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Mrobson

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Hell has to be anything with beetroot in it, it just tastes like soil to me!

Heaven is a proper Yorkshire Pudding with some medium rare roast beef and proper gravy.

What’s other people’s?
 
Heaven: probably a really decadent lamb curry with loads of layers of flavour

Hell: anything that combines blue cheese and celery. Basically the only two foods I don’t like.

Great question, looking forward to seeing the replies!
 
I like everything..
I curry something every week so would say it's my favourite food.
I like liver,kidneys and tripe but don't fancy brains,heart or trotters...
I haven't really tasted something I wouldn't eat again that really sticks in my memory.
 
Heaven: simple Italian or Asian, Hell: Liver and intestines
I love liver, ever since I turned up at a training course with a monumental hangover and the only thing on the lunch menu that I thought I could stomach was liver and bacon. Cured the hangover and made me feel human again within minutes. It may be a cultural thing in different countries, horse meat is considered abhorrant in UK, but still relatively common in France and Belgium.

My food heaven would be a hot curry, narrowly beating roast beef and all the trimmings.

Food hell would be anything vegan.:vomitintoilet:
 
Sushi, seafood linguine, ceviche, lamb curry, Vietnamese salads = heaven

I don't dislike anything vehemently. Wouldn't choose to eat offal, particularly kidney.
 
Heaven - Fish, chips and mushy peas, full roads on Sunday, curry. (too many to list)

Hell - liver, kidney and my grandads favourite - peas pudding. sick...
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I don't like 'Thousand Year Old Eggs' My wife laughed when I ordered them in Hong Kong. Because I didn't like them the first time but had forgotten.

I love a hot curry abroad, South Africa was good. Fresh oysters. A beef and mango salad in Barbados. Whole Blue Mackerel in Portugal. Raw prawns and sea urchin in Sicily. All during my time in the Merchant Navy, I'm not a wealthy man! I'm very partial to seafood paella or risotto. My wife's salmon and chilli Trottole pasta in a creamy sauce.

Pizzas cooked in a wood-fired oven, just passata, mozzarella and fresh herbs, maybe a little prosciutto. Or Jabon. And Artichokes.

All-time favourite probably a lamb biryani with a dall sauce and some Bombay duck and samosas cooked by a proper Bhandari!

Recently we have learned to sear steaks in butter and now love barbequing sirloin steaks outdoors. I will never order a steak in a restaurant again. Better than fillet or ribeye (my opinion only, of course).
 
So much food heaven. I'm quite partial to Mexican and Thai, but the pinnacle has to be a seafood platter. A massive pile of prawns and langoustine, oysters, mussels, clams, homemade mayonnaise, and good bread and butter to mop up the juices. With a dry white, nothing fancy, that's heaven.

Food hell, I don't really have much. Century egg was Ok, and I wasn't keen on stinky tofu. I've had some good brain and other offal. Andouille a l'ancienne is great. Only the French can make you lick your lips over a pig's anus.
 
I like most things liver and onions being one, all kinds of cheese as long as it's not soft, oysters snails all seafood, not to keen on chitlins and tripe, food hell cow heel and pie beef my late father in law loved it he passed at 87, love curry and Chinese owt like that one of my favs is roast heart on a barm cake ox tongue, haslet, brawn, pressed beef, my favourite meats are in order lamb, beef, pork, think I would try anything if you don't try how will you know you don't like it, fav veggies any but dark green the better
 
Haha, forgot Mexican too, our all time favourite. With a side of refried beans, guacamole and sour cream.

About the liver, it must be something for me like cilantro for some other people, my parents and my brother liked liver, for me it just stinks and tastes disgusting. And I do like cilantro, by the way...
 
Hell: Liver, kidneys intestines , brains - basically any non meat animal parts

Heaven: Mediterranean cuisine, Japanese lately (love ramen) - but it changes depending on season of the year :)
 
Love the question. I read the question to my wife to get her ideas also.

I've had Yorkshire pudding once and my wife two or three times. She loves it. She agreed with the earthy description of beets (beetroot). Her hell would be any organ meat: liver, hearts, etc. She's very fond of toast made with homemade bread and butter.

My hell? I don't have much, if anything, in the hell category. There are just things I wouldn't go out of my way to eat if they weren't served by someone else. I can eat anything that's properly prepared (proper kitchen etiquette). I don't even have to like the taste; however, I would draw the line at chocolate covered ants or monkey brains. My biggest hell may be eating from a dirty kitchen with poor sanitation control.
Heaven? I love junk food: Taco Bell is great (crazy, right?). I've been to a lot of nice restaurants and the food is really good but I can duplicate most at home with a bit of effort.
Burgers.
Pizza.
Filet Mignon or Ribeye medium rare and a baked potato with tons of butter and sour cream.
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies with whole milk.
Fish and chips with extra tartar sauce.
 
Heaven: simple Italian or Asian, Hell: Liver and intestines
Can't beat liver mash and onion gravy. There's a Turkish dish called Kokorec, basically a intestines sandwich, far more appetising than it sounds, one of those would be nice right now.
 
I like all offal, favourite is calves liver sauteed in red wine with onions, brains, tripe, smoked cod, Conger eel steaks. On the meat side slow cooked lamb shoulder, rib eye, pork neck and belly.
Lived with a Russian girl for a while got to like cabbage rolls and borscht, could definitely not go for roll mops or bread rolls with butter and garlic. Nothing I don't like.
 
Some slices of Heaven:

Rib of beef, fresh horseradish, gravy yorkshire pud.
Plateau de fruits de mer, glass of muscadet, in Brittany
Spaghetti vongole
Fish chips curry sauce
Rack of lamb done with mustard and brown sugar
risotto from scratch with whatevers in fridge
Crab souffle
Steak tartare
Creme brulee
Blackberry pie
Beef pad ka prow (sp? The one with chillis and holy basil)
M and S tuscan sausage pasta
Saucisson with hazelnuts in it
Old school prawn cocktail
Confit of duck
Scallops with black pudding
Giant beans that you get ib Greek islands.


Hell:

Most forms of offal
Celery
Rice pudding
Goats cheese
Whole smoked eels
 

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