What no Chicken Fries? ;) There are some new foods out there, I've got to try these two types of fries, asap.

I suspect chicken fries are just like the chicken nuggets
that are made from that pink goo, only squirted out in a
different shape.

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~Sue~

Any thing that tastes as bad as bell peppers
can't possibly be considered food!

Funny that you mention that. I can't stand the taste
of a bell pepper if I eat a bell pepper (raw or
cooked). But I love the flavor they add to whatever
they touch.

Does that make sense?

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~Sue~

Bell peppers don't make sense!

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David you do not stand alone.

Eric dislikes cooked orange foods such as cooked carrots and cooked sweet potatoes. He will eat raw carrots and raw orange peppers. I think he may be especially sensitive to the taste of beta carotene and the cooking process makes those compounds more detectable. Perhaps there are compounds in some vegetables that you are particularly sensitive to?

It's not just orange, it's pretty much everything. I actually used to at least tolerate carrots, but not so much anymore. Dripping with butter, maybe.

Are there any vegetables you like raw that you do not like cooked?

Lettuce tends to get kind of gross cooked. And in small quantities it has no nutritional value, either positive or negative.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I do not care for raw tomatoes. As Hunt's, Hein's or sauce is just fine.

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Lettuce tends to get kind of gross cooked.

Grilled radicchio is delicious. So is grilled escarole.

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I do not care for raw tomatoes. As Hunt's, Hein's or sauce is just fine.

I don't like tomatoes unless they've been processed into spaghetti or pizza sauce. Just plain tomato sauce isn't good enough, nor is soup.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Bell pepper has me thinking about a Western Omelet. With onion, ham and cheese.

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My favorite raw vegetables are carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, and green bell peppers.

I love radicchio, chicory, and curly endive salads too.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I do miss the Soupersalad restaurant. 75 feet of cold salad buffet. Everything one could want on a salad plate. I have made many a monster salads. Then the smaller soup and potato buffet. Your choice of regular or sweet potato wrapped in foil. Six different soups that changed depending on what day it was. Cornbread, gingerbread and blueberry muffin. I'll skip the pizza and soft bread sticks. I just wish it did not go out of business at that location.

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75 feet of cold salad buffet

Many moons ago, there used to be a Rax restaurant here that had a crazy salad bar, and it was reasonably priced, too.

I love salad bars, but I stay away from the stuff with sauce, anything wet, as most charge by weight.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My wallet thanks me for not doing the takeout option. It would have been expensive in the long run.

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I do miss the Soupersalad restaurant. 75 feet of cold salad buffet. Everything one could want on a salad plate. I have made many a monster salads. Then the smaller soup and potato buffet. Your choice of regular or sweet potato wrapped in foil. Six different soups that changed depending on what day it was. Cornbread, gingerbread and blueberry muffin. I'll skip the pizza and soft bread sticks. I just wish it did not go out of business at that location.

The closest to that here, is Pizza Hut in Barstow CA, though I've only ever ordered Pizza and soda from there, though they do have a salad bar and lots of seating, most of which I can't sit at. :(

I think I know the feeling. I am not so little around the belly button myself.

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The closest to that here, is Pizza Hut in Barstow CA, though I've only ever ordered Pizza and soda from there, though they do have a salad bar and lots of seating, most of which I can't sit at. :(

I think I know the feeling. I am not so little around the belly button myself.

Are Pizza Hut serving pizza?
Once I ate something that looked like a pizza at Pizza Hut.
Turned out to be heated bread with some toppings and the dough wasn't baked and fermented enough. Burp:(

I am not so little around the belly button myself.

I have a tiny belly button, it's the package it comes in!

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I am not so little around the belly button myself.

I have a tiny belly button, it's the package it comes in!

Lol.

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The closest to that here, is Pizza Hut in Barstow CA, though I've only ever ordered Pizza and soda from there, though they do have a salad bar and lots of seating, most of which I can't sit at. :(

I think I know the feeling. I am not so little around the belly button myself.

Are Pizza Hut serving pizza?
Once I ate something that looked like a pizza at Pizza Hut.
Turned out to be heated bread with some toppings and the dough wasn't baked and fermented enough. Burp:(

The Hut is what I consider the minimum standard for edible pizza. Good pizza will be better.

Come to think of it, if I go to a salad bar, I will have quite a bit of shredded carrot -- gotta have something in there besides lettuce and maybe spinach leaves. I'll also put in some very tiny bits of broccoli and cauliflower, and a good dose of green onion, or less other onion. (But I also have lots of egg, cheese, ham, bacon, etc., and lots of dressing -- lately I tend toward a mix of ranch and honey mustard.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I do miss the Soupersalad restaurant. 75 feet of cold salad buffet. Everything one could want on a salad plate. I have made many a monster salads. Then the smaller soup and potato buffet. Your choice of regular or sweet potato wrapped in foil. Six different soups that changed depending on what day it was. Cornbread, gingerbread and blueberry muffin. I'll skip the pizza and soft bread sticks. I just wish it did not go out of business at that location.

Sounds very much like http://www.souplantation.com/ Perhaps they were bought out or changed names?

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The Hut is what I consider the minimum standard for edible pizza. Good pizza will be better.

Unfortunately I no longer consider any Pizza from the big chains as an edible item. All of them just seem to be oil and grease, massive amounts of tough flat-bread that isn't cooked piled with an extra salty imitation tomato paste and you need a microscope to find any toppings.

Give me any Italian Ristorante pizza over that frozen microwave crap any day!
This is pizza:

Topped with cheese, pepperoni, Italian sausage, onion, bell pepper, mushroom and black olive. Notice how the toppings cover the surface. Notice how the edge has bubbled and formed with scorch marks from a pizza oven. This can't happen if they get the pizza to your house in under 30 minutes, because it takes too long in a real oven to have any time left to deliver it that fast!

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Any thing that tastes as bad as bell peppers
can't possibly be considered food!

Funny that you mention that. I can't stand the taste
of a bell pepper if I eat a bell pepper (raw or
cooked). But I love the flavor they add to whatever
they touch.

Does that make sense?

I grew green bell peppers in the Garden I'd cleared in the backyard(I'd grown beefsteak tomatoes too, with corn & yellow crookneck squash), Mom would hollow them out and stuff them with what amounted to meatloaf, tasted fine to Me, I also like them on pizza, I at first didn't like black olives, but I got used to them, I think some veggies are an acquired taste, I was fed veggies when I was a child, I knew I liked meat a bit better, that could be the Neandertal genes at work there or maybe not, the jury is still out on the Neandertal genes, not whether some have people have them or not, but as to what they do, if anything that is.

HA! I did the DNA test with 23andme.com and was told that I have a
higher percentage of neanderthal DNA than the average person. Higher
that average, in case you're wondering, is 3%.

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~Sue~