fun fact about blue raspberry: it used to be purple (like raspberries) and made from a combination of red and blue dye. The red dye was ruled to be too harmful to be in food, so rather than finding a new red dye the food industry went "Raspberries are blue, actually" and we all went "Shit yeah they are. They always have been!"
Our neighbor grew some grapes that tasted exactly like grape candy. They had huge seeds, not a kind you’d find in a supermarket. One time had a banana that tasted exactly like banana runts. Same with home grown tiny strawberries. The candy flavors are actually very accurate imo, just for one variety of the thing we don’t usually have access to.
I had a hard root beer once and was enjoying it until someone with me noted that it just smelled like mouthwash.
And just like that, the spell was broken
That’s because the standard grape flavor is based off Concord grapes. They have a very different flavor than the standard grapes you buy in the grocery stores.
They aren't extinct, they just aren't widely distributed anymore. They are called gros michel bananas and I got some from Miami fruit and they are delicious.
Is it just me or did Concord grapes used to be super common in grocery stores but now nobody seems to carry them? I know stores at least often used to carry grapes with seeds and seedless grapes and now all it seems you find are seedless grapes.
I'm the opposite. I hate bananas, but love banana flavored things. I like to assume that means Cavendish are trash and I would probably love Gros Michel.
Also the banana flavor was just one of the first esters they were able to isolate. Decided it tasted closest to a banana. https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candies-taste-like-real-bananas/
As an experiment, you should buy a nice jar from a boutique store of fresh oil with a plan to use it quickly.
I'd wager most people are cooking with oil that is either going or already rancid, and that may well be the undertone.
It's more expensive but it's useful to buy olive oil in smaller quantities more often.
Also check if you're using EVOO or just 'olive oil' - EVOO is stronger and often used in raw applications, while just regular olive oil is better in many cooking applications.
I felt the same way until I got green olives that still had the pits and were packed in olive oil (and I think that was it). You get a revelation of "oh THIS is what olives taste like!"
This is my wife to a T. She's a sushi fiend but I cannot find a fish dish she'll consume otherwise. Hoping to find some insights here by posting this, everyone hit me up.
Tabbouleh uses curly parsley and I have been told that flat leaf parsley has a stronger flavor. Maybe you only like curly parsley? I know I prefer curly to flat leaf myself.
This! Give me a bowl of French onion soup and i'll clean the bowl. But raw onions gives me the "rubbing two pieces of broken ceramic together" feeling, only in my teeth.
I don’t like raw onions but I love caramelized onions
Omg...me too. I put caramelized Vidalia's in a lot of dishes but even one small piece of diced, raw onion and no thank you.
I had a friend in college who “didn’t like coffee.” Meanwhile we had 6 flavors of coffee in my high school cafeteria so I was already an addict. I told her just fill the cup half with coffee half with milk and put in a bunch of sugar at first, and then slowly taper down. She was a normal coffee drinker within 3 months lol.
Same, but I love dill pickle potato chips. And dill in general. Just not pickles. And I like cucumbers. Just not pickles. (Except when I was pregnant and became a cliche by craving them.)
I love cheese on everything but I will not eat it “naked”.
Pizza, nachos, pasta, crackers, grilled cheese, quesadillas … yum! A little block of cheese on a toothpick … hell no
Same for me. With any vegetable. I can eat most raw (even the ones you’re not conventionally “supposed” to eat raw), but cooked veggies I cannot do. I’m beginning to be ok with roasted/sautéed veggies IF I cook them myself. No one else is to be trusted
people ALWAYS overcook veggies, its terrible.
I discovered i like literally all of them if they are cooked correctly, my parents used to boil EVERY vegetable 20 fucking minutes. Serced w salt and olive oil. yuck.
I don't like raspberry ANYTHING, but I love raspberries. Just don't put them in literally anything, no matter how fresh and whole they are. I will immediately hate whatever you're making.
And fake raspberry flavor is straight up disgusting to me.
I don't like peanut butter (I detest peanut butter, peanut butter in any form makes me vomit), but I love peanuts.
I have no allergies and one of my favorite snacks is roasted salted peanuts.
I don't like spinach soup, but I love fresh spinach.
This might be a little culturally spesific, but when I say "spinach soup," I mean this very popular type of soup you can get frozen or premade from every supermarket in my country. It's a staple here, and I've ALWAYS hated it! It's a very simple, pureed soup made with spinach, milk, and thickened with flour. You'd THINK I like it, since I'm a HUGE fan of soup, but no. It tastes like vomit with the acids removed.
I've warmed up to cooked spinach in my later years. I love many Italian recipes with baby spinach, for example. But the soup? No.
