Never tell your family you hate Thai food!

[Will Carry]

Ever since I told my family that I didn't care for Thai food they have been on a crusade to change my mind! "Oh you're just not eating at the right restaurants. I know a little place....." or " OH you're just no ordering the right dish. Try THIS....."

They have been forcing Thai food down my throat for several years. We have been to all of their "special" Thai restaurants, eaten all the Thai dishes and left these places with a burning mouth. I just don't care for it. There is stuff in those dishes that I can't identify, sticks and twigs. Why does one have to suffer PAIN to nourish one's body?


Last night after a hard week at work I came home and my wife had gotten what I thought was Chinese take out. I took one bite and knew what it was. I put the plate down and went into the kitchen and made a grilled cheese sandwich and of course my wife's feelings were hurt! I just can't win........

 

[arjay]

Im glad to hear I'm not the only one lol.A little Thai or Chinese or Japanese is nice,but give me a steak or a good pizza every now and then.

 

[LVSteve]

It could be worse, this could be about Brussels Sprouts.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Throw me in that briar patch! I love Thai food! Learned to eat it during the South East Asia events. Can even make some, usually red curry.
Thai curry ain't nothing but chilii served with rice!
You can go eat Thai with me anytime. I'll just leave you in the truck!

 

[BaldEagle1313]

For me it's just too spicy. My system can't handle it. I can do Chinese if it's Mandarin or Cantonese, but Szechuan is too much. Same with Indian food full of curry. Heck, my brother's chili is too much sometimes. He'll eat stuff that I can't handle and put in more chili powder.

 

[jeffsmith]

ANY Cuisine Properly Made
Doesn't have to be HOT to be Good

 

[Chipmunk6]

Do the Thai steam their brocoli too??
Chipmunk6

 

[Mule Packer]

My daughter and her family came up yesterday to visit for the weekend. She's been on me for the last several hours about eating sushi. I keep telling her that I've had it...more than once...and it's one of those foods that for me, instead of getting smaller the more you chew it, it gets bigger!

She's been saying, "Oh, you probably haven't had it fixed right..." etc. Balderdash!!! I've had it a couple times in Hawaii and a sweet little Oriental lady brought a platter of it to work once. Sorry, but every time I've tried it, I get an automatic gag reflex. I guess I'm just not much on raw fish.

Why do people think they are doing you a favor by making you eat junk you don't like??

I'm with arjay. Give me a good steak anytime.

 

[quneur]

It depends upon how you are brought up. Steak is good but pretty bland if you are used to Chinese food. Thai & Mexican food I can give or take. I won't go out of my way too eat it. I prefer Chinese or Japanese food. Some Korean meat dishes are good.

Sushi is a roll with nori (seaweed) wrapped rice. The term for eaten raw fish is sashimi - a delicacy for me and one of my favorites. Poki is sashimi mixed with a different type of seaweed flavored with sesame seeds (and oil, I believe) dipped in Chinese hot mustad, long onions...I need to make some.

 

[Beemerguy53]

A friend who lives in Colorado loves Thai food. Every time he comes East we have to go to his favorite Thai restaurant in Washington, D.C. I've tried Thai food, but as others have noted, it is just too darned spicy.

I don't understand folks who tell you, when you say you don't like a particular kind of food, that you just haven't had it cooked right or something like that. At my age, I am old enough to know my palate and my tastes. I don't like real spicy stuff, I don't like things that are raw, and I don't eat anything that could eat me.

 

[arjay]

Indian is pretty good,but some of it needs a lot of yoghurt to cool it down.

 

[4011]

I don't eat anything I don't like. When I buy my weekly stash of food it's the very same packages as I bought last week. My LF fixed me a wonderful chicken fried steak and white flour gravy when we first started seeing each other. She served broccoli. I stumbled around it and finally ran it thru my gravy and ate it. She was in shock. You put gravy on that? Only way to get it down. She has not served it to me since. Bless her heart.

 

[Whitens Moss]

I'd try it if I knew for sure there were no dogs missing in the area.

 

[radar1972]

It's the principle of the thing. It doesn't matter what type of food it is, it's the fact that family & friends keep trying to force you to like it. For me, it's Chinese food. I don't like it.... all the relatives do.

 

[RonJ]

I loved Thai food when I was in Thailand. The stuff called Thai food locally is too sweet with too much peanut sauce. I don't like curry in anything. If I want hot food I prefer peppers.
I was stationed in Northern Thailand near the Laotian border. I'm not real sure what was served there. Thai? Chinese? Laotian or Cambodian. Maybe a mix, but I liked it. Best danged fried rice anywhere!

 

[walkin jack]

Along the same principal as the op never tell an addict that you don't like Face Book! SHEESH!! They will try every thing they can think of to convert you. I don't get it. Is it that they need the validation to justify their addiction or what. To me it's totally redundant.

I don't care for the kids I went to High School with even the ones that are still alive and out of prison. And every thing I'd do on FB I can do in Emails and message boards.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

My daughter and her family came up yesterday to visit for the weekend. She's been on me for the last several hours about eating sushi. I keep telling her that I've had it...more than once...and it's one of those foods that for me, instead of getting smaller the more you chew it, it gets bigger!

She's been saying, "Oh, you probably haven't had it fixed right..." etc. Balderdash!!! I've had it a couple times in Hawaii and a sweet little Oriental lady brought a platter of it to work once. Sorry, but every time I've tried it, I get an automatic gag reflex. I guess I'm just not much on raw fish.

Why do people think they are doing you a favor by making you eat junk you don't like??

I'm with arjay. Give me a good steak anytime.

My grandpa didn't call raw fish "sushi." He called it something you use to catch a bigger fish, aka "bait."

 

[Taurus627]

Consider yourself lucky. My family is a polar opposite, tell them you like something and they will serve it so much and you will get so tired of it you'll never want it again.
So I have learned to be careful what i say!!

 

[bobelk99]

I can relate to the burning mouth.

I have a friend whose spouse is Indian. The standing family joke is that he makes his 'special' curry sauce, then tosses in a whole raw chicken.

Two hours later the chicken is cooked and ready to serve. No extra heating required.

 

[perrazi]

ronj- I was there too. if it walked, crawled,flew, or swam, they would eat it prepared in some of the most sickening ways. had enough, never again.