I pretty much love everything. I was going to make a list, but let's just leave it like that -- pretty much everything.

Well, okay, at the top of the list would be Indian food (especially saag paneer), sushi, Mexican food of all kinds (but especially good tamales), Thai food, Vietnamese food, Korean food, my mom's cooking, and Caesar salad. Oh, and I haven't even mentioned Greek food, or Morrocan food, or Italian ...

I'd better just stop right now, and eat my granola.

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

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Pretty much everything too, a long as it's fresh and well-prepared, so I won't make a list.

Not much meat though. I even hated meat when I was a kid, and m parents forced us to eat whatever horrid thing was on our plates. I hated boiled veggies. Food was awful in the 50's and 60's as I recall, and got much better in my adult life, like say, the minute I moved to SF in

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

Just want to mention that in several of the messages I've posted here, the last few words get cut off when I post.

The typos are my own mistakes, however.:)

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

I've seen that happen here and on other forums -- the entries getting cut off at the end. I have no idea why it happens, but it also happens in the e-mail version I get.

I think I'll start e-mailing the writer when that happens to let them know, because I can add the rest of the post in if they remember what they said. So Judy, if you want me to fix that, let me know! (I'll e-mail you in case you don't read this.)

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

Favorite foods: French fries, chocolate milkshakes, fresh mozzarella, pesto, roasted tomatoes, raw carrots, salsa, smoked chicken/pork, smoked tuna-steak, Fritos original corn chips, Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, low-fat milk, Dr. Pepper and Root Beer.

My current favorite food types are Meditteranean, Tex Mex and fittingly enough, Southern cooking. And I've always been a sucker for Italian. We've been on a sort of Greek/Italian/Middle-eastern kick lately, making salads with hummus dressing and using lots of olive oil mixed with canola to replace butter. Our basic food elements around he house have taking a decided turn towards "savory" since we discovered the excellent Meditteranean bakery near where we live.

As for sushi -- I can only eat so much of it before my mouth and tummy start to feel odd. So I prefer to eat just a little bit as a treat and then fill up on tempura. I also like sashimi better than sushi proper because I'm not overly fond of wasabi. I like the raw fish -- but the wasabi ruins it IMHO, because after I've had a bite of wasabi, I can't taste a damn thing for at least 5 minutes.

Ah the woes of having a sensitive palate.

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

I like sushi, and I like rolling little balls of wasabi and just eating them. Pizza must be from Woodstock's, or it is merely a similar concoction, not really pizza at all. And if you have pizza, you must also have Cinnabread. (I like pizza-like things too, but not as much as real pizza.) I can pretty much always eat chow mein. Bread pudding, Shrimp & cashews, and more I can't think of right now.

I need to go to the fair and have a funnel cake.

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

I just love food, and going out to dinner is one of my all time favourite things to do. My first choice is always Indian, closely followed by all the rest of the Asian cuisine. I will pretty much eat anything but I draw the line at insects and THINGS WITH TENTACLES.

Oh, and I eat chocolate of course. But that's not a food - it's a drug, and I use it purely for medicinal purposes..

-- Anonymous, September 04, 1999

sushi. pasta. salmon. cake. ice cream. nectarines. pop tarts.

yum.

-- Anonymous, September 06, 1999

french fries with cheese and gravy on top. woohoo! my absolute favorite.

i'm a big fan of pasta during hockey season, nachos at all sporting events, and grapes and watermelon.

i don't like onions in anything except deep fried and served to me in rings. if it's squishy in my mouth, i won't eat it, either. yuck. i have big texture problems - taste, though, i go for anything.

oh. and bacon. i adore bacon. it's good i'm not jewish. =)

-- Anonymous, September 06, 1999

I've been a strict vegetarian for 6 1/2 years and, on a recent trip, decided to suspend the no fish/no seafood rule for a night in favor of (my first ever) sushi outing with some sushi-loving friends.

What can I say? I'm now one of *those* vegetarians. You know - the lame ones who eat fish & seafood.

It was the eel & the octopus that put me over the edge... C.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999

Peanut butter & banana sandwiches. You got your starch, protein, fruit, and fat food groups; nearly a perfect food, so long as you ignore the nutritionist pointing out that nuts make people suicidal. Gotta get a different nutritionist...

