What foods do you refuse to eat?

[lilmomma]

organ meats
fat free salad dressing
margarine
white chocolate
lamb, except in gyros ;)
goat, anything gamey actually
most lunch meat
creme filled desserts like cannolli (sp?)
butter creme frosting

[OCEllen]

Mint and anything with the least HINT of mint flavor or smell = almost an allergic reaction!
Miracle Whip. It would take a miracle for me touch it with a ten foot spoon!
Balut .

[arktos]

Looking at this thread, a lot of these items are unappetizing, weird or even gross, but I could probably manage to eat almost all of them, if I was really hungry. But one item I absolutely under-no-circumstances could EVER-EVER consider is-- Balut Egg. Just the thought of crunchy little bones, wet feathers and a tiny skull amidst slimy, proteagenous goop and micro claws has already caused me to lose my appetite for breakfast this morning, and maybe for the rest of the day.

[Bacardi1]

I don't have a long "refuse" list, & I'll normally try anything & everything once before making a decision. Unless it's something really unusual like insects, etc., etc., I think it's ridiculous to claim to hate something you've never even tried. That said, the items I don't eat that come to mind at the moment:

undercooked eggs
raw oysters
beef, calves, lamb, or pork liver, brains, or sweetbreads
veal
sea urchin roe
insects

[smaki]

chemicals (if unable to pronounce when read ingredients I shy away)
preservatives (try to minimize, hard to avoid, don't stress the few when do)
testicals (rocky mountain oyster beef or otherwise, tried and do not like the texture)
eel (had several times many ways and do not like)
pickled hard boiled egg (make good ones, simply have eaten my last)
foie gras (fatty goose liver sometimes duck)

Bacardi1, With you on trying something before we are able to form an opinion even when sounds strange. Not sure what you consider undercooked eggs.

Raw eggs can be dangerous so I also avoid. While do very much enjoy raw quail yolk on flying fish roe sushi maki - partially for the looks on the people's face around me when consume bite sized portions. For the unique flavor, I enjoy sunny side up eggs broken runny yolk stirred in my hash (fried potatoes with lots of a good meat - my favorite is a good smoked fish). Often make home made mayo and salad dressings with a yolk from a coddled egg dipped in boiled water for only about a minute (while do this less and less as prefer alternatives). Store bought mayo uses pasteurized eggs. Whipped then flavored cream cheese in moderation is better to me than mayo (Philadelphia has new flavored cooking creams). Also nice is flavored sour creams like with fresh chives and a few drops of liquid smoke. And the combinations possible boggle the mind. When read sour cream ingredients you want to see something like milk with enzymes . Daisy is a good brand. Darigold has a special natural version different than their more popular regular stuff thickened with corn starch. When read the ingredients can find other good sour cream. Guess eating enzymes or cultured ream is something have grown used to.

Do eat raw oysters on occasion. Not so many pacific ones as those picked for me are usually too big. Living in Orlando, FL traveling the south in the late 80s and early 90s ate many raw oysters. Mostly buckets of 60 at a time petite lightly steamed oysters, on a saltines, and with cocktail sauce. My favorite oyster bar ever is CJs South Orlando now closed just out of the International Airport on the main road (also often at the one in Melbourne, FL). Calico Jack's who was like Hooters but better. Hot pink with bright sky blue accent colored short shorts instead of orange. They could fly oysters through rafters to land in someones mouth crossed the room. Slogan was, "ONLY ONE THING TASTES BETTER THAN AN OYSTER ... BUT YOU DON'T EAT IT ON A CRACKER". When sat at a stool with the trough between you and the server could watch the antics and talk to the guys & gals working for tips. Or you could sit at your own more private very solid well made wood indoor picnic table. The servers could shuck a bucket of oysters with a smile while talking to you and have them lined up for you in minutes (faster than have seen nearly anywhere else). Great seafood stew. CJ's juice in a 20oz plastic pink cup tasty punch was $3.50 if recall and always a great deal at that as only needed a couple. Grilled Teriyaki Chicken sandwich to die for that was a one pound whole breast for $6 with a side making it a heck of a meal. Sad to hear no longer there as was once a neighborhood favorite place to eat when lived in Belle Isle, FL where did lots of boating on the lakes.

