What is your most unbearable food thing?

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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.

How are they cringeworthy?

Putting chocolate, which is sweet, with salty peanut butter?
I’m not criticizing people who love the combination, just saying for me it’s like eating salt herring with strawberries

Reece’s Pieces are just peanut butter with a candy coating, no chocolate involved.

Ok- Reese’s peanut butter cups.

My favourite candy.

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Anonymous wrote:I look down on the whole restaurant scene here. Yes, there are exceptions, esp among the very expensive and ethnic hole-in-the-wall places, but as a whole it is so painfully mediocre. It really bugs me that there's no mid-range restaurants that would offer creative, great food. Why can't they do it? California can do it, New York can do it, friggin Philly can do it, not to mention countless cities in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America (haven't been to Africa, so no personal experience there)... But in DC it's all: 'Baaaa! It's humanly impossible to produce an interesting plate of food of any kind for under $40.'

Finally someone says it! Exactly this 100%. Even Pittsburgh has a better food scene. And the DC long-timers don’t see it.

DC has a great food scene. You’re both just poor.

There are entire articles about how great the dc food scene is.

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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.

How are they cringeworthy?

Putting chocolate, which is sweet, with salty peanut butter?
I’m not criticizing people who love the combination, just saying for me it’s like eating salt herring with strawberries

Savory and sweet combinations are well liked by many. Like agrodulce (sour and sweet), savory and sweet flavors contrast well and exist in many if not most cultures. Melon and prosciutto, salted almonds and dates, watermelon and feta, dates and bacon, figs and prosciutto, salted caramel, canard a l’orange, schnitzel with lingonberry jam, roast pork with apoles, etc. Turkey with cranberry sauce, of course. Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean foods have a lot of salt/sweet interplay, especially the pork dishes, which lend well to sweetness. All bbq sauces are salty and sweet. Perhaps you are from a rare place that doesn’t enjoy salty/sweet combos. Where are you from, PP?

Ketchup is the ultimate savory sweet condiment. Hopefully none of these people are using ketchup or ketchup based sauces on their food.

I’m one of the PPs who said I don’t like savory sweet combinations (but I do like peanut butter and chocolate). I can’t stand ketchup. I also don’t like any of the combinations PP mentioned above, which is why I have trouble with many (but not all) Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese dishes. Also BBQ.

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Anonymous wrote:I look down on the whole restaurant scene here. Yes, there are exceptions, esp among the very expensive and ethnic hole-in-the-wall places, but as a whole it is so painfully mediocre. It really bugs me that there's no mid-range restaurants that would offer creative, great food. Why can't they do it? California can do it, New York can do it, friggin Philly can do it, not to mention countless cities in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America (haven't been to Africa, so no personal experience there)... But in DC it's all: 'Baaaa! It's humanly impossible to produce an interesting plate of food of any kind for under $40.'

Finally someone says it! Exactly this 100%. Even Pittsburgh has a better food scene. And the DC long-timers don’t see it.

Maybe you just don’t know where to go? The DC food scene is pretty good especially if you include the entire DMV region.

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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.

How do you eat your peanut butter, if not in a sandwich?

In a sandwich without the jelly.
Or straight out of the jar.
Or as peanut butter sauce with satay

I’m an immigrant too. I will eat pbj sandwiches in a pinch but I don’t particularly care for them. My MIL is British and liked cheese sandwiches with jam. That sounds weird to me and not something I ever tried

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty relaxed with most food things.

BUT I don't like mint with lamb. Or maybe specifically, mint jelly, that my FIL always serves. Nasty.

I don't like the tingly feeling on my tongue/teeth after raw spinach, but I still eat it.

I also don't like slimy textured things, like natto (or likely okra, but I havent had it slimy only fried). I think that is acquired.

That's about it. I actually think I have weird taste in food lol. I like things like chicken liver/kidneys, game meats, etc, that DH hates. I think I've always been low iron because I've always loved and craved red meats and iron rich things like that.

Until the weird liver/sweetbread stuff, I was with you! I also have to add that I really detest truffles, and this obsessive need to add them to everything. They literally smell and taste like dirt (to me.)

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Anonymous wrote:I love the cultural authenticity of food and detest fusion - Korean tacos, bbq chicken pizza, and Mexican lasagna are all no gos for me.

This is a tough row to hoe. So you also eschew ramen, all Italian dishes that use tomatoes, which were an import from the new world, any Indian dishes that contain chili peppers, which were introduced by Europeans? Or do you mean you don’t like new fusion foods, but are ok with older ones? No Korean tacos, but la galbi (invented by Korean Americans in la) is ok?

Good question. It’s not hard and fast rule but more an emotional one. If I feel a particular dish is a bastardization of authentic cuisine I’ll pass. eg, since you can find California rolls in Japan it’s acceptable to me. But bbq chicken pizza is an invention of some socal pizza chain trying to be cute, so I won’t touch it.

Holy crap, you sound like an exhausting person.

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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.

Reese's Pieces don't have chocolate. They are literally only peanut butter (over-sweetened, yes, but only peanut butter).

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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.

How do you eat your peanut butter, if not in a sandwich?

In a sandwich without the jelly.
Or straight out of the jar.
Or as peanut butter sauce with satay

But peanut sauce in Thai cuisine is pretty sweet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I look down on the whole restaurant scene here. Yes, there are exceptions, esp among the very expensive and ethnic hole-in-the-wall places, but as a whole it is so painfully mediocre. It really bugs me that there's no mid-range restaurants that would offer creative, great food. Why can't they do it? California can do it, New York can do it, friggin Philly can do it, not to mention countless cities in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America (haven't been to Africa, so no personal experience there)... But in DC it's all: 'Baaaa! It's humanly impossible to produce an interesting plate of food of any kind for under $40.'

Oh I am so with you there. And often the food isn't even that good. Like DC has a million pizza places and like 7 of them are decent and they all charge $30 a pie. Or you can't get a literal sandwich for less than $16 anyway but plenty of the are crap -- so you just have to know which of the $16 sandwiches are actually worth $16 and which are just you being swindled.

Also even the really good places go downhill after a year or so because the head chef will step back a bit and they'll try to scale up and quality tanks. But prices never come back down. They aren't based on quality they are based on popularity.

+3 Was just saying this to a neighbor at the pool.

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Didn’t read the whole thread, but I can’t do people whose coffee order is so complicated that they have to say it three times- “venti, soy, almond, extra whip, caramel drizzle, extra shot…!!! Also might pass judgement on Frappuccino drinkers- AKA Starbucks milkshakes. Finally, as an adult, I can’t and won’t do chicken tenders…no matter how good they taste

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Anonymous wrote:As a European who’s been here for decades, I have yet to eat a peanut butter jelly sandwich; and Reese’s pieces are cringeworthy.
I love chocolate and peanut butter, just not together.
I’ll eat pretty much everything, incl very “exotic “ foods.

How do you eat your peanut butter, if not in a sandwich?

In a sandwich without the jelly.
Or straight out of the jar.
Or as peanut butter sauce with satay

But peanut sauce in Thai cuisine is pretty sweet.

Peanuts are not native to Thailand, so that's not authentic according to the rules.

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Dairy and seafood mixed together. Just doesn’t work well.

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Anonymous wrote:Dairy and seafood mixed together. Just doesn’t work well.

No bagel with cream cheese and lox?!

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I laugh out loud at people who are skittish about eating food prepared by neighbors or co-workers (read social class peers) but won't think twice about eating fast food, Panera, or even most sit-down restaurants, where the people in the back preparing the food are often drug addicted underclass who dropped out of high school.