Disgusting Stuff At My House and Yours

[mrissa]

markgritter made Soup That Smells Nasty for lunch today. It had been ages since he'd last made it, and I was okay with that, but now the weather is inching towards fall, which means more STSN for the foreseeable future.

Tonight I'm making asparagus (roasted, with garlic, mmmmmm) because C.J. will not be here for dinner. If he was here every single night, I'd get to the point where I said, "Well, tough; the rest of us like asparagus, so you can dig carrots out of the veggie bin or frozen peas out of the freezer or make yourself a salad or whatever." (Anyone who doesn't get their RDA of fruit and veggies in this house is a total hoser and not even trying.) But he doesn't eat here every night, so it's easy enough to make sure asparagus is around when he isn't.

The problem with STSN is that it doesn't actually make me ill, so I don't feel it would be reasonable to ask him not to make it. There are things I will ask him and timprov not to make because the smell of it will put me off food for days. timprov also has a few quirky ones -- my poached pears in white wine, for example, will put him off food indefinitely. (He likes pears. He likes white wine. He likes the spices I put in it. It's just the combination heated on the stove that's problematic.) But we all gross each other out from time to time, just not enough to put in anti-requests.

If you live with people, what do your housemates make that grosses you out? Is it bad enough for you to ask them to eat it when you're not home, or is it just something you flee from personally? If you live on your own (or with people, why not), was there something your parents ate that was truly vile? (seagrit: there is a limit on how many characters can go into these posts, so just pick a few Dave Favorites. :) ) And what about school cafeterias (college or before): what really grossed you out there? The very thought of my grade school's canned peas is enough to make me glad I've already lunched. What's the worst stuff in your food world?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do crab legs put you off while they are still legs, or does the meat in them also disgust you when someone else has removed it and chopped it up and made it into crab cakes or crab alfredo sauce or...dammit, now I want some crab.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

I love how suggestable you are. It's great fun.

I really like crab cakes, crab rolls, I'm so-so on crab alfredo sauce. Just when they look like giant spider legs, that's when they're disgusting.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah? Oh YEAH? Well, Blues Traveler's Live From The Fall, so there!

So it's a visual thing, not a taste thing. Got it.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

You know what? David Gray's New Day at Midnight! Take that take that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Augh, "Recovering the Satellites," AUUUUUGHHHHH!

I'm apparently tangentially suggestible this morning, because I'm now singing "Afternoon's Debauchery," which is not really related to "New Day at Midnight" per se.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I wonder what made you think of that....

No, wait. On second thought, I no longer wonder what made you think of that. I do not, I do not, I do not.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, my singing that song seems not to be correlated or anti-correlated with any debauchery experienced, afternoon or otherwise. It is not code in any way.