What food do you like that other people think is horrid?

Links234

For me it's haggis!

Can't beat some good, proper haggis with neeps and tatties, it's amazing.

Also, black pudding! And scotch eggs. And last year, I had one absolutely gorgeous scotch egg at a pub in London where instead of sausage meat they made it with black pudding. Awesome

How about you?

Rachiee

Barbeque beef flavour super noodle sandwiches

Mr. Incognito

The Bannana Sausage Pancake.

BEST Hangover Cure ever.

Sausage, Blackpudding, Bannana all sliced up, covered in Lyons Golden Syrup and wrapped in a pancake.

Devine.

pickarooney

Okra

dark crystal

Brussels sprouts.

Links234

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

The Bannana Sausage Pancake.

BEST Hangover Cure ever.

Sausage, Blackpudding, Bannana all sliced up, covered in Lyons Golden Syrup and wrapped in a pancake.

Devine.

Hmm, for me it would be a peanut butter and bacon sandwich

Links234

dark crystal wrote: »

Brussels sprouts.

You're disgusting! :eek:

osarusan

Whale.

Not so much that the taste is horrible, as the idea of killing/eating it is horrible, but it does taste nice. Better cooked than as sashimi, in my experience.

BlurstMonkey

A shocking amount of Irish people don't like/eat tomatoes, cheese, mushrooms, garlic, any form of salad, peppers, etc. etc. So I think you could well get a wide range of replies, but all of them much more boring than haggis, which I think I'd really like to try the once.
The auld lad thinks pasta is some kind of nefarious toxin and he thinks even less of indian food.
I saw a guy in Subway a week or two back order a foot long roll with ham, cheese and nothing else. Toasted please. Sweet Christ, what kind of a dud do you have to be.

WilyCoyote

Stuffed sheep's heart, lamb's liver, kidney, black pudding, buttered toasted ciabatta and a mug of Lyons tay.

macplato

None of the examples so far are really horrid... apart from okra

Tripe would be my favourite horrid food.

mixery

Blutwurst.

biko

Pickled herring.
Fish roe.
Whey butter.

KungPao

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

A shocking amount of Irish people don't like/eat tomatoes, cheese, mushrooms, garlic, any form of salad, peppers, etc. etc. So I think you could well get a wide range of replies, but all of them much more boring than haggis, which I think I'd really like to try the once.
The auld lad thinks pasta is some kind of nefarious toxin and he thinks even less of indian food.
I saw a guy in Subway a week or two back order a foot long roll with ham, cheese and nothing else. Toasted please. Sweet Christ, what kind of a dud do you have to be.

Yeah, what's with that?

I have friends who'll order a kebab...with no veg. A burger, no onions. A curry, no onions etc.

One of them also would never eat mushrooms. I think they taste amazing myself.

My nephew worries me. Meat and carbs, doesn't even like baked beans or eggs, never mind veg.

BraziliaNZ

dark crystal wrote: »

Brussels sprouts.

same, i go weeks on end eating them every day, i just can't understand why there's such a hatred towards them, it's racist is what it is.

BraziliaNZ

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

A shocking amount of Irish people don't like/eat tomatoes, cheese, mushrooms, garlic, any form of salad, peppers, etc. etc. So I think you could well get a wide range of replies, but all of them much more boring than haggis, which I think I'd really like to try the once.
The auld lad thinks pasta is some kind of nefarious toxin and he thinks even less of indian food.
I saw a guy in Subway a week or two back order a foot long roll with ham, cheese and nothing else. Toasted please. Sweet Christ, what kind of a dud do you have to be.

lol, yeah, it's so Irish. My boss back home used to freak out when waiters gave veg or onions or anything on the side when he ordered steak, like get them away from me. I doubt there's many places where asking for a plain big mac or cheeseburger doesn't bat an eyelid. I suppose we don't really have the climate for salad though!

BlurstMonkey

KungPao wrote: »

My nephew worries me. Meat and carbs, doesn't even like baked beans or eggs, never mind veg.

