Sushi is even worse. Raw meat AND it's fish. I've managed to eat some really mild non-oily fish in recent years, but generally I really don't like the taste of fish.
I didn't know pistachios tasted "green". Curious. Ok I should give that a try,
Maybe I should say I've never even looked for a key lime pie? I'm not too bothered by lime (unless in margarita) or pie, and if I'm after a dessert I'll always pick something with chocolate. Seems a waste otherwise.
With sweetmeats, I'm not pretending there's any logic. A lump of liver looks gross to me in a way that a lump of raw chicken breast doesn't. Although handling raw meat did used to gross me out a bit when I was younger, but as a poor student with even less idea on how to cook veggies I had to overcome it or starve. Sometimes texture grosses me out though, I'm not a fan of porridge or semolina for that reason.
Sounds like dried durien is milder, It's been many years since I smelt it, my memory may have exaggerated it, but I recall the smell of a pile of fresh ones at a Thai market as like being hit in the face with a wall of rotting garbage.
This guy (http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/12/foods-biggest-scam-the-great-kobe-beef-lie) reckons, until very recently, the only real Kobe was in the Japanese province that Kobe is the capital of, and Wagyu just means "Japanese cow". So we'll just have to go to Japan! (oh noes etc...)
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I didn't know pistachios tasted "green". Curious. Ok I should give that a try,
Maybe I should say I've never even looked for a key lime pie? I'm not too bothered by lime (unless in margarita) or pie, and if I'm after a dessert I'll always pick something with chocolate. Seems a waste otherwise.
With sweetmeats, I'm not pretending there's any logic. A lump of liver looks gross to me in a way that a lump of raw chicken breast doesn't. Although handling raw meat did used to gross me out a bit when I was younger, but as a poor student with even less idea on how to cook veggies I had to overcome it or starve. Sometimes texture grosses me out though, I'm not a fan of porridge or semolina for that reason.
Sounds like dried durien is milder, It's been many years since I smelt it, my memory may have exaggerated it, but I recall the smell of a pile of fresh ones at a Thai market as like being hit in the face with a wall of rotting garbage.
This guy (http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/12/foods-biggest-scam-the-great-kobe-beef-lie) reckons, until very recently, the only real Kobe was in the Japanese province that Kobe is the capital of, and Wagyu just means "Japanese cow". So we'll just have to go to Japan! (oh noes etc...)