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[titusnowl]

Just in case you ever wanted to ask me out to dinner:

Food Allergies:
Luckily, I don't have any, although too many onions make my esophagus feel kinda funny.


Foods I Don't Eat, Ever:
Avocado, beans (including chili), anything very spicy (so most Tex-Mex is right out), most fish (excluding fried things like fish'n'chips or fishsticks), peppers (hot or bell), sushi, olives.


Foods I Don't Prefer, But Will Eat Occasionally or Pick Out of Mixed Dishes:
Hamburgers (I like the ones Justin makes and the ones from Jucy's, but I don't eat fast-food chain burgers). I'm not sure if the question refers to things I'd pick out of a mixed dish in order to NOT eat them, or in order to YES eat them. If the latter, broccoli. I wouldn't order broccoli on its own but if there are mixed vegetables I'll just pull out the broccoli and the carrots and eat them.

Pizza Preferences:
Cheese and grease. Around here I stick to Pizza Hut's pan pizzas, because a true New York-style pizza would be impossible to find and anything less would be a travesty.


General Principles About My Food Preferences:
I like old-fashioned "American" food, mostly. Even when I eat ethnic - and Chinese food is really the only ethnic cuisine I partake of - my choices are usually pretty Americanized. Pretty much anything fried is good. Almost any sort of chicken is good. Steak? Good. So on and so forth. I'm very picky and I tend to be very stodgy about what I will and will not try. I am not an open-minded eater.

Comments

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

The only way to get a decent pizza (or any Italian food for that matter) in Texas is to make your own.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

decent pizza (or any Italian food for that matter)

It's been my experience in upstate New York that the two are mutually exclusive. A place can have great Italian food of the type Olive Garden tries to do, or it can have great Italian food of the type you can get from street vendors in New York City, or it can have great pizza. Occasionally you'll find a place that'll do one very well and another middling fair. Rarely will you find a place that can do two well. You'll never find a place that can do all three decently.

Pizza is supposed to be big and flat and grease should run off of it when you pick it up. The cheese should be thick and not too stringy; the sauce should be liberally applied but wholly covered by the cheese; the crust should be thin and crispy on the bottom but soft on the outer rim of the pie, so you can eat it like a breadstick when you've finished the rest of the slice. You should have to fold your slice in half to fit it in your mouth. The pie should have a two-foot diameter. It should be washed down with cola or beer.

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

A place can have great Italian food of the type Olive Garden tries to do

The operative word there would have to be "tries." The food at Olive Garden is utter excrement that I wouldn't feed to a pig.

There is, I should have mentioned, actually one good italian chef in East Texas. He has a restaurant called Dominici's in Mineola.

And while good pizza and haute Italian cuisine are not often found in the same place, it does happen in a few places. (Its fairly common in St. Louis, Missouri which has a very large ethnic Italian population)

I am in perfect agreement with you about the definition of good pizza. Its GOT to be thin crust.