Pizza Fixins

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Whitey James said:

Same on beer. Never could develop a taste for it. 

Same here, whiskey too. Some wine is okay but I’m not a drinker!

[Blackwater 53393]

I disagree about all tastes being acquired.  Feeding babies, I’ve seen foods that are/were instant hits with the kid grinning and showing an immediate desire for more.  Other foods are, basically, tolerated with a willingness to eat them but no real indication of pleasure.  Then there are foods that are absolutely rejected with obvious displays of dislike or outright disgust!

 

My grandsons both liked many of the fruit preparations when they were introduced.  One of them immediately rejected squash and prunes, but he’d gum and chew on a piece of bacon ‘til it was gone and instantly took a liking to tiny pieces of beef.

 

The other one liked the squash but not the prunes.  Both of them liked potatoes any way you could prepare them, but one doesn’t care for onion and never did. The other liked them right off!! One of them liked carrots and the other didn’t.

 

My folks didn’t fix calves liver or beef liver, but would serve chicken livers all the time!  I was told that calves liver was nasty which is what I thought/think of chicken liver!  I went to a friend’s house for supper one night when I was in high school and they were having liver and onions with gravy.  I had been raised to be polite and at least make and effort when visiting to eat what was served, (southern upbringing).  I took the first bite and was enthralled!!  I love it!!  I asked for seconds!  I went home and told my mom that she was nuts!!

 

Oh! Thanks for reminding me!! I despise avocados! I don’t like the taste, texture, or aroma and to make things worse, avocado reminds me of changing diapers!! 
 

Sorry for planting that image, but they really turn my stomach!

 

I’m sure many tastes may be “acquired”, but for the most part I’ve found that tastes may change, but you generally can decide right off whether or not you like a particular preparation and, with some things, it doesn’t matter how you fix it, some people will never like some things!

 

 

[Whitey James]

14 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I disagree about all tastes being acquired.  Feeding babies, I’ve seen foods that are/were instant hits with the kid grinning and showing an immediate desire for more.  Other foods are, basically, tolerated with a willingness to eat them but no real indication of pleasure.  Then there are foods that are absolutely rejected with obvious displays of dislike or outright disgust!

 

My grandsons both liked many of the fruit preparations when they were introduced.  One of them immediately rejected squash and prunes, but he’d gum and chew on a piece of bacon ‘til it was gone and instantly took a liking to tiny pieces of beef.

 

The other one liked the squash but not the prunes.  Both of them liked potatoes any way you could prepare them, but one doesn’t care for onion and never did. The other liked them right off!! One of them liked carrots and the other didn’t.

 

My folks didn’t fix calves liver or beef liver, but would serve chicken livers all the time!  I was told that calves liver was nasty which is what I thought/think of chicken liver!  I went to a friend’s house for supper one night when I was in high school and they were having liver and onions with gravy.  I had been raised to be polite and at least make and effort when visiting to eat what was served, (southern upbringing).  I took the first bite and was enthralled!!  I love it!!  I asked for seconds!  I went home and told my mom that she was nuts!!

 

Oh! Thanks for reminding me!! I despise avocados! I don’t like the taste, texture, or aroma and to make things worse, avocado reminds me of changing diapers!! 
 

Sorry for planting that image, but they really turn my stomach!

 

I’m sure many tastes may be “acquired”, but for the most part I’ve found that tastes may change, but you generally can decide right off whether or not you like a particular preparation and, with some things, it doesn’t matter how you fix it, some people will never like some things!

 

 

Well, as a kid, I would not eat green beans. One day my dad took me hunting behind my grandparent's house and we stayed out for what I thought was a long time.  I was so hungry by the time we went back to the house and my Grandmother had just started to cook. The only thing she had fully cooked and ready to eat was green beans. I devoured a whole bowl of them and have loved them since.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Fussy as heck at 16, sometimes becomes more adventurous with maturity.  My two daughters, 48 and 51, (both claim 25) one is still fussy, one is willing to try new stuff.

[Blackwater 53393]

Just now, Whitey James said:

Well, as a kid, I would not eat green beans. One day my dad took me hunting behind my grandparent's house and we stayed out for what I thought was a long time.  I was so hungry by the time we went back to the house and my Grandmother had just started to cook. The only thing she had fully cooked and ready to eat was green beans. I devoured a whole bowl of them and have loved them since.

 

BUT!!  Had you actually tried green beans before that, or only turned them down because you thought you didn’t like them?

 

I actually wouldn’t eat ham as a little guy! When I was about eight years old, my grandmother gave me some country ham and I refused it.  She insisted that I take a bite and the whole world changed!  I really didn’t like the ham that I’d had before, but this was great!  
 

