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Would include sprouts, turkey and pigs in blankets.
And I suspect most people find them so bad they only eat them one day a year, as opposed to the 50 or more days a year they eat stuff they like.
So why is it, in mid-November, you can't turn on the radio or TV without hearing everyone (including otherwise likeable people) wittering on about how they're going to try to make them barely palatable on something they refer to as the "Big Day"?
I eat sprouts most days during the winter, they're bloody lovely. I don't need the telly to tell me that though.
Spam, lamb, pigs in blankets, roast turkey, jelly, jacket potatoes, most types of takeaway - for starters and main and dessert.
Can’t stand sprouts, they’re like gross concentrated cabbages on steroids. The smell is gross, the texture is gross and the taste is rancid.
Turkey is good though - love cooking a Turkey crown basted in garlic butter, covered in slices of oranges, then a layer of smoked bacon on top of that. Lush.
Pigs in blankets - how can anyone not love those bad boys??
Next you’ll be saying you don’t like Christmas Pudding and Mince Pies and brandy cream 🤯
Sprout curry FTW
Is FTW an approximation of the noise you make after?
Is it a vegetable ?
No thanks, sorry.
Add to that any dried fruit like raisins, or anything raisinesque for that matter.
Spicy ?, not for me.
I’d happily dispense with all the other elements of Christmas and just replace it with a big bowl of pigs in blankets.
If you don’t like pigs in blankets then I actually pity you. It’s a dream combination of the two greatest foodstuffs on earth.
Do you dislike sausages and/or bacon separately? Or is it their marriage that you can’t abide?
Turkey (breast) is prob my least favourite meat, but don’t mind a leg.
Sprouts are ok if cooked nicely.
Struggling to think of anything I won’t eat at all, save from Parma Violets.
If you're starving you'll eat anything, and like it.
Sprouts
Brocolli
Cauliflower
Liquorice
Heinz Crème of Tomato Soup
That’s about it.
Pigs in blankets - cheap chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon; what's to like in that combination?
I wouldn't give them to next door's dog.
If the offering was, say, venison sausage wrapped in chorizo - yes please.
Ooh good shout on liquorice. I can handle aniseed flavours in small doses, but too much makes me retch.
Anything that can blink.
Plus cephalopods.
Anything that can blink.
All round to Ernie’s for a festive feast of fish, snakes and lizards then!
Pigs in blankets – cheap chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon; what’s to like in that combination?
Erm… just, like… EVERYTHING!
Well Lizards do have the ability to blink Tom but I had assumed that the question was in relation to what you can buy in a UK supermarket 😁
When it comes to foods* I can’t eat, I’m still in awe of the Greek Tiling Grout Marketing Board when they came up with the genius idea of adding garlic flavouring to their waste product, labelling it as something called ‘Hummus’ and flogging it to gullible middle class people
It’s not for me, personally, eating tiling grout, but if that’s what floats yer boat
* is it technically ‘food’?
Parboiled crushed sprouts stir fried with pancetta or lardons, a bit of soy or Maggi's sauce (umami)
Nomnomnom
Meat, cheese and mince pies. Everything else is fair game - even sprouts.
Well the user name doesn't check then
You don’t like cheese?!!!
Chicken with bones in it. Utter horror for me. Fillets fine no probs, but chicken with bones in it gives me the heebie jeeebies. Totally freaking.
I've have my hands in cattle, sheep and pigs moments after slaughter, and thats not problem, but place a chicken thigh or wings on the plate and im getting ready to boak.
Pigs in blankets – cheap chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon; what’s to like in that combination?
If you buy shit you eat shit*
Quality chipolatas + quality streaky bacon = heaven on a plate AKA the kilted sausage.
Turkey can get to **** though. Goose please (or glue all the kilted sausages together with a mustard mash into the shape of a large bird.
*Still going to eat the lot though.
Meat.
I once had a meal in Japan, part of which appeared to be snot (I think it was a fungi of some sort) I wouldn't be in a a rush to have that again.
errrr...that's it I reckon.
