6 Weird Food Facts About Me!
Filed Under techniques, thoughts | Posted on January 16, 2007
*cue Sally Field ‘You like me, you really like me!* 
Like her, I am answering this question from the food angle, so here goes…
1. The quickest way to make me gag is to prepare any egg dish where the white is clearly visible. The only way I can tolerate egg white is hardboiled or as a meringue. I consider any other method vile and unpalatable. When making omelettes I beat and beat and beat to destroy all those yucky streaks. If i discern them in the final product I will not eat it.
2. As a child I could not stand any semblance of meat fat, skin, cartilage, or gristle. They made me retch and I called them ‘googoo’. I am now 30 and I still think of them as ‘googoo’ and am not a huge meat eater as a result unless it is filleted, minced, or boneless.
3. Tabasco sauce is the Koolaid of pepper sauces. I could drink it straight from the bottle and sometimes did in college. (They used to put these mini bottles of it on the tables sometimes).
4. Cheese and sweet pickle sandwiches were the best school lunches my mom would pack for me. Love is a cheese and sweet pickle sandwich.
5. The sweet pickles seem to have vanished from the supermarket shelves so we have transferred our love of the green and yellow (subliminal Jamaican propaganda? :P) to cheese and bhagi sandwiches. Love is a Cheese and Bhagi sandwich.
Bhagi (also spelled bhaji) for those not in the know is what we in Trinidad call the amaranth plant. It is used extensively in cooking here, usually as an accompaniment to curried dishes or in callaloo.
From Wikipedia:
Amaranth greens, also called Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (Simplified Chinese: ?®‚Ä?‚Ä??®¬è?ì; pinyin: xi?ɬ†nc?ɬ†i), callaloo, tampala, or quelite, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions. They are a very good source of vitamins including vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, riboflavin, and folate, and dietary minerals including calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, and manganese. Because of its valuable nutrition, some farmers grow amaranth today. However their moderately high content of oxalic acid inhibits the absorption of calcium, and also means that they should be avoided or eaten in moderation by people with kidney disorders, gout, or rheumatoid arthritis.[citation needed] Reheating cooked amaranth greens is often discouraged, particularly for consumption by small children, as the nitrates in the leaves can be converted to nitrites, similarly to spinach.
] On a totally random note at the end of the school year here in Trinidad the last week of school was usually a free for all. Teachers are busy grading end-of-term exams and students are allowed to read magazines and play games ‘quietly’ in the classroom to facilitate grading. One of my happier memories was the end-of-term informal UNO ‘tournaments’. I heart UNO! Anyway, whenever a player only had green and yellow cards it was referred to as ‘curry and bodi’ as in
Person 1: “Ay yuh have any red?”
Person 2: “Nah dread, is only curry and bodi”
*** Bodi is what we call Yard Long Beans by the way
6. I am scared of compote. I think it is th3 evil. My best friend Lynn of RedSheepCrafts.com believes that she convince me otherwise, I shall wait and see.
So there you have it. Six odd food facts about moi I hope you are not too alarmed
Now it is my turn to tag 6 people in term Well it only makes sense that the first 5 ‘tagees’ would be my top 5 commenters
1. Lilandra of Where’s my DSLR? (’d’ title always changin’ :P)
2. Marsha of So Epicurious it Hurts
3. Chennette of Lifespan of a Chennette
4. Burekaboy of Is that my Bur?ɬ©ka?
5. Boo (feel free to reply here or in your blog)
For my 6th tag I have decided on a very intriguing and ?ɬºber-serious young man. I am really curious to see if he has an ‘oddball’ side at all I always thought ‘oddball’ was a key component of chefology! I hope I am not wrong…
So Aidan of Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef … TAG! You’re it 
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wow sarina, you ARE odd! (HEHE). seriously though, i think everyone has some weirdness when it comes to food things.
you guys have such interesting names for things down there ;P “bodi” for longbeans? i thought baji was also called callaloo - or is that just the name of the dish itself?
googoo?!! i love googoo! LOL. specially the chicken googoo (triangular gristly gelatinous part of it). googoolicious, if you ask me. i think you need to contact oxford and have this word added. LOL
Burekaboy - Bodi is longbeans yes, which reminds me I have to write up my saim post in your honour
… Bhaji the plant is also callaloo the plant.. i said so above 
There is no dish called bhaji but there is a dish called callaloo … hehehe
googoo =
Curried bhagi? Never heard of that before?¢‚Ǩ¬¶
Hassan - for real? you never had bhagi, rice and dhal? I have that way too many times a month… I’ve had it in vegetarian roti more than a few times too… Which part of Trini you hiding?
