No, I'm not drunk...

I can't stand seafood, ricotta cheese, liver. Basically if it smells bad I can't eat it. I can eat lasagna with some ricotta cheese but not too much. Canollis are out only because of the ricotta.

What about you?

Longneck,

I'm sure you're not alone. Many people don't like or are allergic to seafood, and liver is well.. self explanatory. I think it's totally understandable why you wouldn't like that.

Same with the ricotta. It is heavy and rich and you either like it or not. Me, I love it. Don't know if it's because I was brought up having on-hand for the most part or not.

As far as the canoli goes, I make those usually during the Christmas holiday season. I have two sons-in-laws and neither like the ricotta. So.....I americanized a little for them and simply filled the shell with pudding (vanilla, banana, chocolate, or whatever). Granted, not quite the same, but they loved it and I am glad that I could please them and they didn't feel left out.

As for the lasagna I simply put the provolone and mozzarella in for them.

TIS

I'll try anything, within reason, once. I find it's especially important if you're a guest of someone from another culture. You really might be offending them more than you know by not trying something that they worked on all day for you.

The exception, of course, would be Fear Factor-Anthony Bourdain stuff, like bugs, worms and the still beating heart of a snake.

Yeah, I'll try most anything within reason.

There are other kinds of canolli stuffings. Try finding ones with chocolate mousse stuffing.

I love ricotta!

Not a big fan of chocolate either...I can eat it, but I don't love it.

Agreed. But, Bourdain has nothing on Andrew Zimmern and his show Bizarre Foods (it ain't called that for nothin') on The Travel Channel.

But, for me, the one food that will always come to mind as something I absolutely can't stand - and just like Plaw, even the smell of it is sickening to me - is, now and forever:

LIVER.


Doesn't matter what animal it comes from.

Doesn't matter how it's prepared.

Doesn't matter if the fate of the free world rests on my scarfing down a plate of the stuff.

Liver is my enemy.

Signor V.

So, what you're saying is, you don't like liver?


TIS

If seafood smells bad then it's not fresh seafood. And unfortunately most of the country doesn't get fresh seafood.

I knew this blind guy who once walked in front of a fish market. He said, "Hello, ladies".

That's pretty bad

But it'll taste like chicken.

Is that why it smelled fowl?

SC, you should be ashamed!

But I concede; you win. You definitely out"rank" me.

Back on topic:

I can't stand
LIVER-FLAVORED CIGARS.

I also can't stand the fact that I can't make the font any larger than 17pt.

Signor V.

I dunno, SV, if I lived a block away from Adelman's, I'd be there every other day getting a chopped liver on rye. Mmmmmmmmmmm!

Bastardo!

A little over a year ago, when I had My Dinner With Plawrence at Adelman's Deli, he just stared in amazement at the three frankfurters and huge white meat turkey on rye (with several helpings from their salad bar) I ordered. He couldn't believe it when I said afterwards that I forgot to order their chicken soup with matzoh balls!

But, no liver. Ever.

See if you remember this - I can still recall it after forty years, word for word, from MAD magazine:

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(Sung to the tune of "Moon River")

Chopped liver...onions on the side
My social life has dried...from you.

My friends shun me...they outrun me
The smell of your breath is slow death, sad but true.

Your odor's...twice as bad as beer
And people who drink beer agree.

I know that your smell will not end
Always I'll offend
My halitosis friend
Chopped liver...and me!

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Signor V.

Too much "Mad" magazine at age 10... that explains a lot!!

Then in that case, leave the cannolis and take the gun.

I don't think liver is food. It's primarily used to punish children or threaten them into eating green vegtables.

I can eat almost anything; a few exceptions - raw onions don't agree with me. Cheese (especially ricotta) and cake don't belong in the same food.

As a kid I ate tunafish sandwiches with blueberry jelly. Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches are particularly delicious. Beer and chocalate chip cookies are good too.

CAT .... "the new white meat."

Designer pizza.

Fucking California weirdos.

Mayonnaise is repulsive. Absolutely repulsive. I refuse to even touch the jar.

Beets. They taste like dirt

What?? Fries w/ mayo is better than ketchup! (Guess I should mention that in the other thread )

My sister dips her fries in mayonnaise. I just don't understand it. It's just terrible, nasty tasting stuff.

Seriously, I'd rather go on Fear Factor and eat pig balls than have mayonnaise.

Liver, kale, lima beans, beets, pig's feet; charcoaled pit beef. If I had the choice to eat just one of these or get executed I'd load the gun myself.

I have a cousin who puts mayo on corn on the cob. When I see her do that I just wanna puke.

I like mayo. I don't like to dip my fries in it, but know people who do. I like it on a cold roast beef sandwich and of course in potato salad.

When I was a little kid, I remember that would be my afternoon snack. I'd go in the house and ask my mom for a slice of bread with mayo. She thought it was kind of odd, and I don't know what the appeal is/was but I liked it.

TIS

I love mayo on my sandwiches. Really good bread (hero or club roll), bologna (must be Boars Head), swiss, lettuce and mayo. Or chicken salad and swiss on toast with mayo.

Mayo on FRIES?? YUK!!