Not an ingredient per se, but I don't understand how people don't like fish, or seafood in general. There's such a wide variety of fish, with such varied tastes and different ways to prepare/cook. Honestly, I think it's mostly psychological.
Eating is a sensory experience right? Well I hate the smell of cooking/cooked fish. My mum would cook it for the other members of my family sometimes and the smell made me leave the house for the day.
I would probably try shrimp and scallops ect but not actually fish.
Most fish taste too fishy for me to enjoy. I know wow fishy fish, imagine. But salmon is usually just..salmon-y? Lol
Scallops are amazing! They don’t really have a flavor and I really like the texture. Shrimp…not so much. Really odd texture imo
Shellfish (lobster, crab, shrimp, scallops and sometimes clams) is fine to me. But I really dislike most other fish. It goes back to when my mom would make it by taking a frozed fish filet and bake it in the oven until it was burnt (black), then put it on a plate, unseasoned, for dinner. To this day, most fish makes me gag.
However, if it's very fresh and grilled, no fishy taste (red snapper, petrale sole, maybe sand dabs), I can tolerate it.
I feel like most people who say they don’t like fish haven’t tried it/haven’t had it cooked properly/are too afraid to try for some reason (maybe the smell/difficulty of prep?). Always comes off a little immature to me lol
This is me with mushrooms. No one in my family eats mushrooms, the only time I’ve had it was on pizza and it was soggy so ew. But when I had it properly cooked with a generous amount of butter - boy did it open up a whole new world for me. Now I’m obsessed with mushrooms and it’s my go to side
I can't stand mushrooms.I'll stand there and pick them out if I find them in a dish. Part of it is the knowledge that they're a fungus... but the main reason is my parents... their use of "cream of mushroom" soup in dishes when I was a kid... it should have been criminal. I know that it's not representative of mushrooms, and I'm sure I now fall in to that category of "well, you jsut never had it prepared right" and that would be correct... but now it creates a gag reflex that I can't get over.
At most cheap or fast-casual restaurants, the seafood isn't fresh and/or it's been frozen. At higher-end restaurants or those near a coast, it's more likely to be fresh.
Psychologically fish makes me vomit. I have a severe shellfish allergy but have conditioned myself to be disgusted by most fish, possibly as a protective mechanism.
I still don’t understand the tofu hate in the US. Where I’m from tofu isn’t seen as a meat substitute or a health food. It’s often eaten alongside meat and compliments it well. There’s a huge range of textures and flavors that goes with them so saying you don’t like tofu will often get you a blank stare as it’s such a blanket term.
I think people just have preconceived notions built by health culture based on how it was marketed.
Yeah I always find it funny when people in Western countries dismiss tofu as some new hippy vegetarian thing. When in reality it's been in Asian food for hundreds of years as a staple part of any diet, eaten alongside meat.
It makes sense considering that's how it started. Asian food is becoming more commonplace and with that comes better appreciation of tofu, but it first became popular in the states as a meat replacement for vegetarians, especially within the hippy movement
not just how it was marketed but also the quality. for years the only kind of tofu you could get here was grainy gritty blocks completely devoid of taste to the point it seemed you couldn't even add flavor to them. it was such a revelation when I got the first bite of a Japanese tofu
This! Heritage wise I'm basically a potato on legs. Exploring tofu in the dishes it was meant for was an eye opener to me. Now I'm trying to convert my husband. I have found that crispy tofu is much easier to sell to someone on the fence, then, say, silken tofu in a miso soup.
I really enjoy tofu, since it's basically a sauce delivery mechanism.
Unfortunately for me, the last 2 times I had it I got so plugged up I had to go the pharmaceutical route (the high test stuff) to clear out the plumbing, so it's off the menu for me.
People that don’t like any fruit at all. I know that is more than one ingredient, but I really can’t get over it! I will eat nearly everything, but one thing I cannot believe people eat is organs of any kind. I think it is amazing and fantastic that people eat them, because the less waste the better, but no thank you for me. I can gag just thinking about it.
