This morning I received this text into the show;
"Hi Paula, only 2 hours left on the night shift! Yay. My work-mate just brought me a cup of tea and a scone and I was so delighted with him until I realised there's raisins in the scone. RAISINS! Horrible, slimy yokes wrecking my scone and I really believe my day is ruined. The tea is nice though."
I actually feel for that person. There's nothing more disappointing than food-disappointment. By the time he or she is finished picking the raisins out of their scone, there'll be nothing left. Raisins should be banished from scones, fact.
And if I had to choose another food to banish from Earth forever, it would be anchovies. Manky, slimy, hairy, stinky little feckers that absolutely ruin a good salad or pizza. Many times, I've ordered a chicken Caesar salad and nowhere on the menu does it say anchovies; yet when the plate is brought out, there it is, looking up at me in all its stinking glory.
I can't even have them on the side of my plate, it has to be brought back and removed for me (and possibly spat on by a waitstaff member who thinks I'm being dramatic). I'm not! They're mingin'! And I know they're in the sauce but the sauce isn't hairy or stinky or slimy so the sauce is okay.
Anyway - we got a huge reaction into the show about foods that should be banished from earth forever...I feel bad for cucumbers. They're lovely!
- “Marmite Paula. It’s mingin’!”
Hey Paula....My cucumber fact is real, we even did an experiment in biology class and one girl nearly vomited. Thanks for the beanie pic.twitter.com/tEZSjfGxf0
— John O' Callaghan (@JohnpiusO) August 16, 2017
- “Paula with you on the anchovies. For me it is celery....evil vegetable!” - Anne Marie
- “Paula, two words .... goats cheese!”
- “Paula - mushrooms. They grow on shit! Need I say more?!” Wexford James
- “Morning Paula, cucumbers should be banned. The smell and taste turns my stomach!” - Jack
- “100% withyou on the anchovies. Every time now when I ask, they look at me like I've 2 heads and I regularly get asked you know it's in the sauce right? I was so repulsed first time it happened that I couldn't eat the replaced salad! I love raisins though - I eat my mam’s when she takes hers out!” - Carol en route to Dub
- “100% with you on those disgusting anchovies Paula AAAGH! My other horrible food is olives...any colour!”
- “Paula, running mad late, but still pulling in to text. Smashing tunes every morning. BTW, cornflakes are my food to banish forever. I know weird. Anyhoo, still looking for tickets for the hurling final!” - Larry from Waterford
- “Hi Paula - I think mushrooms should be banned because when you eat them, they don't leave mushroom in your belly for anything else!” - Alan
- “Morning Paula, tripe and drisheen! Maybe a cork thing? Oh jaysus wept ‘tiz shocking!” - Colin in Cork, on my way to Kildare. Love the show
- “The green yokes on McDonalds burgers!”
- “Cottage Cheese!! Forged in the fires of hell by the divil himself. So disgusting. I've tried it with everything as it's so good for you!”
- “Isn't Marmite a bit like crappy Bovril? Although Bovril is still legend. Personally, I really, really HATE tuna! Yeugh.” - Dave, Clondalkin
- “Food you wouldn't like - Vietnamese duck eggs! They actually have the unborn baby duck inside!” - Pádraig in Kerry
- “Cucumbers should be made illegal, they shouldn't exist - horrible yokes altogether. And don’t get me started on cinnamon, especially apple tarts.” - John Waterford(Tired and narky after nights!)
- “Morning Paula, I wouldn't mind if cucumbers were banished forever. They're always in every salad, salad sandwiches and even side salads but taste horrible. My work pals say they are tasteless but I hate the horrible things!” - Mick in Laois
- “Parsnips. The end.” - Robbie
- “Hi Paula, oh it has to be beetroot – disgusting!”
- “Coleslaw! No matter what you order it's sitting there and there’s always part of your food touching it! Drives me mad!”
- “Paula I'd feckin’ eat anything!” – Paul, Dublin
- “Paula. Brussels sprouts agh! Banned! Need I say more! Only good for throwing at each other!”
- “100's years ago when the persons tasked with deciding what was a vegetable or a weed must have gone on the rip the night before they came to broccoli and cauliflower, and accidentally put them on the wrong list. Them bad boys are definitely weeds!”
- “Toast! Why do people go to look for fresh soft bread, then go home and pop it into a toaster, make the bread hard and dry? Worst of all toast makes loads of little crumbs all over the place, please leave the bread alone! Ban toasters!” – Adrian, Bangor
- “Marzipan.. ewwww! Nothing worse!” - Janet in Dublin
- “Hi sweet p - wordolf salad it has every disgusting bit of vegetables and fruit in it. Pure shhhhizzle!”
- “Paula - steak and kidney pies - steak I love but kidneys NOOOOO bleh!” - Larry
- “Morning Paula, Paddy in Dundalk here. I get invited to my mother in laws every Wednesday because I tell everyone she makes the nicest spaghetti bolognese ever, she probably does but thing is I detest Wednesdays now because I hate onions and it's riddled with them!”
- “Liquorice, the most septic thing ever!” - Shane Mc 1993
- “Hi Paula the people that hate cucumbers actually have a genetic marker that makes it unpalatable. About 5% of the population has this!” - John in Cork....beanie worthy fact
- “Beetroot. It tastes like dirt!” - Caroline on N17 heading to work in Galway. Love the show
- “Celery Paula like how did they even figure it was edible!”
- “Force fed porridge growing up- big saucepan for 8 made the night before! Nightmares about it still! Once I flew the nest I've never touched it!” - Philip
- “Hi Paula, butter and any dirty rotten cheese. I'd rather eat a bucket of puke!” - Jonathan
- “Red onions, sweet P. Urgh!! They have no business in a salad. They ruin the taste of everything!” - Nick in Wexford
- “Liver. That's it, game over, I won!” - Tom dx driver
- “Good morning Paula I'm with you on the porridge. It looks like frogspawn. Not that I've ever eaten frogspawn. Became my new best friend when I damaged my jaw and couldn't chew!” - Grainne
Brussel sprouts @sweetpmac (vomited in my mouth just writing that 🤢) I'd rather eat balls of boiled snot!! #banfromearth
— Joe O'Neill (@stratfordno1) August 16, 2017
@sweetpmac one of the best lists this morning,funny listening to food choices. Ban onions (weird texture) & tomatoes+their sauce(pure yuck)
— Siobhain O'Shea (@sooshea) August 16, 2017
@sweetpmac Brussels Sprouts....uhh, enough said. I can't even cope with being in the same room as them!!! 🤢
— SimonW (@SimonW_69) August 16, 2017
@sweetpmac olives (the food, not the people) are disgusting and have no place in food or drink.
— corrie (@corrinteis) August 16, 2017
I agree @sweetpmac bring back the plain scones! I always have to remove the fruit. Otherwise I'd eat anything except pineapple on pizza! NO!
— ArcticChimpanzee (@ArcticChimpanze) August 16, 2017
