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ernest_t_bass

12th Son of the Lama

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Aug 13, 2010 1:29 PM
OK, another food thread. This thread does not have to do with what foods you will and will not eat, but how it's prepared.

We were running low on coffee this morning (in the pot) so I added another scoop and some extra water, and let it brew with the rest of the stuff. My wife refused to drink it. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it. She just refused to drink it. She's also another one who refuses to pick around stuff. She just won't eat it. If something is not done a certain way, or burnt, etc. She is happier just throwing it out.

Any of you like this? Me, personally... I'm not. If I burn something. I'll eat it. If I make a drink the wrong way... suck it up and drink it. When it comes to how things are prepared, I'm about the furthest thing from picky.
Aug 13, 2010 9:29am
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Belly35

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Aug 13, 2010 2:01 PM
As a self taught gourmet cook some things require a prepared method of cooking or correct type of ingredients. You can’t substitute Miracle Whip for Real Mayonnaise or even Margarine for Butter this creates a completely different taste and or sometimes consistency of the food. So cooking method and ingredients are important to the quality of the food.

On standard every day stuff … what happens happens and it still the base food so I eat it… toast is still toast burnt or not.. It may taste different and I have to scrap off the carbon and add more butter but it’s still toast… Coffee bad …will not be the first time I had bad coffee ….

Don't put cheap whiskey in my Irish Coffee .....that really piss me off...
Aug 13, 2010 10:01am
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ernest_t_bass

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Aug 13, 2010 2:08 PM
^^^^
Agreed, but if something just isn't that good, I'll eat it before wasting money on it. My mother-in-law bought some terrible corn a few weeks ago. Very bad flavor, but it was edible. I was the only one that ate it.

To me, choosing not to eat that kinda stuff is borderline pretentious.
Aug 13, 2010 10:08am
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CenterBHSFan

333 - I'm only half evil

6,115 posts
Aug 13, 2010 4:21 PM
I'm a very picky eater.

For instance, I won't eat my beef if it's red/pink in the center. I can cook it medium/well or well and still keep the tenderness. I've never liked the taste of bloody stuff.
I won't eat anything that has shrimp or fish in it.
I hate thin and runny spaghetti sauce, which is why I make my own. Also, it needs oregano. My stepfather, who is sicilian, preaches all the time that oregano spoils it, but he lies. :)
I love cheese, but only certain kinds. Will not eat bleu or feta. (I could however, eat a whole brick of cream cheese lol)
Aug 13, 2010 12:21pm
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Timber

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Aug 13, 2010 5:28 PM
Ticks me off at times as well... I like to cook and it can be frustrating to leave out: Onions, mushrooms, peppers, garlic, salt, etc. to keep people happy.
Aug 13, 2010 1:28pm
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ernest_t_bass

12th Son of the Lama

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Aug 13, 2010 5:42 PM
Another thing that cracks me up about my wife is that she refuses to eat leftovers. Now, I like leftovers, and it doesn't bother me. She will often tell me to eat leftovers... I'll tell her to have some too... refuses.

I feel like the family dog :)
Aug 13, 2010 1:42pm
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I Wear Pants

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Aug 13, 2010 5:56 PM
While I'd probably bitch at you for making the coffee in such a way I'd also still drink it. I prefer things made in the correct fashion as I enjoy well made food and drink. But that doesn't mean I won't munch on some gross gas station food or something I burnt the hell out of.
Aug 13, 2010 1:56pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Aug 13, 2010 6:03 PM
I Wear Pants;450334 wrote:While I'd probably bitch at you for making the coffee in such a way I'd also still drink it. I prefer things made in the correct fashion as I enjoy well made food and drink. But that doesn't mean I won't munch on some gross gas station food or something I burnt the hell out of.

THIS is what I'm talking about. You'd at least still drink it. Hell, I expect to get bitched at, but still drink the stuff!
Aug 13, 2010 2:03pm
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Belly35

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Aug 13, 2010 6:24 PM
I paid good money for a few bad cups of coffee in my life so a bad cup of coffee cheap is not a problem.

No snow we go: I don't waiver in my cooking for anyone ..... If I take the time and the preperation to make a great dish ...... EAT IT and shut the hell up.

I know people who can't cook for shit and they tell me that the meal would have been better if not for the onions..... my comment to them is ... You'll right the meal would have been better with out you also....
Aug 13, 2010 2:24pm
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Apple

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Aug 13, 2010 6:26 PM
I don't do mushrooms. I use to pick them off pizzas and leave them on the plate if they were in spaghetti sauce or whatever. Now I usually eat them as long as there's not a ton of them. I'll put creme of celery in a recipe before i'd ever put creme of mushroom in it. yech!
Aug 13, 2010 2:26pm
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ts1227

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Aug 13, 2010 6:33 PM
There are things I flat out do not like and therefore don't eat, but if something I like is prepared not exactly to my liking I will still eat it, it's not worth getting fired up over and it's usually not THAT bad. People who do that (read: my father) piss me off
Aug 13, 2010 2:33pm
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Cat Food Flambe'

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Aug 14, 2010 1:15 AM
Militant picky eating is sometimes more about power than tastes. I used to watch my father-in-law ( a world class ass-wipe if there was ever one ) make his teenage kids sit at the table until bedtime because they wouldn't eat liver. Surprise - half of my wife's siblings won't eat much beside baloney sandwiches (oh - and amazing quantities of recreational pharmaceuticals. :( )

Freud aside, I don't mind accommodating individual tastes within reason. Example - Son Of Cat Food's girlfriend can't abide mushrooms, so when she's here, I'll fix something that can be easily altered (just setting some pasta sauce aside before adding 'shrooms, or making grill skewers and leaving the mushrooms off a couple of the sticks. It's also easy to just leave the BBQ sauce off a half-rack of ribs, which keeps my daughter happy. Most people are quite gracious about the entire matter.
Aug 13, 2010 9:15pm
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killdeer

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Aug 14, 2010 2:26 AM
"cold meat"

the term itself is disgusting....

the root of all food poisoning and nasty deli misadventures revolves around the world of sliced luke warm "cold cuts" laying on a slab under a counter for 3 days waiting to go on a sandwich.

i avoid it at all costs.
Aug 13, 2010 10:26pm
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CenterBHSFan

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Aug 14, 2010 3:40 AM
Apple;450372 wrote:I don't do mushrooms. I use to pick them off pizzas and leave them on the plate if they were in spaghetti sauce or whatever. Now I usually eat them as long as there's not a ton of them. I'll put creme of celery in a recipe before i'd ever put creme of mushroom in it. yech!
I do the same thing! I use creme of celery for things like green bean casserole.
Once I see mushrooms in certain foods (and olives, too) I'm inspecting and sorting lol
Aug 13, 2010 11:40pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Aug 16, 2010 1:55 AM
Another one today. My daughter wanted bagels at the grocery. Wife demanded I run back for cream cheese b/c she WILL NOT eat a bagel without cream cheese.
Aug 15, 2010 9:55pm
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Mohican00

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Aug 16, 2010 2:13 AM
your wife sounds awesome
Aug 15, 2010 10:13pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Aug 16, 2010 2:48 AM
Mohican00;452557 wrote:your wife sounds awesome

Most awesomerist
Aug 15, 2010 10:48pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Aug 16, 2010 3:25 AM
Mohican00;452557 wrote:your wife sounds awesome

And it wasn't as bad as I made it out to be.
Aug 15, 2010 11:25pm