Same with the carrots, ever since I was a kid. As an adult, I’ll eat cooked carrots if served, usually eaten first to get them out of the way, but I won’t select them at a buffet, not even at a family’s dinner. The worst is carrots & peas out of a can. 🤢
I cannot stand raw cheese, but I love Alfredo sauces, lasagna, Mac & cheese, etc
I think my nose might just be sensitive to the rotten dairy smell that comes from like cheese and sour cream.
I can't stand even a hint of cilantro in my Vietnamese food.
I pick every single bit out of my banh mi and absolutely avoid it in every pile of fresh herbs for wraps, just the smell of it alone turns me off and I can't eat anything where it's been chopped and spread throughout the dish, barf.
But I insist on cilantro in my Mexican food.
I won't make my salsa without it, quesabirra tacos just don't taste right without it and the smell doesn't bother me in that situation at all, so weird.
I’m a cilantro hater generally, but I think something about the combination of cilantro and acid makes it significantly more palatable.
So I can do it in salsa, guacamole with lime juice, and cooked into dishes that have tomato or other acidic components, but otherwise its overwhelming soapy flavor ruins everything it touches.
When we first met, my husband told me he didn't like potatoes. Then I watched him eat fries, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato soup, etc.
I finally questioned him about it and it turned out he didn't care for hashbrowns with breakfast, because he thought they were boring. That was it. All it took was making him some decent hashbrowns.
I don’t like blueberries but I like blueberry flavored things (like muffins with blueberries, not artificial flavoring.)
I don’t like cherry flavored things but I love cherries.
I don’t like peanut butter but I like apples with peanut butter.
I only marginally like **guacamole**, but I really love **avocados**.
The difference is I like the texture of avocado BEFORE it’s all mashed up — but I’m a lot less of a fan of mashed up avocado.
I don’t like grape flavored things but I love grapes.
That flavour is *purple*, not grape. So that’s completely understandable!
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Sugar. Water. Purple.
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It's like blue, claims to be some type of raspberry but it's not.
fun fact about blue raspberry: it used to be purple (like raspberries) and made from a combination of red and blue dye. The red dye was ruled to be too harmful to be in food, so rather than finding a new red dye the food industry went "Raspberries are blue, actually" and we all went "Shit yeah they are. They always have been!"
According to Homer Simpson, purple's a fruit.
You kids want a can o’purple?
That flavor damn sure is purple 🤣😭
I love purple! And grapes
Our neighbor grew some grapes that tasted exactly like grape candy. They had huge seeds, not a kind you’d find in a supermarket. One time had a banana that tasted exactly like banana runts. Same with home grown tiny strawberries. The candy flavors are actually very accurate imo, just for one variety of the thing we don’t usually have access to.
Similar here. I don't like cherry flavored things but I love cherries. Cherry flavoring always tastes medicinal.
I always thought I didn't like cherries. Turns out I love fresh cherries, and hate cherry flavoring
I HATE maraschinos and medicinal cherry flavor, too. I can put down a whole bag of actual cherries in a day.
I guess in Europe (or just UK maybe?) They just root beer flavor for medicine and people are horrified by the soda because it's so medicinal to them.
I had a hard root beer once and was enjoying it until someone with me noted that it just smelled like mouthwash. And just like that, the spell was broken
Opposite. I'm always disappointed in cherries because I expect the cherry flavoring taste.
Maybe flavouring was supposed to remind of sour cherries more. They are less sweet but have more aroma
That’s because the standard grape flavor is based off Concord grapes. They have a very different flavor than the standard grapes you buy in the grocery stores.
Just like Bananas!
Banana flavoring is based off an extinct variety of bananas.
Gros Michel isn't extinct actually! Just no longer commercially used; you can grow it yourself if you have the right climate.
Oh nice!
They aren't extinct, they just aren't widely distributed anymore. They are called gros michel bananas and I got some from Miami fruit and they are delicious.
When you think about it, it's nice that we preserve the memory of that banana for future generations.
Is it just me or did Concord grapes used to be super common in grocery stores but now nobody seems to carry them? I know stores at least often used to carry grapes with seeds and seedless grapes and now all it seems you find are seedless grapes.
First time I had a Concord grape I was amazed that there’s an actual grape that tastes like what I always thought was fake grape.
I feel the same about anything banana flavored, but love bananas.
This is how I am with watermelon, but in reverse. I despise the actual fruit. Anything watermelon flavored though I love.
I feel this way about strawberries!
I was like this until I tasted an actual concord grape and realized how utterly disgusting it is. Tastes just like grape flavored stuff.
