Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[trappedslider]

Push it! You know you want to.

 

[Bedrockgames]

... in fairness, this may be more of a Southern California thing.

In my lived experience, I am reasonably certain that anyone with an avocado allergy would likely starve in Los Angeles.

I was in Southern California as a kid and got pretty accustomed to avocados. My grandmother used to say about my dad "he'd eat sh*t if you put it on an avocado", so I think the disdain for it by association with foodie trends goes way back. She was saying this in the early 70s, well before avocado toast, which would have made her head explode I am sure. I can't hate the avocado just because it is beloved by hipsters.

 

[CleverNickName]

I had one in Oakland, and a lemon tree too; I'd sit out there with a knife, salt shaker, and bottle or tequila when I was poor. lol

I love avocados, personally. But the trouble is when they ripen, they all ripen at once. So you end up with only 2-3 weeks to eat dozens, sometimes hundreds, of fresh avocados. That first smoothie, slice of toast, or bowl of guacamole is delicious...the fifteenth, not so much.

Inevitably, despite the best efforts of everyone in the house and their extended families, the vast majority of avocados end up rotting on the ground underneath the tree.

 

[dragoner]

Seeing vons burn made me want to leave LA

 

[dragoner]

I love avocados, personally. But the trouble is when they ripen, they all ripen at once. So you end up with only 2-3 weeks to eat dozens, sometimes hundreds, of fresh avocados. That first smoothie or bowl of guacamole is delicious...the fifteenth, not so much.

Inevitably, despite the best efforts of everyone in the house and their extended families, the vast majority of avocados end up rotting on the ground underneath the tree.

Bag them and give them away, that's what I did. Similar to when I caught a 50lbs Salmon off the Farallons, no way could I eat that much, even with my wife and kids. Funny thing is that same with the lemons, avacados, and salmon; everyone said they were the best they ever had. The real horrors are olive and plum trees when they drop their fruit, it gets everywhere.

 

[trappedslider]

well a game that i own on xbox now has official mod support currently PC only,so i'm now tempted to buy a pc copy lol

 

[MNblockhead]

I love salmiak.

Both because I love it, and because it's one of the few candies I can have around that I know other people (and by people, I mean DEREK!!!) will not steal.

Then again, I also enjoyed hákarl. Which my friends* refer to as "urine shark." So I may not provide the best advice on foods others will enjoy.


*"Friends" is defined as those I suffer the presence of.

I kept a jar of Swedish Bastards (Svenskjävlar! (Swedish Bastards)) on my desk for a while. Also challenged my extended family to try it on Christmas. Salmiak is an acquired taste, that many people say tastes like window cleaner. It is made with ammonia chloride after all, though how so many people know what window cleaner tastes like I choose not to ponder upon. Some scientists want to classify salmiak as a sixth sense of taste, which is as good a reason as any to at least try it once. Do you want your life to pass by without out experiencing one of the six fundamental flavor profiles? (Well, yes, many of you probably will wish you had if you try it.). Anyway, Lakrits Svenskjavlar (Swedish Bastards) go crazy on the salmiak coating. It is quite intense. Most Americans I've had try it end up spitting it out as soon as they put it in their mouths.

It also has the distinction to be featured in the Disgusting Foods Museum in Malmo.

An aside on the Museum, some of the 80 foods featured I don't think belong there. "Century Eggs" is one. I've always seen them translated as "thousand‑year old eggs", shrug, neither are direct translations of 皮蛋 (pídàn) ["skin egg"]. While they may look unappetizing to people not used to seeing green eggs, they don't have a very strong taste or strange texture and what American who grew up with Dr. Seuss wouldn't want to try green eggs?

Another is Chou Dofu (stinky tofu), which is awesome. It smells like sewage but tastes great! When I first tried it in a street market, I didn't know the smell came from the tofu. And by the time I knew the connection I already enjoyed it that the stinky smell just makes me say "yum!"

 

[Parmandur]

Nothhug weirder to me than people who hate pizza and pizza chains spending all their time screaming at people on the sidewalk about pizza.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I like 1000 year old eggs.

But come on, if even the Swedes put svenskjavlar into a museum dedicated to disgusting foods, you know it can't be right.

 

[TiQuinn]

So very much not here - Some of us have naughty word to do and are actively dealing with problems and don’t have time for your existential mid-age crisis.