Kangaroo and Llama!

This is actually news to me, and I'm not totally sure what's going on.

Fortunately, there's a bit of a back-story to fill this post. You see, Georgia and I occasionally frequent an eclectic fondue restaurant called La Fondue, where they serve all manners of exotic beast to be dipped into a boiling concoction of your choosing and consumed. This is fun. We have eaten just about everything on the menu, including wild boar, ostrich, alligator, bison, crocodile, and plenty more that I'm forgetting.

On our most recent trip, however, there were new additions to the already extensive menu, including the aforementioned kangaroo and llama. For whatever reason, this was too much for GP, so we avoided those particular meats.

It appears that the kangaroo sticking-point was their semi-bipedal posture (which makes her chicken consumption a somewhat questionable,) and in retrospect, I think the llama might fit into the previous post in regards to her just liking those animals too much.

Anyway, I would eat the hell out of some kangaroo or llama if given the chance again.

Pork and Lamb!

I have decided to address these two TGDE in tandem for a couple reasons:

1. They are arguably the only TGDE yet discovered that can be traced to an emotional level, rather than one of the more specific (and arcane) justifications that have been discussed in previous posts.
2. They hold very special places in both my heart, and my personal diet.

In regards to the first point: Georgia has nothing in particular against the taste, texture, smell or consistency of either of these foods. While lamb would likely not be her favorite flavor she would probably still eat it, and she has conceded before that her memory of bacon is that it's delicious (a very accurate memory.) Her problem arises from liking the animals (in their corporeal state) too much, and disliking the way in which they are treated when being raised for food. This probably comes as close to logical justification as any of the TGDE criteria ever have.

A brief side note addressing the second point: Oh God, I love these two foods. I really can't imagine my diet without them. I go through periods of eating vastly irresponsible amounts of bacon, punctuated by periods of eating irresponsible amounts of bacon. I probably consume more lamb than any person outside of Iran (maybe the Middle East in general,) and can't imagine somebody enjoying the taste, nay, experience of eating it more than I do. Side note over.

Tomatoes!

This is an exciting development in the world of Things Georgia Doesn't Eat (henceforth TGDE.) Just a few years ago, this was an absolute, hard-and-fast law. No tomatoes. Period. Now, the lines have been blurred considerably.

At first, it became "no tomatoes, unless they happen to be on a caprese sandwich." Then, cherry tomatoes were suddenly on the menu. Now, she will pretty much eat any tomato that isn't mushy or that she doesn't have to bite into.

It's very likely that there will be future updates to this post soon.

Mushrooms!

Georgia doesn't like mushrooms. It's not necessarily that she doesn't like the taste of mushrooms, or the physical appearance of mushrooms. She just doesn't like them on a personal level. She sometimes claims it has something to do with the texture, but we all know the truth. It's as though mushrooms made fun of her in High School, or got promoted over her when she obviously deserved it.

For example, if mushrooms are in a dish, but don't make their presence known, Georgia will consume it. This is analogous to Georgia being fine going to the same dinner party as her High School rival as long as that snotty bitch doesn't make eye contact or get too close.

Anything Spicy!

Few of Georgia's food aversions have been as complex or dynamic as this one. One moment, a dish with only the slightest hit of a tingly, spicy undertone will be unpalatable. The next day, she might happily consume food that is unambiguously spicy and think nothing of it. Some have speculated that this is just a catch-all aversion to eliminate large swaths of food from her diet with no further explanation.

All of this leads to the likely conclusion that spiciness is quite relative in nature. Some restaurants are extremely dangerous in this context. Straits in San Francisco is a notorious over-spicer of dishes that are not listed on the menu as being spicy. The description might say it's a "sweet and tangy" dish, but then why the fuck is my mouth on fire?

Bananas!

No bananas. Nothing containing bananas. Things that have had direct physical contact with bananas are often rejected as well.

This appears to be more of a textural issue (slimy) rather than a flavor issue, since banana-flavored items (eg banana bread) are grudgingly consumed.

Speculation has been made based on the obvious Freudian undertones of this particular aversion and the aforementioned tube-shaped meat issue. However, as a counterpoint, Georgia is a big fan of orange creamsicles, which blows the whole theory to hell.

Tube-Shaped Meat!

That's right. Not just hotdogs (justifiable) or blood-sausage (super-justifiable.) Any meat that is currently or has at some time been in the shape of a tube is not to be consumed.

Aside from the wonderful array of overtly tube-shaped foods this eliminates from her diet, the chunks of sausage commonly found on pizza are also out of the question.

This also includes foods too closely related to established tube-shaped foods, such as breakfast sausage patties. While these are arguably not tube-shaped, they are called sausage, and are therefore not considered edible.