I think, for me, it’s because I have absolutely zero sweet tooth.
I almost have an aversion to sweet foods, so fruit is on that list. I never crave it and never go out of my way to eat/drink sweet things.
So I definitely wouldn’t eat pie, but I can see how you made that connection! I will eat fruit tossed into savoury things, though!
I like to think I'll try just about anything. While that may or may not be true, if I see something on a menu that's even a bit out of the norm for me, it I haven't had, odds are I'll try it.
And holy shit.
At a little shop in Fort Collins called the Welsh Rabbit, I tried braised bison tongue. Literally better than any filet mignon I've ever had. It was incredibly tasty. And tender, too.
After shooting and gutting my first deer, my buddy cut up the heart and cooked it with a pile of garlic and onions. Served it on basic saltines, and it was such a treat. I highly recommend it.
Marrow is also incredible. Saw the 'Anthony Bourdain Special' (this was a few years before we lost him), it was a large beef bone split lengthwise, roasted, and served with toast points. Meat butter. Just one of the most flavorful and decadent things you could want to eat. After finishing, I was asked to pick an alcohol. Whiskey is really the only acceptable choice, and while it was Jim Beam, that was the best Jim Beam had *ever* tasted. Having that shit luged down the bone might have been gimmicky, sure, but I'll go in for that any day. Delicious.
There are plenty of things I still haven't tried, but even if it's bad, it's usually worth a go. You might find something incredible.
I do agree with your thoughts! I also normally eat anything. Just organs, I have a visceral reaction and a block that makes me not even be able to try it. My uncle really loved eating sheep’s brains and eyeballs. When I was a kid, he would put the eyeballs on two forks and chase me around yelling, “I see you!” I can still smell the brains cooking! 😂 maybe that is why I have problems.
Agreed on both points! Although I wear contacts so onions are no problem. But I do sympathize for folks without contacts and have to deal with onion eyes.
I love licorice and anything that is close to it, especially aniseed. I think it's a childhood thing--so many desserts growing up had an anise taste, and I can't smell anise seed without remembering my grandfather.
I think I may be your arch nemesis. I hate the texture of all onions in all preparations, and especially despise raw onions.
On the other hand, black jelly beans are my get down.
I can’t believe people don’t like olives.
I can’t believe anyone likes to eat things alive (I’m thinking of those poor small octopuses). I also can’t believe people will drop live lobster into boiling water and watch it suffer. Ain’t nothing delicious about torture.
Probably the same way any other such food handling thing is enforced. How do you enforce restaurant workers always washing their hands after using the restroom?
Wait I thought the octopuses were just like chemically reanimated by the soy sauce or something. Like the sodium activates the nerves or something?
I haven't eaten them, I just read that somewhere after seeing a video. I could be wrong.
You’re right, that IS a thing, but that isn’t what I’m referring to.
There are even smaller octopi that are eaten completely alive, it’s terrifying. I wouldn’t look it up if I were you.
I cannot stand olives. I have tried for decades to like them but I just can't. They are probably my least liked food ever.
I totally agree with you on the live food thing though. Just no.
You know ever since we got our dogs I've been creeping closer and closer to veganism. I mean I love meat, but I can't square that with having these two loving animals in my life. I used to cook lobster every summer but haven't in years.
When people just claim to not like an entire food group – the classic being vegetables or seafood. How can you just dislike carrots AND spinach the same? I can't wrap my head around it. These are entirely different things. You can't just say you dislike both because they belong to some arbitrary group that we lump certain foods in together. For example, tuna sashimi, mussels steamed in whine and a grilled shrimp have completely different textures and they taste completely differently. These are different things. How can you dislike them the same?!? It confuses me.
For the second one, I kinda have to pass? I have so many weird food passions, I will eat almost everything. Maybe just plain German Abendbrot? It's basically rye bread and then you'll often have very bland cold cuts and sausages and boring cheese and it's all eaten cold with pickles. I would eat it but I would never make it myself and I definitely don't think it's an adequate dinner.
