Bacon pancakes, people. Burrell had some. I had a taste. OMG. It's heavenly heart horror.

Never had them, but sounds awesome. You can skip the step of cutting your bacon. Not that I wouldn’t order them with a side of bacon.

Octopus and calamari? Most definitely, but it must be cooked in such a way that it's not rubbery. Grilled with a little salt and lemon is delish.

Oh, I should take you to this restaurant in the new ‘hood. I had a fantastic salad with grilled calamari and pesto dressing.

I wonder how the difference came about. FTR, I use a fork and knife European style.

Me too, if I’m eating something that does not require cutting, I eat American style.

Pineapple on pizza – yay

When did yay start equaling wrong? :)

Love all seafood save salmon

Freak! Salmon is the bestest seafood. After lobster and crab.

Of the foods mentioned, I think the only one I actively dislike is non-ruby-red grapefruit. And I look back with sorrow and regret on my high school and college years, when my younger brother used to sell cases and cases of ruby reds to raise funds for school groups, and I would always flinch away and wail, "No! It's grapefruit! It's hideous!" Cases and cases of ruby reds in the garage for three years, wasted.

Which is why I compulsively re-taste even the foods I know I don't like, because what if this time they're delicious and I have to mourn all those years I wasted not eating them?

Re: olives, an amazing local grocery chain has olive bars, with big bowls of 15-20 different kinds of olives. Sampling is not encouraged but is tolerated; every time I go, I taste a different one, and the only bad olive I've ever had was a green olive stuffed with bleu cheese. That was nast, and that was the only nast one in nearly four decades of olive-gorging.

I'm right-handed but wear no watch at all. I had a lovely wristwatch in college, with a nice tiny little face with the Mona Lisa on it, and since it broke I've never found another that felt right. I do occasionally wear the cocktail watch my Papou gave my YiaYia for their somethingth anniversary, which I love, but it's all engraved and delicate and much too sentimental to bring out into the rough coarse world too often.

I have a friend from Hungary who refused to touch root beer for the first five years she was here, saying it tasted exactly like carbonated medicine. Just over the past few months she's sheepishly admitted to beginning to acquire a taste for it, and she will occasionally drink it on purpose now, though she hasn't yet dared to try a float. I figure it is to her what Fernet is to the rest of us.

billytea and Nilly! I don't even have anything to say, I'm just crazy happy to see both your fonts!

Lastly, Matilda: still cute. Also still waking up at death o'clock in the morning. Right now she's sitting on the floor under my chair munching on a bit of bagel and grumbling cheerfully to herself.

Freak! Salmon is the bestest seafood. After lobster and crab

I love smoked salmon, but am lukewarm on broiled, etc. I think that it has a lot to do with farm raised v. wild.

I think the problem is that it's more of a northern seafood. I don't think I even encountered salmon until I was a teenager.

I'm not going to tell you my food preferences. Possibly I am trying to preserve my mystery, but mostly I think you all know what they are.

I think I'm going to make pad thai tonight.

I'm another one who hates raw tomatoes but likes them cooked. However, I do have some exceptions: salsa and gazpacho, both of which involve lots of spices/peppers/etc. that cover up the icky raw tomato taste. I don't like V-8, either.

I'm with tommyrot on finding convertibles with the tops down but windows up annoying--if it's too windy, put the damn top back up! My mom had convertibles and would put the windows up occasionally, and I'd get snippy with her. It's a thing with me, and I probably would get over it really quickly if I had a convertible of my own.

As for other taste issues:

Most hard liquors: yuck, especially straight
Fruity alcoholic drinks: yum (yes, I am a girly girl when it comes to alcohol)
Beer: very much yum
Wine: white is yum, most reds are yuck (that tannic taste turns me off)
Sugary colas: yuck
Olives: yuck
Bagels: yum
Bacon: yum
Fork: switch after cutting
Watch: left hand when I have one
Right handed

Oh my god. Mission: Man Band [link]

Four boy band legends: Chris Kirkpatrick (N*SYNC); Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees); Rich Cronin (LFO) and Bryan Abrams (Color Me Badd) will live together for one month, create new music, a dynamic stage show and perform as a new pop group.

I think that "legends" is a bit much, especially in the case of the LFO guy.

Huh. Toasted raisin bagle with cream cheese tastes odd. At least the one I have now.

eta: I've changed my mind. It is teh num.