What’s on the radio!

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Every morning during my coffee run, I listen to the local oldies station on my car radio. Oldies is defined as music from the 70s and 80s with the occasional errant 60s or 90s song sneaking in. There are two guys who banter and make me laugh. Today’s topic was things that you think are overrated or undeservedly popular.

I learned that some people are not Swifties, don’t think Beyonce is wonderful and that KFC has better chicken nuggets than McDonald’s. Some of the comments were astounding. Who doesn’t like the Beatles? Apparently one person living locally.

It made me think about what popular things I don’t like.

I love cheese but not the twangy ones like feta (spawn of Satan!), blue cheese (or gorgonzola if you are classy) and the truly stinky (that’s you limburger!).

I don’t know why people drink tea when you can have a delicious coffee direct from the Costa Rican hills or maybe Columbia growing next to the poppy fields (do they still grow poppies or make the drugs chemically?). You can’t put chocolate in tea so there’s another reason.

We are a global society but does all food have to have touches of southeast Asia or other parts far away with spices I can’t pronounce? (This is tempered by my recent discovery of Thai sweet chili sauce which is the best!) I’m not a fan of weird (by my standards) ingredients. I don’t know why people serve shrimp with the tails on (you either discard the entire tail meat or wrestle with the cartilage cover) or whole fish with the eyes staring at you. Then again, I never was a fan of fruit loops which are not fruit.

I’m sure you have your own thoughts. Care to share?

 

69 thoughts on “What’s on the radio!”

  2. I can’t imagine someone having a negative feeling towards the Beatles, but I am one of those people who thinks that everything I like SHOULD be enjoyed by others. I try not to let that part of my personality show too often. 😉 Do you know/enjoy Kombucha? That’s something that divides people in my “world,” as it’s very popular, and I love it, but some friends won’t touch it. I’m with you on fish that looks at me!

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  4. I just finished my coffee which I can’t imagine doing without first thing in the morning, and I like feta and blue cheese. I love a good burger with blue cheese, yum. I’ve never eaten fruit loops in my entire life, but certainly ate a lot of cream of wheat when I was a kid and now lean towards Oat Crunch Cheerios with fruit. I’m not into a lot of food experiments these days because they don’t sit well, but I remember the days I couldn’t get enough of jalapenos and other spices. Now, I just have six hours until afternoon coffee. 🙂

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    • I mostly have afternoon coffees (mochas really) in the winter but I like the concept. Coffee is a happy spot for me. Always relaxing. Nowadays every recipe I see is some kind of “fusion” with different ethnicities. I never was adventurous with weird ingredients. I like recipes that take a standard recipe and make it easier, faster or better.

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  5. I agree, I don’t like my meal looking at me and shrimp tails should be politely taken off before served. I don’t ask guests to shuck their corn at the dinner table, so why mess with shrimp there?

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  6. I cannot cast stones on those who like what they like and hate what they hate when it comes to food. There are a lot of people who think I’m barbaric for loving to eat soft shell crabs (!!) since you eat the entire thing including shell! LOL

    Hugs, Pam

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    • I bought it on a spur of the moment. OMG! Soft heat with a mellow sweetness. I put it in everything for the first month! Now I’m a little more judicious about it but it goes in a lot of stuff here.

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  8. My parents drank coffee and as a kid I’d get a few teaspoons of coffee in my milk to “be a grownup” and I’ve never looked back since. My mom switched to tea in later years as she got heartburn from coffee. I do not like tea. Every time I buy green tea to be healthy, I have it a couple of days and abandon the idea again … to me, any type of tea is tasteless. I loved Starbucks coffee when the store was in our office building and I got the large size brew of the day and drank it black. I was humming all day as I already had coffee with breakfast before I left to work. I don’t mind feta or bleu cheese on a salad, but would rather have a wedge of cheddar any day. As a Canadian, I grew up eating apple pie with a wedge of Cheddar not a la mode. I’ve never had limburger cheese. Growing up, my mom made oatmeal or Cream of Wheat every morning for breakfast – occasionally there were Cheerios for a treat in the hot Summer months to avoid heating up the kitchen with hot cereal, but I never had Froot Loops unless we were on vacation and they had a breakfast buffet with little boxes of cereal and Mom would relent then. Those boxes had about 15 pieces of cereal in them. I have never understood the fascination with sushi – I’ve never had it, won’t try it … I don’t like the looks of it. I’ve never had oysters either … the look of them does not appeal to me and I am not a picky eater.

