|
Post by anonrefugee on Feb 20, 2015 19:23:12 GMT
If I call NC BBQ by another name then I like it.
|
|
bethany102399
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,540
Oct 11, 2014 3:17:29 GMT
|
Post by bethany102399 on Feb 20, 2015 19:23:31 GMT
Backing away slowly. Seriously? Why?
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 20, 2015 19:24:25 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this. this sounds vaguely like something I recall my grandma (northern Illinois) making when I was little, only it was with mashed potatoes instead of potato flakes-- it was just called mashed potato candy, but I don't remember the actual ingredients. This mix of stuff sounds like the 'buckeye' candies that are basically just peanut butter balls with powdered sugar added, and the potato flakes probably wouldn't add any flavor; I'm guessing, anyway, that they only help hold it together. (?)
|
|
|
Post by giatocj on Feb 20, 2015 19:25:37 GMT
Yes...lobster. I detest the thought of anyone boiling something alive for their own dining pleasure...it nauseates me. Baked stuffed is even worse-I just can't even go there.
I pretty much detest all seafood, even having lived my whole life in New England.
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 20, 2015 19:26:45 GMT
I have never eaten Menudo, and I will not ever eat it- I did taste it once (one spoonful was all I needed). It's a Sunday-specialty at a lot of the Mexican restaurants here in Arizona, but just knowing that it's made with tripe... ick! (after finding out what Menudo actually is, I always wondered why the heck they used that for a boy-band name-- lol!)
|
|
Anita
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,647
Location: Kansas City -ish
Jun 27, 2014 2:38:58 GMT
|
Post by Anita on Feb 20, 2015 19:27:44 GMT
Backing away slowly. Seriously? Why? I just cannot stand BBQ. The taste or the smell. I tried to eat at Jack Stack BBQ and couldn't even sit indoors.
But I am also the freak who doesn't like chocolate, so take that with a grain of salt.
|
|
|
Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2015 19:28:45 GMT
@z*G someone doesn't like later taco dip? Like the guacamole-bean-sour cream-cheese seven layers kind? What's wrong with them? I guess it would be a frightening look if you'd never seen it before though. Yes! Insane,I agree. They had never seen one. I guess the lettuce and fresh tomatoes threw them off, lol, because the cheese sauce with hamburger in it that someone else brought was gone in an instant And I made rice krispy treats for the kids and no one wanted those either. Kids usually scarf those down right away. I can't please these people! Maybe a layer of molasses and flour in a pie pan will win their hearts.
|
|
|
Post by anonrefugee on Feb 20, 2015 19:36:29 GMT
@z*G when I was in college some northerners made me queso dip out of microwaved cheese whiz and canned tomatoes. They inhaled it! I tried not to cry...
|
|
|
Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2015 19:39:11 GMT
Hehe anonrefugee I'm not above eating that once in a while...I'm Midwestern, after all...but yeah I feel your pain! PS but it has to be Velveeta or Frito lay cheese dip, with Rotel or salsa
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Jun 2, 2024 3:53:17 GMT
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 19:42:57 GMT
jello salads with chunks of fruit, frog eye salad, pistachio salad
*note none of these contain any actual leafy greens
|
|
|
Post by miominmio on Feb 20, 2015 19:47:02 GMT
I'm with you on the lutefisk, much to the chagrin of my primarily Scandinavian family, but lefse? What's to hate about lefse?!?! (Just the mention of lutefisk is giving me flashbacks to the annual lutefisk dinner in college when the whole damn student center would smell like it all day ) You girls should google smalahove.....
|
|
PaperAngel
Drama Llama
Posts: 7,388
Jun 27, 2014 23:04:06 GMT
|
Post by PaperAngel on Feb 20, 2015 19:50:48 GMT
I dislike many popular Southern/NC foods/drinks - BBQ (all styles), BBQ sauces, pig (e.g. bacon, pork, ribs, ham), liver, grits, greens, onions, anything fried (e.g. doughnuts, chicken, fish, okra), mayonnaise-based dishes (e.g. deviled eggs, pimento cheese, coleslaw), mustard, ketchup, honey, molasses, pickles/pickled foods (e.g. relish, beets, pigs feet), congealed salad, desserts with coconut &/or meringue, fruit-flavored sodas (e.g. Sundrop, Cheerwine, Nehi, Mountain Dew), sweet tea, lemonade, etc.
|
|
wellway
Prolific Pea
Posts: 8,785
Jun 25, 2014 20:50:09 GMT
|
Post by wellway on Feb 20, 2015 19:51:59 GMT
I'm with you on the lutefisk, much to the chagrin of my primarily Scandinavian family, but lefse? What's to hate about lefse?!?! (Just the mention of lutefisk is giving me flashbacks to the annual lutefisk dinner in college when the whole damn student center would smell like it all day ) You girls should google smalahove..... Okay I googled, no, just no. You eat the eye and ear first while they're warm, yeah, that's convincing me, no!!
|
|
Deleted
Posts: 0
Jun 2, 2024 3:53:17 GMT
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 19:54:05 GMT
Fried pork skins - totally gross!