I eat bhagi but not with curry in it. Think about it, bhagi is not cooked with curry. It may be eaten with something else curried but it does not contain curry.
Hassan - True. I’ll edit to clarify
no, here i was referring to word callaloo and not bhaji; my bad, i wasn’t clear.(but there are quite a few indian dishes called bhajis which are different kinds of vegetables prepared in a specific manner as well as fritter type things commonly known as onion bhaji — amongst other kinds that can be substituted).
Burekaboy - uh ok
nice to know 
Thanks for the tag Nikki…I will do the weird things list…
Even though I am comfortable with meat and preparing it. I really have to NOT think about it too closely when I am touching raw meat, or I gross myself out hahah
Marsha - me too!!!
And I don’t know how you cooked that fish with it watching yuh the whole time 
Girl I aint tell yuh I love fish head!
I was the only one who used to eat it at home but like they find it looking good when I eat it so they start too. It does taste so good! Believe me yuh missin out!
Oh yeh..I’m doing the Nigella (my version) fried chicken
Marsha - ARRRRGGGGHHHH *runs screaming out the room* …. *pops head back in and sees the word Nigella* *runs off again*
Yu don’t like Nigella???
But what de…?!!!!!
Marsha - she’s an evil jammette
Hi Sarina,
I remember picking bhagi from the backyard for my mom to cook. It grew wild like a weed. It had sort off a purplish/pinkish tinge to its leaves.
Helen - HI!
Did you have fun stripping the stems? That is my favorite part 
It used to grow HUGE and wild in the ravines near where I grew up too 
Ours weren’t huge. Now, only after you mentioned it, I remember having to peel the skin off the stems. Ahhh, fond memories of being a kid. Sooo, long ago. I have never seen bhagi here in Canada but then again I have never really searched it out.
Nah Nah You have to tell me what she do and when…is because she marrid that Satchi and Satchi fella?
Marsha - lolziez… look how you in this bacchanal thing
Horning her dying husband is so not cool. Plus she don’t season her meat and wiggling her boobies and lashes at me is a major turnoff. Cook some damn food. And put salt. But I guess if that’s what’s been working for her why stop now.
Marsha - and her accent… gord… ex lax anyone
Not that I feel strongly or anything
Yuh have meh rollin’!!! well ah did find dat the marriage come fast after de death, but ah didn’t know about de hornin!
She dont season, is true, but she does give meh ideas and I does season it up.
What ah want yuh to notice is that she does mainly wear black (she lose weight recently so she start with some colors) But the camera does be hazy on she to hide she lower body….
She chirren does look like the dead husband
i will have to think about that to do it! i can not think of anything weird off hand but maybe that is just cause i am used to me
You’ll have to be patient - I’ll respond as soon as I can. Got to go to sleep now and get up early for college tomorrow.
Marsha - yes gyul. De first man alive. De first man on he deathbed and she datin’ de next ‘moneyed papi’… and yuh know them situations done already doh happen overnight… so who knows how long that pipeline was fillin
then she have the nerve to say ‘oh he gave his blessing’ .. the man dyin’ what he supposed to feel and say? yuh clearly showed your priorities aight? dat just get me vex!!!! nah nah i can’t forget that!
Yuh know I notice is mostly boobz and eyez they focus on. I feel she have some middle aged hips there. So the camera pullin’ out the Barbara Walters filter? TOO FUNNY!!!
Yuh see when chirren look like yuh dead husband.. dat is KARMA!!!>.. look at Courtney Love child… don’t get me started on COURTNEY LOVE!!!! she and Nigella should start a book club
Boo - Well let’s not use weird
How about things that are ‘totally boo’ 
I went with things that seemed to be ‘very me’ 
Trig - in the words of Louis Armstrong, we have alllll the tiiiiime in the world
I thought college was Brit for high school? 
EW
I hate…what
27 comments
so long to scroll/read
I forget what
Now must scroll up and hope I find it…and remember when I scroll back down.
Life is hard.
