Put someone’s—anyone’s!—eating habits under the microscope and you might realize just how picky they are. Even if they say that they aren’t. For some folks, tomato juice is a sin that’s been unleashed onto the world. Others absolutely detest celery sneaked into dishes. Others, still, can’t stand it if the salad they order comes uncut.
Redditor u/ahfansaerdet started a discussion on the r/Cooking online community after asking everyone about all the things they dislike in dishes. Things that most people seem to love or that’s been accepted in the cooking world. And they spilled the beans! We’ve collected a list of everyone’s biggest culinary turnoffs, so scroll down to read what they had to say.
Bored Panda wanted to learn about picky eating, so we reached out to Dana Harron, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of Monarch Wellness & Psychotherapy. Dr. Harron is the author of Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder and runs a blog on Psychology Today called Living with Eating Disorders. Read on to see what she told us.

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Tails on shrimp that aren't meant to be eaten by hand.
I hate that! It's not that I object to using my hands - it's that it's messy. Just take the damned tails off?!
Or mussels, clams, crawfish - anything that's MEANT to be eaten with your hands that's smothered in sauce so you can't.
Load More Replies...I presume you are referring to the "goop" along the top of the shrimp tail? The vein on the top carries blood from the gills and head to the heart, the one on the bttm carries blood from the body to the heart. Neither carry "poop".
Load More Replies...One time in some country - Thailand I think but I honestly can't remember for sure - I got a shrimp omelet from a roadside stand. A bit closer to scrambled eggs than omelet but that was okay. What wasn't okay was the shrimp had full shell on. So - picking off the shells but it's got cooked egg glued to it. To this day I'm not positive if that is how everybody ate them or if he punked me.
A lot of Chinese restaurant with an all you can eat buffet have dishes with shrimp that have the full shell on. Who wants to get sauce on their fingers peeling them?
Load More Replies...It's supposedly because you get more flavour when cooking with them on, but I would give up on that flavour if it meant I didn't have to dig through my meal to remove them.
Especially when you have to get sauce all over your fingers from peeling them.
Load More Replies...Also hate it when they put it whole... we always clean it and remove it from the shell... uncleaned shrimps or prawns always leave you with stomach ache
If they are leaving you ill then there is a handling problem somewhere between where they are harvested and your plate. I was a commercial fisherman and yours is literally the first time I have heard that. ( perhaps you have an allergy? )
Load More Replies...How about complete shells on them? Not only are they messy to peel, they're harder to peel. All you can eat Chinese restaurants are notorious for this
It is said " If it's not eatable don't put it on the plate ". Nothing more disgusting than a plate full of non eatable stuff strewn all over your plate while your trying to have a conversation around the table.
Cherry tomatoes just dumped into a salad whole so that they roll around your plate as you chase them with your fork. Halve them, people!
And when you bite them they squirt their tomato juice to the other end of the table
Exactly! That only works with Billy Boid's angelic voice in the background.
Load More Replies...Well, what happened to me was that in a restaurant, I tried to spear the whole cherry tomato with my fork, the skin was tough, and the other tomato shot out of the bowl, and onto the floor, dressing and all. Now, I hold on to the tomato with one hand, while spearing it with my fork. 🤣
A few years ago, my wife and I were in Paris and ate at a small bistro. At the table next to us sat a young couple from San Francisco, they had each ordered a fish dish. Their fish was served complete with head and tail. Both had never seen fish cutlery, nor knew how a table knife is used. My wife and I gutted their fish without breaking a single bone. After which they told how difficult it was that they had received pizza yesterday, which was not pre-cut.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That explains most San Franciscan's voting patterns.
Load More Replies...I disagree with this one. I love the feel of biting into a whole cherry tomato.
Grape tomatoes are sweeter anyway, and not hard to spear with your fork.
I like them better, too. They don't roll out of the serving spoons at salad bars.
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Those super huge sushi rolls that have like 4 layers of c*ap on top of them. Do I attempt to stuff this entire thing into my mouth at once and hope I don't choke? Do I try to take a bite out of it and have the rest of it completely fall apart and become impossible to eat? Fancy sushi has caused way too much anxiety in my life.
I am 50/50 on this. Do i love a simple sushi? Yes. Do i love that avacado wrapped with eel sauce drizzle? Also yes. But not bigger than my mouth can open for sure.
