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Throughout history, our sense of taste has protected us. It has caused us to crave the most nutritious and filling foods, it has warned us of spoil and poison. It brings joy and excitement to our otherwise mundane daily lives. But it it is a fickle sense, and easily mislays us. This challenge may be the greatest in NICSA history. I understand if it proves to be unpopular. But we are all brave goons, and I have faith in all of you.  The challenge is  FOODS YOU HATE I bet every single one of us has a food that they hate. Perhaps a vegetable they were forced to eat as a kid, or a badly prepared dish we were served in the past. Maybe something about the ingredient is just slimy, weird, smelly, or otherwise distasteful. Maybe it brings up bad memories. Maybe it's something your entire culture finds distasteful, and were trained to fear from childhood. My friends, the fear ends NOW. Because nothing solves conflict like bonding over a meal. Participants must cook ONE dish, containing at minimum, one ingredient they dislike, OR, attempt to cook a dish they dislike. It can be a preparation they have had and disliked in the past, or a new preparation using the ingredient in a novel new way. Participants must document the cooking process and final product. Participants must also explain why they have disliked the ingredient/dish, and attempt to understand, and possibly enjoy the ingredient. Bonus for writeups detailing the history and any interesting facts about the ingredient, because knowledge and understanding is how we conquer fear! It does not matter if you don't like your final dish, but you must try three bites, because THAT'S THE RULES. (and now, some more rules) Wroughtirony posted:What is ICSA? Submission Rules : 1. Post a separate thread for your entry, then post here with a link. 2. Post pics! We want to see the process as well as the final dish. 3. If possible, please include your recipe so that other Goons can try and recreate your dishes for their own consumption. 4. Learn about dem foods 5. Have fun, and be creative. 6. Questions? Ask in the thread or PM your Chairman. 7. Dont use dangerous ingredients! Things that are illegal in your country, things that you are allergic to, ect. Dont hurt yourself in the name of NISCA (save that for ISCA) PRIZES: -FIRST PLACE Will receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card, a COOL GIFT, and a CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION. First Place will be determined by the Voting Thread. -CHAIRMAN'S CHOICE Will receive a SPECIAL COOL GIFT!!!! And Certificate. And will be determined at the Chairman's Discretion. Go forth, brave goons! Grab the carrots and cabbage, the peppers and durian, the offal meats, the fish heads, the weird food grandma served at holidays and said your ancestors ate, the strange pickle, the puffins stuffed inside a seal carcass and buried under rocks at the beach for three months. YOU HAVE UNTIL APRIL 29th Allez Cuisine! 
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Going to have to give this some serious thought as pretty much the only foods I disliked as a child (spinach and chicken liver) are things I learned to cook and love later in life. The closest thing to a food I hate right now is probably lobster? But that is more of a "this isn't interesting enough to be worth all of the fuss and cost, I could just melt butter and drink it" feeling. Might be time to call mom.
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Mar 31, 2019 14:48
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Ooh, this is excellent and I want to take part! My stomach is already churning at the thoughts of cooking oysters and aubergines.
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Mar 31, 2019 15:01
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If you live with a SO or a roommate/whatever, this is a good chance to cook that thing they love but you hate and get brownie points along the way
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Mar 31, 2019 15:11
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Nephzinho posted:(spinach and chicken liver) are things I learned to cook and love later in life. These two were my first thought as well, but as ingredients they've redeemed themselves  I don't dislike any ingredients enough to hate them in every preparation, so I guess I'm flipping a coin between spinach and egg soup and almond fish... Waci fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 31, 2019 15:42
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Sarah Bellum posted:Ooh, this is excellent and I want to take part! My stomach is already churning at the thoughts of cooking oysters and aubergines. Ohhhh I *hate* oysters. Could do fried to have them require "cooking".
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Mar 31, 2019 15:49
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BrianBoitano posted:If you live with a SO or a roommate/whatever, this is a good chance to cook that thing they love but you hate and get brownie points along the way There has never been a more prefect opportunity my friend. Let food unite us, not divide us! Sarah Bellum posted:Ooh, this is excellent and I want to take part! My stomach is already churning at the thoughts of cooking oysters and aubergines. Nephzinho posted:Ohhhh I *hate* oysters. Could do fried to have them require "cooking". Oysters have many preparations besides raw and fried! Such as Oysters Rockefeller, or Po'Boys! Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 31, 2019 16:03
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Suspect Bucket posted:There has never been a more prefect opportunity my friend. Let food unite us, not divide us! I have never thought about other preparations because I've always seen them as expensive loogies.
