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Caviar. Stop lying it's gross.
Kalles Kaviar goes on everything.
I eat just about anything that comes out of fish. I think it's fine. Same with salmon roe and stuff. Cod sperm is the one I don't care for (at least raw), but that's a texture thing.
I had a sampler of about 8 different roe variants. The salmon roe were the best, like little salty bursts with a mild fishy taste. The flying fish were the worst; texturally like sand.
Alton Brown claims his favorite protein source is caviar.
Idk, I like fish eggs on sushi — but straight caviar on a cracker is horrifying to me.
Doesn't the cracker normally have some cheese on it? Like one of the white lumpy cheeses, not like cheddar or provolone.
I think you're thinking of creme fraiche, which is a kind of cream.
Maybe, I thought it was something more like ricotta or cottage cheese, but I haven't been to a fancy enough party to try the stuff. Just remembered a picture.
A perk of being of Iranian origin is having tasted actual Persian caviar from Caspian sturgeons. And it's unfortunately very delicious.
Oh so maybe I've just had shitty caviar? My dad was an ambassador and we were always served it when we ate together. The one I remember most vividly was my first and it was at a state dinner in Mongolia, perhaps it's different there. I usually just declined where appropriate after that.
We used to sell caviar at a store I managed and the caviar guy came around to have the staff taste it for sales purposes. We went through like 3 tins of caviar and it was absolutely fantastic. Delicate, slightly briny, slightly sweet, could've eaten it all day.
I don’t even hate it it’s just like little grainy blobs and it’s ok so I just have a small amount to be polite.
I would like to try some before I can say it's overrated. But seing the price, it's probably overrated af.
You can get some pretty cheap, and that's probably what the poster had. From what I've heard, when it's good it's really good. The cheap stuff though is pretty plain. More of a texture than flavor. It's just little sacks of water basically. The more expensive stuff is more salty with fishy flavors, from what I've heard.
Mushy peas. I’m from northern England and therefore should genetically love it, but I just don’t. Maybe it’s because I never went to watch football and rugby games in the rain and cold.
Fresh peas straight from the plant are such a world away from whatever monstrosity processing turns them into. Mushy peas are gross, but I will happily pick every pod in the garden and greedily eat every pea out of them if given the chance.
You may be from the north Jon but you'll never see winter southerner
I enjoy canned and frozen peas a lot. But when they gave me that little cup of mushy peas with my fish and chips. I gave it a shot. It's like pea flavored pudding, nope.
How do you cope with curry sauce at the chippy? I’ll pour it over everything, still with salt and vinegar. Similar consistency but less green tasting.
I don't know what that is. I was just visiting London.
Omg it’s amazing, but a very specific fruity curry sauce (I think) developed in Ireland.
Raw oysters. They have the texture and salinity of snot
I assume you've tried at least a few but the difference in oysters around the world is immense. If, for example, you've only tried east Asian oysters, give north/south American atlantic/Pacific or European atlantic/mediterranean ones a try.
Using snot as your salinity guide says a lot about you
You've never had a runny nose before?
That you use it as a benchmark is weird
Lobster. Without the butter it tastes like almost nothing. With the butter it tastes like butter.
to me, lobster has a flavor and it is awful
It tastes like slightly lobstery butter with an immensely satisfying texture. It's good
I'd much rather just have an artichoke with a lemon and garlic and melted butter dip. Or a Lion's Mane mushroom, cut into slices and pan-fried in butter and salt, then topped with lemon juice. Or, for that matter, a Dutch Baby pancake. All of these strike me as being in the same overall flavor family as lobster, but I find them tastier, and they also avoid the cracking process, which I find messy and unpleasant.
I knew someone from Maine who'd had lobster ice cream; if what you're saying is true, that might explain some things.
It’s just expensive escargot
Dubai chocolate bars. $15 for a candy bar that just tastes like sweet? Makes no sense to me.
Black Licorice.
You can pry black licorice from my cold dead hands
I will happily have yours
i flicking love it. even the odd kind from europe with ammonia or somesuch in it. or even just chewing on the root sticks.
careful with the blood pressure though.
You insulted my Dutch heritage
i like it
I agree but I'm also saying if you had real licorice root, you wouldn't say this.
with this one i think a lot of it comes down to if you can taste those test strips from high school biology class. if you can, you're going to hate kale. if you can't you're going to think the people who hate kale are being unnecessarily dramatic.
(bias report: i can taste the strips and i hate kale)
Nobody LIKES kale, it's just a health trend
It's quite popular in North German cuisine. As someone from North Germany I can confidently say this counts against kale as a food.
Actually, there are ways to prepare it so it's a tasty addition, like in a soup. As a salad it's awful, though.
I hate kale. I can barely tolerate most leafy greens, and then along comes this trend of making every salad a kale one and now I can't order any fuckin salad unless I feel like paying to mentally fight my gag reflex the entire time I'm eating it
This is plainly untrue. I went through a period of eating lot of salad, and I can think of exactly one with kale.

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