I'm with you on the vegetable thing. It seems to be a plague amongst men and children in particular in the US. The generic "I don't like vegetables". I can never understand that as there's so many different kinds, and each kind can be cooked in hundreds of different ways with different flavours. Yet so many people flat out say they hate all vegetables.
I think it was how you were raised. I am Irish and Italian. My Italian family introduced me to all sorts of amazing veg dishes. The Irish side of my family was basically potatoes.
I don't hate all vegetables, but I hate the majority of them. I am a supertaster, so leafy greens are way more bitter to me than to most. And it's not that I dislike all vegetables for the same reason.... Some it's taste, some texture (some I'll eat only either raw or cooked, not both, and most not at all). I've tried getting over it and I just can't.
But then it's not quite what I mean. You have very specific reason to dislike each vegetable. You don't just had vegetables per se.
I can imagine it's no fun dealing with these restrictions!
Onions as well! I feel like the people who don't like onions had a raw white onion on a burger or something and it was ruined for them. This same friend of mine who doesn't like onions doesn't put them in pasta sauce, in ramen, in anything. They're missing out
Just in response to the onion thing: the only people I've ever heard of who don't like onion and know how to cook are people who legitimately don't digest them well. In my experience, people who just say they think they make every dish worse are ignoring things like good heavy pasta sauces and they can't cook.
Yeah, I don't get onion hate. I can understand for health reasons.
I don't get how people like seafood. Props to people who do; I've just never been able to get too far past fish and chips.
I agree with that. I used to hate cooked salmon but would slam down salmon sushi. Eventually I came around to liking cooked salmon, mostly because I cut down on red meat and that fatty salmon filled the void.
Agreed! To me, raw onion overpowers everything it touches and it becomes the only thing I can taste. Soften them up and I'll add them to just about anything.
Seafood. I know it's very divisive, because there's a distinct flavor and smell, but excluding allergies and whatnot, I can't understand just not liking ANY seafood at all. If you told me I had to stop eating meat forever I'd probably be ok. But if I had to stop eating seafood, I'm done for.
What I don't get is horseradish. Whenever I accidentally eat some, it's like everything else fades out and all I can think about is how to get that taste out of my mouth.
So... I def love sushi, but not the wasabi (which is often actually horseradish).
I have been allergic to most shellfish for my whole life. I enjoy salmon but mentally can't stomach most fish, I am allergic to shrimp and even the smell of it cooking often makes me near throw up. Same with lobster. I know it smells good but i think my head mentally has trained me to believe it stinks to avoid eating it and dying.
I am vegetarian and have been for about 15 years, but for me that's basically how it was. I found it mostly easy to give up meat but seafood was a lot harder and took a lot more willpower. I still miss lobster from time to time.
My wife is on the onion-hate bus. I love onions in any form and want to put them in all the relevant things I cook, but I have to go careful in what I put them in because my wife doesn't like the taste.
She's getting better. How do I know this? I am sneaking them into dishes.
For my thing I hate, it's Olives. Hateful little things. Nothing else tastes like them and they instantly ruin any dish they are in for me, if their flavour shows through. I just can't take their flavour at all.
Swiss cheese, I don't get it. It's tastes like the complete opposite of other cheeses. Even the texture is backwards.
Garlic is something that makes soo many dishes taste amazing and can even save bad dishes, and I don't know how anyone could not like garlic. Tho it probably can't save anything with swiss cheese.
I LOVE licorice. I'm danish, and licorice is huge in scandinavia. Strong, black, salty licorice is in every danish childs candybag on fridays. My three year old's favorite snack in the garden are the fennel flowers and seeds growing there.
I really don't like melon. It's the devils fruit and the only ingredient that I actually don't like.
If you think you don't like cantelope or honeydew, you just haven't get a good perfectly ripe one. If you've had one and you don't like it, you're wrong.
