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Foods you have been turned off.

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  • #62
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Cedrus wrote: »
    They're all the rage in Manila
    Warning: There are yukky pictures in wiki link
    ah Jayzus


  • #63
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Amsterdam can be stupidly expensive to eat out in.
    What did you have in the Chinese and why was it crap?
    And yes, great bunch of lads.

    Nowhere else was expensive like this place, everywhere else we ate was great.
    This was it: http://www.seapalace.nl/ PLace floats on water.

    My dish was supposed to be something got to do with chinese brocolli I recall, and my gfs was based on asparagus. We literally got a plate of each with rice (one little rice between us), lol. Not saying that chinese is all bad per se, that was just a terrible terrible meal, my god. But I think the best Chinese is only normal restaurants and that it doesn't actually get any better than that, from anywhere I've had it. I'll gladly be proven wrong! I love some chinese dishes.


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
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    I used to like these turkey roasts that had a layer of port fat around to keep them juicy in the oven while cooking, one night (early morning) after a few (lot of) jars, I made the sandwiches from Leftovers of one that I'd cooked earlier that day, unfortunately I only used the fat!

    Never ate one since!


  • #65
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Nowhere else was expensive like this place, everywhere else we ate was great.
    This was it: http://www.seapalace.nl/ PLace floats on water.

    My dish was supposed to be something got to do with chinese brocolli I recall, and my gfs was based on asparagus. We literally got a plate of each with rice (one little rice between us), lol. Not saying that chinese is all bad per se, that was just a terrible terrible meal, my god. But I think the best Chinese is only normal restaurants and that it doesn't actually get any better than that, from anywhere I've had it. I'll gladly be proven wrong! I love some chinese dishes.

    When you said Chinese in Amsterdam that place was the first I thought of. Last time I was there I wanted to try it, but my friends said no so instead I seen a science exhibition in the convention centre place and squashed some coins in a weird automatic coin squashy machine. Now I'm glad.

    On topic, another vote for lamb. Got some chops years ago that tasted gak and can't touch it now.


  • #66
    TheUsual
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    MSG sauce in Chinese takeaways.

    I must have, in my lifetime, have eaten about 18 tons of the stuff.
    Can't even think of it now, if I get ribs in sweet and sour sauce and it comes out like jelly MSG sauce, then I can't eat it. Puke !


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  • #67
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    ... I love some chinese dishes.
    I'm loving Thai food at the moment, not take away, been cooking it. Saw a lot of new stuff being promoted at our Supervalu, it's stuff like Thai curry pastes and coconut milk and jasmine rice and all that, from an Irish company based in Wexford called the Thai Food Company, all organic. I think it's a Thai woman who married an Irish bloke and they set it up together. The food is lovely and easy to do, and I like that you can use whatever veggies ya got in, it's pretty versatile, and if you don't eat meat you can still do a really tasty curry or stirfry. Did a 'Thai Massaman' curry, today, was kinda sweet and creamy from the coconut milk, really nice and simple to do. It tells ya on the packaging what to do with it and there are recipes on their website, but basically ya fry some garlic and chili, add a teaspoon or two of the curry paste, then coconut milk and your meat (or not), veggies, sometimes diced potato too. Oh and some chicken stock or veggie stock. Whatever ya do, it tastes and smells great.


  • #68
    a0ifee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭a0ifee


    few years ago my friends and I decided to eat a giant mixing bowl of butter cream..can't even smell the stuff now without gagging! Always have to scrape it off buns :(

    Not really a fan of cream either, might be because I used to eat plates of it when I was a child..

    OH also sausage rolls after I made them one time..disgusting


  • #69
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    TheUsual wrote: »
    MSG sauce in Chinese takeaways.

    I must have, in my lifetime, have eaten about 18 tons of the stuff.
    Can't even think of it now, if I get ribs in sweet and sour sauce and it comes out like jelly MSG sauce, then I can't eat it. Puke !
    Most of them turn to jelly if you take the lid off and leave for five minutes. Yeah monosodium glutamate. Crap. Problem is they all buy the same stuff wholesale, and just heat it up.


  • #70
    cloud493
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    Pancakes.


  • #71
    Twoandahalfmen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Twoandahalfmen


    Tea
    I was sick in August and had my morning cup of tea and couldn't drink it. I've had 1 cup since.

    I have since changed to coffee and love it


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  • #72
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    Johro wrote: »
    Most of them turn to jelly if you take the lid off and leave for five minutes. Yeah monosodium glutamate. Crap. Problem is they all buy the same stuff wholesale, and just heat it up.

    Is that why Curry sauce in the chicken currys you get in chinese take aways is so thick-almost gelatanous?


  • #73
    snickers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭snickers


    Bugger king i have not eaten there in over a decade severe food poisoning sick through mouth and ass for days stomach felt like a washing machine nothing not even water would stay down only good thing about it was i lost about two stone in two weeks lol.


