I have NEVER had Beef Wellington. I have NEVER had Baked Alaska. I have NEVER had Fried ice cream. I have NEVER had Fried Oreo or fried Twinkie. What about you? :)

Nintendo Cereal: I never seen it but I problaby never eaten it

Froot Loops Donuts from Hardee’s: Too Bad I miss out on eaten these

Tiny Tacos from Jack in the Box

Mountain Oysters
Souse
Chocolate coated insects
Raw hamburger
Carp

Never tried em, and never will.

Chitterlings AKA Chitlins!


Though, I've eaten sausage casings so maybe it's not that different.

Mountain Oysters
Souse
Chocolate coated insects
Raw hamburger
Carp

Never tried em, and never will.


Those aren't POPULAR foods. ;)

Those aren't POPULAR foods. ;)

Peanut butter’s popular, right? Evil, evil stuff.

And if drinks count, coffee.

Raw hamburger
Who the hell in their right mind would ever eat raw hamburger??? :crazy::confused:

Peanut butter’s popular, right? Evil, evil stuff.

And if drinks count, coffee.
I LOVE peanut butter and coffee!

Peanut butter cookies with rich Columbian coffee!!! MMMMM!!!! :):cool:

I LOVE peanut butter and coffee!

Peanut butter cookies with rich Columbian coffee!!! MMMMM!!!! :):cool:

I think I’m the only person in the world who never had a cup of coffee. I’m kinda proud of that.

I think I’m the only person in the world who never had a cup of coffee. I’m kinda proud of that.

Wow, really?! I thought you were just kidding! I never knew anyone who didn't at least try coffee! Do you drink hot tea? Maybe herbal?

Wow, really?! I thought you were just kidding! I never knew anyone who didn't at least try coffee! Do you drink hot tea? Maybe herbal?

I just never got past the smell of coffee. I used to do tea, but it’s been a long time. If I need a hot drink the go to is hot chocolate.

I just never got past the smell of coffee. I used to do tea, but it’s been a long time. If I need a hot drink the go to is hot chocolate.

You're definitely one in a billion. Most people love the smell of coffee, but you are unique! I also like hot chocolate a lot. So since you don't drink coffee and don't really do tea, what do you drink with your breakfast?

I'm also surprised about Opus and the coffee, especially with all of the coffee Valerie Bertinelli drinks and puts in her desserts. Like, there are even Valerie Bertinelli coffee quotes.

I did not like the taste of coffee when I was younger, but always liked the smell. I now enjoy ice coffee, which is less overpowering.

I don't know if there's any popular food I haven't tried. I know I didn't have an avocado until I had my first guac dish at age 12. I also didn't have Chinese take-out until I was maybe 16. Those foods were not sold where I lived until I was a little older.

I have NEVER had Beef Wellington. I have NEVER had Baked Alaska. I have NEVER had Fried ice cream. I have NEVER had Fried Oreo or fried Twinkie. What about you? :)

Janice, you are missing out, with the fried ice cream. The first time I had it must have been my 17th birthday. We ate at a Chi-Chi's with my aunt Tootie.

I'm also surprised about Opus and the coffee, especially with all of the coffee Valerie Bertinelli drinks and puts in her desserts. Like, there are even Valerie Bertinelli coffee quotes.

Oh, we disagree on a variety of topics. Keeps the relationship fresh and exciting. And imaginary :(

Oh, we disagree on a variety of topics. Keeps the relationship fresh and exciting. And imaginary :(

:lol:

And what would you say if Val invited you out for coffee?

You're definitely one in a billion. Most people love the smell of coffee, but you are unique! I also like hot chocolate a lot. So since you don't drink coffee and don't really do tea, what do you drink with your breakfast?

Breakfast is all about orange juice. And sometimes JUST orange juice. I love breakfast, but don’t always have it. But I always have a glass of OJ in the morning.

:lol:

And what would you say if Val invited you out for coffee?