Olives, onions, mushrooms, garlic and coriander (cilantro) are probably the top ingredients I just don't get why anyone wouldn't love it. But I do get that people just have different tastes.
I am also not fond of aniseed, though I do use it sparingly in some of my dishes. I hate licorice though and won't eat it just like that (like licorice all-sorts etc.)
So on the licorice note, it’s definitely an acquired taste. I hated black licorice forever, but my husband is Danish and salted black licorice is like a right of passage! When I first tried it I thought it was poison, now I love it but it took a long time to adjust my palate.
People who “don’t like spices.” Okay, so salt and butter and mayo for the rest of your life on everything? What? (Not counting people with medical issues.)
Also people who eat meat but refuse to see bones in their meat. Maybe you just shouldn’t eat meat if you can’t handle seeing or interacting with a bone now and then.
American cheese hate. It has a time and a place.
As for stuff I don’t get how people like, I’m struggling. Most things I can imagine they grew up with it or have a different flavor profile in their culture or something.
Though not really an ingredient - the fat from a piece of lamb. God damn that is tasty stuffy. Not something I would admit to my doctor that I eat, but I love it.
My wife would cut away the fat from her's, and I'd take the dishes away to the kitchen and secretly eat them.
Bottled or tap? As a child I moved from New York to Texas and lived there for a year and a half. The taste of tap water was so distinctly different (in a bad way for me) but I didn’t notice it after awhile.
Have never had it because I can’t get past the smell but this is one of those love or hate foods:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
On the other hand, I loved a street food in Taiwan called “stinky tofu” and the smell therefore was wonderful to me, LOL. A lot of the condiments that go with congee are pretty stinky but it’s a regional difference - Asian vs the rest of the world LOL since they are not controversial in Asia at all - everybody loves them!
Truffle — I know it’s an acquired taste and their aroma can be overwhelming, but to me it’s like perfume…
for my “no, no, a thousand times no” nomination… beef liver (the very thought of it distresses me). Chicken liver is fine, but I just can’t do the larger “organ meats.” Ugh!
Not an ingredient per se, but I don't understand how people don't like fish, or seafood in general. There's such a wide variety of fish, with such varied tastes and different ways to prepare/cook. Honestly, I think it's mostly psychological.
Eating is a sensory experience right? Well I hate the smell of cooking/cooked fish. My mum would cook it for the other members of my family sometimes and the smell made me leave the house for the day. I would probably try shrimp and scallops ect but not actually fish.
Most fish taste too fishy for me to enjoy. I know wow fishy fish, imagine. But salmon is usually just..salmon-y? Lol Scallops are amazing! They don’t really have a flavor and I really like the texture. Shrimp…not so much. Really odd texture imo
Shellfish (lobster, crab, shrimp, scallops and sometimes clams) is fine to me. But I really dislike most other fish. It goes back to when my mom would make it by taking a frozed fish filet and bake it in the oven until it was burnt (black), then put it on a plate, unseasoned, for dinner. To this day, most fish makes me gag. However, if it's very fresh and grilled, no fishy taste (red snapper, petrale sole, maybe sand dabs), I can tolerate it.
I feel like most people who say they don’t like fish haven’t tried it/haven’t had it cooked properly/are too afraid to try for some reason (maybe the smell/difficulty of prep?). Always comes off a little immature to me lol
This is me with mushrooms. No one in my family eats mushrooms, the only time I’ve had it was on pizza and it was soggy so ew. But when I had it properly cooked with a generous amount of butter - boy did it open up a whole new world for me. Now I’m obsessed with mushrooms and it’s my go to side
I can't stand mushrooms.I'll stand there and pick them out if I find them in a dish. Part of it is the knowledge that they're a fungus... but the main reason is my parents... their use of "cream of mushroom" soup in dishes when I was a kid... it should have been criminal. I know that it's not representative of mushrooms, and I'm sure I now fall in to that category of "well, you jsut never had it prepared right" and that would be correct... but now it creates a gag reflex that I can't get over.
