Favorite Food "Genre"?

[DixieDestroyer]

I figured I'd conduct a poll of CF'ers favorite chow "genre". For this ol' country boy it was a toss-up between Down Home (chicken & dumplins, okra, cornbread, etc.) & BBQ (love me some pulled pork & Brunswick stew). Bon appetite!

 

[Menelik]

It was a toss up with me too but I had to go with BBQ

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Has to be home grown soul food for me, although I enjoy BBQ and fish/seafood a lot. I'll relate a couple of stories from my beloved late Grandfather on the topic. The first story happened during the worst part of the depression when he was a teenager. As was common during that time in the Delta, an unemployed white man came through the country looking for work. Pappaw's father told the man he couldn't pay him. The man told him "that's ok, as long as I can eat." That evening, their usual cornbread and greens was "the best meal he'd ever had." Over a month went by with the man working for my grandfather's family and eating that same meal. You see, my Grandfather was a poor sharecropper and they all survived the depression on that type of food. One day, the man went up to my great-grandfather and told him "its nothing against y'all, but I'm sick of eating the same thing day after day, I've got to move on and try to find something different to eat." My great grandfather thanked him for his work and wished him well. They never saw the man again.

The second story took place in the early 1960s, after my grandfather had quit farming and started driving a truck delivering propane and butane for a living. He was making a delivery to a very wealthy man's house, who began to belittle my grandfather for being man of average means and not having fine foods to eat like himself, instead eating mostly what he grew in his garden and cornbread. He then invited my grandfather in to eat steak and seafood with him. My grandfather looked him square in the face and said "sir, i'd rather eat my cornbread and butterbeans than sit at your table." About 15 years later, that rich man choked to death while eating a steak at that same table.

 

[Don Wassall]

Meat and potatoes for this carnivore, with steak and prime rib at the top of my food chain.

 

[Bronk]

Ha! Good story Colonel!

Butter beans, collard greens, cornbread, maybe some eggs and po'k chops with redeye gravy, grits and biscuts. Mmmmmmmmm I give cash money to smell the cooking from my grandmother's kitchen in Alabama again.

Cooking BBQ in the backyard with family and friends -- pork ribs, beef ribs, brisquet, sausage.

Going out it would be Italian food although we make a good spaghetti sauce at home.

 

[The Hock]

If I ever get the death penalty for being a member of Caste Football, my last meal request would ironicially be a good pork burrito from one of my favorite taco trucks.

Maybe they'd commute my sentence when they saw how much I like Mexican food.

 

[Freethinker]

This was a tough call because honestly I love all of these food groups. I have yet to find a food genre yet that I have not enjoyed to a certain degree. My vote though went for German as I have been spoiled over the years with my Grandmother, Dad and Mom's cooking. My Mom ironically is not even German but learned from a good cook, my Dad's mother. My favorite dish would probably be beef rouladen, spätzle with mushroom gravy and red cabbage.

I agree with you "southern boys" that BBQ and country cookin' is delicious and a guilty pleasure of mine when I get the opportunity.

P.S. - I'm guessing it wouldn't be popular on this board but I also enjoy Indian food a great deal. Spicy food

 

[celticdb15]

I love all food, but Italians pretty much run this town and with so many great italian restaurants it's hard to not like anything else. My favorite types would be 1. Italian 2. Mexican 3. Homestyle(my grandmas biscuits and gravy!)

 

[DWFan]

Put BBQ because it said chicken, but much like the Hock, my favorite food is not likely popular here. I don't like anything as much as I love fried chicken!

 

[guest301]

I love all food, but Italians pretty much run this town and with so many great italian restaurants it's hard to not like anything else. My favorite types would be 1. Italian 2. Mexican 3. Homestyle( my grandmas biscuits and gravy!)

Ditto to your top three.

 

[PhillyBirds]

Italian all the way. My grandma is from Calabria and makes some of the finest food you'll ever taste.

Even if she yells at me in a language I can't understand...

 

[indianwhite]

Italian all the way! Bring me all that pasta! Magnifico! Estupendo!

 

[space hillbilly]

WOW!! have you guy's had your cholesterol checked??

