MetaChat - Slimy foodstuffs we know and love.

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

08 July 2005

Slimy foodstuffs we know and love. Aside from okra, →[More:]most of the slimy foodstuffs I know are Japanese: natto and yamaimo (mountain potato) come to mind. Yamaimo has the added benefit of giving you a rash if it touches outside of your mouth.

I like these things, but understand how they could be hated. Any other slimy foodstuffs out there worth trying? Any other food items that cause rashes or other discomfort (and I don't mean hot peppers the day after)?

post by: Hugh Janus at: 12:07 | 35 comments

I like shitake mushrooms, that tend to go slimy when you put them in a stir fry. And, of course, raw fish.

posted by gaspode 08 July | 12:17

Boiled peanuts. Which I can't stand, since I don't like slimy foods, but most of my friends love them. I will say that they're best if you can buy them either from a roadside stand on Highway 17 between Charleston and Savannah or from an old man who walks around singing Booooooilllllled Peeeeanuts!

Then there's rice pudding, also slimy, also noxious & gruesome. YMMV, of course.

posted by mygothlaundry 08 July | 12:40

Extra boiled peanut bonus points if you've ever had some made in a coffee maker.

posted by trondant 08 July | 12:44

Smoked eel: lovely flavour; not-so-lovely texture.

posted by misteraitch 08 July | 12:47

Rice Pudding rocks. There's a place in NYC that me and the boys visit with a dazzling array of flavors and cool flatware that I've took home and saved to make a complete set.

Turns out it was a mob front. But it's still open for business.

posted by jonmc 08 July | 12:51

Avocado!

posted by rainbaby 08 July | 13:05

I always thought the entire east coast was a mob front.

And raw oysters.

posted by warbaby 08 July | 13:18

rice to riches was a mob front? we used to live around the corner. Oh how I love the rice pudding. day-um.

posted by gaspode 08 July | 13:26

Rice pudding isn't that slimy, is it?
What happens to peanuts when you boil them? It sounds good.

posted by kenko 08 July | 13:33

Avacado milkshake. very slimy

posted by darsh 08 July | 13:39

On the "may cause discomfort" front, there's Durian. I mean, it's a bit slimy and the stink is incredible (you won't mistake it for Jackfruit up close). Side effect: it burns. I mean, you actually feel a kind of burning inside. Heat. Foreigners often can't eat more than a little.

Rice pudding and avocado are lovely.

I'm a sushi fanatic, and I love a little flying fish roe here and there, but the big, salty roe used in some nigiri still makes me gag.

posted by dreamsign 08 July | 13:41

Avocado, sushi & raw oysters are all good. Okra, boiled peanuts & rice pudding are all bad. It's all so simple!;-p

posted by mygothlaundry 08 July | 13:48

A particular yogurt drink, laban that we'd buy ready-made in teh 80s... Forget what the 'brand' was but I swear there'd be clots in it. Stringy, slimy, spider-webby clobs of ugh.. *close eyes and swallow fast don't think about the texture* clots like snot! But it tasted great.

posted by dabitch 08 July | 13:48

Yeah, oysters are good too!

Oh oh oh! What was that novelty drink - soda with chewy/slimy bits in it? Kinda like Bubble Tea, but in the 80's?

posted by rainbaby 08 July | 13:52

Hah, no not quite that exiting, Laban is a yogurt-drink-thing, but we bought some real weird brand that was ugh... slimy. real slimy. It's better when you make your own.

posted by dabitch 08 July | 14:00

Orbitz. The balls floating in it were indeed slimy and gross.

posted by Crushinator 08 July | 14:23

Yah. Orbitz. Thank you. I don't think I ever tried it. If they had made Diet Orbitz, I would have.

posted by rainbaby 08 July | 14:26

I always thought the entire east coast was a mob front.

And raw oysters.

The entire East Coast is raw oysters?

Zucchini, when sliced and saut&eacuteded, is often a bit slimy and bitter.

posted by me3dia 08 July | 15:21

You are a clearly a master of secret and ancient cooking styles lost to the ages. We don't even have a word for that technique anymore.

posted by Hugh Janus 08 July | 15:29

The entire East Coast is raw oysters?

We didn't want you to find out this way,but, yes. If it's any consolation, I'll let you shuck me.

posted by jonmc 08 July | 15:35

A little too Lovecraftian for me. I think I'll stick to the west. It's all calamari out there.

posted by dreamsign 08 July | 15:39

Don't ask me how that's less Lovecraftian.

posted by dreamsign 08 July | 15:39

Sorry, jonmc, I'm not bivalve.

posted by me3dia 08 July | 15:49

Corn, then?

posted by Hugh Janus 08 July | 15:54

Some people are so shellfish.

(((ducks)))

posted by rainbaby 08 July | 15:56

Shucks.

posted by Hugh Janus 08 July | 16:02

Ohhhh. . .I get it. You're so corny!

posted by rainbaby 08 July | 16:12

Clam chowder, meet corn chowder.

posted by me3dia 08 July | 16:22

Enough with the pearls of wisdom.

posted by jonmc 08 July | 16:27

Boiled peanuts rock! But is mygothlaundry right: you have to buy them at a roadside stand.

kenko, they're not regular peanuts, they're green peanuts, as in not-ripe peanuts. They're boiled in salt water in the shell. The shells get all soft, like thick wet cardboard, and the peanuts are the texture of a cooked black bean. They're sweet and salty and oh so good when you're blazing across the interstate on your way to the beach...

I think tangerines are slimy, but I love them anyway. My sister, however, won't touch one with a ten-foot pole.

posted by Specklet 08 July | 16:34

Enough with the pearls of wisdom.
Yeah, clam up.

posted by yhbc 08 July | 16:35

don't try to mussel me, commish

posted by jonmc 08 July | 16:38

Yeah, quahogging the thread.

posted by me3dia 08 July | 17:00

If your boiled peanuts are slimy there's something wrong with them. Wet and salty, yes, slimy, no. They seem to be something you have to have been raised on to appreciate.

Apalachicola raw oysters are the best slime going.

posted by Carbolic 08 July | 20:03

On the "may cause discomfort" front, there's Durian.
Never been able to get over the smell to get to the supposedly delicious taste of this. In Indonesia, they say it "smells like hell, tastes like heaven" If the taste is good enough to overcome the smell of rotting flesh, it must be heaven indeed.

posted by dg 10 July | 18:07

← Hey London! Doing OK? || What Kingdom Claims You? →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN