Foods that should be banished to hell...

[Mark]

Anything served at McDonald's or Burger King.

[BachQ]

Brussel Sprouts

[Bonehelm]

Anything served at McDonald's or Burger King.

Good choice, now you just have to type up the other 52392 American fast-food chains and you've got yourself a junk food bible.

[Larry Rinkel]

Water chestnuts: "You like some styrofoam to go with your chow mein?"

Try them fresh. The canned variety is a tasteless impostor.

[71 dB]

Why banish anything? If I don't like it I don't eat it. 

[Larry Rinkel]

Why banish anything? If I don't like it I don't eat it. 

Humor, 71 dB, humor. We'll try to buy you a sense of humor for your next birthday.

[karlhenning]

Humor, 71 dB, humor. We'll try to buy you a sense of humor for your next birthday.

The graft won't take; his immune system will reject it.

[Larry Rinkel]

Biscotti: WOOF! Gourmet Italian dog biscuits.

Best dunked into coffee or hot chocolate....

[dtwilbanks]

Liver

[Larry Rinkel]

In no particular order...
Tofu: The yuppie, yoga, Lu-Lu Lemon set would have you believe that this food is the holy grail and should be eaten in lieu of everything. I hate it. It tastes like the squishy brain of some poor, dead little animal.

Which dead animal? Tofu has been a staple of Chinese and Japanese cooking for centuries. But as a food with a very mild, neutral taste, it works best as a foil to highly seasoned ingredients. There's a very good Chinese dish where tofu accompanies ground pork highly spiced with chili paste and garlic. (And also Szechwan peppercorns, but you can't get those legally in the U.S. anymore.)

[Larry Rinkel]

Brussel Sprouts

If overboiled. I like to remove the outer leaves and sauté them in butter for about 10 minutes so they remain crisp and flavorful.

[Larry Rinkel]

Liver

Has to be cooked quickly and at high heat so it doesn't toughen into leather. When calves' liver is cooked to be still pink in the center, it is tender and delicious.

[dtwilbanks]

Has to be cooked quickly and at high heat so it doesn't toughen into leather. When calves' liver is cooked to be still pink in the center, it is tender and delicious.

I guess that's not the way my mother used to make it. 

[orbital]

Love all four of these.

My top banishment: Black olives.  If they have even touched a pizza or any other item that was cooked with them, I find I cannot even eat the food.

that's a shame. But maybe that's because they put the worst type of black olives as pizza toping (the Kalamata type I mean, tasteless). But black olives, particularly the oil cured ones are delicious. Black olive spread (called the poor man's caviar  ) over feta cheese on toast (or oven fresh baked bread) is unbeatable

[Kullervo]

Liver

I grew up eating fried chicken livers. My mouth still waters at the prospect of eating some, but they are hard to find here in Florida.

[toledobass]

to me, your Hell is delicious!

Me too.

Allan

[toledobass]

I like this one:



It is made up of little seeds which break delicately under your teeth when you chew it. Marvelous.  0:)

That's the brand I use.  Excelent flavor.

Allan

[toledobass]

I grew up eating fried chicken livers. My mouth still waters at the prospect of eating some, but they are hard to find here in Florida.

Chiken livers shouldn't be that hard to source if you really want some.  Ask your butcher,  it's very easy for them to get.


Allan

[Kullervo]

Chiken livers shouldn't be that hard to source if you really want some.  Ask your butcher,  it's very easy for them to get.


Allan

Yeah, you're right. I hardly ever buy meat so I never thought about it.

[toledobass]

Most of what people are posting are just ingredients they don't like.  I'm gonna take a different approach and say that the food I'd like to see banished to hell are factory raised live stock and the genetically modified stuff.

Allan