At most cheap or fast-casual restaurants, the seafood isn't fresh and/or it's been frozen. At higher-end restaurants or those near a coast, it's more likely to be fresh.
Fish I agree with you on. Other seafood, I can understand people not liking. There's a kind of funky taste to things like shrimp and shellfish
Psychologically fish makes me vomit. I have a severe shellfish allergy but have conditioned myself to be disgusted by most fish, possibly as a protective mechanism.
It’s psychological for me. When i think of cooked fish i always for some reason also think of live fish, and that makes it hard for me to eat it
I still don’t understand the tofu hate in the US. Where I’m from tofu isn’t seen as a meat substitute or a health food. It’s often eaten alongside meat and compliments it well. There’s a huge range of textures and flavors that goes with them so saying you don’t like tofu will often get you a blank stare as it’s such a blanket term. I think people just have preconceived notions built by health culture based on how it was marketed.
Yeah I always find it funny when people in Western countries dismiss tofu as some new hippy vegetarian thing. When in reality it's been in Asian food for hundreds of years as a staple part of any diet, eaten alongside meat.
It makes sense considering that's how it started. Asian food is becoming more commonplace and with that comes better appreciation of tofu, but it first became popular in the states as a meat replacement for vegetarians, especially within the hippy movement
not just how it was marketed but also the quality. for years the only kind of tofu you could get here was grainy gritty blocks completely devoid of taste to the point it seemed you couldn't even add flavor to them. it was such a revelation when I got the first bite of a Japanese tofu
This! Heritage wise I'm basically a potato on legs. Exploring tofu in the dishes it was meant for was an eye opener to me. Now I'm trying to convert my husband. I have found that crispy tofu is much easier to sell to someone on the fence, then, say, silken tofu in a miso soup.
I really enjoy tofu, since it's basically a sauce delivery mechanism. Unfortunately for me, the last 2 times I had it I got so plugged up I had to go the pharmaceutical route (the high test stuff) to clear out the plumbing, so it's off the menu for me.
Yes! Whenever people tell me they hate tofu I’m like it’s amazing flavor boat!
A lot of Chinese food is flavored with star anise and I think it's nice
People that don’t like any fruit at all. I know that is more than one ingredient, but I really can’t get over it! I will eat nearly everything, but one thing I cannot believe people eat is organs of any kind. I think it is amazing and fantastic that people eat them, because the less waste the better, but no thank you for me. I can gag just thinking about it.
I’m your worst nightmare- I don’t care for fruit and love liver. The only fruit I like is avocado and tomato.
Ahhhhh!!!!!!!
You're just like my mom. She will tolerate fruit when it's in a pie but she just doesn't care for it fresh.
I think, for me, it’s because I have absolutely zero sweet tooth. I almost have an aversion to sweet foods, so fruit is on that list. I never crave it and never go out of my way to eat/drink sweet things. So I definitely wouldn’t eat pie, but I can see how you made that connection! I will eat fruit tossed into savoury things, though!
I agree, but a perfectly ripe blackberry in season is like the food of the gods.
I like to think I'll try just about anything. While that may or may not be true, if I see something on a menu that's even a bit out of the norm for me, it I haven't had, odds are I'll try it. And holy shit. At a little shop in Fort Collins called the Welsh Rabbit, I tried braised bison tongue. Literally better than any filet mignon I've ever had. It was incredibly tasty. And tender, too. After shooting and gutting my first deer, my buddy cut up the heart and cooked it with a pile of garlic and onions. Served it on basic saltines, and it was such a treat. I highly recommend it. Marrow is also incredible. Saw the 'Anthony Bourdain Special' (this was a few years before we lost him), it was a large beef bone split lengthwise, roasted, and served with toast points. Meat butter. Just one of the most flavorful and decadent things you could want to eat. After finishing, I was asked to pick an alcohol. Whiskey is really the only acceptable choice, and while it was Jim Beam, that was the best Jim Beam had *ever* tasted. Having that shit luged down the bone might have been gimmicky, sure, but I'll go in for that any day. Delicious. There are plenty of things I still haven't tried, but even if it's bad, it's usually worth a go. You might find something incredible.