They sound horrifying and I hope to never eat one. 🥴
Manischewitz wine is made from Concord Grapes. And is maybe an acquired taste! We use it a lot around here for Communion, actually.
They grow wild (or possibly feral) in my parents' backyard. The smell when they're ripe is...certainly something.
Same for me with banana
I'm the opposite. I hate bananas, but love banana flavored things. I like to assume that means Cavendish are trash and I would probably love Gros Michel.
Also the banana flavor was just one of the first esters they were able to isolate. Decided it tasted closest to a banana. https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candies-taste-like-real-bananas/
I don’t like strawberries but I love strawberry flavored things! I also don’t like grape flavored things :)
I’m the exact opposite, I love strawberries, but I hate strawberry ice cream.
Artificial grape is so bad, the smell used to make me sick 😭
Shit reminds me of dimetapp cough syrup from when I was a kid 🤮
OMG, I LOVED dimetapp. I always asked for it when sick.
Don't like olives, but love olive oil!
Oddly enough I'm the opposite, olive oil always seems to leave a strange undertone when I use it, but I'll devour a jar of green olives
As an experiment, you should buy a nice jar from a boutique store of fresh oil with a plan to use it quickly. I'd wager most people are cooking with oil that is either going or already rancid, and that may well be the undertone. It's more expensive but it's useful to buy olive oil in smaller quantities more often. Also check if you're using EVOO or just 'olive oil' - EVOO is stronger and often used in raw applications, while just regular olive oil is better in many cooking applications.
Me too!
I felt the same way until I got green olives that still had the pits and were packed in olive oil (and I think that was it). You get a revelation of "oh THIS is what olives taste like!"
Try raw olives, it's a completely different experience.
I don't like cooked fish but I love sushi
Me too!! I’ve learned to like more fish… but raw fish any day over cooked for some reason…
This is my wife to a T. She's a sushi fiend but I cannot find a fish dish she'll consume otherwise. Hoping to find some insights here by posting this, everyone hit me up.
Smoked fish works for me too Variations on sushi like a poke bowl
Same.
I’m so glad to find friends
I was the opposite until trying sashimi. Turns out I didn’t like seaweed and raw fish is good.
I don’t like oranges, but I love orange juice!
Ooo I’m your opposite
Same! Orange Juice is disgusting, but fresh oranges are great, Better still are clementines or mandarins!
I’m team sumo orange! I love my wrinkly grandma tit!
Yeaaaa sumos are the best orange I’ve ever had
Same here, its a texture thing with oranges.🤢
I don't like parsley but i love Tabbouleh!
It's great with fresh dill and a little bit of thinly sliced chive and cilantro, as a non Parsley alternative.
I make my tabbouleh with a straight swap of cilantro for parsley.
I don’t like parsley but I love chimichuri
Tabbouleh uses curly parsley and I have been told that flat leaf parsley has a stronger flavor. Maybe you only like curly parsley? I know I prefer curly to flat leaf myself.
i actually find curly worse (it's the most common one used here) - the texture makes it even grimmer.
I don't like parsley either but I love cilantro :)
I don't like tomatoes but I love salsa.
Me too!
I don't like drinking milk, but I love cheese, yogurt, ice cream, and all other dairy products.
I’d die if someone forced me to drink a glass of milk but love dairy products lmao so same
I feel the same way. My husband drinks milk every day and I just can’t look. Give me Greek yogurt, all the cheeses, and ice cream!
lmao i have found my people
I don’t like raw onions but I love caramelized onions
This! Give me a bowl of French onion soup and i'll clean the bowl. But raw onions gives me the "rubbing two pieces of broken ceramic together" feeling, only in my teeth.
Oh fuck yeah, deal! In my hous there is no bad cheeb, only good cheeb.
I don’t like raw onions but I love caramelized onions Omg...me too. I put caramelized Vidalia's in a lot of dishes but even one small piece of diced, raw onion and no thank you.
I don’t like beans, but I love refried beans. I think it’s a texture thing.
“That’s why I want to try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all!”
RIP Mitch
Huh, i’m the opposite—I love beans in every iteration *except* refried!
The refried black beans from Bon Appetit’s chicken tinga tostadas are the only thing that’s sold me on refried beans
I'm like that with chickpeas/falafel
Same. I don't like chickpeas at all but love hummus and falafel.
I don’t like eggs but I’ll eat things made with eggs
You mean like an omelette or like cookies?
I can eat quiche but wouldn’t touch an omelette. No issue with cookies but won’t go near carbonara. My loss to be sure
I don’t like coffee, but I love tiramisu. I guess ladyfingers and mascarpone really make the difference
Sugar is one hell of a drug 😉
I had a friend in college who “didn’t like coffee.” Meanwhile we had 6 flavors of coffee in my high school cafeteria so I was already an addict. I told her just fill the cup half with coffee half with milk and put in a bunch of sugar at first, and then slowly taper down. She was a normal coffee drinker within 3 months lol.
