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Came across this online, how many points did you get?
Picky Eaters
- Thread starter Raymond Lin
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Am I the winner... 46 points! I am the meaning of fussy eaters
There are only 60pts to get!
I like them all, never tried snails. But I'd try them.
List is quite tame. Should have Balut on there
Yeah, many things missing but I think that's the point. If it starts putting things like snake, jellyfish, chicken hearts, pigs brains, sea urchin, starfish, raw prawns....people would just be racking up points. I remember my first ever trip to Paris, I went to some local restaurant, didn't speak a word of french, asked for snails for dinner. It was nice, taste of just garlic really but chewy. Not that much different to say squid really.
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I love tofu, in ALL their forms. There is an area in Japan that is famous for tofu (In Nikko I think), especially their tofu skins. There are restaurants specialises in it.
This is basically Tofu, Tofu skins and pickles.
It's a thing, even raw chicken is a thing.
I think I'll give that a miss
I recall this was raw.
I didn't find a chicken sashimi place though when i went.
I think the point is that with those, you are not really a picky eater as it is quite specialised in our daily routine. Not eating lettuce or bread or peas would be picky. I wouldn't call someone not eating raw chicken a picky eater.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to find and eat jelled eels but I think the test is more if you are served it on a plate when going to a friend’s for dinner. Would you eat it or leave it.
I have eaten almost everything mentioned so far bar a few things I’ve never heard of, but I’d give anything a try at least once.
True story - so my parents cooks a lot of fish, growing up i used to pick the eyeball out of a fish and eat it and chew it until the centre part which is almost like hard plastic. I found it strangely enjoyable.
I don'd do that anymore!
Hmmmmmm seafood platter!
The fresh crunchy flavour?!
Sounds like you have a problem with food with a certain texture.
I could not disagree more!
Do you know what I find meh, something I seldom get (but eat it if served).
Cake.
I hardly ever buy cake, at work if there is someone's birthday, I would often skip it. I know cake isn't it's own food (natural), but I find cake to be really dull and boring. I rather eat a bowl of Lychee.
I don’t compare the 2, it’s like I don’t compare fresh cabbage to Kimchi or fresh pork chop to Spam. One is fresh, one isn’t, so to say they are different is stating the obvious and I wouldn’t even begin to compare them.
Now that’s over, look at it on its own and see what I can make with it. Tuna bake, tuna melt, tuna sandwiches.
I had that 2 nights ago! It comes in a tin, black jelly. I just get a knife and cut it into cubes in a bowl, sprinkle some brown sugar on top and eat it. Best eaten when chilled.
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Like an Apple or fresh bell pepper or a Starfruit or celery.
So my first reaction to reading that is kind of "yuck". Well, more than "kind of" if I'm honest. But then I thought... well, I really enjoy whitebait and you eat them whole, eyes and all so perhaps there's not really much difference? I dunno. Still don't get any urges to chew on fish eyes, though.
Ah yeah, I find the same with sprouts. Most people seem to cook them by boiling them to a semi-mush, and in that state I think they're distinctly unpalatable. However, when they're par-boiled and then roasted or fried with bacon, chestnuts, garlic, etc. they become something quite sublime.
Some people, not all, but some, when they say "I don't like that". What they really mean is "I have only had that 1 way and it was cooked terribly" What it came down to is they don't know how to use that ingredient to cook it the best way and they blame the ingredient tasting bad as oppose to their terrible cooking. So from that they wouldn't ever eat it as they associate it in their mind that is what it taste like and that is forever how it will taste like. Their brain will subconsciously always engage that part and bring that memory up whenever even the name of the ingredient is mentioned.
"Nope, I don't like that!"
Even when it is cooked totally different, in a different recipe.
That is a key part of a picky eater.
It isn't a single thing? Really? colour me surprised! lol
Any (bold, italics and underlined) cake is meh from me.
shouldn't be so fussy and disregard a massively diverse type of food.
but seriously, you say you dislike cake but they are do varied it like saying you dont like vegetables when. there are hundreds of types and as many ways to prepare them it seems odd to discount the entire set of all possible vegetable dishes
Really, there are different kinds of cakes? You learn something new everyday!
I don't dislike cake, I am indifference to cake, all cakes and I mean ALL cakes and yes I know there are different varieties but I stress again, for the 4th time, as you clearly missed my ALL with Bold, Italics and UNDERLINE previously. ALL kinds of cakes, birthday, carrot, fruit, chocolate, etc etc. I am indifference to it. Sometimes I'd buy it if the situation arise like in Tokyo and I am in a famous place for that cake, like I am in Vienna. I will buy it a Sacher Tort.
Indifference, meh.
If I am at someone's dinner party and at the end they bring out cake for dessert. Meh. I will eat it, but I am not excited by it, no matter how special it is. I'd choose some jelly over cake tbh. Picky eater would leave the peas on the plate when they eat their dinner, I'll eat the cake as offered, if offered, out of courtesy.
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This was from the original one at the original place (Hotel Sacher) in Vienna, as per the writing on the napkin. I have no idea how it’s made but it’s THE one that started it all though.
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