Growing up it took me a while to get used to new foods and even then there are a few vegetables and things I refuse to eat.
Texture is a real thing in foods for me.
My parents had an apple tree at our old house and it was my job to pick up the rotten apples off of the grass. There was many times that they were so rotten they would turn into mush and I can distinctly remember getting apple "gook" on my fingers and freaking out.
I got pretty creative picking up the rotten apples. My dad would always say "just pick them up real fast with your hands and you'll be ok. The more you have your little tricks, the longer it will take!"
I couldn't do fun things until my chores were done.
One thing I distinctly remember, beyond the feel, is the smell. The sickly sweet rotten smell of wet apple would give me the shivers. When we harvested the apples, my mother would make apple sauce for food storage. It was always fun to help her can things (especially salsa) but when it comes to apple sauce....I cannot stand anything about it.
If one has never made homemade applesauce it is quite a process. You have to cook the apples up so they are soft and mushy. Then you take them out of the boil process and then put it into an archaic torture device and squish the apples through the hole. At one end of the machine the apple seeds, core, stem and skin comes out to be thrown away. The applesauce mush comes out through a sluice.
The reason why I hate applesauce and cooked apples (hell even apple pie...as my husband says I am weird), is the texture. When making applesauce the smell of rotten, wet, cooked apples becomes aroma-ticized and it permeates the house. My mom tried to make me try the hot applesauce as it came out the machine (It is one of those things...if it is not meant to be eaten hot...I DON'T WANT TO EAT IT HOT!!!!)
It would make me gag...any type of cooked fruit makes me gag now. The texture is too funky and slimy and sends me back to my apple picking days and I have horrible memories.
Another weirdness with me is rating my favorite french fry places. It was one of the funnest dates I would ever do. We would go to five or six of the best fast food joints in town and order small orders of fries. Then we would rate them on how good they were and whether we wanted to eat more. It was super simplistic but holy OMG it was so much fun and it was fun to rate things. You got to know people really well and talk about random crap while doing it.
*In case you were wondering, my favorite french fries are from Arctic Circle. I like how they hold up to dipping and they are never super salty.
*My favorite sit down restaurant fries are those from the Grecian Key downtown. The steak fries are delicious and I really like bigger fries in general.
---and not to mention fried cheese curds...those are sooo good!
All french fries have to be eaten with ranch (and not all ranch is the same). It is a toss up between two different brands. One is the Litehouse Homestyle Ranch, but the other is oddly from Walmart and it is called Wild Coyote Ranch.
-Best sit down ranch is from Applebees and Buffalo Wild Wings
-Best fast food ranch is from Jimmy Johns (their zesty ranch is to die for and holy cow....SO GOOD)
Mixed drinks
Now the types of mixed drinks I am talking about are the non alcoholic kinds. There has been a craze of mixed non alcoholic soda drinks that has exploded. Places like the Drink Factory or Soda Barn, Soda Craze...basically any name one can think of associated to drinks or soda. The premise is this, a business has a fountain put into their store and buys every popular drink flavoring known to man. These drink flavors can be like Torani, DaVinci, and numerous others. They put a squirt in a soda drink and make their own signature names.
I am of the small portion of people in the world who really likes Diet Mountain Dew. I discovered a really good combination of Diet Dew with Green Apple and I am addicted. I like the sour flavor and hell the bubbles are delicious.
Everyone says that fountain drinks from gas stations are all created equal...I submit that they are not! My favorite gas station fountain is from Maverick...and my favorite soda shop is the Drink Factory in Blackfoot, but the Soda Barn in Pocatello is a really close second.
I don't know why I felt like writing this but I thought it would be fun to let people glimpse at my weirdness.
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