food and drinks that most people love that you think are disgusting or taste like total shit.

[nfgrls]

chicken, turkey, veggies, fruits among other things

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

There are people who are dying of hunger on this planet...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Thus we all have to help the fact that some foods make us want to projectile vomit?

It does seem somewhat ungrateful to complain about the taste of delicacies considering this fact.

 

[bankside]

I am with you on the caviar...


And I don't like anything that cost more then 10$, except, maybe, some wine!!!!


And I don't like beer


and sushi (raw fish.... eeeeeewhhhhhh)


and overcooked veggies...

Most sushi is lovely. Just pop it in the convection oven, 190°C, for about 10 minutes.

 

[Red Storm]

beets
rhubarb

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Telling people they should eat any old thing that tastes repulsive to them is like imploring people to live next to a sewage treatment plant or sleep on a bed of cacti. It's natural to avoid things that offend human senses.

Most delicacies taste like phlegm (e.g. oysters), smegma (fine cheeses), piss (kidneys), smell like feet (e.g. french cheeses), are rotten fish (e.g. Dutch herring) or are otherwise 'udderly' disgusting (e.g. Dutch uierboord). I think it bear witness to very poor character to complain about it, given that you might have guessed this in advance.

 

[kev]

Brussel Sprouts are never good. I literally vomited at the taste of them when I was younger.

I have been trying to create one of those tumblr thingies to express my disgust with brussel sprouts, but I can' t quite figure out how to do it.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I have been trying to create one of those tumblr thingies to express my disgust with brussel sprouts, but I can' t quite figure out how to do it.

If they're overcooked, they smell like poo. Otherwise i think they'e okay.

beets
rhubarb

How dare you!
My two favorite foods.

 

[bankside]

I have been trying to create one of those tumblr thingies to express my disgust with brussel sprouts, but I can' t quite figure out how to do it.

Brussel Sprouts are never good. I literally vomited at the taste of them when I was younger.

What is the point of throwing up Brussels sprouts. Barf tastes the same.

 

[Nishin]

This is always one of my least favorite threads when it shows up. I eat almost everything, and like it.

I enjoy well prepared food best, though.

I think it's more or less factual that if people (without an ulterior agenda) eat something they don't like at least three times, they will learn to like it on the fourth sampling.

Of course, I have a very heartfelt love of food and I want people, generally, to appreciate food broadly and derive as much pleasure from it as they can. It's disappointing to me when people deprive themselves of the varied joys of eating; my bias is toward the polymorphous perverse palate.

I had read the figure of 5 instead: that tasting something 5 times will have a new taste known and identified by your tongue/mouth/brain... after that whether you still dislike it or appreciate it is then really about taste, rather than lack of exposure/your mouth not knowing what to do of a new taste...

Also despite G-Lex' rant about people insisting in trying things cooked differently, there really is some truth into this, things have different taste and texture at different stages or manner of cooking, ie as a kid I used to hate mushrooms, until I had some raw, which I loved the light taste and fresh texture of, at that point something was unlocked and I started liking them cooked as well.

Some dislikes are thought to be genetic though, I recently read a study hinting that coriander's smell offends some persons' senses because of a gene they have that makes them identify the specific smell as a threat or something...

Or sometimes you will like things one way only (more of a texture thing in that case), I like raw tomatoes and carrots but don't like them much when cooked.

Lastly tastes CHANGE over time, I make sure to taste things I think I dislike every now and then to confirm I still dislike them or not... I used to hate caviar or even red wine until not so long ago when I tried again and caviar tasted so good, as about red wine, I found out I liked some I sampled (although they tend to be the very expensive ones, so I'm still not drinking it on a regular basis and still don't like the cheap acidic ones lol)... maybe one day I will be able to eat or even appreciate oysters...

Like you I'm disappointed and saddened when people are stubborn about food... especially when their dislike range of things seems to be totally irrational like = no seafood... WTF? sea-food has sooooo many different things, tastes, textures within... I'm often replied they have a specific smell or something like that but I don't think it's true, especially of cooked things... so anyway I will try and be tolerant and say something like "to each his own" but I actually think that's totally BS

 

[MisterMajestic]

Coleslaw & Potato salad......I HATE Mayonnaise and the smell of it makes me sick...if there's a recipe for Potato salad without the mayo i'd try it...

 

[rareboy]

I am amazed.

This thread is a hoot.

Except for Balut, there isn't anything that anyone has listed that I don't at least like, if not love, although since having pneumonia in 2004, I haven't been able to drink coffee for some reason. I went from about 20 cups per day to mint tea.

Ever since New Coke, I haven't been a fan and it was another thing that was affected by the pneumonia. But I went from not liking Pepsi to liking it.

And I love salt licorice. It is the Dutch in me I guess.

I am fascinated by which dislikes are a chemical reaction with our taste buds and which are behaviourally based.

Oh. And for any coprophilia connoiseurs out there, I have to assume that shit must taste like shit.

 

[bankside]

Some dislikes are thought to be genetic though, I recently read a study hinting that coriander's smell offends some persons' senses because of a gene they have that makes them identify the specific smell as a threat or something...

Coriander leaves taste like soap.

 

[Nishin]

There is truth to it but when every time you state something that you don't like and people always chime in that you're not eating it right or you have to try it this way, it's annoying. Sometimes people don't like stuff. I also stated coffee and I tried it a couple different ways. I tried it this past week and put a decent amount of sugar in it and I still don't like it. I posted this on facebook and someone told me I needed to add more sugar. -_-

Oh I do understand that, I have few dislikes so it doesn't happen to me much but I completely get how it can grow annoying...

