food you are required to eat yet hate

[robbie]

I always find myself being invited over for dinner, or lunch after church and often 1-2 things are served which I hate

Lasagna

x-loaf (meatloaf,special k loaf, ... loaf)

I force myself to eat small portions, and always getting more pawned off on me.

My grandmother always served food I found non flattering as well like mashed turnips, beets, rum cake, etc which ofcourse I had to eat also to be 'polite'.

So I was just wondering what foods you yourself find yourself eating often to be polite, or if you have any tricks to avoid being impolite when being served food you don't like that you can't eat around (main courses, etc). Especially with people proud of their dishes.

 

[Liam]

Chow, my mother loads that crap up on my plate when we go over for dinner. It's disgusting and I only eat it because she makes it herself.

 

[j]

Chow?

I never eat stuff I don't like, I guess I'm lucky. Maybe you need to know people who cook better?

 

[Liam]

It's some crappy pickled up junk she makes up and serves every holiday she can..

My father is a better cook than my mom is, my brother and I always ask, "who's cooking tonight" before we go over. Obviously all our skills came from him.

She's also big on cabbage.. who wants to eat that?

 

[wylesf]

My mom use to always make Spaghetti and now I cant stand the stuff.



I love boiled cabbage.. but only with a nice st.pattys day dish of corn beef... with mustard and potatoes... YUM!

 

[VKK3450]

Peas... I hate em, but the gf likes to put em in stuff.

She put them in the shepards pie last night, but I still ate the **** out of it

K

 

[Thomas]

Okra. M-I-L loves her some okra, and I've made so secret of my hatred of the crap. I'm at the point where I stuff it into cornbread and choke it down early so I can relax and enjoy the rest of the meal.

 

[VKK3450]

Originally Posted by Thomas

Okra. M-I-L loves her some okra, and I've made so secret of my hatred of the crap. I'm at the point where I stuff it into cornbread and choke it down early so I can relax and enjoy the rest of the meal.

You shouldnt taint the tastiness of cornbread with nasty okra.

K

 

[Douglas]

******* chicken feet.

I travel to China frequently on business, and each trip typically includes at least 3-5 business meals where I am forced to choke these dirty F***ers down.

 

[Piobaire]

Banquet salmon. I go to a minimum of one banquet type meal a week, and at least 50% of the time, it's banquet salmon, which always sucks.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by VKK3450

You shouldnt taint the tastiness of cornbread with nasty okra.

K

I agree, but MIL's cornbread isn't as good as my cornbread anyway, so it's kind of a wash.

 

[why]

I don't understand 'hating' foods. It's just different stuff...I have preferences, but don't necessarily 'hate' any food.

 

[toothsomesound]

Originally Posted by why

I don't understand 'hating' foods. It's just different stuff...I have preferences, but don't necessarily 'hate' any food.

This. The only food I really don't like is peanuts because I am pretty allergic to them and my body automatically responds negatively to them.

 

[i10casual]

Veggies. And now that I can't eat meat anymore I just have to buck up!

 

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by why

I don't understand 'hating' foods. It's just different stuff...I have preferences, but don't necessarily 'hate' any food.

You're so open-minded. I'm not. I'm a parochial, mean, sonofabitch. I hate chicken feet. They're nasty. They have virtually no flavor, no meat, they're difficult to eat. They look revolting. They're not just different. They're a part of the chicken no right-thinking (read: not starving) individual would have thought to eat in the first place. I like China, have no quarrel with the Chinese, but they're just plain wrong on this issue.