I’ve found that I like some things only when prepared in certain ways and don’t like the same things fixed in other ways!  That’s a matter of taste!

 

I like roasted asparagus and I like some versions of fried okra! I am revulsed by either of them boiled.  I have been willing to try many different iterations of green peas, but have never found any offering of them that I would take a second bie of! Same goes for avocado.  I love corn on the cob!  I have been known to eat three or four cob’s worth! Outside of popcorn, I won’t eat it any other way. Thanks, BUT NO THANKS!

 

I know what I don’t like! I will try anything that I haven’t had before, (within reason) but things that I know I don’t like, I reserve the right to refuse.

[Rye Miles #13621]

How about just plain pizza! Just some sauce and grated cheese then fold it over a nice piece of sausage! Now that’s Italian!!!😎

[Pat Riot]

I will try anything once…except brains. I just can’t and that’s it. 
 

Years ago all my friends loved pineapple on their pizza. I tried it. This was nearly 40 years ago.  I am not sure how to explain this, but when I bite into hot or even cold pineapple my tongue literally wants to roll up from both sides. Almost as if my tongue and my brain are rebelling. I also don’t like the acid in pineapple. 
Since I haven’t tried it in such a long time I may try it again, but I am not going looking for it. If someone offers me a piece of pizza with pineapple I may give it another go. 
 

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

How about just plain pizza! Just some sauce and grated cheese then fold it over a nice piece of sausage! Now that’s Italian!!!😎

 

 

 

  .............. not without the pineapple ........  🥰

[Rye Miles #13621]

20 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 

  .............. not without the pineapple ........  🥰

🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Subdeacon Joe]

27 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 

 

  .............. not without the pineapple ........  🥰

 

Took him long enough to chime in! 

 

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

but when I bite into hot or even cold pineapple my tongue literally wants to roll up from both sides. Almost as if my tongue and my brain are rebelling.

 

You must be unusually sensitive to the enzymes in pineapple.   Do you have the same reaction to papaya?  Or is it mango?  I can never remember which one that is a strong tenderizer for meat.   Strong as in " quickly turns meat to mush."

 

4 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Feeding babies, I’ve seen foods that are/were instant hits with the kid grinning and showing an immediate desire for more.  Other foods are, basically, tolerated with a willingness to eat them but no real indication of pleasure.

 

But over time they learned to enjoy many of those foods,  didn't they?  There are some tastes we're programed to instinctively like,  e.g. sweet and salty because those usually indicate safe to eat, hence milk being sweet.   Others we instinctively dislike,  sour and bitter, as those are often unfit for human consumption or are outright dangerous to eat.   

 

As a kid I didn't like raw tomatoes.   Too much acid and sour for my taste.   I  learned to enjoy it in my teens.   It wasn't until my mid20s that I  started liking yogurt. Which is odd since I've always liked buttermilk. 

 

On the other hand, I don't recall ever not liking green olives,  sauerkraut, and dill pickles. 

(Amusing anecdote...at one exceptionally hot Civil War reenactment when the medics were greeting us with cool, not ice cold electrolytes,  including pickle juice, as we came off the field, I jokingly said,  "Oh! You are giving us sweet pickle juice this time!"  Wrong thing to say at an event where there had already been a lot of heat and dehydration issues.   Got hustled off, pushed onto a cot, and had cold cloths slapped on forehead,  neck,  armpits, wrists, and for good measure,  groin.  Medics..no sense of humor.)

[Pat Riot]

50 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

You must be unusually sensitive to the enzymes in pineapple.   Do you have the same reaction to papaya?  Or is it mango?  I can never remember which one that is a strong tenderizer for meat.   Strong as in " quickly turns meat to mush."

I don’t think I have ever eaten papaya. I did eat a mango once. I made the mistake of drinking a Pepsi afterwards. I truly thought I would explode. 
I looked it up and papaya is the meat tenderizer. 
 

What’s funny is I love pineapple flavored candies, but they’re artificially flavored. I just have a hard time with the real thing. 

[Blackwater 53393]

Actually Joe, their tastes haven’t changed very much.  Neither will eat squash now and the one that didn’t like onions will only eat them if they’re cooked into a dish like chili or pot roast and only a little if it’s not chopped up fine.  Still won’t eat prunes and neither is really into figs. The younger one still doesn’t like most nuts and if he’s like his father, probably never will, although he’ll eat peanut butter.

 

We’ve always encouraged them to try new things, but we don’t force them. I even ask them to try things I know that I don’t like!  The one will actually eat certain guacamole mixes, but not all, and won’t have avocado any other way.  I think our genetic makeup makes cilantro taste like soap, (I like a small amount in hotter salsa mixes) and the boys don’t like it either.

