freevolous ([info]freevolous) wrote in [info]food_porn,
@ 2008-02-07 16:58:00
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what a seafood deprived g/f makes when her seafood-avoider b/f occasionally says Yes to it
Shrimp Stir-Fry:



He doesn't like mushrooms and seafood, among other things, so the rare chance that he will muster up the taste buds for seafood, I'm on a mad scramble to cook it before he changes his mind!  Haha.  [The recipe is available here]

Does your significant other, housemate, family, etc. detest/avoid food that you love?  If so, what are they?

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[info]xtinystudx
2008-02-08 05:02 am UTC (link)
luckily, my boyfriend is a cook and is all about trying things and attempting to learn to like them. it's a necessity in his field. when we first started dating, there were a lot of things he didn't like (like most fish, mushrooms, avocados...) but as he becomes a better cook (and he lives with a pushy broad like me) he's gotten over most of those things. it's a double-edged sword though, because i used to get the whollllle avocado to myself. not anymore!

however, he HATES olives. will not eat them. and i friggin love olives. we're are working our way through getting over our fear of making yeast breads and i really wanted to make a kalamata french bread and he refused. ugh, men.

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[info]freevolous
2008-02-08 05:56 am UTC (link)
...i used to get the whollllle avocado to myself
Haha! Well I guess I should be happy I still get the whole avocado to myself. :)

My boyfriend hates olives, too! Yeast bread, huh...for some reason, yeast freaks me out. So weird. lol.

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[info]itsjustsomegirl
2008-02-08 05:03 am UTC (link)
Oh, this looks SO GOOD!! I'm lucky, my husband and I are both HUGE foodies and neither one of us really detests anything... much less anything that the other one loves. Hehe

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[info]freevolous
2008-02-08 05:57 am UTC (link)
Thanks! We're both foodies, too, but he's picky with food -- no mushy, no squishy...lol. Good for you, though!

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[info]mer5427
2008-02-08 05:04 am UTC (link)
my SO is really picky. he doesnt eat anything but pizza and chinese food. and he hates any type of mexican/spanish foods, doesnt like most ethnic foods, and hates sushi. im the exact opposite: i LOVE everything and love trying new foods

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[info]freevolous
2008-02-08 05:58 am UTC (link)
I LOVE everything, too! My boyfriend is thankfully getting more and more adventurous with foods. It's a continuous process.

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[info]verygwen
2008-02-08 05:10 am UTC (link)
My husband doesn't eat fish unless it's in the form of sushi. But it works out well, since I just order fish a lot in restaurants :)

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[info]freevolous
2008-02-08 05:59 am UTC (link)
Haha...it all works out. Nice! :)

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[info]violane
2008-02-08 05:35 am UTC (link)
My husband hates weird salads with strange combinations of ingredients ... one of my favorite things EVER. He also hates olives, which I love. But for almost everything else, including sushi, we're OK.

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[info]freevolous
2008-02-08 05:59 am UTC (link)
What is up with men and olives?! LOL.

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[info]foomf
2008-02-08 06:41 am UTC (link)
Nothing, actually, most of us love them.

My suspicion is that you people with these picky SO's have encountered that special, spoiled type - Mommy never made them eat anything they didn't like and always got them what they wanted, so they learned to like only what the clown sold.

I know, harsh. Still. If they never ate anything different then they won't ever learn to like anything different.

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[info]kaitlyn142
2008-02-08 05:39 am UTC (link)
My SO will not eat olives or avocados. I will not touch anything that has ever contained a mushroom or cilantro. We have a working deal that if I don't buy the stuff he won't eat, he won't buy the stuff I won't eat. I miss my olive pizzas.

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[info]freevolous
2008-02-08 06:00 am UTC (link)
Same here. That is funny, your deal is our deal when it comes to pets -- if I can't have my cat, he can't have his dog.

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[info]chinchillama
2008-02-08 08:54 am UTC (link)
aww, that's just sad... I say get both! but then, I'm a vet student :p

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[info]k_t_bug
2008-02-08 02:48 pm UTC (link)
Fjord!!!!

Sorry, I got excited... Do you have a fjord or just a great icon?

