[Thirteendog]

If I get fed another roasted (red, green, yellow, purple, orange) pepper I'm going to throw up. Except for in fajitas, that's more like a vicious saute than roasting....
I'm pretty much past the whole sundried tomato thing too.
Oh yeah, even pesto is being driven into the ground.
**** you can even get roasted red pepper and sundried tomato pesto in one jar. When is enough people???
I think I'm having a condiment breakdown. I do apologize for the madness. It's late.

[chiffonade]

...Since were baring our soul and (hopefully) not subject to ridicule, I don't care much for WINE.

How do you think I feel - I'm First Generation American of Italian descent and I don't like wine with meals either!! I only drink it if I'm on a mission but all this pairing wine with food with the woody oaky mushroomy flavor (WTF?) doesn't click with me.

[chefjohnpaul]

Hey, if you don't like something you don't like it. Not a problem. The only thing that gets me is when people say they don't like something they haven't tried. I'd like to give them a copy of "Green Eggs & Ham".

I also think before a judgement of an item is made that exposure to quality product and proper preparation is essential for an accurate judgement. It's like the individual that says they don't like lamb and all they've ever had is mutton and mint jelly.

[CompassRose]

Green eggs or no green eggs, I am never going to put tripe in my mouth. Nor eyeballs, prepared in any fashion. I think I would have a problem with stewed monkey brains in the half shell, too.

There are some limits. I do, however, one day, want to taste a chocolate-dipped insect.

[chefjohnpaul]

I will not eat them in the rain, I will not eat them on a train. Will you eat them here or there? I will not eat them anywhere. I hate to gripe or be a pain, but I will not eat the monkey brain.......

[Mezzaluna]

I've got to talk to Nicko about some type of award for clever posts!!

Thanks for the giggle, chefjohnpaul.

[Isa]

Why, why did you mention the monkey's brain?


I heard about this barbaric pratice of eating a monkey's brain while the monkey is still alive when I was a kid. For years it gave me nightmare. I wanted to go to China just so I could set all the monkeys free.


Eventually I forgot about it, until last week when I read, accidentally believe me, about those poor monkeys in China. I had a nightmare about it again.


Somehow I forgot about it. Until now.

[chefjohnpaul]

Isa, I don't believe Compass Rose was speaking about that practice, she mentioned cooked ones not from animals that were still living. I agree, that practice of eating the live animal is cruel and is no laughing matter.

[CompassRose]

Oo, poem! Chefjohnpaul, I heart you!

(Isa, eating LIVE monkey's brains???? Ack. I never heard of that. But I wouldn't do it, either. And I forgot one - I won't eat my dead ancestors, even if they're roasted to perfection... bet that's a relief to my mother.)

[momoreg]

An Ecuadorian friend of mine said they eat live monkey brains in the Amazon as well. I'd rather starve to death.

[gam]

this is a true story
I was fed monkey in the jungles of Borneo by native Dayaks who still occassionaly practice cannibalism, hence I couldn't refuse.
It was as disgusting as you might imagine it to be, even if it was dead and cooked.
Other than monkey, I have and continue to eat ANYTHING

[Athenaeus]

I have never heard of this strange relation of cannibalism and eating monkey's brain. In that case , I mean if cannibals eat monkey's brain that means that they respect this animal A LOT

I 'd love any further information on that. In Private messages because some people are annoyed with the idea of cannibalism. Funny because cannibalism is what we practice every day in our social relationships not to mention the close ones...

[panini]

The problem with those monkey brains is they were dead and cooked. They must be eaten from a live monkey.

Hey!! What is with all the digs on buttercream and wedding cakes?? I know that this forum is tilted towards the female side but I can't understand these comments, could this be some kind of bitterness towards men?? Or are you partial to the hot side? I mean go back and read, I feel that I have taken the wrong career path. All of you are invited to taste our wedding cakes, if you tell me that they are the same dry white cakes as usual, I will gladly buy you a wonderful dinner somewhere.
Athenaeus?
Blanched brussel sprouts marinated in balsamic vinegarette with goat cheese--heaven

[Isa]

Let's drop it please. Just thinking about it makes me sick.


Let's talk about happier things.

[cape chef]

You don't like wine you say!!!! you heathen (only joking really)

Well there in one wine that I can not get down,,"restina" (or something like that) from Greece. Please my Greek friends I know you understand.

It is like drinking tar And guess what? I don't like tar except on the roads.

peanut butter is one of my vices..I need it everynight. as a matter of fact I have my big scoop of skippy on a spoon as I write this

Also like johnpaul and others said..exsposure to certian foods done well can free you from uncertianty.

case in point, when I was growing up (jewish) we would go to some wonderful jewish delies...My Grand father would order tounge! Yuk..poooeh I used to say,Until one day I was by myself and a little older and bolder. I asked Julius Gold to slice me a piece while I waited for my pastrami with swiss,slaw and russian dressing on rye. I tasted this once forbidden food (for me anyway)

and it was really very good,great texture and flavor. And if you think about it you get the last laugh, because when it sticks it tounge out at you..You get to eat it
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