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    • They say we eat with our eyes and our noses. I love cheese. Swiss is my fav but cheddar, gouda, mozzarella and anything in between is good. I remember cereal boxes. Once in a while my mom would buy the 8-pack. The sweet ones always went uneaten but it was fun to open up different kinds that I normally didn’t get.

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      • Cheese is my downfall – that and Triscuits. Is there a better snack? I found this wonderful bread called “Rustik” – my favorite is their sourdough and it’s wonderful. Just an occasional treat as you only get about six slices in a package, but they are huge slices. My mom was all about hot cereal every weekday morning – eggs or pancakes on weekends, so I was like a kid in a candy shop when we had those little cereal boxes when we traveled and breakfast was included.

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  9. It’s fun to share dislikes! I avoid eating anything with tentacles and suction cups. A friend I’ve never written about won’t eat black eyed peas. He says they are all eyes staring at him.

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  12. IMO Chick-fil-A has the best chicken nuggets…. their honey mustard dipping sauce! After having a disgusting can of white albacore tuna I am down to grilled salmon fillets no skin thank you, crab legs and shrimp. I do love ice tea with lemonade. Love mushrooms any old way… prefer to pop the stem out of the cap and fill the cap with ranch dressing, yum. No stinky cheese. If I could think today I could go on and on Kate but I am competing with 5 men making lots of noise on our roof! This is a fun post!

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  13. Coffee is an acquired taste, and I never got acquired. 😁 Beer is also an acquired taste. During the college-age years, I drank it cause it was all that was available for us to get. Didn’t really care for it, but over time, I started to like it. Now I find myself enjoying an ice cold brew on occasion (not the coffee kind). I love tea, especially flavored ones. Any kind. Herbal, or black, or green, or Rooibos. And the list goes on. Lots of flavors to choose from. My current favorite is Almond Vanilla (black tea). But I think my overall favorite is chai with cream and honey.

    I tried to like coffee, but the bitter aftertaste got in my way. Yet, I could breathe in the scent of fresh coffee grounds all day long. The smell is wonderful.

    As far as food goes, I’m into flavor, but the right kind of flavor. I can’t stand it when a restaurant says garlic is in one of their dishes, and then all I taste is garlic. I might as well just eat a clove of it. I’m Italian, and if a dish is authentic Italian, you should be able to taste ALL of the seasoning, not just the garlic. I like spicy (hot) when I’m in the mood, but again, it must not over power everything else. This is one of the reasons I hesitate going to restaurants. If I cook it myself, I put just the right amount of everything I like.

    So, there you go. I guess you got me going today. 😏

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    • Some people seem to acquire the taste for beer easily! It’s great on a hot day. Coffee was always around in my youth. My mom had a pot going all day so it’s no surprise that I like it. She would let me have some when I was a teen but it was half milk. Never sugar. When I started to work, I acquired a “need” for coffee fast!

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  15. Fruit Loops is barely nothing beyond colored sugar. I refused to buy those for the kids (talk about them having a depraved childhood)…Pepsi and Coke are bad enough, but to start the day with excess sugar and all those artificial flavorings/dyes…umm, nope. The maize flour alone should disqualify it as being fit for consumption.

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    • My mom didn’t buy many cereals. I had farina (cooked wheat) and Rice Krispies. She mostly served eggs and toast for breakfast. I can’t believe all those sugary breakfast foods. My teeth hurt thinking about it (as I chugged down my mocha!)

