What are your Yuck and Yum foods?

maxlinger60 said:

What are the foods that make you wince? How about the ones that you can always count on?

I found that after fending for myself for 3 years through university I was able to eat almost anything without being as fussy as I was when younger. Being broke and hungry can motivate you to be very flexible in what you will try.

A few things that seemed vile actually turned out to be really tasty - offal for example seems a horrendous concept but there are quite a lot of humble dishes here in Brazil that use things like the stomach of the cow that are incredubly tasty.

The texture is something I long ago learned to overcome as the flavour is so good - probably down to the spices it is cooked in.

When the same sort of dish is made in the UK (I think it is reffered to here as tripe) then my experience is that it is like slimy squares of wool cooked in walpaper paste. Spices never seem to come into the equation and the sauce is horrendous.

When I lived in the UK we used to host supper club events to make some spare cash - they are like dinner parties where people pay to attend and we made all Brazillian dishes which made people try things they would not normally consider and these were a great success.

A few people refused to try and a few were intolerant of some ingredients but on the whole it helped people reconsider the way they season their foods.

Yum 

• Chicken, 
• Noddles
• Fish
• Chips
• Mashed Potatoes 
• Jaffa Cakes 
• Beans
• Tuna
• Sweetcorn

Yuk

• Nuts
• Brocoli 
• Sprouts 
• Boiled Potato
• Beetroat 
• Crips 

I can't do melons or sweetcorn, but I love apsparagus

I forgot about Asparagus….can’t stand the smell, thinking of smell there is watermelon and sweetcorn…..

Yuk:  beetroot, mustard, broad/butter beans, asparagus, most boiled veg (except potatoes), most fish & shellfish (white fish in batter or creamy sauce is ok)

Yum: chocolate, most puddings, most cakes, chicken dippers with sweet chilli sauce, sweetcorn, baby potatoes, crispy base pizza with coleslaw or baked beans, Roast parsnips, Natural yogurt with a dollop of strawberry jam, ryvita sour cream & chive thins, spam & tomato sandwiches.

Oh and I also hate nuts and any kind of spice. The plainer the better in my world.

I can't be doing with blancmange and rice puddings, milk puddings in general

Wheetabix and most other breakfast cereals except porrige, but I like it plain and made with water and a pinch of salt.

Bananas and most other tropical fruits

Turnips and celeriac, any raddish

Chinese food along with most other South East Asian Food, except thai curries.

Chips

I love Indian food, except the sweets,

Chilli's

chocolate

pasta

proper bread

most vegetables that arn't in the turnip family

Fried egg sandwich or fried egg on toast

salad leaves

Firstly what is an uncrustable?

I have been an extremely fussy eater since very snall but have managed to progress a bit since then but still draw a lot of attention to my habits.

Food that are my go to are

• Beef especially steak and roasting joints - needs to be to my specifications really, I don't like fatty things for example
• Potatoes - this is my big thing I am big potato fan, crisps have always been my thing, but love roast potatoes, chips, crispy potatoes, potatoes boulangerie.....and so on
• Vegetables - will depend on what other things I am eating but acceptable ones are Broccoli, Cabbage (Green not white), carrots, brussel sprouts, green beans fine only, onions, peppers and garden peas
• Sausages - need to be a particular variety which is pork but careful with additional ingredients
• Special K - breakfast item
• Bacon, lean unsmoked and thick
• Bread - T cakes, baguette - white really
• Ham not smoked
• Chicken - breast only and must be white, definitely no bone stuff or processed stuff

Food that I wouldnt touch at all

• Fish
• Seafood - allergic
• Fruits - texture thing mainly would have juice for example
• Mayo - a real pet hate
• Anything to fatty or oily
• Nuts
• All beans/pulses apart from garden peas and fine green beans
• All curries
• All chinese/Thai food
• Burgers
• Anything with bones 
• Lamb
• Pork except as sausages
• Creamy things, cream in general really
• Buffet food
• Parsnips
• Turnips
• Rice
• Aubergine

I will stop there as I could go on forever......I am the worst when it comes to going out for a meal especially to new places, usually a nightmare....

I'm pretty restricted in what I eat but my worst foods are:

• Anything with sauce
• Soup
• Anything tomato related
• Cream or anything that tastes creamy
• Milk
• Fish
• Anything that has a slimy texture
• Most vegetables (apart from broccoli and peas)
• Foods that are mixed together with other food

My safe food:

• Potatoes - jacket, mash, roast or chips
• Most meat but not keen on dry meats like chicken unless it's in bread crumbs
• Bananas
• Chocolate
• Bagels
• Fried or poached eggs

Food I love… mostly whatever I cook

Food I hate, … anything processed for heating in a microwave … "ping" meals.