Do you like mushrooms?

[Timsup2nothin]

For me it is taste. For a long time I tried different kinds made different ways...and there is certainly variation in the flavor...but for me that range stretches from choke it down to spit it out and has never come anywhere close to good. I have surrendered to a blanket 'I don't like them' at this point.

 

[bhsup]

I keep thinking that since you are likable there must be something somewhere we can agree on, even if it's trivial.

Things I like...

• Fried okra
• Buck Owens
• Stargate
• My doggie and kitties
• Driving (not chaotic city driving, but long rural highways, etc)
• Scandinavia and The World
• 80s culture

 

[shadowplay]

In Polish society, the passage from boy to man is marked by learning how to go mushroom picking.

Okay, not quite, but every single Polish person I know who was born in Poland has gone mushroom picking with their families, learning which mushrooms are okay to eat and which ones will kill you. I have very fond memories having these skills passed down to me from my parents and uncles and such.

I love mushrooms on almost anything.

Wild mushroom picking in North America is a very dangerous activity - some edible mushrooms resemble certain poisonous mushrooms almost exactly. Even professional mycologists can have difficulty telling them apart.

 

[warpus]

Come with me on a hiking expedition of Norway, bhsup. I'll bring the whiskey.

Wild mushroom picking in North America is a very dangerous activity - some edible mushrooms resemble certain poisonous mushrooms almost exactly. Even professional mycologists can have dfficulty telling them apart.

Yeah, the tradition doesn't really translate over with those Poles who move over to Canada for some reason. I had assumed it was due to the fact that Polish forests are more accessible and have more mushrooms in them... but maybe it has also something to do with what you're saying as well.

So we don't really go mushroom picking these days.. but we sure love mushrooms! Our Christmas eve meal (the main day of Christmas for us) is 100% non-meat (except for fish), so a lot of the dishes end up being mushroom based. One of the reasons why I love Christmas so much

 

[gay_Aleks]

Just watch out for the bears. Don't worry, there'll be a friendly guy with a gun who'll keep you safe.

 

[El_Machinae]

I see what you mean, especially sicne I went from hating olives to very much liking them, but I think it is not really the taste of Mushrooms that puts people off - but the way they physically feel in their mouths. Or so I am told.

I only partially understand. I mean, it's a totally wild analogy, but I don't like the texture of gristle in my steak. I don't mind taste, it's actually kinda yummy. But, when I eat steak, I cut off the gristle.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

For me it is taste. For a long time I tried different kinds made different ways...and there is certainly variation in the flavor...but for me that range stretches from choke it down to spit it out and has never come anywhere close to good. I have surrendered to a blanket 'I don't like them' at this point.

I tried to think of a food I dislike this categorically - and I couldn't think of anything. Sea food can not agree with me - but there is also a lot of good sea food. In the end it seems I'll eat and enjoy about anything if it is done well.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I also don't like how people sometimes throw in mushrooms as meat substitutes in vegetarian dishes. I'll get my meat substitutes elsewhere, thank you very much.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

That seems... odd. Who would fall for that?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Things I like...

• Fried okra
• Buck Owens
• Stargate
• My doggie and kitties
• Driving (not chaotic city driving, but long rural highways, etc)
• Scandinavia and The World
• 80s culture

Hmmmm....dogs and cats is promising, though I like mine and have no opinion on yours and they may be what we call 'snack on a string'. I met Buck Owens...good dude...I did not discuss music with him as that would have gone poorly. I don't remember the 80s having much culture, but I was at sea for most of it so I may have just missed out.

Clearly food is our best bet. We could have lunch together and when I willingly gave you my mushrooms and my fried okra we could wind up as great friends.

If you are ever in California I have found a beer by the pool settles all differences.

 

[bhsup]

If you are ever in California I have found a beer by the pool settles all differences.

*wince* *sigh* Beer sucks. I'm a whiskey sour man... Still, we can make a go of it.

 

[Farm Boy]

I don't like being outside the weather if it's "California" California weather. It feels tinny and fake. Beware inviting the Midwesterners to the pool.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Oh I managed to think of something I categorically dislike. Mould cheese.
But another 10 or 20 years and I probably like that as well...

 

[Gori the Grey]

I keep thinking that since you are likable there must be something somewhere we can agree on, even if it's trivial.

