buffet said chicken livers, gag not!

17 years ago

Serving myself at Golden Corral today, and dived into the fried chicken livers. I thought they looked a bit small. So as I was filling my plate with other edibles, I decided to munch on a liver.

NOT!!

GIZZARDS

Headed for table and napkin to spit it out.

GAG!

Cannot eat gizzards!

So the question is: What foods make you gag?

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chubby_rat
17 years ago
Mayonaise...Miracle Whip...mustard..brussel sprouts,lots more.
I don't blame you Glenda...gizzards would make me gag too!
alisande
17 years ago
I didn't know people ate chicken gizzards. I thought they were something you boil to make broth for gravy.
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glenda_al
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17 years ago
Must be a southern thing, alisande, people here love chicken gizzards, but not me.

Lady next to me was filling her plate with gizzards, and told her they weren't chicken livers. She said I LOVE GIZZARDS, duh!
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minnie_tx
17 years ago
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I like chicken gizzards. You gotta double dip them and fry them real slow so they get tender.
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wildchild
17 years ago
Mayonnaise and milk. Soggy anything......like over buttered toast that's been sitting.

I can eat chicken livers but don't really care for them.

I LOVE gizzards. When my mom would make fried chicken I was always glad to be the first one home. It meant I got the gizzard straight out of the pan sizzling hot. Yum.
rthummer
17 years ago
Glenda, I abhor liver and chicken gizzards. The worse trouble I got into when I was little was when my grandmother fried up chicken livers (she loved them) for supper and I fed my cat mine under the table. She praised me for eating all my livers.(she thought it built the blood) Sometime later there was a god awful smell in our bedroom(I slept with her mostly)she went looking for the smell, and found those chicken livers under the bed where my cat had carried them . I had to get them out and clean it up plus I got the board of education applied to the seat of understanding. (If you know what I mean) She was really, really mad, especially since I had told her I had eaten them.(lied) What I always wondered - if they were so good, why didn't the cat eat them? But, I assure you I NEVER ask my grandmother that question.
lilliepad
17 years ago
No gizzards for me but I do love chicken livers! When I was a kid and my mother would fry chicken,I got the liver,DB got the gizzard.My boys like gizzards.DH won't eat either one.I could never see why anyone would want to eat a gizzard!LOL Our Chicken Express has the best fried chicken livers.They are HUGE! When I'm hungry for livers I go there.I also love fried liver smothered in onions and gravy.Mother fixed it every Friday for dinner when I was growing up.
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vicki_lv
17 years ago
I don't think there are any foods that make me gag. There are few foods I won't eat...or at least try.

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I also like gizzards.
carol_in_california
17 years ago
Canned creamed corn.....makes me gag just thinking about it.
So do runny egg yolks.
liira
17 years ago
sunnyside up eggs and milk. When I was a waitress, I would have to have someone else take the plate or glass out if someone ordered these items. I can't even look at a person drinking a glass of milk, it makes me gag.
mtnwomanbc
17 years ago
Any crustacean with its head still on, from shrimp to lobster. Yuck!
Squid tentacles in any form. But batter fried calimari rings are okay.
Octopus in any form. Just the idea makes me gag.
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Vegemite. Double yuck.

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country_bumpkin_al
17 years ago
I love gizzards! My Grandmother was another one that made gizzards & dumplings! I like chicken livers..but they have to be from Popeye's!*S*

I'm not a gagger, so nothing really makes me gag!
Marilyn Sue
17 years ago
I think the only things I don't like are probably seafood things like shrimp, oysters, lobster and foods like that. Probably other things that I have never tried I would not like at all. But, liver yes. Gizzards, probably not.

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yborgal
17 years ago
I love gizzards. I always add lots of them to my homemade chicken soup.
barbara3
17 years ago
Eeeeewwww - I have never heard of chicken livers or gizzards at a restaurant buffett. As for gagging, perhaps oysters (never eaten them - can't get past how they look) and runny egg whites.
cherbo
17 years ago
I like gizzards! Our little home town restaurant serves chicken livers and gizzards every Thursday night and they always have a good size crowd that night.You can order both or one or the other. I don't like livers so I order just gizzards.
I don't do any gagging but I can't stand peas.
phyllis__mn
17 years ago
Brussels sprouts do it for me!
czech_chick
17 years ago
Gizzards, livers, sweet bread, tripe and calimari
debnfla8b
17 years ago
I hate chicken livers but love gizzards. I cook them for myself every once in a while.
Chicken livers have a grainy texture to me.
I love fried calf liver and smothered onions though.

