OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Julia Altshuler > wrote:
>
>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>>
>>> I have *never* eaten cottage cheese. Sure - maybe somebody hid it
>>> between some lasagna noodles (Stouffers, eg), but I have never
>>> knowingly and with willful disregard, eaten one single curd of
>>> cottage cheese.
>>
>>
>> I agree and have wondered about this. Why is it that ricotta and
>> most other sorts of soft cheeses are fine but cottage cheese is
>> horrible beyond mention?
>>
>>
>> --Lia
>
> I adore cottage cheese......
> Been known to down an entire 32 oz. carton in 2 meals.
>
> I prefer the small curd.

We prefer the large, but we usually buy a tub of each.

kili

Marcella Peek wrote:
> Oh, so many.....
>
> The worst dinner though was cabbage night. Chop up a head or two of
> cabbage and let it cook covered in the electric skillet for at least
> an hour. Add in a few kielbasa for the adults and 1/2 hot dog per
> child. Now, all us kids could eat a whole hot dog (and were served
> them) but on cabbage night she only gave us half. Bizarre. It was a
> disgusting dinner, slimy, smelly, horrid.
>

Okay, you mentioned hot dogs...... I'll share a story. I hate hot dogs. I
hate any kind of sausage, baloney, bratwurst, liversausage, period. Well,
my mom served hot dogs to us for lunch one day and it was always the
you-can't-get-up-until-you-eat-the-whole-thing dealy in our house. After
about an hour of staring at the slimey, ground up, pale thing, I finally
doused it in ketchup and attempted to get a bite down. Just then my brother
came into the room and said something funny. I snorted and that bite of hot
dog smothered in ketchup went up through my nose! Talk about burning! I
ran into the bathroom and gagged.

I still can't smell a hot dog or watch my husband eat one. They are
absolutely vile things. <shudder>

kili

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "Felice Friese" > wrote:
>
>>> In article .com>,
>>> "-L." > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that
>>>> stick out in your mind?
>>
>> Oh, yeaaaah!
>>
>> Five-year-old to Mom: "I want a raw oyster!"
>> Mom: "You really wouldn't like it."
>> Five-year-old: "I WANT A RAW OYSTER!"
>> Mom: "OK, but if you put it in your mouth you have to swallow it."
>>
>> It was another 60 or so years before I tried another one.
>>
>> Felice
>
> ROFLMAO!!!
>
> I've never, EVER let a raw oyster past my lips..... ;-D
>
> I'm 44 and intend going to my cremation a raw oyster virgin......

I used to say that, but now I prefer them raw. I like them grilled, too,
but fried is not a texture that I find appealing.

kili

Little Malice wrote:
> One time on Usenet, "Felice Friese" > said:
> > > In article .com>,
> > > "-L." > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> > >> out in your mind?
> >
> > Oh, yeaaaah!
> >
> > Five-year-old to Mom: "I want a raw oyster!"
> > Mom: "You really wouldn't like it."
> > Five-year-old: "I WANT A RAW OYSTER!"
> > Mom: "OK, but if you put it in your mouth you have to swallow it."
> >
> > It was another 60 or so years before I tried another one.
>
> Oh Felice, you reminded me of a time when I was helping my
> grandparents shuck oysters. I was also about 5, and they insisted
> I eat one raw. I might not have minded so much, except for the sand.
> I'm still not a fan of them raw, but managed to make $1 eating one
> that way as a waitress in high school. The cooks had bet I wouldn't
> do it. Love your story, btw...
>
> --
> "Little Malice" is Jani in WA
> ~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~

OK, here's my shellfish story.

Precocious child that I was, I tried my first escargot at age 4. When I
was 5 1/2, we were visiting friends at their summer house on Long
Island Sound. I swam, sailed, played around the docks......and came up
with the brilliant idea of gathering a bucket of escargot for dinner.
So I took my sandbucket, rinsed it in the sound, and filled it to the
brim with small snails.

My mom and Aunt Jane were such good sports, they rounded up the garlic
and some butter and we feasted on Long Island Escargots for dinner that
evening.