And boiled peanuts. Disgusting!
|
|
|
Post by miominmio on Feb 20, 2015 20:04:12 GMT
You girls should google smalahove..... Okay I googled, no, just no. You eat the eye and ear first while they're warm, yeah, that's convincing me, no!! According to my sister, it's actually quite tasty. I'll have to take her word for it, unless starvation is the option, I'm not going to try.
|
|
|
Post by peano on Feb 20, 2015 20:07:36 GMT
Believe it or not, I don't eat a lot of fried foods. Being from the south, that is almost unheard of, but I really don't care for most fried foods. I'm with you on the fried foods, and I'm also from the South.
|
|
NoWomanNoCry
Drama Llama
Posts: 5,856
Jun 25, 2014 21:53:42 GMT
|
Post by NoWomanNoCry on Feb 20, 2015 20:15:04 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this. this sounds vaguely like something I recall my grandma (northern Illinois) making when I was little, only it was with mashed potatoes instead of potato flakes-- it was just called mashed potato candy, but I don't remember the actual ingredients. This mix of stuff sounds like the 'buckeye' candies that are basically just peanut butter balls with powdered sugar added, and the potato flakes probably wouldn't add any flavor; I'm guessing, anyway, that they only help hold it together. (?) This sounds a lot like what I was talking about. What I tried weren't balls they were more like flat cookies with peanut butter and the potato/powder sugar mix layered onto of one another. The ingredients though sound the same as yours though.
|
|
M in Carolina
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,128
Jun 29, 2014 12:11:41 GMT
|
Post by M in Carolina on Feb 20, 2015 20:26:28 GMT
I learned to cook from my poor and very frugal grandmother who made amazing meals from the contents of her garden and root cellar and Southern staples.
She thought it was funny that I didn't like sweetmeats (sauteed young pig brains), pickled pigs legs, or tongue.
She did make amazing turnip greens, collards and beef vegetable soup--it took me years to perfect her soup. She made if from canned tomatoes from her garden while my mom used V8 juice and tomato sauce. Now I use whole canned tomatoes if I can't get fresh tomatoes or have run out of the tomatoes that I've frozen for soup. The peels slip right off with heat, so using fresh or frozen tomatoes is easy.
I'm also not a fan of a lot of fried foods. We don't deep fry our chicken (cast iron skillet creates a flavourful crust--even on skinless chicken), okra, cornbread (hush puppies), fruit turnovers, turkey or fish.
We do love our "congealed salads" and cream of whatever casseroles. I judge these on a case by case basis.
I do love my mom's summer squash casserole made with cream of mushroom soup and sour cream.
--Cream of Mushroom mixed with sour cream is delicious--my mom makes a "company chicken" recipe with dried beef rounds on the bottom of a glass casserole dish, boneless/skinless chicken breasts wrapped with bacon (we halfway cook it in the microwave to eliminate all the fat) and top with a can of cream of mushroom and 2 cups of sour cream. Everyone who's tried this *loves* it.
The cafeteria at my school made some horrible dishes. Tater tot casserole where the bottom tots were still partly frozen, "Hungarian Gulash" which was so greasy we had to count the spoons on the table to make sure no one accidentally swallowed one. I've also looked up recipes for authentic Hungarian Gulash--the only similarities were meat and tomatoes.
My dh's family ate at the cafeteria daily for his whole life. He thought he hated all these foods when it was just the preparation. He loves cooking now and has even changed some of his family's recipes for the better. No more "pot roasts" that tasted like dried out boots or turkeys so overcooked that the required a gallon of gravy and one of those industrial sized vats of mayonnaise to make the meal and leftovers edible.
When I lived in Michigan, very few people made anything from scratch. I had a hard time explaining that my cakes didn't come from a box mix that I "doctored". They'd beg for a recipe and then look so confused when I gave them the recipe with 20 ingredients for just the cake.
Our friends that were also from the South brought a homemade version of the requested green been casserole. I tried to tell him that it wouldn't be appreciated. They almost ran him out of town on a rail.
I've discovered that a lot of the foods I swore I hated were just not cooked well. I'm not a fan of fish, but my uncle has never made a fish dish that I didn't like. Beef tongue is delicious when it's fresh and hot inside an authentic Mexican taco instead of chilled in aspic.
