Is there a popular food that you have never eaten? For whatever reason, you've just never gotten around to tasting it.
For me, it's peanut butter.
I keep meaning to buy a jar but I never remember to. Every so often it will pop in my head, but I've still never tasted it and experienced for myself why it's so popular 🤷♀️
I've never had American Southern foods like grits, okra, collard greens, black eyed peas, fried green tomatoes, etc. i've been all over this country and loved it all except for the South, I have no real interest in going.
shareThe south is beautiful. Grits - good. Okra - fried is tolerable. Boiled is eating snot. Collard greens - good. Black eyed peas - good. Fried green tomatoes - meh. Biscuits and gravy - heaven sent.
shareIt all sounds good, I think if I went south I'd like to go to the Louisiana French Quarter, I bet they have amazing food! I've never been a big fan of gravy but people really seem to love that dish so I guess I should try it?
shareThere are a ton of good restaurants in New Orleans but the service was always slow
They sure take their time down South!
It's nice to think that there is some place in this country that don't try to break record speed doing anything to me. Would be a nice change of pace for a little while, maybe I should take a trip after all.
shareIn one place I ordered a simple breakfast platter...after 30 minutes and because I'm prone to being an asshole New Yorker I asked the waiter 'how do eggs and hash browns take all morning, man?!?'
He told me 'Good things take time' with a wiseass smirk LOL
Breakfast was good enough but that joint wouldn't last a week in NY!
lol I love your description of it. No way would that fly in NY, although to be fair, most of the food I've had in New York was a slice of pizza and hotdogs, it takes forever to get a table!
I've spent a lot of time in Manhattan because my best friend moved there about 10 years ago and I LOVE it so much, but though I'm tempted to move there, I just moved to the Oregon coast recently and it is really gorgeous! It has that great Northwestern artist community and fresh seafood so I'm hooked for the time being. What part of New York are you living in?
The coast of Oregon makes me think of The Goonies, seems lovely there
Add some seafood and I'm all in!
I moved about 90 minutes out of NYC, the crummy schools, heavy traffic and high taxes finally chased me away from The City and it's environs, I prefer the sound of Owls to ambulances
Nobody could blame you for wanting to get away from all that noise! NY is lovely to visit but living there in the city would be A LOT.
lol about the Goonies. Love that movie! The coast looks like that for sure, it's really magical and a lot of the beaches feel like no one has ever walked on them before which is so different than the California coast and the Atlantic coast beaches. There are definitely more animals up here, otters, harbor seals and whales are are everywhere, lots of tide pools full of life, that is the best part.
It i seems really beautiful there
in Oregon, the promised land
I grew up eating grits. My grandmother used to make them for me. She was from Puerto Rico so I always thought they were a Latin dish. It wasn’t until I was a young adult I realized they were Southern food.
shareI bet you got lots of yummy Latin dishes growing up with a Puerto Rican Grandma! Did you also eat Hominy in the South, I heard that was a thing too? What did your grandma do to the grits?
shareRegional foods and those from other countries is very fascinating.
I’m never going to get to sample these things IRL or visit these places, so I enjoy food programmes instead lol.
Southern US dishes are ones that are of most interest…..I can’t get my head around grits or the biscuits and gravy 😅
I cannot think of anything that I haven't eaten.
shareJackfruit, a huge tropical fruit that some vegetarians and vegans like to use as a substitute for pulled pork.
I mean I'd sure like a meatless substitute for pulled pork, but I've never been able to forget a description I read in some travel book. The author wrote a hilarious description of tge sickly-sweet aroma slowly rising from this giant fruit that looked like a "Martian baby", and the smell gradually growing stronger and stronger until it filled the whole house... and the smell didn't go away after they got rid of the fruit! No, everything smelled of jackfruit until they moved to their next destination, and even then their luggage still smelled as sickly sweet as a corpse...
Jackfruit sounds like a garage band name😂
Any lingering cooking smells can certainly be a problem
Is this the fruit that looks like a mace with all the spikes?
shareNo, that's Durian, a fruit I have tried and which I didn't like.
This sucker is a jackfruit.
https://static.freshtohome.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/18ae109e34f485bd0b0c075abec96b2e/j/a/jackfruit-whole.jpg
You can try a candy or cookie with peanut butter, too.
Reeses peanut butter cups used to be my favorite candy. Their peanut butter was addictive. Also, Girl Scout Tagalog cookies, squirrel nut candy, No Jelly candy and Häagen-Daz chocolate w/peanut butter ice cream.
The Reeses and Tagalogs changed ingredients so they're not as great as before since the chocolate is fake(waxy), but the peanut butter is still pretty good.
I never tasted shrimp. Too wormlike for me.
beef tartare - the consistency does not suit me at all.
Human
Octopuses - I consider them very intelligent creatures.
I’ve never eaten Indian Food. I’ve always wanted to after picking up Doordash orders from several Indian restaurants.
shareSurströmming.
shareWhen I lived in Minnesota I became aware of this but refused to even try it (Scandinavian origin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk
Lots of funny videos of people puking when they try it!!
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