by PHOODIE
Apple Pie is high on the list of my top ten favourite things to eat. As is my Mum’s Tomato Pasta Sauce. But give me a washed and chopped Granny Smith or Pink Lady and you’re likely to see my dry retch. Ditto for apple juice, or raw tomato. Vomatron-central.
My daughter is like this with bread. Fresh out of the bakery? She won’t touch it with a ten foot pole. But a stale, dry roll? Can’t wolf it down quick enough. What the?!
People can be very strange when it comes to food can’t they? Or is it just my family? Tell me it’s not! Below are a few examples of mine and a few of my nearest and dearest’s personal double standards, when it comes to food. I would love to hear yours!
1. Cooked vs Raw
I can think of about 5 billion foods that are SO much better when they are cooked. Apple and Tomato as mentioned above are the first two that come into my head. But there’s also carrot, capsicum, cabbage, pear, onion. I could go on.
2. Add it to Alcohol
Many people that I know will inhale a kebab, an entire pizza, McDonalds, Pluto Pups and a large variety of other fast foods like they are going out of fashion after a few (read: too many) alcoholic beverages, yet they wouldn’t DREAM of touching them sober.
3. Dipped in Chocolate
One of my best mates will ONLY have cheesecake in America. Why? Because she will only eat it off a stick after it’s been dipped in chocolate, and that’s not readily available here in the land of Oz. Thank goodness!
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Here goes nothing:
- I love tomato; fresh on its own or in salads, cooked in anything, sauces. Cannot stand tomato juice. Bloody Marys are my own personal Vietnam.
- I cannot stand steak or roast beef, but will eat minced beef or beef in stews/sauces.
- Cannot stand bananas in any form. I used to eat them as a kid and whenever people ask about this quirk, I tell them that everyone has a quota of bananas they're allotted to eat in life and I reached mine early. If anyone tries to feed me anything with banana in it, it's all I can taste.
- Cannot stand capsicum, but will eat it if it has been cooked into sauces or on pizza.
- Onions must be cooked. No question.
- Sauces and condiments are one of my food groups. Everything I eat has to have a sauce, condiment, soup or dressing.
- Hate cereal in all its forms... Except for dry Crunchy Nut cornflakes.
- Hate rice pudding, porridge and oatmeal; love bread soup.
- Love chicken thigh; hate drumsticks. I have no problem with other meats in the bone but will not eat chicken drumsticks.
- Everything tastes better drowned in balsamic vinegar.
- Instant coffee is only to be used for baking coffee cakes; can't drink the stuff. LOVE real coffee.
Despite having all of these quirks, I still get a smug satisfaction from getting my really fussy eating younger brother to eat things he says he doesn't like. For example, last night's dinner - I made sausages with a caramelised onion gravy and mashed potato and hid anchovies and zucchini in the gravy. He ate 2 enormous helpings. :P
i cannot get enough of baked beans. specific brand though - SPC in tomato sauce, i will spit on you if you serve me salt-reduced. also the beans need to be chilled, refrigerated. i cannot stand them room temp or warm. GROSS!
i also eat pickles by the jar (not pregnant hehe).
coming from a maltese background, i also eat tomato paste (leggo's variety) about an inch thick on bread :-|