[Bacardi1]

Uh - what don't you understand re: "undercooked eggs"? Would the term "soft-cooked" eggs explain it better?

I don't like or eat eggs that aren't cooked to the well-done stage. That means no gooey whites or runny yolks. And yes - I have tried them; don't like them; refuse to eat them.

[Tripeler]

Liver in virtually any form.

[sandylc]

Fascinating! As are all similar threads. Texture is a huge thing in eating for many.....

[circustance]

Only thing I can think of is Miracle Whip. So revolting. Feel bad for people who grew up on it, thus becoming used to it. vile vile vile

[PenskeFan]

I agree with this one too. I despise Miracle Whip, and basically it is just ersatz mayo , and IMO far too sweet for what I use mayo for.

[Christina D]

Bananas

Not. Gonna. Happen.

[PenskeFan]

chickpeas!

[Jzone]

You.

[EWSflash]

Brains. I am not a zombie.

[mizzdee]

Mayo
Brains
Hominy
Rhutabegas(sic)
Potted meat

[gradishertom]

NO CILANTRO AND NO LEMON CHICKEN. YUCK!

[smaki]

Pickles produced in India. Old favorite brands including Steinfeld's Pickles, Mrs. Neusihin’s, and Nalley were moved to India not sure when. Is in very fine print on their jars. Refuse to have all that fuel spent to bring pickles to my table. Makes me mad Dean Foods in Wisconsin bought Steinfeld and Neusihin in 1999 then moved them to India when customers like me didn't notice. Not sure about the Nalley Pickles story. Recently figured it out and not sure when it happened. Feel lied to by trusted manufacturers. Bad quality, pickles often mushy taste bad and are not the same. Toss more jars at a time than used to in recent years wondering what happened buying terrible pickles because of familiar labels. My dollars will vote for local pickles to create local jobs. If unable to find an affordable better tasting option will ramp up production of my own home made pickles to make at least enough for my own annual use.

[Will Owen]

Balloon bread
Cats & dogs & horses - lumped these together because although I might enjoy the meat I refuse to try it.
Those grubs that primitive folks dig from under tree bark. Cooked might be okay …

I'm really having a hard time coming up with anything else. I don't LOVE a lot of the things on some lists, margarine for instance, but if that's what there is I'll consume it. "Eat what's put before you and say nothing," was the rule in our house, and contrary to all the warnings from child psychologists I grew up liking or tolerating almost everything.

[Fydeaux]

What is balloon bread?

[ttoommyy]

http://www.google.com/search?q=balloo...

[noodlepoodle]

Cellophane noodles (snotty looking)
Canteloupe
Fruit soup
Leeks (allergic)

[arktos]

No:

cooked carrot chunks
lima beans
sunnyside-up eggs with that grey pad thing underneath the yolk.
licorice
goat or mutton
sweet potatoes or yams
beets
pumpkin, outside of pumpkin pie
natto
balut egg
peanut brittle
brazil nuts
Mexican chorizo
organ meats, especially brains.
apples (except for the sour green kind)
raw meat, ala. 'tartare'.
snails
Boston baked beans.
Any casserole that has cream of mushroom soup in it.
bananas
melons, especially watermelons
and no Chile!!

[SteveRB]

sweet tea
fish eggs

[Fydeaux]

Beets
Yogurt
Tomato Soup [I dont care for tomatos in general, but I will tolerate them as an ingredient, as in guacamole. The thought of taking a bite out of a tomato as one would an apple is gag-inducing. But tomato soup will send me running for the nearest recepticle.]

[junescook]

Milk and its closely related ilk: cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese and everythig else that smells like milk.

[ttoommyy]

I have a friend who is like this junescook. He is like a vampire with garlic anytime the above-mentioned items cross his path. That is, except for ice cream. What about you?