Load More Replies...Agreed. I assure you, sushi was never meant to be served like this. "Sushi fusion" joints have gone off the rails and not for the better.
This. I love spider rolls, but how am on earth am I supposed to eat it? The disks are like, the size of my fist!
This is why, I eat sushi, at home..blinds drawn. The whole thing is going in..Eat it or wear it.
We were interested as to why some people are such picky eaters. Dr. Harron, the founder of Monarch Wellness & Psychotherapy, was kind enough to shed some light on the topic.
"Picky eaters usually result from a combination of genetics and environment," she explained to us.
"They may have more sensitivity in terms of food taste and texture, and then if they are not exposed to a variety of foods early on, they may begin to feel like they aren't able to eat a wide variety," Harron told Bored Panda.
When lettuce isn’t bite size - unless it’s *deliberately* served whole and meant to be cut up (say a grilled lettuce salad). But something like romaine or something in a classic Caesar, etc, I really shouldn’t have to cut it up more.
In my cooking school I learned that it should be ripped by hand so small you can eat it without more than a fork
Whenever my mother made a tossed salad she'd tear the salad by hand because a chef on TV said that cutting it with a knife would turn it brown. She obviously missed the part about tearing it into bite size pieces. She used a knife to chop the rest of the salad and made it bite size. Why not tear the lettuce bite size, too, so I don't have to cut it with a knife and fork to keep her from fussing at me? That's why I took over making the salads.
Load More Replies...YYYYAAAAASSSSSSSSS! I am SO tired of having to spend twice as long cutting my salad up than it takes to eat it! Maybe I'll start sending it back, or requesting a sharp knife and a cutting board …
for those of us who can use two pieces of cutlery simultaneously, this is not a problem.
Seriously! I don't care it it's "bad etiquette" but I always cut my salad before I start eating it. IMO that's better than having a giant leaf hanging out of your mouth. :)
Load More Replies...Wedge salad means the chef is too lazy to cut it up.
Load More Replies...Grilled romaine is actually fairly common. It holds up to heat far better than say iceberg, and the char that you get from the grill adds extra flavor. Not for everyone obviously but I wouldn't knock it before you try it.
Load More Replies...My mother used to tell the manager of the restaurant that she'd like to apply for a job, when asked what job, she would reply with "well, you people OBVIOUSLY need a lettuce ripper!"
Used to be a thing with Europeans, that people who cut up salads were low class.
I use a ceramic knife to cut lettuce. The ceramic doesn't interact with the leaves the way metal knives would.
I still don't get the concept of a grilled salad. Throwing an uncut head of romaine onto a hibachi with the butt of the lettuce still on, just seems unpleasant. The top layers get gross, burnt, and wilted, and the bottom layers don't change at all, it's just unseasoned, undressed raw lettuce! What's the point?
Whole olives (with pit) on pizza … just why??
That's a good idea I need to have a chat with the Italian restaurant down stairs. This is gonna be a great quarter!
Load More Replies...Me either, and it sounds like a real stupid idea
Load More Replies...Although I do love green olives on pizza with onions and ground beef. Very tasty.
Olives taste better when they have been brined with a pit. Those canned pitted black olives have very little taste.
understandable, but the olives are clearly done brining if they're on a pizza
Load More Replies...I love olives! Black, green, raw, cooked, pits or not, all of them!!
Load More Replies...Yea you said it. JUST WHY?. Oh I know why, cuz their too damn lazy to do it right.
When there’s a crispy coating on a protein, but then when plating for aesthetics they cover it with a wet salad or sauce so that by the time it gets to the table it’s soaked through. I get that it looks nice, but I want maximum crunch from the breading and not soggy bread party seconds into my meal.
Or put the sauce on the plate before you put the breaded item on it
Load More Replies...Related: The local pub has the awful habit of resting the steak on top of the chips. Meaning you have to move the steak to get at the chips, and they're often soggy and soaked with juice from the steak.
Load More Replies...Soggy bread is the source of many food no-nos for me. Looking at you, every kind of loose-meat sandwich. Bleh!
And if the meat is beef, they want to pour beef juice all over the sandwich, just in case the bread wasn't soggy enough.
Load More Replies...The clinical psychologist shared her thoughts on what someone could do if they wanted to try and expand their culinary horizons a bit.
