Name some foods that you just love, but can never ever have ever again.

[Javaman]

For me it's my grandmothers spaghetti sauce, my moms spaghetti sauce and beef stew with noodle puddle.

Also very special ham sandwich when I was nine and this vanilla parfait that was once served at an old dept store when I was a kid.

I would kill to have any one of those things today.

[HERVEPA]

1. Bacon, cheeseburgers, cheesesteaks

(I'm a vegetarian)

[Chan790]

4. Southern Pit BBQ.

with mustard-and-cider-vinegar-based sauces.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

58. The best kind of BBQ.

Why can't you have it any more?

[Chan790]

60. I'm a vegetarian.

Most days, I'm a strict one at that. (Meaning functionally vegan but as I'm only one about 2 days out of 3 (and increasing) and my reasons are environmental and weight-related rather than ethical, I don't use the label out of respect for people who actually live that way every minute of every day and for whom it has greater meaning from an animal-welfare standpoint.)

I do make BBQ tofu/tempeh/seitan and slather BBQ sauce on grilled vegetables (onions and starches) but it's not the same.

[LynzM]

2. Anything with wheat in it.

For very much less sentimental reasons... wheat makes my anxiety really awful. Pizza. Perfect grilled cheese sandwich. Ritz crackers. Oreos with milk. Tiramisu. Bread.

[PVnRT]

3. Wooly mammoth steak

That shit was GOOD.

[laylah]

5. My grandma's beef 'n noodles and

apricot pie every time I would hitch home from Colorado. My dad's grilled chicken, REAL maidrites, Greenriver soda, my other gram's biscuits and homemade strawberry jam.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. My great aunt's sugar cookies and my grandma's julekage.

I have the recipes but I've never been able to duplicate the flavor.

[Brickbat]

7. My grandfather's roast beef. We've come close, but we've never duplicated it.

He would start cooking it at 4 a.m. to have it ready for Sunday dinner. It melted in your mouth. Gaaaaaaaaagghggghgh.

[Graybeard]

8. Anything made with milk or cream. Lactose intolerance.

Growing up I ate ice cream by the gallon and drank milk by the quart. Suddenly in middle age I became deathly ill with nausea and worse. The doctor recognized the symptoms immediately and said it is not uncommon for it to appear later in life.

I have to pass on desserts, mac and cheese, just about all italian foods. Tablets like Lactaids help but if I'm dining out I don't want to take the chance that they won't work.

[LynzM]

23. I hear ya, dude...

I'm wheat-intolerant, as of about age 27. Lame-tacular. :hug:

[WildEyedLiberal]

33. Same here, minus the deathly illness

I quite enjoy milkshakes and lattes and such, but I've recently noticed that if I have more than a tiny bit of milk, I feel like CRAP. No more milkshakes for me, unless I want to feel cramped and gassy all night :(

Thank GOD cheese doesn't seem to affect me, or else I've just eaten it in such small quantities that it doesn't matter.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

47. my brother is pretty severely lactose intolerant so i make him milky desserts he likes with lactose

free milk LACTAID.

[Graybeard]

49. Lactaid Milk is great.

I use very little of it, just in my morning coffee and occasional oatmeal. Because it has such an incredibly long shelf life I can keep it in the fridge for a long, long time. The container that I bought last week has an exp. date of Jan. 13th!

[TrogL]

9. Pop-tarts

Last time I had two, ended up in the hospital.

[soleft]

57. What if you just ate one?

[flvegan]

10. You might want to take a seat for this long list...

Swordfish
Lobster
Crab legs
Proper fish 'n chips
Seafood newburg
Smoked mullet
Good French onion soup
Easy frozen pepperoni pizza
Salmon
Tuna sandwiches
Hard boiled eggs
Eggs over easy with toast
Honeycomb cereal
Mom's meatloaf
Mom's to-die-for brownies
The Caesar salad at Bern's
Arby's Horsey Sauce
The crispy skin or "candy" on a roasted turkey or chicken
Twix and Kit Kat candy bars

I could go on...

[Rosie1223]

11. Garlic

Since my first pregnancy I just can't tolerate it anymore. :(

[HopeHoops]

12. Little Tavern Death Burgers - with red death, yellow death, and green death.

They sucked moose cock, but I loved them as a kid. I'm a vegetarian now (for over 20 years), so I won't be eating them again.