[junescook]

Ice cream and aged type cheeses are fine. I guess it's the lactic acid that naueates me. That goes out with the whey in the cheese and is sweetened up by the sugar in the ice cream.

[Veggo]

During 4 decades of diving I have witnessed the depleted population of sharks of all types around the world and I won't eat these magnificent creatures.

[prima]

I won't eat sharks, either.

I also avoid tilapia, basa and catfish.

I won't eat horses, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, alligators, snake, turtles, insects, balut, sea urchin, raw green peppers or grapefruit.

[cleobeach]

Add tilapia to my list as well. It might be irrational but ever since we watched a show about how tilapia are farm-raised, we refer to them as crap fish. I have had alligator in the past and don't need to try it again.

The Long Island Ice Tea mention made me shudder. A bar in my college town was "famous" for their LITs. The chief ingredient was sour mix, never again. I cannot stand anything with commercial sour mix to this day.

[EWSflash]

I had alligator once, and it was absolutely succulent, crunchy, and awesome, amd perfectly cooked. But that's the only time I had it and it was for a dinner for the local Chaine de Rotisseurs, which turned out to be short-lived here. But the gator was really, really good. So were the venison and lamb. That was one hell of a dinner, now that I think about it

[MonMauler]

Mmmm. Shark fin soup. One of the best soups I've ever had. Only had it on business trips to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, though.

[dave_c]

I can only think of two foods I avoid...

Durian and Gazpacho.

Durian is the same as old rotting onions

Gazpacho... I guess I don't like cold soups and the taste is a little too raw/grassy tasting for me.

[scubadoo97]

Try a white gazpacho, Ajoblanco

[dave_c]

Thanks for the rec. I does sound better for me.

[ttoommyy]

"I guess I don't like cold soups"

There is something about cold soups I do not like either. There have been times when I have actually gagged eating gazpacho. Not exactly sure why since I love everything that goes into it. This happens to me with a bloody Mary as well. (I am not a picky eater and eat just about everything including offal...but not insects.) Might be some kind of early childhood thing for me. That's all I can think of.

[dave_c]

re: cold soups

Sometimes I want to go Top Chef on the restaurant when a cold soup is part of the menu. "You had all day to cook a dish and you present a blended cold soup? Where's the cooking here?" lol

[pdxgastro]

Yeah, remember when Vichyssoise was all the rage in the 70s? I'll take Gazpacho over Vichyssoise anyday. (It helps that I had some awesome Gaz in Barcelona)

[sandylc]

I think there must have been something wrong with the Durian we tried once....we all agreed that it had little smell and next to no taste. It came to us frozen whole - I wonder if the freezing process did something to it or if maybe it was picked extremely underripe for shipping????

[Jzone]

Freezing is the standard trick for keeping the smell at bay. In most SE Asian countries it is illegal to display durian in public unfrozen because of the smell.

[tcamp]

Brain and Long Island Iced Tea

[pdxgastro]

I used to live on Long Island and never even heard of a LIIT until I visited a friend in Albany!

[laliz]

Oysters
Crawfish
Cornbread
Corn Dogs
Okra
Miracle Whip
Pickled beets, I like beets, just not pickled (I don’t like pickled anything) (except pickles, I like pickles)
Mint
Lamb
Marshmallows
Pork Rinds
Fresh water fish (trout, pike, perch, etc)
Mussels
Black licorice
Kidney beans
Black eyed peas
Caviar
Beef or Pork Liver (although I do like chicken livers)
Duck
Old Bay Seasoning
Capers
Ginger
Smoked meats
Smoked poultry
Smoked cheeses
Smoked nuts
Smoked fish
Indian Food
Grits
Dr. Pepper
Pepsi
Guava
Manhattan Clam Chowder
Pearl Onions
Dill
Curry
Anchovies
Goat Cheese
Feta Cheese
Chipotle
Gazpacho
Jalapenos, stuffed poppers
Prunes
Sardines
Catfish
Orange/chocolate combination
Milk (whole or low fat)
Ranch Dressing
Pepperjack Cheese
Anything cooked with or containing wine and/or alcohol
Buffalo wings
Cajun spiced anything

[scubadoo97]

Wow!

