Though still not great at cooking food when heat is required, Tyson is best at cooking fish. He can usually guess how long they need on the spit before burning, but that’s simply having cooked them more when surviving on his own. A combination of ‘I need to eat this and live’ & ‘I need to eat this, not immediately throw it up again’ were strong teachers.
When it doesn’t require heat, Tyson can actually make rather delicious food. This includes being able to make different types of sushi. However, he usually prefers to simply order sushi and prepare fish for his dogs instead. He gives his dogs a lot of fish to keep their coats glossy, and simply because they like it.
When it comes to most meats, Tyson dislikes smoked meat, but fish is the one exception. Whilst he generally likes most types of jerky, Tyson honestly hates fish jerky and wrinkles his nose at it when he gives some to his dogs. It feels like they are betraying him honestly.
When it comes to seafood, Tyson’s opinion varies a lot depending on the type, but he’s generally content to eat it and he certainly doesn’t have any allergies. He dislikes the texture of squid and octopus, but Tyson doesn’t mind the taste when they’re in something.
On their own, Tyson doesn’t like prawns, but he loves prawn flavour. Prawn toast is one of the few things that Tyson will eat without complaining about not being hungry or eating being a chore. He likes prawn cocktail crisps and he can be kept quiet for a while with an actual prawn cocktail.
He is largely impartial about crab and lobster. He thinks that they’re fine, but if those same flavourings and sauces were on chicken, he would like it even more. Though that may simply be a lingering rebellious streak from his father’s favourite food being crab rangoon.
Similarly Tyson’s mental association to awful family dinners - paraded out as one of the Delaney heirs and being forced to schmooze to gain additional funding for the university - has completely ruined oysters and clams for Tyson. He’ll usually eat anything, no matter of his opinions on it, but Tyson will refuse to eat either.