  • #74
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Archeron wrote: »
    When you said Chinese in Amsterdam that place was the first I thought of. Last time I was there I wanted to try it, but my friends said no so instead I seen a science exhibition in the convention centre place and squashed some coins in a weird automatic coin squashy machine. Now I'm glad.

    On topic, another vote for lamb. Got some chops years ago that tasted gak and can't touch it now.
    You got a lucky break, would have loved to do what you did instead. Even people tehre getting duck for 60+ euro said it was slimy and horrible.

    Johro wrote: »
    I'm loving Thai food at the moment, not take away, been cooking it. Saw a lot of new stuff being promoted at our Supervalu, it's stuff like Thai curry pastes and coconut milk and jasmine rice and all that, from an Irish company based in Wexford called the Thai Food Company, all organic. I think it's a Thai woman who married an Irish bloke and they set it up together. The food is lovely and easy to do, and I like that you can use whatever veggies ya got in, it's pretty versatile, and if you don't eat meat you can still do a really tasty curry or stirfry. Did a 'Thai Massaman' curry, today, was kinda sweet and creamy from the coconut milk, really nice and simple to do. It tells ya on the packaging what to do with it and there are recipes on their website, but basically ya fry some garlic and chili, add a teaspoon or two of the curry paste, then coconut milk and your meat (or not), veggies, sometimes diced potato too. Oh and some chicken stock or veggie stock. Whatever ya do, it tastes and smells great.
    I love thai so you don't need to sell it to me, we make massaman curry all the time, had it last night in fact. You can even get these little sachets of pure coconut that you add water to, does the same job as the milk and may not be as sweet. You might like it more. Watch out for the percentage of coconut in teh milk, can be quite low. The massaman curry paste lasts you forever, and it's soooo good.

    Thin noodles ftw.


  • #75
    kowloon
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    Johro wrote: »
    Some have 8% pork in them. Makes ya wonder.

    8%!! Seriously? :eek: Name and shame.


  • #76
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I love thai so you don't need to sell it to me, we make massaman curry all the time, had it last night in fact. You can even get these little sachets of pure coconut that you add water to, does the same job as the milk and may not be as sweet. You might like it more. The massaman curry paste lasts you forever, and it's soooo good.

    Thin noodles ftw.
    Their coconut milk comes in tins and is pressed, and organic. They have small 120 ml tins for the stirfries and stuff and bigger 400 ml tins for the massaman curry and the like. It wasn't too sweet by the way, just a hint of sweetness really. I like them a bit hotter as well that's why I always start any curry by frying some garlic and chili, sometimes ginger. Yeah the pastes are great. Lovely stuff.

    Edit: on the coconut milk, yeah they vary, the Thai Gold one says this on the tin: ''Coconut milk quality and flavour is determined by the coconuts and coconut oil content. Thai Gold is 18% oil. Coconut oil is one of the few great saturated fats consisting of Lauric and Capric acids, medium chain triglycerides. Don't be fooled by brands with low oil content, they're selling you water, not flavour. Organic Coconut Extract:99.65%, Organic Guar Gum: 0.35%''
    http://thai.ie/home.html


  • #77
    craggle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭craggle


    Football special. used to love it til i overdosed on a crate of it i found in my grannys garage when i was about eight, tried it again when i was sixteen and was sick again.


  • #78
    hollster2
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    danslevent wrote: »
    My sister found a caterpillar in a bird's eye salad thing before.

    I wasn't suprised with the horse meat. First caterpillars and now this!!

    my partner hates mince when he was smal his mum got some from dunnes there was a caterpillar in it wont touch the stuff now


  • #79
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Johro wrote: »
    Their coconut milk comes in tins and is pressed, and organic. They have small 120 ml tins for the stirfries and stuff and bigger 400 ml tins for the massaman curry and the like. It wasn't too sweet by the way, just a hint of sweetness really. I like them a bit hotter as well that's why I always start any curry by frying some garlic and chili, sometimes ginger. Yeah the pastes are great. Lovely stuff.

    Edit: on the coconut milk, yeah they vary, the Thai Gold one says this on the tin: ''Coconut milk quality and flavour is determined by the coconuts and coconut oil content. Thai Gold is 18% oil. Coconut oil is one of the few great saturated fats consisting of Lauric and Capric acids, medium chain triglycerides. Don't be fooled by brands with low oil content, they're selling you water, not flavour.''
    http://thai.ie/home.html
    Oh that's interesting, I'm not sure how much oil is in the ones I've tried, I always just see the percentage of coconut, none mention oil. I have tried loads of different ones from asian shops as Coconut milk tends to run dear :'( one was 88% coconut and 400 grams, that was rock solid haha. These are the sachets I was on about, 4 sachets for E1.xx. http://www.pataks.co.uk/products/creamed-coconut.aspx

    Must try out that thai gold thanks.