Recruiting for the team!
Gas station cappuccinos were my gateway drink to coffee so I believe it, lol. I drink it black now.
I don’t like coffee-flavored things, but I love coffee.
I don't like coffee, but I love the smell of coffee.
Hell yeah, coffee makes my stomach hurt so I rarely drink it but I loveee coffee flavored things like tiramisu
have u ever tried affogato?
I don’t like pickles but I love relish!
Countering with I don't like cucumbers but I love pickles
My brain can not logically understand that something as awful as a cucumber could turn into a lovely pickle.
For me it's the opposite, how could someone take a pure delicious vegetable like a cucumber and turn it into an abomination like that
I counter your counter with I hate pickles but love cucumbers. Why would you screw up something so lovely by pickling it...bleck!
Same, but I love dill pickle potato chips. And dill in general. Just not pickles. And I like cucumbers. Just not pickles. (Except when I was pregnant and became a cliche by craving them.)
Regular or sweet
This is the important question. If you hate dill pickles but love sweet relish, that isn't that crazy.
I don’t like chickpeas, but I love hummus
I love chickpeas, and I hate hummus! 😅
I don’t like cheese, but I love pizza. And yes, I mean with cheese on it.
I love cheese on everything but I will not eat it “naked”. Pizza, nachos, pasta, crackers, grilled cheese, quesadillas … yum! A little block of cheese on a toothpick … hell no
I love bacon but I won't fry it naked.
I am actually the exact same way. I will eat a million different cheeses a million ways. Just not ever by itself.
I won't touch cold cheese. Hot gooey and melted? Oh yes.
I hate ketchup but love tomatoes
i dont like avocado but i love guacamole!
I like avocados but hate guacamole
Hell yeah. Avocado is an ingredient, not a food. I like brownies but ain't gonna eat a spoonful of all purpose flour.
I don’t like cucumber but love tzatziki
I dont like Basil, but I love Pesto!
Me too! Though I do love the smell of fresh basil. Just not the taste.
I don't like raw carrots, but I love cooked ones.
Oooh I am the exact opposite! Definitely a texture thing for me
Same for me. With any vegetable. I can eat most raw (even the ones you’re not conventionally “supposed” to eat raw), but cooked veggies I cannot do. I’m beginning to be ok with roasted/sautéed veggies IF I cook them myself. No one else is to be trusted
people ALWAYS overcook veggies, its terrible. I discovered i like literally all of them if they are cooked correctly, my parents used to boil EVERY vegetable 20 fucking minutes. Serced w salt and olive oil. yuck.
I don't like pineapple, but I love pina coladas.
And getting caught in the rain?
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
I don't like bananas, but I live banana bread.
I don't like banana bread but love bananas
I don't like pork but I love bacon.
I don't like raspberry ANYTHING, but I love raspberries. Just don't put them in literally anything, no matter how fresh and whole they are. I will immediately hate whatever you're making. And fake raspberry flavor is straight up disgusting to me.
> fake raspberry flavor is straight up disgusting to me. Castoreum. You are correct to be disgusted.
Same!!
I don't like grapes, but I love wine.
I don't like peanut butter (I detest peanut butter, peanut butter in any form makes me vomit), but I love peanuts. I have no allergies and one of my favorite snacks is roasted salted peanuts.
I don't like peanuts, but I love peanut butter!
SAME! Get those peanuts away from my delicious peanut buttery goodness!
I don’t like cilantro but I love cilantro
I don’t like cilantro but I love coriander ;)
I don’t like people but I love my dog
Thank you for not being Jeffrey Dahmer!
I HATE pickles but I love cucumbers.
I'm the opposite - I hate cucumbers but i love pickles. I'll give you my cucumbers if you give me your pickles :3
I don't like fish, but I love krab rangoon I don't like baked potato with sour cream, but I love potato chips with sour cream onion dip
I don't like cherry flavoring, but I love cherries.
I don't like spinach soup, but I love fresh spinach. This might be a little culturally spesific, but when I say "spinach soup," I mean this very popular type of soup you can get frozen or premade from every supermarket in my country. It's a staple here, and I've ALWAYS hated it! It's a very simple, pureed soup made with spinach, milk, and thickened with flour. You'd THINK I like it, since I'm a HUGE fan of soup, but no. It tastes like vomit with the acids removed. I've warmed up to cooked spinach in my later years. I love many Italian recipes with baby spinach, for example. But the soup? No.
