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I feel like you're actively trying to feed into (HA CWUTIDIDTHAR) the stereotypes. That said, they've come out with a Chicken N' Waffle flavored syrup now.
[Also, I am a human vacuum cleaner as well.]


Why are all Southerners so picky about our sweet tea? I can't stand tea if it doesn't have the right amount of sugar in it.

I've actually had to ease up on soft drinks and tea and milk lately, had a recent case of kidney stones. I can live without the soft drinks (I usually just drank them because they had high availability) but goddamn, the milk/tea ban is killing me. I'm reduced to diet drinks and water. And the new Pepsi Next, which tastes like a slightly watered down version of Pespi and has 60% less sugar.

I'll eat anything, if I'm hungry enough.

Last meal? All you can eat buffet, and match my eating speed to my digestion speed. I'd spend the rest of my life eating.

I wrote up most of this ages ago on the iPad, and just never got around to posting it. So here goes:

I'm somewhat picky when it comes to food. I'm not so much of a red meat person, I prefer chicken. I used to avoid seafood, but nowadays I will eat fish as long as it's boneless. I absolutely refuse to eat any crustaceans or mollusks though.

I was a very picky eater as a kid, and there were a lot of fruits and vegetables that I would refuse to eat. Even now I prefer most of my vegetables cooked as opposed to raw. I find potatoes to be rather bland, so I frequently need to add something to them, like creamed corn or barbecue sauce or maybe a bit of gravy (although otherwise I'm not much of a gravy person either).

As for fruits, I eat mostly bananas because they're easy to carry around and peel. I also will eat raspberries, strawberries and seedless grapes. I would eat more oranges but they're generally messy to eat except for mandarin oranges. Melons are definitely an acquired taste for me, and I won't eat apples because I don't like the skin or the texture in my mouth. I can drink apple juice or eat apple pie just fine though.

I had Italian neighbours growing up, so I've been exposed a lot to homemade Italian food. Cannelloni and lasagne made from scratch, and penne and that clear soup with little meatballs and pasta dots (there must be a name for this), plus desserts like butterhorns with icing and scrippelle drizzled with honey. My mom makes the best homemade pizza too, crisp and not at all greasy. Italian food tends to make me full quite quickly though.

Other stuff... I don't like mushrooms except in pizza. I only add table salt to two things: french fries and popcorn. I eat cereal practically every day for breakfast, complemented with bacon on Sundays. For a snack I will sometimes put peanut butter or honey on crackers and eat those. I consume soft drinks relatively slowly, and I loathe the taste of alcohol, especially beer (that shit is horrendous). I will sometimes drink half a glass of wine on special occasions though.

I don't like mushrooms, liver and some slimy things like slugs, but for the rest I'm not picky.

I think the soup with meatballs wacko mentioned could be "canederli", a dish that is more popular in the german zone, but is frequently found in the northern regions of Italy too.

Well, they're really little meatballs, about the size of a marble, rather than dumplings. And it's served in chicken broth with acini di pepe, if that helps you at all.

I guess it could be a variation of minestra maritata, except without the vegetables?

In theory minestra maritata needs to have the vegetables... its name means "married soup" because it is supposed to use vegetables and meat that fit perfectly together to the point that they marry ( ^_^; )
But across the country it is always possible to find loads of variations that take advantage of local features by adding or removing ingredients that are easier or harder to find in certain regions, so it could even actually be an unusual version of that soup. I wish I knew more, but it is a dish more typical of the southern regions of Italy.

Well, our Italian friends are from the Molise region. They don't like minestrone though, hence no vegetables in the soup.

I have a weird habit of being easy to influence by advertising, but not the commercial kinds. I mean, if a character in a show likes a certain food, I'll find myself subconsciously craving more of it. Like, when I watched Death Note, I found myself pretty much living off apples and chocolate. Zach Bell, and I started eating more fish, canned tuna really. Kingdom Hearts was a pain because I got fat off so much popsicles. I'm really glad BCB doesn't feature them constantly eating candy, or else I owuld have gained a couple pounds. >.<

I love love love fresh tomatoes with lime juice and a tad of salt.

Also, in Colombia it's very common to have the whole fish fried. My family likes to eat the eyeballs, but I don't like them too much; however, the fins, when fried to a crisp, are absolutely delicious and crunchy. I think it's my favorite part of the fish.

My last meal? It would be a chicken crepe with mushroom sauce from Crepes and Waffles. Ohh my god, those are divine.

Man, Colombia has a lot of great food. You whiteys are missing out.

I always get sick of eating a food if I'm eating it all the time. Yeah, I'm fucking boring.

I could eat steak for my entire life. Thats a well know fact actually. Since there are different types of steak I eat a different one everyday too mix it up.

I'd eventually find eating the same thing over and over boring, even if by "same thing" I mean different cuts of steaks. I do tend to eat a ton of beef (not really healthy, but not many inexpensive alternatives around here) but I rarely cook our meals the same way twice.

I've done about everything one can do with hamburger at one point or another, including that one monstrosity--three slices of good-quality pepper jack cheese, a cup of jalapenos, a single hamburger patty with two habanero peppers diced up and mixed into the meat, two slices of bread and a LOT of habanero sauce. I actually didn't feel any pain, but the fumes almost choked me to death.

DeathfromAbove, on 12 August 2012 - 01:31 AM, said:

That's not recommended, Too much red meat can be bad for you. You can eat tons of white meat and stay okay, though.

I can't really pin-point the food I really love to eat
again and again, but I can pick a food I really enjoy. That of course are grilled cheese and balogna. Holy shit those things are delicious beyond all reasoning. Especially if you decide to put egg in it too, that becomes one of the greatest things I have ever tasted. It's been a long time since I last had one, but the reason I liked them some much is that dad would come home from work for lunch and he'd bring that for me. I need to make one of those again. My mouth is already watering thinking about it.

As for food I'd eat on deathrow? Probably a dozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Something childish before death.

This post has been edited by Splee36: 14 August 2012 - 01:28 PM