And we all survived!

kilikini wrote:

>
> Okay, you mentioned hot dogs...... I'll share a story. I hate hot dogs. I
> hate any kind of sausage, baloney, bratwurst, liversausage, period. Well,
> my mom served hot dogs to us for lunch one day and it was always the
> you-can't-get-up-until-you-eat-the-whole-thing dealy in our house.

Oh, my Grandma was that way. I still have nightmares about being forced
to eat cold Manicotti for breakfast 2 days later. We were reserved
whatever we didnt eat until it was gone. period. no food waster in that
house!

In article >,
"kilikini" > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > Julia Altshuler > wrote:
> >
> >> Steve Wertz wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have *never* eaten cottage cheese. Sure - maybe somebody hid it
> >>> between some lasagna noodles (Stouffers, eg), but I have never
> >>> knowingly and with willful disregard, eaten one single curd of
> >>> cottage cheese.
> >>
> >>
> >> I agree and have wondered about this. Why is it that ricotta and
> >> most other sorts of soft cheeses are fine but cottage cheese is
> >> horrible beyond mention?
> >>
> >>
> >> --Lia
> >
> > I adore cottage cheese......
> > Been known to down an entire 32 oz. carton in 2 meals.
> >
> > I prefer the small curd.
>
> We prefer the large, but we usually buy a tub of each.
>
> kili

Sometimes I crave it.
So creamy...... ;-d
--
Peace, Om

Remove extra . to validate e-mails.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson

Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 11:59:27a, kilikini meant to say...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 09:53:21a, Julia Altshuler meant to
>> say...
>>
>>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>>>
>>
>> There was only one cottage cheese I would/could ever eat. A local
>> dairy in NE Ohio used produce a large curd creamed cottage cheese
>> (cream added), with pineapple bits mixed in. It was actually
>> delicious. Have never found anything like it since.
>
> It's funny, TFM® and I can't keep cottage cheese in the fridge! We buy
> two large containers and we actually almost fight over it.
>
> BTW, Wayne, you can find cottage cheese with pineapple in. I've seen it
> in many markets. I think I've seen it with peaches, too.

Unfortunately, not the same, Kili. This was large curd creamed cottage
cheese with whipping cream added, along with the pineapple. Haven't seen
that in a store in years.

--
Wayne Boatwright
__________________________________________________

Clinton excuse #15: Hey - I just do what the wife says

In article >,
"kilikini" > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > "Felice Friese" > wrote:
> >
> >>> In article .com>,
> >>> "-L." > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that
> >>>> stick out in your mind?
> >>
> >> Oh, yeaaaah!
> >>
> >> Five-year-old to Mom: "I want a raw oyster!"
> >> Mom: "You really wouldn't like it."
> >> Five-year-old: "I WANT A RAW OYSTER!"
> >> Mom: "OK, but if you put it in your mouth you have to swallow it."
> >>
> >> It was another 60 or so years before I tried another one.
> >>
> >> Felice
> >
> > ROFLMAO!!!
> >
> > I've never, EVER let a raw oyster past my lips..... ;-D
> >
> > I'm 44 and intend going to my cremation a raw oyster virgin......
>
> I used to say that, but now I prefer them raw. I like them grilled, too,
> but fried is not a texture that I find appealing.
>
> kili

Hm, based on your testimony, I may try to overcome my gag reflex and
give them a try. ;-)

Mom always fried them with a cracker crumb breading so I generally eat
them that way, or in a mixed seafood chowder.

I do eat Sashimi, and Tartar......
--
Peace, Om

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"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:09:24 GMT, Steve Wertz wrote:

> On 11 Oct 2006 23:38:57 -0700, -L. wrote:
>
>> Surprisingly, cottage cheese is now one of my favorite foods.
>
> I have *never* eaten cottage cheese.

Same, same. The first time I ever saw it was in the school cafeteria when
I was in 7th grade. To this day I still call it "snowman vomit". I
probably *would* try it if given some but I can't make myself buy it.

--

-Jeff B.
zoomie at fastmail fm

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:27:22 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

> but I also will not eat raw onions, or any form of bell peppers!

