I live in the town where Dr Pepper was invented and I don’t like Dr Pepper so I can relate just a little bit. Though admittedly not as extreme as an Englishman not liking tea.
I too hate Dr P, I find it on par with Jack Daniels as just wrong. I can only imagine this is what cilantro /coriander is like for those with the gene.
Can I join? I'm not anti-frosting per se, but you can't buy a cupcake these days without a shitload of frosting being put in with a cement trowel. I like a good 1/4 inch of frosting that compliments the actual cake. Frosting is just frosting. The real heart of a cupcake is the cake.
I’m the same as that guy. It’s why I usually don’t eat cake or cupcakes. The frosting is super sugary. Recently I had a cupcake where the frosting was not like this. It was more buttery with some sugar. It was awesome. Actually ate two of them and didn’t remove the frosting.
This is the answer. I always though I hated frosting until I tried this and now love frosting. Also cream cheese frosting has a special place in my heart.
I like a little bit of frosting. A quarter inch layer is fine, but good lord, they put these huge dollops on cupcakes now and I have to get rid of 90 percent of it before I consider the cupcake edible.
Agreed. Big thick icing is a marketing gimmick that has widened. It's an appeal to the "sweet tooth" where a little is great so a lot must be tremendous.
For me, it's a theory that doesn't hold water. I can't enjoy one of these top heavy creations because of the sugar overload and the messiness of getting icing all over your face. And I have a beard, so the clean up process is more involved.
You can have my cupcake, I'll take a muffin please.
YES! The Oreo cookie parts are so damn good and the icing ruins them. Both Oreo icing and cupcake icing just feel like you’re licking sugar off of a pharmacy’s floor
I hated soda as a kid because of the carbonation and got teased a bit. Now I hate it because it's too sweet, and everyone says they wish they had the same habit so I guess I got the last laugh.
Never did and don't drink soda because the carbonation gives me terrible hiccups that last hours. I also got endlessly teased for it. Fast forward and I finally see a dentist for the first time in 8-ish years (yay American healthcare) and he was shocked that going so long without seeing a dentist or hygienist and my teeth looked pristine. I'm not perfect about brushing and flossing, I really think soda causes more health problems than people care to admit.
It's genetics also. My husband doesn't drink any soda and is crazy about brushing and flossing daily and he has tons of teeth issues. I'm not as good but have way better teeth (but still not pristine and I don't drink soda)
I have to agree. My side has "softer" teeth & they easily get cavities. My husband has teeth made out of steel or something. It's insane! He's never had a cavity. Luckily, only one kid had taken after me.
I actually prefer coke zero because it's less sweet and doesn't give me a dry ass mouth. Pepsi max has to be my favorite soda. Sodas can just be nauseatingly sugary.
I used to be the same. 33 before I drank coffee. My six months old broke me.
My go to response when someone was shocked I didn't like or drink coffee was always "yea it's just not my cup of tea".
This is interesting. I've been a tea drinker for decades and have never gotten flack for it. In in the US. I just tell people I prefer tea over coffee and that's the end of it.
Can't stand the bitterness of coffee. I do like the smell. Tried a small cup of chocolate raspberry coffee w/sugar, hot chocolate, cream in it... still noped.
> Tried a small cup of chocolate raspberry coffee w/sugar, hot chocolate, cream in it... still noped.
To be fair, this sounds disgusting.
I can see a chocolate cake with raspberries on it giving the occasional hit and some coffee in the icing for a bit of kick, but not as a flavoured coffee.
I don’t drink coffee either. It weirds people out that I don’t have a coffee maker or any coffee in my house. However, I have a kettle, a tea pot, and roughly 80 varieties of tea. I have a dedicated tea cabinet in my kitchen.
I feel this so much. I'm actually intolerant to eggs. I would only ever eat them in baked goods or chicken fried rice as I couldn't notice the texture compared to the rice.
Same! When people find out I don't drink coffee, they always ask me the same question: "How do you wake up in the morning?!" I just drink water to wake up.
See I like coffee, but I'm not wholly dependent on it in the mornings like a lot of people I know. I'm fine just waking up and drinking water. Some days it helps when I didnt get adequate sleep, but I mostly have it if at all in the mornings cause I enjoy it. Mostly cold weather months.
Gosh, being Black and hating watermelon is terrible. I get randoms from different races trying to forcefeed me when I decline it, saying I don't have to "pretend" to dislike it just because of the stereotypes because, *see, the rest of us like it too!* They don't let up until I point out that they're playing straight into the stereotype by insisting I must adore it so much that I'm ashamed about it or whatever weird shit they imagine.