I’d probably Monica it

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I’d probably Monica it

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I LOVE the smell of coffee , and the taste , and the UMFF of the caffeine boost:eek: , one of my pleasures in life in the morning !:) With Drs.orders I needed to cut down and can't have any more than 2 cups early morning ! ;)

With that being said , a popular food I have never had is Chipolte !! I have never eaten any food from there , as popular as this restaurant is, I am partial to the more old fashioned "Mom and Pop" Mexican takeout restaurants not the chains!;)

Breakfast is all about orange juice. And sometimes JUST orange juice. I love breakfast, but don’t always have it. But I always have a glass of OJ in the morning.

Orange juice is only good if it has Vodka in it !! :crazy::cool::lol::D:wave:

Janice, you are missing out, with the fried ice cream. The first time I had it must have been my 17th birthday. We ate at a Chi-Chi's with my aunt Tootie.

I thought,"Your Aunt TOOTIE? Isn't TOOTIE from The Facts Of Life TV Show?:crazy: And then, I saw your Facts Of Life Avatar and I was like, "I knew it." :crazy:

I love the smell of coffee but don't like the taste and never drank it. I'm a big tea drinker, iced and hot.

I also hate eggs and peanut butter.

I have never, ever tried tuna fish because I despise the smell. I tell everyone that I am allergic to it so I don't have to deal with people questioning why I won't eat it.

I've never tried corned beef or pastrami.

I also hate orange juice. I like apple juice, especially Martinelli's.

I have never, ever tried tuna fish because I despise the smell.

I 100% agree with this. I love seafood but the smell of tuna fish repulses me so badly that I have never and will never try it.

Those aren't POPULAR foods. ;)

I guess that begs the question "popular with who?

There are restaurants that specialize in both mountain oysters and hor d'oeuvres made of raw hamburger...so clearly they are popular with some. And at least one US coldcuts manufacturer sells pre packaged souse...And insects ARE popular foods in other parts of the world

So, I guess it's a matter of how small your world is in defining "popular"

Who the hell in their right mind would ever eat raw hamburger??? :crazy::confused:




You won't get any argument from me on that. I was totally grossed out to discover that there were "raw bars" that included little balls of fresh ground beef rolled in spices and eaten as hor d'oeuvres. Supposedly quite popular in New York City starting in the 1970s. I have no idea if they are still there.

Supposedly a "one upsmanship" opportunity for people who prefer their steaks rare. Proving their primitive instincts.... :barf:

Look up "Steak Tartare"...or "Cannibal sandwich" if you doubt me.

Those aren't POPULAR foods. ;)

Almost forgot, we've got people here who routinely fish the open sewers we call rivers, for carp that they keep and take home with them.

These fish are too big for an aquarium, so I have to assume they are being eaten. :lol::happyface:lol:

You won't get any argument from me on that. I was totally grossed out to discover that there were "raw bars" that included little balls of fresh ground beef rolled in spices and eaten as hor d'oeuvres. Supposedly quite popular in New York City starting in the 1970s. I have no idea if they are still there.

Supposedly a "one upsmanship" opportunity for people who prefer their steaks rare. Proving their primitive instincts....I have lived in New York all my life and I never knew or even heard of anyone eating raw hamburger. That is beyond sickening.

Look up "Steak Tartare"...or "Cannibal sandwich" if you doubt me.
Steak Tartare, sure. That's a much better cut of meat. I know people who have eaten that, but I never would.

I did not like the taste of coffee when I was younger, but always liked the smell..

I am a coffee phreak, and in fact hate Keurig machines because I cannot 'spike the ball' with prepackaged cups...I usually employ 12-14 tablespoons of drip-grind for a 10 cup pot.

But, regarding the smell. Have you ever smelled "green" coffee beans, fresh off the boat?

Back when I worked the warehouse game in Oakland you'd find these coffee importers who brought in the beans still in husks (massive bulk)

And they'd have these old decrepit warehouses that were obsolete for pretty much everything else, where they spread these green coffee beans out on the cement floor for drying, prior to being sent to a roaster.