Another Godless communist! Next you'll be saying you don't like
chocolate...

--

-Jeff B. (Black Forest turkey ham sandwich for lunch)
zoomie at fastmail fm

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:06:56 GMT, kilikini wrote:

> I still can't smell a hot dog or watch my husband eat one. They are
> absolutely vile things. <shudder>

Godless communist abound in this newsgroup. For the sake of your soul I
hope you like apple pie...

--

-Jeff B. (...and baseball and Chevorlet[1])
zoomie at fastmail fm

[1] The older commercials were much better than todays.

Yeff wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:06:56 GMT, kilikini wrote:
>
>> I still can't smell a hot dog or watch my husband eat one. They are
>> absolutely vile things. <shudder>
>
> Godless communist abound in this newsgroup. For the sake of your
> soul I hope you like apple pie...

Nope, nor baseball or Chevrolet. :~) My mom always used to make apple
pies, but apples were never my favorite fruit and I've never been a dessert
person anyway. The one dessert, the only one dessert I can not pass up on,
is blueberry pie.

kili

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 11:59:27a, kilikini meant to say...
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 09:53:21a, Julia Altshuler meant to
>>> say...
>>>
>>>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>
>>> There was only one cottage cheese I would/could ever eat. A local
>>> dairy in NE Ohio used produce a large curd creamed cottage cheese
>>> (cream added), with pineapple bits mixed in. It was actually
>>> delicious. Have never found anything like it since.
>>
>> It's funny, TFM® and I can't keep cottage cheese in the fridge! We
>> buy two large containers and we actually almost fight over it.
>>
>> BTW, Wayne, you can find cottage cheese with pineapple in. I've
>> seen it in many markets. I think I've seen it with peaches, too.
>
> Unfortunately, not the same, Kili. This was large curd creamed
> cottage cheese with whipping cream added, along with the pineapple.
> Haven't seen that in a store in years.

Oh, shoots, it sounds heavenly. I wonder if the dairy is still there?

kili

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
>
> My grandmother forced me to eat Cream of Wheat once when I was about 7-8.
> I had the flu. My mother is not all that great of a cook. She knows less
> about what to feed kids when they are sick, so I know where it comes from.
> Grandmother had this horrid parrot that talked and was mean. It's name was
> Conchita and Conchita would move along the edge of the table stealing toast
> from your plate. If you shooed her away she'd bite... hard. Anyway, I
> threw the Cream of Wheat right back up all over the table. Conchita thought
> she'd won the lottery and started flapping around in it. Grandmother had to
> clean us all up and I was never forced to eat anything again. I hate Cream
> of Wheat to this day. I'm not too fond of domesticated birds either.
>
> Michael

Hilarious!

-L.

kilikini wrote:
>
> It's funny, TFM® and I can't keep cottage cheese in the fridge! We buy two
> large containers and we actually almost fight over it.
>
> BTW, Wayne, you can find cottage cheese with pineapple in. I've seen it in
> many markets. I think I've seen it with peaches, too.
>
> kili

I'm lucky in that DH doesn't like it. It's ALLLL for me!
-L.

Steve Wertz wrote:
>
> If it was just curd, I would have eaten it long ago. But when
> it's watery curds like that, no thanks.

If it's watery, there's something wrong with it. It should be creamy.

>
> I'd have no problem trying it now though. But I have to hold on
> to some food phobias or people may think I'm weird.

I like it with bananas in it. Yum!

-L.

kilikini wrote:
>
> I still can't smell a hot dog or watch my husband eat one. They are
> absolutely vile things. <shudder>
>
> kili

Gosh - you and I are so similar in our food tastes. I had a negative
hot dog experience too - I was 11, sick with chicken pox so bad I had
them *everywhere* - in my eyes, in my nostrils, down my throat, you
name it. I almost died - ran an outrageous fever for days. Once I was
feeling a bit better I ate a hotdog which I kept down for about two
minutes. Never have I retched so badly in my life. I have never eaten
another one since - can't even stand the smell of them.