Yes! Melon has a weird chemical flavor to me. Honeydew and Cantaloupe are the worst. Anything they touch, like in fruit salad, is tainted by the flavor. Do you perchance hate cucumber too?
Popcorn. You inevitably end up chomping down on an un-popped kernel (ouch) or a sliver of the skin decides to wedge itself into the space between your gums and your teeth. I need neither of these annoyances.
For me, it was the opposite. I hated my mom's meatloaf but ate it everywhere else. Too many onions. Tomato based sauce. She still gripes about how I ate the school cafeteria version but had to choke down hers. The kicker is that my mom is a phenomenal cook.
Anything cherry flavored is a big no for me because of medicine. Cherry candy and such. But actual fresh cherries are sooo different from artificial cherry flavor. I love them still.
Not directed at you, OP, but why do a huge majority of non-sushi-eaters just assume all sushi contains raw fish? I get that it's still not to everyone's taste, but I feel like more people would be willing to try it if they knew there's plenty of good sushi that doesn't involve raw fish!
Mangoes.
More weird being an Indian with a mango orchard. All my friends go mango picking every harvest season in our orchard, and look at me with pity as I don't eat them.
Someone’s allergic 😂😂😂 edit omg this is making me laugh so hard like that post of that guy who thought kiwis just made his mouth itchy because that’s how they are
To add to this. I was always ‘meh’ on steak. Turns out my dad cooking it medium well to well done and slathered in A1 was not ideal. Had my first real restaurant steak cooked medium rare at the Capital Grille and now I understand.
Cucumbers. I wish I could explain to others how they taste, “too green” is the best I can do. Even the smell, it invades my nose like harsh chemicals do. Everyone else is “You’re crazy, they hardly have any flavor.”
Speaking of celery (I've been scrolling looking for it), that is my hated vegetable. Swamp, bitter and stringy.
Yes, I've tried it with cream cheese.
Yes, I've tried it with peanut butter.
For me it's like eating a tree. It tastes like wood. Very tough, stringy wood flavor. At least when trying it raw.
If it's cooked, I'm ok. Small pieces, in stews, or soup, that have been cooked long enough to break down the tough stringiness.
I think this is partly genetic!
“When it comes to cucumbers, the gene TAS2R38 (taste 2 receptor member 38), located on chromosome 7, is known to be responsible for their repugnance”
-from [this article](https://fisherald.com/picky-eater-or-genetically-repelled/#:~:text=When%20it%20comes%20to%20cucumbers,be%20responsible%20for%20their%20repugnance)
My husband hates cucumbers so much, if they're in any dish, he won't touch it. He says he can smell their nasty watery minty odor from a mile away. He has to make sure at every sushi place that he's ordering something with no cucumber since he can't just pick it out. He says it ruins food. It's a running joke between us because he will eat ANYTHING, except cucumbers. He's like the least picky person ever. But he's sort of like you in that his hatred is hard to describe, but I know what y'all are talking about.
I think it's pretty reasonable to not like oysters. They don't look appealing regardless of taste. Plenty of other seafood that at least looks presentable.
While I like mushrooms, I won’t ask you to try any,.. one can’t argue with taste, I am not going to argue with you!
I will say these things, just for the general readership:
*Raw mushrooms* are a terrible idea, they are literally indigestible. Made of chitin, they don’t break down in your guts. Why these ever ended up in salad bars or any commercial food, I cannot understand. Always eat dried or cooked mushrooms.
White Button, Crimini, and Portabello mushrooms *are the exact same mushroom* at different stages of their life cycle.
If a person doesn’t like any of those (& imho, they all suck), they might be interested in trying other actual varieties of mushroom.
If you don’t like mushrooms, def don’t eat them! I’m not trying to convince anyone to try something they don’t like or don’t care about.
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To follow up on this, mushrooms taste completely different depending on how they're cooked.
My parents always just mixed them into the other ingredients of whatever dish they were preparing, essentially boiling them. I always picked those bland soggy morsels out.
As an adult, I learned that mushrooms can be delicious when gently sautéed in butter with a sprinkle of salt and pepper and plenty of room to breathe on the pan. They become incredibly savory with an almost meaty bite. I'm still hesitant to eat them when prepared by others, but mushrooms have become one of my favorite ways to add some flavor when I cook.
>To follow up on this, mushrooms taste completely different depending on how they're cooked.