And man, the smell was horrid. You'd smell these operations a block away, and it was more pungent and unpleasant than a sewage treatment plant on a hot summer day.

The claim was, that once a building had been used to dry coffee a few years, that you could never use it to store any food item afterwards, because the residual smell would taint anything else you tried to store in there

I have lived in New York all my life and I never knew or even heard of anyone eating raw hamburger. That is beyond sickening.

.

Well see? we have something in common there. I get grossed out even finding my hamburger at Wendy's is a little pink inside.

Happens a lot, unfortunately

I love the smell of coffee but don't like the taste and never drank it. I'm a big tea drinker, iced and hot.

I also hate eggs and peanut butter.

I have never, ever tried tuna fish because I despise the smell. I tell everyone that I am allergic to it so I don't have to deal with people questioning why I won't eat it.

I've never tried corned beef or pastrami.

I also hate orange juice. I like apple juice, especially Martinelli's.

I'm with you on eggs. I actually wish that I liked them; they are an inexpensive source of protein that's more humane than what I usually crave. I just can't get past the smell or the looks of them. I can eat something that's been cooked with an egg if the egg isn't visible.

I'm the same way about mayonnaise. If it's mixed in another sauce and I don't know about it, I'm ok. If it's straight up nauseating mayo; forget about it. puke:

Well see? we have something in common there. I get grossed out even finding my hamburger at Wendy's is a little pink inside.

Happens a lot, unfortunately

Any amount of pink in a hamburger disgusts me. I've been a vegetarian for a few years now but when I did eat meat, I liked pink in the middle of steak like a ribeye or a t-bone, but never hamburger. It's unhealthy to eat a pink hamburger. I don't even miss eating meat.

I'm a huge hypocrite when it comes to meat. If I had to kill an animal to survive, I'd probably starve. I'd be the cattle rancher who gave names to all his cattle, and then couldn't face parting with them.

But I love steaks, and I love bacon. I'm not sure life would be worth living without bacon.

So long as it's drained of blood, and shrinkwrapped on a styrofoam plate when I first see it, then I can eat it.

I'm a huge hypocrite when it comes to meat. If I had to kill an animal to survive, I'd probably starve. I'd be the cattle rancher who gave names to all his cattle, and then couldn't face parting with them.

But I love steaks, and I love bacon. I'm not sure life would be worth living without bacon.

So long as it's drained of blood, and shrinkwrapped on a styrofoam plate when I first see it, then I can eat it.

Same. Although I do love my steaks and lamb extra rare, and pork chops medium rare. I have to have burgers medium, though. I'm way too concerned about e coli to do it any other way.


Great, now I'm hungry.

I'm a huge hypocrite when it comes to meat. If I had to kill an animal to survive, I'd probably starve. I'd be the cattle rancher who gave names to all his cattle, and then couldn't face parting with them.


Back when I ate meat, I was the same way, a hypocrite just as you described. Now I don't eat meat at all, and don't miss it at all. I gave it up for two reasons. Firstly because of animals and secondly because I had very high cholesterol and didn't want to consume any more artery clogging meats. I also quit smoking around the same time. Still after a few years, I do miss cigarettes a little, but I never miss meat.

I used to be a rabid pro-hunting advocate....proudly defending my position at the top of the food chain yada yada.

Then, in my 40's I had a couple experiences with wildlife that proved to me beyond all doubt that they are sentient beings.....and I won't even fish anymore because of it.

By all rights, I SHOULD be a vegetarian. That aligns better with my professed perspective. But man,..I'm addicted to meat. My one consolation is that the hypocrisy should be over within another 10 years.

I used to be a rabid pro-hunting advocate....proudly defending my position at the top of the food chain yada yada.

Then, in my 40's I had a couple experiences with wildlife that proved to me beyond all doubt that they are sentient beings.....and I won't even fish anymore because of it.

