Foods you enjoy that everyone else hates

As I tucked into my fray bentos steak and kidney pie this evening, I let out a small sigh of pleasure, and pondered over the fact that if I told the people in my office, they would all call me a disgusting heathen for letting such filth pass my lips

what things do you like eating that everyone else would frown upon?

(and before anyone makes a joke about genitalia- that's not frowned upon...unless you are Arwan Meiwes)

Floral Gums

As an American friend of mine said this week after I gave her some. Err , they're horrible , they taste like perfum.

Now I've never tasted perfum and I wonder why she has.

Grits. Awesome food for awesome people. If you don't like them, then you are not worthy!
A close second would be liver and onions with mashed potatoes. This I understand, but not liking grits is blasphemy!

Chocolate cheesecake.
I know, you think this is the wrong thread for that, since chocolate cheesecake is awesomely incredible. but. I was making one for a friends' birthday when I was living in italy, and my roommates both stood in the doorway to the kitchen watching with morbid fascination as I mixed cream cheese, chocolate and eggs together. "dear good god" they said, "you're not really going to eat that, are you? it looks like diarrhea!"

oatmeal (porrige to the brits) with maple syrup and brown sugar, or Cream of wheat with brown sugar and golden raisins.

Ive always wanted to try grits...I have no idea what they are, but I can kind of guess I'd like them. And as for liver...YUM!!! (especially if the gravy is total awesomeness and all smushed with the mashed potato, why people don't want to eat this is beyond me, its lush)

I dont think oatmeal is considered gross is it??? I mean, I know its not that common to eat porrige for breakfast in my office, but I certainly dont think anyone would think you were gross for eating it

Oatmeal is awesome. not something frowned upon at all. especially with maple syrup or chocolate chips.
grits, on the other hand, are something to be avoided. at all costs.

having just looked up grits on wikipedia, I'm still only half way to imagining it - can a brit or someone confirm that its like creamed corn? I reckon i would like it if it is

other things I like -

spam fritters
tapiaoca
well hung pheasant(!?)
fresh kidneys on toast
really salty anchovies
rhubarb
gooseberries

There is no excuse for Spam.

Why does it exist?

You like your sauer stuff. I really can't do anything like that.

I physically want to throw up when I smell sauerkraut.

As far as I am aware, spam is a premium cut of meat taken from the hind leg of the Mid-West American Spice Pig, a most charming, if elusive animal. Fried in a vegetable oil jus and served on a bed of smash with a ketchup emulsion, it is a concerto of the senses

Indeed, and now I'm off to chuck up.

Fish finger sandwich for breakfast.

Haggis, neeps and tatties
Pig's ear
Chicken and duck feet
Rocky Mountain oysters
Svið (singed sheep's head)
Surt hvalrengi (sour-preserved brined whale blubber)
The "mystery meat" at a proper dim sum restaurant
Cod liver
Smoked fish eyes
Pot Noodle
Natto
Pickled pig's feet
Rabbit head (with brain)
Grasshoppers
Kim chee
Rattlesnake
Offal in general (liver, heart, lungs, kidney, spleen, stomach)

But I hate stinky cheese like Romadur (although Limburger with onions on a fresh, crusty Semmel is cool).

woof.

Limburger isn't that bad, just stinks. President also have a similar stench cheese.

I thought it was all "mystery meat" at dim sum. It all tastes good to me.

Hardcore!!! I would try natto, even though I know its disgusting, but the other stuff your list is proper food filth! brains are just a leeeetle too icky for me, esp. when still encased in a head. And as for chicken and duck feet - why? Is there any meat on them at all?

Barbecued pig snout sandwiches .

Tripe, roasted locusts, gonads of sea urchins.

Fish paste (anchovette paste) on toast - really fishy smelling but awesome for breakfast

but do you like these things? tripe just tastes like wet dog blanket for me

I sure like them. That's why I listed them here.

Dare I mention the unmentionable MARMITE? Great stuff...don't know why everyone has such an aversion to it...we were brought up on it I like beetroot too, especially in a sandwich with cheese. Brussel sprouts are one of my favourtite veggies and I also love rhubarb - discovered that in some cafés here you can get a refreshing rhubarb juice spritzer.

Madgibson , you're sick.

oh yeah, sprouts for sure, and baby roasted beetroot are total pleasure

one thing I never tried in germany was sauerkraut juice, that just looked like punishment misspelt as nourishment

Do you mean those parma violet thingies? If so, your friend is right...they're disgusting...who's sick now

No , Parma Violets are something else. I absolutley love those as well though.