Sprouts are grown seasonally which just happens to be around Christmas, this is how food was and is supposed to be consumed. IME this how most if not all food in other countries like Italy is consumed. It help that they have great weather so can grow more diverse crops, but nevertheless we should be eating more seasonally, instead of flying foods halfway around the world.
I'd happily eat sprouts every week, they're just not very available all year roumd.
I'd also happily eat turkey over chicken, it's so much better tasting (if cooked well), but again it's not as available the rest of the year.
It's fish that I can't stand, but thats less Christmas related.
Not much I won't eat, although I don't do offal beyond paté or tongue, and have grown to dislike anything with more than a hint of cinnamon.
As I get older, it's more a case of low quality crap just isn't worth it. See instant coffee, instant gravy, cheap supermarket ice cream etc. Ask yourself during consumption "Am I actually enjoying this?" and if the answer is no, stop shovelling it in.
This applies to turkey. I think we'll do a chicken and gammon this year and save £££ in the process.
Eggs. In any shape or presentational format. (Ok I realise they’re in cakes and the like which I don’t mind).
Can't think of anything I won't eat. I can even eat celery nowadays whereas when a kid I wouldn't touch it as it tastes very strong to me. As a 15 year old I was a bit fussy, as a 55 year old I have grown up and just eat things.
There is something to be said for eating something a good number of times rather than just rejecting it from the start. I used to spit out olives when young as hated them, then just ate them a few times and now can eat loads of them.
Is that an age thing, a mental thing, a taste change thing - who knows
Well Lizards do have the ability to blink Tom but I had assumed that the question was in relation to what you can buy in a UK supermarket
Well no food sold in a supermarket can blink.
marzipan is possibly the only food i cant eat.
i have and will try anything. some things are not too enjoyable tho.
i eat food i enjoy. which is mostly protein type things, either roast or fried.
Well Lizards do have the ability to blink Tom
beg to differ.
I find most Christmas foods a bit meh.
Sprouts. No.
Turkey is a crappy meat, but then I rarely eat chicken.
Pigs in blankets is just a waste of bacon. Would rather have them separately.
Mince pies and Christmas pudding do nothing for me. Only used to eat a bit of Christmas pudding because my aunt used to put money in it and there was a chance of finding a quid.
Sprouts are delicious.
I was cutting up sone chicken breast the other day to feed to my family, suddenly understood why my mum said she hated cooking meat, chicken in particular. Depressing stuff.
Tofu FTW but my children refuse to eat it because it doesn't taste like chicken.
So I don't eat tofu, not because I don't like it but because they don't.
Surströmming, Coffee.
I've eaten pretty much everything else that's been put in front of me in the last 50 years.
Including Ants, snake, eel and various pickled, battered or fried extremities.
Some of it i'm not a massive fan off, but will eat it.
Mrs g mekes mincemeat for the mince pies and they are fab! Really fruity and not too sweet the filling is quit unlike that sugary dark gloop you get in grocers' mince pies. Also made in standard shortcrust pastry not that weird sugar coated stuff that can barely hold the filling in. But you need to start making the mincemeat at the beginning of Nov to allow it to mature.
Not a big turkey fan, we have a goose. But **** me the prices this year - 100 quid!!!!!
The anti-sprouters.......
Have you tried them since you were about 8? The pretty massive change in our taste receptors over time means you might well be pleasantly surprised. And of course an appreciation of whoever is doing the cooking that there are alternatives to boiling them to ****.
Love a good sausage and also love bacon but somehow putting the two together is less than the sum of its parts, not more. It doesn’t help that shops sell those horrible pre-built efforts which just taste of fat and water.
A well cooked sprout is a beautiful thing
Turkey? Nah. Just tastes bland. We have a combination of a free range chicken and home made nut roast.
Marzipan can get in the sea, along with Turkey which is the worst roast meat going. Surely very few people would consciously choose it over anything else for a normal Sunday roast? Why ruin a massive family meal with a difficult to cook correctly expensive leftover dinosaur.
Try this to make the sprouts more acceptable:
Melt some butter in a frying pan, throw in half an onion, sliced sprouts, pancetta cubes and a few chopped chestnuts. Liberally season with whatever you like.
Not long after you've got a lovely sprouty piggy side dish. It's nice on sourdough toast too