[Harters]

Gosh. A list of what you do eat might have been shorter.

[laliz]

LOL
however: from the previous posters' lists

I DO eat
white chocolate
most lunch meats
cannolli
pudding
jello
custard
cherries
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Mushrooms
eggs over eatsy
Salads w/fruit in them
blue cheese
swiss cheese
Bananas
cottage cheese

[junescook]

No teeth?

[laliz]

If you would have been paying attention, you would have noticed I made that 2nd list from the previous posters' yuks.

I have all my teeth (excluding widsom teeth), thank you very much.

[EWSflash]

8^)

[Mutch2Do]

I was gonna ask the same thing! What "does" Laliz eat? To each his own though - enjoy each bite.....

[laliz]

some things I really enjoy

Artichokes
Avocado
Bacon
Barley
Beef (bbq beef ribs, steak, prime rib, cheeseburgers)
Blue Cheese
Brick Cheese
Broccoli
California Roll
Cauliflower
Celery
Cheddar Cheese
Chicken (strongly prefer dark meat)
Cottage Cheese
Clams
Crab legs
Cranberries
Cream Cheese
Dates (especially Medjool)
Eggplant
Eggs
Escarole
Garlic
Granola
Greek Yogurt
Green Beans
Gouda
Gruyere
Ham
Halibut
Italian Sausage
Jicama
Kielbasa
Leeks
Wax Beans
Lentils
Lemon
Mayonnaise
Meatloaf/Meatballs
Mushrooms
Olives
Onions
Oranges
Parmesan Cheese
Peas (tiny petite peas, not canned)

Pecorino Romano
Red, Yellow, and Orange bell Peppers
Pineapple
Pork
Quinoa
Quark
Ricotta
Ricotta salata
Shrimp
Spinach
Split Peas
Swordfish
Worcestershire Sauce
Radishes
Roasted Beets (just not pickled beets)
Sweet Potatoes
Salami
Pistachios
Peanuts
Endive
Pecans
Marcona Almonds
Almonds
Cashews
Swiss Cheese
Sausages
T Bone Steak
Peanut Butter
Cherries
Apricots
Peaches
Apples
Romaine, Iceberg, Butter, Red Leaf, Boston, etc. Lettuce
Leeks
Shallots
Pine nuts
White Beans
Wax Beans
Black Beans (especially refried)
Sunflower seeds
Hot Dogs (w/casing)
Salsa
Mustard
Ketchup
Butter
Coarse Kosher Salt
Fresh Ground Pepper
Cinnamon
Vanilla
Chocolate (prefer dark or white, milk chocolate not so much)
Strawberries
Boysenberries
Raspberries
Tangerines (especially Pixies)
Tuna
Pepperoni
Garlic Bologna
Turkey
Bread Stuffing (just not cornbread)
Lime
Figs
Pumpkin
Water Chestnuts
Asparagus
Garbanzos
Squash (acorn, butternut, zucchini, yellow)
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Sour cream
Whipped cream
Vanilla
Grapes ([prefer red seedless)
Pears
Pomegranate
Bananas
Barley
Wheat Berries
Oatmeal
Cabbage
Carrots
chicken liver pate

[smaki]

laliz, nice list of great ingredients. Some great alone, most when prepared and combined right make yummy food. Do you have a favorite dish or recipe?

[laliz]

thx, but I was just responding to the ones who have to comment negatively.

I like a wide variety of foods and cuisines ~~ hard to choose any favorites; but I love to cook for other people. That is my passion. No one favorite recipe; but I treasure the techniques and tips my Sicilian MIL gave me, especially for prepping veggies. I learned so much from her.

[libstewart]

Good lord! I thought feeding my husband was tough!