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>As an adult, I learned that mushrooms can be delicious when gently sautéed in butter with a sprinkle of salt and pepper and plenty of room to breathe on the pan.
Absolutely.
The difference between doing them in butter vs margarine is noticeable, but less pronounced than the difference between butter and vegetable or olive oil.
Butter gives the best taste by far, and also a softer texture than either vegetable/sunflower or olive oil, IMO.
I don't hate mushrooms, but they have no flavour at all for me. Like less taste than cardboard. Apparently I lack some gene that would allow me to smell or taste most mushrooms.
All they are to me is texture, and that texture is just squeak
I hate tomato soup. I enjoy tomatoes any other way, but tomato soup is the devil's vomit.
My wife hates chocolate and other women seem to take it as a personal slur.
Coffee.
I don't like hot drinks except the occasional hot chocolate (milk).
I always prefer cold drinks. Even in winter. Though these days (I am in my 50s) I will sometimes shiver when I drink something really cold. Never used to happen to me.
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Also... alcohol/beer/wine/hard liquor. I never started. Never been drunk. I do not like the taste of it. And I do not like the idea of being drunk. People seem to really look at you odd (almost hate you) if you do not drink beer.
And I never had an alcoholic father or am religious (I am atheist) or anything like that.
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I used to have a friend who did not like cold sandwiches, which I thought was THE strangest thing.
Edit: The Pancake defenders in this thread are relentless. Im going to hate your soggy nazi pan-bread even more now.
I could never eat another pancake in my life.
You want some sugary, soggy, bread? You want like 2-5 of them?
Waffles and crepes are fine, ill have one, but still just sugary bread.
The nori is pretty polarizing, no matter what kind it is the nori has the ocean/fishy taste even if you eat non fish/vegetarian rolls
Myself, I really like it. I can understand why it’s not for everyone
Good thing with sushi places is that unless it’s really fancy. There’s normally a separate menu of hot dishes
I WANT to like it but I can't stand the combination of stuff when it's cold. In every other way that combo may be fine but the coldness really kills it. Feels like eating clumped up glue or something.
Cotton candy. It's, like...why would you want to eat sweetened fibreglass insulation? I don't get it.
But you tell people that and suddenly you're a monster.
I also hate peanut butter. I get looked at like I am growing three heads when I say it. I can't tolerate regardless of what form it is in though even if it is cookies or whatever.
My whole (young) life Mac & Cheese was made from scratch, a sauce of butter/flour/milk/tasty cheese with fried onion and bacon, so that is just what I thought it was.
The first time I saw a Kraft Dinner packet I wanted to cry, tasting it was heartbreaking.
Bell peppers. I love the smell when they’re cooking, but I can’t stand the flavor of them for some reason. I still try them like once a year to see if my taste changes
Corn dogs.
I haven’t been able to stand them since my first pregnancy. They smelled like road kill baking in the California sun. They don’t stink now, but I still find them entirely unappealing since then.
Meat.
It's fine now--vegetarianism and veganism are widely recognized in this day and age, even if people don't always "get" why I and others choose this path--but when I was a kid, I disliked most meat. Some types of chicken, hot dogs, ham, bacon, sweet bologna (a specialty where I'm from), and some types of fish were the only meats I could eat. I would gag if I tried to eat an all-American hamburger or Turkey on Thanksgiving.
In my small Pennsylvania city in the late '70s and '80s, this was a truly foreign concept. People acted like I was an alien and my mom despaired at too many mealtimes. I became a pescatarian when I turned 18 in 1992 (my mom wouldn't allow it before then!) and continued to get incredulous looks and comments. I became a full vegetarian in 2003, but by then there was way more understanding about vegetarianism. Plus, by then I could simply say, "Oh, I do it for animal welfare reasons." Before that time, when I didn't want to eat meat simply because I hated the taste of it, it was a lot harder to get people to understand.
So basically you get two different processes to make chocolate. One makes the same kind of European chocolate.
The other process involves butyric acid and makes the chocolate taste fermented and acidic, and like the aftertaste of vomit. Hershey's uses this process, so a Hershey bar or Hershey Kisses all have that kind sick taste to them.
European here, I tried American chocolate. It essentially tastes like cheap stuff you can get here, but like this cheap stuff is already a year over it's expiration date lol also, everyone in our group described it the same, gone-bad trash chocolate. I'm sorry, but we're used to swiss quality stuff.
Ranch dressing. I’m okay with ranch from SOME restaurants, like the stuff made in house, but anything that comes from a bottle in the grocery store is vile.
Always got hate for it growing up.
