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whats your likes/dislikes in food

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Dislikes are cheese/baked beans (sets off my Diverticulitis) Anything with cheese in it sets me off, celery,
Likes are sweet potato mash, lentil curry (cook at LH does a mean one), lentals in any form (dont spike my bg)
just wondered wot others are?
 
I don't like
Mashed potatoes or anything with a similar mushy texture
Broccoli (although I eat it because it's healthy)
Broad beans
Asparagus
Runny eggs
Gravy

I like
Anything spicy like curries or chilli
Most fruits and veg except those I mentioned above
Pulses like beans and lentils
Chocolate!
All fish and meat
 
Theres not really much food that I don't like.
Not keen on Turnip or Beetroot, but I will still eat them.
Not keen on lentils or couscous, but again I will still eat them.
About the only thing I can think of that I would actively not eat is jellied eels (although I love pie and mash) and/or really smelly fish, eg: pickled herrings. etc.
Likes are pretty much everything else, but especially chicken and eggs, I can literally eat them every day.
Also love pretty much all fish and most seafood. Not keen on whelks TBH!
I will happily eat most veg, salads, etc.
I am on the see food diet, eg: see food and eat it, Lol.... 😎
 
the see food diet i like it lol
 
There is not alot I don't like but some things I don't eat as they affect my IBS.
 
Parsnips. Eggs, unless scrambled or omelette. Squash/pumpkin/sweet potato.
Tripe. (never actually tried it, but I lived in Lancashire for 3 years and inevitably saw it in the butchers’ shops. NO WAY would I touch that, ever!
 
JJay said:
Parsnips. Eggs, unless scrambled or omelette. Squash/pumpkin/sweet potato.
Tripe. (never actually tried it, but I lived in Lancashire for 3 years and inevitably saw it in the butchers’ shops. NO WAY would I touch that, ever!
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We used to have tripe often as children and liked it..... but now.......oh goodness NO. Especially when you see it on the continent coloured!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Dislikes

Avacado beetroot.......and tripe of course lol

Likes

Anything we arnt supposed to have

Seriously......i pretty much like anything
 
Prawns or scampi
Strong favoured fish and any fish skin
Okra
passion fruit
pomegranate seeds
offal other than chicken livers
black pudding despite going to school in Bury
and of course tripe.
 
I would love to try tripe as I suspect I would like it, but just never had the opportunity. I like most offal although I find heart a bit strong. Love haggis and black pudding

Not sure I could manage (or want) to get my head around eating snails.

I would say I am not overly keen on fish, but if it is cooked for me and on my plate I will eat it and usually enjoy it, but I would not choose it at a restaurant because "I think" I don't like fish and there are lots of other things I know I do really like. Oddly I love the skin of fish which is one of the reasons why I like haddock from the chippy and salmon skin and indeed kippers although I won't eat any other fish if I find a bone in it. I guess it is because I know there will be bones in kippers, they are up front and in your face. It is the sneaky ones that evaded the filletter and unexpectedly end up in my mouth that make me gag and usually I can't eat any more when that happens. Yet I can eat tinned salmon, bones, skin and all and enjoy it but then the bones just disintegrate in your mouth. Sometimes I can be really stupid and illogical about fish. I like the fish to be unadulterated if I am going to have it, probably so that I can dissect it easily and check for any rogue bones before they get into my mouth. I would not thank you for fish pie for instance. I can eat squid and octopus but I think they are somewhat overrated. as are most other shellfish that I have had apart from some very fresh lobster I had in Ireland, which was amazing and happy enough with regular prawns, less keen on king prawns.

Broad beans are probably the only veg I am not keen on but will politely eat them if they are on my plate.

Love almost all cheeses unless they are really, REALLY strong blue cheeses (Stinking Bishop etc or that continental cheese which has maggots in it... definitely couldn't manage that) but I enjoy Blue Stilton and Gorgonzola and had a gorgeous Welsh blue that was similar to Brie but with blue veining, last week. Yum!

I love eggs in all their forms although I think I might struggle to eat one raw.

