This boy is twenty-two years old.

[jedusor]

Things projectyl Has Never Ingested

1. Sushi
2. Macaroni and cheese
3. Mustard
4. Lasagna
5. Potato salad
6. Avocados
7. Mushrooms
8. Alcohol
9. Coleslaw

This summer, there will be an Intervention.

Comments

[projectyl.livejournal.com]

But but but slimy foods are icky!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

If you put the avocado inside a sushi roll (with maybe some salmon or eel), it's yummy and not icky at all.

[ennienyc.livejournal.com]

Alcohol, fine (ick, drinking). Sushi, mustard, avocados - bleh. But mac & cheese and lasagna? These define "comfort food."

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Just mix it all up in a smoothie!

[projectyl.livejournal.com]

No cheese. None.

NONE.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

We'll start with sushi and alcohol and proceed from there.

[darcydodo]

You would get along with tigupine really well. :P

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Because cheese is rotten milk. The other cheese-averse person I know (my dad) doesn't eat yogurt or sour cream or cream cheese either. In fact, the only form in which he eats any dairy is ice cream.

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Cheese is milk that has been treated with bacteria, and sometimes mold or fungus. If you leave milk alone and let it rot, you don't get cheese from it.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't bother me (except the cheese where you can see the mold -- eeeeww!), but I can certainly understand why it bothers some people.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Huh. You're the third tyrophobe I know of in the NPL. The others are Geneal and Jo the Loiterer.

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

That list is almost evenly divided between foods I dearly love and foods you couldn't pay me to eat. There's not one thing on that list that I'm only meh about.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'mma guess you like mac 'n' cheese, lasagna, potato salad, and alcohol. How'd I do?

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

3 out of 4. I can't stand potato salad, or anything else that contains mayonnaise, which is my least favorite food substance (also accounting for why I won't touch coleslaw).

The word "mushrooms" catches my eye faster than anything else on a menu. Everything is better with mushrooms!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Everything is better with mushrooms!

I know some people who agree wholeheartedly. ;)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Those are great foods! The only iffy was the coleslaw; I only like REALLY GOOD coleslaw.

But good god, man, no M&C? Git outta my country!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Ditto on the coleslaw. I'm very picky: it must have green cabbage and mayonnaise (vegan mayo, for me) and olives and pickles and apple and a wee touch of mustard and salt and pepper. Nothing more, nothing less, or I don't like it.

But you have to try it!

[darcydodo]

1. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
2. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
3. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm (though not, of course, all on its own)
4. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
5. Yummmmm, but preferably German potato salad, which has vinegar and not mayonnaise. (I'm not actually anti-mayonnaise, I just prefer my potato salads without it. Not that I'd refuse to eat potato salad with mayonnaise.)
6. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm, so long as they're actually ripe. I also went for many years disliking avocados, until I grew up. :P
7. Yummmmmmmmmmmm (but not raw)
8. Yum! The number of M's depends on the kind of alcohol, of course. :)
9. Very up in the air. Coleslaw is either excellent, terrible, or meh. There's no reasonably decent. Our family's recipe that we got from Thrill of the Grill, aka Tidewater Coleslaw, is definitely in the excellent category. I don't think I've ever had coleslaw such as you describe above.

In short: goodness gracious me!

[ertchin.livejournal.com]

I'm always glad to see that someone is, at least in some areas, a pickier eater than I am.

I've enjoyed 2-4 on many occasions, have tried 5 on three separate occasions and gagged every time, am fairly neutral about 7 (only had them on pizza a few times, and could barely taste them), only really had 8 in cough medicine form, am very leery of 9 for some of its commonality with 5, and will probably try out 1 and 6 some day.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

You know what you should do? You should come to con, that is what you should do. I plan to feed Projectyl sushi (possibly containing avocado) and get him drunk on his birthday- you could join the party!

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Man, sushi was a really tough sell on me. I resisted it for years until FINALLY my work study boss from college (she was Japanese) got me to try just one piece.

HEAVEN! Get over the whole raw fish thing and you won't believe it's taken this long.

[ertchin.livejournal.com]

I will raise a glass of mustard an the appropriate hour.

[dacrons-lair.livejournal.com]

Internet lingo is go: lol.

Well... if you want to get the flavors of 2, 3, 5, 8, and 9, just go to a potluck BBQ somewhere out on the east coast somewheres. Those items usually show up somewhere, and only one or two people out of the 20-30 that show ever eat any of the coleslaw. It's a fact of life.

For 1, 4, 6, and 7... one day, take the guy to lunch at a sushi place, and then for main course go to an Italian place. Order some salad beforehand to include 6 and 7, then have 4 as the main.

Anyway. Gotta get back to the telly; more Red Dwarf, y'see.

-M

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to pile it ALL on him at once, but I will do my best to introduce him to them gradually. Sushi and booze are on the menu for this summer's trip.

i gots a plan

[devils-reject.livejournal.com]

here goes:
step 1: come to santa cruz, bring him with you
step 2: consume mushrooms obtained locally (you know how it is...damn santa cruz hippies)
step 3: consume alcohol
step 4: oh wait, the rest wont matter; it'll all be ingested evetually and sometime during the evening/night, and he'll be satisfied in not actually having to remember it.

best plan 3V4R, right?

Re: i gots a plan

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Very helpful, thanks. :P

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

I love or hate all of the items on that list as well. My brother hates most eggs and egg products (like mayonnaise) while I LOVE them while he loves dairy but I hate it including most cheeses. Mac & cheese from a box isn't real cheese so it's okay, though.

Three years ago I lost my voice and from what I gathered from the doctor the problem resembled cheese and mushrooms.

[tmcay.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting comment thread to read as I consider menu choices for July.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was going to ask you about sushi places in Denver. Are there any good ones? If you have a recommendation, I might organize a big group outing.

Sushi in Denver

[(Anonymous)]

"good place for sushi near Denver" would be a sushi restaurant in San Francisco. Think about it: raw seafood, flown to the heartland, and ignored for some period of time by the locals who have never tasted fish that wasn't frozen first and fried later, assembled by someone who couldn't get a job at the local steak joint. Expensive, and at the edge of edibility. Don't doom the "intervention" from the start!

Re: Sushi in Denver

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's not a problem. I don't eat meat, and Projectyl's not a fan of seafood either, so we won't be eating any sushi with fish in it.

[rebbyribs.livejournal.com]

When I'm cooking, 1 usually includes 6, 4 includes 7, and 5 includes 3.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I discovered 5 and 9 through 3, actually. I said something along the lines of, "Mustard? How can you have avoided mustard? It's in all sorts of things- potato salad and coleslaw and..."

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

I might have eaten all of these except the alcohol in the same meal. Think Korean salad bars in Manhattan... tablespoon of this, tablespoon of that....

Some of these combine quite well, so you can do some in one sitting. Sushi/avocado, natch. Might as well make it an eel and avocado roll, since I will bet zlotys to zeppoli he has never eaten eel before (or zeppoli).

I always put mushrooms instead of meat into lasagne, and often into mac/cheese.

Mustard? How can he never have eaten mustard??? That one is the most astonishing to me. When I make potato salad, I sometimes mix good mustard and mayo together for the dressing.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

In the same meal? Ew.

My reactions were pretty much the same. Sushi, sure. Mushrooms, I guess. But mustard?

[imagines.livejournal.com]

I have ingested everything but number 8 (obviously).

...HOW DID HE MISS MUSTARD? O.O The rest are kind of understandable--I don't find any of them yummy, except for avocados--but mustard is everywhere, no?

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

SRSLY! No vowels!

And he won't, either. Says it smells nasty.