Let's talk about food - Second try!

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I like food. I like pointless polls. I like combining the two. So voila!

[Poll #1339146]

Comments

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Pizza is probably my favorite thing to eat ever so I would also list it as a comfort food. Also, goulash. :0

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I knew there something obvious that I was forgetting.

Yay pizza!

[datawhorevoyeur.livejournal.com]

Apparently, I like everything. Except chitlins.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever had chitlins. I'm operating with the assumption that I wouldn't that I wouldn't like them.

[datawhorevoyeur.livejournal.com]

The smell alone should be banned. :-D

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

COOKIES!!!!!

Tapioca is...okay. I didn't know people had major opinions on it one way or the other. :-)

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I've found that for a lot of people, it's one of those foods that people either love or hate.

Except for the occasional oddball who is indifferent. ;)

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I can't eat most of my favorite foods as I can't eat fatty food right now. And yeah, pizza should be on the list as well of good stuff.

But food that must go away: head cheese, liver (and liverwurst), blood & tongue...aka just about anything that resides in my mother's fridge.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

No fatty foods = sadness.

It's true. Liver = yuck. When I was growing up, my parents used to buy beef by the side. Then freeze it and go through it over the course of a year or however long it took to finish it. Mom wouldn't include heart or tongue or kidney in the order. Liver usually was. But it was usually the last thing to be used. And sometimes required a couple of tries before she'd actually cook it.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

I think it's he fact that my mom grew up on a farm in Ireland. All I want to sa is that, "Mom, you live in a land where you can eat actual food. Stop with the nasty scary stuff. She usually has liver and kidney and all kinds of nasty crap in the house.

[datawhorevoyeur.livejournal.com]

Headcheese! Horrors!

Seriously. It's horrifying. Way worse than sausage.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

I love a lot os sausages. I fear a lot of what my mom loves. She intentionally buys that crap.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

ooh, i love sausages too. specially home made beef ones.

organ meats are some of the most nutrient dense meats out there, but liver is the only one i love. *g*

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever had a home made sausage, but I've had a lot of other kids (given that a lot of things are technically sausages that aren't called that - like pepperoni).

I think I'll pass on the organ meats. :D

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

i'll just take your lifetime share of liver and liverwurst then, yes?

now i'm craving it. hmph.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

You can definitely have all of that, especially right now, as my dad loves it but can't currently eat it. :)

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

One comfort food for me that I didn't include in the poll because it takes some explaining is waffles.

Waffles with syrup always sounds strange to me. I grew up eating them with a kind of sauce made from milk, sugar, vanilla, and (I think) flour. You heat it up until it becomes thick, then serve it over the waffles. It's a nice, hot, rib-sticking winter meal that I'm very fond of.

[jungleeyedgirl.livejournal.com]

My comfort food is usually chicken cutlets, though I just had myself a bowl of homemade soup and homemade bread for lunch (snow day!).

I loves me some good cake and fruit is only a dessert when it is strawberries covered in chocolate. But I'm more a cookieholic.

I would never eat sprouts or asparagus or mushrooms. My family has a genetic dislike of marshmallows (no, really. Everyone related to me by blood dislikes them. It's weird). However I know people who like all these things and I try not to hold it against them.

The foods I'd want to do away with are the things that just look or sound gross to me, and there are too many to name.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

There are few things as good as a really good bowl of soup on wintery kind of winter day.

[lostvoice.livejournal.com]

My comfort food depends on the type of mood I'm in.

[datawhorevoyeur.livejournal.com]

In other news, I am now very hungry.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

Thankfully I had just finished eating when I read this. hehehe

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

You've caught on to my devious plan: double-checking and/or expanding my list of go-to foods. ;)

[lovelypoet.livejournal.com]

My ultimate comfort food is Shrimp Coconut Curry (the ONLY form in which coconut is an acceptable food) with naan. It makes me happy.