I like curry but have my limits with heat. A Rogan Josh or Jalfrezi or Danzak is about my limit. Love leftover curry cold for breakfast the next day. You can keep the rice etc, just give me the cold curry. You can enjoy the flavour far more when it is cold.
 
rebrascora said:
I would love to try tripe as I suspect I would like it, but just never had the opportunity. I like most offal although I find heart a bit strong. Love haggis and black pudding

Not sure I could manage (or want) to get my head around eating snails.

I would say I am not overly keen on fish, but if it is cooked for me and on my plate I will eat it and usually enjoy it, but I would not choose it at a restaurant because "I think" I don't like fish and there are lots of other things I know I do really like. Oddly I love the skin of fish which is one of the reasons why I like haddock from the chippy and salmon skin and indeed kippers although I won't eat any other fish if I find a bone in it. I guess it is because I know there will be bones in kippers, they are up front and in your face. It is the sneaky ones that evaded the filletter and unexpectedly end up in my mouth that make me gag and usually I can't eat any more when that happens. Yet I can eat tinned salmon, bones, skin and all and enjoy it but then the bones just disintegrate in your mouth. Sometimes I can be really stupid and illogical about fish. I like the fish to be unadulterated if I am going to have it, probably so that I can dissect it easily and check for any rogue bones before they get into my mouth. I would not thank you for fish pie for instance. I can eat squid and octopus but I think they are somewhat overrated. as are most other shellfish that I have had apart from some very fresh lobster I had in Ireland, which was amazing and happy enough with regular prawns, less keen on king prawns.

Broad beans are probably the only veg I am not keen on but will politely eat them if they are on my plate.

Love almost all cheeses unless they are really, REALLY strong blue cheeses (Stinking Bishop etc or that continental cheese which has maggots in it... definitely couldn't manage that) but I enjoy Blue Stilton and Gorgonzola and had a gorgeous Welsh blue that was similar to Brie but with blue veining, last week. Yum!

I love eggs in all their forms although I think I might struggle to eat one raw.

I like curry but have my limits with heat. A Rogan Josh or Jalfrezi or Danzak is about my limit. Love leftover curry cold for breakfast the next day. You can keep the rice etc, just give me the cold curry. You can enjoy the flavour far more when it is cold.
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Absolutely with you on the fish bones, I amuse my OH by picking out even the small bones in kippers and It feels as if I have a hair in my mouth.
 
Leadinglights said:
Absolutely with you on the fish bones, I amuse my OH by picking out even the small bones in kippers and It feels as if I have a hair in my mouth.
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I have to have my kippers grilled really crispy so that most of the bones, especially those really fine bones are crispy and just disintegrate.
 
When I visited my friend in eastern Turkey last year (she is Kurdish) I was introduced to heart and spleen, neither of which I'd eaten before. I was invited to a BBQ at the school she works at and we had liver, heart and spleen kebabs.
I liked the heart but the spleen was kind of stringy and I didn't like the texture much.
 
I like almost everything apart from Cheese, which is annoying as it is a good zero-carb snack - Mozzarella is ok though, so pizzas are fine (because it doesn't taste or smell of cheese), but weirdly I like mini-cheddars and cheese & onion crisps (it must be the texture and smell I suppose) - everything else is fair game
 
I can eat almost anything except some things have been dropped because of my diagnosis. At school I loathed spam fritters. I liked apple fritters so it was just fritters + spam i loathed. I also hated rice pudding, I hated the skin and I didnt like the skin on custard either. I had a boyfriend whose Dad was from Oldham but lived in Berkshire. I remember thinking his Mum was boiling dishcloths but she was cooking tripe for his Dad. Years later I remember going to Chinatown in London and my best friends husband ordered tripe. I had a taste . I like visiting Spain and know tripe is popular there. A long time ago I went to Laos and ordered something new .. it was effectively offal. One of our group was a Doctor who identified various parts including spleen. I actually like kidney and liver. I have only had heart once but it was very fiddly to prepare and not worth the effort. I had dim sum in Hong Kong in the eighties. We went somewhere recommended by a friend who lived there. We were the only Europeans there. One dish we thought we were ordering was chicken wings but we received chicken feet. I disliked the gelatinous texture.

I love fish and shell fish but am not willing to cook clams or mussels so only eat them out. I don't eat oysters. When I was 15 I went abroad for the first time on a school trip to Royan. I stayed with a family in a small village surrounded by oyster beds. I tried them but have a memory of a not very nice texture and salty water.