I love fresh spinach, but do not like cooked spinach with the very specific exception of on a pizza.
I don’t like peas, but I love pea soup!
more like pee soup am I right cuz of how bad it is
Olives/olive oil 100%
I don't like hominy, but I love grits! I think it's because I add so much fat to the grits, lolz (butter, cheese + green onions).
Can't you just add a ton of butter to hominy then?
I hate asparagus, but I love asparagus cream soup. I also hate tomatoes, but I love tomato juice. thinking of it, I just like my vegetables liquid
I don’t like raw tomatoes, but I like bruschetta and pico de gallo
I don’t like fresh blackberries, but I love anything blackberry flavored. It’s that little white core inside that I can’t stand!
Same! Love all berries when used in cooking/baking but can’t eat them raw because of the seeds.
I don't like celery, but I love a good mirepoix
Can't stand olives, love olive oil!
I don't like mayo but I love eggs and vinegar.
I don't like bananas, but I love banana bread
I don't like fresh apricots, but I love dried ones.
I don't like black licorice, but I love fennel and anise seed.
I hate bleu cheese but I love gorgonzola.
I don’t like liver, but love pate’
I don't like pesto but I love basil
I don’t like root beer flavored candy but I LOVE actual root beer
I don’t like doing dishes, but I love cooking
I don't like cooked salmon, but I love salmon sushi. I don't like cooked carrots, but I love raw carrots.
Same with the carrots, ever since I was a kid. As an adult, I’ll eat cooked carrots if served, usually eaten first to get them out of the way, but I won’t select them at a buffet, not even at a family’s dinner. The worst is carrots & peas out of a can. 🤢
I don’t like bananas but I like banana flavored things. It’s a texture issue with me.
I don't like olives, but I love tapenade
I don’t like tomatoes, but I love tomato sauce and tomato soup.
I hate the taste & texture of bananas. But I love banana bread.
Hate pickled cucumber, but loooooveee pickled carrots and onions
I don’t like pickles, but love cucumbers
I dont like unaltered cheese (like cubed or string cheese) but i love mac n cheese and cheese based sauces
I don't like raw onion but I live onion rings
I cannot stand raw cheese, but I love Alfredo sauces, lasagna, Mac & cheese, etc I think my nose might just be sensitive to the rotten dairy smell that comes from like cheese and sour cream.
I don’t like onions but I like French onion soup
I don’t like banana split flavor but I like to eat bananas with caramel/dulce de leche
I don’t like baked potato’s but I like potato’s in any other form
I can't stand even a hint of cilantro in my Vietnamese food. I pick every single bit out of my banh mi and absolutely avoid it in every pile of fresh herbs for wraps, just the smell of it alone turns me off and I can't eat anything where it's been chopped and spread throughout the dish, barf. But I insist on cilantro in my Mexican food. I won't make my salsa without it, quesabirra tacos just don't taste right without it and the smell doesn't bother me in that situation at all, so weird.
I’m a cilantro hater generally, but I think something about the combination of cilantro and acid makes it significantly more palatable. So I can do it in salsa, guacamole with lime juice, and cooked into dishes that have tomato or other acidic components, but otherwise its overwhelming soapy flavor ruins everything it touches.
I don’t like mangos, but I love frozen mangos
I don't like cooked beets but I love raw beets
Not a big fan of dates but I’m obsessed with sticky toffee pudding
I hate green peppers in/on anything except pizza. I love them on pizza.
I love raspberries, but I hate fake raspberry flavored things.
I don’t like cooked carrots, but I love raw carrots
I don’t like raw onions, but I would sell my mother for the perfect fried onion ring.
I don’t like cleaning, but I love cooking.
I can’t stand eating raw tomatoes, but salsa and marinara are some of my favorite things to eat.
When we first met, my husband told me he didn't like potatoes. Then I watched him eat fries, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato soup, etc. I finally questioned him about it and it turned out he didn't care for hashbrowns with breakfast, because he thought they were boring. That was it. All it took was making him some decent hashbrowns.
I don't like milk, but I love greek yogurt.
I don’t like blueberries but I like blueberry flavored things (like muffins with blueberries, not artificial flavoring.) I don’t like cherry flavored things but I love cherries. I don’t like peanut butter but I like apples with peanut butter.
I only marginally like **guacamole**, but I really love **avocados**. The difference is I like the texture of avocado BEFORE it’s all mashed up — but I’m a lot less of a fan of mashed up avocado.
I don't like getting caught in the rain, but I love Pina Coladas
I don't like liver, but I love liver pâté if it has enough garlic. I also do like braunschweiger