  • #80
    TheUsual
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    hollster2 wrote: »
    my partner hates mince when he was smal his mum got some from dunnes there was a caterpillar in it wont touch the stuff now


    Yum. Free protein.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mopane-Raupen_gekocht.JPG


  • #81
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    kowloon wrote: »
    8%!! Seriously? :eek: Name and shame.
    Don't remember now, was in a food show on ITV I think, a while back now, Battle of the Bangers it was called or something, it was a tv special, said the minimum percentage of pork was meant to be 32% but they found sausages with 8%. May have been Tesco economy but I honestly don't remember.


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  • #82
    hollster2
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    TheUsual wrote: »


    Yum. Free protein.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mopane-Raupen_gekocht.JPG


    pmsl ill show him that hell probably get sick


  • #83
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Lucena wrote: »
    A bit like this, was it?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaSuSnUJm3E

    Very much so, only no heroin. Add in bits of wailing and screaming and hallucinating like Martin Sheen in the opening scene in the hotel in Apocalypse Now and it's captured.

    I think the nadir of the whole time was when I screamed in agony in the bathroom from the stomach cramps and the burn in my throat and scared the hell out of my housemate.


  • #84
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Oh that's interesting, I'm not sure how much oil is in the ones I've tried, I always just see the percentage of coconut, none mention oil. I have tried loads of different ones from asian shops as Coconut milk tends to run dear :'( one was 88% coconut and 400 grams, that was rock solid haha. These are the sachets I was on about, 4 sachets for E1.xx. http://www.pataks.co.uk/products/creamed-coconut.aspx

    Must try out that thai gold thanks.
    Cheers for the sachet link, yeah the 120 ml tins have nearly all coconut extract and the bigger 400 ml around 63 % I think, coz they're used in different recipes. Ya have to shake before using. Funny I don't see the massaman curry paste on the link I sent ya but they defo sell it and it's very good. So are their rice noodles. On the leaflet it says Thai Gold products are available in selected stores of Superquinns, Supervalu and Dunnes, and in health food shops. The stuff I bought from Supervalu wasn't dear at all. Thanks again


  • #85
    TheminxIRL
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    Mince ever since a girl I worked with whose husband was a butcher said that all the meat in mince is hoovered off the carcass once the proper cuts have gone. It includes eyeballs, ears the lot disssssssssssgusting


  • #86
    Mr Benevolent
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    Eggs. Bananas. Yech.


  • #87
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Johro wrote: »
    Cheers for the sachet link, yeah the 120 ml tins have nearly all coconut extract and the bigger 400 ml around 63 % I think, coz they're used in different recipes. Ya have to shake before using. Funny I don't see the massaman curry paste on the link I sent ya but they defo sell it and it's very good. So are their rice noodles. On the leaflet it says Thai Gold products are available in selected stores of Superquinns, Supervalu and Dunnes, and in health food shops. The stuff I bought from Supervalu wasn't dear at all. Thanks again
    I need to try out that paste too, here is the paste I use (I saw it behind teh counter at thai places so i went and found it in asian shops)
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mae-Ploy-Massaman-Curry-Paste/dp/B008B6EFOM

    That's 2kg, the one we got is 400g and lasts months. I dunno if it is the same with your paste but if you add a few spoons of this it gets ridiculously hot (learned the hard way as I hate hot things)

    As you can see it looks very hot! http://i.imgur.com/Djd3F.jpg

    I can't wait to try out this new stuff thanks!


  • #88
    kowloon
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    Johro wrote: »
    Don't remember now, was in a food show on ITV I think, a while back now, Battle of the Bangers it was called or something, it was a tv special, said the minimum percentage of pork was meant to be 32% but they found sausages with 8%. May have been Tesco economy but I honestly don't remember.

    The nastiest sausages I've ever had were ones I had in the UK bought from ASDA. Funnily enough they were called 'Irish Recipe Sausages'. My English housemate told me that Irish sausages wouldn't be as high quality as proper English ones. It's always good to have an expert on hand.


  • #89
    [Deleted User]
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    What'swrong with sweetcorn now?

    The human body can't digest it so it just passes right through.


  • #90
    kowloon
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    As you can see it looks very hot! http://i.imgur.com/Djd3F.jpg

    That looks like food I would eat. I may try this thing also.
    Karsini wrote: »
    The human body can't digest it so it just passes right through.

    Just the husk, we can digest the inside fine.


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  • #91
    The Barefoot Pizza Thief
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    I've been making my own Coconut Milk for years.

    Usually get around 2 liters of Milk from a €1 (medium sized) coconut.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM0ekbTPzOY


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