Foods that should be banished to hell...

[Bonehelm]

Have you ever had the korean dish called pho? It is a kind of beef soup with several kinds of meat from the animal, including tripe. I hated tripe until I had this.

Pho is vietnamnese, fool.

[Kullervo]

Pho is vietnamnese, fool.

Err, that's what I meant. I haven't had Korean food.

[oyasumi]

What is wrong with you people? Who hates tofu? Or watermelon? Anybody that dislikes pizza is an idiot, there is no way around this. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the tomato.

What really should be banished to hell is anything involving high-fructose corn syrup. That stuff is so bad for you on so many levels.

This is the answer. It's terrible. Please use real sugar.

Korean barbeque is some of the greatest stuff on the planet, to name some good food.

[Bonehelm]

What is wrong with you people? Who hates tofu? Or watermelon? Anybody that dislikes pizza is an idiot, there is no way around this. I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the tomato.

This is the answer. It's terrible. Please use real sugar.

Korean barbeque is some of the greatest stuff on the planet, to name some good food.

That, I agree with.

and may I add, white chocolate is probably the most evil, un-called for, sinister, satanic food ever invented.

[M forever]

I think white chocolate is great!!!

Y'all should watch one of my favorite TV shows some time, "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" on the Travel Channel.



Zimmern travels all over the world and tries the most bizarre foods he comes across, all sorts of worms, maggots, insects, intestines, eyeballs, brain, feet, but also uncommon and uncommonly prepared meats and vegetables. There is some really bizarre stuff out there that people actually eat!

The worst for me so far was some Philippine snack which is a half developed chicken embryo in a cooked egg...and, of course, tarantula on a stick!  I kid you not. I still have the episode on my DVR but it is not hooked up to the PC so I can't provide a screenshot. That totally freaked me out.

But it's a very entertaining show anyway. Interestingly, with all th stuff that he manages to eat, Zimmern's nemesis, the one food that he says he can not eat (and unsuccessfully tried to on camera) is the *Durian*, a SE Asian fruit I had never heard of. Apparently, it tastes and smells really nasty...

[Bonehelm]

I think white chocolate is great!!!

Y'all should watch one of my favorite TV shows some time, "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" on the Travel Channel.



Zimmern travels all over the world and tries the most bizarre foods he comes across, all sorts of worms, maggots, insects, intestines, eyeballs, brain, feet, but also uncommon and uncommonly prepared meats and vegetables. There is some really bizarre stuff out there that people actually eat!

The worst for me so far was some Philippine snack which is a half developed chicken embryo in a cooked egg...and, of course, tarantula on a stick!  I kid you not. I still have the episode on my DVR but it is not hooked up to the PC so I can't provide a screenshot. That totally freaked me out.

But it's a very entertaining show anyway. Interestingly, with all th stuff that he manages to eat, Zimmern's nemesis, the one food that he says he can not eat (and unsuccessfully tried to on camera) is the *Durian*, a SE Asian fruit I had never heard of. Apparently, it tastes and smells really nasty...

People keep telling me white chocolate tastes just like it's dark counterpart and the only difference between them is the color. Lies.

[Novi]

But it's a very entertaining show anyway. Interestingly, with all th stuff that he manages to eat, Zimmern's nemesis, the one food that he says he can not eat (and unsuccessfully tried to on camera) is the *Durian*, a SE Asian fruit I had never heard of. Apparently, it tastes and smells really nasty...

Yeah, that stuff's banned in hotels and on planes .

[Siedler]

I love white chocolate, but what I really hate is blue cheese! The smell, the taste, it's just disgusting! Even when it's just a part of food like in pizza.

[M forever]

I love blue cheese, and Gorgonzola, and similar cheese.

Cheese: the smellier, the better!

Or do you want that tasteless, aroma less Gouda stuff? That's like chewing on yellow plastic.

In Sachsen (Saxony, the East German state Leipzig and Dresden are in), they have a cheese with a crust of live mite. I kid you not. I haven't tried it myself yet, though. I hear it's really crunchy and "pearly" on the tongue 

[Que]

I love blue cheese, and Gorgonzola, and similar cheese.

