Glennalicious

I "made" my own hominy once time when I tried to cook posole entirely from scratch.

You make a caustic alkaline solution of calcium hydroxide and water and then soak these gigantic white kernels of corn in it until they soften up. Then you rub the kernels between your fingers until the hulls come off. I was terrified that I was going to burn my fingers to the bone.

It worked, but next time I'm just going to get the canned stuff.

It's hard to imagine someone hating hominy ... Tastes pretty bland to me. :)

Amen on raisins in cookies. Ew.

i dispise 'nature's candy'.. but I can't help myself in the presence of a plump shrimp cocktail. ;)

lol. very funny post. i love all those items you hate. i'm curious, do you like grapes? wouldn't that be the analog to a bloated tick? i would think raisins would be anorexic ticks, and boiled raisins (as in a chutney,mmmmmmm!) would just be wet anorexic ticks (or waterlogged geriatric ticks!), but the actual globulous, tight-skinned grape--that's the bloated tick ("pop!")... and corn, omg, on the cob, off the cob, whole kernel, mashed, popped, boiled, grilled, roasted, ground---chips, tortillas, grits, hominy, i love corn in any shape which will fit into my mouth... mmmm... as good, or better than raisins and corn are PICKLES, wow, hallelujah for pickles, sweet, dill, kosher, garlic, omg... mmmm... and better than all three of these... The Olive. Plain, stuffed, pickled, raw, oil cured, mashed, tapenade, any way and every way one can possibly prepare or eat an olive... is Heaven. Can you eat onions? brussel sprouts? green peas? garlic? red peppers? i'm fascinated by this, the first person i've learned does not like popcorn. Maybe i've known others, but it never came up. fascinating.

Just the title alone has had me giggling for hours...!!

I don't know why the big fuss. I love boiled ticks fresh off the antelope.

I, too, get nauseous at the sight and smell of olives, but don't mind olive oil at all. Cooked raisins don't bug me, but I was reminded of taking a boyfriend out for Indian food once who was horrified to discover a fried banana in the appetizer platter.

I thought I was the only one who was freaked out by reanimated grapes!

I don't feel so alone in the world anymore.

i'm happy to read you at least tolerate grits.

Oh, good! I ain't alone! I hate olives and pickles as well! Don't mind raisins tho. I also hate raw tomatoes! ICK!

Your restrictions are minor compared to those of my partner who announced on our first date, twenty-three years ago, that he ate nothing from the ocean, and never any mushrooms. I had made a chicken Marseilles for dinner that night. I had to bring it back to the kitchen and remove every bit of mushroom and scrape off the sauce before he would even look at it. Kids.
What is a hominy? Is it a grit? What is a grit? Can we get one at Balducci?

I love olives of any variety, pickles in any brine, raisins cooked in muffins, bagels, cookies.

However if I had to eat a chickpea, I don't think I would ever stop throwing up. Ditto: lima beans.

My boyfriend forces me to eat pretty much all weird foods (snails, crayfish, mussels -- which I think are weird, being from Ohio), and with feigned gusto.

Have you ever eaten actual insects? Intentionally? I wonder if raisins resembling ticks would be so gross to you if you had eaten roasted grasshoppers or something.

My father likes hominy out of a can. It always makes me sick to think about it!

You boys are soooo squeamish!

I eat everything. I mean, just look at me.

Oh, yeah....I forgot tripe. Won't eat that! But that's about it. Wait...I'm not so fond of sweet potatoes either...there, I'm done.

I'm with you on raisins. Raw is fine...cooked is icky. But olives?? If it weren't for olives in my martinis, I wouldn't eat any green vegetables at all.

As a midwesterner, I never learned to like any kind of fish or seafood. I guess I'm missing out on an entire world of culinary surprises, but I just can't bear to eat something that is essentially just a water-lovin' bug. Blech.

I HATE RAISINS. Which makes zero sense, since I love grapes and I'll happily eat most other dried fruit.