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I don’t know what to do with mushrooms. It’s a fungus but a food. I love foods that have some flavoring with mushrooms but then again, I’m not sure if it’s the mushrooms that make the flavor. Does a mushroom actually have a flavor?
I’m not the person to answer that because I’m not going to actually eat a mushroom. I can’t stand them. Again - it’s not really about their flavor. It’s the fact that they slide down your mouth and throat. It’s like post-nasal drip.
Oysters are another case in point. I remember my first oyster sliding down the back of my neck. DISSSS-GUSTING. Fried oysters - whole other story.
Okra is another food like this. Pickled okra was actually invented to hide the massive amounts of green, slimy snot in the South. Fried okra is completely different. It’s not possible to have to much fried okra. Which brings me to another random point - if someone orders okra, they mean fried okra. I was in a restaurant in the South and I ordered okra and the waitress said - “Fried or pickled?”
I just looked at her. What the heck kind of question is that? Why would anyone order pickled okra on purpose???? Of course, fried.
You could repeat this same conversation about squash.
In fact, you can deep fry pretty much anything and it’s going to taste good. Well…maybe not good but better than if it weren’t deep fried. Fried pickles is one instance where I don’t think frying helps. You can still taste the pickleness through the friedness. But that’s a flavor thing, not a texture thing and completely off-topic.
I bring all of this up because I recently ate a casserole that had mushrooms in it. The flavor was great until I bit into one of the ’shrooms. It was one of those “I think I just threw up in my mouth” moments. And it got me thinking.
I don’t think mushrooms are a real food. It’s like a basil leaf.
Tags: basil leaf, food, mushrooms, okra, squash
10 responses so far ↓
1 Kitty Smith // Apr 1, 2008 at 8:22 am
Mushrooms are definitely not found in the Smith household. They are NOT a real food. They gross me out, and when Rowland orders a side of mushrooms, they stink up the whole restaurant! GAG!!!!
2 robert // Apr 1, 2008 at 9:09 am
grant sometimes your are just spot on. unfortunately this is not one of those times. ’shrooms are GREAT. especially if they are cooked on the grill! oh that’s good stuff. also let me add that oysters and squash are just as good. i’m a little ambivalent concerning okra (you have to have it for good gumbo).
3 Christine Maupin // Apr 1, 2008 at 9:50 am
Mushrooms are amazing. However, You are correct in saying everything is better fried. Except Oreos. I worked at an amusement park this summer who prided themselves in their fried Oreos. I wanted to hurl every time I had to walk past where they made them.
4 Grant // Apr 1, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Okra is absolutely necessary for good gumbo. In fact, no okra = no gumbo.
Grilled oysters are doable…not as slimy.
Do you smoke the ’shrooms?
5 Len // Apr 1, 2008 at 12:17 pm
does it gross you out to know that my personal favorite pizza is mushroom and black olives?
My oldest daughter likes it too, so I get to have it occasionally.
6 Grant // Apr 1, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Mushrooms rock!!!! Love them on lots of things!! I even cook with them and just don’t put them on your plate. I like all kinds of okra too!! Agree about the oysters!! YUCK!
7 AMy // Apr 1, 2008 at 2:11 pm
OOPS!!! Commented under your name. Sorry. That was AMY!!
8 clay // Apr 1, 2008 at 3:40 pm
im glad im not the only person who likes mushroom and black olive pizza. and mushrooms in spaghetti is pretty darn good too.
9 wayne // Apr 4, 2008 at 1:41 pm
dude…shrooms are great!!!! oh, wait, you mean the kind you can buy in the grocery store…not that you find on cow patties…yeah, those are OK too.
10 MikeS // Apr 7, 2008 at 8:48 am
Wait a minute. . .this is a trick question isn’t it? Shrooms can’t be food, they’re a fungus!! Unless you eat the stuff off the food that’s been in the fridge way toooo long, then why would you want to eat some other kind of fungi?
Just a thought.
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