Food heaven and food hell

[Cassius]

My idea of food heaven: seafood risotto

plate of English farmhouse cheese

fresh ripe nectarine

My idea of food hell: baked beans

tinned sardines

hard boiled eggs

[Keef]

Food heaven... Hmmm. Lamb steaks.

Food hell... Pretty much any fish!

[mockney piers]

I'm rather partial to all your food hells I'm afraid.

Food Heaven, just about everything frankly, but here goes.

Heaven

Good quality Jamon Ib?rico (pata negra) with a glass of dry sherry.

Fresh homemade bread, slice of tomato and onion, good quality olive oil, pinch of salt and black pepper.

Juicy watermelon on a hot day.

Hell

I was scared of some food in Macao once, sort of boiled rice with seemingly freshly slaughtered chicken neck on it.

Other than that I'm partial to most things.

Can't really do rich and sweet stuff though.

[david_carnell]

Much like Piers, if it has eyes I eat it. However I do have a couple of dislikes:

Heaven

Ginger-cake with custard

Mature steak

Thick toast with lashings of salty butter (and a cup of tea)

Bacon & Egg sarnies with brown sauce

Hell

Lychees - the devil's testicles

Pineapple

Anything flavoured with aniseed or liquorice

However if you want really disgusting check out these bad-boys:

The 6 most terryifying food-stuffs in the world - shocking.

[KalamityKel]

:-| cheers! that was well stomach turning material!!!

[spadetownboy]

dont know about that baby white mice would be a great bar snack.

Heaven; my mums stuffed pork

Hell; cheese, i fucking hate the stuff.

[Marmora Man]

Heaven

Black Pudding is at the top of my list of loves - in all its varieties but possibly those from Yorkshire are best.

Steak & Kidney pudding

Bacon sandwich - smoked streaky bacon cooked crispy in decent buttered bread - eaten in the early morning and open air or at sea.

Hell

I thought there were very few food items I would refuse absolutely, tho' david carnell has given me food for thought there.

Badly cooked food of all types

Gristley meat (school dinners in the 50's)

Cold over cooked / burnt fried eggs.

[ratty]

Fook me - Balut is the most frightening thing I have ever seen!

[muffins78]

i don't feel well - that was the worst thing ever

[SeanMacGabhann]

Corkonians might disagree with that one MM. This one does...

Heaven

zingy fresh stir fry of some kind - pref including chicken garlic and chili (I've yet to have a really good one in this country mind)

A really good roast beef dinner

A proper bowl o' chili (the places that do it around here - Mon Petit C'hou rates a 6.5/10, the Plough a 5/10)

Hell

ready meals - I try em every so often just to see if they improve but they never do and the clag of salt, fats and shite doesn't leave me for days

I can't really put fish in "hell" as it's clearly healthy and delicious. I just can't stand it. I'm trying tho...

Processed cheese

[Azul]

heaven

escargot and half pints of cold beer in the summertime

hell

my mother's microwaved sardines served at lunchtime during a dificult hangovered afternoon

[Keef]

I'm changing my heaven, can't believe I forgot it.

My mum's steak casserole.

[TillieTrotter]

Heaven:

Starters - Half dozen oysters

Main - Sea Bass in Oyster and champagne sauce

To finish - champagne and cocktails

Hell:

Offal is awful!!

[bagpuss78]

Food Hell

Baked 'nasty disgusting evil' Beans (please don't put them near me.....i may vomit)

Cream cakes ::o

Really fishy fish, not really fishy fish is fine

Raspberries

Food Heaven

Chicken in most fashions

Chilli in stuff

Fish Finger Sandwich (comfort food at it's best)

Fuji apples

Brussle spouts and bacon

[Michael Palaeologus]

Heaven

Rib of beef - slow hung

Fried pork luncheon meat slices sandwich

Mirash Makhni Chicken

Shugborough Hash (tin of minced beef, tin of peas - heat together and add potato powder until nearly solid

Caviar, sour cream

Hell

Oily fish

Anduilette - French gizzard sausage - its just horrid

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Food heaven:

Steak & Kidney Pudding

Brussel Sprouts (esp next day cold in toasted sandwich with brown sauce)

Eggs benedict

Asparagus with garlic butter

Cheese omelette

Food hell:

Butter beans (made to eat at school)

Mangoes (have same texture as butter beans)

Blackcurrants

Coriander

[jumpinjackflash]

FOOD HEAVEN:

Egg pasta with seafood in a tomato sauce with loads of garlic

big juicy bloody steak

toast and marmite

fat chips and mayo

(i am now dribbling)

FOOD HELL:

Bananas (have phobia - no kidding)

porridge

Supermarket 'value' microwave meals

[annaj]

Food Heaven

Fresh bread and butter

Olives

Fish - the fishier the better. Espeicially smoked fish, but even cheap horrible things like tinned tuna or (cringe) fish paste!

Pizza

Cheese

Roast potatoes

Thick, salty chips

Oh, i could go on forever.

Food Hell

jumpinjackflash you are so right...

Bananas and porrige are evil food.

Milk - especially warm milk except in cappuccino (too many Ps and Cs?)

[LizzygotDizzy]

Heaven

Any kind of fresh seafood be it fish, lobster or shellfish as long as it is fresh

Barbequed meat preferably chicken, lamb or steak with lovely marinade on it.

Fresh bread just out of the oven with butter on it.

Hell

saurkraut

pickles that take the lining off your tongue (and stomach!)

Offal in the form of hagis or faggots, lived on a working farm in Scotland for first 6-7 years of life and still to this day can taste the homemade concoctions my nan used to whip up,

the homemade stovies (a mince, potatoe and onion concoction eaten with oatcakes) were good though! and Butteries, (similar to croissants but round and really thick with lashings of homemade butter on them.

[lozzyloz]

Heaven

My Dad's Chicken Curry and Roti

Fresh Lobster and home made mayonnaise

Fois Gras in deep fried potato balls with chocolate sauce drizzled over the top

Hell

Tongue

Pickled Onions

Soft bacon with a thick rind

[mockney piers]

I have to say, that apart from the microwaved meals, I'm loving everyone's food hells. Saurkraut, offal, haggis, pickles, oily fish, fishy fish, non fishy fish, bananas, porridge, mangoes?!?!!? coriander mmmm.

Allll together on a pizza!!!

[lozzyloz]

Well perhaps we could sponsor you to eat a 18" pizza with all of that as a topping for a deserving charity. Washed down with a heavenly beer of course.

[Annasfield]

"Fois Gras in deep fried potato balls with chocolate sauce drizzled over the top "

I realise that this is likely to spark a debate about the ethical side of the stuff, but why on earth would you do that to foie gras? ::o

Pretty much in agreement with Mockney here with the exception of porridge. Corriander though - wow, the flavour is amazing. :))

[lozzyloz]

but why on earth would you do that to foie gras?

Sometimes you just have to experiment. When I saw it on the menu as a starter I tried it out of curiosity and couldn't believe how good it was. The potato was golden and crisp on the outside and the fois gras just melted like butter. The drizzle of dark chocolate sauce was perhaps a little over indulgent but surprisingly good and since it was a bitter sweet note, not sickly at all.

[mockney piers]

"Sometimes you just have to experiment."

Indeed. Was sceptical about my brother's strawberries and freshly ground black pepper with a glass of crisp, floral white wine, but heavenly.

any other weird food combinations out there of the heaven or hell variety?