What are your personal food truths? What do you hold as FACT to yourself and refuse to change your mind on? Some of mine touch on awful foods that I think shouldn't be consumed, and some touch on the things that are great that not everyone has caught onto yet. Let's stir the pot.
These are some of my personal food truths:
Shrimp shouldn't be consumed as food.
Also seafood related: there's no need to have a fish head and tail attached once it's plated.
Mushrooms feel too slippery to be eating.
Curly fries are ridiculous and don't taste the same as regular straight fries. What makes this so?!
Ketchup is an acceptable and delicious dip for plain potato chips.
Collards ain't that great, but kale is.
There is such a thing as too sweet of tea, and it's the new norm. I basically just get half and half tea now and it's exactly the perfect amount of sweetness.
Bubblegum shouldn't be a flavor.
I'm so happy that overly hopped craft beers that were basically just tastebud assault are going away as people begin to admit that they were trying to show off in pretending to like them.
Olives are gross. Black ones, green ones, pimento stuffed ones. They are all gross.
A post on The Beeroness where she delves into some strongly held personal opinions on food made me wonder what food truths I believe in so strongly that they are basically facts to me.
But then again, some things that we think are true as kids turn out to be really, really wrong. For reasons totally unknown, I thought that pimientos in pimiento cheese were little chopped up pieces of fish. I don't know where that came from. No one ever told me otherwise. I was in college before I ever tried pimiento cheese. Now, I can't stop eating it in everything from mac and cheese egg rolls to putting Grand Marnier in pimento cheese.
Because I am a food writer and I do know that tastes change over time, there are some foods I will try every so often just to see if perhaps this iteration of the food will change my mind. I've tried seafood, and shrimp when people have offered me a taste, or at food festivals with free samples. I even almost choked to death on a scallop in a fancy French restaurant once, because I was trying not to embarrass my friends by spitting it out. GAG I can still bring that experience up in my mind to where I can feel it.
I do refuse to bother with olives though. They just smell so unappealing that attempting to eat one makes me feel queasy. The root of this aversion stems from my dad giving me a black olive when I was about 5 or 6. Let's just say I spit it right back into the can of them he was eating with a fork.
Also, I'm going to make those strawberry lemonade beer bar cookies from The Beeroness too now that strawberry season is underway! What are your personal food truths? What of mine do you think are utter nonsense or straight up garbage opinions?
