Jo Anne Slaven wrote:

> >> But I'm more interested in knowing what kind of fussiness
> >> the rest of you may have to deal with...
>
> My husband will eat freakin' anything. I'm the fussy one.

My wife has some food allergies to deal with, but if a guest at someone's
house will eat what is served. As far as dislikes..... she hates beets.
She will eat just about anything else is she has to.

> One thing I can't figure out about my fussiness is that I don't like
> freshwater fish. I love "seafood" (lobster, crab, shrimp, etc), and I
> like sal****er fish (halibut, cod, grouper, snapper, et al), but
> pickerel, trout, and other freshwater fish just all tastes really
> "fishy" to me.

I never did understand the "fishy" taste. I always associated with stuff
like Bluefish, a salt water fish, and smelt, a freshwater fish.

> Anyone else have the same fish preferences?

I like just about any kind of fish. I would prefer not to have to deal
with Whitefish because the last few times I had it were exercising in
extracting small fish bones from my mouth. I had an aversion to Mackerel
for a long time because I worked for a while as a trainer at a marine
park and started each day cutting up 600-700 pounds of Mackerel. I could
walk into a fish store and smell that stuff. I actually gave it a try
last year and it wasn't bad.

I am not crazy about octopus, but every time I have had it, it has been
tough and chewy. I didn't mind the taste. I once had it served with a
spicy sauce in a Molloccan restaurant and it was quite tasty.