-L.

kilikini wrote:
>
> Nope, nor baseball or Chevrolet. :~) My mom always used to make apple
> pies, but apples were never my favorite fruit and I've never been a dessert
> person anyway. The one dessert, the only one dessert I can not pass up on,
> is blueberry pie.
>
> kili

Oh man, me too - warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Yum!

-L.

Peri Meno wrote:
>
> Other than the gelatinous fish I mentioned, the most horrible food
> memory I have was the first time I saw a tongue boiling in a pot (my mom
> was fond of tongue and mustard sandwiches). To this day, I've never
> tried it, and I don't think I ever will.
>
> Peri

I'm with ya on the tongue. I refuse to taste anything that can taste
me back.

-L.

Jude wrote:

> OK, here's my shellfish story.
>
> Precocious child that I was, I tried my first escargot at age 4. When I
> was 5 1/2, we were visiting friends at their summer house on Long
> Island Sound. I swam, sailed, played around the docks......and came up
> with the brilliant idea of gathering a bucket of escargot for dinner.
> So I took my sandbucket, rinsed it in the sound, and filled it to the
> brim with small snails.
>
> My mom and Aunt Jane were such good sports, they rounded up the garlic
> and some butter and we feasted on Long Island Escargots for dinner that
> evening.
>
> And we all survived!
>

When I was a kid (before the days of water pollution and Red Tide)
we spent every summer weekend at our little beach house on Buzzard's Bay
(MA). We would often gather bucketsful of periwinkles from the rocks
and take them to someone's mother who would boil them with some red
pepper flakes. We'd sit on the seawall and fish them out of the shell
with a straightened safety pin. What a feast!

We also ate raw littleneck clams and learned to open them at an early age.

I can't look at escargot now because compared to the periwinkles they
are too big and snaky-looking.

gloria p

Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 02:17:53p, kilikini meant to say...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 11:59:27a, kilikini meant to say...
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> Oh pshaw, on Thu 12 Oct 2006 09:53:21a, Julia Altshuler meant to
>>>> say...
>>>>
>>>>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There was only one cottage cheese I would/could ever eat. A local
>>>> dairy in NE Ohio used produce a large curd creamed cottage cheese
>>>> (cream added), with pineapple bits mixed in. It was actually
>>>> delicious. Have never found anything like it since.
>>>
>>> It's funny, TFM® and I can't keep cottage cheese in the fridge! We
>>> buy two large containers and we actually almost fight over it.
>>>
>>> BTW, Wayne, you can find cottage cheese with pineapple in. I've seen
>>> it in many markets. I think I've seen it with peaches, too.
>>
>> Unfortunately, not the same, Kili. This was large curd creamed
>> cottage cheese with whipping cream added, along with the pineapple.
>> Haven't seen that in a store in years.
>
> Oh, shoots, it sounds heavenly. I wonder if the dairy is still there?

Yes, the dairy is still there, but I no longer live there. However, I
think they stopped producing the creamed cottage cheese in the late 1990s
due to the diet-conscious majority. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright
__________________________________________________

Clinton excuse #15: Hey - I just do what the wife says

"-L." > wrote

> I'm with ya on the tongue. I refuse to taste anything that can taste
> me back.
>

Are you sure about that?

lol

"-L." > wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> Steve Wertz wrote:
>>
>> If it was just curd, I would have eaten it long ago. But when
>> it's watery curds like that, no thanks.
>
> If it's watery, there's something wrong with it. It should be creamy.
>

The cheap cottage cheeses (all store brands I have tried) are watery and
salty, too. Ick.

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> Andy <q> :
>
>
>>-L. said...
>>
>>
>>>Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
>>>out in your mind?
>>
>>
>>I must've been about 5 y.o. (the crappy food days of Mom's cooking). For
>>dinner she served us a canned ham. She didn't cook it just sliced it up,
>>jelly and all. I took one bite and it was so icky and salty, I tried to
>>swallow it but it wouldn't go down and instead I vomited all over the
>>table. She never served canned ham again.
>>
>>Andy
>
>
> Interesting how a little puke will give the adults a clue as to what NOT to
> do for young children, food wise


And then there's a gal I worked with who confessed that when she was a
kid, anytime she wanted to fake sick she would go to the pantry, open
the bottle of blackstrap molasses and smell it. This would induce
vomiting, a symptom her rather strict dad considered unimpeachable.

