March 2015 Question #4
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kybearfuzzAsked by "Anonymous":
"What is your favorite food, and what is your least favorite food? What food memory brings you the most happiness?"
Sometimes it's hard to pick out a favorite food, because it really depends on the mood I am in at the time. I crave Indian or Thai food on occasion. If I had to choose a food that I almost never, ever turn down, it would probably be pizza. Pizza doesn't seem like an adequate answer as it has now gone beyond simple tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni. Now it can come with chicken, pineapple, ham, jalapeno peppers, etc. The mix of different flavors slapped on heated bread with sauce is really an amazing food.
If we're talking desserts though, I never turn down pecan pie. I always think of my grandmother when I have a piece as she's the one who gave me my first slice as a kid and her pecan pies were wonderful.
When it comes to the least favorite food, the list changes considerably. I don't eat seafood. I've never been a huge fan of it to start with and never liked shellfish. However, I spent four years working in a food laboratory in Kansas City, primarily doing mercury analysis on seafood, and the smell of rotten fish is forever burned into my nostrils. I can never eat it again.
As a kid, the one food that just made me literally gag was white hominy, which we always had in the house because my sister loved it.
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"What is your favorite food, and what is your least favorite food? What food memory brings you the most happiness?"
Sometimes it's hard to pick out a favorite food, because it really depends on the mood I am in at the time. I crave Indian or Thai food on occasion. If I had to choose a food that I almost never, ever turn down, it would probably be pizza. Pizza doesn't seem like an adequate answer as it has now gone beyond simple tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni. Now it can come with chicken, pineapple, ham, jalapeno peppers, etc. The mix of different flavors slapped on heated bread with sauce is really an amazing food.
If we're talking desserts though, I never turn down pecan pie. I always think of my grandmother when I have a piece as she's the one who gave me my first slice as a kid and her pecan pies were wonderful.
When it comes to the least favorite food, the list changes considerably. I don't eat seafood. I've never been a huge fan of it to start with and never liked shellfish. However, I spent four years working in a food laboratory in Kansas City, primarily doing mercury analysis on seafood, and the smell of rotten fish is forever burned into my nostrils. I can never eat it again.
As a kid, the one food that just made me literally gag was white hominy, which we always had in the house because my sister loved it.
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Date: 2015-03-20 02:38 am (UTC)Your seafood story reminds me of one of my former grad students---he grew up on a farm that had grapevines that his family didn't use--he got so sick of rotten grapes that he could never drink wine. Until we went to France for work and then he understood.
No pisces and no crustaceans, but what about mollusks?
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Date: 2015-03-20 11:15 am (UTC)And I'll have to add mollusks to the fray as well. I just can't handle the texture.
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Date: 2015-03-20 03:03 am (UTC)But no seafood?! *sighs* What about sushi, it should never smell fishy?
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Date: 2015-03-20 11:19 am (UTC)My mom always says that fresh seafood doesn't have a smell, but that's not correct. I was at a work training given by my agency's national organoleptic analyst. His nose literally is trained to sniff out bad fish. He says that fresh fish should have a smell, just as bad fish has a smell. And he cautioned us that no all bad fish smells bad. He gave mahi-mahi as an example, which smells like parmesan cheese. So never.. ever... order Parmesan encrusted mahi-mahi on a menu.
He also said that fish, just at the time it turns from good to bad, in a very small window of time, will "lose" its odor, when it chemically breaks down.
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Date: 2015-03-20 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
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