John Pierpont:
KFC coleslaw the god's gift to man!

It will kill me someday, but I hope that I die with coleslaw bits on my lips and the juice drooling down my shirt.

I actually had some of this recently.

I think it is appealing to you as they put a lot of oil in it. Probably shitty oil with MSG - lol.

I needed the calories that day (was in middle of cycling). Had the coleslaw, mashed potatoes, and 6 supreme hard shell tacos and 1 beef burrito supreme (it was a KFC/Taco Bell). 20oz Dr. Pepper. It was pretty good actually. I was hungry as hell. Maybe 2000 cal deficit.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Authentic Chinese is sort of hit or miss. I've tried some of the best food ever and the worst food ever at authentic restaurants. You really have to know what to order.

Also, side note, authentic Chinese restaurants don't make it easy for you. I remember ordering this duck appetizer with my wife a few years back. We're thinking...."Hey Peking Duck is great. This is a safe bet." What comes out was slices of cold and raw duck....like basically duck taken out of a fridge and just placed on a plate uncooked. WTF???

 
Nightman Cometh:
I hate authentic chinese food. Stuff gives me the willies.

Yeah I’m not a big fan either.

Only dishes I really liked over there in China were some fresh fish dishes and Beijing duck in Beijing. The hot pot places are good too.

They don’t have the luxury of large pieces of meat over there - so odd stuff is more common like frog.

But, American Chinese food is largely a movement that has developed from Chinese immigrants trying to cater to American tastes to make it in this country. ‘murica

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
justphresh:
Broccoli. Was force fed it even though I absolutely hated it as a child so now I pretty much have PTSD. If I smell it being cooked in the room I start to gag

This is me and the smell of liver and onions. Couldn't stay in the house when my mom would cook this for her and my dad. She'd give me a dollar to get a slice of pizza and a soda and I'd eat it on the stoop and I wouldn't go back in until she called me from the window that they were done and that any leftovers were in safely hidden in the fridge, LOL.

 
InfoDominatrix:
justphresh:
Broccoli. Was force fed it even though I absolutely hated it as a child so now I pretty much have PTSD. If I smell it being cooked in the room I start to gag

This is me and the smell of liver and onions. Couldn't stay in the house when my mom would cook this for her and my dad.

I can’t stand the smell of liver and onions either.

I was at a religious retreat in another country and they were cooking that dish - and it was polite to eat what was cooked for the night (community dishes) and I could never touch the stuff.

Please excuse my manners but - no. lol

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
LeveredCat:
Fermented Fish, that salty and putrid smell is just repulsive. The darn thing is basically rotting in salt.

Yeah I’ve heard stories about those wacky Scandinavian fish ferments - yuck.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

The kind of shit that pops up on my Instagram feed with a white girl making a face like she just witnessed someone die when she picks up the food. Melted Cheese + Hot Cheeto hamburgers, 60 inch pizzas (like wtf), 40 patty stacked burgers, Pineapple + some weird thing like candycorn pizza.

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John Pierpont:
+1

I hate the hipster taco places put cilantro on everything like it's a fucking automatic good taco then.

Actually, authentic Mexican tacos are just the meat, some onions and some cilantro most of the time. When I first moved to the city I couldn't afford to live downtown, or in the nice parts of Brooklyn, so I ended up living WAY uptown. The food was great, and there was only one double homicide on my block the entire time I lived there. (actually not joking-but I didn't feel unsafe)

Cilantro hatred is a genetic thing. if you lose the genetic lottery it tastes awful, and there is no way around it. If not, it tastes good.

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Pizza, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, coleslaw, etc.

Basically anything that even has a remote semblance of ghetto.

 

I wish I was trolling, but I was dead serious in that comment. Some people just have no taste I guess.

America is one of the most obese countries - do you not think our cuisine/culture is a problem?

 

Mushrooms and aubergine - Aubergines I simply dislike everything about them, but mushrooms I like the flavour, it's just the texture that's a problem, I'm eating some every now and then to try and grow accustomed to it, so far progress has been slow.