By all rights, I SHOULD be a vegetarian. That aligns better with my professed perspective. But man,..I'm addicted to meat. My one consolation is that the hypocrisy should be over within another 10 years.
I HATE hunting and always have. I think it is sick, evil, inhumane and very unnecessary. This isn't 1875 when hunting was necessary to survive. I too hate fishing. Sometimes when I go to the beach in Suffolk County, I see deer lurking nearby. They are so beautiful and innocent. I don't know how anyone could get a thrill of any kind by shooting them dead. Sick, evil and unnecessary.

I could never, ever go back to eating meat. It would make me very sad and miserable thinking about the innocent animals that died for nothing. It's not hard at all to be a vegetarian.

BTW, why do you say that the hypocrisy should be over in another ten years?

BTW, why do you say that the hypocrisy should be over in another ten years?

I'm 64, obese, had have noticed my decline in heath has gained momentum the last 3 or so years. I felt like a kid until about 58, but from that point on ..stairways started feeling steeper, and parking way out on the perimeter of large parking lots started becoming a nuisance, stuff like that.

I'm not looking forward to death, but being realistic I have to think that 10 years is an optimistic out look. Dad died of a heart attack at 43, his dad at 55, my mom;s dad at 60. So, I'm already "exceeding the curve" one might say.

And, qualify all of the above, I have never known anyone older than 80 who did not have significant health impediments....living into my 80s looks like a recipe for suffering.

I thought,"Your Aunt TOOTIE? Isn't TOOTIE from The Facts Of Life TV Show?:crazy: And then, I saw your Facts Of Life Avatar and I was like, "I knew it." :crazy:

Weirdly, my Aunt Tootie was given that nickname in the 1960s, long before there was ever a Facts of Life. But yes, I really love The Facts of Life.

I am a coffee phreak, and in fact hate Keurig machines because I cannot 'spike the ball' with prepackaged cups...I usually employ 12-14 tablespoons of drip-grind for a 10 cup pot.

But, regarding the smell. Have you ever smelled "green" coffee beans, fresh off the boat?

Back when I worked the warehouse game in Oakland you'd find these coffee importers who brought in the beans still in husks (massive bulk)

And they'd have these old decrepit warehouses that were obsolete for pretty much everything else, where they spread these green coffee beans out on the cement floor for drying, prior to being sent to a roaster.

And man, the smell was horrid. You'd smell these operations a block away, and it was more pungent and unpleasant than a sewage treatment plant on a hot summer day.

The claim was, that once a building had been used to dry coffee a few years, that you could never use it to store any food item afterwards, because the residual smell would taint anything else you tried to store in there

I had no idea. That sounds pretty gross.

My grandparents grew a little coffee tree on their front porch for quite a few years. I do remember them harvesting the beans, but I don't recall what all that entailed.

That sounds pretty gross.



The smell, for lack of a better descriptor, if you've ever a a bait box full of nightcrawlers that they have all died, and mix that smell with hot roof tar.....pretty close to that. And it's a pervasive smell, gets into every nook and cranny. You know how you never smell "just a little" dead skunk? Once it's in the air, then it's everywhere? It's like that,.

I was a warehouse landlord, and the way I became familiar with it was having others in the industry caution me that I never wanted a coffee broker as a tenant in one of my buildings.

According to industry scuttlebutt ( not personally verified) but all the hype you hear about a premium coffee having special qualities due to it's origin.....is almost always marketing hype. Most of it enters the country in the same bulk shipments, and the "special qualities" that are marketed ("Supremo" blends, etc) are derived mostly from special treatment during the roasting process..

Never had the opportunity to verify that, but saw A LOT of coffee going through brokerages, and there really was no effort to segregate the beans other than how long a particular batch had been spread out drying. So I have no reason to doubt the claim.

I'm 64, obese, had have noticed my decline in heath has gained momentum the last 3 or so years. I felt like a kid until about 58, but from that point on ..stairways started feeling steeper, and parking way out on the perimeter of large parking lots started becoming a nuisance, stuff like that.