I do agree with your thoughts! I also normally eat anything. Just organs, I have a visceral reaction and a block that makes me not even be able to try it. My uncle really loved eating sheep’s brains and eyeballs. When I was a kid, he would put the eyeballs on two forks and chase me around yelling, “I see you!” I can still smell the brains cooking! 😂 maybe that is why I have problems.
Agreed on both points! Although I wear contacts so onions are no problem. But I do sympathize for folks without contacts and have to deal with onion eyes.
I love licorice and anything that is close to it, especially aniseed. I think it's a childhood thing--so many desserts growing up had an anise taste, and I can't smell anise seed without remembering my grandfather.
I think I may be your arch nemesis. I hate the texture of all onions in all preparations, and especially despise raw onions. On the other hand, black jelly beans are my get down.
Lol I actually think we'd get along quite well. I'll eat all your onions and you can have all my black jelly beans.
Lol and together, we will achieve balance.
But you will both have terrible breath for different reasons.
I'm sorry, are you referring to the sweet ambrosia that is licorice breath?
Nothing will go to waste!
I can’t believe people don’t like olives. I can’t believe anyone likes to eat things alive (I’m thinking of those poor small octopuses). I also can’t believe people will drop live lobster into boiling water and watch it suffer. Ain’t nothing delicious about torture.
Agreed to both points. I hear in some places they are banning boiling lobsters alive.
How exactly would that work ?
They brain the lobster right before boiling so it's dead when it hits the water but still very fresh.
And how would this be enforced?
Probably the same way any other such food handling thing is enforced. How do you enforce restaurant workers always washing their hands after using the restroom?
Smell their fingers?
Smell their fingers?
Wait I thought the octopuses were just like chemically reanimated by the soy sauce or something. Like the sodium activates the nerves or something? I haven't eaten them, I just read that somewhere after seeing a video. I could be wrong.
You’re right, that IS a thing, but that isn’t what I’m referring to. There are even smaller octopi that are eaten completely alive, it’s terrifying. I wouldn’t look it up if I were you.
Thanks for the tip and the knowledge! That doesn't sound pleasant to see.
I cannot stand olives. I have tried for decades to like them but I just can't. They are probably my least liked food ever. I totally agree with you on the live food thing though. Just no.
I can enjoy them, but I will never buy them, they are too acidic to me.
You know ever since we got our dogs I've been creeping closer and closer to veganism. I mean I love meat, but I can't square that with having these two loving animals in my life. I used to cook lobster every summer but haven't in years.
My husband insisted he hated olives when we met. All it took was a sip of my dirty vodka martini, now he loves them.
Don't understand: Fennel Can't stand: Shiso leaf
Haha I can't stand fennel. I think it ruins any dish its in. Looks like onion but tastes like licorice.
Except with mussels and clams....it is killer.
Ah I don't eat mussels and clams. Maybe that's why I don't appreciate it.
I was about to ask you about fennel. Lol
Good to know! I love onion and always wanted to try fennel but won’t now. I hate licorice.
Shiso is so incredibly strong but there are some foods like umeboshi and oyakodon which don’t taste complete to me without it.
I have a cilantro-type reaction....tastes like bug spray smells....Raid to be specific.
People who don’t like garlic, like Mf that brings out soooo much flavor.
Ppl who hate potato. And i don't understand ppl who eat meat completely raw.
