food likes and hates

[Psoas10 17]

There is a lot of fast food in PI. Jollibee, Pizza Hut, Greenwich, McDo, Burger King, Chow King, etc. comes to mind. However my wife likes dried fish cooked. Why does frying dried fish stink so much. I mean like dried fish, but not fried dry fish. But the worse is microwaving dried fish. Some nanas did that at Walmart in the break room. So make sure to teach your wives never to microwave dry fish.

[adiiann 163]

There is a lot of fast food in PI. Jollibee, Pizza Hut, Greenwich, McDo, Burger King, Chow King, etc. comes to mind. However my wife likes dried fish cooked. Why does frying dried fish stink so much. I mean like dried fish, but not fried dry fish. But the worse is microwaving dried fish. Some nanas did that at Walmart in the break room. So make sure to teach your wives never to microwave dry fish.

I wish I could find dried fish esp my fav dried squid, here in my area. I would love to have it and dip it in pinakurat vinegar. My husband like the pinakurat vinegar and sometimes used it as dressing. I might cook those outside though, no microwave on that coz I want it to be crispy. Hehehe.

[B_J 2,752]

Food hasn't been a problem here at all. Jessa already knows how she likes her burgers - "no veggies". I guess she figured this out because I treat her like an adult and let her decide what she likes. I've found her brain works just as well as mine. Maybe better.

She was also eating breakfast tacos within the first month.

[actob99 156]

There is a lot of fast food in PI. Jollibee, Pizza Hut, Greenwich, McDo, Burger King, Chow King, etc. comes to mind. However my wife likes dried fish cooked. Why does frying dried fish stink so much. I mean like dried fish, but not fried dry fish. But the worse is microwaving dried fish. Some nanas did that at Walmart in the break room. So make sure to teach your wives never to microwave dry fish.

My bride to be, would cook and microwave dried fish in our house. Everytime I would almost vomit and I have a good stomach. The new rule was, I would be drinking beer at the pool and she would have to keep delivering until the smell was gone.. Or I was drunk enough, but the smell lingers forever!!!!

Darren - Im collecting how many times you contradict yourself in these threads and also argue with opinions of others of which you ask for. But I think I'm going to start a new collection, how many times we can get your stupid #### posts closed down!!!

[gretchen_darren 67]

Gretchen has done a few "dried fish frying" but mainly does boiled fish. Salted fish is only made over at the "family" house. (if you ever smell salted fish fried you know the smell immediately.) The other agreeement we have is when she cooks filipino food I stay back in the bedroom away from the smell. She has her own diet which she likes right now.

I have decided to give up....it just ain't worth the hassle of trying. I would like to be able to prepare one meal for all, or just make "normal" meals, but I guess this is a part of the cultural thing..... I don't mind white rice, but normally I need gravy or at least soy sauce on it... I love steak, chicken, pork, and hamburger...I don't mind some grilled, or fried fish (but my and her fried fish IS different...and like shrimp... only a few weeks left until the baby is born.... just hope it doesn't get to me if it continues over time....

[Crashed~N2~Me 970]

I have decided to give up....it just ain't worth the hassle of trying.

1st step on the road to recovery!

I would like to be able to prepare one meal for all,

I'm curious...please expound.

or just make "normal" meals, but I guess this is a part of the cultural thing

Are you suggesting Filipino meals aren't "normal"?

..... I don't mind white rice, but normally I need gravy or at least soy sauce on it... I love steak, chicken, pork, and hamburger...I don't mind some grilled, or fried fish (but my and her fried fish IS different...and like shrimp... only a few weeks left until the baby is born.... just hope it doesn't get to me if it continues over time....

Very revealing statement. This is all about you getting exactly what you want and #### what she wants.

I think you intend to mold her into your image. I'm feeling a litte nauseous.

Edited May 21, 2012 by Crashed~N2~Me

[~happyndinlove~ 540]

or just make "normal" meals, but I guess this is a part of the cultural thing

How about you, Mr. Boat? Do you consider yourself "normal"? Your wife and the food are not the problem. The problem is an abnormal personality disorder. Go figure! Need a mirror?

[Hank_ 9,173]

How about you, Mr. Boat? Do you consider yourself "normal"? Your wife and the food are not the problem. The problem is an abnormal personality disorder. Go figure! Need a mirror?

[sunandmoon 450]

just hope it doesn't get to me if it continues over time....

with this rant, looks like it already has...