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[info]chinchillama
2008-02-09 08:03 pm UTC (link)
My family has 4 of them and the one in the icon is one of the mares :)

so yeah, yay fjords! and yay you knowing what one is

And yeah, we have llamas too as per this icon :)

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[info]nietzsche
2008-02-08 06:21 am UTC (link)
I'm so full but I want to eat this is bad.

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[info]sillyboho
2008-02-08 06:39 am UTC (link)
he hates sweets, cookies and chocolate. he hates cakes. muffins and sweet breads. he only likes PIE. bannana cream pie with nilla wafer crust. *gag*

i LOVE sweets.

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[info]kisstheground
2008-02-08 07:07 am UTC (link)
see, i'm the annoying significant other-- i'm all kinds of picky. i consider myself a foodie, but i have some rather intense sensory issues and will literally gag if something doesn't feel right in my mouth. makes me mildly irritating to deal with, i admit, but i'm quite good at telling what i can and can't eat and go from there.

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[info]astartesyriaca
2008-02-08 09:12 am UTC (link)
Mine is allergic to cheese, and consequently has an aversion to pasta, since it is most often combined with cheese. He also hates olives, which seems to be quite common on this thread.

Amazingly, we do all right with this, and I think it mostly has to do with comparisons on my part - my previous boyfriend was a vegetarian, and my flatmate is allergic to ALL dairy and really only eats chicken and fish. So after those, no cheese or olives is a snap!

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[info]phonemonkey
2008-02-08 09:28 am UTC (link)
My boyfriend loves to eat everything. I'm rather sorry that I finally sold him on the joy of fish cheeks, because I always used to get his cheeks and now he won't let me have them.

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[info]mrsduryee
2008-02-08 04:43 pm UTC (link)
ew - you can have my fish cheeks. Why does it taste so different??? I LOOOVE fish in all its other forms...

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[info]phonemonkey
2008-02-08 07:51 pm UTC (link)
They don't taste different, but they have a great texture.

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[info]mrsduryee
2008-02-08 08:12 pm UTC (link)
I guess it's the texture that I don't like, because it reminds me of scallops. But the weird texture makes me feel like it tastes different.

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[info]gemfyre
2008-02-08 10:27 am UTC (link)
My b/f doesn't like tomatoes, bananas, artichokes, avocadoes, eggplant and various other things I like to cook with.

On the flip side, I can't stand chilli, which he is obsessed with.

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[info]nonsecateur
2008-02-08 11:24 am UTC (link)
My boyfriend used to strongly dislike any kind of bean, but my vegetable chilli finally changed his mind ;)

Now I'm the annoying one: he loves meat, I'm a vegetarian.

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[info]pateo
2008-02-08 11:45 am UTC (link)
My boyfriend doesn't like goat cheese! It breaks my heart, to be honest. He'll eat it sometimes but gets grossed out.
On the other hand he love raw garlic, SPICY food (cayenne on everything), and feta cheese. All of which I can't handle.

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[info]wolfsilveroak
2008-02-08 03:32 pm UTC (link)
That's hilarious as Greek Feta is essentially, Goat Cheese. Albeit mixed with sheep's milk, but still, goat cheese.

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[info]pateo
2008-02-08 03:43 pm UTC (link)
Is it really?? I think it tastes like feet =X
I can handle a LITTLE bit, but too much is just overpowering.

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[info]wolfsilveroak
2008-02-08 03:53 pm UTC (link)
Yup, a mix of goat's and sheep's milk.

MOST US made feta is made from cow's milk though. So you have to read the label to see which you're getting. Personally, I think the goat/sheep blend tastes way better than the cow milk.

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[info]mrsduryee
2008-02-08 04:42 pm UTC (link)
Tee hee! I think WINE tastes like feet. I didn't know anyone used that description to describe taste but me.

I LOVE feta and HATE plain goat cheese. Mostly I dislike the mushy texture of goat cheese - I'd rather eat ricotta or mascarpone.

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[info]virdilak
2008-02-08 12:25 pm UTC (link)
BF has an allergy to chocolate. I have gotten used to baking vanilla cakes and blondies.

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[info]nikki_herself
2008-02-08 01:19 pm UTC (link)
You must be dating my husband....he hates mushrooms and seafood too! Two of my favorite things! He also hates olives and tomatoes.

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[info]ib_jennay03
2008-02-08 02:32 pm UTC (link)
My fiance pretty much hates vegetable unless they come out of a can. Me? I LOVE brocolli and spinach, the two things he REFUSES to eat.

