foodstuffs you don't trust

[tobyjug]

I always avoid food that is likely to look the same going out as it did going in.

 

[kea]

another one - satay. because i once got a stomach bug after eating some vegetables in satay sauce, and after spending 12 hours throwing up satay-flavoured vomit, i really can't even stand the smell of the stuff now, let alone the taste

 

[aqua]

I can honestly say I don't distrust anything compared to you lot

celery I dont like but I don't distrust it

I'll have a think some more

 

[jacobs steel]

Quorn, tried it twice and was very sick both times

 

[beeboo]

I bought some and it's vile, vile, vile. Can I send you my pack? I can't bear to throw it away - it seems so wasteful.

yeah, I'll happily take any unwanted foodstuffs!

*plans dinner of quinoa with sweetcorn and halloumi*

 

[liberty]

Lentils.. I have no idea what they are all about

 

[lizzieloo]

Lentils.. I have no idea what they are all about

Yum!

 

[dessiato]

In France, near Bourgiel, I bought a raw looking sausage, I cooked it for two hours, it was still raw looking, even the dog wouldn't eat it. I am very suspicious of reddish French sausages. Otherwise I'll eat most things, even worms in a gulls egg omelette. But that's another story.

And canned Swedish fermented fish is seriously odd, I can't even open the can.

 

[lizzieloo]

In France, near Bourgiel, I bought a raw looking sausage, I cooked it for two hours, it was still raw looking, even the dog wouldn't eat it. I am very suspicious of reddish French sausages. Otherwise I'll eat most things, even worms in a gulls egg omelette. But that's another story.

And canned Swedish fermented fish is seriously odd, I can't even open the can.

Alot of continental sausages are meant to be eaten raw

 

[mr steev]

Polenta's ok if it's left to solidify and fried in slices, not so sure about semolina style though, and okra only goes slimy when it's overcooked

I don't trust ice 'cream' made from non-dairy fat.

 

[trashpony]

I don't trust ice 'cream' made from non-dairy fat.

No, that's just plain wrong. Which reminds me - 'chocolate-flavoured confectionery'. WTF?

 

[dessiato]

Alot of continental sausages are meant to be eaten raw

But the woman said it needed cooking first. And when a dog won't eat something it has to be suspicious.

 

[pogofish]

Polenta's ok if it's left to solidify and fried in slices,

I don't trust ice 'cream' made from non-dairy fat.

A staple food of the prostitutes who used to regularly stop by my local cafe in Geneva, years back.

Wise! A scientist I once worked with was researching one of the main additives used to give non-dairy ice cream its texture & to help it stay soft. Direct quote - "I'd rather my girl smoked 20 a day than eat that stuff". Needless to say, the manufacturer pulled the funding when the results began to look bad. It still gets-in though, due to it being processed from a more acceptable natural source.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Wise! A scientist I once worked with was researching one of the main additives used to give non-dairy ice cream its texture & to help it stay soft. Direct quote - "I'd rather my girl smoked 20 a day than eat that stuff". Needless to say, the manufacturer pulled the funding when the results began to look bad. It still gets-in though, due to it being processed from a more acceptable natural source.

What the hell was it??

 

[pogofish]

What the hell was it??

Carigeenan - Highly processed seaweed extract. An increasingly common additive/texturiser in all sorts of foods, especially dairy, sweet & chilled/frozen.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Carigeenan - Highly processed seaweed extract. An increasingly common additive/texturiser in all sorts of foods, especially dairy, sweet & chilled/frozen.

OMG!!!! *vomits*

 

[Shmu]

Other people's baked potatoes. I have a total phobia about undercooked potato.

I think it's the only food that makes me feel sick, just thinking about it. If potatoes have been cooked by other people, I don't know if they've been done to death, so I always go in verrry slowly just in case.

 

[pogofish]

OMG!!!! *vomits*

Another quote from a medic involved in the same work - "Anyone eating anything with this in it might as well just buy a saw & cut their own legs off. It would save us a lot of bother!"

Nice!

 

[Guineveretoo]

I am rather wary of falafel unless I have prepared it myself, ever since I got ill after eating it at a festival.

I am also rather wary of Hippy Peanut Butter since the scare a few years ago, when it was discovered that some unprocessed peanut butter was poisonous (because of a "bloom" on the peanuts or something) and it had to be recalled.

I am also totally wary of cheese, because I am allergic to it and it makes me vomit. Rather dramatically sometimes.

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

Anything with artificial additives like 'flavourings', aspartame, saccharin and monosodium glutamate. Especially those with 'natural' flavourings, some of which I read are worse than their unnatural alternatives (they use 'natural' flavourings so as to impress potential buyers of a product... 'natural flavourings' sounds better for you than just 'flavourings' doesn't it. crafty bastards.)

 

[lang rabbie]

methi (fenugreek) -
I suspect I once had a dish made from old seeds in which the oil had gone rancid, but I now can't touch a curry once I can even taste a hint of it.

 

[lizzieloo]

methi (fenugreek) -
I suspect I once had a dish made from old seeds in which the oil had gone rancid, but I now can't touch a curry once I can even taste a hint of it.

I'm the same with coriander.

Smells like wee

Tastes like diesel

 

[Wolfie]

dessicated coconut - it's too squeeky by half

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm surprised Bob Marley's Dad hasn't been on this thread to talk about yams and how crap they are!!!

(Sorry BM's D but that was one of the most hilarious vegetable threads I've ever read!)

 

[trashpony]

I'm surprised Bob Marley's Dad hasn't been on this thread to talk about yams and how crap they are!!!

(Sorry BM's D but that was one of the most hilarious vegetable threads I've ever read!)

Thank you for drawing my attention to that thread. I'm crying with laughter

 

[madamv]

I am also totally wary of cheese, because I am allergic to it and it makes me vomit. Rather dramatically sometimes.

O no. Thats dreadful. I love love love cheese. Poor you.

and BMD, what a grin. Fab reading - cheers luvvie x

 

[lynne8]

bulgar wheat.

i don't know what it is, or what it does, but i bought some from scoopaway anyway, "in case it comes in handy"

would you trust something called 'bulgar wheat'?

it's vile, I used some in stuffed peppers and it expanded to about 40 times its initial size, believe me, it'll never "come in handy"

I'm also suspicious of several types of beans: butter, kidney, white, and chickpeas, bleck..

 

[Poi E]

it's vile, I used some in stuffed peppers and it expanded to about 40 times its initial size, believe me, it'll never "come in handy"

I'm also suspicious of several types of beans: butter, kidney, white, and chickpeas, bleck..

Meat and two veg for you then.

 

[lynne8]

Meat and two veg for you then.

not really! Just not the beans I mentioned.

 

[Tricky Mickey]

bulgar wheat.

i don't know what it is, or what it does, but i bought some from scoopaway anyway, "in case it comes in handy"

would you trust something called 'bulgar wheat'?

Yes. Cold bulgur with chopped parsley and lots of lemon juice and a few black olives and a bit of chopped onion, mint and tomato and you've got a top salad.

My eyes do narrow suspiciously, though, at nearly all offal and off-cuts. Tripe, liver, brains, trotters, pig-noses, cow-tongue, sweetbreads, heart, sheep bollocks: i've ate 'em all, and never will do again.

The single worst thing I have ever, ever eaten was a shady cowfoot soup in Panama City last week. The hoof still had skin on the bottom. I didn't notice till I was chewing it.