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Canned vegetables (especially mushrooms) on pizza! It should be illegal. Mushrooms are easy to get, easy to cut, easy to work with. Do people actually like canned mushrooms! They are disgusting, rubbery, and slimy. Gross!!!!!!!

And I also really get upset if I order something with vegetables and I bite into it and find out that the vegetables are pickled. It should be stated on the menu.

Another pet-peeve is chain seafood and pizza restaurants. I'm talking about the Red Lobsters of the world, and the Pizza Huts. I live in New England. How can anyone in this region actually choose to eat at either of these places???

Dinner guests should be happy that a) they are invited and b) they don't have to do any of the prep. and clean up. What has happened to courtesy? I couldn't believe that one of my guests (a very educated woman) literally screamed "where's the turkey"? Very poor manners.

this is really disgusting.

Hi.

I like your designs.

I need a tiara and I like baby lamb chops. Do I need to special order?

Thanks.

Also if you could tell me how much a crown would cost made from crown roast of pork. My boyfriend might need one.

I still have not seen a reason posted on why this is "offensive".

Why is this offensive? We buy meat, we eat it, and we are somehow totally horrified when we are reinded that it comes from animals. That died.

I've told the story many times of the year my mother was terminally ill, couldn't eat, although my stepfather needed to be fed, and I just couldn't face the traditional meal. So I did a menu from Paul Prudhomme with dirty rice, spicy potato salad, wonnnnnderful sweet potatoes and a pork roast. Adolescent daughter was hysterical, wouldn't come to the table. Once we got through the meal, sans daughter, went to mom's and brought stepdad food and stayed a while. We hadn't left the condo complex when daughter piped up from back seat, "Let's go home and eat leftovers!"

Interesting how chocolate (as in the body-paint that is widely available now) and whipped cream are considered marvelous additions in general, quite tittilating and acceptable foods to add to the idea of the unclothed body for most but meat however creates a sense of general disgust.

I will be sure to wear chocolate and whipped cream to the Prom.

And will remember to avoid wearing any meat.

I have done a lot of different things for Christmas. (Two turkey dinners in a month is one too many). Try a stuffed crown roast of pork--very elegant. Another obvious and big favorite is prime rib and yorkshire pudding. But for the past ten years or so we have been stuck on Goose. It just feels so traditional! In our house we also have a traditional meal of cassoulet on Christmas eve--it takes a long time to cook and will be patiently waiting for last minute shopping, church, and caroling to finish.

Sheeats, I would have to disagree with you on that. Maybe it's all due to the unfortunate ambiguity of the internet, but I read very many of the replies here to be veiled disses of other people's food habits.

On that note, i have an acquaintance who is oddly proud of the fact that her family eats only fast food, and never all together (ie., not even like the KFC commercials) because they are "too busy." It bugs me, almost saddens me.

Ok, my pet peeves =
- eating while standing over the sink (or counter)
- salsa that tastes like spaghetti sauce
- glass cutting boards
- glass dining tables
- food snobs (of any variety)
- my inability to cook eggplant
- fresh ginger (try as I might, I just can't learn to like it)

And I don't call this a pet peeve, because in my mind it reflects some sort of pathological mental upset (perhaps that is the textbook definition of a pet peeve, but I like to think they just can't help it so I try not to judge): I am utterly mystified by people who cannot allow their food to touch.

And then of course there's Meatpaper .

Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. We like metaphors more than marinating tips. We are your journal of meat culture.

Seriously.

@intheyearofthepig, VerasTastyFreeze and kjgibson:

I think you took this talk item the wrong way. I didn't intend for this to be a judgy/snooty thread where we could talk about how stupid and dirty the plebes are for not having our superior culinary tastes. On the contrary, I believe that if you look at the majority of the comments you'll find that most peoples' pet peeves have to do with food they don't like to eat, as opposed to bashing the choices of others. Well, except for my original comment about well-done steaks, that is. :)

In a nutshell, lighten up.

* brooke29 honestly, I thought I was the only person that was driven nuts by refrigerated tomatoes, because, yeah, why are they buying 10 lbs at a time?
* Runny eggs. If I see even the slightest movement in the white, I get queasy. I literally cannot watch people eat sunnyside up eggs. (I think that in this case, it's me, not them)
* Overcooked anything, especially meat/fish.
* Mayonnaise on ham sandwiches.
* Tinned vegetables