 

I guess the old saying, “There’s no accounting for taste!” is really a fact! 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Pineapple and SPAM

[Blackwater 53393]

16 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Pineapple and SPAM

MO!! Are you sure that you don’t have some polynesian ancestry back there somewhere!!   

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

26 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

MO!! Are you sure that you don’t have some polynesian ancestry back there somewhere!!   

Hmmmmm!  

[Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680]

23 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

ALL tastes are acquired tastes.   My wife just recently started accepting the bitter of greens other than spinach.  

 

Tell your wife to try stirring a spoonful of yellow mustard into the greens, she might like it instead of just accepting it. As far as acquired tastes, I read somewhere once that our taste buds change over our lifetime and that's why adults can start to like something they didn't like as kids.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 said:

Tell your wife to try stirring a spoonful of yellow mustard into the greens,

 

Hmmmm.....I usually add cider vinegar to temper the bitter.   She really likes mustard,  and mustard has a high vinegar content.   Maybe make a honey-mustard sauce over it.   Thanks!

[Sedalia Dave]

4 hours ago, Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 said:

I read somewhere once that our taste buds change over our lifetime and that's why adults can start to like something they didn't like as kids.

 

I've heard this and my personal experience has shown it to be true.  There are several foods I eat today that I didn't care for as a teenager.

[Buckshot Bear]

[Blackwater 53393]

Enough pineapple MIGHT  hide the gawdawful taste of Vegemite!! 

[Subdeacon Joe]

46 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Hmmmmm.....put some fresh churned vanilla bean ice cream on that. 

[Blackwater 53393]

11 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Hmmmmm.....put some fresh churned vanilla bean ice cream on that. 

I was thinking a dusting of powdered sugar and some cherry/vanilla!!  Wouldn’t be bad with a honey/butter crust!!

 

 

 STILL wouldn’t be pizza! 
 

 

Edited October 2 by Blackwater 53393

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

On 9/30/2024 at 8:54 PM, Subdeacon Joe said:

Local restaurant suppy shop is running a special on pizza fixing.

 

 

 

 

 

LOL!

But, if pineapple, must also have ham.

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

On 9/30/2024 at 9:40 PM, J-BAR #18287 said:

Hamburgers:  cheese, mustard, onion, jalapeños.

 

NO!

 

You can put whatever you want on your HAMBURGERS.   Even jalapanos.   

But you can NOT put cheese on a hamburger.  Once you do, it is no longer a hamburger.  At that point, it is a CHEESEBURGER.   You can put whatever you want on it too.   But it is something different.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

20 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Hmmmm.....I usually add cider vinegar to temper the bitter.   She really likes mustard,  and mustard has a high vinegar content.   Maybe make a honey-mustard sauce over it.   Thanks!

Not always, I made mustard where the only acid was Cabernet Sauvignon, similar to Grey Poupon, no vinegar.

 

 

Edited October 3 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Cypress Sun]

 

Pizza - Extra cheese, pepperoni, Italian sausage and anchovies. I'll eat most any pizza and pick the items I don't like off of it, but pineapple permeates the taste of the pizza and there's no way to "pick it off" and not still taste it.

 

Burgers - Burger, cheese, bacon and Thousand Island dressing.

 

Nastiest (supposed) food - beets...no matter how they're made.

 

The way to make most any food better...add bacon.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:

LOL!

But, if pineapple, must also have ham.

 

Or Spam.

[Sedalia Dave]

Occasionally I get the hankering for my version of Hawaiian Cheese Burgers. 
 

Kings Hawaiian bun buttered and lightly toasted on the grill. 

Ribeye beef patty marinated in Huli Huli sauce. Note: burger has to be at least 15% fat. Ultra lean beef has no flavor. 
Slice of pepper jack cheese. 
Slice of ham. 
Topped off with a grilled pineapple ring. 
 

[Subdeacon Joe]

54 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Occasionally I get the hankering for my version of Hawaiian Cheese Burgers. 
 

Kings Hawaiian bun buttered and lightly toasted on the grill. 

Ribeye beef patty marinated in Huli Huli sauce. Note: burger has to be at least 15% fat. Ultra lean beef has no flavor. 
Slice of pepper jack cheese. 
Slice of ham. 
Topped off with a grilled pineapple ring. 
 

 

Spread a little Vegemite on the bun after you grill it. 

[Blackwater 53393]

25 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Spread a little Vegemite on the bun after you grill it. 

 

There ain’t enough pineapple in the world to overcome the taste of Vegemite!!  Even unripe persimmon won’t hide that nasty stuff!!