tastes like dirt
At the top of my list of "Foods I'd never been exposed to until I moved to the States" is goat cheese. Have any of you ever tried the stuff? I swear it tastes like dirt. If you go into your backyard, dug up some dirt and colored it white, you would get goat cheese. I don't think I will ever understand it. To me, the goat is the most inedible animal there is. Everything it produces - cheese, milk, even the meat, tastes like dirt. I write about this because when we were down in Orlando, Liam's mom was saying how she forgot to tell the waitress to make sure that my sandwich didn't have goat cheese "and all the other stuff I don't like". I never really thought about it before now, but I've just never been exposed to it on Guam. I mean seriously, who uses the stuff?
The second thing on the list is cilantro. It's not that I've never been exposed to it because it is used as a garnish in some Chinese dishes, but that I've never had to deal with it in such large quantities before. Take Mexican food for example, I usually can't eat half the things on the menu because it contains cilantro. The same goes for Indian food. I remember the first time I had cilantro at a Vietnamese restaurant, we were eating Pho, and I thought that they had forgotten to rinse out the bowl properly. All I could taste was dirty dirty soap. Apparently, I have that gene - the one that lets you taste that chemical on cilantro leaves.
What food aversions do you have?
The second thing on the list is cilantro. It's not that I've never been exposed to it because it is used as a garnish in some Chinese dishes, but that I've never had to deal with it in such large quantities before. Take Mexican food for example, I usually can't eat half the things on the menu because it contains cilantro. The same goes for Indian food. I remember the first time I had cilantro at a Vietnamese restaurant, we were eating Pho, and I thought that they had forgotten to rinse out the bowl properly. All I could taste was dirty dirty soap. Apparently, I have that gene - the one that lets you taste that chemical on cilantro leaves.
What food aversions do you have?