Ploppy
A running joke amongst people who know me well is that I don't like anything "ploppy" (my words).

I can eat anything in a sauce, and I can eat chewy sweets etc, but not really anything in-between in that horrible semi-solid/semi-liquid clingy plop state.

However, I can eat something that is 'ploppy' if the 'ploppiness' is counter-balanced by something harder and munchier. For example, I don't really like cheesecakes with masses of the ploppy bit but if the ploppy bit and the munchy biscuit base are about equal I can happily enjoy it.

Gravy is ok because it's watery more than ploppy.
Mince on it's own is ok.
Don't like mince in gravy though (these don't counter-balance each other, they just center themselves in the middle of the ploppy scale). Couple that with the dislike of mashed potato and I reeeally don't like shepherds pie.

Wine gums and chocalate can edge into ploppy territory too, so I put them in the fridge to harden them up. However I like chocalate melting in my mouth.

Oddly, ice cream can never get ploppy to me. I think this is because it never has that greasy clinginess.

Maybe I should submit a definition to the Oxford English Dictionary...

I don't like coffee either but that's because it tastes like shite.

Length? Well sometimes it GETS ploppy.
(stubbledchin, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 16:07, Reply)