[hill food]

you realize if you ever need to spend time in the US South and Southeast you may well risk starvation

[jhopp217]

I'm assuming this is a joke

[DougRisk]

I am a little curious as to why someone with a list this long would visit chowhound.com. This is not to say that you are not welcome, but I am a little puzzled.

[ttoommyy]

I thought that also DougRisk and was going to post something similar but then I thought of all the many other foods that are not on that list and they obviously far outweighs what laliz does not eat.

[DougRisk]

Sure thing. I was actually going to ask the question to someone who posted previously to laliz, but was a little afraid of the judgment that I was being "judgmental".

[laliz]

Just because I know what I don't like???

What on my list is required eating??

I really have tried everything, I am just specific and know what I don't like. I don't think I'm unusual.

[hill food]

I'm not judging. I find some of these lists internally contradictory, but it's not my plate and palate in question. god knows I have my freak show (as categorized by others) going on.

[Bacardi1]

WOW!!!! You must be an absolute blast to cook for - especially as a dinner guest.

[laliz]

good piling on; so witty and original!

[DougRisk]

Laliz, I may have started that pile-on, and I definitely did not mean to. I tried to say it in a friendly manner, but maybe I should not have said anything at all.

What got me thinking that way was, in part, this:

==================================
Lamb
Fresh water fish (trout, pike, perch, etc)
Mussels
Duck
Anchovies
Goat Cheese
Sardines
Anything cooked with or containing wine and/or alcohol
==================================

That part alone would seem to prevent you from eating in the South of France. Or India (from your mention of Indian Food) Of course, there is no rule that says you need to. And, personally, I have never been to either place.

I hope that what I had said was not too heavy handed.

[laliz]

Thank you very much, what a nice post.

The wine/alcohol thing is because I am a recovering alcoholic (21 years) but still extremely sensitive to the smell of wine and beer especially.

I have a vegetarian daughter who loves Indian food ~~ and a son who lived in a frat house for two years at Berkeley, where much wine and beer was consumed. I didn't stunt their development with my personal preferences. But neither of them eat Lamb, Fresh water fish (trout, pike, perch, etc), Mussels, Duck, Anchovies. Sardines (although they did eat smelts when they were in their high chair, Sicilian grandmother). I don't know about goat cheese.

Thanks again.

[hill food]

yeah didn't mean to ding you either, just there were a lot of foods on the list that are hard to avoid in certain areas of the US. please never take anything I say very seriously (unless I'm praising something)

[laliz]

I know that I wouldn't fit in the southern eastern part of our country for a lot of reasons, food being one of them. I am, as they say, "of other than Southern extraction (bless her heart)"

no harm no foul. Thanks.

[emmekin]

I thought I was the only one who hated guava!

[Janet from Richmond]

organ meats, except in pate
cottage cheese
eggs when the yolk and white are not mixed together (poached, fried, boiled, deviled)
Mayo from a jar

[jbsiegel]

Ha ha! When I first read this, I thought "Who on Earth eats mayo straight from the jar?" (like directly from jar to mouth). Then I realized that you must mean you make your own?

[Janet from Richmond]

I don't use it at home & if I had to would make my own. I am fine with most homemade/restaurant made aolis (I know that is misspelled) but a schmear or plop of jarred mayo is one of the grossest things on earth.

[DunkTheBiscuit]

I have major texture issues so I won't normally touch anything that's jellied or slimy or appears to be. That means most shellfish are out, as is tripe. I can make an exception for the jelly round the margins of a good pork pie but not if there's too much of it. I also have texture issues with saurkraut and other fermented vegetables.

Frustrating, because my mind says "give it a another go" but my instincts say "nope! nuh-uh" with some things, so if I've tried something once and it's had the wrong texture, I'll gag at the idea of eating it even in other forms or cooked differently.

[Sue in Mt P]

Bananas. Puked when I was 2.

[jmcarthur8]

Grape juice. Puked when I was 9.

[jbsiegel]

Kahlua - puked in college - LOL!

