Could you toss those into stirfry with pictures?
I regularly have kippers with my scrambled eggs for breakfast but don’t feel guilty about it. In fact, I’m about an hour from it.What are some of the foods that you enjoy that others (household members or not) can't stand?
Alternatively, what is a food you enjoy but makes you feel guilty every time you eat it?
Mine is canned smoked oysters. I love them, especially with some Frank's Red Hot on them. My wife HATES all things seafood and the smell makes her gag.
It's a long list. Durian, bugs of all kinds though silkworm pupae would be tops ,.shrimp paste and fish sauce, snake, eel, prahok (another fermented fish thing)...my daughter (who was born in Cambodia) will tolerate some of it but the rest of the household in California noooo.
Guilty pleasures though... peanut butter-banana-bacon sandwich .
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When I was in the Philippines, durian was a constant source of conversation. I flew a C-12 there (military King Air) and we had a standing rule of no durian on the airplane. Any time we flew down to Mindanao, we had to be vigilant. Many times, our Filipino military compadres would show up at the airplane with sealed cardboard boxes that needed to get back to Manila. These boxes literally did not pass the sniff test. I had a pilot friend at Philippine Airlines and he flew the Fokker 50. PAL ordered the planes without APUs so there was a large, empty, external bay where he said they would run durian. One night in Davao, I was out to dinner with several Philippine Air Force buds. We were enjoying fresh local seafood and massive quantities of San Miguel. Over the course of the evening, both balut and durian showed up at the table. I ate a balut but several of my friends claimed that they hadn’t witnessed it so I ate a second one. Then I tried the durian. I absolutely refuse to eat it again. The cliche is that it “smells like hell, tastes like heaven.” I say smells like s*it and tastes the same. I felt vindicated when Andrew Zimmerman tried it, threw up, and refused to try it again.
That’s in Wikipedia as ‘Cantonese Salted Fish’. Love the stuff, haven’t had it in years. Apparently it’s a known carcinogen - hasn’t stopped it from attaining luxury food status though where I’m from.My kids love shrimp paste on rice. i like to add it to fried rice. My wife tried silkworm pupae in Vietnam and was grossed out. LOL her family likes a salted fish think called Hom Yee (Cantonese) a hunk is steamed on top of ground pork. Or used in fried rice, the only way I like it. Some batches are so pungent it puts me off. Yet her family loves it.
I like peanut butter banana sandwiches with honey. One of my go to lunches to bring on a fishing trip.
What part of California are you in?
That’s in Wikipedia as ‘Cantonese Salted Fish’. Love the stuff, haven’t had it in years. Apparently it’s a known carcinogen - hasn’t stopped it from attaining luxury food status though where I’m from.
For me it’s kimchi, durian, Marmite and Bovril. No idea why people hate the stuff, all tasted amazing to me...
I felt vindicated when Andrew Zimmerman tried it, threw up, and refused to try it again.
My reaction to Andrew Zimmerman was that he needed to give up the pretense and quit What a lightweight.
What are some of the foods that you enjoy that others (household members or not) can't stand?
Alternatively, what is a food you enjoy but makes you feel guilty every time you eat it?
Oh, and the thing I feel guilty about eating is liver pate. Love the stuff, but it's not good for me.
The funny thing about Andrew Zimmern is that he also can't stand walnuts.
The funny thing about durian is how many talk about how awful it is, but many of those have never even been around it. It does have some sort of butyric acid aroma about it, and I admit that it's not exactly a pleasant one, but it also isn't that big of deal for just about everyone. When I was running a beer judging class, we had a session in which I mixed different chemicals into Bud Light so that the students could smell and taste them. One was butyric acid. Out of the roughly 10-12 students, only one had a real problem with it (gag reflex). More than half recognized it as a component in some aromas they actually enjoy (for example, Parmigiano-Reggiano and other aged cheeses), although a few of those did not until we discussed it a bit. The remaining few had no strong opinion (other than they didn't want to drink anything that smelled like that).
Durian is an excellent example of something that gets talked up such that folks have highly formed expectations that greatly influence their experience. Then, those folks talk it up even more sensationally (because that's what you're supposed to do these days), and that leads to more highly formed expectations. That then leads to even more sensational talk. It spirals to the point that folks that never have even laid eyes on a durian (much less smelled or tasted one) find it appropriate to repeat others' sensational exaggerations as if those exaggerations were based on their own experience.
I recently ran into the same thing when talking about a neti pot. I got the "self-imposed waterboarding" comments.
tl;dr--It's a mountain out of a molehill. A tempest in a teapot. Yeah, it has a smell that some don't like and that some really don't like, but it's hardly the end of the world.
Just tried sardines. No way I've had these before, I'd definitely remember.Fresh seafood has no smell. If it smells like the beach or ocean that's a good thing. Maybe that's why people don't eat seafood...if it smells fishy it's a turn off. Quite frankly its the most healthy thing you could put in your mouth.
Sardines will turn up a persons nose. I love them and eat them every week. I like them with a little spicy mustard and fresh ground black pepper or hot sauce. Also try them with a splash of apple cider vinegar.
I think I might be able to handle Surstromming. Open the can outside, and eat it with some sour cream on crackers. Pretty standard combination for any canned fish.