling some.

But I do like celery. In my defense...celery's more of a clear, than a green.

Especially when you lob peanut butter all over it.

Shadows, when I was little my mum would make me celery sticks with peanut butter, except she'd put raisins on them and call them Ants on a Log. Yeah, I'll eat bug sticks but not pie.

No green food? Really? I'd kill myself if I couldn't eat broccoli anymore. It's seriously one of my favourite foods. I love Brussels sprouts, too.

Sarina You seriously rock. I love Ants on a Log and it is the only way I'll eat raw celery. Sometimes I replace the raisins with cranberries, mmmm! I also agree on the broccoli and brussel sprouts.

I miss those Tato Skins. Not so much the Crystal Pepsi, that was just sort of weird. That Heidi lady is ridiculous. In fact, you know what...damn you Pajiba! I wouldn't even know who that blonde bimbo was if you guys didn't mention her in PL or comments sometimes. And I freaking hate Gatorade so that gum doesn't sound too delicious anyway.

Shadows, you're missing out. Kermit is tasty and delicious.

I'd kill myself if I couldn't eat broccoli anymore. It's seriously one of my favourite foods. I love Brussels sprouts, too.

Me TOO Sarina, one of my favorite snacks when I get home from work is raw broccoli and cauliflower doused in balsamic vinaigrette. Although I fucking love that you'll eat Brussels sprouts but not pie, you wonderful weirdo.

Weird, it's not just Sarina. There's two people professing love of Brussels sprouts.

Given that Sarina is incomprehensible I won't try to comprehend (if we lived together our oddities would either jinga together perfectly or detonate), but I'll only ask that you don't use the logic people attempt when I say I don't like onions. "But you like garlic, right?" This makes a negative amount of sense, so I hope no one's gonna say that broccoli and Brussels sprouts somehow go hand in hand.

Because they do not.

Still, I'd have to say that there's still more similarities in green foods than there are in red foods. That still wins the Crazy.

Oh and the Gatorade gum didn't even taste like Gatorade. It just tasted like....itself. And it was a really sharp taste. But yeah, I've been in Kroger before thinking, "oh, I've been drinking, I'll get some Gatorade and electrolyte back up...Hey! Can I just get some fucking pale green Lemon-Lime over here????" Seriously, the Lemon-Lime was not there. All hydration practicality is gone and I'm now seriously pissed at my choices. I went for the "A.M." just because it was orange-strawberry, which is both a real flavor and a flavor I want, unlike Frost. Probably tastes like a menthol cigarette. "Wow, I tasted nothing and felt nothing except a chill on my throat......Satisfying!!"

Although I fucking love that you'll eat Brussels sprouts but not pie, you wonderful weirdo.

I love all vegetables except eggplant and okra. It's sweet foods that I'm super weird and crazy picky about. If cake and frosting and pie and pudding and ice cream all suddenly ceased to exist I wouldn't care, but if broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and parsnips stopped happening I'd cut a bitch.

mmmm brussels sprouts are always good. how about edamame? i am always eating those things, especially since i found them in steam bags at krogers--they make it so easy for my lazy butt!

I went for the "A.M." just because it was orange-strawberry, which is both a real flavor and a flavor I want, unlike Frost.

Hee! Jay, I was recently at a party and really drunk, and the guy I was seeing at the time was going to join us after he got off work, so I called him and told him to pick me up some Gatorade on his way there. Then we had this conversation:

Him: What flavour do you want?
Me: Blue.
Him: That's a colour.
Me: Blue...berry?
Him: They don't make blueberry Gatorade.
Me: But they make blue!
Him: What if there's more than one flavour that's blue?
Me: Bring me the bluest one.
Him: How much gin have you had?
Me: A lot! Also, it's 100 proof. I'm gonna put more in the blue Gatorade.
Him: Fantastic.

...as long as we can all agree that garlic is A W E S O M E. That's all that really matters, my sweet, sweet, Jibas.

What's that? You're not really a fan of garlic? Well unless you're a creature of the night, that shit don't fly around here... You know who else didn't like garlic? Do you? Hitler, that's who... Yeah, mull that over for a while Nosferatu...

P.S. Sarina I fucking loooove Brussels sprouts. Sweet moses, them little cabbages make me unbutton my top button...

Sarina that's AH-MAZING.

Sounds pretty similar to ... many of my Thursday nights.

Bartender: What can I get for you guys?
Me: Shots please.
Bartender: How many and what kind?
Me: Ummm, three red ones.
Bartender: ::blank stare::

I have found my polar opposite when it comes to sweets in Sarina. I have eaten so much cotten candy in one sitting that I have gotten sugar burn on my tongue. It is painful. I do not recommend it.
One of my mom's, my sister's and my favorite snacks is a 1 pound tub of frosting. No cake, just the 3 of us, spoons and that tub of sweet, sweet insulin resistance in the making.
I used to stock up on McD's fried apple pies. I'd been wondering where they'd gone. Sad. And pie, well, let's just say that I have seen the light and it's name is my momma's cherry pie. Even if Sarina don't believe, I got enough faith in pie to make the world go round.

