Food you like that other people think is gross

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- chocolate with a very high cocoa content (I like 70-80% cocoa)
-Octopus and squid
-seaweed.

Unsure what counts as weird, but I was surprised how repulsed folk were by me enjoying scrambled tofu. I crush it and fry with turmeric, cumin and pepper, then drown it in sriracha with toast. Gorgeous.

I like sprouts roasted and not boiled.

Mushy peas seem to surprise southerners and Yanks, but they're always a good idea.

Made some cracking soups with unlikely combinations. One was mainly cauliflower, cashew and coconut milk. So good. Another was peanut butter and red pepper, I think, and that was good enough too.

I used to like the pinkish/orangish juice in prepared sea urchin. but not the urchins themselves.

The only thing I can think of is onions. Raw onions, cooked onions, if it has onions in it, I love it. I can't understand people who don't love onions.

I think I would like stewed red onion and beef bouillon ice cream.

I have two signature dishes:

1. Salad with pretty much everything.
Ingredients: Chicken, sardines, cucumber, tomatoes, one apple, sweet pepper, radishes, onions, garlic, cheese, various herbs and bread crumbs. Sometimes I add canned pineapple, sometimes mushrooms or prawns, or whatever I happen to have around.

2. Chicken soup with pretty much everything.
Ingredients: Same as above. The only difference is that I use noodles instead of bread crumbs and instant soup instead of yogurt dressing.

That's what I eat 95% of the time. I usually prepare a huge bowl of salad-or-soup-with-pretty-much-everything in the morning and eat the same thing three times a day. I have no idea if that's gross — I assume the combination of chicken and sardines is not everybody's cup of tea — but I figure this has everything my body needs. Besides, I can't really cook and I don't really care about the taste of food.

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Black licorice is my favorite candy. I was even happy to eat the black jellybeans.

Reading over this thread, I have to say that I would be okay with any kind of meat (assuming it's sanitary and fresh). Blood sausage, squid, it's all animal flesh and nothing that hasn't been in my mouth before.

I love the drippings from any kind of cooked meat or fish or chicken/turkey.

Rice and ketchup, MM MM MM!

brown or wild rice with seaweed paste, furikake, grated tuna or red salmon.

Boudin,a Cajun sausage made with pigs liver and rice,yum.
When I eat fried shrimp I also eat the tails,they are crunchy and tasty.
Pickled pigs feet.
Oysters.
Smoked herring.

My mom never made much of a deal out of food, so we were allowed to play and experiment with our food, and due to this, there is hardly anything that I do not eat in general, or do not try.

Specially the fishy and vegetables ones, you mentioned are on my normal food list. (broussel sprouts, okras, sushi - which always leads me to explaining people that the sushi you get around here is anyway not RAW but marinated)

I do as well not avoid on purpose all kind of organs, but many of them have a bitter taste that I dislike a bit, so I have no probs with them, in heavy spiced foods, but I dont eat them for the taste of themselves. ^^

In earlier times, I could not eat seafood with my partner, without positioning the menu card in front of my dish, so that he did not have to see my food. It has become better now, so I dont need to hide it anymoer from him, to avoid him being disgusted. But its still slimy or insectoid alienstuff for him. XD

A friend of mine sadly had really bad luck. She never had tasted seafood, and I convinced her in tasting a clam... sadly the restaurants had served bad clams that day, so she tasted one, spitted it out completely disgusted, and then I tasted one myself....I truly understand, if she will never taste seafood again. ^^

Ok, when it comes to that fermented scandinavian fish habbits, I think I´d quit too. As far as I have heard, the secret about eating them is to manage the technique of not breathing in until you have completely swallowed it. XD Sounds ... interesting. XD

a chicken patty sandwich that has been soaked in ranch.

that sounds yummy

Every time I go to the Chinese buffet I sample the crawfish. For some reason I just can't get into them. How they're a delicacy in Louisiana is beyond me. The carapace has nothing edible. The tail section is okay but quite small. I guess you'd have to shuck a ton of 'em to get any food.

I'm also surprised that some people can't stomach lobster. Lobster, by and large, is one of the most delicious foods there is. With just a bit of butter melted on it it's one of the most delicious things on earth.

I also get surprised when people pass on crab, mussels, oysters and clams. I'm dying to try geoduck, but at $30/pound, it's cost prohibitive.

If they had langostines in Seattle I'd try them, too. Those are North Atlantic and European lobsters. Can't find those around here.

pureed seaweed.