Food preferences
May. 11th, 2007 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheInspired by Another, I've tried to come up with my list of food no-nos. So far I've got:
Soy and soy products, which really makes me sick in large quantities. In smaller quanities it makes me seriously uncomfortable. I'll eat small amounts in other people's homes but not in restaurants where I have a choice.
Milk and milk products, as above but with less devastating results. Milk doesn't make me cry as much.
Seafood other than fish with tails and fins and things - though I'd like to learn to like it, I have an aversion to it without, as far as I can see, any good reason. I think it might be mostly texture. I'd love to be converted by really well-cooked examples of the genre. I do, however, eat rubbery squid when served it in other people's homes, though I admit to using my drink to wash down unchewed mouthfuls like big, plastic-coated pills, whenever I thought no-one would notice.
Mushrooms - I have eaten one I liked, ever, in my whole life; I can and do tolerate them in moderation if they're not too slimy. I ate them uncomplainingly for Mormor, but most places I pick them out carefully and quietly and leave them on the side of my plate. Now that Linnea is around I can feed them to her, because she loves mushrooms, so it looks more like I'm giving her a treat than avoiding them myself. I think if I lived somewhere with plentiful wild, fresh mushrooms I could learn to like them raw. They're no slimy raw and I don't mind the flavour much.
There are various things I won't eat on ethical grounds, but they apply more to when I'm buying than when other people are; if asked my preferences in advance I would state them but if served them for dinner I would eat them, so they don't count, I think.
[Poll #983027]
Soy and soy products, which really makes me sick in large quantities. In smaller quanities it makes me seriously uncomfortable. I'll eat small amounts in other people's homes but not in restaurants where I have a choice.
Milk and milk products, as above but with less devastating results. Milk doesn't make me cry as much.
Seafood other than fish with tails and fins and things - though I'd like to learn to like it, I have an aversion to it without, as far as I can see, any good reason. I think it might be mostly texture. I'd love to be converted by really well-cooked examples of the genre. I do, however, eat rubbery squid when served it in other people's homes, though I admit to using my drink to wash down unchewed mouthfuls like big, plastic-coated pills, whenever I thought no-one would notice.
Mushrooms - I have eaten one I liked, ever, in my whole life; I can and do tolerate them in moderation if they're not too slimy. I ate them uncomplainingly for Mormor, but most places I pick them out carefully and quietly and leave them on the side of my plate. Now that Linnea is around I can feed them to her, because she loves mushrooms, so it looks more like I'm giving her a treat than avoiding them myself. I think if I lived somewhere with plentiful wild, fresh mushrooms I could learn to like them raw. They're no slimy raw and I don't mind the flavour much.
There are various things I won't eat on ethical grounds, but they apply more to when I'm buying than when other people are; if asked my preferences in advance I would state them but if served them for dinner I would eat them, so they don't count, I think.
[Poll #983027]