I am so picky when it comes to meat (as with everything else -- some people know I don't eat anything red (unless it is hidden by some other color), mushy, stringy, or really salty. I grew up in a house that didn't use salt, so I've just never gotten used to it.
Anyway the part related to meat is "stringy". I grew up in a meaty house, too, and I will eat certain kinds of meat if they are cooked into things (like bacon in a casserole or occasionally meatballs if in some sort of spaghetti). I never eat turkey or chicken or pork, never eat big pieces of beef like roast or steak -- because they are "stringy" and hurt my lips as I eat them.
In college, I became almost a vegitarian -- because my college (and current) roommate is a vegitarian who keeps kosher. Her boyfriend is pretty close to a vegan. So if we cook things toghether, it doesn't have meat in it by default -- and if we go to restaurants, we usually just end up getting one thing and sharing it, and it is always something vegitarian. My roommate does it fish, though, so I eat fish. Sadly, my favorite seafood is shrimp, and that is forbidden from my apartment because it isn't kosher.
When I go home, my dad is the only one who makes and eat his 4 course meal "like his mom made it" with soup (his infamous soup which has been mentioned several times on IRC), vegetable, potatoes (oh I hate potatoes!), and some kind of large piece of meat. My mom, sister and I usually eat one thing -- usually some new recipe my mom found either on PBS cooks or the Food Network -- never involving big, stringy, chunks of meat.
At Thanksgiving and Christmas and all other stupid holidays like that, I REFUSE to eat turkey and potatoes and cranberry sause and stuffing. Ever since I was a little kid, I've hated poultry with a passion and everything associated with it. From an early age, I made my parents make me pierogis or else I would sit at the table and eat nothing except bread. Now my dad makes ham with I can somethimes eat if it isn't too stringy.
So to summarize -- no red, no mushy, no stringy. Oh and the one rule with no exceptions is NO MAPLE SYRUP. I hate the smell, hate how it is so gross and mushy and sticky . . . I even hate it when I smell it ON someone who just ate it.
- Laura (now you all know what a freak I am
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PS, Y, I didn't even know what some of the choices you had were! And, W, KIDNEY AND LIVER?????? All I can think of is red blood flowing through them -- the liver filters toxins out of the blood, and the kidneys produce urine! And people actually EAT them?