And I believe in the healing power of fudge as a dessert.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms cannot be banned! Mushrooms are awesome! And what will the hobbits eat??

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms could just stay in/be exported to Middle Earth. Then the hobbits could have a plentiful supply.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

But then I could not make chicken and white sauce casserole! Or portobello melts! Then I would be sad. Mushrooms are delicious when properly cooked.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

No! I loves me some mushrooms! (not the magic kind)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

There are only a few foods I really dislike: black liquorice, raw mushrooms, raw spinach, badly cooked (watery, too dry, too runny) eggs. I'll eat pretty much anything.

And I'm awfully fond of brownies.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. It's amazing to me that red liquorice can be so good and black liquorice can be so nasty.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

i love most of the gluten-free alternates i've made up, like mac and cheese and pizza (especially with a meat crust), and pancakes with blueberries and muffins. ooh, quiche. with bacon.

for desserts i like very dark chocolate, berries and whipped cream, brownies, chocolate torte, and thin pancakes with sugar and lemon or sugar and cinnamon or wrapped around fruit. nom nom nom.

i have not had breakfast yet since i just got up and now i am SO HUNGRY OMG

i wouldnt ban any foods since i know ppl who like just about everything i hate, but if i had to pick something it would be gluten grains and corn and everything with either in them, just so i'd have the chance to have food away from home without getting sick *g*

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up, I didn't really like dark chocolate. Somewhere along the way that switched. Now, while I'll eat any chocolate, I think dark chocolate is just divine.

Oh yes on quiche. I love it too.

And brownies are always good.

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

Food to be banned? Tongue. It's an abomination.

I picked grilled cheese sandwiches for my comfort food, but I must point out that without a dill pickle on the side, there is no comfort to be had.

Other comfort foods : Hot pastrami sandwiches (which also require a dill pickle) and meatloaf (good, homemade, not institutional).

I picked cheesecake, but cake, pie, and ice cream are also dandy.

Wow, eight people picked fresh fruit! They are soooo healthy! I consider fruit to be more of a side dish. Except watermelon. A big slab of ripe watermelon? That's a dessert.

Wait, is it still considered fresh fruit completely buried in whipped cream? That's a desert, too...

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

For a long time, the catch phrase in my department at work was "fruit is not dessert. This came about one day when we all went out to lunch and we were all debating whether to have dessert or not. We were looking over the dessert menu and I think one of the options was some sort of dish of various berries. To which a co-worker (probably the healthiest eater among us) said, you guessed it "fruit is not dessert."

Wait, is it still considered fresh fruit completely buried in whipped cream? That's a desert, too...

That's entering parfait territory isn't it? Either way, while it's still fruit, I would consider it to have more dessert-like qualities.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms are teh evil.

I said "other" for comfort foods, but I don't really know what I'd consider a comfort food. I guess it changes. Hmmm... Chocolate soy milk, maybe?

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it can be different depending on situation or mood. What lifts your spirits when you're feeling down may not be the same thing that you like when you're sick or when you just want to eat something good.

Coconut is more evil than mushrooms. But mushrooms certainly rank high in evilosity.

[pawswithclaws.livejournal.com]

I know I'm a minority, but my favorite comfort food is a big loaded salad. Lettuce, cucumbers,cheese, croutons, peppers, onions, corn, avocado, cold-cuts, steak-tips...Okay, not all at once, but a mix and match of the above ingredients with a ton of yummy dressing....now that's comfort food. And hummus. With Kalamata olives. And feta cheese.

Dessert I can typically do without. Tapioca is just disgusting. Foods to be abolished include tomatoes (unless cooked), spinach when cooked and tripe. I wholeheartedly support the abolition of brussel sprouts (nasty little creatures), beets and 'organ' meats.

Here's another category - food issues I've gotten over: As a kid I hated onions, and now they're my favorite ingredient. In the past couple of years I've also grown to love chickpeas and mushrooms as ingredients in recipes.