I thought I hated capsicum most of my life but lately (past my mid 30s) I’ve come to actually really like it raw. As in salads or sandwiches. I’m enjoying that. As a child my parents would add it frequently to meals but it would always be cooked and I was never a fan.
Or mushrooms for example. I love them almost any way except preserved. If they came from inside a tin or jar with long shelf life the taste is just horrendous.
Similar for artichokes, they must be fresh.
I love sesame seeds, but I absolutely hate sesame seed oil and I can’t understand why. The taste is so different.
Curious about yours. Any similar examples?
Raw celery. Most people seem to say it has no flavour. To me it smells and tastes similar to vodka and makes me sick to even think about. It’s also kinda squeaky on the teeth which is unacceptable. Cooked in a soup or whatever is fine.
Cabbage rolls. Specifically that combination of ingredients has made me sick by smelling it in the past, though it’s not as bad now as an adult, and they do taste good. Cooked/boiled cabbage in any other context never bothered me.
Pickled onions. I love onions and can eat them raw, but I couldn’t even finish one mini pickled one due to the resemblance to stomach acid, taste and smell.
Yeah well can’t blame you on the celery. I also don’t like it much. I can eat it but it’s kinda eugh and I agree it absolutely has a taste. I also find it more bland if it’s been cooked but I don’t see it as an improvement.
Yup, it can add some nice colour, but besides that there isn’t much point. Thanks for the celery validation.
Celery - at least what I get from my local supermarket(s) - definitely has a whole spectrum of flavour, so I wouldn’t agree with anyone saying it doesn’t have any.
“Vodka-like” isn’t an adjective I’d use either, but for me the spectrum runs from bitter and almost urine-like to sweet and mild (but unmistakably still celery), so maybe there’s something in there that’s reminiscent of vodka for some people. I should note that this can apply to stalks on the same root as well. Younger/inner shoots tend to be sweeter, but that’s not a hard and fast rule.
Celery is used as a flavouring. People who say it doesn’t taste of anything probably had Covid or something…
Raw tomatoes are a disgusting, slimy, mealy abomination. Tomato sauce, tomato soup, and ketchup are all excellent.
They only get mealy if your refrigerate them. They shouldn’t normally be slimy either. Juicy, yes, if properly ripe, but that’s not the same as slimy.
[Actually the seeds do have kind of a slippery coating, that I could see calling slimy.]
None of that is true for a ripe tomato. Problem is, the vast majority are picked green and ripen on the truck, and they are indeed repulsive.
Another issue is that we bred tomatoes to be nice and round and have smooth, evenly colored skin. That killed the genes that made them sweet and acidic. Try an “ugly tomato”, or maybe an heirloom, if you can find one.
Not a fan of the one on the right, but the pic mostly gets the point across.
Ditto. Can’t stand fresh tomato’s, makes me puke (literally). Any other way (cooked, etc) is perfectly fine.
Cooked chicken = me fed
Raw chicken = me ded
Nuff sed
Raw spinach is great, I can just eat handfuls of that all day. Cooked spinach is gross, both in flavor and texture.
The only thing I like cooked spinach for is spinach dip. It’s acceptable as a layer in things like lasagna, but I won’t complain if it isn’t there.
Same. Raw spinach salad for days, but cook or can it and it immediately becomes one of my most hated foods.
Carrots are not as bad but I don’t care for them cooked, especially when raw carrots are so tasty.
It’s dinosaur time
Open the door, get on the floor!
Everybody chew like dinosaurs!
Bananas have about a 20 min viability window for me.
I like pop tarts way more if they aren’t toasted
Onions
Raw: arrgg can’t stand them. Maybe if it is a sweet onion and very thinly sliced, but otherwise keep it away from me.
Sauteed: Mmmmm… spread them over EVERYTHING!!!
Caramelized: Extremely inappropriate moaning noises…
Broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, and brussel sprouts.
I’ve heard “you just haven’t had them done the right way” so many times, from so many people, who then make them their preferred way and they still taste like straight up dookie.
No amount of butter, or cheese, or time spent cooking under any kind of application of heat makes these things taste palatable.
Plus they all stink like farts when cooked, which just makes it worse.
I’ve got that gene that converts asparagus into, uh, interesting smelling piss. Weird thing is that it hits within an hour of eating it.
I can only guess that you forgot and left out cabbage?
Fun fact, that gene is only about whether you can smell the compound in the piss, not whether your body processes asparagus into that smell.
They tested this by having people smell other people’s urine, and found that the people who can smell it in their own piss can also smell it in the piss of everyone who eats asparagus, even of the people who claim not to produce that smell.
I had no idea!
Nah, cabbage is okay. Tastes like crunchier lettuce. I don’t know why brussel sprouts taste different; they’re basically little cabbages 🤷🏻♂️
- Onions cept crispy fried kind
- Any thing canned
- Cꝏked vegs but SPECIALLY carrots 🤮
- Frozen pizzas save 1️⃣ brand . Always gets soggy in middle
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Can’t say without potentially exposing what country I live in
I don’t like:
- hot fruit
- crisp vegetables cooked past al dente
- salt (a little, but way less than anyone else likes)
- putting fruit in pastries or bread (my wife’s caramel apple crumble pie is an exception)
- raisins in anything (especially cookies and bread)
I like fruits and vegetables, but generally speaking only in whole-form.
I think i do not, but my gf loves raw cabbages and cannot stand it when it’s cooked in any form.
Similarly I also prefer cabbage raw, but it’s just a preference.
Raw cabbages are delicious. It’s a way better green for salads than any kind of lettuce. It’s crispy.
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Pineapple needs to be fresh. Coconut on the other hand, as awful as it is in shredded form, it turns out is actually WORSE fresh.
Last August my family went to Maui and on our last day we toured the Maui Pineapple farm.
OMG… I didn’t know that was how pineapple was supposed to taste. It is NOTHING like what we get here in Wisconsin.
Love tuna sushi. Hate hate hate canned tuna!
Raw carrot good
Cooked carrot bad