Kathleen

In article .com>,
says...
> My writing about the nasty fermented fish goo I ate brought up a number
> of bad memories regarding food, from my childhood.
>

As a kid I wouldn't eat the following:

Most types of fish except tuna and swordfish steaks.

Shrimp
Lobster
Clams
Tomatoes - raw. I'd eat tomatoe sauce, I mean what else does a little
Italian kid do on Sundays?

Now I'll pretty much eat anything, including sushi. I like the tekka
more than sashimi, etc.


Clams - I don't like eating them out of the shell but I love clam cakes
or stuffies.

Shrimp and lobster - any old way and I'll eat em'.

Fish I've expanded out into salmon, trout, bass, etc.

Now one little thing I ate, actually drank as a kid I still drink today.
That would be beer. My grandfather used to let me have a few sips when I
was young. Hey, what better way to acquire the taste for it.

In article >, sf says...
> On 11 Oct 2006 23:38:57 -0700, "-L." > wrote:
>
> >My writing about the nasty fermented fish goo I ate brought up a number
> >of bad memories regarding food, from my childhood.
> >
> <snip>
> >
> >Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> >out in your mind?
>
> I remember roasting hot dogs in the fireplace on weekends and eating
> popcorn for Sunday supper. Dad liked his peanutbutter and marshmallow
> sandwiches and I ate them when he did. After I grew up, I fed them to
> nieces and nephews which secured my status as a culinary genius in
> their eyes (forever).
>
> I also remember Shish kabob flambe (they darkened the room) in Florida
> and smorgasboard at the Swedish club in Chicago. Mmmmm.
>

Mmmm. Fluffernutters. Terrible for adults but great for kids.

In article >,
says...
>
> >
> > Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> > out in your mind?
> >
>
>
> Cabbage boiled for ages until it turned into a grey-green sludge, the smell
> filled the house and defeated the appetite of even a growing boy.
>
> But I had it good! My Dad said his mother cooked it the same way until
> somebody told her that the goodness went into the water - which is true to
> some extent. Did she cook it less or steam it, or perhaps lightly fry it
> instead to reduce the loss of vitamins and minerals? No. She reasoned that
> this water was a resource not to be wasted so my Dad had to drink it. True
> story. I can still picture him shivering as he recounted the story.
>
> David

That reminds me, around holidays my father used to make baccala. That
damned cod stunk to high heaven, it was the most abhorent thing I could
think of as a kid.

But then once it got combined with the pickled peppers, etc that was it.
Completely changed the smell and taste.

To this day I love anything pickled.

In article 1>,
says...
> Andy <q> :
>
> > -L. said...
> >
> >> Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> >> out in your mind?
> >
> >
> > I must've been about 5 y.o. (the crappy food days of Mom's cooking). For
> > dinner she served us a canned ham. She didn't cook it just sliced it up,
> > jelly and all. I took one bite and it was so icky and salty, I tried to
> > swallow it but it wouldn't go down and instead I vomited all over the
> > table. She never served canned ham again.
> >
> > Andy
>
> Interesting how a little puke will give the adults a clue as to what NOT to
> do for young children, food wise
>
> Michael
>
>

Yeah but in the case of kids its usually a LOT of puke.

In article >,
says...
> Andy wrote:
> > jmcquown said...
> >
> >> He dumped the sauce, which probably would
> >> have been pretty good, into the water and we've made fun of his
> >> watery spaghetti ever since.
> >
> >
> > Hence the term "army brat"???
> >
> > Andy
>
> He'd shoot you for saying that, Andy. He's a Marine In fact, it says so
> on his return address labels - USMC Retired. Not that he's proud of it or
> anything.
>
> Jill

Sounds like my paternal grandfathter. You could take the man out of the
US Army, but you couldn't take the US Army out of the man. He was a
retired MSgt, served in WW II, Korea and Vietnam. Even his cars were
bought in colors as close to army green as possible, and white walls
were always flipped INWARD.