Ya, that sounds typical. I know it's your nephew but seriously, it's the parents. My own diet when I was little was poor, I can look back and say that. This weird limited Irish diet that kids here get. Processed foods, chips, sausages, just all pure crap with no variety.

BlurstMonkey

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

same, i go weeks on end eating them every day, i just can't understand why there's such a hatred towards them, it's racist is what it is.

People don't know how to cook them. They were served soggy balls from hell when they were little. Just these disgustingly boiled things. If people tried giving them a roast and having some some melted cheese on top or the like they'd eat them up!

The Backwards Man

I like dulse.

Bacon and cabbage too

Rothko

I love brussel sprouts

padd b1975

Cheddar cheese and salad cream sandwich.

GHOST MGG

Hákarl when i was in iceland.(its fermented shark)..i tried it as ive eaten a lot of weird and wonderful foods on my travels
all i can say is...you need a strong stomach.helped that i was wasted at the time

Aphex

Cremated toast.

Boom_Bap

Fish finger sandwiches with tomato ketchup. I get lots of abuse for that.

The Diabolical Monocle

The infamous Christmas mince pie.
Controversial.

Pinch Flat

Love fish - the amount of people that hate it in Ireland is astounding
Oysters
Olives
Dark chocolate
Billtong
Kippers

BraziliaNZ

BlurstMonkey wrote: »

People don't know how to cook them. They were served soggy balls from hell when they were little. Just these disgustingly boiled things. If people tried giving them a roast and having some some melted cheese on top or the like they'd eat them up!

I like them stir fried and crunchy. But tbh my favourite way is boiled into an unrecognisable mush with a little butter and salt.

BraziliaNZ

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Love fish - the amount of people that hate it in

It's incredible, given we're an island. My dad reckons it's because it used to be considered kind of a peasant food, not sure how true this is though but it's a good theory.

Kablamo!

Jackeens for the most part seem to hate curry cheese chips, god alone knows why

Pinch Flat

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

It's incredible, given we're an island. My dad reckons it's because it used to be considered kind of a peasant food, not sure how true this is though but it's a good theory.

Yeah always wondered this myself. Pretty strange for a relatively small island. Good theory though!

KungPao

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Love fish - the amount of people that hate it in Ireland is astounding
Oysters
Olives
Dark chocolate
Billtong
Kippers

People love fish in Ireland, man! Cod 'n chips, oh yeah!

But yeah, fish and (most) vegetables seem to be way down the list of consumed foods here.

My mother hates salmon, tuna, shrimps...madness. You can't beat a tasty grilled salmon, a tuna and cheese sambo, fried shrimps. Oh hell yeah.

Carrie Madshaw

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Fish finger sandwiches with tomato ketchup. I get lots of abuse for that.

Really? That's one of my favourite things. I also love mashing up fish fingers in a bowl with butter and salt and scoffing it. My last flatmate used to leave the room when I made that. It was especially good when I was hungover which was most of the time.

Mink

Squid/calamari, mussels, scallops - I always get slagged for ordering seafood at restaurants, like it's unheard of to do this.

Chutneys - mango chutney with an indian meal, any other chutney on my ploughmans sammich

Gherkins, pickled onions, saurkraut

Absolutely love anchovies on a pizza, my favourite as a kid was anchovy and pineapple.



When I was preggers I had to strip it all back to basics and could only stomach toast, fruit, chips and chicken nuggets etc.

bogmanfan

Whale is really tasty - had it in Iceland. Also very partial to squid, mussels, haggis, and black pudding is one of my all-time favourite foods.

I also can't understand Irish people's limited diets. Once overheard this order in my local Chinese takeaway - 'Chicken Curry, no veg and chips' :eek:

Ghost Buster

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Marmite. Love the stuff.



as you were......

Greenmachine

Mink wrote: »

Squid/calamari, mussels, scallops - I always get slagged for ordering seafood at restaurants, like it's unheard of to do this.

Chutneys - mango chutney with an indian meal, any other chutney on my ploughmans sammich

Gherkins, pickled onions, saurkraut

Absolutely love anchovies on a pizza, my favourite as a kid was anchovy and pineapple.