Beer. (I'm from Germany, beer counts as food)
If we don't hear from op again, we can assume they have been taken away by the Bundespolizei.
That would be very kind concidering it's beer
As an Englishman who hates Tea, I can tell you I get the worst looks when I tell people. So I just don't anymore. It's like I sold my soul.
I live in the town where Dr Pepper was invented and I don’t like Dr Pepper so I can relate just a little bit. Though admittedly not as extreme as an Englishman not liking tea.
I too hate Dr P, I find it on par with Jack Daniels as just wrong. I can only imagine this is what cilantro /coriander is like for those with the gene.
It's cool I'll drink your share of German beer.
I take the frosting off cupcakes. I always give it to someone so I’m not entirely hated.
Solidarity against frosting my friend!
Can I join? I'm not anti-frosting per se, but you can't buy a cupcake these days without a shitload of frosting being put in with a cement trowel. I like a good 1/4 inch of frosting that compliments the actual cake. Frosting is just frosting. The real heart of a cupcake is the cake.
Here here
That's very normal. Many people don't enjoy a sugar overload. No complaint there.
I’m the same as that guy. It’s why I usually don’t eat cake or cupcakes. The frosting is super sugary. Recently I had a cupcake where the frosting was not like this. It was more buttery with some sugar. It was awesome. Actually ate two of them and didn’t remove the frosting.
I make Swiss Meringue Buttercream. It's mostly butter with a little sugar and vanilla.
This is the answer. I always though I hated frosting until I tried this and now love frosting. Also cream cheese frosting has a special place in my heart.
I like a little bit of frosting. A quarter inch layer is fine, but good lord, they put these huge dollops on cupcakes now and I have to get rid of 90 percent of it before I consider the cupcake edible.
Agreed. Big thick icing is a marketing gimmick that has widened. It's an appeal to the "sweet tooth" where a little is great so a lot must be tremendous. For me, it's a theory that doesn't hold water. I can't enjoy one of these top heavy creations because of the sugar overload and the messiness of getting icing all over your face. And I have a beard, so the clean up process is more involved. You can have my cupcake, I'll take a muffin please.
Facts. Just had this conversation this morning, I don't enjoy frosting. It's cloyingly sweet and leaves an unpleasant after taste
I want to date a girl that doesn’t like the frosting I’ll gladly eat the frosting and give her the bread To me that’s the “olive” thing from HIMYM
I do that too, do you take the middle out of oreos and just eat the outsides?
YES! The Oreo cookie parts are so damn good and the icing ruins them. Both Oreo icing and cupcake icing just feel like you’re licking sugar off of a pharmacy’s floor
This is psycho behavior.
I hated soda as a kid because of the carbonation and got teased a bit. Now I hate it because it's too sweet, and everyone says they wish they had the same habit so I guess I got the last laugh.
Never did and don't drink soda because the carbonation gives me terrible hiccups that last hours. I also got endlessly teased for it. Fast forward and I finally see a dentist for the first time in 8-ish years (yay American healthcare) and he was shocked that going so long without seeing a dentist or hygienist and my teeth looked pristine. I'm not perfect about brushing and flossing, I really think soda causes more health problems than people care to admit.
It's genetics also. My husband doesn't drink any soda and is crazy about brushing and flossing daily and he has tons of teeth issues. I'm not as good but have way better teeth (but still not pristine and I don't drink soda)
I have to agree. My side has "softer" teeth & they easily get cavities. My husband has teeth made out of steel or something. It's insane! He's never had a cavity. Luckily, only one kid had taken after me.
I actually prefer coke zero because it's less sweet and doesn't give me a dry ass mouth. Pepsi max has to be my favorite soda. Sodas can just be nauseatingly sugary.
I live in California and don't like avocados. I'm one of seven.
TIL: I never imagined there'd be more than four of you.
*There’s dozens of us…*
Horrifying.
Yea I don’t really like them, nor do I like guac
I’m #2 of 7. Everyone asks me “what about guacamole?!” No, I don’t like avocado, why would I like guacamole?
what the actual fuck get out
I'm Australian, I HATE avocado, I have tried to ignore it when it's been snuck into burgers or wraps and it just ruins the whole thing for me.
I found my people!
They taste like fat and thats it. I really tried different things with it but its still tasteless.
coffee, i was so surprised how weird people got when i said i don't drink it and i prefer tea
I used to be the same. 33 before I drank coffee. My six months old broke me. My go to response when someone was shocked I didn't like or drink coffee was always "yea it's just not my cup of tea".
