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I like all types of food, fancy and non-fancy, but my favorite all-time comfort type food (maybe my favorite of all foods!) is homemade macaroni and cheese with the breadcrumb and butter topping. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
All of it has a place in my mouth!
I really do like gourmet and different ethnic cuisines, most days I'd prefer those. But sometimes you just gotta have some good ol' home-cooking.
My favorite food genre is Ethiopian cuisine. It's not pretty, but it tastes absolutely superb!
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@abbyful: You're making me drool, I LOVE Ethiopian!
Very sorry, but I'm one of the group who says that being a foodie means loving food from just about any corner of the globe! Comfort food (assuming you mean American comfort food) is a wonderful thing, though, and I will say that I still prefer my own plain white mashed potatoes with nothing but butter, milk and salt versus any fancy dressed-up version I've come across.
ME!!!! My fav is Pastitsio! Its greek gotta love my grams cookin!
I personally think real foodies don't discriminate, and ones that do can't possibly be real foodies! Those people are just snobs ... and if it's not food they're snobbing about, it's something else!
As for my comfort food: fried chicken!
I don't like fancy foods simply because they are often things I don't like. Tomatos, onions, sauces, seafood, peppers, etc. But I love a LOT of the simple comfort foods that I do eat
I don't like fancy foods simply because they are often things I don't like. Tomatos, onions, sauces, seafood, peppers, etc. But I love a LOT of the simple comfort foods that I do eat
Actually, I have a lot of things I love to eat, fancy or not. I love mac n cheese, fried chicken (popeyes!), chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy! YUM!!
I love chicken pot pie! I actually love the one I make myself the most - the best part is the crust from scratch! mmmmmm!
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I'm the complete opposite of a foodie. If I didn't have to eat to survive I probably would never touch food, it just doesn't interest me in the least! It super easy for me to eat healthy because I like things plain, no condiments or heavy sauces to add unnecessary fat and calories. Funny thing is, next year I will be going to get my masters in nutritional sciences!
... honestly, I don't think you can be a foodie if you're narrow minded in what you eat. Comfort food is AWESOME and I love it, but liking it just makes you normal. That's why most things considered "comfort food" are under that label universally.
Mashed potatoes with fantastic gravy. Hands down best comfort food IMO.
I love homey comfort food! Especially a good BBQ!! I'm not a picky eat but can be a critical one :D
I like to eat and try new food/cuisine but I can't say I'm a foodie. I don't understand the different cooking methods (e.g. molecular gastronomy) or avant garde ingredients and don't really care as long as the food tastes good.
I do draw the line on eating animal innards, blood, etc. only because I have a wild imagination. If someone didn't tell me what I was eating and I enjoyed it, I'd probably eat it again.
P.S. I also love Ethiopian food but my favorite food of all time is Thai food.
I wouldn't consider myself a foodie, I just love food and like trying things from different cultures.
I'm going to have to disagree with you Ethiopian lovers. I just can't deal with the texture of that bread.
"A person that spends a keen amount of attention and energy on knowing the ingredients of food, the proper preparation of food, and finds great enjoyment in top-notch ingredients and exemplary preparation. A foodie is not necessarily a food snob, only enjoying delicacies and/or food items difficult to obtain and/or expensive foods; though, that is a variety of foodie." - Urban Dictionary
Personally I think that if you're unwilling to eat various food groups you're probably not a foodie. You can love food but a foodie? Not so much. I think you have to be really interested in food, willing to try anything and open-minded about what might show up on your plate. I don't like olives, so while I might not order an olive-based dish, if olives are in my meal I will definitely try it and probably won't pick them off, etc. I think comfort food can be 'foodie' food as well. A from-scratch mac and cheese? Absolutely.
Do you ever notice how things people 'just don't eat' or 'don't care for' are ALWAYS vegetables? It's the sad state of our culture. I used to work with a woman who wouldn't eat cucumbers because they were too strong, fresh green beans (only canned) because they were too green, and on BLT-night at her house, she made a BLC, replacing the tomato with cheese. WTF?
Sorry for the side-rant but I had lunch with a severely obese woman yesterday who went on and on about how good barbecue sauce is just the bottled-store kind with can of beer and a stick of butter boiled into it. She also explained (she's 60) how she's finally learned to like veggies. If you cook them with bacon. :S
@artichokey: I'm ashamed to admit that 2 of the 3 foods that I HATE are indeed vegetables :/ Bell peppers and okra just aren't welcome on my plate. Bell peppers have never agreed with my taste buds and okra has such an awful consistency. The third is scallops. Any dish that incorporates scallops, peppers and okra would be a trifecta from hell for me.
Also, my mom used to top every veggie dish she made with a huge pat of butter, so I know exactly where you're coming from with that frustration.
Do you ever notice how things people 'just don't eat' or 'don't care for' are ALWAYS vegetables?
I guess I'm an odd-ball. I'll eat virtually any vegetable. There are some I don't care for as much as others, but I'll eat them especially if they're well-prepared.
(Of course, I'll eat almost any meat, too. Though I have yet to work up the courage to eat things like pork brains. I'll eat some organs like liver though.)
Before he started dating me, my fiance had never had a lot of vegetables/fruits: asparagus, artichokes, okra, winter squash other than pumpkin, fresh spinach, etc.
"on BLT-night at her house, she made a BLC, replacing the tomato with cheese. WTF?"
I love cheese, but how can someone leave tomatos off a BLT?!
I make "BLATs"; bacon, lettuce, avacado, tomato.
I do... in that I don't eat meat or dairy for ethical and health reasons, so it's very difficult to get a genuine taste of many different foods. My tastes themselves are not picky - I think onions are the only thing I don't like, and I'll still eat them - but people consider me picky just because vegan diets are not traditional.
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@abbyful: me too with the BLTs! Except I mash the avocado up with a little lemon juice and olive oil, and use it in place of mayo. And my bacon is fake bacon.
Definitely not a foodie... I'm so picky it's insane. There is a mile long list of foods that I won't touch... seafood, raw onions, anything that came from a pig (I'm sorry but they are just to adorable to eat), sausage, not much into ethnic cuisine.. I pretty much only like simple comfort food. And chicken... lots of chicken.
My all time favorites are left over thanksgiving foods... green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top, turkey, ham from the honey baked ham store and my grandma's super secret recipe sweet cornbread dressing.
OMG I can't wait for Thanksgiving! Even if it will be the first away from my family =(
I generally try anything at least once, and I think the only things that I'm not particularly fond of are caviar, escargot, and oysters/mussels. Pork is off my menu for health reasons, though I do love bacon.. but we don't agree.
As for comfort food.. man basically all food is comfort food for me, falafels, pumpkin cookies, apple muffins, veggie lasagna, scones, baked potato 'boats'... mmm oh man, I want to go make some food now!
I have noticed that a lot of folks don't like veggies, to me it is a complete 'wtf?' reaction, because I love veggies, anywhich way; they're so versatile & good for you it boggles my mind.
Even if I didn't like them I would make myself eat them just because they are so good for you.
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If you *love* food, do you prefer the simple comfort foods, not the gourmet versions either but the classics that grandma used to make, and not the fancier fare either that "everyone" says you have to enjoy or else you have no right to call yourself one?
If so, what are your favorite comfort foods?