Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
I love Dukes mayonaisse. Call it a southern thing.
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Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
I have never met a food I couldnt like in some form. There is a way to fix just about everything to make it delicious. However there are those cuisines that make it impossible to enjoy eating the food. Such as Korean, so much can be said about the smell taste and site of rotten cabbage. I do not remember the name for it but that is the only thing I can think of where you can count me out.
What are your fondest childhood foods? Snacks? Little goodies?
Every year at Christmas, My Mom would make potato candy, (potato, confectioners sugar, and peanut butter) I would steal the plate and hide out to enjoy the delectable edibles.
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Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
Unfortunately, I've yet to meet a specific cuisine where I couldn't find things I liked! Now there are particular dishes I don't like, but as general as a 'cuisine'? No. Nothing so far.
Of course I've yet to have Yemen.
Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
I didn't mean anything derisive by it. I just wanted to point out (to myself, mostly) that it shouldn't be surprising to find a high proportion of people who are unable to enjoy cilantro (and apparently it's a really foul taste for them) converging in a thread about food aversions.
Ie., if you're genetically predisposed to have a strong distaste for a flavour, and have experienced that distaste featured prominently in popular cuisines (Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, etc), then sure, you may also have an interest in a thread on foods people dont like: you've had a real experience of it.
What's so wrong about that connection?
From what I've heard, this cilantro=soap thing is really strong. It was mystifying to me when I first met people who had this aversion (and I didn't know it had some physiological root). I can't think of another food/taste that, when disliked, is disliked with such intensity.
Question of the Day: What cuisine can't you stand?
@Ren, you said "Then again, shouldn't be surprised to find a lot of soap-tasters in a thread about hating food."
I'm not sure what you're getting at with that comment. If it's a lack of a particular enzyme that makes one perceive cilantro to taste like soap, and therfore a genetic issue that cannot be "fixed," (your statement seems to check out from some quick Googling), then what could possibly be the correlation between a genetic predisposition and people discussing what foods they hate?
Please enlighten us cilantro-challenged folks.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Hellman's RULES. End of report.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
My grandmother used to use both Hellman's and Miracle Whip. Hellman's was for the macaroni salad; miracle whip is for potato salad, and since Miracle Whip is sweet, she'd counteract that with a little pickle juice.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Being a Cali girl, it's Best Foods all the way.
Miracle Whip *cough, cough... gag* is anathema and not allowed in my fridge. EVAR.
It's not even fit to be in the same paragraph, although I once wrote a blog entry about the differences between "Best Foodies" and "Miracle Whippers." I had just discovered I was dating someone who's lips had touched Miracle Whip. We stopped dating a couple of weeks later.
What can I say? It was Asparagus Season (an annual holiday in my book,) and bringing Miracle Whip into my house when I'd asked for Best Foods was the last straw.
Yes. I will dump a man for bad food ways. No. I'm not ashamed of that fact. I mean, how could I trust a Whipper to make a sandwich for me?
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
If she's getting a rash then maybe she's allergic... my allergy wouldn't seem so weird then...
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Was raised on Hellman's..love the taste but recently I read the ingredients on the jar of Hellman's Light and I recoiled in horror..plus it may be giving Izzy a rash so I am testing new organic varieties that have real ingredients. Perhaps it is only the Light Mayo that has such unhealthy ingredients, haven't read the orginal ingredients yet. I tried Whole Foods brand which was decent and plan to try the one from T.J's soon.
Question of the Day: Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, or a soy alternative?
Not a mayo fan, but when it's absolutely necessary, I'm a Hellman's girl all the way. (And Miracle Whip scares me!)
What are your fondest childhood foods? Snacks? Little goodies?
warm angel hair pasta with butter and parmesan cheese. amy's mac and cheese with peas. rotini (corkscews) with sour cream and mushrooms. hearts of palm with dressing. it's its. fresh fruit "shakes." those italian regtangular wafer cookies. and lettuce. lots of lettuce.
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Favorite foods: My Mom used to make potato candy( potato, confectioers sugar and peanut butter) every year at Christmas. I would wait all year to be able to steal the plate and hide to overindulge in the delectable edibles.
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