aschie30 wrote:

gtomaras wrote:

MariaTheresa wrote:Non-dairy creamer (liquid or powder).

Many of the powder varieties are good for starting fires. They smell a bit like marshmallows when burnt.

Is this true? It's flammable?

I HATE non-dairy creamer, and I'll add UHT creamer to the list, both are unfortunately becoming airplane staples, especially on regional jets.

I assure you it is true. The coffeemate is not, but most generic brands are. I have spent many bored hours on a submarine in port lighting things on fire.

I am extremely sensitive to salt, and when my intake rises, I not only feel it, but I can see it as well. I love salty foods of all types and have never had much of a sweet tooth with the exception of chocolate or ice cream once in a while.

Eight years ago, I had a triple bypass and the three arteries were harvested from my right leg. Increased sodium intake seems to have such a cumulative effect on me that after a few days of indulging, that right ankle swells up like a balloon. It may take as long as three or even four days of low salt intake for the ankle swelling to subside.

I try not to add any salt at the table, but I sometimes give in to temptation. French fries at Jimmy's or Top Notch...gotta add more salt to fully enjoy. Big Beef double dipped and hot from Al's... same. Dim sum...how can you not dip in soy sauce...? Kim chee...anchovy on pizza...salted smoked almonds...lox...real country ham...Weisswurst from Paulina Market...(There's a reason that they're so damn tasty)...bacon...sauerkraut...Worst item of all for me? Corned beef and pickled tongue (with pickles, of course)!

loquacious snobs

Mayo and peanut butter/jelly sandwiches

qofu2 wrote:Mayo and peanut butter/jelly sandwiches

If that is one complete thought then it is my mortal enemy too.

gastro gnome wrote:

qofu2 wrote:Mayo and peanut butter/jelly sandwiches

If that is one complete thought then it is my mortal enemy too.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No it was not a complete thought, but after reading your post, it definitely ranks up there as evil.

mine is ranch dressing.

first, for how it actually tastes. it's disgusting. it has that mouth-itching quality that only MSG-laden stuff gives. i've asked literally dozens of people what the distinctive 'ranch' flavor is. no one knows. what the hell is it?

second, for the "ranch-ification" of america. there are a large number of people who literally cannot eat anything unless they slather ranch dressing all over it. i had a guy once ask me for ranch dressing who had only ordered a pepperoni pizza. i thought maybe he was also getting a salad, so i asked, and he wanted it to 'dip' his pizza into. a wha?


**disclaimer**
somewhere, someone might be making real, from-scratch ranch dressing. and it might be good. i've got nothing against ingredients like buttermilk, sour cream, mayo, and seasonings. but i've yet to encounter a ranch that wasn't a plasticky carageenan and lecithin-laden MSG-fest.

Shellfish. Here's why:
I LOVE shellfish. Grew up on shellfish on the East Coast. Love it to death. Adore it. Love the smell, love the taste. would eat a ton of it if given the chance. The problem? I've developed some kind of allergy. Mollusks, bivalves, any regular fish - no problem. Shellfish, however, unless it's pristinely fresh, make my tongue swell up, and if I continue to eat it, my eyes droop, and I develop a rash around them. Dr says it's prolly the iodine.

Miracle Whip -
It makes me gag a lil just thinking about it.

Baked raisins -
Who was the genius who could take something as perfect as a nice, chewy oatmeal cookie, and ruin it with those little bitter rat turds? Oh - raisins outta the box? Yumm. They burn when you cook them, people! Not good. I'm the one who will pick the raisins out, and leave them in a pile. I'll even go so far as nibbling the cookie parts clean off of the raisin. Such a pain, but I LOVE oatmeal cookies.

Rib Tip Jerky.
Hey Smokin M's -
TAKE THE TIPS OUT BEFORE THEY TURN INTO JERKY!!! Well, actually, the only thing that's kept me from serious health issues is the fact that Uncle John's is as far away from me as it is. If Mack ran a shop in my hood, I'd weigh a wee bit more.

KFC, Popeye's, and Church's. They must all be stopped.

Shelf stable salsa from a jar. I can live with Herdez in a pinch, but things with labels like "Thick and Chunky?"
has anyone seen what they CHARGE for that garbage????

Oh wow, I should just stop, but...

Fake mozzarella cheese.
Ever had this stuff on a pizza from a place you used to like? Ultimate letdown when you're expecting a pizza from one of your favorite joints, and you find out that they've switched to some blend or use solely fake mozz now.