[GoCubsGo]

13. My grandmas' cooking....

Both were of German descent, but my dad's mom made the Italian food. I miss her spaghetti sauce and her risotto most of all. And, her soups. And, her pineapple upside down cake. My other grandma made the best pizza. I really miss her Easter "lamb" cakes. They were pound cakes that she baked in a lamb-shaped mold. She frosted them and covered them in coconut. They raisins for eyes and half a red jelly bean for a nose, and they were surrounded by Easter candy. I do have a wonderful pound cake recipe. One of these years, I'm going to bake one, frost it, and cover it in coconut, just for old time's sake.

My uncle's father made the best kapusta ever. I have never been able to get all the vinegar out of the sauerkraut the way he did.

[hippywife]

14. Popcorn.

The last time I ate it, I ended up in the ER the next day. They told me I had diverticulitis. That was a first and I called the doctor a liar.

I can eat my grandmothers spaghetti sauce because I learned to make it by spending lots of time in her kitchen with her while she was still alive. She was my best friend.

[MilesColtrane]

15. Ice cream

Soft cheeses...mac and cheese, potatoes au gratin, brie and crackers

Cream based sauces on anything

Raw onions on hamburgers/mexican food

A cigarette for dessert

[Hell Hath No Fury]

16. Cantalope.

One day I could eat it, the next day I had a serious allergic reaction to it. :cry:

That and Hot House enchildas from the old Play-Land-at-the-Beach here in SF.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. My mom's rhubarb pie. When she died, I swore to never eat rhubarb pie again.

Mom was an incredible pie maker (she really knew how to make a crust!), and her rhubarb pie (and straight rhubarb - none of that asshole mixing it with strawberries; I mean, seriously, what kind of braindead harpie fuck does that?) was sublime. I loved it. Other than her, it's what I miss the most about her.

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Strawberry Short cake

Last time I ate one I broke out in hives. Bad Strawberries?

[mopinko]

19. popcorn and artichokes

not together, necessarily. but my aged intestines can't take the popcorn hulls, but i used to eat it all the time.
artichokes i developed an allergy. miss them. especially marinated.

[gmoney]

20. Mom's chili and rice...

should have learned how she made it when she was still with us... should have done a lot of things...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. Spam

I bought some because it was on sale and cheap, and stashed it in the cupboard, and opened one of the cans tonight.

I fried a few slices to nice "golden brown bordering on black," but the salt killed me. I made three slices, I finished two, and put the third in the fridge...maybe tomorrow.

As a kid, my mom made a "Spam, fried potatoes and canned corn" dinner AT LEAST once a week. AT LEAST.

:toast:

[femmocrat]

22. Anything with cabbage in it. For a Slovak, that is total deprivation.

Because that means haluski, cabbage rolls, and sauerkraut are all no-nos now.

[Quantess]

69. You can't eat cabbage?

I've never heard of that condition.

[AngryAmish]

24. Mussels

They cause me intense, blinding pain just below my solar plexus.

[MissMillie]

54. +1

I love them, but eating even just one causes several hours of vomiting.

[hedgehog]

25. Donuts. No donut today tastes as good as they did when I was a kid.

Did they really taste better back then because of different ingredients, or did my child's sweet tooth override everything else?

[baldguy]

26. My grandmother Mutti's spatzle w/turkey gravy on Thanksgiving.

And chocolate covered Payday bars.

Mutti died 25 yrs ago, and they stopped making chocolate covered Paydays.

[GoCubsGo]

46. All is not lost...

Looks like you might still be able to get the Paydays:

http://www.amazon.com/HERSHEY-CHOCOLATE-10700-80822-PAYDAY-AVALANCHE/dp/B000VVEQVM

If worse comes to worse, just get some dipping chocolate and make your own. :-)

[baldguy]

50. Great! Now I just have to find a woman who knows how to cook like a German farmers' wife.

[JohnnyLib2]

27. Spudnuts!

If you have to ask----I'm sorry.

[Lyric]

28. My grandma's fried breaded noodles and pork.

None of my aunts can remember how she made it, unfortunately, and my own attempts have never measured up to hers.

Beyond that, I really can't think of anything else. I have lactose intolerance, but if I want something badly enough, the aftermath is worth it to me. Although I *did* recently find Lactaid Eggnog, and was able to drink as much as I wanted of that with no symptoms at all. Yay!

[Lindsey]

29. My precious Grandmother's Macaroni & Cheese. She made it

from scratch and it wasn't typical at all. None of us got the recipe before she passed. I don't think we could have replicated it anyway....