[Becca Porter]

Boone's Farm. Does any one not puke with that crap?

[mpjmph]

Same here, only I was 4.

[HandPay]

Same for me, ate most of a stalk of baby bananas when I was about 4, puked and never ate one again (40 plus years later)..... even the smell turns my stomach today.

[Laurenjo28]

Raw apples. Puked in 2nd grade while the class was making apple pie. The length of the hallway to the bathroom was a mess!!

[pdxgastro]

Kidney beans. Unpleasant experience one Lenten Friday. Have not touched them since. Have no problem with other beans. Don't want a reminder of that event. Sad, really.

[Terrieltr]

Pineapple. Puked when I was 6. Just the thought of it makes me gag.

[jbsiegel]

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Soft shell crab (something about eating that "shell" and all...)
Mushrooms
Liver
Eggs with runny yolks
Salads with fruit in them
Blue cheese
Swiss cheese
Veal
Squab
Duck
...and probably a whole lot more which I just can't think of right now!

[southernitalian]

Love, love, love blue and Swiss cheese and I'm a big fan of runny eggs but I hate it when I'm looking at the deescription of a salad on a menu and see things like cranberries or orange wedges. Just...don't.

[njmarshall55]

Food i can't recognize nor pronounce correctly, soft shell crab.

[jhopp217]

Blasphemy...haha, jk, What don't you like about softshell crab? Just asking....I have only had it a handful of times and it's heavenly

[njmarshall55]

I was first aware of SSC when I was sitting in Solomon's Pier Restaurant. A fellow diner (different table) ordered it and when he picked up the sandwich and the legs fell out the back...I just about lost it. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE all kinds of sea food...filets, shellfish, you name it. But for some reason, I just can't get past the look of it.

[jhopp217]

I don't think I refuse to eat anything, but I strongly dislike cherries. About the only food I really despise to the point I would have to be offered money to eat.

[EWSflash]

I will gladly take any and all cherries off your hands.

[jhopp217]

Wow, aside from fat free salad dressing and for the most part processed lunch meat, you named my favorite things. Beef hearts, white choc, lamb or mutton and I don't like desserts, but will have a cannoli once in a while

[beevod]

Immigrants.

[cleobeach]

organ meat
most lunch meat
-------------------------------------
ditto to the above

Add anything with a pudding, custard or jello consistancy.

[redfish62]

Insects

[kmcarr]

redfish, do you only exclude the superclass Hexapoda (true insects) or all of the phylum Arthropoda. If you only refused to eat Hexapoda that would leave open the possibility of eating spiders, centipedes, etc. But if you drew the line higher up the taxonomic tree you would miss out on subphylum Crustacea and the deliciousness of lobster, shrimp and crab.

[Not really a serious question. Sometimes I just have to exercise my inner taxonomic geek.]

[lilmomma]

EEEEEWWWWW!!!! to al of that. I now add insects to my list.

[mpjmph]

That's why I'm unwilling to rule out an entire class of animals. I love crustaceans, so I open to the idea that some of their "cousins" could be pretty tasty...

[magiesmom]

licorice, fennel, root bear, white chocolate, jellyfish, most canned vegetables

[southernitalian]

All of these things plus eel, basil and raw oysters. I wish I could eat raw oysters. I don't 'refuse" to eat them. They just gross me out!

[jbsiegel]

Agreed on the raw oysters and the eel....to slimy/squirmy... Don't do catfish etiher - just because of what it looks like alive...those whisksers...ick! I have done escargot which was really good (and would eat it again)...guess I've got over what they looked like!

[Harters]

I think tripe is the only thing I will seriously avoid. I won't generally eat foie gras but have eaten it on occasions where it's been an integral part of a dish that I otherwise wanted to try (for instance, on the set menu at a Michelin 3* restaurant, then rated third best in the world).

I certainly eat and enjoy everything on the OP's list. Well, "enjoy" isn't the word I'd use for margarine or white chocolate but I've no problem eating it. FWIW, we eat lamb more than any other meat.