Kash I know you did not just mention my girl Shannon Miller. Whenever she or Dominique Dawes was up, I was glued to the screen. I was in my "gymnast" phase.

Oh Brie, did I ever love Shannon, Dominique, Dominique, Keri, Amy, Amanda, and Jaycie.

Dominique Moceanu was also a favorite. Poor kid had to divorce her parents so they would stay away from her money. I have a teeshirt with her on it. I wear it when I coach the little kids (gymnastics, level 4, worddd) and they have no idea who she is. And I weep.

Did you have a crushed velvet long sleeve leo with the rhinestones on it? I did!!

Chokley Patterson can't hold a CANDLE to those ladies.

101cookbooks.com has the best brussels sprout recipe. Four ingrediants, five minutes. Delicious.

osmate77

Skit, I'm most definitely down with the garlic, just in case there was any confusion. I'm the designated garlic bread artisan in the family, just like Jason Lee's Jay! (it's really not anything that special, but they like it)

I bet you sprouts people eat sauerkraut too.

I'm not angry, just sad, that somewhere in Minnesota fried okra would have the door slammed in its face. It would call me, nearing hyperventilation, from a cab and I'd say, "Honey, calm down, CALM DOWN, just come home. Go back to the airport, we'll get through this. The hush puppies are coming over when you get here"

While I happen to be on this page, "lightly" usually doesn't enter into it with me and salt.

Ain't sayin it's right!

And I'm babyfaced enough without extra water retention. And let me give a shout out to Jane's Krazy Mixed Up Salt. I have no idea if it ever went nationwide. I just know it makes tomato slices come ALIVE. Works well in melted cheese on sandwiches as well. And Tony Chachere's Creole seasoning is really good on pizza.

Kelley, I love edamame. I made a salad last week of edamame, chopped tomatoes, avocado, red onion, and a lemon vinaigrette that was AMAZING.

Sarina-HA! I love blue flavored Gatorade.

And Skitt I adore me some garlic, the more the better. My idea of the perfect Ceasar salad is one that burns your face off (see: my mother's and my best friend's dad's). I would put in on ice cream if it...weren't such a foul idea.

Oh sweet Godtopus Julie don't even get me started on raw cauliflower. I literally think I started salivating...it's so good! I'm glad I read that right after I got done writing my grocery list out, I can add it before I froget!

We are yet again on the same page Sarina I am so picky about my sweets! I usually just bypass them entirely unless I'm making them or someone I know is making them. Screw the grocery store "bakery" stuff, yuck!

I reference my drinks, and sometimes food, by color too. I even say the color when asked what flavor I want too... I'm learning a lot about people's food preferences tonight.

And I'm sorry, but Jay...really? No love for garlic?! I'm with Skit on that one. But I have a strange affinity for vampires, so maybe we should hang out sometime?

Bartender: What can I get for you guys?
Me: Shots please.
Bartender: How many and what kind?
Me: Ummm, three red ones.
Bartender: ::blank stare::

Kash: Heeeeeeee. That's me when I'm drunk. I tell them to surprise me with something sweet...they probably give me cranberry juice laced with saliva.

AHHH! Julie, it's like Veronica Mars! A trip to the dentist! GROSS!

I've been recently watching it online and I feel like everything I've done lately has been on that show. Minus solving crime, adultery, child molestation, thievery, surveillance, drug deals, Irish mobbery, and real estate fraud. Oh and my best friend being killed by my boyfriend's best friend's father, the boyfriend who later runs off with his love child, and then thinking my dad is dead. ...So I guess just pertinent quotes.

No no, again, it's that people don't understand how I can like garlic but not onions.

I have no problem understanding this concept. They are silly people.

And if you put cilantro anywhere near my food I'll Princess-and-the-pea that shit in a second and start wheezing "are you trying to kill me???"

Dammit I'm going for my walk now. Stop saying interesting things for a little while!

Kash, I didn't wear the rhinestones, but I did put my hair in a ponytail like theirs. I would go to my room and practice my moves for my future inevitable Olympic training.

Nevermind that I quit gymnastics after the second class.

WTF, ate my comment?

I meant to say, osmate77, that I have a cake recipe with ingredients including an angel food cake, egg yolks, powdered sugar, whipped cream, nuts and Butterfinger candy bars.

It has that nice burning-roof-of-the-mouth sugar kick to it.

It's sad, but I get really excited over any TIB links. He doesn't update nearly enough for me.