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999

Fries; Burger King hamburgers (plain, please); fettucine Alfredo if it's done right with very buttery, Parmasan cheesy-sauce and nothing else (garlic is great, but has no place in fettucine Alfredo); shrimp tmpura; ebi with lots of wasabi; California roll; Thai yellow curry with chicken and potatoes; gyro from Falafal Drive-In without lettuce; Taco Bell tacos without lettuce; a banana when it's at the perfect ripeness; Kraft macaroni and cheese; Ben & Jerry's Cookoie Dough Ice Cream; Mandalay Chicken from Mandalay restaurant in SF; Wonderful Salt and Pepper Chicken from Burma Star restaurant in SF; my homemade mashed potatoes with lots of butter; prime rib; pepper steak; baked potato with lots of butter; matzo ball soup; pastrami with horseradish...

What a pleasant train of thought. One thing just leads to the next.

I love most Indian food and most Chinese food. Most Thai food. With sushi I'm a wimp and don't like the fish ones. More for the rest of you, right? Don't like Vietnamese or Korean, at least what I've had. I like hot food but am fussy about textures - you can see I don't like things that are soft but that have something crunchy inside them, like lettuce in tacos.

I love to eat out. Love to eat, period, I guess. All I've got right now is an apple, but that's not for enjoyment, that's medicine.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999

I don't like lettuce on things, like sandwiches and hamburgers and tacos. It's just filler and it tends to taste like wet paper.

My favorite cafe, Marshall Grounds, puts mixed greens on sandwiches, which I like much better because they have some flavor and don't take up as much space.

I forgot to include my favorite junk food -- that would be Flamin' Hot Doritos, except they apparently don't make those anymore. (The Spicy Nacho ones are NOT the same thing.) I've moved on to the Spicy Barbecue, but they really aren't as good.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999

Ick.

I didn't mention my least favorite food, but I'm going to now. Chicken. Hate it. I just finished picking all the chicken out of some leftover kung pao chicken, and I had a sudden urge to be a vegetarian. I can eat breast meat if it's absolutely pristine and not warmed over, but reheated chicken or any kind of dark meat or anything with parts is just vile.

In fact, I don't like fowl of any kind. I'd just as soon never eat turkey again, unless it's made into a product that resembles beef or ham, and seasoned so the yucky turkey flavor is entirely disguised. Even then I have my reservations -- Jeremy and I have been buying this relatively low fat turkey and chicken sausage, and last week we found chunks of (sorry about this) cartilage in one. So much for that -- I don't think I can ever eat it again.

I like beef and I like pork, and I love fish and seafood. If I were to stop eating meat again, I'd probably be like Christine and still eat seafood and fish. But I could give up chicken and turkey right now and never look back.

Ick. Fowl is foul.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999

Fowl might be foul, Beth, but there's one bird that anyone who eats meat should try. It's the other red meat. It's ostrich. I had it for the first time on Sunday. If it were commonly available, I could happily scratch four-footers off my menu entirely.
Environmentally less damaging than the four-footed crops and more likely to be raised organically, it wins points ethically. (No, it's not native to this hemisphere, but then neither are the usual species we raise for meat.)
It has a texture like red meat but the most succulent flavor. Being me, I had it as rare as the chef would happily prepare it, and I enjoyed every last morsel.

And chocolate and pesto and garlic and tomatoes, particularly cherry tomatoes right off the vine on a sunny day and sundried tomatoes in anything, and blueberries and Haagen-Dazs mango sorbet and oranges and almost any fruit (especially little wild strawberries gathered in a hay meadow) and eel-and-avocado rolls and tuna and swordfish (which I have stopped eating because they're being fished faster than they can replenish themselves) and earthy mushrooms and grilled eggplant (both good meat substitutes) and a generous handful of well-mixed M&Ms and Reese's Pieces. And I wish I would stop loving perfect french fries and that flap of turkey skin over the breast cavity that gets crispy with fat and burned stuffing, but I haven't. At least the latter is only an annual indulgence.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999

Ostrich-wise, I heartily reccomend the ostrich burgers they serve at Murder Burger in Davis. I think they call it the Big Bird Burger, but I could be wrong. It is spicier than your average burger, though. If you don't like that sort of thing, avoid it. My astute advice of the day. Avoid what you don't like.

Crap. I just realized I've been staying in Davis a week, and I still haven't been to Murder Burger. Only 24 hours left. Maybe tonight.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 1999