I've even had Durian. I'm not a fan, but I would eat some if it were offered to me.
|
|
|
Post by anxiousmom on Feb 20, 2015 20:44:19 GMT
mmmm, smoked mullet dip. Love it. But I think it is pretty common around here. Mullet is pretty plentiful...
|
|
paget
Drama Llama
Posts: 6,757
Jun 25, 2014 21:16:39 GMT
|
Post by paget on Feb 20, 2015 20:46:05 GMT
Coffee. I live in Seattle... Home of a million Starbucks.
|
|
|
Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 20, 2015 21:07:47 GMT
^^^^^
that is a funny one, @polka-Dot-Pea! (I bet you save some money, though-- lol!) coffee is one of those things I love the smell of, but do not like the taste of. I can eat a chocolate covered coffee bean, but would much rather get my caffeine via a Diet Coke.
|
|
Lissy007
Junior Member
Posts: 97
Jun 25, 2014 19:30:58 GMT
|
Post by Lissy007 on Feb 20, 2015 21:18:30 GMT
Grits Hash and rice boiled peanuts
UGH!
|
|
|
Post by holly on Feb 20, 2015 22:19:43 GMT
I was trying to think what was regional to Washington and then Polka a dot pea said coffee! That's it, no coffee for me! I really don't know what else is regional here. I've lived here for 14 years now. I don't think our potlucks are much different than other places I've lived in. Except maybe Michigan but I was a kid then. I grew up in California so there was a lot of Mexican food I wouldn't eat, menudo is one. And I don't eat any seafood so I guess that could be regional in both CA and WA.
|
|
|
Post by hop2 on Feb 20, 2015 22:34:39 GMT
Boiled peanuts blech I've had em, hated em and wint partake again.
Crawfish, no thanks, I'll have shrimp ( or lobster ) but not crawfish.
Oh ( not sure it exactly regional ) but I'll also skip head cheese and black pudding.
|
|
|
Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 20, 2015 22:43:57 GMT
Shock Horror!!!! The only food I missed for the 15 years I lived outside of the USA!!
|
|
|
Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 20, 2015 22:44:57 GMT
@z*G someone doesn't like later taco dip? Like the guacamole-bean-sour cream-cheese seven layers kind? What's wrong with them? I guess it would be a frightening look if you'd never seen it before though. I made it for a party when I lived in London. I think my xdh was the only person to eat it!
|
|
|
Post by ktdoesntscrap on Feb 20, 2015 22:49:25 GMT
Growing up in the midwest... No canned soup casseroles. ICK and NO JELLO ever!!!
I always hated cold cereal and oatmeal as a kid... but I am slightly lactose intolerant so I think I hated the milk.
Now I live in NC.. I will eat the BBQ here but I don't care for the sauce.
|
|
|
Post by gmcwife1 on Feb 20, 2015 22:57:01 GMT
Well, if any of these dishes taste/look anything like their names, Scrapple, geoduck, Mush, Shoofly pie etc, then I won't be rushing to try them the next time I'm in the States! geoduck is a very ugly sea creature but it's supposed to be fairly tasty. My BIL makes a very good geoduck chowder that is supposed to be better then clam chowder, but I've never tried it. We had too many other good foods to eat both times he made it
|
|
mstubble
Junior Member
Posts: 81
Jun 26, 2014 23:42:13 GMT
|
Post by mstubble on Feb 20, 2015 23:05:45 GMT
When I moved here DH wanted me to try something called Flitch. It's instant potato flakes with powdered sugar and peanut butter. It was awful! It's suppose to be a cookie type thing...I don't like sweets but even if I did I would still dislike this. We call it Potato Candy and make it with real cooked potatoes. It is very good made correctly.
|
|
|
Post by anonrefugee on Feb 20, 2015 23:15:32 GMT
@z*G someone doesn't like later taco dip? Like the guacamole-bean-sour cream-cheese seven layers kind? What's wrong with them? I guess it would be a frightening look if you'd never seen it before though. Count me as one who won't touch that stuff! It just looks gross to me, especially when you put the guacamole in it. I detest anything that involves an avocado as well. I am also not a fan of most casseroles, especially those that contain Cream of anything. My mother fed us enough of that growing up to last me a lifetime. I just don't want my food all mixed up together. I could live on avocados, but understand the soups. MIL started keeping house in the 1940s, she has recipes that require several different creamed soups. I gagged first time I read her cards for DH. Most added cheese too. We had a canned chili we'd eat when I was really young, elementary age. I found out my parents and siblings each buy it every decade or so, only to be reminded it's salty metallic sludge. How did we ever eat it? Until that wears off and the next time nostalgia takes over.
|
|