You both like CFC:OT, i.e. lively discussions even with people with whom you don't agree.

That's somethin. And something non-trivial, I think.

 

[cybrxkhan]

That seems... odd. Who would fall for that?

I don't think it's meant to be a realistic substitute, I think the mushroom stuff just appeals to people in the "health-conscious" crowd which, admittedly, a lot of vegetarians can be.

I don't like being outside the weather if it's "California" California weather. It feels tinny and fake. Beware inviting the Midwesterners to the pool.

Mediterranean weather is the best, man, I take offense to your unjustified, unreasonable beliefs!

(My cousin (who's lived in California all her life) just married a Midwesterner, by the way, I think she's in for quite a shock when she moves there with him.)

 

[gay_Aleks]

Mediterranean weather is the best, man, I take offense to your unjustified, unreasonable beliefs!

(My cousin (who's lived in California all her life) just married a Midwesterner, by the way, I think she's in for quite a shock when she moves there with him.)

I hope we could switch places, because holy hell it is burning in here and I hope I could just die finally because my god why is it so hot...

 

[madviking]

i like shrooms

 

[Farm Boy]

Mediterranean weather is the best, man, I take offense to your unjustified, unreasonable beliefs!

(My cousin (who's lived in California all her life) just married a Midwesterner, by the way, I think she's in for quite a shock when she moves there with him.)

I see why people like it, but "pool weather" just feels fake. Like it's been air conditioned. Most of it is just the weather where I've grown up combined with spending a rather large bit of time outside. The weather here just changes, and it's changing all the time. A week of relatively stable weather is unusual. It rains, it storms, it's hot, then it's cold. It's humid, it's dry. It's hot changing to cool, it's cool changing to hot. It's cool changing to cold. The ground temperature is different from the atmosphere in all of those, so they're all unique states of being. The wind changes where it's coming from, but it's almost always blowing in some sense. There is no protection, you're getting it flat all the way from Colorado. I could deal without the hail and the tornadoes, sure, but when you're used to the weather changing all the time, to needing to grasp the weather conditions you like since they're going to last a week and then you'll get something different until they roll around again in 12 months...LA style or Sacramento style California weather just feels... dead. It's not breathing anymore. If that makes sense. Sitting by the pool, personally, sounds like about the most boring way possible to spend an afternoon. Digging up some niche IPAs would help, but not as much as digging those up and doing something else instead of sitting by a pool.

 

[Antilogic]

I give a big yes vote to the common mushroom types here in the US for adding to pasta sauces, on pizzas, and so on.

Only mushrooms I didn't like were these fairly large ones I got at a Chinese fast food restaurant, I'm pretty sure they were frozen and reheated or something because the texture was awful.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I see why people like it, but "pool weather" just feels fake. Like it's been air conditioned. Most of it is just the weather where I've grown up combined with spending a rather large bit of time outside. The weather here just changes, and it's changing all the time. A week of relatively stable weather is unusual. It rains, it storms, it's hot, then it's cold. It's humid, it's dry. It's hot changing to cool, it's cool changing to hot. It's cool changing to cold. The ground temperature is different from the atmosphere in all of those, so they're all unique states of being. The wind changes where it's coming from, but it's almost always blowing in some sense. There is no protection, you're getting it flat all the way from Colorado. I could deal without the hail and the tornadoes, sure, but when you're used to the weather changing all the time, to needing to grasp the weather conditions you like since they're going to last a week and then you'll get something different until they roll around again in 12 months...LA style or Sacramento style California weather just feels... dead. It's not breathing anymore. If that makes sense. Sitting by the pool, personally, sounds like about the most boring way possible to spend an afternoon. Digging up some niche IPAs would help, but not as much as digging those up and doing something else instead of sitting by a pool.

I can see where you're coming from. Having lived on the east coast for a good chunk of my life, I have some experience with unpredictable, weird weather (granted, probably not as much as where you are, but close enough for argument's sake). I won't deny I miss the smell of spring that so suddenly pops up around April and May - brings back a lot of memories, see.

That said, I do have a fetish for Mediterranean things in general, so there's that. Also, my father pointed out in California he doesn't have to dig snow, rake leaves, mow grass, or do any of that nonsense anymore. A decent point if any.