[foiegras]

I'll take all your share of you-know-what.

There are definitely organ meats I can live without, but eliminating them altogether would be unthinkable ...

I too dislike buttercream. I will eat a little, but scrape most off to the side. It makes for a very unattractive plate, I admit.

[Bacardi1]

Oh goodness - I'll second the dislike of "buttercream", but then I've only had commercial bakery buttercream, which isn't made with "butter". Have heard that homemade buttercream can be ambrosial.

[sandylc]

Real buttercream is delicious in small amounts. One of my peeves is when people call powdered sugar and/or shortening concoctions "buttercream".

[Terrieltr]

I agree with the small amounts part. I love real buttercream, but even the real stuff in large amounts is a little too much. If used on a cake, there needs to more cake than frosting.

[LabLady]

Canned mushrooms. Ew.

Maybe 'refuse' is too strong of a word. I would avoid eating canned mushrooms if at all possible, but if it came down to life or death, I wouldn't refuse.

[Chemicalkinetics]

Actually I eat everything you have listed.

For me, I refuse to eat:

dogs,
dolphins,
elephants,
....etc

[hill food]

soylent brown or red. the green type I'm just okey-doke with.

[ttoommyy]

Just watched that movie on Turner Classics last week for the umpteenth time. Did you know that...gasp...

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE????!!!!?????!!!?????!!!!!!

[John E.]

Dang!!! Did you have to post this??? I was hoping to see this movie, now it's shot to hell...

[ttoommyy]

Oh well.

[Chemicalkinetics]

What is the name of the movie. I knew hill food was implying something.

[ttoommyy]

Soylent Green!

[Chemicalkinetics]

Oh, that is the name? Thanks.

[melpy]

That actually happened to me. I did not know the twist and right before we watched it my boyfriend tells me the end and I don't believe him until we watched the whole thing. I was so angry and it ruined the movie for me.

[John E.]

I used to post on another online forum as Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston's character) but I don't think anyone ever got he reference. I remember thinking this movie was the greastest ever when I was a kid. What young boy wouldn't?

[hill food]

nah it wasn't the 'greastest' but it may have been one of the greasiest.

different movie but who can forget from that same era Roscoe Lee Browne shooting guns and yelling from his rolling micro-fridge "Fish! Plankton! Protein from the SEA!"

yeah food-based dystopias. deserves its own thread, no?

[ttoommyy]

"different movie but who can forget from that same era Roscoe Lee Browne shooting guns and yelling from his rolling micro-fridge "Fish! Plankton! Protein from the SEA!""

Box from "Logan's Run!" Watched that the other day too. I saw both of these movies in the theater when they were first released and I still love them to this day. Guess it's a "guy thing."

"yeah food-based dystopias. deserves its own thread, no?"

Yes!

[John E.]

I remember seeing Logan's Run at the local drive-in theater. When it was on TV the other night I recorded it but have not gone back to watch it. That's one of the movies from my youth that I have never seen since. I wonder why it has never made it to television before now? (At least not that I noticed before now).

[ttoommyy]

It's been on Turner a few times now. It's cheesy in production but has a good story and Peter Ustinov's performance in the last part of the movie is wonderful.

[hill food]

I tried to pitch an internal marketing thing using that as a slogan: "We're Made of PEOPLE! (and it was an AE firm that had done a lot of the LA buildings used in those craptastic movies so I had all the stock shots)

nobody liked it.

[silvergirl]

When my oldest child was 2, he ran out of our office where he was unsupervised on the computer ( yes, I'm an awful parent) and said, "Soylent Green is people!". To this day, I have no idea what he was doing in there.

[ttoommyy]

Hahahahahaha!!!

[thegforceny]

You don't think this thread of 891 replies has most things covered?
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/572886

[ipsedixit]

Well, maybe this OP wants to talk about food that you refuse to eat even for no money?

[Maximilien]

Margarine (for no rational reasons).

M.