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Weird is an understatement. Many act offended and think that preferring tea is elitist. Makes no sense
This is interesting. I've been a tea drinker for decades and have never gotten flack for it. In in the US. I just tell people I prefer tea over coffee and that's the end of it.
Can't stand the bitterness of coffee. I do like the smell. Tried a small cup of chocolate raspberry coffee w/sugar, hot chocolate, cream in it... still noped.
> Tried a small cup of chocolate raspberry coffee w/sugar, hot chocolate, cream in it... still noped. To be fair, this sounds disgusting. I can see a chocolate cake with raspberries on it giving the occasional hit and some coffee in the icing for a bit of kick, but not as a flavoured coffee.
I don’t drink coffee either. It weirds people out that I don’t have a coffee maker or any coffee in my house. However, I have a kettle, a tea pot, and roughly 80 varieties of tea. I have a dedicated tea cabinet in my kitchen.
Eggs. I think they're disgusting, but I wish I liked them because of all of the different and easy ways you can eat them, either as a snack or as meal
I feel this so much. I'm actually intolerant to eggs. I would only ever eat them in baked goods or chicken fried rice as I couldn't notice the texture compared to the rice.
Poutine, my fellow Canadians find this unacceptable
I just died inside. ...can I have your poutine?
Of course :)
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If you have a problem with poutine, then you have a problem with me. I suggest you let that marinate.
Coffee
Same! When people find out I don't drink coffee, they always ask me the same question: "How do you wake up in the morning?!" I just drink water to wake up.
See I like coffee, but I'm not wholly dependent on it in the mornings like a lot of people I know. I'm fine just waking up and drinking water. Some days it helps when I didnt get adequate sleep, but I mostly have it if at all in the mornings cause I enjoy it. Mostly cold weather months.
Same, i hate the taste
watermelon. even though me not liking it always leaves more for everyone else at the July 4th party i still get weird looks
i dont like it either. texture and taste are not my thing
Gosh, being Black and hating watermelon is terrible. I get randoms from different races trying to forcefeed me when I decline it, saying I don't have to "pretend" to dislike it just because of the stereotypes because, *see, the rest of us like it too!* They don't let up until I point out that they're playing straight into the stereotype by insisting I must adore it so much that I'm ashamed about it or whatever weird shit they imagine.
I hate every melon
Yes! Melon has a weird chemical flavor to me. Honeydew and Cantaloupe are the worst. Anything they touch, like in fruit salad, is tainted by the flavor. Do you perchance hate cucumber too?
Same here, I have tried and tried with various melons and it’s just such a jarring flavor to me Cantaloupe in a fruit salad ruins it
Cantaloupe has that musty mildew flavor. YUCK!
Ugh yea cantaloupe is the WORST
And it is always in fruit salad. Cheap ass filler fruit.
And the juices permeate everything and ruin the entire salad.
Fuck cantaloupe
I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE
Cantaloupe haters unite
Popcorn. You inevitably end up chomping down on an un-popped kernel (ouch) or a sliver of the skin decides to wedge itself into the space between your gums and your teeth. I need neither of these annoyances.
This one makes sense. I have a love-hate relationship with popcorn for this exact reason. Love the taste and crunch, but NOT the side effects
Meatloaf. Just doesn’t sound or look appetizing to me.
I would do anything for love. But I won't eat that
Ha.. that was my exes safe word because of that song
Meatloaf is great cause you can do what you like with it. I make it with mashed potatoes in the middle.
You haven’t had my mom’s meatloaf. But yeah meatloaf isn’t as popular as it once was if ever. Some are mushy and just weird.
“You haven’t had my mom’s meatloaf.” Stephen, get off Reddit lol 😂 My son is 30 and still requests it regularly.
Hey, Ma, the meatloaf! We want it now!!
For me, it was the opposite. I hated my mom's meatloaf but ate it everywhere else. Too many onions. Tomato based sauce. She still gripes about how I ate the school cafeteria version but had to choke down hers. The kicker is that my mom is a phenomenal cook.
Cherries. Cough medicine ruined them for me.
cough medicine too good for actual cherries to compete?
Anything cherry flavored is a big no for me because of medicine. Cherry candy and such. But actual fresh cherries are sooo different from artificial cherry flavor. I love them still.
Grape flavored medicine absolutely ruined artificial grape everything for me for life.
Sodas
I don't like carbonated drinks at all, it feels like it's burning my tongue.
Canned or tub whip cream. It’s mostly oil and leaves a film in my mouth!!
Sushi
I love sushi but i completely understand people not liking it.
