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My "favorite" seafood would have to be fish sticks, canned tuna, and salmon cakes from canned salmon.

As you can guess, I don't like seafood in general thought I keep trying, especially on cruises.

I did try someone's blackened swordfish at a Spanish restaurant that I liked enough I may have ordered it myself but the restaurant closed within the year.

If I haven't gotten my late night fix of pizza on the ship, I order chili or a burger from room service while dh watches the news and then go to bed right after I'm done

On 5/2/2024 at 3:01 PM, Lemorvan said:

I asked a valid question on this thread about drinking ultra sweet drinks with food and how it must mask or change the flavour of the foodstuffs being consumed, it seems have disappeared for the third time. 

A post of mine on a different food post disappeared maybe about a week or 2 ago.  may be a system glitch.

on topic, I always look forward to local flavors in port.  We particularly like San Juan.  I don't remember what we got but it was fantastic.

it's becoming more important to me now because the quality of food on the ships has declined so much.

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On 8/15/2023 at 1:55 AM, BruceMuzz said:

Do you like peanut butter?

Many Americans do.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspects and controls the purity of peanut butter sold in America.

They have determined that producing pure peanut butter, free of foreign substances and objects, is "economically inconvenient".

So the standards for American Peanut Butter allow for "food defects".

When the FDA inspects Peanut Butter, they count the number of insect parts in a standard 100 Gram serving.

If they find 30 insect parts or less in that serving, it is perfectly OK to eat.

If they find 31 insect parts or more, the peanut butter is unfit for human consumption and must be discarded.

Your tax dollars at work.......................

This is not unique to peanut butter or to the US FDA; similar standards are in many countries that inspect food and have food standards.

Our recent (2022) favorites were Hibachi at Izumi and Giovanni's Table on Allure of the Seas.  The Giovanni's meal was great with top notch service.  We wore our Tuxes!  much better than our meal at Jamie's Italian on the Navigator in 2023.  

CHEESE!!!

usually just a hunk or slice, maybe with salami or pepperoni.

Other times, I'll dress it up slightly like making a simplified Kase mit musik or cheese with music.

I'll slice whatever cheese I'm eating and drizzle generously with balsamic vinegar and hit it with slat and pepper.  It's a German recipe that usually includes raw onion, caraway and maybe mustard. If I make during the day, I'll add all that but not at night.

on the ship, it's usually pizza.

19 minutes ago, Kay S said:

I love seeing men in their formal dress, complete with kilt and great socks! 

though I have never worn a kilt on a cruise, Every time I have worn one I was asked if I was regimental... I usually smiled and said "a gentlemen never tells."

On 4/4/2024 at 10:55 AM, cruisemom42 said:

 

Definitely NOT needed and you'll see only a very few other passengers wearing them (if any).

I agree.  Usually when my DH and I wear ours, we see less than a half dozen at the most.  We still wear wear ours on about half of our cruises and a suit and tie the other half...only see a dozen or two of those either these days.  We dress for ourselves...We're a dying breed.

I was planning to pull the trigger around the end of 2020.  

Around November, I decided I better see what the economy would do.  Thank God, I held on.

I did go part time last year but wanted to keep my foot in the door.

I am 57 and now I will wait again until November 2024 to see what happens.

Hopefully January will be the end of the line and DH and I will be able to travel as much as we had planned.

On 4/3/2024 at 10:01 PM, Celandine said:

Yes, perhaps I should add that I have yet to find a recipe that I like! 

This to me is the most important part.  Respect!  I love that you have tried...

On 1/15/2024 at 7:18 PM, CntPAcruiser said:

Used to enjoy the cold soups (as well as hot soups) on Royal very much, but the cold ones are mostly no longer on the menu. I had given up most of them anyway because they were high in sugar and I'm trying to cut back. The hot soups on our last cruise, apart from French onion, were underwhelming this time around, which is sad. Their soups and sauces used to be so good.

I have to agree on RC's soups.  they always were good, both hot and cold, and have gone downhill with the rest of their food.  I do feel maybe they have decline slightly less than the rest of their food.  I say their food on average has dropped 3-4 points whereas maybe the soups have only dropped 2-3 points.  And they were mostly served hot or decently warm unlike the rest of the food.