 

[whiteathlete33]

Meat and potatoes for this carnivore, with steak and prime rib at the top of my food chain.

LOL. All I eat is french fries and pizza. Steak is great but every so often. I love my fruits, vegetables, and protein shakes.

 

[Bear Backer]

Nothing beats a good prime rib that is cooked to perfection medium rare and well seasoned. Seafood is great too. If I was rich I would eat nothing but steak and seafood and get gout LOL. I absolutely hate Mexican and Chinese food. Not because they are non white foods, but because they are not good. If you have eaten one dish you have pretty much eaten most of them. About the only Chinese food I really like is a little General Tso's chicken or some Hunan Chicken now and again. Mexican food honestly just makes me gag. It smells bad and tastes worse. I do like GOOD Fajitas, good being the operative word, and that is more Tex Mex anyway. Most Fajitas you get at Mexican restaurants taste like they use the cheapest, toughest, oldest cuts of beef there are which are then masked in tons of peppers and onions.

 

[Electric Slide]

No all of the above option? That list actually looks like a nice dining plan for a long vacation. That being said, It'd throw in Steak night a couple extra times on said vacation.

I have really grown to absolutely love Sushi lately. I haden't even had it until a few years ago. If anyone here has not tried it, I'd say give it a go. The raw fish and fish eggs will not kill you or even make you sick at all! The flavor of a well made sushi roll with some soy sauch mixed with wasabi, ginger, and a little more wasabi on top has some amazing flavors to it! Also, the texture and feel inside your mouth is very great, not too soft, not too hard/chewy. You can also fill up on sushi and not have have a bad feel in the belly. So yeah go try sushi!

Also Dixie great topic, that's why you rock! Writing this is making me very hungry!

 

[The Hock]

I voted Mexican food, but I should add that I also love BBQ'd anything, especially chicken or steak.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

ES, good call partner...I should have added "all the above". I can find something I like in almost all food genres (...with Indian being my least favorite). I've never had French food, but would like to try it one day. My wife (a vegetarian) and I like Sushi too. However, it's pricey & since the kids (obviously) don't like it...we rarely indulge. I love a good, spicy roll with tuna, shrimp etc. and my wife likes the veggie & tempura rolls. We might have sushi once every few months. We might eat out a couple times a week, and usually eat at home. We try to limit the extra spending...but it's tough for me sometimes as I love the vittles!

Edited by: DixieDestroyer

 

[GWTJ]

I voted steak but only because if I had one last meal it would be prime rib(largest cut possible).

I probably eat more pasta on average than any other food. I also make sure to eat my fiber through veggies, legumes & salads. I didn't always eat this way but my old body is calling the shots now.

I don't know if I would be as fond of steak if I ate it every day. Eating it rarely makes it that much more enjoyable.

 

[Electric Slide]

ES, good call partner...I should have added "all the above". I can find something I like in almost all food genres (...with Indian being my least favorite). I've never had French food, but would like to try it one day. My wife (a vegetarian) and I like Sushi too. However, it's pricey & since the kids (obviously) don't like it...we rarely indulge. I love a good, spicy roll with tuna, shrimp etc. and my wife likes the veggie & tempura rolls. We might have sushi once every few months. We might eat out a couple times a week, and usually eat at home. We try to limit the extra spending...but it's tough for me sometimes as I love the vittles!

French food is great, as long as you go to a good French restaurant. They're fries and toast are good I've heard (lol). In all seriousness, yes their food is good, I usually get some sort of beef or chicken when I go. Of course my favorite part of a French dinner is the desert. My favorite is Crème Brûlée

I would say my least favorite food genre is African food. I've had Ethiopian food. It's not terrible, but it's pretty flavorless. I hear Somalian food is pretty much the same.

You should get your kids to try sushi. Tell 'em it's candy or something. By the time they realize it's raw fish they will realize it's actually good.

Also, another Asian food I recommend trying is Vietnamese Pho. It's definitely different looking with leaves and such in it, but it's really tasty especially if you put the spicy sauce in it.

