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Irene007   | | posted 8-Jun-2002 12:51pm |
None at all... In fact, I have eaten things out of curiosity when many turn up their noses. I remember this one time on a farm in Cuba... Jeez, I can't believe I ate that!! |
| mandy |
Someone I worked with back in the 80's told me that the government allows a certain percentage of maggots in frozen concentrate orange juice. I still drink it. But I always search for what might be maggoty granules. I have never found any. It all looks like orange pulp to me. Maggots are good for you anyway. A delicacy.
I have an aversion to brussel sprouts but that's just because they SUCK!!!!! |
| mandy | | (reply to Irene007) posted 8-Jun-2002 1:19pm |
What What What??????? Teeellll meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!  |
| darkshadowsseeker |
No, but I know someone who does. |
| bobofwestgate |
I used to not be able to eat split pea soup because a friend told me it was made from elephant snot. When I got older I realized that my friend was full of crap and that it was yummy soup. |
| Irene007 | | (reply to mandy) posted 8-Jun-2002 1:33pm |
It was some kind of root, like a potato and BBQ pork, but that was not the problem. We were at a "traditional" Cuban farm (tourist trap in the jungle), and near the BBQ something smelled real good. They offered for me to try some and I accepted before I saw their set up. They had to shoo the swarm of flies off of the potato thing and I blanked out the part with the pork... I was commited... It tasted good though but all of those flies, it's a wonder I didn't get ulcers! No one else in the group tried it - I was the brave (or stupid) one! |
| mandy | | (reply to Irene007) posted 8-Jun-2002 2:29pm |
You could have gotten worms!!!!!!!
*laughs*
Yum!!!! |
romkey  |
yes, haggis. If you know how's it made then you know why I have an aversion to it. |
| juliw |
no-but there are certain foods I don't want to try just because of what they are: cow tongue, liver, kidneys |
| cuteasabutton |
I had one, to hot dogs cause someone told me there is mouse droppings in them. But I have since blocked it out as nonsense. I like hot dogs. |
| Oscar |
The story I heard was spider legs not eggs. |
| Oscar | | (reply to mandy) posted 8-Jun-2002 4:02pm |
I've heard that they're allowed to put a certain amount of rat feces in popcorn.
I've also heard that they can have certain amount of spiders in chocolate. |
| Jemmy |
Yes. McDonald's hamburgers, and that they are made with mealworms or something. And that people spit in cafeteria food at school. |
| TylersMamma |
None tht I can think of |
| confetti |
Jell-O, because of the bone thing. And also, thanks to someone's twisted idea of an NC-17 blockbuster movie, I can't bring myself to eat apple pie, although it's one of the flavors I love the most in the world. When I have a craving and it can't surpass my repulsion, I use one of my many strange food placebos (learnt in the art of dieting). Pare an apple (120 calories), sprinkle a tablespoon of brown sugar (30) over it and some cinnamon (0) if you're not boring. Stick it in the bagel toaster until you're certain it's not crisp. It tastes exactly like it, at about one fiftieth the calories in a piece of regular pie. |
| dora |
No. |
| Hans |
Beef, in any form. The chance to get the Kreutzfeldt-Jacob disease from eating beef is tiny, I know. But this is what your brain says. I just cannot enjoy beef any longer. I loved to eat beef before human greediness and incredibly stupid European politics destroyed this (and not only this) detail of quality of life (in Europe). |
Zang  |
For some strange reason, my parents used to tell us that tapioca pudding was made out of fish eyes. It is still my least favourite dessert. I'll eat it, but I wouldn't go out of my way... |
| Enheduanna |
No. I have an aversion to ever getting too close to a durian fruit, let alone eating it, because I have heard that they smell like crap. But that's probably not really what the question is asking. |
| LuridHope |
Funny thing really. From the ages of 6 to 8 I believed that there were earthworms in hot dogs because an aunt of mine on a whim one day told me there were. |
| LuridHope |
Oh! I just remembered a great One. I never believed it... I was the one telling the first graders.
SCHOOL LUNCH: ELEPHANT KNEE PIZZA: Take an elephant. Make it run across concrete. Pull trip wire causing elephants to fall and scrape their knees. Allow to scab over. Remove scab. Serve in rectangular aluminum pan. |
| moonstone | | posted 8-Jun-2002 11:00pm |
I have heard WAY too many times about how McDonalds hamburgers are made, and what they are made with...I will never eat a McDonalds hamburger again. Same goes for the Chicken McNugets. That is NOT chicken...that's all I'll say about that. |
| moonstone | | (reply to LuridHope) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:06pm |
 I love how you started out the "recipe"! "Take an elephant."....like Elephants are just something sitting around in your pantry or something...I don't know, it just struck me funny, and made me giggle.. So, thanks. |
| LuridHope | | (reply to moonstone) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:09pm |
You just made my night. I just assume that that most of our precious wit gets lost, unseen out here in cyberspace. Either way it's fun to get it out. |
| moonstone | | (reply to LuridHope) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:14pm |
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| mandy | | (reply to Oscar) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:20pm |
You mean add them? For flavor?
