This comment from Todd, which you can find under the Best Chicken Salad post, got me going this morning:

I’m a chicken salad purist. I don’t like any of that california junk in my Southern chicken salad. James Food Center in Oxford has the absolute best plain old chicken salad you can buy. Chicken salad is like tea. It doesn’t need to be messed with. Whoever had the idea that tea needs mango or passionfruit in it? I’d like to have a serious conversation with that person.

Go, Todd! I cannot stand flavored coffee or iced tea, will not eat dried fruit in my chocolate, cringe when I see a perfectly good cheesecake covered with fruit-like goo, pick the berries off my creme brulee and would never, ever eat a strawberry in my chicken salad! Nevah!

And yes, it’s true that my favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla. As my husband’s Uncle Bill says, “Any other flavor is just a way to disguise bad ice cream.”

Although I like almost everything else I’ve eaten at Lolo’s Table, I don’t like the pimiento cheese, which contains sultanas and cashews. Come on–give me sharp cheddar, good mayo, pimientoes, black pepper and maybe a little grated onion. Maybe.

What is it you can’t stand to see done in by good intentions?