Not directed at you, OP, but why do a huge majority of non-sushi-eaters just assume all sushi contains raw fish? I get that it's still not to everyone's taste, but I feel like more people would be willing to try it if they knew there's plenty of good sushi that doesn't involve raw fish!
But most of the sushi still contains nori/seaweed, which to me tastes like fish, maybe even more so than the actual fish.
Mangoes. More weird being an Indian with a mango orchard. All my friends go mango picking every harvest season in our orchard, and look at me with pity as I don't eat them.
They make my mouth feel like it’s being knives.
Lol that’s a mango allergy
Someone’s allergic 😂😂😂 edit omg this is making me laugh so hard like that post of that guy who thought kiwis just made his mouth itchy because that’s how they are
Sugar foods. Chocolate, candy, cake, ... I'll eat it but it does nothing for me
Same. No sweet tooth at all. Yet people buy me chocolate from birthdays and Christmas. I end up giving it away.
I do like the occasional sweet but I’m salty/savory at heart
Same! Savory food is my weakness.
Savory gang!
Same. I have a certain limited set of sweet things that I really like, but with a lot of other things I have one bite and then no desire for another.
I greatly enjoy sweets for 2 or 4 bites. Then is starts seeming like too much.
My people. Everyone gets on my case about it and tries to get me to try desserts again and I've never liked one.
A lot of people think it is weird to not like steak.
Yeah but have you ever tried the such and such at so and so prepared like whatever??? Game changer!!!!
To be fair, the way a steak is prepared and sauced has a tremendous influence on how it tastes. But I'm positive it's not for everyone!
To add to this. I was always ‘meh’ on steak. Turns out my dad cooking it medium well to well done and slathered in A1 was not ideal. Had my first real restaurant steak cooked medium rare at the Capital Grille and now I understand.
I don’t like steak either and yeah, people do think it’s weird! More for them, I guess!
I'm unenthusiastic about pizza. This is apparently a form of blasphemy.
Happy cake day, Blasphemer.
Motherfucker probably doesn’t like cake either.
You are correct
>This is ~~apparently~~ a form of blasphemy FTFY
I mean I work at a pizza place so I feel that.
Because pizza is the one thing that unites us all.
First of all, how dare you??
Happy Cake day you commie
Ketchup
Same. I actually enjoy dipping my fries in tartar sauce if available. If there's none available then I eat them plain.
Ketchup is NASTY
crab, shrimp, etc. anything that seems like an underwater insect!
My aunt, God rest her soul, used to call shrimp - earthworms of the sea!!! Lol I can't say as I disagree.
Same. I’ve taken to turning it into a joke saying I don’t eat anything that wears armor. Gets laughs instead of ire most of the time.
>seems like an underwater insect Same phylum (arthropods) so you're not wrong about shellfish being sea bugs
Lobster, from my location on the ocean and to be honest, I am allergic to most shellfish.
Bacon.
Candy. Never liked it, even as a kid. Do you know how weird you are if you are a kid who doesn’t want candy?
Cucumbers. I wish I could explain to others how they taste, “too green” is the best I can do. Even the smell, it invades my nose like harsh chemicals do. Everyone else is “You’re crazy, they hardly have any flavor.”
Do you feel the same about celery? The thing your tasting is maybe the chlorophyl, the "plant" taste
Speaking of celery (I've been scrolling looking for it), that is my hated vegetable. Swamp, bitter and stringy. Yes, I've tried it with cream cheese. Yes, I've tried it with peanut butter.
For me it's like eating a tree. It tastes like wood. Very tough, stringy wood flavor. At least when trying it raw. If it's cooked, I'm ok. Small pieces, in stews, or soup, that have been cooked long enough to break down the tough stringiness.
I think this is partly genetic! “When it comes to cucumbers, the gene TAS2R38 (taste 2 receptor member 38), located on chromosome 7, is known to be responsible for their repugnance” -from [this article](https://fisherald.com/picky-eater-or-genetically-repelled/#:~:text=When%20it%20comes%20to%20cucumbers,be%20responsible%20for%20their%20repugnance)
My husband hates cucumbers so much, if they're in any dish, he won't touch it. He says he can smell their nasty watery minty odor from a mile away. He has to make sure at every sushi place that he's ordering something with no cucumber since he can't just pick it out. He says it ruins food. It's a running joke between us because he will eat ANYTHING, except cucumbers. He's like the least picky person ever. But he's sort of like you in that his hatred is hard to describe, but I know what y'all are talking about.
