- Favorite food:
- Popcorn, preferably with Parmesan cheese and lots of salt, but not butter
- Rhubarb pie (or if I'm sharing with tart wimps, rhubarb strawberry pie), crust by Pillsbury
- Vegetarian sushi (includes wasabi, pickled ginger, and a little tamari)
- Corn on the cob (swimming in real butter and salt)
- Maple syrup (out of a tree, not a corn field)
- Potato chips (reduced fat but NOT baked)
- Dill pickles and dill pickle relish
- Cafeteria chili with crushed Nacho Doritos (without the latter, the former is inedible)
- When I eat in "slow food" restaurants, I usually order something different each time; not so with fast food:
- Penn Station: grilled artichoke with mushrooms
- BK: cheeseburger, fries, Diet Coke off the "value menu"
- McDonalds: Big Mac
- Taco Bell: taco salad (it's the bowl)
- If I'm in the mood for ribs, we go to O'Charley's.
- For steak, it's Applebee's (good for the price)
- The best local Mexican is Cebolla's.
- The best Italian is Biaggi's but the local Casa's is closer and cheaper
- Chinese from the local Mandarin but if P.F. Chang's comes to town, they will be better but also more expensive
- When it comes to alcohol, I try to stay in context:
- Dos Equis with Mexican
- Tsing Tao with Chinese
- Peroni with Italian
- Martinis at Club Soda
- Favorite easy things to cook:
- Chili
- Spaghetti (I never eat spaghetti in restaurants because I like my sauce much better)
- Pot roast
- Meatloaf
- Soups
- Favorite not-so-easy things to cook:
- Bread
- Winter squash (cutting into and/or peeling the damn things is what's difficult)
An aside: I just realized I did not get enough zucchini this summer. I usually grow my own and am sick of it by August, but due to the room addition, I did not have much of a garden this year. Store bought zucchini is not the same. Note to self: Must plant zucchini next year. And tomatoes. And green beans. Successively.
Are there any foods I do not like? I've never developed a taste for organ meats, don't care for coconut meat but I like the milk, can't eat shellfish, not too fond of fish in general but I'll eat it on occasion.
What might I refuse to eat based solely on the taste? I can't think of anything offhand. What about you?
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I can't think of anything that I won't eat because of taste, although texture will put me off certain foods. I don't care for anything gelatin, but I'll eat it if I have to to be polite. I also don't like anything that's too mushy, but weirdly, I do like that jello salad mold that has some type of whipped cream or sour cream in it, which makes it both gelatinous and mushy. I prefer that salad in green, which is the most disgusting of all jello colors. I can't explain it either.
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