Friday 5: Dis-Taste of summer

[cyclones500]

Rank your least-favorite “summer food,” stuff commonly associated with the season, such as for picnics, cookouts, fairs. It can involve dishes you avoid, indifference and/or things you consider overrated.

Any category goes (main dish, fruit, vegetables, grilled food, beverages, salad, dessert and so on). Put your least-palatable choice at #1, and so on. Or, if you feel creative, do a countdown 5-to-1. Elaborate on your choices as you wish.

I’m working on my list and will post fairly soon. Go!

• Last week’s Friday 5: What’s Your Deal?

 

[cyclones500]

My 5
1. Watermelon
2. Lemonade
3. S’mores -- I like the combination, but the sticky-hands factor mixes poorly with campfires and, ya know, DIRT.
4. Popsicles. (Disinterest factor my entire life)
5. Any gelatin-salad with vegetables in it. I like Jell-O with bananas. Mixed seasonal fruit, cool. I love carrots. I prefer it all separately.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

My 5
1. Watermelon
2. Lemonade
3. S’mores -- I like the combination, but the sticky-hands factor mixes poorly with campfires and, ya know, DIRT.
4. Popsicles. (Disinterest factor my entire life)
5. Any gelatin-salad with vegetables in it. I like Jell-O with bananas. Mixed seasonal fruit, cool. I love carrots. I prefer it all separately.

Get. The ****. Out.

You’re a god damned monster.

 

[cyclones500]

Get. The ****. Out.

You’re a god damned monster.

You may be correct — but not because of that list.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Went over lists of summer foods and not really any that stand out that I don't like. A best of summer foods would be an easier task.

 

[cyclones500]

Went over lists of summer foods and not really any that stand out that I don't like. A best of summer foods would be an easier task.

Probably true. It had been a while since I did a "worst-of" Friday 5, so I randomly chose this one.

 

[Angie]

Hmm, interesting. I'll try:

1. Potato salad. Mayonnaise in the hot sun, what's not to love?
2. Watermelon. I threw up after eating too much as a kid one time, can't eat it since.
3. Crab. I'm sorry, I just don't like it, it's an ocean spider.
4. Sun tea. I don't really dig any tea, but sun tea is up there near the top.
5. Frick, I still have one to go? Um... corn mac and cheese. I like corn. I like mac and cheese. I don't want weird little boogers floating in my mac and cheese, and I don't want big noodles I have to pick around in my corn.

 

[cyclones500]

Went over lists of summer foods and not really any that stand out that I don't like. A best of summer foods would be an easier task.

I expected it to be easier to find enough for a bottom-5, apparently I don't have as many aversions as I thought. Plus, there's plenty of summer food I like and generally I can simply ignore the rest.

 

[cyclones500]

Frick, I still have one to go? Um... corn mac and cheese. I like corn. I like mac and cheese. I don't want weird little boogers floating in my mac and cheese, and I don't want big noodles I have to pick around in my corn.

Somewhat related, I have mac & cheese on my "also considered" list.Maybe this isn’t a summer staple, but I encounter it frequently at dish-to-pass things … seems like a fall/winter food to me. So it's more a matter of being a "Seasonalist."

 

[cowgirl836]

1. Potato salad. It's just icky.
2. That weird ass salad with the ramen noodles in it. Yuck.
3. Sloppy Joes
4. Cotton candy. Is that even a summer food? Whatever, I'll count it. It's also blech.
5. Other gross salads that are weird like three bean salad.

 

[Angie]

Somewhat related, I have mac & cheese on my "also considered" list.Maybe this isn’t a summer staple, but I encounter it frequently at dish-to-pass things … seems like a fall/winter food to me. So it's more a matter of being a "Seasonalist."

I am guilty of associating foods with only certain seasons, too - and I'd agree, mac-and-cheese is cold-weather food. The only soup I even remotely enjoy in summer is corn chowder, but I still prefer it in cold weather.

1. Potato salad. It's just icky.
2. That weird ass salad with the ramen noodles in it. Yuck.
3. Sloppy Joes
4. Cotton candy. Is that even a summer food? Whatever, I'll count it. It's also blech.
5. Other gross salads that are weird like three bean salad.

I think most summer salads are sort of awful. Now, Janny makes a bruschetta salad that is amazing, and I don't actually love tomatoes - that is one of my huge exceptions. But most summer salads have mayo, and that should just never be sitting out in the sun.

 

[pulse]

1. Potato Salad. Slimy potoatoes yuck.
2. Coleslaw. More mayo..
3. Beans.
4. Melon. Dont hate it but need 5.
5. I can’t think of 5

 

[cyclones500]

1. Potato salad. It's just icky.
2. That weird ass salad with the ramen noodles in it. Yuck.
3. Sloppy Joes
4. Cotton candy. Is that even a summer food? Whatever, I'll count it. It's also blech.
5. Other gross salads that are weird like three bean salad.

I considered cotton candy for my 5, in the fair-food vein (I might do a fair-food 5 later this summer, good/bad). Sloppy joes falls into my "OK for fall/winter, not mid-July" category.

 

[cyclones500]

Not surprised potato salad is making its presence on the lists so far, considering how much of a staple it is, bound to be overrated. I like it, but it also isn't an essential.

For summer salad, I'm a big fan of pasta salad and tomato/cucumber-type salad in Italian dressing.

Re: pasta salad, Just don't put a bunch of superfluous junk in it — like any kind of meat.

 

[cycart]

You guys realize that "summer salads" or salads with mayo don't have to be sitting out in the sun right? Anyways, I can't really think of any summer food that I would be against. Smores are indeed messy, but quite tasty and if I was forced to choose cotton candy isn't the greatest.

 

[CycloneSarah]

1. Potato Salad - who wants cold, hard potatoes?
2. Baked Beans - don't like the texture of most beans
3. Mayo-based Coleslaw - the vinegar-based one with ramen noodles is delicious though
4. Hamburgers - not that I hate them but they are my least favorite summer meat option
5. Watermelon - I like it but have a weird allergy related to hay fever that makes me slightly allergic to some uncooked fruits and veggies. It varies based on what pollens are active so I never really know how badly I'll react and watermelon has been one of the worst offenders in the past so I usually just avoid it.

 

[Angie]

You guys realize that "summer salads" or salads with mayo don't have to be sitting out in the sun right? Anyways, I can't really think of any summer food that I would be against. Smores are indeed messy, but quite tasty and if I was forced to choose cotton candy isn't the greatest.

They don't have to, no - but usually whoever brings them to a picnic just forgets about them and leaves them out.

 

[cyclones500]

They don't have to, no - but usually whoever brings them to a picnic just forgets about them and leaves them out.

It's one of those dishes that should be kept indoors in A/C, along with other spoilables, when possible. But even at room-temp, potato salad can be problematic after a few hours.

 

[VeloClone]

Three bean salad - I like most beans but not lima beans, and not beans in some vinegary juice.
Cotton candy - Why don't I just open the sugar bowl and eat a few spoons full? Would be less messy and just as good for me.
Iced tea - Love tea and coffee but hot like God intended it.

I'm not a hater so I only have three.

 

[isukendall]

Songs of summer. They usually suck.