Tuesday, November 18, 2025

More About Food


I am not super-picky when it comes to food. But there are a few things that everyone seems to like and I just... blergh:

  • peanut butter-chocolate combination (like Reese's-Pieces - no thank you!)
  • mint-chocolate combination 
  • marshmallows
  • soda drinks 
  • complicated ice creams (with lost of random bits and pieces that are not fruit or berries and that have no business being inside my ice cream) 
  • Nerds (candy)
  • Soft-serve ice cream
  • Beer
  • Doughnuts
  • Dry pretzels
  • Whipped cream from those aerosol cans - my kids actually (horror of horrors) spray it directly into their mouths (when they are certain I can't see them) 

Then again, there is a (probably) extensive list of things that I really like but other people look at me like I've sprouted an extra head.
  • Buttermilk (to drink)
  • Very tart cherries (especially right from the tree)
  • Pickled herring
  • Pickled mushrooms
  • Mulberries (why does no one else eat them?)
  • Fish eggs/roe
  • Cow tongue (omg, I can't find it anywhere!!!! I really would love to make some for New Years!)
  • Pancake batter, bread dough

A few things I had as a kid that would be eyebrow-raising if I mentioned it in polite society:
  • Raw milk (so fresh it's still warm after the cow has been milked)
  • Curdled milk
  • Raw eggs (make 2 small holes with a needle and suck them out)
  • Gnawing on chicken toes (in a soup)
  • Pine nuts that you actually had to get out of the cone and then crack with a hammer (or a large stone)
  • Bone marrow 


And finally, a list of things I thought were super weird when I first tried them as an adult, but grew to really like them:
  • Avocadoes
  • Tofu
  • Mangoes
  • Roasted chestnuts
  • Pawpaws
  • Fresh figs

Is there any food that you really like but everyone else thinks is weird?
Is there any food you absolutely despise but everyone around you likes it?

1 comment:

  1. As a Russian, I can relate to so many of these!!!
    France had a wonderful cow tongue in jelly- I loved it. Also, pâté and eggplant spread.
    When I eat my chicken legs, I pretty much shave them to the bone. My kids think it’s hilarious.
    Let them think that, I’m enjoying myself.
    Dasha

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