My father did two stints as a squid. I think his only memories of it are
the ports of call in which he sired at least one illegitimate child that
he thinks nobody knows about. Oh well.

And me, no military service whatsoever. Had an appointment to USAF
Academy and decided the thought of Uncle Sam owing my ass for close to 8
years wasnt' worth it.

In article >,
unge says...
> One time on Usenet, "-L." > said:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> > out in your mind?
>
> Other than my second step-mother's cooking (scrambled eggs with
> chunks of cabbage?), no, not really... :-)
>
>

Ok, this must be so common. My step-mom couldn't cook to save her life,
wherease my father, paternal grandmother and grandfather, and maternal
grandmother were all fantastic at it.

My maternal grandmother was the roasts, cakes, cookies, candies. My
other grandparents were all the Italian dishes, and my fathers specialty
was soups.

Dad had been married to her for about 2 or so years. One night she makes
this absolutely vile concoction. I was 16 at the time so got up from the
table in disgust.

My father asked me where I was going to which I replied "To get
something to eat." Next thing I know I've got my dad and two step-
sisters in the car with me and we're going out for pizza.

From then on my father made dinner.

In article >, kilikini1
@NOSPAMhotmail.com says...
> Marcella Peek wrote:
> > Oh, so many.....
> >
> > The worst dinner though was cabbage night. Chop up a head or two of
> > cabbage and let it cook covered in the electric skillet for at least
> > an hour. Add in a few kielbasa for the adults and 1/2 hot dog per
> > child. Now, all us kids could eat a whole hot dog (and were served
> > them) but on cabbage night she only gave us half. Bizarre. It was a
> > disgusting dinner, slimy, smelly, horrid.
> >
>
> Okay, you mentioned hot dogs...... I'll share a story. I hate hot dogs. I
> hate any kind of sausage, baloney, bratwurst, liversausage, period. Well,
> my mom served hot dogs to us for lunch one day and it was always the
> you-can't-get-up-until-you-eat-the-whole-thing dealy in our house. After
> about an hour of staring at the slimey, ground up, pale thing, I finally
> doused it in ketchup and attempted to get a bite down. Just then my brother
> came into the room and said something funny. I snorted and that bite of hot
> dog smothered in ketchup went up through my nose! Talk about burning! I
> ran into the bathroom and gagged.
>
> I still can't smell a hot dog or watch my husband eat one. They are
> absolutely vile things. <shudder>
>
> kili

Sort of how I now have a serious aversion to orange soda and kielbasa.

Back in the early 80's I was working at a local hardware chain and there
was a nice little Cape Verdean festival going on. Grabbed a nice
kielbasa sandwich and a bottle of orange soda.

A few hours later and I'm spewing out this orange colored puke. Not
good. Was sick for a day or two on that one.


So now I tend to avoid both.

In article om>,
says...
>
> kilikini wrote:
> >
> > I still can't smell a hot dog or watch my husband eat one. They are
> > absolutely vile things. <shudder>
> >
> > kili
>
> Gosh - you and I are so similar in our food tastes. I had a negative
> hot dog experience too - I was 11, sick with chicken pox so bad I had
> them *everywhere* - in my eyes, in my nostrils, down my throat, you
> name it. I almost died - ran an outrageous fever for days. Once I was
> feeling a bit better I ate a hotdog which I kept down for about two
> minutes. Never have I retched so badly in my life. I have never eaten
> another one since - can't even stand the smell of them.
>
> -L.
>
>

Try an inner ear infection. I'm just getting over one now and when the
vestigal system gets compressed by that fluid all hell breaks loose. For
about 3 days I couldn't get out of bed, didn't even want to open my eyes
for fear of seeing the room spin. And sometimes so bad that the stomach
decided to try to heave out the contents, even when nothing was in
there. Fun times.

When it finally subsided I went to the doctor and now I'm on a ten day
course of amoxicillin with the proviso that if I don't notice
improvement in 4-6 days, to call an ENT and make an appointment.