Spiegel (paper version) described Kurt Beck as a lover of pig snout soup -


(If you’ve never seen Kurt Beck in a mood of absolute elation, imagine him faced with a bowlful of pig snouts. “Snouts!� he cries, heaving a wobbling chunk of snout onto his plate… not too soft and not too hard…) Yummy and scrummy.

I love anchovies, why does everyone else hate them!?

Because they're wimps. (Except BadDoggie. Natto, phew.)

Are you speaking from experience?

yes, we were all reduced to eating dog blankets in the great famine of '02. We used to close our eyes and hold our noses and imagine we were eating delicious tripe

cant believe that on wikipedia they compare natto with marmite. one is just a spread that tastes of salt, the other is fermented (rotting) beans that smell of ammonia and overripe cheese, which have turned into a stringy, slimy goo

whats even worse is the mental japs eat it for breakfast(!??)

yeah, but which one's which?
I think, perhaps, that this wasn't the best thread to read after having just woken up...

... or when you're about to have lunch. I think I'll go and read a couple of pages from the jokes thread first.

Talking of Wikipedia, has anyone tried mämmi? It sounds not far off a stodgier Christmas pudding, even down to the alcohol content (albeit naturally occurring and not sloshed over the top by the cook). Bit worried about the laxative properties, though. Mämmi mia.

that sounds nice! but as you mention, the side effects might wear a little thin after a while

another thing I've never tried which is quite topical seeing as its welshy day is that laver bread stuff

weird welsh seaweed stuff - could they really not find anything else to eat???

Love 'em, like lovely little saltbombs of taste they are. They were my last line of defense against my exes insatiably rapacious appetite for anything that I was eating, my culinary Maginot Line. If I wanted to be able to finish a pizza on my own, without half of it being clawed, spooned, speared or hoovered away from me, I'd order with a carpet of extra anchovies. Huzzah.

Grits are absolutely disgusting. Liver, onion and mushrooms however is the food of the Gods!

Crisp butties.

hee not had a crisp butty for years!

sugar butties.

Weren't they outlawed by the Heysham Convention in 1979?

I've got a backwards one (I hate, others love?!?!) for you that may apply to all Canadians: those maple leaf-shaped maple filling cookies. These things are shaped like the national...er leaf of Canada, and are beige and beloved by seemingly all people who are not from Canada, particularly Europeans. They are produced in the gazillions, especially around Canada Day and are fed to foreigners to make them think Canada is a quaint exclusively maple syrup-based economy. These things are hurlworthy however and any right-thinking Canadian knows this. I don't know that I've ever met an adult Canadian (even most children agree) who likes these things, it seems to be a somewhat national consensus.

However watch while canucks come out and proclaim their love of the things here, in Europe

I could happily eat duck's hearts all day, but the thought of an american style breakfast where they have french toast, bacon and SYRUP!!! is totally and utterly gag-worthy. Or pancakes, SYRUP and bacon...*spew*

also the american dish of baked sweet potatoes with marshmallow - this is a whole new world of wrong that makes sheeps eyeballs look positively tame in comparison

Ox tongue is a firm favourite in this household. As are snails.

Love parma violets but never heard of floral gums.

Steak and kidney is the best filling of Fray Bentos pies!

the pie of bentos is a religious experience. Let us Fray

Argh! How could I leave tripe off my list? It's ordering that and the bird feet which get me served the good stuff when I'm the only whitey in a real dim sum restaurant. Tripe itself doesn't have much flavour; it's the way you cook it and the sauces you use. Much like chicken tit.

Also, chicken stomachs, Baltimore style (deep fried with a rolled oat and pepper breading). that was the only reason I ever went to HarborPlace.

woof.

Fray Bentos Snake & Pygmy Pudding - I don`t know if they`re around anymore - otherwise known as "babbies Heeds (Babys Heads)"

Bread & Dripping

Egg Banjos

Quite similar, but not the same as any connoisseur knows, is my favourite - Vegemite. Every morning on toast for breakfast - and I mean EVERY morning. I have only met one German who doesn't mind it and that is my wife, although she only eats a little on toast once every few months or so. I agree with you on the beetroot as well. No salad sandwich or hamburger should be without it.

I don't use marshmellows but I do make mine with brown sugar and my boyfriend who's one of you island folk says it's the best thing he's ever tasted.

Edit: on topic, I'm quite fond of Blutwurst