No Me Gustan...

I’ve really enjoyed about 98% of the foods I’ve tried here. Even though I eat more-or-less the same stuff for lunch during the week, I haven’t gotten sick of it yet.

However. There are a couple of foods here that I really have… less than enjoyed.

Malta India- I’d never met a soda I didn’t like… until I took a sip of this one. It just tastes awful. According to wiki it's more or less unfermented beer. Whatever, it's still nasty.

Mangú- This is a very typical Dominican food that’s made up of mashed plátanos mixed with onions and oil. Occasionally it’s sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, but even that doesn’t help the flavor.

Chocolate- Again, never thought I’d have a problem with chocolate, but… the chocolate produced here is just not. good. I’ve tried multiple candy bars hoping to find one I liked (Más Más, Crachi, etc), but have yet to find success. It all tastes chalky. Really chalky. Fortunately, all of the imported chocolate here (Hershey’s brand, Nestlé brand, etc) tastes fine. Side note: I’ve heard that Hershey’s has come out with pretzel M&Ms?! I haven’t been able to find them here, but I will not give up looking.

Seafood- Okay, granted, I’ve never really been a big fan of seafood, but I’ve been especially cautious here. Whenever I see fish being sold in the grocery store, they’re wrapped up and not kept cold. They look like… freeze dried, taken out of the freeze-drier-thing, then wrapped and left out to get all crusty. Sorry for the details.

Lechoza- Not to be confused with lechuza(owl) or lechuga (lettuce), this redish orangeish fruit has to be one of the worst things that I’ve tried down here. I can’t even explain how bad it tastes. The first time I tried it, I thought it was rotten, so I tried another slice a few days later. Nope. Still nasty. PS I have just found out that in English, this means papaya. Ew.

…And let me reiterate that I’m a fairly un-picky person and that I have liked almost all of the food here… these are just the terrible, weird-tasting exceptions.
…I also do not like olives, cottage cheese, pickles, mustard, most oranges, marmalade, and most fruit-flavored chocolate.

PS I’ve watching E! as I’m writing this, and there’ve been tons of commercials for Joan Rivers’ shows. I don’t know why the people of E! thought that it’d be a good idea to give her a first one, and more importantly, why they felt it was okay to give her anOTHER half hour of TV space per day. Not. Okay.