Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i don't understand it. i don't think it tastes of anything at all!



just make some scotch eggs with quails eggs and sainsburys taste the difference sausages and deep fry them in walnut oil. jobsagoodun.

I think heterosexual men are meant to get most out of truffles. My mother loves them too. Dh likes them, but he likes most things. More gourmand than gourmet at times.

Wheezy_2

I have never eaten truffles and if someone offers me truffle shavings, I would decline in fear it would mess up my dish.

The only truffles we eat are

LydiaJ

Another vote in favour of cinnamon here. When I was little my dad used to do me hot toast with lots of butter and cinnamon.

lemonjelly wrote: »

I rarely eat out though.

TBH, if you ain't in a couple, rare as rocking horse doo-doo you eat out.

I very rarely eat out except when my mates from work go to the pub and either have a pub meal or go on somewhere else for a curry. We usually do that after we've done parents' meetings at school, and a few other occasions - people's birthdays etc. Maybe 9 or 10 times a year. Oh, and when my kids have birthdays they get a choice between a meal out or a take-away. DD usually chooses to eat out, and DS usually picks the take-away. I agree with lemonjelly that my income is nowhere near approaching the level at which I could justify spending £100+ on a meal.

In other news.... I check on my utilities every Wednesday evening. This is supposed to motivate me to use less electricity/gas/water, although I can't say I've been very good about it so far. Anyway, I am happy to tell you all that spring is now on its way - for the week just measured (Thurs 12th - Wed 18th Jan) I made more money on my solar panels than I spent on taking electricity from the grid. That's the first week for which that's been true since the beginning of November.

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

Another vote in favour of cinnamon here. When I was little my dad used to do me hot toast with lots of butter and cinnamon. .

Did this on cinnamon bagels. Mmmmm!:drool:

LydiaJ wrote: »

I very rarely eat out except when my mates from work go to the pub and either have a pub meal or go on somewhere else for a curry. We usually do that after we've done parents' meetings at school, and a few other occasions - people's birthdays etc. Maybe 9 or 10 times a year. Oh, and when my kids have birthdays they get a choice between a meal out or a take-away. DD usually chooses to eat out, and DS usually picks the take-away. I agree with lemonjelly that my income is nowhere near approaching the level at which I could justify spending £100+ on a meal.

Lydia, I doubt I eat out 10 times a year...

In other news.... I check on my utilities every Wednesday evening. This is supposed to motivate me to use less electricity/gas/water, although I can't say I've been very good about it so far. Anyway, I am happy to tell you all that spring is now on its way - for the week just measured (Thurs 12th - Wed 18th Jan) I made more money on my solar panels than I spent on taking electricity from the grid. That's the first week for which that's been true since the beginning of November.

Thank god someone agrees with me! I see the point lir & chewy are making, but even so, given how hard I work for what little I get, I still fail to justify £100+ for a meal. It'd have to be one helluva treat/thank you or similar.

I still wouldn't even want someone else to pay that kinda price for a meal for me.
Maybe that says more about my self perception than anything else, I dunno...

lemonjelly

Oh, another thing. If someone put something I didn't like on my plate, I'm afraid I wouldn't eat it. I'd hope my host would be polite/kind enough to understand. Sorry, but there is little chance I'd eat something I didn't like to be polite.

I realise that this could be quite divisive....

misskool

zagubov wrote: »

Sounds fine by me! Thought I was a fussy eater until I read these posts. cinnamon, yes, mushrooms yes, all meats except liver.
Pretty much eat anything that doesn't eat me first.:D

I know I'm not a fussy eater. I will eat everything put in front of me.

steak yes
cinnamon yes (but not too much)
mushroom yes yes yes

can't remember what else was being said, I'm really tired from work

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Oh, another thing. If someone put something I didn't like on my plate, I'm afraid I wouldn't eat it. I'd hope my host would be polite/kind enough to understand. Sorry, but there is little chance I'd eat something I didn't like to be polite.

I realise that this could be quite divisive....

I wouldn't want anyone to eat anything they didn't want to. For this reason i tend to bring out plates/platters and let people help them selves. It is less elegant, but it seems to me the most diplomatic way to deal with the issue, only the rudest peor refuse everything offered (presuming they are not allergic or culturally - religion, vegetarianism. At the very least there is bread and salad usually on the table.

One of the reasons dh and i struggle atm with our friend's unlikable boyfriend is his rude fussieness. He is a vegetarian who dilikes veg. What he means is he wants to live on junk carbs...his choice is fine, but not if expecting to eat at other peoples houses without causing offence to someone eventually. He once ate all the stuffing out of my stuffed aubergines, because he dislikes aubergines so couldn't eat them...fair enough...but the aubergines were stuffed with......aubergine. He was going on anout how yummy it was....and another friend and i got thie giggles over thie washing up.

Edit: i think the thing that really i find very unappealing about fussy men in particular is that in my own extensive research in youth they tend to make less good and adveturous lovers. My friend has confirmed the research this with the fussy bf. if eating a diet of crisps primed men for being caring, superb lovers with the stamina,desire and appetite for mutually satisfactory relations maybe i could view it as a sacrifice. Living abroad when i was little in different cultures taught me just how important eationg something offered can be. It can make up for a difficult social or language barrier amd make a good first impression. E.g. The idea of chickens feet repulses me, i see where they walk and how hard they would be to clean, but if offered them in the home of someone else i would at least try a taste of one. I have a very sensitve gag reflex, yet manage to eat things that at home would send me straight out of the room in the name of good manners. I wouldn't want someone to feel like that in my home, but neither would i like none of the effort made to be appreciated...that lead to the idea of meat platter serving dishes etc.

purch

I will eat just about anything :eek:

lostinrates

purch wrote: »

I will eat just about anything :eek:

See, by my equation that makes your wife strongly like
Y to be satisfied.

Edit: seriously, is my typing preferable to autocorrect? Grrr.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I wouldn't want anyone to eat anything they didn't want to. For this reason i tend to bring out plates/platters and let people help them selves. It is less elegant, but it seems to me the most diplomatic way to deal with the issue, only the rudest peor refuse everything offered (presuming they are not allergic or culturally - religion, vegetarianism. At the very least there is bread and salad usually on the table.

DS is a fussy eater, and I sometimes find it stressful taking him to people's houses if he doesn't want to eat what they offer him. At your house, with a varied selection on the table and the freedom for us all to help ourselves, he was happy and I felt relieved and grateful. :T

You were even gracious to me after I'd expressed myself a little too vehemently (before lunch) about what I considered to be the idiocy of a friend who wastes perfectly good cake by contaminating it with courgette.... and your courgette cake was actually rather nice, although I still won't be putting any courgette in any cakes I make myself.

lostinrates wrote: »

Edit: seriously, is my typing preferable to autocorrect? Grrr.

Yes