I live in Germany and I can gleefully report that the McApple Pies are still fried over here!
I get home (I'm from the states) every few years or so and I will admit to FREAKING. OUT. on all the little snacky junky comfort foods pretty much the whole time I'm home. Munchos! Butterfingers! Chicken and Stars soup! Whereas normally I'm a make-it-mayself-from-locally-grown-organic-produce kind of girl. So last visit home I was standing in the frozen food aisle of Mall-Wart practically in teras because somehow Pudding Pops had gone gently into the good night and I had missed it.
Also: Gatorgade Gum was SO GOOD.

Jesus,you people. You know what I won't eat? Olives. That's it. That's the list. Y'all are missing out, that's all I'm saying.

So... Julie, can I come over to your house and have you make edamame and avocado salad for me? Those are my two favorite vegetables, even if they're technically a legume and a fruit.

And I'm with TK. Except for the olives part. I live for food.

Hehe...I have olives and avocados too.

That's hate, not have

did anyone else notice on the serious eats page at the end of the list is a free kabbalah (sp?) test?

just found it odd is all.

Anyone who hates olives would not have survived my childhood. We had them ALL THE TIME. Green ones, black ones, garlic olives (cue watering mouth), hot pepper olives, olives cured in olive oil, kalamata olives...you name it, we had it.

We also ate things like squid and raw clams.

twig, I have a vision of a cake bigger than my coffee table with Butterfingers sticking out of it like little trees on the ski slope of powdered sugar and whipped cream. Nuts are boulders. This may be something I need to make for the next potluck I attend.
I think there is only one food that one would have to pay me large sums of money to ever even consider eating again. Natto. Large, large sums of money.

Kolby, I went to an Italian restaurant last year and one of the apps we had was Cold Stuffed Squid - basically, the body of the squid, halved, and stuffed with crab meat and bread crumbs, served cold with some lemon juice. Oh. My. God. Too delicious to describe. See, I love raw seafood. I love everything. Except olives. Though I'm trying to get over it. (I get mad at myself for disliking certain foods, so I force-feed myself until I get used to them).

Stacey, anytime my dear, I love to cook for people.

I just learned to like olives. I went to this great BYO about 2 months ago with a few girlfriends, and we did the $35 five course tasting menu...first course was a grilled sardine with olives, tomatoes, capers, and artichoke hearts. It was the best goddamn thing in the world, and it finally convinced me to eat an olive.

basically, the body of the squid, halved, and stuffed with crab meat

Man, I'm gonna vomit my Swiss Cheese on Wheat Lance crackers all OVER you.

I'd never had real or fake crab until last year when I tried a bit of crab salad. Deep fried calamari I can get with, but this was cold, oily stuff and was revolting. Turns out I'd been right all along! "Oh Christ, Get me some Long John Silver's to wash this down!!"

But it never arrived.

But then, I'd eat a jar of green olives or pickles and drink the juice. I also drink filthy martinis.

EEEEWWWW. I hate pickles. My friends mock me relentlessly, if I order a burger and fries and ask the waiter to forgo the pickle and they forget and put a pickle on the plate, I won't eat the french fries it touched. The fries, they are ruined.

Okay...that may be second exception...I'll eat the hell outta sum pickles. Especially when you buy those ones at gas stations that's swimming in a pouch full of vinegar? Oh man...my mouth's watering just thinking about it...

Pickles would be the only snack food option in my hell. Pickles, and fuzzy baby bunnies.

Hey TK, that keep-trying-it-till-you-like-it approach is a good idea! here is my list of things I would have never known the joys of if I hadn't of convinced myself to keep trying them well into my 20's:
-tomatoes
-cheese
-olives
-artichokes
-condiments like mayo and mustard
-beer
-southern style sausage gravy, that peppery white stuff served over biscuits
and probably a whole lot of other stuff, too. I had a really limited palatte as a kid.

Adahaze, you didn't try cheese until you were in your twenties?!

Oh my god, step back from the crazy.

:)

Well, I TRIED it, repeatedly, I just didn't LIKE it.
I think a lot of that has to do with me living in a place where "cheese" meant those yellow sheets of wodge that you peeled out of a plastic envelope and moving to a place where the cheese slection is phenominal and even small grocery stores have a whole cheese counter with a professional cheese person working behind it, to dust the big wheels and chase mice probably.

I like raw seafood. I like all seafood, actually, though I'm not fond of the texture of some of it (I'll still eat it, though). I've eaten scorpion, roasted bees, chitlins, tongue, and assorted insects. I like snake and rabbit, and I love lamb and venison. I effing love olives and pickles. I like pretty much anything prepared with vinegar. I'm not a picky eater at all when it comes to most food, I'm just crazy weird about sweet stuff. I also don't love really creamy things like alfredo sauce. I'll eat it, but I don't especially like it. But seriously, if you remove sweets from the equation, here's the list of stuff I will refuse to eat:

Oatmeal
Capers
Children

Ahh, I see. :) Mmmm, cheese counters. Last week I bought this awesome sharp cheddar infused with habanero and jalapeño peppers that was soooo good.