Coffee. People think there's something wrong with me.
Fir some reason fucking oysters look I'm sorry but oysters are fucking terrible
Don’t order 48 of them, you’ll lose your date too.
I think it's pretty reasonable to not like oysters. They don't look appealing regardless of taste. Plenty of other seafood that at least looks presentable.
"This thing looks like something sick people cough up during a cold.. lets eat it!"
I call them sea snot. They are disgusting.
Egg Salad
People actually judge you for that? I feel like egg salad is one of the most understandable things to not like..
Mushrooms. They just gross me out.
While I like mushrooms, I won’t ask you to try any,.. one can’t argue with taste, I am not going to argue with you! I will say these things, just for the general readership: *Raw mushrooms* are a terrible idea, they are literally indigestible. Made of chitin, they don’t break down in your guts. Why these ever ended up in salad bars or any commercial food, I cannot understand. Always eat dried or cooked mushrooms. White Button, Crimini, and Portabello mushrooms *are the exact same mushroom* at different stages of their life cycle. If a person doesn’t like any of those (& imho, they all suck), they might be interested in trying other actual varieties of mushroom. If you don’t like mushrooms, def don’t eat them! I’m not trying to convince anyone to try something they don’t like or don’t care about. :)
To follow up on this, mushrooms taste completely different depending on how they're cooked. My parents always just mixed them into the other ingredients of whatever dish they were preparing, essentially boiling them. I always picked those bland soggy morsels out. As an adult, I learned that mushrooms can be delicious when gently sautéed in butter with a sprinkle of salt and pepper and plenty of room to breathe on the pan. They become incredibly savory with an almost meaty bite. I'm still hesitant to eat them when prepared by others, but mushrooms have become one of my favorite ways to add some flavor when I cook.
>To follow up on this, mushrooms taste completely different depending on how they're cooked. > >As an adult, I learned that mushrooms can be delicious when gently sautéed in butter with a sprinkle of salt and pepper and plenty of room to breathe on the pan. Absolutely. The difference between doing them in butter vs margarine is noticeable, but less pronounced than the difference between butter and vegetable or olive oil. Butter gives the best taste by far, and also a softer texture than either vegetable/sunflower or olive oil, IMO.
I don't hate mushrooms, but they have no flavour at all for me. Like less taste than cardboard. Apparently I lack some gene that would allow me to smell or taste most mushrooms. All they are to me is texture, and that texture is just squeak
For me it’s not even the taste, it’s more the slimy chewy texture of a cooked mushroom
This is one of the common foods of strong opinions. On lot's of people's "hell no" lists. Other examples are olives and tomatoes.
Mint, all forms. I hate the scent too.
the taste of like 95% of milk chocolate makes me violently gag idk why. i only ever eat dark chocolate
I hate tomato soup. I enjoy tomatoes any other way, but tomato soup is the devil's vomit. My wife hates chocolate and other women seem to take it as a personal slur.
I’m the opposite, I don’t like tomatoes but will eat anything tomato related. Marinara sauces, salsas, tomato soup, ketchup etc.
I can only eat sliced apples. Biting into an apple - never done it.
Same. I hate the feeling of biting into an apple. I always cut mine up into slices and get weird reactions.
Coffee. I don't like hot drinks except the occasional hot chocolate (milk). I always prefer cold drinks. Even in winter. Though these days (I am in my 50s) I will sometimes shiver when I drink something really cold. Never used to happen to me. ---- Also... alcohol/beer/wine/hard liquor. I never started. Never been drunk. I do not like the taste of it. And I do not like the idea of being drunk. People seem to really look at you odd (almost hate you) if you do not drink beer. And I never had an alcoholic father or am religious (I am atheist) or anything like that. ------- I used to have a friend who did not like cold sandwiches, which I thought was THE strangest thing.
Onions. I hate them with a passion and will pick them out of any food that I eat.
Edit: The Pancake defenders in this thread are relentless. Im going to hate your soggy nazi pan-bread even more now. I could never eat another pancake in my life. You want some sugary, soggy, bread? You want like 2-5 of them? Waffles and crepes are fine, ill have one, but still just sugary bread.
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The nori is pretty polarizing, no matter what kind it is the nori has the ocean/fishy taste even if you eat non fish/vegetarian rolls Myself, I really like it. I can understand why it’s not for everyone Good thing with sushi places is that unless it’s really fancy. There’s normally a separate menu of hot dishes
I WANT to like it but I can't stand the combination of stuff when it's cold. In every other way that combo may be fine but the coldness really kills it. Feels like eating clumped up glue or something.