Restaurants that you KNOW don't care one bit about the product they are putting out.
This would encompass about 95% of all of the taquerias and a similar percentage of all of the Chinese joints in Chicagoland (IMO.) I really wonder if the Asian ppl cooking in those places are amazed at how much people will pay them for cornstarch laden glop.

That really sucks about the shellfish. Hopefully some aspect of modern medicine can help you get past this problem.

100% with you on the Miracle Whip...that artificially sweet flavor creeps me out. Also, bad Chinese food that's approximately 73% corn starch: I don't get it. Is that shiny, slimy, goopy texture supposed to be appetizing? It's awful!

However, I believe the KFC & Popeyes have a time & a place (the time being during a televised sporting event, and the place being a bachelor pad apartment of some sort filled with a bunch of guys and a ton of cheap, domestic, watered-down, easily-chuggable beer).

I'm also a fan of some shelf-stable salsas...specifically, I like most of Trader Joe's jarred salsa offerings. In a pinch, I've been known to crack open a jar of Pace salsa if I've got some tortilla chips that require my immediate attention. You're right about one thing though, jars of salsa are a total a rip-off.

I thought I was the only one that hated mayo. It has ruined many a great sandwich.

Also, really fit people who make a big production out of eating something bad just so they get a compliment out of you about how skinny/fit/wonderful they are. "Oh Sally, go ahead and eat that entire buffet of food. You're soooooooooooooooo fit you could eat 10 of those without gaining a pound." Blech.

Disclaimer: I'm thin, I workout, and eat healthily 99% of the time. I don't go fishing for compliments because 1. I don't care what others think of me and 2. I'm going to eat what I want to eat when I want to eat it.

Food snobs - you know, I can't eat this b/c I'm too good.

Yeah I would prefer something freshly made with organic local ingredients, but every once in a while, I want something that is bad for me; fried faux chicken fingers, bbq sauce, french fries and a great big shake!

jimswside wrote:faux meat products.

besides my previous post re: faux meat(tofurkey, garden burgers, etc). I have to add:

chain restaurants, boil-b-q, bake-b-q, & imitation crab.

Keeping with the Miracle Whip theme, my mortal enemy is people who think that Miracle Whip is a substitute for mayonnaise such that they don't even ask if Miracle Whip is okay, but just put it on your sandwich. The fact that there is such a product out there is fine by me, but I give no quarter to those who fail to see the difference between it and regular mayonnaise.

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Khaopaat wrote:...I believe the KFC & Popeyes have a time & a place...

At the exact moment you can show me a pig that can fly out of any orifice on my body, I will grab a bucket of extra crispy, a large macaroni and "cheese," a few biscuits, drive down to Atlantis, and happily chow down.


I'm just kidding.

dk wrote:loquacious snobs

I sincerely regret becoming your mortal enemy. Perhaps we share a common foe, like bread mold?

but their chicken 'fingers' are really good. they use real boneless, skinless chicken breasts. they're even better if you dip them in miracle whip. or ranch dressing.

Santander wrote:

dk wrote:loquacious snobs

I sincerely regret becoming your mortal enemy. Perhaps we share a common foe, like bread mold?

Funny, I thought he meant me.

riddlemay wrote:

Santander wrote:

dk wrote:loquacious snobs

I sincerely regret becoming your mortal enemy. Perhaps we share a common foe, like bread mold?

Funny, I thought he meant me.

she

riddlemay wrote:

Santander wrote:

dk wrote:loquacious snobs

I sincerely regret becoming your mortal enemy. Perhaps we share a common foe, like bread mold?

Funny, I thought he meant me.

she [/quote]
lol, twas mostly self-referential , as I have the propensity myself. trying to practice the silence of Buddha at a place like mine is pretty ridiculous
sorry, I like bread mold, don't need to ever take penicillin or other antibiotics.
how about bankers? do you hate bankers? does anyone understand why we don't take credit cards yet? humorous, but it really is against my religion. perhaps if I were a better cook?

my mortal enemy is premade sandwiches out of a cooler. you know the ones...wilted lettuce, cheapo cold cuts, ice cold stale bread. airports are a prime place to find these.

