Tofu is fermented soy-bean curd.
A couple of people have asked about it, and/or nominated it as a hated food.
In my experience, most people who won't eat it:
a) don't know what it is
b) think it is "only for vegetarians"
c) are rampantly anit-vegetarian
d) have only ever seen/tasted it when it hasn't been prepared properly.

Why not broaden your mind and try something new? Cooked in the right way, it has a wonderfull texture and picks up the flavours of sauces, like teriyaki, perfectly. Simply using it to replace the meat in any recipe will result in a disaster (better to use Quorn for this).

The only inedible foods I've come across are:
Squid: tastes okay, but requires hours of chewing
Oranges: nice, but the juice drains away and leaves a pappy mess in my mouth
Liver: tastes bad, but being offal doesn't mean you can't eat it (kidneys are great, as is haggis)
Tuna-pasta-bake: only when made by my dad, everyone else's is okay, but I tend to give it a wide berth, just in case.
I think i'd draw the line at eating insects, and I'm not so sure that I'd want to try tripe either (probably goes back to my childhood aversion to any fat or gristle in my food - I'd throw up if I bit into any, so used to disect sausages before I could eat them).

This QotW is making me alternately hungry and annoyed at people for slagging of some of my favoured foods (brussles, celery, marmite, cheese, kidneys...)

Edit: forgot to mention Veal - what's the point? Tastes like beef, costs twice as much. Nevermind the fact that its even less humane than ordinary beef. Ate this once when hurried by the waiter (so I ordered from the top of the menu). Seriously underwhelmed by my dinner.
Instant Mashed Potato - Again, what is the point of this? I'd eat this only under protest/rationing.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 14 Jul 2004, 11:29, Reply)