It's day 3 and I can almost hear out of my left ear. I'd say hearing is
at about 60%.

In article >, d-
says...
> -L. wrote:
>
> > It tasted
> > like metal and was dark-colored, and dry. She buttered the bread,
> > spread a tiny bit of tuna on it and then slathered it with cheap Mayo
> > that was really greasy. I still remember the smell and shudder when I
> > think about it.
>
> And then they wonder why kids are picky eaters....
>
> Too much mayo makes me gag, too. What's really revolting is baked tuna
> noodle casserole. The faintest whiff of that will make me hurl.
>
>
>
> Dawn
>
>

I abhor mayo on pretty much anything except tuna and potato salad.

In article . com>,
says...
>
> -L. wrote:
>
> > Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> > out in your mind?
>
> Yep, the birthday party I attended where the only food served (other
> than the cake & icecream) was egg salad sandwiches. At the time I
> loathed eggs, no matter how they were cooked, but trying to be polite I
> gagged one down -- much to my dismay, and that of the other guests, it
> didn't stay down and I didn't make it away from the table before it
> came back up. I still won't eat egg salad, although I enjoy Spanish
> omelets and hard boiled eggs with lots of salt & pepper.

Oh eggs. I mainly like them scrambled or omelet style. Boiled eggs are
tolerable if they're broken up and combined. If fried they have to have
no runny yolk whatsoever.

cybercat wrote:
> The cheap cottage cheeses (all store brands I have tried) are watery and
> salty, too. Ick.

We have some here that are quite good. Fred Meyer brand is one that
comes to mind. Home Dairies is my favorite, and it's a cheap, albeit
non-store, brand. There are some brands I don't like though. I like
mine creamy but not *too* thick. IIRC I had trouble finding one I
liked in NC but the one you mentioned was good.

-L.

In article >,
Yeff > wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:27:22 -0500, OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> > but I also will not eat raw onions, or any form of bell peppers!
>
> Another Godless communist! Next you'll be saying you don't like
> chocolate...

Dark Chocolate Truffles are the food of the gods..... ;-d
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On 11 Oct 2006 23:38:57 -0700, "-L." > rummaged
among random neurons and opined:

>Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
>out in your mind?

I won't go into the green tuna casserole that was a horrible staple of
my childhood and still makes me queasy when I think of it, but I
recall one dinner when I was around 7...my mother cooked liver until
it was tough enough to beat someone to death with it. I remember one
dinner where I absolutely rebelled and refused to eat it. My mother
told me I would sit right there until I did. I sat there and sat there
for what (in my memory) was half the night. She finally gave up, but
wrapped it up and presented it to me the next morning for breakfast. I
still wouldn't eat it. It showed up in my school lunch pail, which is
when I finally got rid of it. When I got home, my mother asked me if
I'd eaten the liver. I told her I'd thrown it away, which is when I
learned that you can get spanked for telling the truth :-)

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"Most vigitaryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be
classed as cannybals."

Finley Peter Dunne (1900)

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

-L. wrote:
>
> Do you have bad food memories from childhood (or otherwise) that stick
> out in your mind?
>

4 years old, sitting at the dinner table with a concussion from earlier in the
day. I don't think my parents realized how severely i'd been injured. I was
eating some sort of hotdish with ring macaroni and I threw up all over my
plate. All logic tells me that ring macaroni is no different from any other
noodle but I cannot eat it at all.

There were also the never ending battles concerning mushrooms, onions, and
olive. I've gotten over the onion thing to a certain extent, I can eat them in
certain circumstances, but never mushrooms or olives. Those battles are etched
so deeply in my psyche that I don't think I could ever force a kid of mine to
eat something they didn't like.

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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:40:58 -0400, T >
wrote:
>
>Mmmm. Fluffernutters. Terrible for adults but great for kids.

this was back in the day before it aquired a name.... plus was open
faced (and broiled).


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"Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
...
> On 11 Oct 2006 23:38:57 -0700, "-L." > rummaged



>.my mother cooked liver until
> it was tough enough to beat someone to death with it.

I personally would much rather beat someone to death with liver
than eat it.