Jeri mentioned kimchee. Now there's a thought. Eating kimchee might keep one from catching current nasty diseases. No one would get close enough to infect you. Kinda like ramps in that respect.

I like kimchee and relish ramps and okra.

However there was an unpleasant incident once with a nun at a Catholic girls school when I was 11.

I took my bowl of chili, untouched, back to the dirty dish line. When Sister Dunstan saw it, she yanked me from the line and asked why I didn't eat it. "Too greasy," I said. She told me to eat that chili. I said no. She smacked me on the shoulder. Not desiring further smacks, I took a bite of the now-congealed chili. It returned promptly and landed on her black shoes. Too many witnesses for her to kill me, so she just made me write a paper on some long-mouldy saint.

Couldn't look at chili, or stand to smell it for years.

I won't eat anchovies -- no hairy little fishes, thanks. And I really don't like the taste of mutton. I think that was from my formative years when I heard, endlessly, that sheep poison the ground and eat the roots of grass, destroying the pasture. (It was cattle territory, don't ya know!!)

~;o) Mary