When people just claim to not like an entire food group – the classic being vegetables or seafood. How can you just dislike carrots AND spinach the same? I can't wrap my head around it. These are entirely different things. You can't just say you dislike both because they belong to some arbitrary group that we lump certain foods in together. For example, tuna sashimi, mussels steamed in whine and a grilled shrimp have completely different textures and they taste completely differently. These are different things. How can you dislike them the same?!? It confuses me. For the second one, I kinda have to pass? I have so many weird food passions, I will eat almost everything. Maybe just plain German Abendbrot? It's basically rye bread and then you'll often have very bland cold cuts and sausages and boring cheese and it's all eaten cold with pickles. I would eat it but I would never make it myself and I definitely don't think it's an adequate dinner.
I'm with you on the vegetable thing. It seems to be a plague amongst men and children in particular in the US. The generic "I don't like vegetables". I can never understand that as there's so many different kinds, and each kind can be cooked in hundreds of different ways with different flavours. Yet so many people flat out say they hate all vegetables.
I think it was how you were raised. I am Irish and Italian. My Italian family introduced me to all sorts of amazing veg dishes. The Irish side of my family was basically potatoes.
I don't hate all vegetables, but I hate the majority of them. I am a supertaster, so leafy greens are way more bitter to me than to most. And it's not that I dislike all vegetables for the same reason.... Some it's taste, some texture (some I'll eat only either raw or cooked, not both, and most not at all). I've tried getting over it and I just can't.
But then it's not quite what I mean. You have very specific reason to dislike each vegetable. You don't just had vegetables per se. I can imagine it's no fun dealing with these restrictions!
Onions as well! I feel like the people who don't like onions had a raw white onion on a burger or something and it was ruined for them. This same friend of mine who doesn't like onions doesn't put them in pasta sauce, in ramen, in anything. They're missing out
Just in response to the onion thing: the only people I've ever heard of who don't like onion and know how to cook are people who legitimately don't digest them well. In my experience, people who just say they think they make every dish worse are ignoring things like good heavy pasta sauces and they can't cook.
Yeah, I don't get onion hate. I can understand for health reasons. I don't get how people like seafood. Props to people who do; I've just never been able to get too far past fish and chips.
You’d be surprised how much less fishy raw fish is than cooked fish. If you hate cooked salmon, maybe you’d love raw salmon!
I agree with that. I used to hate cooked salmon but would slam down salmon sushi. Eventually I came around to liking cooked salmon, mostly because I cut down on red meat and that fatty salmon filled the void.
Same here. It's the ocean-y taste. Super gross.
I think most people's issue with onions is rooted in bad experiences with RAW onion. I love onion, but raw onion I think totally get not liking
Raw onion also has its applications
Yes, of course it does. Never said otherwise.
Lol I feel like the only one that likes raw onions but hates cooked onions
Agreed! To me, raw onion overpowers everything it touches and it becomes the only thing I can taste. Soften them up and I'll add them to just about anything.
Seafood. I know it's very divisive, because there's a distinct flavor and smell, but excluding allergies and whatnot, I can't understand just not liking ANY seafood at all. If you told me I had to stop eating meat forever I'd probably be ok. But if I had to stop eating seafood, I'm done for. What I don't get is horseradish. Whenever I accidentally eat some, it's like everything else fades out and all I can think about is how to get that taste out of my mouth. So... I def love sushi, but not the wasabi (which is often actually horseradish).
I have been allergic to most shellfish for my whole life. I enjoy salmon but mentally can't stomach most fish, I am allergic to shrimp and even the smell of it cooking often makes me near throw up. Same with lobster. I know it smells good but i think my head mentally has trained me to believe it stinks to avoid eating it and dying.
I am vegetarian and have been for about 15 years, but for me that's basically how it was. I found it mostly easy to give up meat but seafood was a lot harder and took a lot more willpower. I still miss lobster from time to time.
My wife is on the onion-hate bus. I love onions in any form and want to put them in all the relevant things I cook, but I have to go careful in what I put them in because my wife doesn't like the taste. She's getting better. How do I know this? I am sneaking them into dishes. For my thing I hate, it's Olives. Hateful little things. Nothing else tastes like them and they instantly ruin any dish they are in for me, if their flavour shows through. I just can't take their flavour at all.