When it comes to what I actually eat on a regular basis, to the dismay of some I typically order fast food a lot. I really like pizza from different places, Wendy's, Chipotle, Jimmy John's, and Five Guys, among others. I usually try to avoid McDonald's because of their pro-black/anti-white marketing and their food is borderline disgusting (except the fries and the new angus burgers), but sometimes it's the only place open if I'm out really late. Trust me, I work out frequently and am not fat by any sense of the imagination. I'm just a man that likes to eat food Edited by: Electric Slide

 

[Bear Backer]

No all of the above option? That list actually looks like a nice dining plan for a long vacation. That being said, It'd throw in Steak night a couple extra times on said vacation.

I have really grown to absolutely love Sushi lately. I haden't even had it until a few years ago. If anyone here has not tried it, I'd say give it a go. The raw fish and fish eggs will not kill you or even make you sick at all! The flavor of a well made sushi roll with some soy sauch mixed with wasabi, ginger, and a little more wasabi on top has some amazing flavors to it! Also, the texture and feel inside your mouth is very great, not too soft, not too hard/chewy. You can also fill up on sushi and not have have a bad feel in the belly. So yeah go try sushi!

Also Dixie great topic, that's why you rock! Writing this is making me very hungry!

I like sushi as well, GOOD SUSHI that is, from someone who knows how to properly make it. I have eaten sushi that has made me sick, probably the ingredients were not fresh. If I go for sushi, I make sure it is as a pretty upscale sushi bar. I don't really go for the standard California rolls that everyone mass produces either. Shrimp Tempura and Sake or Hamachi Sashimi are my two favorities, I love to eat them together. The textures and tastes go well to balance each other out.

 

[Bear Backer]

ES, good call partner...I should have added "all the above". I can find something I like in almost all food genres (...with Indian being my least favorite). I've never had French food, but would like to try it one day. My wife (a vegetarian) and I like Sushi too. However, it's pricey & since the kids (obviously) don't like it...we rarely indulge. I love a good, spicy roll with tuna, shrimp etc. and my wife likes the veggie & tempura rolls. We might have sushi once every few months. We might eat out a couple times a week, and usually eat at home. We try to limit the extra spending...but it's tough for me sometimes as I love the vittles!

French food is great, as long as you go to a good French restaurant. They're fries and toast are good I've heard (lol). In all seriousness, yes their food is good, I usually get some sort of beef or chicken when I go. Of course my favorite part of a French dinner is the desert. My favorite is Crème Brûlée

I would say my least favorite food genre is African food. I've had Ethiopian food. It's not terrible, but it's pretty flavorless. I hear Somalian food is pretty much the same.

You should get your kids to try sushi. Tell 'em it's candy or something. By the time they realize it's raw fish they will realize it's actually good.

Also, another Asian food I recommend trying is Vietnamese Pho. It's definitely different looking with leaves and such in it, but it's really tasty especially if you put the spicy sauce in it.

When it comes to what I actually eat on a regular basis, to the dismay of some I typically order fast food a lot. I really like pizza from different places, Wendy's, Chipotle, Jimmy John's, and Five Guys, among others. I usually try to avoid McDonald's because of their pro-black/anti-white marketing and their food is borderline disgusting (except the fries and the new angus burgers), but sometimes it's the only place open if I'm out really late.Trust me, I work out frequently and am not fat by any sense of the imagination. I'm just a man that likes to eat food

Just who are you trying to convince, us or you? j/k

 

[waterbed]

I like Doner kebab(arabe) Pita Gyros(greek) and Lasagne, and I like to make myself pasta with Salmon,spinach,champignons,room,organo and some white wine in it.

sometimes i eat at american mac donalds or burger king but after I eat there i feel used and a bit sick afterwards.

 

[OldSchoolBoy75]

Italian, French and Thai are my top three, with Mexican a close fourth. My tastes are eclectic I suppose, ranging from Swedish meatballs to Japanese tempura.

 

[Electric Slide]

Just who are you trying to convince, us or you? j/k

Lol, trying to convince you because what I said is something maybe an overweight person would say, lol. I'm about 6'1'' 185 lb former college athlete, just to give you an idea.