[gretchen_darren 67]

like I said earlier.... what smells good to her, does not smell good to me. and vice versa...we are learning to find foods we like together. I am trying to learn to like her food, but this is a cultural difference in how we were raised.... we learned over time what smells to learn to associate with food. The smell tells us whether it is good or bad food. It is a learning experience...

i am not saying my food or her food is "normal".... but a typical FAMILY meal where you share the food together and eat the same meal.... There is not a her food/his food on the table... What I am driving at is something much deeper which people are not seeing.... it is the sense of family sharing a meal.... the SAME meal, the SAME food regardless of what the food is.... My problem is MOST, not all, but MOST Filipino food does NOT smell good to me. (like some people said, the food in my stomach wants to go back from where it came, versus moving on to the outhouse...) I am trying very, very hard to find FAMILY meals, but I also have 2 sons who are very very American and love American food. (Pizza, hot dogs, spaghetti, mac and cheese, hamburgers, etc) I am trying to accommodate BOTH asawa ko and my sons. My groceries are triple (easily) what they used to be... I have gone from $200 per month to near $600 per month. I can't afford $600 per month then add in Baby needs... Then you take out the food I have thrown out. One week, I threw $120 in steaks into the garbage, not including, soups, potato salad, lunch meat, lettuce, fish, vegetables, etc. I never said a word about it.... it hurts to throw out that much money... it also hurts worse when trying to make food and the only one eating it is you.... asawa ko seems to accept it, but I come from backwoods country... I try to eat her food. I try to learn....

People say about me being heavy and my weight... and she sees the people in the "family" being big saying they were small at one time. their photos, they never were "small" like her. asawa ko wanats to stay the way she is.... so she has this diet and it avoids most American foods. My problem is not the food, but hernia surgeries. One never healed right, then I ate meals at 11 pm before going to bed for a year... (very good way to gain weight.) People who see me and my oldest boy, think we are alike. People don't understand, I could eat anything all day long.... and not gain weight. I weighed 120 pounds, 5'11" inches at 18. I weighed 160 pounds at 5'11" at 25. my family and I know what I was before I was ever married or had kids...people who know me from being a kid or in college no longer recognize me. hard to convince them it is me in facebook...

[sunandmoon 450]

your too hung up on the food being served. the important thing is to have a meal together as a FAMILY.

[Crashed~N2~Me 970]

your too hung up on the food being served. the important thing is to have a meal together as a FAMILY.

[Hank_ 9,173]

your too hung up on the food being served. the important thing is to have a meal together as a FAMILY.

[B_J 2,752]

I don't want to give marriage advice. Neither Jessa nor I has ever been married before and I'm not sure we're doing it right. We've yet to talk about all of our cultural differences; we mostly just try to get along with each other. It's working so far, but that's just us. I know we should work harder on discussing all of our cultural (and tribal) differences but right now we're just enjoying all the things we have in common. But again, that's just us.

With that being said,I do find it hard to believe that from the following list of foods, you can't find some compromise and find some things that both of you like:

Likes:

fried chicken, fried shrimp, french fries, boiled fish, grilled steak, grilled chicken, grilled pork, coconut milk soup, manila mangoes, bananas, rice, teppan-yaki shrimp, squid, lechon, pencit, tomatoes, green beans, ice cream, smoothies, grapes, apples, hot cocoa, coffee (a no no right now), sprite, 7-up, coke, fanta, yokult, japanese soda, rice pudding, ramen noodles, honeycrisp (honeycomb), cocoa roos, butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies, chicken wings (plain), chips and salsa, pork and beans, salted fish, waffles, pancakes, tapa, sweet potatoes, vanilla cake, lime potato chips, regular potato chips,

[adiiann 163]

I don't want to give marriage advice. Neither Jessa nor I has ever been married before and I'm not sure we're doing it right. We've yet to talk about all of our cultural differences; we mostly just try to get along with each other. It's working so far, but that's just us. I know we should work harder on discussing all of our cultural (and tribal) differences but right now we're just enjoying all the things we have in common. But again, that's just us.

With that being said,I do find it hard to believe that from the following list of foods, you can't find some compromise and find some things that both of you like:

Well, he is narcissistic. He's like "I want to help her to feel comfortable, but hey wait, I don't want to compromise." Geez, makes me think that he chose his wife because he can control her pretty easy. Complain about all the money he spent and wasted because she doesn't want to eat what he likes, then he should just limit his food-in take so he doesn't keep spending, he knows his wife pregnant and have sensitive palate.