Almost got distracted because I hate bhaji but I knew that wasn’t it.
I HATE TABASCO.
It’s yucky :-p
I want real pepper sauces.
I hate that those American style places come down here and all they have is Tabasco. They should have some real pepper sauce bottles in the back. This Tabasco really bugs me.
Especially when you ask if they have pepper sauce and they say yes and bring out Tabasco.
missed me?
Lilandra! -
wondered where you were 
Figured you were filling up people’s children’s heads with ideaz an ting 
Tabasco is a joke. They bring out Tabasco when you ask them for PEPPER SAUCE? Lawd help me 
You hate bhaji?
you ain’t easy lolz 
Is easy to overcook… it’s not nice overcooked… but it’s heaven with CHEESE 
you are hysterical! cheese and pickles? what kind of cheese did your mom use? it sounds like the cravings of a pregnant woman!
Rachel - Cheddar cheese!!
Oh it’s sooooo good 
Salty, sweet, chewy and creamy 
You can’t lose 
I eat spinach and feta…:-p
I ate Tabasco “willingly” once in a Friendly’s. I was in school and had this craving for fries smothered in ketchup, mustard and pepper. They brought out the Tabasco (I expected this) and went searching for mustard. Needless to say roommate and friend were amused.
I noticed the tag…will get around to it.
Oh, I told my students they are deserving of respect too.
Lilandra - yeah! Iz a ‘po man’s spinach and feta
Which is funny cos I figure spinach and feta was po’ man food at some point too 
OMG! FRIENDLY’S!!! I forgot about Friendly’s 
Oh the flashback 
And it was a Friendly’s in Hadley. I don’t think I ever went to the one in Northampton. But I did go to the bookstore across the road. I like that bookstore.
*sniffle*
lord…work
I eh get round to answering your 5 questions yet, but I home again after days of long 12-14 hour meetings, so there is hope! And of course for the weird food things - I have many weird food things…
and YAY I have been tagged!
Lilandra - I miss that town
did you ever go to Herrells… the root beer floats were INSANE@!! 
Chennette - Tagz r luv
I don’t like root beer! :-p
But, I think I took mom to Herrells.
I had their mint chocolate fudge sauce once…awesome awesome awesome.
But I did like Bart’s in Amherst (much closer than Herrells) and I bought…um breakfast…etc alot there.
I miss Amherst too. I miss Northampton too because I know there were so much things I hadn’t found yet. A new chocolate shop opened before I left. It sold solid thick chocolate drinks.
eep
grrrrr
lolziez
I didn’t know that you knew NoHo Sarina. I don’t get there as often as I like, but it’s only an hour or so away from here. My friend was going to school at UMass, and we’d go visit her and hang out in Northampton. There’s a really great Mexican place there that I can’t remember the name of just now.
I went to Smith Honey
I used to love Cha Cha Cha but i heard they deteriorated and eventually closed… damn shame… loved taipai tokyo too 
Cha Cha Cha closed?
I wonder if I knew that.
I had awesome fish tacos there once!!!
she HORN her dying husband???
i went umass
i don’t think i ever went to a single-sex school!
and their quesadillas! and that kinda mango chutney salsa thing they had in the little bowl… DEEVINE!!
except for prep school is only single sex i know
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_Lawson#Personal_life
oh lord
see
i wish people would just not publicize celebrities’ lives
such a waste of space and time…(i don’t mean you…because i remember details like this too and it annoys me)
i’m happy to know she don’t cook good
gah!
gag!
tsk tsk tsk
i went once
*sniffle*
me eh care. me glad to know. i am an E-holic
AWW
oh well
why does it keep saying comments won’t nest below this level yet i see nesting!
E-holic as in E!??
You and Chennette!!!
oh i see it now
yikes my hand is cramping
*worried*
daz meh gyul
it teachin yuh not to challenge the nestin
Voila! My Weird Food Facts, although I only tagged 3 people…
http://chennette.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/6-weird-food-facts-about-me/
WHEE
o lord!
addicts!
she say oh i only watch the red carpet
HA!
loads of people get married and divorced and married and divorced and if a forum i visit don’t post it i don’t know
but she..!
haha
i think we talk too much for the nesting
mine:
http://lilandra.com/blog/archives/2007/01/21/6-weird-food-facts-about-me/
AHHH Yes..De Passion of Nigella!