Adahaze:

Welcome to the white gravy. Life is good here.
(Chili's puts in on their fried steak *bites fist*) Just keep the artichokes the hell outta my way. Oh and keep your sleeves rolled up, there was a gravy and mashed potatoes incident at the Cracker Barrel outside DC while we waited out rush hour before going to the aforementioned joy-killing Constitution Hall. Incident being there was white gravy and potatoes all over my forearms.

they forget and put a pickle on the plate, I won't eat the french fries it touched. The fries, they are ruined.

And now you know what it's like if the "No Onions" request on my Philly is ignored. "You can pick it off". No, there's evil onion juice that has polluted the whole thing, and even if I try it's all been mixed up on the griddle so I'm pulling out hunks of meat and cheese too and I'm nearly in tears.

Aww, Jay, no one best be messing with your cheesesteak. Though I'm a "provie with" myself. With looooots of ketchup.

Mmmm...now I'm seriously contemplating getting a cheesesteak for lunch. NO Julie! Salad!! Sigh.

I am so hungry right now.

My dream is to take a culinary tour of the United States. I'd say the world, but I'm pretty poor, so we'll stick to the continental US. Anyway, I'd eat cuban sandwiches in Miami, beignets and Po'Boys in New Orleans, Pork BBQ in Carolina (with slaw), cheesesteaks in Philly....I think I'd be dead before I hit Texas.

Kolby, are you near NYC? One of my dreams is to someday take Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tour on the Wheels of Steel. GOOGLE IT.

I think there is only one food that one would have to pay me large sums of money to ever even consider eating again. Natto. Large, large sums of money.

Oh, oh god natto, that looks the same as it tastes. I was looking through an issue of 'Craft' magazine last month, and they had DIY Natto with absolutely NO warning labels about possible... tastebud malfunctions.

Apparantly if you get punked by natto in Japan, the appropriate response is root beer. It is not a popular flavor in Japan, I guess.

Also, Kolby there was some magazine Pajiba linked to a few months ago that had all the best sandwiches in the country... there it is!

The only food I seriously depsise that makes most people double-take at me is meatloaf. Cannot stand it.

famous fat dave sounds amazing. have you been, AdaHaze? i live in Brooklyn and will most definitely be going...

Aww, I love meatloaf. Makes me think of Mom.

beignets

Oh, Cafe du Monde. I love that place. It is at the end of the drunkest street in America (Burbon), where no matter what day or time of year it still smells like stale whiskey, vomit, and that unmistakable stench of failure.

Cafe du Monde makes the best beignets and is open 24 hours a day year round I think.

In short, it rocks. I miss New Orleans the way it used to be.

Po'Boys are quintessential New Orleans. I believe that the saying is the messier the better.

I would misspell Bourbon Street.

Dammit.

Julie, avocados and edamame, can life get any better?

Jay, i am with you on the cilantro. ugh.

i just devoured a huge bowl of strawberries. i have no will power when i comes to fresh strawberries. when i go pick them myself, i'm out in the field munching away. i know that's probably not the best thing to do because of all the stuff the farmers probably spray around them, but i haven't keeled over yet.

Gah, all of you are making me crave shitty food.

Um, Koala Yummies!!!!!!! That's what I was thinking of when I watched that Keebler stuffed cookie commercial. I was like no...I remember something...something with a thinner shell. And oh my good lordy, that something was Koala Yummies! Those were fucking awesome.

Also miss Dunkaroos. And puddin pops.

And, these are still around, but I don't let myself eat them: those white and pink animal cookies? You know, the ones coated in thick colorful shit that's undoubtedly 100% pure trans fat with sprinkles on top?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

And oh my god, cheese. I love cheese so much it hurts. I do not discriminate against any form of cheese. Blue, brie, cheddar, freaking velveeta, american, string, schmancy imports, salsa con queso, fritos cheese dip, feta, I don't care. I'll eat it all, possibly at once if I have access. That's secretly why I like wine bars. I mean, wine's pretty good too, but cheese is better.

I don't want to read any more comments! I already had a salad for lunch like a good girl and now it seems so...lame. I want cheese and Koala Yummies!

And, these are still around, but I don't let myself eat them: those white and pink animal cookies? You know, the ones coated in thick colorful shit that's undoubtedly 100% pure trans fat with sprinkles on top?

MMMMMMM. Oh, god, those. mmm.

BAD tt_marie!

... mmmmmm.