Who actually likes Anchovies?

Hi Phaedra_Scythe, So far, I've got a 100% hit-rate with my theory! (1 out of 1) Well, maybe a 50% hit rate, since you don't like shellfish and such. I can't say I blame you there. My sisters apparently love oysters - it's just so gross.

Hi MsTickle, All I can say here is - I cannot imagine why anyone would want to spoil a perfectly good olive by inserting anchovies into it! I'm slightly bemused by your aversion to fish on pizzas, though. There's a pizza chain here called La Porchettas which serves a range of gourmet pizzas, including (wait for it) Salmon Pizza... very very nice indeed for those aspiring to sophisticated cuisine. As for that horrible mollusc, the Oyster, I have a suspicion that many people who so eagerly suck those things down started out by sampling other kiddies' snot in the school yard all those years ago. And it just ballooned from there. Not that there's anything wrong with that - it's a permissive society we live in, after all. Prawns and lobsters are a different kettle of fish altogether, IMO. They're not actually molluscs like snails and other shell-snot, but are good, meaty Crustaceans which, while being invertebrates in that they lack a skeleton, their flesh is nevertheless much closer to the more fibrous and substantial fare that terrestrial mammals are more accustomed to munching on. Yet after all that, anchovies (the epitomy of Ingredientus Horribillus) are a fish, which is a vertebrate, and yet they send the Disgusting Meter off the scale! To each their own - but now I have no clue as to whether the taste for horrible squishy things like oysters and / or anchovies is a gender-related thing or not.

Hi dodoguy....I'm glad we sorted that out.

I probably should add that I have a shellfish allergy, so I would never add those to anything. Even before I got the allergy, I would only consider shrimp as a topping.

Hi desertdarlene, Thanks for sharing your experiences here. You're apparently one of the few who actually like the things. But I'm relieved you don't extend that affinity to stuff like oysters and snails. The very idea causes me discomfort. I'm sorry you're allergic to prawns - they're about the only "shellfish" that have any civilised respectability IMO, and they ARE very moorish, to say the least.

I forgot to mention, my brother-in-law likes anchovies for the same reason...he likes salty foods.

Hi brimia, Thanks for your insight here. It's not hard to understand a taste for salty foods - I have the same weakness (except where anchovies are concerned). And I guess it's nice to see other people have some sanity regarding molluscs - I really doubt that humans were meant to eat these horrid things. Good for you being a vegan! Doesn't matter what your reasons are, they're probably good ones.