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[info]wolfsilveroak
2008-02-08 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Bell Peppers.
but I eat them raw and cooked anyway.}:P

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[info]litlaur
2008-02-08 03:39 pm UTC (link)
My fiance dislikes most things "mixed together". I put that in quotes because he's really weird about it: fried rice with veggies, omelets with filling, quiche, lasagna (also because he hates ricotta), jambalaya (but likes paella??)

He also hates all types of squash, fruit in savory dishes, gravy (other than fried chicken with white gravy), all types of beans...

He loves canned green beans :(

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[info]damuddymeg
2008-02-08 03:48 pm UTC (link)
I'm pretty lucky. I'm not a fan of eggplant or zucchini, but neither is he. I'm a vegetarian, though, and he still craves meat sometimes. He's really good about trying new things (he'd never had an artichoke until he met me, now he asks for them on pizza, in salads and pasta...), and if he eats meat, he only does so when we go out for dinner or he's at his parents' house.

I'll admit to being the "strange" one. I can't eat quiche, tofu, or any meat substitute that has that, ya know, wet spongy feeling. Immediately triggers my gag reflex.

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[info]riela
2008-02-08 04:08 pm UTC (link)
My husband's "allergic" to garlic, onions, anything from that family. I'm not sure it's an actual allergy, because it only makes him queasy. It's been hard for me because all of my savory recipes start with onions and garlic. After 4 years of marriage his tolerance for onions has gone up, so I've started to use them again, but they either have to be tiny or big enough to pick out. I used half a clove of garlic in a recent recipe though and he acted like I was trying to kill him. He does love many prepared foods that have garlic fairly far down in the ingredient list.

I blame his mother though. We have a son and when he had teething pain at 4 months she wanted to stick a raw onion in his mouth and told me she did it to all her kids. She also weaned my husband at 6 months onto a garlicky, oniony fish soup. I love her soup, but for such a small baby?

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[info]mrsduryee
2008-02-08 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it sounds like mom is to blame for the queasy feeling. What a strange food to wean a child on...

I only recently started like onions, and it was after years and years of slowly integrating them into foods. The base of all Greek food is onion - often there is more onion in Greek food than any other ingredient. But most of the time, you can barely tell. I ate a lot of Greek food, and slowly because more willing to use onion in other recipes.Now, I can't have too many onions on anything.

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[info]mrsduryee
2008-02-08 04:37 pm UTC (link)
My husband hates.... potatoes.

Seriously. The only form he likes is skinny fries and maybe hashbrowns, the shredded kind.

No mashed potatoes, no roasted potatoes, no baked potatoes, no cheesy potato skins.

He says you cannot cover up the taste of their blandness. What?!? So I make a LOT of rice and cous cous.

He also doesn't like artichokes, but it's just because they take so long to eat. If I cook it and put it in front of him, he will pretty much eat it.

Consequently, he adores olives of all kinds at all times. Yay for that!

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[info]queen_beeanna
2008-02-08 05:21 pm UTC (link)
YES!! My roomate HATES OLIVES. What. And also: ginger. Those are two of my favorite things.

She also used to hate mushrooms and lamb, until she moved in with me. :-)

But seriously.Puttanesca sauce is one of my favorites to make, and that is ruled completely out.

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[info]kepharel
2008-02-08 05:34 pm UTC (link)
I guess I'm lucky... my husband isn't very picky, and he'll always try things even if he thinks he doesn't like them. However, he really detests cooked carrots. That puts a damper on much soup and roast beef and stir-fry production, but I've found ways around it. He used to hate brussels sprouts, too, but it turns out he'd only ever had overcooked ones. Now he loves them, because I usually roast or saute them with lots of other yummy flavors. :)

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[info]inkyoctopus
2008-02-08 11:54 pm UTC (link)
I can usually make my fiance like things he doesn't usually eat--usually. He wasn't big on beets but I made them all tender with parsnips and carrots and tarragon and he loved them. I think he'd never had a fresh beet.

It's weird, mostly he doesn't like when his food mixes...he's very methodical about eating sides and main dishes separately, whereas I like to mix everything up and combine it. He's also not big on food with an odd texture, but he will try anything at least once, which is a huge part of why I love him :-)

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