Cheese: the smellier, the better!

Or do you want that tasteless, aroma less Gouda stuff? That's like chewing on yellow plastic.

Agreed M, but please don't blame Dutch cheese as such - it only went down the toilet with commercial mass production. Most people don't like pronounced tastes of any kind (conclusion: most modern consumers have the taste buds of a 5 year old... ). The Dutch are just too much interested in making money and are little interested in preserving their heritage.

But good tasting Dutch cheese can still be found: small scale produced, organic cheese is still superb. In fact a small cooperative based near my village of birth exports its entire output of Edammer cheese to ....Germany!

Q

[M forever]

I wasn't just thinking of Gouda specifically, but any kind of industrially mass produced, tasteless, rubbery stuff that is perpetrated on people as "cheese" everywhere, not just what they make in Holland. For some reasons, probably the ones you mentioned, I automatically associate that with that type of cheese. Even worse than the cheese though may be the tomatoes they grow in those vast greenhouses, those red, watery, tasteless things...yuk. But then the consumers who buy the stuff everywhere are just as much to blame as the producers. They just satisfy a demand for cheap products. And the EU agrarian administration in general which subsidizes all that crap. So that more of that subsidized overproduction can rot away in huge storehouses while elsewhere people don't have the barest minimum to survive...

[Scriptavolant]

Cheese: the smellier, the better!

M, try this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

(Well, don't  )

[Que]

I wasn't just thinking of Gouda specifically, but any kind of industrially mass produced, tasteless, rubbery stuff that is perpetrated on people as "cheese" everywhere, not just what they make in Holland. For some reasons, probably the ones you mentioned, I automatically associate that with that type of cheese. Even worse than the cheese though may be the tomatoes they grow in those vast greenhouses, those red, watery, tasteless things...yuk.

M, even worse is the mass produced meat produced here! In what is appropriately called the "bio-industry".
I mean, no growth hormones are used (like in the US), but every legal method to lower the costs of production is applied. It's an embarrassing display of lack of taste and a lack of interest in animal welfare. Cows in the UK or France have a much better life.

Q

[Scriptavolant]

My grandmother is dutch, living in Valkenswaard. I've been there many times when I was a child. I remember when I asked her for a cheese sandwich she used to stuff it with gigantic slices of butter. I couldn't eat those sandwiches   .

[M forever]

M, try this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

That looks...interesting...

M, even worse is the mass produced meat produced here! In what is appropriately called the "bio-industry".
I mean, no growth hormones are used (like in the US), but every legal method to lower the costs of production is applied. It's an embarrassing display of lack of taste and a lack of interest in animal welfare. Cows in the UK or France have a much better life.

Well, there is a lot of bio-industry nastiness going on in many places. Wasn't the BSE thing our British friends served us also a product of industrialized feeding methods (because they fed the cows with ground pig brain or something like that)?

[Que]

(because they fed the cows with ground pig brain or something like that)?

Sheep.  
That's why I only eat organic meat - that tastes ten times better and just for one or two euros more.

Q

[M forever]

From your picture I would have sworn you are a vegetarian! 

[Que]

From your picture I would have sworn you are a vegetarian! 

But I need something with a sturdy taste to go with my wine! 
Although that particular evening we had fish and prawns...

Q

[M forever]

Oh, very nice...at the end of the day, I think nothing beats really good seafood! The other week, after we had successfully finished a project in Carson City, NV, our boss took us to a really great Indian restaurant they have in town (I know it sounds unlikely, but it's true...), and they had great seafood stuff, the specialty was a selection of seafood in a curry sauce served in a coconut shell. That was great, and it also looked so good, I even took a picture of it with my phone 

[Bonehelm]

(East) Indians are to be found anywhere on the globe. I even came across an Indian girl here in the Netherlands... (and still together after 14 years... ) Authentic Indian food is delicious I can testify to that, seafood dishes especially from Southern India. Mmmhh it's still early in the morning here but I'm getting hungry already! 

Q

When it comes to seafood, I only like the way the Cantonese does it.