I do remember enjoying black pudding from Burgos. I had eaten black pudding in the UK but too many places serve the Bury one which tastes a bit sour to me. One other thing I dislike but will eat is green peppers. I love red papers and orange or yellow but not green. I like a lot of traditional British cooking like Irish stew, hotpot and shepherds pie but realise they are now small portions or banned. I've always enjoyed jacket potatoes but none since June. I miss the idea of tapas, dim sum Italian food or an Indian without having to think very carefully.
 
Dislikes
Sausages, processed pork meat products like pork pies or spam, raw celery, bony fish , raw meat or fish ( its the texture) smoked salmon, caviar, raw shellfish and pickled fish like rollmops. Jellied eels. Never tried tripe.
Likes
Just about everything not on the above list. I will try something new even if it looks odd with exception of eyeballs, testicles, snails and that rotted fish they eat in Norway and Finland. I believe it smells so bad you are banned from eating it in public places.
 
rebrascora said:
I would love to try tripe as I suspect I would like it, but just never had the opportunity. I like most offal although I find heart a bit strong. Love haggis and black pudding

Not sure I could manage (or want) to get my head around eating snails.

I would say I am not overly keen on fish, but if it is cooked for me and on my plate I will eat it and usually enjoy it, but I would not choose it at a restaurant because "I think" I don't like fish and there are lots of other things I know I do really like. Oddly I love the skin of fish which is one of the reasons why I like haddock from the chippy and salmon skin and indeed kippers although I won't eat any other fish if I find a bone in it. I guess it is because I know there will be bones in kippers, they are up front and in your face. It is the sneaky ones that evaded the filletter and unexpectedly end up in my mouth that make me gag and usually I can't eat any more when that happens. Yet I can eat tinned salmon, bones, skin and all and enjoy it but then the bones just disintegrate in your mouth. Sometimes I can be really stupid and illogical about fish. I like the fish to be unadulterated if I am going to have it, probably so that I can dissect it easily and check for any rogue bones before they get into my mouth. I would not thank you for fish pie for instance. I can eat squid and octopus but I think they are somewhat overrated. as are most other shellfish that I have had apart from some very fresh lobster I had in Ireland, which was amazing and happy enough with regular prawns, less keen on king prawns.

Broad beans are probably the only veg I am not keen on but will politely eat them if they are on my plate.

Love almost all cheeses unless they are really, REALLY strong blue cheeses (Stinking Bishop etc or that continental cheese which has maggots in it... definitely couldn't manage that) but I enjoy Blue Stilton and Gorgonzola and had a gorgeous Welsh blue that was similar to Brie but with blue veining, last week. Yum!

I love eggs in all their forms although I think I might struggle to eat one raw.

I like curry but have my limits with heat. A Rogan Josh or Jalfrezi or Danzak is about my limit. Love leftover curry cold for breakfast the next day. You can keep the rice etc, just give me the cold curry. You can enjoy the flavour far more when it is cold.
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I can totally identify with the fish bone thing. As a small child I witnessed my aunt getting a fish bone stuck in her throat and I’ve never forgotten her distress or all the concern and panic. I restrict my fish intake to fillets and eat them very warily. Can’t stand skin though.
 
Dislikes:

-Raw onions, but will eat them cooked in any way or dish.
-Vinegar and pickled stuff.
-Smoked fish. Some other fish you have mentioned I never tried but I don't think I'd be a fan either.
-Hot spicy food.

Likes:

Most foods, but some favourites are...

-Cheeses of all kinds
-Fuet and kabanossi (types of dried sausages).
-Good crusty bread
-Cottage pie style dishes
-Sweet and salty combinations
-Chocolate
-Cheesecake

And my mind is coming up with a lot of other indulgent, less healthy foods. But I eat plenty of veggies, eggs, fish...and I enjoy them too. Even tofu!
 
Leadinglights said:
Prawns or scampi
Strong favoured fish and any fish skin
Okra
passion fruit
pomegranate seeds
offal other than chicken livers
black pudding despite going to school in Bury
and of course tripe.
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That Bury black pudding is horrible, don't know why people rave on about it.

Best by far is Stornoway bp, you can buy a roll online & get it delivered.
 
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