I've never eaten....

[AlaskGirl]

I like a lot of foods but don't try to tell me warm coconut milk in any soup is a good thing!! PASS!!

 

[greathorse]

Wellsummer I am proud to say I know what most of those things on your list are, but there are a number of them that I have not eaten. I like you eat just about everything. I dont know if I have ever been offered anything I would not eat. Haggis would give me pause, they put lungs in there you know.

 

[arabianequine]

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Yep my wife and son both are.

And BTW anchovies rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whats a Ceasar salad without them???????????

Oh sorry I will clarify I actually really like ceasar salad did not think of that but not my favorite salad dressing you can probably guess that one so typical.......I will tell you my first only and last anchovies experience if I have anything to say about it which I did not my eyes were pretty big think pizza these were like chunks of them way to strong of flavor yuck....I was eating left over pizza at in laws and I like cold pizza well I took a bit of a piece of this pizza no one said anything and I did not ask just helped my self and spit it right back out faster then in went in my mouth how gross.

What are your wifes and sons symtoms for the avocados? Would vomiting upset stomach be an allergic reaction of food?

 

[welsummerchicks]

If you don't want your anchovies, pass 'em over here.

Haggis has lungs in it? Ooooooh! So does the sausage and baloney and most of the lunch meats people love, LOL!!!!

 

[boxermom]

I have a basic rule. If I'm going to try an exotic food, (e.g. snake, some of those other things that I'd never heard of on Welsummerchicks list

) They must be prepared by someone who knows what they are supposed to taste like. A few years ago, our good friends sent us a box of frozen seafood. Her "brother" is Chinese and has a seafood export business in CA. This box contained baby octopus. I called my sis-in-law who is Thai and she said to grill them, then dip them in different sauces. I found directions on how to clean them (eyes, beak etc. innards were gone.) Anyway, this food was very good! My problem was all I could see were cutting out the eyes and there were these sacs filled w/ white stuff in the heads. Looked like pus!

I cut that out too, but some had such big sacs that I threw the entire octopus away. I love to cook, but exotic things need to be left to the experts.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Well so it looks like pus, as my dad used to say, 'Don't worry about the parts what you is cuttin' out and thowin' away!'

Re not eating salsa as in the original post - HOW CAN YOU LIVE????? The National Research Council has set a minimum daily requirement for children and adults for salsa! You gotta change, girl!!!!!

Just imagine the commercial for 'Salsa the Children', a non profit charity, the spokesperson is Russell Crowe - 'I never had no salsa as a child, I grew up lost, isolated and confused, wondering why my parents did not give me no salsa ever, but I wanted to make sure that other children did not suffer as I did....so give, and give generously to Salsa the Children. Give a tomato, give vinegar, give a tomatillo, give garlic, give cash! Give WHATEVER YOU CAN GIVE!'

(jjjjuuuuuust kidding....)

 

[fwschrom]

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They will start itching, get a dry scratchy throat and their tongues will swell up a little ( puffy).

I am not a big pizza fan, about three a four a year is my limit. I lived in Southern Italy for 3 years and I am super picky on pizza. Must be thin wood fired crust, anchovies, and fresh basil, very hard to find in the good old USA. But anchovies is a must. The other place that must have anchovies is spagetti sauce, one can chopped up per a big pot, you really can't taste them at all, but you can taste them missing. There is an anchovy sauce in Italy that is very famous and expensive they use for spagetti but it is over $100 per bottle and impossible to find in the US. Very traditional in Southern Med food.

Salsa the Children.....

 

[NYREDS]

I have eaten all the "haven't eatens" listed here. The only foods I haven't eaten are the ones I haven't had a chance to try.
Haggis BTW is delicious. I make it regularly. My ancestry is Scots so Haggis is like a race memory thing.

There are a lot of tv shows I haven't seen as I try [not always successfully] to avoid tv.

 

[nonseq]

My nonna never put anchovies in her sauce.

 

[welsummerchicks]

My nonna put in bones(sometimes the bones got cooked in the oven by themselves first), marrow, sausage, pepperoni and a couple whole heads of garlic. If there were any steak bones or steak left over it got tossed in too. It cooked for about 12 hr. When we children were 2, we would practically kill eachother fighting over the marrow bones like a pair of rabid wolves.

If my nonna had put anchovies in the sauce, we would have fought over that too.

About the best thing I ever had was fish stew from India, full of little fish that get gutted and chucked in, called sprats, simmered til they fall apart...eat 'em bones, heads and all. For all those who think all Indians are vegetarians, I need to inform you that FISH IS A VEGETABLE THAT GROWS IN THE WATER.

Almost as good as fish tacos...

Seriously, for those who don't like salsa, try pico di gallo, or make a bengali (east India) salsa - sweet and a little sour, not too hot or spicy, smooth, tomatoey.