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      • Guess when you put it like that…you can’t help but think “to each his own poison,” eh? Yeah, my mom fixed a lot of hot breakfasts though I preferred Cheerios and Wheaties over eggs (I’d probably take a bullet over eggs). Those cereals are no doubt loaded with a lot of non-nutritious stuff just like the Fruit Loops.

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  16. Growing up in a household with a father who only drank tea and a mother who only drank coffee, I learned to appreciate both beverages. I like feta and blue cheese, but not limburger cheese. I don’t like Fruit Loops but can go for Honey-Nut Cheerios on occasion.

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    • Not liking feta is a problem. I looked a preprepared salads at the grocery this morning. They looked wonderful except for the dosing of feta all over them. Not only the Greek salads but almost all of them. When I was a child we only drank tea when we were ill. Not much cereal in this house. Mostly toast or eggs and toast.

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  18. I said loud hell, yes! as it came to the tails… we had exactly THIS!! shrimps last week… either you have a mess on the table when you try to remove the shell or you eat only a small part and the bigger part is for garbage :O( marie antoinette was right… let them eat lobsters when they have no proper shrimps… sigh…

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    • At fancy cocktail parties, I liked the tail on large shrimp because it gave me a handle to hold onto while dipping in cocktail sauce. I didn’t worry about getting every morsel out of the tail, I just grabbed another shrimp.

      One of the attorneys I worked with ate the shrimp . . . tails and all. I think he wanted to hide his excessive crustacean consumption by leaving No Trace Behind. 😀

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  19. We are going to have to agree to disagree on feta and blue cheese…yum!! A watermelon salad with feta is just the thing for summer. Marley loves his tea, but give me a cup of coffee anyday. Tea will do in a pinch, especially iced tea if it’s hot, but otherwise, there are better choices. We’re getting veges from a CSA this summer, and I love a lot of it, but the eggplant…sorry…not gonna cook that stuff. I’ve tried, and Marley and I agree that it can go right in the compost.

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  20. Ever hear of an “Arnold Palmer?” Great on a hot day, especially on the links. For you uninitiated, it’s iced tea and lemonade 50/50.
    Brother Tom
    PS: Happy birthday to to Pop!

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  21. Many of my friends call me “crazy” because I don’t like mushrooms. I remember when my mom would make tuna noodle casserole with cream of mushroom soup and how I always finished eating last because i spent time digging out those little dark squares and pushing them to the side of my plate. I also remember when, as a teen, my mother told me at one meal that they “don’t taste like anything” and my response was, “Then why bother putting them in there in the first place?”

    I prefer coffee over tea, unless it’s an iced tea or unless I am so cold that I can visualize that a cup of hot tea will warm me up. And I am exactly like you when it comes to stinky cheese.

    It’s fun to see who likes what and who abhors what!

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    • Love ‘shrooms! I fry up onions and mushrooms and package in small packets to freeze. Yesterday I took one out to put in rice. Even my husband commented on how tasty it was. In all truth, a lot of the flavor came from the sweet onion but the mushroom was there.

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  22. Totally with you on shrimp and food staring at you, but my husband will consume a fish down to the eyeballs. Gotta admire the lack of food waste! I love stinky cheeses, especially blue cheese. The less bland, the better. And tea! Real tea has so many different types of flavors, and yes, some blends are chocolatey now (still on the fence about this development). I got a new type of black tea recently with apricot–delicious! My one cup of coffee/ optimism in the morning is great, but in the afternoon, nothing beats a cup of real tea (loose leaf, of course).

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    • I will drink a foo-foo tea in the afternoon in the winter (like raspberry or some fruit). I’m not a big ice tea fan but I like it with lemonade. Lots of lemonade! I can imagine Andy eats all sorts of things that I don’t. The Asian cuisine is very “inclusive!”

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    • My husband was right that prawns taste better when fried and sauced unpeeled. The skin adds a lot of flavor. But unless you’re Chinese, it’s almost impossible to eat without making a huge mess. I do like a good fish head soup, though. My Chinese painting teacher took us (mostly Americans and Europeans) out for lunch, and we all agreed the fish head soup was great.

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