Picky Eater Contest

[rcjordan]

My score: 2

[Brad]

I'm a 8.

[Rupert]

3

And I had to look up grits.
But not:
snails, oyster and sardines. 

glad anchovies were not on the list too/

[rcjordan]

>snails

What's the deal with escargot? That's nearing the top Eeeeww pick among friends & family.  I love escargot.  I used to travel to a restaurant in Portsmouth Va that sold properly prepared & presented escargot at a great price.  I sometimes ordered doubles while LPJ covered her eyes with her left hand.
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>grits

Now look up hominy. Hominy is the Mother Ship of grits. Hominy is for hombres reales.  Mostly, it's the texture, I think.  'Wet eyeballs' is oft used & fairly descriptive.
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>anchovies

I do not like anchovies 'exposed' as on a pizza but I do notice they are an ingredient in some condiments I like.  Here's what LPJ gave me for valentines. I like a little heat but not hot-hot. A 1/4 teaspoon of this in soup is exceptionally good with an odd warmth. Travoli will love it if he tries it, hhh.

Boon Sauce Chili Oil, Spicy Chili Oil with Garlic, Anchovies and Shallots
https://www.amazon.com/Boon-Sauce-Ounces-Anchovies-Shallots/dp/B0B5YS2WNP
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>oyster and sardines

I kept a dresser drawer full of sardines in mustard tins and also smoked oyster tins in my dorm room freshman year.  My friend, who worked in a DC gourmet shop in the summers would bring trays of Laughing Cow cheese and high-$$ sesame crackers and one or two others would join us for a feast.   ....Then, we'd would hide the tins full of -umm- aromatic oil down at the bottom of the main stairwell in the basement. That way, everybody could enjoy their sweet fragrance all weekend long.

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I've just pinged someone I know that is enroute on I-95. I now need them to stop at Buckee's for this sauce that was just posted online.

[ergophobe]

>  trays of Laughing Cow cheese

Now *that* is an odd definition of gourmet. I would call that classically gourmand!

There are a lot of foods on the picky eater that I wouldn't prepare for myself, but which I would eat if someone served it to me. I'm not sure if that makes me a 0 or a 10. I'll go with a 3.

On that list, I avoid mayo and ranch and hot dogs (mostly because of the crap that's in hot dogs - if it were a "healthy" hot dog, I wouldn't have a problem).

A lot of favorite foods are on that list too: olives, blue cheese, all the fruits and veggies except eggplant (I eat it, but don't love it), pickles.

Being relatively new to eating dead animals, there are some things I haven't tried, like escargot. I've had some organ meat blends, but not pure liver, at least not in 45-50 years anyway.

My picky food that is not on the list: Jello. When I become King of the World, serving Jello "salad" with mini-marshmallows shall be punishable by death.

I dislike anything that comes out of the ocean, but I ate a sardine sandwich yesterday. I even made it for myself.

The only food I will actively pick out of a dish and put to the side is onion. Love the taste, but the GI consequences are not fun.

[rcjordan]

>Now *that* is an odd definition of gourmet.

HHH! This was in 1968. Rest assured than no one south of the Mason-Dixon had ever seen or heard of Laughing Cow and a long, looong time before it was in our grocery stores.

[Brad]

I like snails, but I never go to a restaurant (around here) fancy enough to have them on the menu.