This thread is about food dislikes so I feel legit to mention my theories about food dislikes, but of course in another context I will usually refrain from making such comments even when I'm thinking Ok has this guy tried coffee with milk or coffee flavoured yoghourt or or or etc ... there is no doubt that in the end some tastes will remain unpleasant to one no-matter how many times or differently he tried it... I just find it too bad not to try and make that list the shortest possible.

And I get suspicious when the range of disliked items is too large to be justified by taste only, ie I had that friend who doesn't like sea food and was saying it was because of the smell etc, after a little questioning, turns out it wasn't about taste as much as about memories from his childhood where his father was a fisherman and would feed the family with the same fish at basically every meal.
I have my own pleasant AND unpleasant madeleine de Proust tastes or eating manners (I hate dipping biscuits or viennoiserie in coffee) and wonder if sometimes people are not turned off by something for a similar reason rather than it's actual taste...

Jesus... I talk too much whenever it's about food... I may be a foodopath or something...

Coriander leaves taste like soap.

I feel the same about Robusta coffee... feels like drinking naphtalene or something...

 

[G-Lexington]

There's still this belief - stated or hinted at - that dislikes or aversions to food are...defects? Weaknesses? Problem areas? Something in there. And therefore the right/correct/noble thing to do is to push through that aversion so that you can appreciate this foodstuff.

Let's say I did that for Brussels sprouts. I continued trying them, making myself notice the various subtleties or whatnot, getting my palate used to them. And eventually, after four, five, or eighteen iterations, I reached a point where I liked them. I'm assuming they wouldn't suddenly become a favorite, but I'd eat them with no problem if they popped up on my plate.

What exactly did I gain from this endeavor? Now, instead of eighty-four vegetables I enjoy eating, there are now eighty-five? I can now get through a meal at another's house where Brussels sprouts are served without causing friction? That's happened once in the past twenty years. (I tried a token piece, they were fine with that.) I now know what others see in Brussels sprouts? I always did - I never thought peope who ate them were "wrong". My dislike of Brussels sprouts means solely that I don't order it if it's on a menu, and don't biy it for home consumption.

Let's switch gears. There's a musical artist you don't like. I'm convinced that if you listen closely to his discography (or some part thereof) a few times, you'll gain a new-found appreciation for his work. In fact, that's probably the case with many musical artists. Should this be something you undertake? Or shoud you just stick with the stuff you already like, without having o be "taught to like it"?

Lex

 

[seven2go]

Salsa, ANYTHING with DILL in it, asparagus (I recently tried it to see if I still hated it.....I still hate it), COOKED mushrooms and spinach.......(love them raw though), buttermilk, ANYTHING with CHUNKS of tomato in it, no such thing as a GOOD olive....bleah, there isn't much to NOT like about avacado.....I just recently discovered that....... ........black beans, black eyed peas and chick peas make we wanna barf.......sauerkraut is SO vile....... .......and rotten cheeses pretty much cover it I guess.......OH! CREAM sauces........just fuck up what's underneath.......

 

[zoltanspawn]

Let's switch gears. There's a musical artist you don't like. I'm convinced that if you listen closely to his discography (or some part thereof) a few times, you'll gain a new-found appreciation for his work. In fact, that's probably the case with many musical artists. Should this be something you undertake? Or shoud you just stick with the stuff you already like, without having o be "taught to like it"?

Lex

People are of course free to make whatever choice they want; let's not forget that, firstly.

But isn't there virtue is appreciating a wider variety of music? Doesn't an education in music create a more sophisticated listener? I think there's more pleasure to be had by those with an ear for a wide range of song.

Especially if one enjoys the inspiration of a great music lover, it's something worse than laziness to forego the abundant a range of harmonies to be heard.

 

[sexylatinboy]

wine, beer or anything that has alcohol in it, it makes me want to throw up. Bitter chocolate ugh that is nasty.

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

There's still this belief - stated or hinted at - that dislikes or aversions to food are...defects? Weaknesses? Problem areas? Something in there. And therefore the right/correct/noble thing to do is to push through that aversion so that you can appreciate this foodstuff.

Let's say I did that for Brussels sprouts. I continued trying them, making myself notice the various subtleties or whatnot, getting my palate used to them. And eventually, after four, five, or eighteen iterations, I reached a point where I liked them. I'm assuming they wouldn't suddenly become a favorite, but I'd eat them with no problem if they popped up on my plate.

What exactly did I gain from this endeavor? Now, instead of eighty-four vegetables I enjoy eating, there are now eighty-five? I can now get through a meal at another's house where Brussels sprouts are served without causing friction? That's happened once in the past twenty years. (I tried a token piece, they were fine with that.) I now know what others see in Brussels sprouts? I always did - I never thought peope who ate them were "wrong". My dislike of Brussels sprouts means solely that I don't order it if it's on a menu, and don't biy it for home consumption.

Let's switch gears. There's a musical artist you don't like. I'm convinced that if you listen closely to his discography (or some part thereof) a few times, you'll gain a new-found appreciation for his work. In fact, that's probably the case with many musical artists. Should this be something you undertake? Or shoud you just stick with the stuff you already like, without having o be "taught to like it"?

Lex

To be fair some times it takes more than one listen before a song or an album will grow on me. For example, when I first listened to "Medusa" by Annie Lennox, it didn't really grab me. About a month later, I decided to give it a try again (since I loved her last album, "Diva", so much), and I absolutely loved it. I guess I just wasn't in the right "mood" the first time I listened to it.

Same goes with Michael Jackson's "Bad" album. I thought it was so-so when I first listened to it years ago. Now I think it's on the same level as "Off The Wall" and "Thriller".

Just my $0.02

 

[teadrinker]

White chocolate. What is the point of chocolate which is missing all the things which make it chocolatey?

Sir - let us swear eternal friendship!

-T.