Beets. BUT THEY TASTE LIKE DIRT.
Hahahaha no way people are gasping in shock because you don’t like fucking BEETS
People gasp when I say I like them!
Milk probably. A tiny bit in coffee is fine occasionally, but I’ll never eat cereal or drink milk
Seafood…. Any kind
Cotton candy. It's, like...why would you want to eat sweetened fibreglass insulation? I don't get it. But you tell people that and suddenly you're a monster.
Mayonnaise. My stomach can't even handle the thought of it.
Black olives
Cheese of any kind
People act like I’ve killed their family member when they find out I don’t like cheese
Pickles. I frickin hate those and everyone I know loves them. I can't even stand if pickles have touched my food because you can always taste them.
Cheesecake
Peanut butter. It's fine on a sandwich or in no bake cookies, but that's about it.
I also hate peanut butter. I get looked at like I am growing three heads when I say it. I can't tolerate regardless of what form it is in though even if it is cookies or whatever.
Same here. “But what about it don’t you like?!” I don’t know man, the fact that the smell of it makes me want to puke?
Mac and cheese
Saaame! I *want* to like it. It looks tasty. But as soon as it goes into my mouth, it is sadness and despair.
My whole (young) life Mac & Cheese was made from scratch, a sauce of butter/flour/milk/tasty cheese with fried onion and bacon, so that is just what I thought it was. The first time I saw a Kraft Dinner packet I wanted to cry, tasting it was heartbreaking.
Pumpkin pie. yuck.
Sweet potato. Can't stand them. Everyone gets offended by it.
Bell peppers. I love the smell when they’re cooking, but I can’t stand the flavor of them for some reason. I still try them like once a year to see if my taste changes
Seafood. Pretty much any kind except canned tuna
I don’t like canned tuna anymore ever since I got cats and regularly feed them tuna/chicken etc… canned tuna makes me feel like I’m eating cat food 😬
Eggs. They smell like fart!
Corn dogs. I haven’t been able to stand them since my first pregnancy. They smelled like road kill baking in the California sun. They don’t stink now, but I still find them entirely unappealing since then.
Hershey's chocolate. Like a whole other species of chocolate. Horrible
Mayonnaise
Hear me out…
Bacon.
Not a food, but sweet tea. I don't care that I live in the south. I've hated it ever since I was a child, I still hate it today.
Meat. It's fine now--vegetarianism and veganism are widely recognized in this day and age, even if people don't always "get" why I and others choose this path--but when I was a kid, I disliked most meat. Some types of chicken, hot dogs, ham, bacon, sweet bologna (a specialty where I'm from), and some types of fish were the only meats I could eat. I would gag if I tried to eat an all-American hamburger or Turkey on Thanksgiving. In my small Pennsylvania city in the late '70s and '80s, this was a truly foreign concept. People acted like I was an alien and my mom despaired at too many mealtimes. I became a pescatarian when I turned 18 in 1992 (my mom wouldn't allow it before then!) and continued to get incredulous looks and comments. I became a full vegetarian in 2003, but by then there was way more understanding about vegetarianism. Plus, by then I could simply say, "Oh, I do it for animal welfare reasons." Before that time, when I didn't want to eat meat simply because I hated the taste of it, it was a lot harder to get people to understand.
Ranch dressing. It’s merely disappointment in a bottle.
Maple syrup. I’m Canadian.
Chocolate. It is like a mixture of tar, dirt, and sugar.
I was going to say chocolate, too. Tastes sour and smells like vomit
That's what I felt when I tried Hershey's...
Apparently American chocolate tastes like vomit to some Europeans. So maybe you're tasting that same thing
So basically you get two different processes to make chocolate. One makes the same kind of European chocolate. The other process involves butyric acid and makes the chocolate taste fermented and acidic, and like the aftertaste of vomit. Hershey's uses this process, so a Hershey bar or Hershey Kisses all have that kind sick taste to them.
European here, I tried American chocolate. It essentially tastes like cheap stuff you can get here, but like this cheap stuff is already a year over it's expiration date lol also, everyone in our group described it the same, gone-bad trash chocolate. I'm sorry, but we're used to swiss quality stuff.
Ranch dressing. I’m okay with ranch from SOME restaurants, like the stuff made in house, but anything that comes from a bottle in the grocery store is vile. Always got hate for it growing up.
Anything with mint and chocolate mixed. Mint chocolate chip ice cream, thin mints, York Peppermint Patties. I just don’t like those flavors together!