More mushrooms for me, I guess!

Seriously Internet, we have a problem.

My secret-to-the-internet new boyyyyyyyyyfriend is game to eat almost anything EXCEPT three things I could not possibly live without:

mushrooms
blue cheese
coconut

WHAT THE HELL, INTERNET???

I was going through my recipe file the other day and realized that these are the EXACT ingredients that catch my eye. If he had added "caramelized onions" to his list I might have broken up with him right then and there.

So for the record, I would like to share the list of things that I don't like:

1. Cooked fruit. This has been a lifelong thing for me and while I may have come around on the no-meat-on-bones-(unless-I've-been-drinking) thing, I will nevereverevereverever be willing to eat, say, a berry pie. Unless there was money involved.

[Sidebar: A couple of 4ths of Julys ago Christa bet me $10 that I couldn't eat all the red onion left on the plate (probably like half to two-thirds of an onion) and I was like HELLS YEAH I CAN and I was good until all of a sudden I hit the onion wall and I felt like I was gonna barf so I spent the rest of the evening with an upset stomach and the worst onion mouth ever. Kudos to Carrie for not kicking me out of bed that night.]

2. Pine nuts. This whole post was inspired by this Serious Eats post about a phenomenon called pine mouth where the eater of the pine nuts gets a bitter or metallic taste in his/her mouth that lasts up to a few weeks. I can't say that the funk lasts more than an hour or so for me, but I for SURE get a gross taste in my mouth from pine nuts. I could never figure out why people seemed to love them SO MUCH when, for me, they overpower everything else on my plate but now I know it's an actual thing.

I should see if pine mouth sufferers qualify for disabled parking placards.

3. Mango. ALSO TOTALLY OVERPOWERING. I recently learned that I do actually like mangoes STRAIGHT, but put them in or on anything else and the mango is all I can taste. Unfortunately for me, I got some sort of rash around my mouth last summer and I couldn't figure out what had caused it until my friend Andrea mentioned that she had something similar going on but happily went about eating mango after mango after mango until she read that mangoes carry poison oak on their skin.

Awesome.

So I COULD just cut them out of their skins but I was kinda turned off by the whole experience.

4. Chipotle flavor, seasoning, peppers, etc. Or really mostly anything smoked, but chipotle especially.

Other than these four things, COUNT ME IN!

And btw, cilantro? DELICIOUS!