I'm not looking forward to death, but being realistic I have to think that 10 years is an optimistic out look. Dad died of a heart attack at 43, his dad at 55, my mom;s dad at 60. So, I'm already "exceeding the curve" one might say.

And, qualify all of the above, I have never known anyone older than 80 who did not have significant health impediments....living into my 80s looks like a recipe for suffering.

Jim, I'm sorry to hear all this. I wish you much luck with your health.

I'm also a meat hypocrite. Love bacon, love steak. And yet, like you, I could never do what it takes to make meat "happen".

When I was about ten, my dad took me hunting with his friend. But I lost my boots in the thick mud, and we had to go home. So I never learned that killer instinct hunters acquire, and I'm kind of glad. I'm a big animal lover. And still a hypocrite.

Jim, I'm sorry to hear all this. I wish you much luck with your health.



Seriously, don't be concerned. Ultimately it's an aspect of life we all must make peace with. I've made mine.

Seriously, I've never known anyone over 80 who was not physically compromised in ways that I see as unsuitable. So 10 +/- more year feels about right

The silver lining for me was that I retired the first time at 46, and enjoyed 6 good years of healthy retirement when I was still young enough to make something of it.

In retrospect, it was the single smartest decision that I ever made.

Not to forget, I can't even begin to tell you how many times over the past 3 decades of debating lightning rod social issues on the internet, my ideological opponents have lamented to each other "forget it, he's not going to change, thinking like his is just going to have to die-out" like the dinosaurs.

And you know what? They were right! So my eventual passing is more akin to the fulfilling of a destiny, than anything else. Those highly educated liberals are seldom wrong. ;)

i have never eaten frog legs and I don't intend to! So what if they taste like chicken? I'll have chicken!:)

i have never eaten frog legs and I don't intend to! So what if they taste like chicken? I'll have chicken!:)

Me neither nor have I eaten snails ! No desire to eat either ! :p:wave:

Orange juice is only good if it has Vodka in it !! :crazy::cool::lol::D:wave:

I don’t do alcohol, but the few times I have it was that.

Orange juice is only good if it has Vodka in it !! :crazy::cool::lol::D:wave:

I don’t do alcohol, but the few times I have it was that.

I don’t do alcohol, but the few times I have it was that.

Barbara loved her some OJ with vodka in the "Father David" episode. :lol:

Barbara loved her some OJ with vodka in the "Father David" episode. :lol:

Yes, she got quite tipsy drinking that " urnge juice" !!! :crazy::lol::D

Max enjoyed some snails in a French restaurant in " The perils of plastic" !:crazy::lol::D:heart:

I don’t do alcohol, but the few times I have it was that.

Yep, Vodka & Orange juice ( Screwdriver) is probably the first drink most young people ever indulge in , esp.back in the day, it was very popular ! And beer and cheep wine of course ! :crazy::lol::D

Barbara loved her some OJ with vodka in the "Father David" episode. :lol:


Yes, she got quite tipsy drinking that " urnge juice" !!! :crazy::lol::D

Currently at number 4 in my best episode thread :wave:

I have never had a chocolate pizza. It sounds yummy however. :D

Chow mein

i have never eaten frog legs and I don't intend to! So what if they taste like chicken? I'll have chicken!:)

The only frog legs that I’ve had are from the original Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island. I believe they are the only Nathan’s that offers it. I thought it was “ok”, but they do not taste like chicken. I’d say it’s more like fish.

Btw, I am not sure but I believe the original Nathan’s is also the only one that serves alcohol.

I have never eaten one of those pink Hostess "Sno Ball" cupcakes
I have never eaten Frankenberry nor Count Chocula breakfast serial.

Caviar

I have never had pigs in a blanket.

I've never had shrimp cocktail. I've never had eggplant.

I have never had truffles, as in the fungi type. I have had chocolate truffles often however. ;)

I've never had lobster bisque.

Sushi