*giggles* |
| mandy | | (reply to moonstone) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:22pm |
I keep my elephants in the garage........with the extra paper towels and soda pop! |
| moonstone | | (reply to mandy) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:29pm |
You'd think I kept my elephants under my clothes...especially in my back pockets of my pants!! |
| mandy | | (reply to moonstone) posted 8-Jun-2002 11:35pm |
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| Amanda |
I don't eat processed meats, such as hotdogs, lunch meats, etc, because I was told they have worms in them. I later found out that this is true. |
| teatree | | (reply to Zang) posted 9-Jun-2002 4:19am |
That's funny, especially considering the fact that my sister and I referred to tapioca pudding as fish eyes in glue when we were kids. Now you'll probably never want to eat it again! |
| teatree | | (reply to Oscar) posted 9-Jun-2002 4:21am |
When she found that she couldn't convince him otherwise, my sister told her son that the spider eggs were just extra protein in his diet. I don't think he believed her. |
| freebird_old |
My stepmother once told me about a trip her friend took to a hot dog factory- it involved rats. I think I'm getting over it though, I can eat a hot dog maybe twice a year. |
| NthenSome |
I don't know about any aversions. I have developed some repugnance toward certain foods though - but I created them myself, I imagine, just from the pronunciations.
"Artichoke"? For years, I thought it was a meat, and in fact one I didn't want to be anywhere near from the sounds of it.
An "eggplant"? What the hell in that is supposed to be appetizing? "Eggnog"; can't do it; "cream soda", nope; "matzoball soup", forget it.
There's more, just can't remember right now. I'm a little preoccupied with having to prepare to run to the bathroom to juke.
Oh..."tofu" - come on, you serious? That sounds like something Dr. Scholls needs to remedy, yuk. |
| Irene007 | | (reply to mandy) posted 9-Jun-2002 11:01am |
That was four years ago and I still feel OK! *Phew* |
| Zang | | (reply to teatree) posted 9-Jun-2002 3:11pm |
It isn't a very pleasant texture anyway...gelatinous globs of goo... |
| Dino |
no, nothing that springs to mind. |
| moonstone | | (reply to mandy) posted 9-Jun-2002 4:44pm |
 <---- See the elephants!! |
Galomorro   |
No. I can't remember ever being told anything that would influence me like that.... Today I am kind of a "foodie," except that I can't often afford to get the foods I want, nor go out to my favorite restaurants often enough. |
| teatree | | (reply to Zang) posted 9-Jun-2002 10:15pm |
My sister would eat tapioca if it was chocolate tapioca, but to me it was yucky even if it was flavored with chocolate! |
| cody | | posted 9-Jun-2002 10:51pm |
No, but I did have an aversion to this girl from my old high school because of something I was told about... ;) |
| mandy | | (reply to moonstone) posted 9-Jun-2002 11:13pm |
Pink elephants even! |
| bitsofcandy | | posted 10-Jun-2002 3:23am |
Green catsup. My mother said that my grand mother coughed up something that looked like green catsup just before she died (she also said that alot of smoker's do the same) so now i can't even look at the stuff. The red catsup does not bother me though. |
| grmbrand | | posted 10-Jun-2002 8:13am |
Nope. I've trumped any gross-out stories people have told me about various foods by eating those foods with all the more gusto in their presence. |
| moonstone | | (reply to mandy) posted 10-Jun-2002 12:11pm |
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| moonstone |
That is SOOOOOO gross! Green catsup was always weird to me anyway, but now I can say I'll never eat it for sure! |
| Zang | | (reply to teatree) posted 10-Jun-2002 5:06pm |
I've never heard of such a thing. It doesn't seem any more appealing. I'd prefer just to have the chocolate pudding by itself. |
| teatree | | (reply to Zang) posted 10-Jun-2002 5:09pm |
My grandmother made it by adding some chocolate syrup to the tapioca. I didn't think it did anything for the taste and it certainly didn't change the texture! |
| Cleo | | posted 13-Jun-2002 2:00am |
Raw liver (it's a delicacy in Hawaii) because it moved all around on the plate & I assumed it was still alive. I don't eat lobster anymore because my oldest son told me that it was the cockroach of the sea.(Twit) I don't eat turtle anymore(well one reason because it's out law now) but because when I was 5 years old my father caught one & it cried when my dad killed it. My son wont drink milk because my husband told him it was cow pee. (Jerk) My husband won't eat hotdogs cause he said there's nasty stuff in it. He's tried to tell me many times what's in it but I won't let him.  |
| mikehunt696 | | posted 16-Jun-2002 1:26am |
No |
| wolfchik9 | | posted 19-Jun-2002 7:38pm |
I ate so much Jello when I had my tonsils removed. Then someone told me that Jello has horse hooves in it because it's gelatin. Never again will I eat Jello! |
| teatree |
Have you seen the new colors squeeze Parkay has for kids? Ugh! Who would want to eat blue margarine! That sounds almost as nasty as green ketchup! |
| anonymous | | posted 28-Jun-2002 1:16pm |
I wouldn't go near tomatoes for a month because my babysitter said they werepoison |
| oOStephOo | | posted 4-Jul-2002 10:57pm |
I got this e-mail saying stuff about KFC and why they can't actually say "chicken" because it wasn't real chicken and it was like mechanically grown. I still won't eat chicken from there although I am not sure if it is actually true. |
| NthenSome | | (reply to oOStephOo) posted 4-Jul-2002 11:57pm |
I worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken stores from age 14 to 18. To this day, I have yet to witness a more organized, stringently-structured, conscientious chain - and I'm able to rate all that with other places, even now just by being a customer, because I spent four years behind these counters.