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marlingardener
17 years ago
I just can't do chicken fried steak. The mere sight of that battered and fried hunk of meat with white gravy congealing on top of it makes me gag, and parsnips.
marilyn_c
17 years ago
Milk and sweet potatoes.
coloredthumb
17 years ago
Raw marshmallows, banana bread, tapioca pudding and some kind of foreign soda pop are the 4 things so far that have gagged me. I am willing to try anything once but if I don't like it i won't eat it. If it gags me first time I wont try it in any form ever again. Thank goodness the first time I tried marshmallow it was toasted over the fire. It would be a shame to miss out on toasted marshmallows.

CT
stargazzer
17 years ago
To me snails and gizzards fit into the same category, tough, gristle like. Take away the good sauces and no one eat them.
grammahony
17 years ago
Oh yah, oysters and tripe I won't try either. Or tongue.
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cherbo
17 years ago
Stargazzer, I don't eat them with any sauces. Just fried.
lindyluwho
17 years ago
There are some things I don't like but I can't think of anything that makes me gag. I could eat chicken liver but am not a big fan. Don't think I've ever eaten a gizzard.

Linda
gadgets
17 years ago
I've never liked liver of ANY kind. When I had to start fixing chicken livers for my sister, Annie, I started eating them too. Now I cook them about once a month.

BUT the food that makes me gag is fried onions. I can eat onions raw or chopped VERY fine and added to foods such as meatloaf or spaghetti sauce....but NOT those slimy looking things that are fried by themselves. When my one sister and I go to this place that has great hamburgers, I get the mushrooms (which make her gag) and she gets the fried onions. We just don't look at each others food while we eat.

Shirley
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17 years ago
Random chicken parts are for best used to catch catfish.

I have a hard time eating meaty foods like tuna or chicken where I might bite into a bit of bone or gristle. Anything that has a hard piece that doesn't fit in with the rest of the texture makes me gag.
patti43
17 years ago
Gizzards are to tough for me. Love the livers, though.

At a buffet once, they had sweetbreads. They're the pancreas or something of a calf. They tasted terrible to me and I did gag. Also had smoked milt at a seafood festival one time and nearly threw up! Milt, I found out later, is the male answer to roe, if you know what I mean!!! EWWWWW!
glenda_al
Original Author
17 years ago
Head cheese! Had to taste it out of courtesy, but put in mouth and when no one was looking deposited in napkin!
grammahony
17 years ago
E-mail me if you have to Oattu43 and explain. I know roe is sturgeon eggs, but what is the male answer?
Leslie
jel48
17 years ago
I've always liked chicken gizzards and livers (and all other kinds of liver too). I can't really think of any food that makes me gag, although there might be a couple that come close. When I was a kid, I couldn't swallow sweetened ice tea. I didn't gag but I just could not swallow it. Plain (unsweetened) was fine and I drink it either way now but prefer it unsweetened.
chisue
17 years ago
Canned stewed tomatoes. My grandmother forced me to finish up a dish of them when I was still in a high chair. She got the last spoonful into me, then they *all* 'returned'. I didn't eat any kind of tomatoes for years!

I'd forgotten about canned creamed corn. I never liked it except in corn pudding. Then a fellow we knew talked about working in a canning factory when he was young, with all the flies buzzing around and dropping into the vats! ICK!

I think a slimy texture is what gets my gagging reflex going. Oh and biting down on a fish bone or little piece of eggshell -- shivers!

I like beef and chicken livers, but not calf liver. (I won't eat veal for humane reasons.)
jannie
17 years ago
Bleu cheese dressing tastes like vomit to me. Sorry if this is gross.
jennmonkey
17 years ago
Any meat, milk, bleu cheese, soggy bread, sweet pickles, or canned spinach all make me gag.

I'm happy to say I just tried brussel sprouts again and kinda liked them!
donna_loomis
17 years ago
Beef liver? Yum! Chicken livers? Taste like dirt!

Gizzards? Double yum!!!

But nothing really makes me gag. I've always said that I can eat just about anything, as long as it doesn't eat me first, LOL!

buffet said chicken livers, gag not!

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