Food Heaven....Food Hell.

[Ozexpat]

As noted in another thread, my food hell would be meringue. Heaven would be a 28 day Bega "Angus" steak, cooked veeeeery rare over coals.

What is your food heaven and food hell ?

 

[jkbmusic]

Food Hell - Snails, Food Heaven - Corn on Cob with lashings of Lurpak. (Simple taste) .

 

[rabski]

Food heaven: Anything that's dead and has been in that state for not too long.

Food hell: Bananas. About the only thing I can't stand.

 

[Guest]

As noted in another thread, my food hell would be meringue. Heaven would be a 28 day Bega "Angus" steak, cooked veeeeery rare over coals.What is your food heaven and food hell ?

+1 on the steak.

Plus twice cooked chips done in dripping.

And onion rings....in batter.

Or....Scallops (dived not dredged) on black pudding.

Getting a semi just thinking about it.

The Hell is anything from McDonalds.

All smells of baby puke to me.

Including the coffee.

Thats the semi done for.

 

[Gromit]

Hell - eggs. Sadly, they're a food item I'd really love to be able to eat without doing a technicolour yawn.

Heaven - Confit de canard.

 

[Pierre The Bear]

Heaven - All of it, I have yet to try something that I cannot comprehend eating as long as it's done well.

Hell - All of it, if it's not done well.

Sorry to be a bit of a pedantic Grinch of this thread but I really mean it. I have eaten food all over the world from long dead and stinking to still alive and stinking and it's all been good but there is nothing worse than something you like not done well. For example lumpy unseasoned watery mashed potatoes!!! Everyone loves good mashed pots but who likes the ones described above?

 

[Ian Sampson]

Food heaven-Steak done with stilton stuffed mushrooms.

Food hell-Pickled prunes. Only had one and it was

 

[Biff]

For example lumpy unseasoned watery mashed potatoes!!! Everyone loves good mashed pots but who likes the ones described above?

Watery and unseasoned - agreed, but with plenty of butter and sea salt lumpy mash is a thing of beauty

 

[Professor Chaos]

Food heaven - Tossup between fish caught by yours truly and cooked within hours of landing or a juicy, crispy skinned roast chicken (the cook gets to eat those two little "oysters" of meat from the back near the thigh:22.

Food hell - Bad catering.

 

[unclepuncle]

Food Heaven - Pork Crackling

Food Hell - Coleslaw

 

[Ozexpat]

Food Heaven - Pork CracklingFood Hell - Coleslaw

But, but, but....they go perfectly together :shock:

To re-enforce the OP, meringue is, literally, the only food I cannot eat. I have no psychological barrier when it comes to food, so even the most bizarre things get eaten. I will eat everything/anything once. If I don't enjoy it then it will be put to the back of the list but only one foodstuff goes into my Room 101.

I used to say that Ratatouille was my most hated food, but I realised I hadn't eaten a decent one.

All my travels revolve around food. There isn't a country where I don't eat like a native. I will rarely travel to a country that doesn't have a food culture (the exception being the UK, although it has improved enormously since my first visit in 1975

).

The norm for me is, veeery hot curries for breakfast or fish head soup or deep fried silk worms with a beer or BBQ'd sheep eyes next to a campfire in the Bahrainian desert. It's all part of the food adventure.

And shouldn't life be just that.....an adventure ?

 

[Tony_J]

Heaven - All of it, I have yet to try something that I cannot comprehend eating as long as it's done well.

I would almost agree with that...but there are one or two exceptions for me. For example, sea cucumber cannot, IMHO, be done well - it just doesn't have any redeeming features whatever. The Chinese are into keeping a balance in their cooking, between Yin and Yang flavours/textures etc - a friend of mine theorises that the sea cucumber must be at the wrong end of all of the relevant scales, which is why they use it, as it will balance anything else that they might choose to put in the dish. I suppose that tripe & onions is the UK equivalent - has about the same culinary value as slow-cooked face flannels.

I saw a good recipe for tripe once:

1. Place the tripe in a large pan along with a house brick.

2. Cover with water, season, and boil until the brick is tender.

3. Discard the water and the tripe, eat the brick.

 

[belloire]

Heaven - so much to choose from, but a good steak (probably a nice ribeye) with chips and peas will be close.

Hell - tinned plum tomatos, the sort you get on breakfast. surely the devils own food!

 

[Vinyl Art]

Hell....Beetroot, it's the devils food, I'd rather lick smeg off my undercrackers than devour this stuff, fucking awful. To think some gardener types wasted years of their lives breeding this purple pile of shit on a stick as a food stuff...get to fuck!

Heaven....A 2"thick T Bone cooked rarer than Stroky's subs...

 

[pure sound]

Celery. Just no.

Kobe beef. Yes.

 

[gingermrkettle]

Heaven - fish and chips from a fishing port like Whitby where it was still swimming that morning.

Hell - peas.

 

[themadlatvian]

Heaven - Fine beef fillet fried rare in butter, with sauté potatoes and honey roast parsnips.

Hell - sorrel soup, cold with a hard-boiled egg floating in it.

 

[themadlatvian]

Food heaven - Tossup between fish caught by yours truly and cooked within hours of landing or a juicy, crispy skinned roast chicken (the cook gets to eat those two little "oysters" of meat from the back near the thigh :22: ).Food hell - Bad catering.

We are talking food here, aren't we?

 

[zygote23]

Heaven proper Phở

Hell = fannybatter or potatoes