Michelle, you should be ashamed....no meat hush puppies?? lol. How bout kibbeh-nea (sp?) the raw meat dish. Put me on a desert Island w/ kib & taboule and I'm good to go!
I was a way picky eater till I got married. Up until 5 or 6 years ago, I wouldn't TOUCH fish unless it were a fish stick. Hub is one hell of a cook, (& it's only he that makes dinner..I don't cook) and comes up w/ the most interesting things. He cooks fish like nothing I have ever had. NOTHING ever tastes fishy, and he generally uses so few ingridients. So now, still selective, but I eat fish. My Dad was most surprised to hear me say my favorite was Catfish. He thought that for a long time no-fish eater to love that the most was weird. Then he had it prepared by hubby, and it a believer. I dunno what to tell you guys. Either he laces it w/ crack, or he's slowly killing me. lol
In addition to eating fish, I still can not stomach cooked mushrooms. They are ok raw cut VERY small in a salad, but that's it. Celry I don't like at all except for cooking with. To add flavor..but I want NONE of it in my dish.
Cheeses I am ok w/ to an extent. The cheap American crap (that I used to love as a po-ass child) I detest now. But what really makes my skin crawl is Tomato juice, and the big life mystery...as in who the bleep drinks this crap....Clamato. EEEW! Just saying the word gives me the yuckies. I like tomatoes, raw, again in salad....ok I guess. Not cooked, and who in the hell wants to juice them? It's just wrong. And it's all thick and yucky.