Generally though, I prefer eating and making hot soups.

19 hours ago, Celandine said:

0 times a year. 
 

my mum might make it once a year. 
 

I dislike meatloaf and I do 99% of the cooking, so it’s never in my menu planning. If I was at someone’s home and they served it, I would eat it with a polite smile.

 

I also do not care for meatballs and kofta and everything in between - it’s mostly a texture thing but also a flavour thing, could not tell you the last time I had spaghetti and meatballs, but a good bolognese I could have anytime! 

There is such a variety of meatloaf recipes, some with very little flavor, some with a lot of onion and garlic, some with brown gravy, many with ketchup or bbq sauce (my least favorite) some with different meat like a combo with pork and/or veal.  

however, I know what you mean with texture.  I feel the same way about most seafood.

Bolognese!?! now you're talkin my language!

33 minutes ago, Lois R said:

Well, I LOVE cream cheese and jelly and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it😃

SO THERE!

I have nothing against it. It sound like I might like it.  I was just saying I never heard of it.  I forgot to ask Mom if she has.

I used to go on a lot of galley tours, now it seems like they always charge fore them.

3 minutes ago, Jay Es said:

Let's start a movement to just say "gay community" and not let anyone correct us. Who's with me? 😃

I'm cool with that.  Everybody else can come up with a name they're comfortable with personally or in groups.

It's brilliant.....so it will never catch on...sigh

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9 hours ago, CDNPolar said:

The rough part for me is that I have a hard time keeping up with the alphabet soup:

 

LGBTQQIP2SA:  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, Two-Spirited, and Asexual.

I'm with ya.  When someone posted 2S earlier, I had to look it up.  I had heard of two spirit but never seen it in the mix.  

1 hour ago, lenquixote66 said:

Where did you grow up that you never heard of cream cheese and jelly ?

Baltimore area.  I asked my DH and he's never heard of it either.

Is it regional?

I googled it and found some references.  I found some for pepper jelly and cream cheese on crackers which I have heard of and tried and liked.

I've never been a fan of the FOD moniker but I dislike the alphabet soup even more.  As a few others have mentioned, it seems to engender a feeling of activism.  When I'm on a cruise, I'm on on vacation and want to relax and stay away from politics. 

We don't make much of an an effort to go to the gatherings these days.  I've never had a memorable incident with a straight person on a cruise but can remember a few with my FOD peers that were quite unfriendly/rude if they heard a single conservative idea espoused or anything they didn't agree with.

My DH and I are Boomer and GenX and seem to get on well with people our age whether they are gay or straight.  I have found that if I am talking with someone of our generations that have differing opinions, all sides have the grace to change the subject while sometimes the younger crowd are more fond of pushing the envelope.

We're sailing next on HAL so we're looking forward to seeing how that goes.

Cheers to all!

On 11/20/2023 at 7:41 PM, CntPAcruiser said:

Used to be that Royal Caribbean had excellent breads, now not so much. It's such a shame that they went cheap, even on those recipes they kept. They made an Austrian Striezel (braided sweet dough with raisins) that was available at breakfast that was sublime, but is now barely decent. They no longer serve their good sourdough rolls at dinner either. 

 

We had some decent pretzel rolls and french bread in Chops, but it's a shame that the only decent bread was in an extra fee venue.

I'm not even sure RC makes there own bread in the MDR any more.   It's not the same

I did get good bread in Chops and Giovanni's.

Never heard of cream cheese and jelly but would try it.

PB and J is okay

My Mom just mentioned recent that she eats PB and honey sandwiches which I never heard her her mention or heard from anyone else.

Jelly is made from fruit juices

Jam is made from fruit, smashed

preserves is made with larger chunks of fruit.

Mom used to can all three growing up.

Growing up my Mom was a great cook with rustic entrees like fried chicken, meatloaf, pot roast, etc. but used a lot of canned veggies that I hated; like canned spinach or asparagus but I like fresh asparagus and spinach now.

In general I like more veggies now than as a child, which I think is very common.

Also I didn't eat Mayo until my mid twenties because I thought I hated it.  Mom used Miracle whip instead and I hated it.  once I taste real Mayo, I loved it