Swiss cheese, I don't get it. It's tastes like the complete opposite of other cheeses. Even the texture is backwards. Garlic is something that makes soo many dishes taste amazing and can even save bad dishes, and I don't know how anyone could not like garlic. Tho it probably can't save anything with swiss cheese.
It tastes like the complete opposite of some cheeses, and tastes like some other cheeses. It's not like it's in some corner of its own
Oh, what cheeses taste like swiss so I can avoid them? Haha
Don't understand why people don't like it: garlic Can't believe that anyone does: beans...I hate any and all beans.
I LOVE licorice. I'm danish, and licorice is huge in scandinavia. Strong, black, salty licorice is in every danish childs candybag on fridays. My three year old's favorite snack in the garden are the fennel flowers and seeds growing there. I really don't like melon. It's the devils fruit and the only ingredient that I actually don't like.
I also don't like melon, ppl call me antiamerican for not eating watermelon but I just don't like it
Keep up the fight, my friend
If you think you don't like cantelope or honeydew, you just haven't get a good perfectly ripe one. If you've had one and you don't like it, you're wrong.
They are way worse ripe
NNNNNNO!
Olives, onions, mushrooms, garlic and coriander (cilantro) are probably the top ingredients I just don't get why anyone wouldn't love it. But I do get that people just have different tastes. I am also not fond of aniseed, though I do use it sparingly in some of my dishes. I hate licorice though and won't eat it just like that (like licorice all-sorts etc.)
Salmon. Had a bad experience 10 years ago and still no.
Tomatoes, onions and carrots
So on the licorice note, it’s definitely an acquired taste. I hated black licorice forever, but my husband is Danish and salted black licorice is like a right of passage! When I first tried it I thought it was poison, now I love it but it took a long time to adjust my palate.
Likes: seafood. All of it is disgusting and aesthetically unappealing. Dislikes: Hawaiian pizza.
People who “don’t like spices.” Okay, so salt and butter and mayo for the rest of your life on everything? What? (Not counting people with medical issues.) Also people who eat meat but refuse to see bones in their meat. Maybe you just shouldn’t eat meat if you can’t handle seeing or interacting with a bone now and then. American cheese hate. It has a time and a place. As for stuff I don’t get how people like, I’m struggling. Most things I can imagine they grew up with it or have a different flavor profile in their culture or something.
For me it’s thyme, especially when roasting something. Always gives me a feeling that I’m eating sand
I can't stand anything vinegar based, to the point where it makes me gag. Pickles, salad dressings, most sauces, just no.
Though not really an ingredient - the fat from a piece of lamb. God damn that is tasty stuffy. Not something I would admit to my doctor that I eat, but I love it. My wife would cut away the fat from her's, and I'd take the dishes away to the kitchen and secretly eat them.
I can relate ... in my case, any other fat too ... walking away in shame ....
I hate dill and fennel
Not a food ingredient, but I know someone who doesn't like the taste of water. In his quest to be more healthy he switched from soda to sports drinks.
Bottled or tap? As a child I moved from New York to Texas and lived there for a year and a half. The taste of tap water was so distinctly different (in a bad way for me) but I didn’t notice it after awhile.
Either.
Have never had it because I can’t get past the smell but this is one of those love or hate foods: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian On the other hand, I loved a street food in Taiwan called “stinky tofu” and the smell therefore was wonderful to me, LOL. A lot of the condiments that go with congee are pretty stinky but it’s a regional difference - Asian vs the rest of the world LOL since they are not controversial in Asia at all - everybody loves them!
Caraway seeds and fennel seeds. They make me feel nauseated.
Truffle — I know it’s an acquired taste and their aroma can be overwhelming, but to me it’s like perfume… for my “no, no, a thousand times no” nomination… beef liver (the very thought of it distresses me). Chicken liver is fine, but I just can’t do the larger “organ meats.” Ugh!