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My husband and I have similar tastes in many things like music, decor, 19th century English literature, mayonnaise brands, etc. It makes for pretty smooth sailing day to day, but there are a few notable exceptions -- namely that if given a jar and a fork, I'll gobble down marinated herring like a rabid porpoise, and the very sight of cured fish sends him swimming as far upstream as he can get.
In the interest of marital accord, I hold off my pesce-centric binges for times when he's out of town or at his office on a weekend, and I was very amused to learn that other friends of mine make the same sort of bargains with their partners. One friend has a similar anchovy pact with her husband, another's wife goes into a broccoli rabe munching frenzy when he's away for a day or two, and my very own grandfather acquiesced to my grandmother's wishes that he only eat Limburger outside of the house. His compromise? He set up a cheese-eating outpost in their backyard.
Do any of you have culinary agreements with a partner, family member or roommate due to their repulsion or yours? Are there any foods that trump the bonds of love or friendship? Share 'em in the comments below.
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6-22-2008 @8:52PM jan said... well...i DID have a culinary agreement...but i just broke it! (eeek!)
He hates seafood.
I love seafood.
He especially dislikes the smell of shellfish.
I adooooorrrreeee shellfish.
He things seafood in a tin is PURE EVIL.
I was hungry.
So I opened up a tin of Baby Smoked Clams and another of Smoked Oysters.
He says the house smells like a giant squid who upchucked his dinner.
I slept on the couch.
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6-22-2008 @4:45PM marcella said... Sardines, smoked clams and oysters, any seafood, pickles, hot peppers, he hated them all. And he taunted me. We're divorced now. :-)
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6-22-2008 @6:51PM Kate said... My partner and I have very little we can;t tolerate about each others food fetishes... We both love food and cooking, and trying new things. I can't, however be in the house when he's cooking or eating moose, which he can't get enough of. The smell is just... Well... you can really smell the mooseness of the meat. (Mooseosity? Moosetasticness?) There a reason we call them Swamp Donkeys and it's not just because they're ugly. They eat the roots and other bits they find in the swamps. If you've ever been to a Canadian swamp in summer and taken a big sniff, you can imagine what an animal who eats that stuff would smell like.
Thankfully, he's about 1500 miles away right now, so he can indulge in his stinky addiction to his hearts content.
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6-22-2008 @7:15PM Kris said... My wife gets the jitters every time that I break out the beef jerky. Imagine my delight now that we have a toddler who has also taken a shine to cured meat and hassles her for it all day long.
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6-22-2008 @10:48PM olaamigo said... Well blue cheese disturbed my roomates on occasion. Not leave the house bad but not a fan favorite either.
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6-23-2008 @5:38PM Katie said... My husband is only allowed to eat tuna from a can if it remains 15 feet away from me and he takes the garbage out right after he eats it. Ew nasty.
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