Topic: Things you are supposed to like...but secretly hate!
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Love Indian food, but I hear ya on the Thai food. A friend *loves* the stuff, and invites me constantly, and I've tried at least a half-dozen dishes. It's either hot enough to leave blisters on your soul, or utterly bland and tasteless.
For me, it's Irish food. We have an Irish pub/eatery in town that's all the rage, and everything I've had there is utterly bland.
My goodness, how far do you have to get from England before the food has flavor? Even *borscht* is better than that stuff!
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I haven't eaten it (other than an occasional bite to realize I still feel the same about it) in about 20 years. It's heavy, it gets caught between the teeth and, more often than not, is greasy. I don't eat pork, either, for similar reasons--and, yes, that does include bacon. Actually, bacon is the biggest problem because it often is found in foods that really should be meatless (soups, salads, vegetables dishes).
I do eat poultry and seafood, so I don't consider myself a vegetarian, although I'm very fond of vegetarian meat analogues. Quorn is fantastic.
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Ironically, I'm eating a beef sandwich while reading this.
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quote:Originally posted by future king: Thai/Indian food.
Ok, ok I know this is purely a matter of personal taste. Sorry but aside from the odd little thing or two that I've tried and they were, mmm ok, I just don't get it. My stomach has yet to "jump on the band wagon" I guess! I've tried to enjoy it but I still don't.
Give me my steak and potatoes any day of the week!
A local Thai place by work has a great fried rice with all sorts of vegies mixes in. Really tasty, and you do not need to get it real spicey to get good flavor. I eat that and two of the rice noodle dishes and that's about it.
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cleome46
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quote:Originally posted by Set: Love Indian food, but I hear ya on the Thai food. A friend *loves* the stuff, and invites me constantly, and I've tried at least a half-dozen dishes. It's either hot enough to leave blisters on your soul, or utterly bland and tasteless.
Sounds like the restaurant isn't doing it right.
I tend to favor the curry dishes and soups, or noodle dishes, and ask for them done "medium" on the seasonings. Seems to work well.
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quote:Originally posted by SharkLad: tilapia
I feel that way about halibut. It's super-popular here with the trend towards "local-vore" eating. But its texture grosses me out. Doesn't matter where or how it's being prepared. I just can't eat it.
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I miss the days when flying was an event. I like being able to reserve my seat ahead of time. I like the little frills that don't really cost that much. I really don't like the cattle call seating. Unfortunately, Southwest has a near-monopoly on one of Houston's airports and Continental on the other. I very much enjoyed my flights on JetBlue when I went to Boston a few years back. Unfortunately, that airline only has two flights a day out of Hobby.
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I know I already posted about this subject near the beginning of this thread, but I've got...things...bothering me, and I need to vent.
Comeback Queen Kelly Clarkson's getting a lot of love in another thread here at the Anywhere Machine, and I still hate her with every cell in my body.
Her "singing" consists of braying like a tone-deaf elephant with a hot foot, and she seems to me like she's got no class whatsoever. Her idea of complimenting Adele (who I love) is to say, "I like her so much I wanna punch her in the face."
[sarcasm] Now that's one classy diva for our times. [/sarcasm]
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The Big Bang Theory
So, I assume this show is supposed to appeal to me because I get most of the references to geek/nerd culture in it. But these guys just remind me of various uber-geeky friends/acquaintances I've known in real life who I generally try to avoid hanging out with because they annoy the hell out of me if I'm around them too much. So there's really little desire to actually watch a show about them.
(As opposed to, for example, Troy and Abed on Community, who'd I'd totally love to hang out with and act out scenes from Inspector Spacetime!)
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cleome46
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The film Casablanca.
All its female lead ever does is stand around looking gorgeous and sad. She's so passive that she tells a man in her life to "Do the thinking for us both." In a movie full of strong personalities there's simply nothing about her beyond her lovely face and voice that makes me think any man would be made or broken by her presence or absence.
There's something especially obnoxious about this against the setting of WWII, when there were courageous and daring women IRL who stepped into traditionally "masculine" roles both big and small. Women who didn't just sit back looking gorgeous and letting somebody else "Do their thinking for them."
It's supposed to be this epic love story and yet it fills me top to bottom with nothing but annoyance and resentment. (There's a few other great romantic films where this is a problem, but not to this degree.) Great Love is the core of the film but to me the core is just plain hollow.
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Set
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'Classic' literature.
Faulkner, Dickens, etc. bore the hell out of me. As an English major, I was *supposed* to like this stuff, but As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, was very nearly the death of me. So, so, tedious.
I feel the same way about 'classic' sci-fi or even the most popular books by my favorite authors.
Asimov does nothing for me, and while Zelazny (author of such brilliant stuff as Lords of Light and Creatures of Light and Darkness and Isle of the Dead) is my favorite author of all time, all everyone seems to have read by him is his terrible Amber books, which he flat-out admitted to only grinding out to pay the bills.
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cleome46
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Those "baby" carrots that are ubiquitous on "healthy" snack trays.
Their texture is wrong-- all weird and styrofoam-y, and they have exactly zero flavor-- like orange iceberg lettuce. Ugh.
I'll stick to "grown up" carrots, thanks. The thinner ones for munching raw or in salads. Or the thicker ones for soups and stews.
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Related to Set's post above - Lord of the Rings.
Okay, so it was a forerunner and had an interesting plot. The writing still dragged on and on and on for me. Thank goodness for the movies, because I couldn't bring myself to finish the book.
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lady: ...Comeback Queen Kelly Clarkson's getting a lot of love in another thread here at the Anywhere Machine, and I still hate her with every cell in my body...
I was subjected to that wretched "California Girls" song, and one of her sorry-ass Xmas songs repeatedly over the last two weeks. So I'm with you. The other current diva who makes me want to punch a wall is Rihanna. Both of them just sound like egotistical empty suits incapable of doing anything even remotely interesting.
To be honest, I'm not crazy about that one mega-popular Adele song, either. She's got the vocal chops, I'll grant you, but Holy Hannah that song is paint-by-numbers dull dull dull!
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"California Girls" was actually by Katy Perry, but I hate her just as much as I hate Kelly Clarkson. I'm not aware of any Christmas songs by either one, so I guess I've been lucky not to hear it. :whew:
Regarding Adele, as much as I like her, I have to say I'm not crazy about "Someone Like You." I think "Rolling in the Deep" is much better. My best friend loves "Someone Like You," though -- it literally almost moved her to tears.
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