Snuck one of those great EC Tales of the Crypt comix into the basement and read the story about the Egyptian mummy who returns to life as a beautiful princess and then reverts back to mummydom (skeletal putrifying face, eyes dripping out of the sockets like runny egg whites) to drag her horrified lover back to accompany her to the tomb (For ever and EVER!! Ya ha ha!) and then my Mom calling me upstairs to serve me a lunch of undercooked eggs with whites still partially raw and runny. I eat eggs. I throw up eggs. The memory lingers after 50 years. Don't serve me runny egg whites.

seebee wrote:KFC, Popeye's, and Church's. They must all be stopped.

What about Brown's?

I have an enemy of gelatin and anything that tastes or looks like it, including the lump of phat in my pho, chicken in aspic, etc., etc. Aspic is not appealing in any way to me, not taste, looks, or personality.

Soggy lettuce, indeed, and side salads that are all white lettuce. Would it kill you to use greens? Seems a lot of people hate Red Robin and Red Lobster (hmmm, all restaurants with 'Red' in the title. Is this a curse, like songs with 'Lady' in the title?) but at least they have kickass salads. Except for the chicken on the cobb at Red Robin...that's another thread.

Anyway, can't forget my nemesis: fresh pears. Love 'em in desserts, pretty good in salads. But fresh pears traumatized me as a child, and thus, we can't be friends.

Pie Lady wrote:

seebee wrote:KFC, Popeye's, and Church's. They must all be stopped.

What about Brown's?

I have an enemy of gelatin and anything that tastes or looks like it, including the lump of phat in my pho, chicken in aspic, etc., etc. Aspic is not appealing in any way to me, not taste, looks, or personality.

Soggy lettuce, indeed, and side salads that are all white lettuce. Would it kill you to use greens? Seems a lot of people hate Red Robin and Red Lobster (hmmm, all restaurants with 'Red' in the title. Is this a curse, like songs with 'Lady' in the title?) but at least they have kickass salads. Except for the chicken on the cobb at Red Robin...that's another thread.

Anyway, can't forget my nemesis: fresh pears. Love 'em in desserts, pretty good in salads. But fresh pears traumatized me as a child, and thus, we can't be friends.

This not-at-all-creepy video should help you with chicken, phat, and pears all at once:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43VjLCRqKNk

Santander wrote: This not-at-all-creepy video...

IDK - something about "the caps, actually, they get like little cookies...I save them." Put the SFX of a knife on a whetstone, behind it, I'm running, screaming, for the hills.

Pie Lady wrote:...an enemy of gelatin

this is why all low fat or nonfat yogurt is my enemy. I really hate it when yogurt is artificially thickened, usually with gelatin, but also with pectin, cornstarch, carageenan... blech. Full-fat yogurt does not usually contain these extra thickening ingredients.

Mhays wrote:

Santander wrote: This not-at-all-creepy video...

IDK - something about "the caps, actually, they get like little cookies...I save them." Put the SFX of a knife on a whetstone, behind it, I'm running, screaming, for the hills.

I picture him in a little dark room full of the saved pear-caps somewhere else in his house, with his cat, salivating, late at night.

Pie Lady wrote:But fresh pears traumatized me as a child, and thus, we can't be friends.

You have put into words how I feel toward Brussels sprouts and fuzzy peach skins but before now was only able to express by violent trembling and gagging.

Cheap ice cream. I really do not mean to be a snob, there are lots and lots of junk foods that I crave, but cheap ice cream with stabilizers and artificial flavors is an abomination. The mouth feel is wrong, the flavor is wrong, it's just too disappointing for words. I want an ice cream that melts into a puddle of runny delicious cream, not into slimy goo.

Funny that after reading three pages of mortal enemies and not really knowing if I had one, suddenly when I saw the posting about low fat yogurt I knew.

Actually, most of the foods that occur to me that might be "mortal enemies" really appear on my version of Stephen Colbert's "dead to me" list. These are the foods that appear on the grocery shelves, but that it never in a million years occurs to me to buy, I don't even see them, they might as well not be there.

(It goes without saying that blueberry bagels and sun-dried tomato bagels and Asiago cheese bagels are on this list, doesn't it? They may be tasty (I don't know because they are considered a sign of anti-Semitism in our house and we don't eat them). Because they are not bagels.)

Santander wrote:

Mhays wrote:

Santander wrote: This not-at-all-creepy video...

IDK - something about "the caps, actually, they get like little cookies...I save them." Put the SFX of a knife on a whetstone, behind it, I'm running, screaming, for the hills.

I picture him in a little dark room full of the saved pear-caps somewhere else in his house, with his cat, salivating, late at night.

That wasn't so creepy, but now I don't want chicken either.