When I was preggers I had to strip it all back to basics and could only stomach toast, fruit, chips and chicken nuggets etc.

I like everything you mentioned apart from the anchovies

I really like salt licorice icecream. Completely unheard of in this country.
I use to cook up some lambs kidney with sausages. Served with rice in a sauce that was a cross with gravy and spaghetti sauce. House mate used to rile me for that.
Just not as much as they did when I use to lift.
Then peanut butter chicken was on the menu or
tuna with red onion and mayo yummy.

Boom_Bap

Carrie Madshaw wrote: »

Really? That's one of my favourite things. I also love mashing up fish fingers in a bowl with butter and salt and scoffing it. My last flatmate used to leave the room when I made that. It was especially good when I was hungover which was most of the time.

I think that really depends on how much butter you are using.

I also love a good turnip, my friends think I am a donkey.

MonaPizza

Anything fishy or acrid

Anchovies...tear cans of those little bastards open and chew like a cudding cow.

Sprouts
Olives
any smoked fish....mackerel or haddock.
Haggis.....fcuking rules
Beetroot
Garlic....buckets of that sh1t
Sardines
Stinking rotten festering weird cheese from France or Poland.

JumpShivers

A big one that comes to mind is tuna. I don't really know anyone else that likes it...

rainbow kirby

Links234 wrote: »

And last year, I had one absolutely gorgeous scotch egg at a pub in London where instead of sausage meat they made it with black pudding. Awesome

These. Gotta love Brewdog.

Also olives, tofu, garlic, black pudding, sriracha, really strong dark chocolate, whiskey, strong ales...

Ilyana 2.0

Garlic, I'd throw it in with nearly anything.

I'd eat pickled onions straight from the jar too.

And pineapple on pizza, with ham. Amazing.

I like most fish and shellfish except salmon, weirdly. Smoked salmon is delicious though.

Lingua Franca

I quite like a lot of the stuff mentioned here. A limited and atrocious diet when I was little has made me an adventurous eater as an adult.

Something I like that other people find horrid? Blue cheese, the stinkier the better. I like it so ripe that it's oozing out in the centre. I like a cheese that you can smell in the fridge from the bus stop. The closer it smells to a tramps armpit in August the more I know I'm going to love it. It's definitely an acquired taste but once you have acquired it oh lord is it glorious. The initial ammonia hit to the nose fades quickly to an incredibly rich, soft, gentle creamy cheese feel in the mouth and leaves a wonderful aftertaste. Pair it with a fruit chutney... mmmm.

I am the only person that I know that actually buys and eats blue cheese. And that suits me fine.

PizzamanIRL

Pasta, sweetcorn, cheese and red sauce.

dr.bollocko

Sausage and egg mc. muffin. Put the hashbrown in between egg and sausage and douse it with ketchup.

It's probably the one thing you can eat that doesn't get any more disgusting even if you just eat it on the toilet to save time.

PizzamanIRL

Bounty chocolate bars.

Christmas is always great when all the Bounty pieces are left in the Celebrations tin.

boomkatalog

If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life I'd probably pick turnip.

The only veg I like are sprouts, cabbage, turnip and broccoli. I'm also a big fan of periwinkles but I don't eat seafood.

RobbingBandit

Always get weird looks if I tell anyone I love pork pies, only the ones from Marks & Spencer though, any others are ****e.

Get off my lawn!

Kablamo! wrote: »

Jackeens for the most part seem to hate curry cheese chips, god alone knows why

Eh, I'm not from Dublin, and I think they are horrible.

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Also olives, tofu, garlic, black pudding, sriracha, really strong dark chocolate, whiskey, strong ales...

Other than the black pudding, I think I eat/drink most of this stuff on a near-daily basis...

Get off my lawn!

Cilantro. We probably go through two large bunches a week in our house. I know some people are genetically wired so that it tastes soapy to them but I LOVE it.

K.C

Celery, raw cabbage, cucumber,pudding and as OP said Haggis. Delish. The veg haggis is even nicer in my opinion but thats for another thread

Lingua Franca

Just scoffed a pizza.

A pineapple, artichoke and gorgonzola pizza.