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Growing uo on a farm in KS my brother and I wouldn't eat chicken because we knew them personally.

I know a guy who is so put off by milk that he won't eat any dairy products or anything that looks remotely dairy...his reason "it's white"

it seems in my area fish in general is just a big "ew" but I can't get anyone to give me an actual reason why they won't eat it

my father...most confusing of all...refuses to try sushi because it's raw fish yet he swears up and down it can't possibly be raw because "americans have poor immune systems and would just get sick" he fails to acknowledge his own contradiction

as for myself...maybe it's because both of my parents are immigrants or maybe it's because my dad is a chef but I can't remember ever flat out refusing to try any food...well other than anything involving bugs...I was always the kid to try anything from cat/dog treats to leaves to the glazes in art class (which pretty much all taste the same btw)

among friends I have a bit of a reputation as "a foodie" solely because I actually know what's in/goes into foods and how they're prepared...I find it alarming that other people don't know and/or don't care to know

French bread!!! YUM!

I use Marie Callenders pie crusts picked up at their restaurants. I buy them specifically when I make the old fashion recipies from my Knox's Gelatine On-Camera cookbook.

Seems this crust works perfect for the Lemon Chiffon Pie and their Nesselrod Pie. Mmmmmmm.

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It wasn't funny to me but to everybody else. While grilling the grill fell over on my feet. I wound up with a grill full of meat and coals on my bare feet.

Ugh. I was trying to grill salmon. Well, I didn't know that everything basically falls apart near the end...so let's just say the humans didn't have salmon that night, and the briquettes did.

Once I left the food on the grill too long and it burned.

The funniest thing that I ever tried to grill was a cornish hen on a very small hibachi. I cooked it so long that there was no soft meat to eat. Even the bones of the small bird were burnt to a crisp. The vegetables turned out okay, so that is all that we had to dine on. But, it was a memorable disasterous grilling experience.

I love to grill chicken that's been marinated in pineapple juice so I once suggested that pineapple would be a great marinade for beef. Well, it's not. I soaked it for maybe 48 hours which was far too long and the beef came out incredibly tough.

We went camping --I took the kids down to play in the water---while my husband put the steaks on the grill--when we came back from our swim my husband had decided to put the grill on top of the huge igloo plastic cooler that was filled with ice and all our other food. We smelled the toxic fumes before we could see our camp--the grill of course melted the cooler and ruined all our food---even the steaks tasted toxic------not one of my husbands best moments.

I burned many a meals on the grill before I finally learned how to use one. My worst time was when I burned my hand pretty bad trying to light up once.

If it's looking at me, I'm not eating it. Fish with the eyes still on are wayyy far from me. Same thing for shrimps and lobsters. although I eat the lobsters, but only if they are facing away from me.

my brother has a radar for bell peppers. even if it's the tiniest piece hidden in the dish (like we added one piece after it was cooked) he'll find it, take it out of his mouth and throw a fit.

One of my exboyfriends was terrified of milk, in the way that he'd drink his glass straight up; never letting it go in the glass after a sip...because he was disgusted by the milk sliding on the sides of the glass. He said he could see his saliva in the glass and it threw him off.