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Mar 31, 2019 16:16
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I'm disqualified from entering NICSA, which is good because I can't think of any foods I hate!
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Mar 31, 2019 16:29
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Hahaha, this is great. I’m glad I’m not allowed to enter, because I can’t think of a good way to make peanut butter durian.
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Mar 31, 2019 18:43
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Scientastic posted:Hahaha, this is great. I’m glad I’m not allowed to enter, because I can’t think of a good way to make peanut butter durian. Do it you coward. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with durian jelly?
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Mar 31, 2019 19:26
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I. M. Gei posted:I really hope the next NICSA theme is what I think it is, because if it is then I already have several kickass recipes for every course ready and waiting. This is not the theme I was hoping for. BUT... Suspect Bucket posted:Participants must cook ONE dish, containing at minimum, one ingredient they dislike, OR, attempt to cook a dish they dislike. It can be a preparation they have had and disliked in the past, or a new preparation using the ingredient in a novel new way. My signature recipe for the theme I WAS hoping for works really well for this theme too, so I’m in.
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Mar 31, 2019 19:59
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Suspect Bucket posted:Oysters have many preparations besides raw and fried! Such as Oysters Rockefeller, or Po'Boys! Or stuffing. I made oyster stuffing for Thanksgiving last year and it slapped.
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Mar 31, 2019 20:08
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I might just make an oyster and clam thread while i'm at it. I loooove them. And all seafood, really, my av is not strictly about minor league baseball and early 2000's internet memes. Oysters are basically expensive tasty snot balls, you're not wrong. But oysters' expense comes down to the shipping, and the fact that they're mostly hand harvested and produced by small farmers. It's kinda like wine, except exceptionally less bullshit. When you enjoy them, you can really taste the difference between different varieties and origins, it's pretty great. I only eat local oysters when i'm by the coast, otherwise I don't bother. Eat the sea boogers! edit: OYSTER FACT! Oysters used to be so plentiful that you could get an oyster sandwich in Manhattan cheaper then a hot dog. Some families were so poor, they lived on nothing other then oysters and bread. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 31, 2019 |
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Mar 31, 2019 21:03
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Hm this is tempting. I tried beef heart once and it was horrible though I think it might have a lot of potential.
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Mar 31, 2019 21:49
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Waci posted:Do it you coward. I would, but unfortunately the rules say I can’t. A dreadful shame, but you know the old saying: “rules are meant to be unquestioningly obeyed”
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Mar 31, 2019 22:00
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Suspect Bucket posted:I might just make an oyster and clam thread while i'm at it. I loooove them. And all seafood, really, my av is not strictly about minor league baseball and early 2000's internet memes. Oh man... Oh man oh man oh man. Can we save this for a later NICSA? If we did a second seafood one at the same time as this one, I’d have to pick between like 5 different recipes and that’s just too much for me to juggle with at the moment. Plus I don’t have a ton of money to work with right now due to parent death... like I almost didn’t buy this avatar.
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Mar 31, 2019 22:05
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Newbie Iron Something Chef Awful
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Apr 1, 2019 02:21
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Suspect Bucket posted:edit: OYSTER FACT! Oysters used to be so plentiful that you could get an oyster sandwich in Manhattan cheaper then a hot dog. Some families were so poor, they lived on nothing other then oysters and bread. Roughly half the world's oyster population, as of 1600, was in New York Harbor.
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Apr 1, 2019 02:38
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Suspect Bucket posted:edit: OYSTER FACT! Oysters used to be so plentiful that you could get an oyster sandwich in Manhattan cheaper then a hot dog. Some families were so poor, they lived on nothing other then oysters and bread. I'm trying to decide if "some kind of salad" qualifies, given that one of my most disliked foods is "most leafy green vegetables".
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Apr 1, 2019 06:37
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So. I could write a list a mile long about stuff I hate. Bell peppers. Eggplant. Okra. Sweet potato. Butternut squash ever since it became the cloyingly sweet nastiness it’s become in the past 15 years. Seitan. Tempeh. drat near every commercially made sauce that includes sugar, with the exception of ketchup. I might just enter for the gently caress of it.
