Acquired tastes you still haven't acquired yet
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CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I love olives, gherkins, kippers and anchovies, but loathe tinned pilchards and pickled onions.
Roquefort isn't a "mouldy" cheese I'd have chosen for an intro to them. Something like Danish Blue or Torte di Dolcelatte would have been a less bitter introduction.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
When I grew up, "Gorgonzola" was always the canonical Stinky Blue Cheese. For all I knew, it didn't even exist, but if my dad was going off on some comically extravagant riff about stinky blue cheese, it was "Gorgonzola". Somewhat intimidated by its reputation, I never tried it until my 30s, when I happened to discover a gorgonzola and spinach pizza in Pizza Express. After they stopped doing it, I made my own version, adding walnuts. I did make the mistake of putting a whole 150g packet of it on the first one I made, which was a bit salty and overpowering. I can get 4 pizzas out of a pack nowI love olives, gherkins, kippers and anchovies, but loathe tinned pilchards and pickled onions.
Roquefort isn't a "mouldy" cheese I'd have chosen for an intro to them. Something like Danish Blue or Torte di Dolcelatte would have been a less bitter introduction.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I like those little glass tubs of pickled cockles. Parsons I think the brand is.
Agree with the snails. The lurk in the grass climbing over dog turds and dead squirrels.
I think Fez909 was planning to open a snail battery farm at some point.
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
Snails and oysters for me. Yuck.
I don't eat meat and people often assume that you would miss bacon or chicken but for me it's haggis and really stinky salami that make me want to eat meat again. I think I must have killed off all of my tastebuds or something.
I don't eat meat and people often assume that you would miss bacon or chicken but for me it's haggis and really stinky salami that make me want to eat meat again. I think I must have killed off all of my tastebuds or something.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Tofu supposedly you can make something tasty with it I have failed as yet.
Fez909
toilet expert
I still regret not going through with this plan.I like those little glass tubs of pickled cockles. Parsons I think the brand is.
Agree with the snails. The lurk in the grass climbing over dog turds and dead squirrels.
I think Fez909 was planning to open a snail battery farm at some point.
I have a fishbowl in my garden currently, that was originally meant to be the home for the battery farm, and it has been there ever since, gathering rainwater and full of pebbles. My ex planted some bulbs in it, and it acquired some creeping plant roots. But it'll always be the snail house to me
Maybe next year.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
You have to make it happen. If you don't get organised your dream of being a battery farmer will only advance at snails pace.I still regret not going through with this plan.
I have a fishbowl in my garden currently, that was originally meant to be the home for the battery farm, and it has been there ever since, gathering rainwater and full of pebbles. My ex planted some bulbs in it, and it acquired some creeping plant roots. But it'll always be the snail house to me
Maybe next year.
Fez909
toilet expert
I might make it my resolution for 2017.You have to make it happen. If you don't get organised your dream of being a battery farmer will only advance at snails pace.
I rarely make resolutions, but previous ones have included eating something I killed myself. I almost failed but then an unexpected mackerel fishing trip came up and I ended up killing about 100 fish. It was brutal and horrible
Maybe I shouldn't make any more resolutions...
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I keep trying to like black pudding but I just don't like it. This makes me sad as i love sausages in most forms. I had some supposedly very good black pudding recently and whilst it's edible to me, I just didn't like the intensity and metalicness (??) of the flavour. And then I always remember that it's blood and ugh.....my "just no" reflex kicks in. I hate that I have that reflex but I just don't want to eat blood sausage. Wont stop me from trying again though. I just keep thinking that there is a black pudding out there that will make me finally see the light. Hey ho!
Fez909
toilet expert
If you don't like it on its own, you need to pair it up. It goes exceptionally well with eggs and goat cheese (either of them on their own, not necessarily together).
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I've only had it as a breakfast component so yeah - you might be right. I do seem slightly obsessed with wanting to like it and will try it whenever it's there but won't ruin an entire meal if I dont like it. I can imagine the flavour with a sharp goats cheese to cut through that intense richness.
Hmmm....may add this to the list of things my cheffy partner is promising to find a way to get me me to like. Top of that list at the moment is avocados. To me they are green slime that ruins an otherwise delicious crunchy salad.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I've ate it as a late night snack fried to a crisp as you can get four thick slices from Tesco Express, which shuts at 11pm.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Don't take the skin off then.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Coffee
Tea
Red wine
Whiskey
Gherkins
Blue cheese
There are other things I don't like, but that's not an acquired taste thing. It's because they are objectively foul:
Avocado
Porridge
Bread sauce
Celery
Courgettes
Parsnips
Tea
Red wine
Whiskey
Gherkins
Blue cheese
There are other things I don't like, but that's not an acquired taste thing. It's because they are objectively foul:
Avocado
Porridge
Bread sauce
Celery
Courgettes
Parsnips
Fez909
toilet expert
More Tips From Fez (tm):
Wait until the kiwi is ripe enough and slice it in half. Use a teaspoon to scoop out the flesh, and if you do it right, it should come out perfectly intact...a bit like an avocado.
Kiwi are amazing. One of the best fruit ever when they're ripe.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I bought 3 avocados yesterday - martyr that I am - and will try for breakfast this morning mashing them with a bit of lemon juice, pepper, and chilli flakes, drizzling with tahini ( my current favourite thing) and topping with poached eggs. I will report back.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Are these things that you just don't like or are so horrible you couldn't eat them, even to be polite?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Oh yeah, liver is a bit too much sometimes.
Can eat it it I have to though.
Once had a calf's liver which was nice enough
And I like paté.
Can eat it it I have to though.
Once had a calf's liver which was nice enough
And I like paté.
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I think we need to define what an "aquired taste" is. Is it a foodstuff that has a strong or unusual flavour that is initially shocking but over time becomes palatable to many people? Olives being the example most people usually cite. It seems that these flavours are those that once one has acquired the taste for them, become almost obsessional precisely because nothing else has that same intensity of flavour.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I absolutely love liver and kidneys but I always have done so they dont fit into the definition of "aquired tastes" for me. Everyone seems to taste things differently. Which kind of fucks with all the bullshit around restaurant food and with wine in particular.
