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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulorian - Agent of Chaos" data-source="post: 9771147" data-attributes="member: 16668">I'm going to preface this by saying that I am not a fussy eater. I can't think of a 'regional cuisine' I don't enjoy. Heavy on the veg (Vietnamese I think is my current #1), heavy on the meat (a little less of this to be honest... although I do enjoy an annual-ish visit to a rib festival), heavy on the heat (Guntur chilies are a recent discovery)... whatever, I'll give it a whirl at least once.Knowing your limits is important though... mine is licorice. Anise, fennel... all that stuff. It tastes like someone worked the south forty/a chain gang all day then immediately stuffed their pants into my mouth. A good friend of mine had a Dutch girlfriend for many years. She was into that double/triple salted licorice. I'm sure it has a special name in the Netherlands, deeply tied to its cultural roots, a beloved treat of all Dutch children. But remember that this is the home of Black Peter. This stuff is hot garbage. My buddy called it Kräppenkandy. Far more accurate a name than the gentlefolk of the Netherlands give it no doubt.In any case... licorice is the only flavour I can't deal with. Second behind that though, in the category of 'barely tolerable', is nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom, etc. - the Pumpkin Spices. I mean... I'll eat it. But I don't get it. It tastes like dust... but with an aftertaste of I tried to burn your mouth but failed like Evel Knievel at the Snake River Canyon.</blockquote>

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