Just try having an intolerance/allergy to onion and shallots .... One famous fast-food franchise even includes it in the "savoury coating" on its chips. As for help-yourself salad bars, they are definitely out-of-bounds.
It would be difficult - I think I'd find it as hard to cook without onions as I would to cook entirely vegan.
I’ve remembered something else I can’t eat: lime pickle.
I’ve been to India twice now, both times I thought “oh well, this isn’t so bad” with regard to the spicy heat of the food and have then completely ruined myself with the smallest speck of lime pickle. I don’t seem to be able to get it into my head that I can’t stomach it and no, I shouldn’t try it again.
Fortunately it isn’t a regular occurrence, possibly 5 times in total in my life.
I’ve remembered something else I can’t eat: lime pickle.
I’ve been to India twice now, both times I thought “oh well, this isn’t so bad” with regard to the spicy heat of the food and have then completely ruined myself with the smallest speck of lime pickle. I don’t seem to be able to get it into my head that I can’t stomach it and no, I shouldn’t try it again.
Fortunately it isn’t a regular occurrence, possibly 5 times in total in my life.
Oh God yes, that stuff is awful. Tastes exactly how you'd expect - bitter and sour. Mind, I'm no fan of citrus peel - can't manage marmalade because of it. The little bits of candied peel you get in dried fruit as well - like little hard bitter bogeys.
I’ve remembered something else I can’t eat: lime pickle.
I’ve been to India twice now, both times I thought “oh well, this isn’t so bad” with regard to the spicy heat of the food and have then completely ruined myself with the smallest speck of lime pickle. I don’t seem to be able to get it into my head that I can’t stomach it and no, I shouldn’t try it again.
Fortunately it isn’t a regular occurrence, possibly 5 times in total in my life.
Oh God yes, that stuff is awful. Tastes exactly how you'd expect - bitter and sour. Mind, I'm no fan of citrus peel - can't manage marmalade because of it. The little bits of candied peel you get in dried fruit as well - like little hard bitter bogeys.
It’s also flipping hot. Things that make the back of your neck so numb that you can’t taste anything else, having first given you the nauseous taste of creosote, are not food. And are only on this earth to trip up unsuspecting white people. Like marmite in reverse.
Of course there are a lot of unsuspecting white people who also don’t like marmite.
Depends on the beast. Pigs' liver is not my favourite thing but I can eat it. Calves' liver OTOH is one of my absolute favourites.
I only discovered this as an adult tho, because the liver I was served for school dinner had been kept hot for about 3 hours, and was truly vile.
My mother would cook liver until you could have soled your boots with it. Only as an adult did I discover flash frying.
I have to say I like a touch of sour. Chopped cornichons in salads or egg mayo say. Or wedges of roasted lemon in a traybake - sour and burnt - what's not to like?
I can cope with Egg in (say) a cake recipe, or even the bits you get in Egg Fried Rice, but hard-boiled, fried, scrambled, or in an omelette - NO!
I'm not allergic AFAIK, but I do vividly remember being forced to eat a hard-boiled Egg on my sixth birthday, and of the feeling of disgust and nausea it brought on. I can't recall having been given Eggs before that day - I daresay I did have them - My Old Dad was a grocer - but there must have been something unspeakably awful about that Birthday Egg...
(The day was wholly redeemed by my very first visit to a notable steam railway in the South-East, but that's another story).
There is SOMETHING at Cracker Barrel restaurant i can’t tolerate, which causes vomiting and diarrhea every time, no matter how carefully i order. I can’t think what it could be—it’s so widespread, something in the cooking oil maybe?
Bananas. The smell makes me want to throw up. Actually eating them results in me throwing up. Including when someone used one as a cake ingredient and didn't mention it. 🤢
My lactose tolerance is ...odd. Quiche, white sauces, cream sauces for pasta, are Bad Things. Cheese is usually fine. Omelettes are fine, but a cheese omelette probably won't be! I don't take milk in tea very much as it's so sweet.
Same here, the smell of bananas makes me feel sick. Especially over ripe ones. I think it's the smell of the skin.
Also hate watermelon and sweetcorn, mentioned above.
But I'm a YES for marmite. My favourite sandwich is cheese, cucumber, marmite and mayonnaise. A wonderful combination of textures and flavours.
I was only thinking the other day that prison sentences could be substantially reduced if in exchange prisoners had to eat tripe, cowheel and pig's trotters. All horrors from my childhood, when people really were poor. I would be in genuine terror of such a diet.
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It would be difficult - I think I'd find it as hard to cook without onions as I would to cook entirely vegan.
I’ve been to India twice now, both times I thought “oh well, this isn’t so bad” with regard to the spicy heat of the food and have then completely ruined myself with the smallest speck of lime pickle. I don’t seem to be able to get it into my head that I can’t stomach it and no, I shouldn’t try it again.
Fortunately it isn’t a regular occurrence, possibly 5 times in total in my life.
Oh God yes, that stuff is awful. Tastes exactly how you'd expect - bitter and sour. Mind, I'm no fan of citrus peel - can't manage marmalade because of it. The little bits of candied peel you get in dried fruit as well - like little hard bitter bogeys.
You spelt "Yuck" wrong.
It’s also flipping hot. Things that make the back of your neck so numb that you can’t taste anything else, having first given you the nauseous taste of creosote, are not food. And are only on this earth to trip up unsuspecting white people. Like marmite in reverse.
Of course there are a lot of unsuspecting white people who also don’t like marmite.
My mother would cook liver until you could have soled your boots with it. Only as an adult did I discover flash frying.
I have to say I like a touch of sour. Chopped cornichons in salads or egg mayo say. Or wedges of roasted lemon in a traybake - sour and burnt - what's not to like?
I can cope with Egg in (say) a cake recipe, or even the bits you get in Egg Fried Rice, but hard-boiled, fried, scrambled, or in an omelette - NO!
I'm not allergic AFAIK, but I do vividly remember being forced to eat a hard-boiled Egg on my sixth birthday, and of the feeling of disgust and nausea it brought on. I can't recall having been given Eggs before that day - I daresay I did have them - My Old Dad was a grocer - but there must have been something unspeakably awful about that Birthday Egg...
(The day was wholly redeemed by my very first visit to a notable steam railway in the South-East, but that's another story).
Same here, the smell of bananas makes me feel sick. Especially over ripe ones. I think it's the smell of the skin.
Also hate watermelon and sweetcorn, mentioned above.
But I'm a YES for marmite. My favourite sandwich is cheese, cucumber, marmite and mayonnaise. A wonderful combination of textures and flavours.