foodstuffs you don't trust

[kea]

Phototropic has just told me he 'doesn't trust' pine nuts. at first i wasn't sure what he meant, but i think he means that he doesn't really know how to use them, and if he sees them in something he doesn't know if he'll like the taste.
which made me think about whether there was any food i didn't trust, and i decided i don't trust artichokes. i'm just not comfortable with them - i wouldn't know what to do with one if i bought it.
i also don't trust halloumi - i've heard it tastes salty and i've never tried it and tbh i don't trust it to actually taste nice (even tho lots of people say it does)
edit: oh and i don't trust plantains - i see them around peckham a lot but again, i don't know what to do with them.

so, what foodstuffs (either ingredients or whole dishes!) don't you trust?

 

[rennie]

YOU MUST TRY HALLOUMI. it's lush!

 

[Belushi]

Aubergine, my Nan told me it can be poisonous and thats enough to make me weary.

 

[maes]

YOU MUST TRY HALLOUMI. it's lush!

2nded with all my heart & belly, fucking gorgeousness

(esp fried in balsamic vinegar... *drools*)

 

[kea]

yes but this thread isn't about that, people, stay on-topic!


edit: oh i've thought of another - walnut oil. also - veggie suet.

 

[discplayer]

2nded with all my heart & belly, fucking gorgeousness

(esp fried in balsamic vinegar... *drools*)

Or barbecued! Quick, try it before the weather turns.

 

[ICB]

meat and any meat product

 

[Phototropic]

edit: oh i've thought of another - walnut oil. also - veggie suet.

Walnut oil is allright A dash in stir fry is meant to be nice I think.

I don't trust artichokes either and will give them a wide berth.

I also have a strong distrust that claims to replace any of my lovely meat products.

There are different levels of mistrust though. I don't trust sandwich ham (for obvious reaosns!!!) but I know I will like if I eat it (which I really don't want to actually do).

Pine nuts however. Now they make me uneasy.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Polenta

Any mushrooms other than "button"

 

[Poi E]

i don't trust plantains - i see them around peckham a lot but again, i don't know what to do with them.

smoke the skins, baby

 

[lyra_k]

corn meal. don't know what to do with it.

and corn flour (flour made of corn, as opposed to cornflour (the thickener) which is called corn starch here. I do trust that. ).

 

[lyra_k]

smoke the skins, baby

*gets flashback to grilling and trying to smoke the stringy bits from banana skins aged about 13. *

 

[maes]

meat and any meat product

Polenta

Yup

I tried to make something with polenta once & almost died...

 

[beeboo]

hmm - sadly I "wouldn't trust" a lot of proper meat or fish - haven't a clue about cuts of meat or what to do with a whole, unfilleted piece of fish.

It always say in recipe books things like 'ask your butcher to joint the chicken' or 'ask your fishmonger to descale the fish' and (aside from not having a local fishmonger or butcher) I always imagine they'd say 'sod off and do it yerself, yer lazy arse'. So I'm always too afraid to ask.

 

[Prince Rhyus]

Things with 'modified maize starch.' It's a bulking ingredient that is often found in meat products to bulk out the product - esp ready-made meals. It's cheap and has the nutritious content of cardboard - and apparently tastes like it too, hence the need for flavourings to mask it.

 

[Belushi]

Yup

I tried to make something with polenta once & almost died...

Yeah, I bought some once and it was foul.

 

[bluestreak]

meat and any meat product

yep.

anything that might contain the sort of tofu that is all soft and wobbly.

fruit teas. they're liars. they ain't tea.

 

[rubbershoes]

pears (yuk)

i've never liked them - the smell was enough to put me of

my mate gave me one once from his mum's garden and it was delicious.so i thought that they're not all bad.

but they are. i must have been so stoned that time that the taste of the "nice" one was obscured in my brain

mrs shoes forces me to have a try at one every now and again. she says that the ones i don't like are the other sort so, fool that i am, i have a bite.it's always vile.

one of you bastards suggested that pears went well in crumble. so i made it and it was lovely. apart from the pears. they ruined the crumble really

so that's me and pears. we're never going to get on. i don't care how nice you say they are and how well they go in anything. i don't trust them


and kea - try halloumi - it's loooovely. brushed with olive oil and grilled mmmmm

 

[bluestreak]

Yup

I tried to make something with polenta once & almost died...

i don't know what polenta is. am i thick?

i recommend plantains though. yummy!

 

[bluestreak]

and hallouomi is lush as fuck. i don't even like cheese and i LOVE it.

 

[Poi E]

fruit teas. they're liars. they ain't tea.

No maaan, they're herbal infusions.

 

[kea]

oh yeah, polenta for me too.

 

[maes]

i don't know what polenta is. am i thick?

i recommend plantains though. yummy!

Some kind of weird grainy block thing, related to pasta somehow I think, i vaguely remember having to chop up a big squidgy lump of the stuff... But stay anyway, it's evil

 

[discplayer]

Tofu.
Sushi. I even like smoked fish but there's something about sushi I've never got with.

 

[marco mark]

NON / LOW Alcohol beer

 

[Wolfie]

I don't trust rhubarb. It's sneaky stuff - it sits in the veg draw even though it's a fruit (at least I think it's a fruit - see how sneaky it is! ) - and I'm sure the stalks talk about me when I'm not in the kitchen, plotting stuff ...

 

[Wolfie]

oh and lobsters are duplicitous bastards as well - I wouldn't trust one as far as I could throw it - but then all the more reason to eat them IMO

 

[tarannau]

and hallouomi is lush as fuck. i don't even like cheese and i LOVE it.

Halloumi is like the smeg pulled from the arsecrack of other more distinguished cheeses. Like some form of absurd bogie, it has strange physical properties that resist the natural laws of physics and heat. It's wrong I tell you (even if it does taste ok)

I don't trust Polenta either, like many others. And I can't get to grips with okra. Too slimy in everything other than gumbo.

 

[Phototropic]

I don't trust kiwi fruit either. I don't mind the taste but I will always avoid it. Not the most trustworthy of fruits it has to be said.

 

[kea]

oh yeah okra for me too. glad it's not just me who doesn't trust so many foods!