[RFKHumphreyObama]

30. My mother's ricotta cheese curry

Nothing, even the wonderfully mouth-watering ricotta cheese curries they serve in Indian restaurants, can ever hope to even come close to my mother's delicious version of this dish. I really regret that I never learned the secret to making it before she passed away.

Actually that is just one of the recipes I wish I'd gotten from my mum. She was a great cook

[Rhiannon12866]

31. My Babci's (Polish grandmother's) pierogies...

Filled with kapusta and cooked with Świnina (sauerkraut and fatback). She was an amazing cook, made everything from scratch, never used recipes, and I was too young to take an interest. :-(

[emilyg]

32. Oh yes. We had the same Babcia.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. Does that mean that we're cousins? LOL. :D

Nobody cooks like Babci did... My mother doesn't make them, only sometimes makes gołąbki, which were never my favorite. I've seen recipes, and even had them at a Polish restaurant, but I wish I could make them just like she did... :-( :hi:

[emilyg]

38. We're family.

:hug: I'm soooo hungry now.

[Rhiannon12866]

41. That's awfully nice. I know few other people who are Polish.

Besides my family, the only other Polish person I know is the guy who runs the Polish restaurant, about 20 minutes north of here. He's a doctor, from Poland, and uses the proceeds of his restaurant to buy needed medical equipment, sends it back to Poland. Apparently, breast cancer is prevalent there. :-(

I got hungry too, but I had to make do with some Chinese food... :D :hug:

[merh]

40. My mother's golabki

I did get her recipe and have shared it with my siblings but it is never quite the same.

Oh, and her french toast, there was something about it. I can't make it the way she did and no one else can either.

:( :hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

42. My mother's isn't the same, either.

And the house smells awful... x(

My Babci didn't make French toast, but she did make these very thin pancakes, which I can say, but not spell. They were awesome. We used to have them rolled up, with lekvar (prune butter) in the middle. :9 :hi:

On edit: Looked it up, the pancakes are nalesniki. :-)

[emilyg]

43. We had them with a very

coating of raspberry jam - rolled up and lightly sprinkled with powder sugar.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Yes! I remember the powdered sugar...

We used to have food at Babci's that we didn't have anyplace else. My comfort food is still cottage cheese and noodles, fine noodles heated in butter, mixed with cottage cheese. And she used to let us have coffee in the morning, even when we were little kids. It had a lot of milk in it, but it was still coffee. We had it with chleb, a slice of seeded rye bread, cut from a round loaf, with butter on it. I still love that too, though the bread's not the same... :-)

[The empressof all]

56. I loved the cottage cheese and noodles

We had it with Pot cheese and sometimes with kapusta mixed in with lots of fried onions. You can't get pot cheese in Seattle otherwise I'd be making this right now.

[Rhiannon12866]

61. We always had the noodles with cottage cheese and I do still make it...

Just the noodles with cottage cheese, heated in butter, with salt and pepper. It was my favorite and my mother used to make it on Tuesdays because my father wasn't home. LOL. :D

I don't think you can get pot cheese around here (Northern NY), either. When my Babci would visit and made platzek (sp?), a kind of sweet bread with raisins and cheese, she used to hang cottage cheese in a cloth bag over the sink to drain the whey out... :shrug:

[merh]

48. Oh, you cannot make it without the house smelling

I never knew those pancakes had a name. Thanks for teaching me something new.

[Rhiannon12866]

52. But, unlike most cooking, it's not in a good way. LOL.

You're welcome. I'm hardly fluent, but I grew up hearing Polish from my Babci and it's my mother's first first language. I know names of food from Babci and numerous colorful expressions from riding in the car with my mother... :evilgrin:

[merh]

63. My father taught me some words, his parents came over from

Poland.

My mother grandparents were polish. Golabki is the extent of my Polish cooking.

Mom said she used to love czarnina until she snuck out back, against her father's warnings, to watch him prepare the stock. She said after that she never ate it again and had no desire to know how to make it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

59. Ditto here.

My Ukrainian grandmother cooked both the potato filled kind and the kapusta filled kind.

Thankfully, my mother has picked it up quite nicely, but after that, I'm afraid it won't be the same. Ms. T's frozen brand just doesn't do it justice.