For one KFC store, in Austin, Texas, I was a quality control officer, where you learn quite a bit about picking up on "clues" to what's going on behind the counter without the need of ever having to step foot back there. Once I gained that mentality, I've never been able to ignore those "clues". And still to this day, KFC is the cleanest, customer service-oriented, health-conscientious driven fast food company I see around.
When the Colonel [there was a Colonel] sold his recipe [there is a secret recipe] early on in the game, he didn't want his image to be attached to an establishment that was ever rated sub par, so he was smart. He sold the recipe for a share of .03 cents per head of chicken cooked, and .01 cents for every egg cracked to cook that chicken, something like that. But! He also stipulated in the sale that thorough procedures be established, and that a formal training course be taken by every new employee. It's an extensive, educational training course that took two weeks to complete, back in the early eighties, for just the one area you were hired to work. There was additional two weeks for each area you were to learn, and then a formal class for the managers-to-be.
Next time you go (if you do), look at the employees' nametags. If you see "I'm an all-star employee", that person took all possible courses and is probably going to be a manager soon.
It's a great corporation (owned now by West Foods, I think?). This prank email makes me sick enough to write this long about a damn fast food restaurant.
As far as the email goes, boasting how the mechanically-grown chicken keeps ads from using the word "chicken"...next time you see their commercials, count how many times you hear Randy Quaid use the word - seven.
Also...their slogan? "We do chicken right". Sound familiar? |
| oOStephOo | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 5-Jul-2002 12:08am |
Well that clears that up then doesn't it? lol. There isn't a KFC near me anyways so it's not like I go there lol. Thats just what I heard .later |
| mandy | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 13-Jul-2002 2:58pm |
There is a KFC in our town. The last time I went in it was FILTHY! The tables were sticky..crumbs everywhere. The employees were wearing uniforms that were obviously dirty. The ceiling had water stains. Flies circled lazily. The garbage receptacles were caked with spills. The floors were gross, unmopped and unswept. AND, it was empty...no customers...the employees were all just standing around with slack jawed looks. I had gone in for a sandwich of some kind. I turned around and walked right out again without purchasing anything. I was literally sickened. |
| NthenSome | | (reply to mandy) posted 13-Jul-2002 4:50pm |
I think you must have walked into FCK, not KFC - there's a big difference, ya know. Starting with the clientele.
Your description is the worst I've ever heard given to a KFC, to be honest. I know the company still tries to keep a grip on the standards, but...your example proves it still must be all up to that management.
So, one thing you didn't mention about the place: How was the gravy? (Haha.) |
| mandy | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 13-Jul-2002 4:58pm |
Starting with the clientele? |
| NthenSome | | (reply to mandy) posted 13-Jul-2002 5:45pm |
(That was re the fake, transposed acronym of "FCK".) Sometimes my attempts at humor are so thwarted it throws even myself.
In fact, I just spent a minute trying to interpret it to myself and I still don't get it. |
| mandy | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 13-Jul-2002 7:12pm |
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| teatree | | (reply to mandy) posted 16-Jul-2002 1:48pm |
I think we have the same KFC across from the Winco in Springfield. It's always dirty when you go in. Trays and garbage on the tables, dirty, sticky floors and counters, stains on the employees' uniforms and I DON'T even want to think of how bad the kitchen is! On the other hand, the KFC in the Gateway area of Springfield is the exact opposite. Clean, tables bussed, uniforms clean...in short I'm not worried about eating at this one. |
| Maarten | | posted 25-Aug-2002 3:27pm |
Yes, McDonalds. |