There's an Asian fruit called durian, it's not bad tasting but the smell is pungent, many places ban you from taking it inside due to the smell, such as the metro in Singapore.

 

I can't stand any and all pretentious foods. Example: vegan burger. It's not a burger. It's a bean sandwich. Call it what it is (not to mention only people who've never had a taste of beef in their life, and are about to topple over from lack of energy and protein deficiency would make such fucking outrageous claims as "it tastes like beef!" GTFO!) or the only person you're fooling is the one staring back at your pale self in the mirror.

Also, @Lloyd BIankfein" is on point - ASS is the OG of delicatessen! :)

"I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing. " -GG
 

Fish (except tuna salad with a ton of mayo and relish)...I was forced to eat gross midwestern river/lake fish my entire childhood. Clean your plate was a hard requirement in my farm life childhood, and we had gross, poorly prepared fish a few times a week.

My wife is from Seattle and obsessed with fish and always forces me to try the most amazing fish she orders. I never like it so it’s not for lack of trying. I worked at Citi in Tribeca and got drug to NoBu at least twice a week for lunch which didn’t cure me either. I will say that I do prefer fish in a roll over cooked fish.

 

Traditional Polish Christmas herring...it's cold, tough fish pickled in what appears to be snot.

Also, I really can't stand low grade salty nitrate-loaded bacon all over fucking everything. If you're going consume a thousand calories from fat, at least pony up the extra dollar for high grade farm raised cured bacon and enjoy it.

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here we go, gonna offend the fuck out of some people (hopefully)

  1. kale - just stop it. you want leafy greens, there are so many better options
  2. ice cream - maybe it's because I'm anti-dairy, but I prefer candy over ice cream any day. if I want something sweet, I'm caught in a tug of war with a melting mess and brain freeze, fuck that, just gimme a snickers, I'm not me when I'm hungry
  3. croissants - it's just bread that needs a massage, fuck off France, it's not that great (and yes I've had croissants in Europe)
  4. caesar salad - cool, you gave me some wet yardwork bathed in milk, bye
  5. pork belly - quit trying to reinvent bacon, it's perfect as is, don't give me a piece of shit that's crispy on the outside and then feels like chewing an insole once I'm past that
  6. most steak - 99% of restaurants (even the good ones) leave far too much gristle and fat on. filet/tenderloin, I'm all ears, but save that hastily butchered ribeye for another schlub, I ain't buyin
  7. hard shell tacos - you read that right. if I want something crunchy, I'll eat a chip, don't make my dinner dissolve in my hands
  8. tomatoes - utterly pointless. I like salsa as much as the next bro, but that's mostly due to salt, onion, and cilantro. plus when you have them on a sandwich, all they do is take up real estate and slide around like dumbasses
  9. mayonnaise - worst invention ever, and yes I've been to northern europe and had it there, it's still bad
  10. this will offend many southerners - biscuits and gravy. biscuits are great when made well, why ruin it with a colon clogging mess of horse meat and roux or whatever the liquid is. that's what I want to start my sunday: constipation and narcolepsy

hot damn that felt good

 
thebrofessor:
8. tomatoes - utterly pointless. I like salsa as much as the next bro, but that's mostly due to salt, onion, and cilantro. plus when you have them on a sandwich, all they do is take up real estate and slide around like dumbasses

I will agree that 98% of tomatoes are pretty bad, but if you've ever had a ripe, heirloom variety tomato that was just picked with salt and pepper it may change your mind.

The issue is that ripe tomatoes are insanely delicate and perishable. They basically bruise if you look at them wrong, and are only available in late July and August if grown outside. The workaround is to grow them in greenhouses, pick them when they aren't ripe yet, ship them and gas them to make them sort-of ripen at the point of sale. This results in a vastly inferior product, but hey, if you're just after a commodity who cares?

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Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

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