[Rhiannon12866]

62. Well, there's no reason why you can't learn, while you have someone to teach you.

I sure wish that I learned from my Polish grandmother while I still had the chance, but I wasn't interested in cooking as a kid. My aunt can make them, both potato and kapusta, learned from her Russian MIL, and all her kids (two boys, one girl) helped out, so they can make them too. Unfortunately, they're way across the country from me. :-(

And I agree about Mrs. T's. They don't have the kapusta variety around here and even if I cook them with all the things my grandmother used, it's just not the same. :-(

[Haole Girl]

34. My grandmother's peach cobbler...

man, that was the best. She lived in the south & made it with fresh peaches.

[enigmatic]

36. Liver And Onions

Because of my gout. Man, I could dig into one right now, too..

[phasma ex machina]

37. Swiss cheese on a minute steak. (Vegetarian) nt

[Danmel]

39. My mothers bolognese sauce

Which was shockingly good for a Jewish mom.
Milano cookies - I had to do a 12 step program . Haven't had one in 34 years.

[RebelOne]

45. Avocados

I love them, but have suddenly developed an intolerance to them. I get very sick after eating one,.

[Bertha Venation]

51. Grandma's fried chicken. n/t

[Mutley]

53. After dinner last night made me feel the way I do right now

I am pretty sure I will never again eat another hamburger for as long as I live.









For a few weeks at least. :P

[MissMillie]

55. cheesecake

since my gastric bypass, cheesecake makes me very, very sick--stomach cramps, cold sweat, heart races--for several hours.

[Fridays Child]

64. Heavily buttered anything.

At least, as long as I refuse to have my gall bladder removed. Until I relent, butter is no longer my friend. :(

[Lethe]

65. Anything with dill.

I can't abide dill, fresh or dried.

A few years ago I went on a diet and for some reason I managed to eat a chicken/tuna salad every day for lunch. This lasted for about a year. I can eat chicken/tuna salad now but only if it doesn't have dill in it. I refuse to eat anything with dill in it to this day.

Tarragon is my preferred substitute.

[Flaxbee]

66. Meat, including fish.

I lapse occasionally, but the ethical issues are overwhelming, and I feel horrible if I do have a chicken wing or two...

I'm getting there. If I didn't also want to cook for my husband (who will only eat chicken, not pork or beef), I'd never have meat.

If I could buy from farmers who raised the hens well, and their deaths were humane, I probably wouldn't have a problem with eating poultry. What I strongly, fiercely object to is factory farming.

[Skittles]

67. I used to get steak and kidney pies from England in large wide tins

I guess they went the way of mad cow :(

[Jamastiene]

68. My grandmother's salmon stew.

I have tried what I can remember of the recipe but it NEVER turns out even 1/4 as good as hers was. Also, her dumplings. She made them from scratch and used a butter knife to cut them after rolling them out on a cheesecloth. I have attempted to make homemade "from scratch" dumplings as well, only to find my "pinch" of this and that just does not match my dearly departed grandmother's recipe either.

Maybe if there is a such thing as Heaven and I can sneak in on a technicality or by scaling the back gate and sneaking past Peter and Jesus, I can once again have her wonderful cooking.

[mopinko]

76. don't peek at the dumplings.

that is the secret of my mom's dumplings. when i make chicken and dumplings, it is, frankly, an order of magnitude better than hers. but the dumpling recipe must be followed to the letter, and the most important letter is that the lids goes on after they are dropped, and it does not come off until the time is up. otherwise they turn to gloop.

[Lorien]

70. Anything with sugar, honey or maple syrup in it

The sweetest thing I can have now is fruit (artificial sweeteners are a big no-no too). :-(

[Louisiana1976]

71. My mother's spare ribs, sutanghon, fried rice, steak,

and anything else cooked by my mother. She passed in 1988.

[HamdenRice]

72. All the amazing artisanal foods from Grandma 'Riah's Farm: real buttermilk biscuits, hog jowls,

fresh shot squirrel, stinky country butter, step grandpa's home triple cured ham (salt, sugar, smoke), and so many other things that will never return to this earth.

[BarbaRosa]

73. My Mom's butter tarts,

I've tried, but just don't have the touch.


BTW she is still with us, just not cooking any more and to far away.

[proudohioan]

74. Green Chile from Chubby's

Too spicy for me anymore.

[prole_for_peace]

75. My grandmother's okra gumbo

and her chili. She made both of them from memory and even though we watched and took notes it never tastes like hers

[LiberalEsto]

77. Coffee

I love coffee but it works on me like drano & prune juice

Same thing with onions.

[BrklynLiberal]

78. My mother's blueberry pie. the absolute best...made from scratch..

:(

[tavalon]

79. I have celiac so I can't have wheat