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Apr 1, 2019 06:59
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Resting Lich Face posted:Newbie Iron Something Chef Awful YOU WON THE SECRET PRIZE! Please come pick up your slightly chewed water buffalo horn my dog no longer cares for at
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Apr 1, 2019 13:38
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The only foods I won't eat are things that try to kill me with anaphylaxis (like shrimp, crab, lobster, etc) and even then I still like them. The only things I don't enjoy eating are surströmming and sugary cereals - I'm not bringing surströmming into my house, but maybe I'll try and make a sugary cereal from scratch?
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Whalley posted:The only foods I won't eat are things that try to kill me with anaphylaxis (like shrimp, crab, lobster, etc) and even then I still like them. The only things I don't enjoy eating are surströmming and sugary cereals - I'm not bringing surströmming into my house, but maybe I'll try and make a sugary cereal from scratch? That would own! I myself make my own museli, it's the best. I want to see your breakfast cereal attempts! Incoherence posted:The same is true of lobsters in the Northeast US: https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-people-and-prisoner-1612356919 Salad owns and you should definitely figure out how to make a salad you like. It is perfectly legal to top a salad with a whole sliced steak, or a scoop of barbeque. Eat the greens! Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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Apr 1, 2019 16:02
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I am ineligible, but also deeply tempted to use this as an excuse for savory aspics. I hate savory aspics.
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Apr 1, 2019 18:07
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Liquid Communism posted:I am ineligible, but also deeply tempted to use this as an excuse for savory aspics. May I ask why you hate savory aspics specifically, as opposed to all aspics because gelatinized food is gross as gently caress?
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Apr 2, 2019 02:24
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The only things I really hate are hot dogs and grapefruit and I like pretty much any other kind of sausage so it's not like I could legitimately sub out the hot dog for a brat or something since I already know I like those. But still, my first thought was a something like a Sonoran hot dog with a grapefruit based salsa. Actually that sounds kind of good, even to me. stereobreadsticks fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Apr 2, 2019 15:22
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stereobreadsticks posted:Sonoran hot dog with a grapefruit based salsa. Do it. I wanna see this odd concoction.
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Apr 2, 2019 15:45
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I. M. Gei posted:May I ask why you hate savory aspics specifically, as opposed to all aspics because gelatinized food is gross as gently caress? I am Deeply Midwestern, so the venerable Jello Salad runs in my veins. Hopefully not literally.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:45
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I absolutely despise liver when it's not in liverwurst form. I try it about once a year or so when the opportunity presents itself, and every time I hate it. I may give this one a shot.
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Apr 12, 2019 12:13
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How are you champions doing? I'll be making (well, documenting my boyfriend doing it) the cabbage dish that changed my mind about cabbage this week. TWO WEEKS REMAIN
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Apr 12, 2019 14:13
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If board games fall through on the 20th I will be attempting a variety of oyster preparations. Way I see it, worst case scenario I get desperately ill and don't have to go over the bridge to NJ for Easter. Win win?
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Apr 12, 2019 14:18
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Suspect Bucket posted:How are you champions doing? I'll be making (well, documenting my boyfriend doing it) the cabbage dish that changed my mind about cabbage this week. I'm working on a thing
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Apr 12, 2019 14:23
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Nephzinho posted:If board games fall through on the 20th I will be attempting a variety of oyster preparations. Way I see it, worst case scenario I get desperately ill and don't have to go over the bridge to NJ for Easter. Win win? Which bridge, and which bit of Jersey? If the answers are Verrazano and Trenton, owch. I spent 40 bucks on train tickets to avoid bridge tolls (and to drink on the train back from a wedding shower)
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Suspect Bucket posted:Which bridge, and which bit of Jersey? I'm in Crown Heights, my parents are right over the GW. I pretty much bought a beater just to go back and forth the 16 miles because they won't come here (they're still scared of Brooklyn from 30 years ago) and I can't take my dog on a bus.
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Apr 12, 2019 15:28
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Suspect Bucket posted:How are you champions doing? I'll be making (well, documenting my boyfriend doing it) the cabbage dish that changed my mind about cabbage this week. I already made my food, I just have to type up the post.
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Apr 12, 2019 22:22
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Oh man... I hate, hate, hate some hard anise candies my grandma always had at her house, I would only use them as treats for the dogs.
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Apr 14, 2019 08:44
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SEVEN DAYS REMAIN My boyfriend made the cabbage SNEAKILY and did not let me photographs. We will make it again this week hopefully.
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Apr 21, 2019 14:13
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gently caress I still have to type up my thread.
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I. M. Gei posted:gently caress I still have to type up my thread. Same
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