"If someone is a picky eater, they can begin to expand their culinary tastes by trying small amounts of new and different foods," she suggested taking small steps at first.
"The only way to expand your comfort zone is to sit outside of it," Dr. Harron said.
"If this is extremely difficult, or your diet is extremely limited, you might want to be evaluated for Avoidant and Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and receive professional support."
When you order a meat dish and half of it is fat. I had pork adobo yesterday and at least half the meat was pure fat. Immediately ruined the meal for me.
I'm really fussy like that. Only ever tolerate the leanest of meat. Why do some people looooove to chew down on fatty gristle?!
Gristle is hard/chewy tissue, different from fat. (Sorry, if this is too pedantic!)
Load More Replies...I admit I'm one of those people who love the fat because it has so much flavor, the same with chicken skin
This is going to sound strange but I have noticed this changes as you get older. when I was young I always cut the fat away, now I always eat the fat that my children cut away. and it looked gross when my parents did it and it looks gross to my children when I do it now, but I know for a fact a lot of people experience that. With age fat gets tasty. i am not sure if we might just get less picky, but I think it's not that.
Know what you order. I love fancy (Michelin starred) restaurants and I love the traditional farmers kitchen. But eating isn´t just about food. It is about flavors, bites and textures. If you want tender pork, you need some fat.
No. You don't. This is one of those myths like 'steak should always be rare'. Let people eat meat the way they prefer it instead of arguing that your personal taste is the way everyone should eat it. Yes, I'm talking to you, Mr. pretentious-as-fsk TV Chef.
Load More Replies...Pretty sure that's not what they are talking about... if I order a ribeye and it had a huge fat cap and tail, that 14 oz steak is really about 8 oz. Not the same as ordering pork belly.
Load More Replies...Filipinos - correct me if I'm wrong. Here is my white boy take on that (but I have Filipino relatives / have been to PI many times). 1. Pork adobo is traditionally made (I think) with pork belly, which tends to be a fatty cut. 2. Filipinos make use of the WHOLE animal from crispy skin to the boiled blood. In other words I'm saying that to whoever made it, they may have felt they were giving you a good thing. I can totally get only wanting lean meat but some dishes tend towards being fatty. A Greek roast lamb dinner I like is kind of that way. There are a lot of variations to pork adobo and I've had it super lean where I'm pretty sure they made it out of pork chops or something.
was it sweet? if its sweet its called humba. Its a bisaya dish similar to pork adobo but sweet
Uncut lettuce as salads. Just, for the love of all that's good, just cut the damn leaves so they fit on the fork then in my mouth without getting dressing everywhere.
By the time I’m done cutting my salad, with the fork and knife that I do know how to use, everyone else at the table is done eating. So there’s some validity to this.
Load More Replies...There's this amazing new thing. It's called "bite sized". Unless it's a wedge salad, (which I would never order) CUT the dang lettuce before you bring it to me! (Please.)
I would never order an overpriced wedge of iceberg lettuce drizzled with dressing, either.
Load More Replies...Once more, learn to use cutlery or at least know how to use a table knife.
Learn how not to be THE Karen with nothing to offer but insults.
Load More Replies...Lettuce is horrible whatever you do to it. It has all the flavour of a plastic bag.
I 100% agree and will upvote this no mate how many times I see it with slightly different wording. This may be my biggest pet peeve ever.
Original salads were uncut. They were leaves with dressing and toppings meant to be eaten by hand. But that was then. Now salads are meant to be eaten with a fork. As such, they should be bite sized. The only exception are salads meant to be eaten with a knife and fork, such as a wedge salad (although some places will chop that up for you).
Have you ever watched the Kardashians eat salad? It's repulsive.
Cilantro, I have the damn gene
I'm so sorry for those who have "the damn gene". I don't, and this saves me much grief, apparently.
Same, I'm so happy I don't have it cause I can't imagine some dishes that I love without cilantro. So sorry people with the gene.
Load More Replies...I've seen that you can get used to the taste and then taste it "properly" after a while. But man I love it and put in so much much to my brother's chagrin.
Yes! At first, all I tasted was soap, but that changed and now it tastes... i dunno, fresh? My mom would rant about how horrible it was. P.S. Cilantro lime rice is the best!
Load More Replies...This is why I'm an Atheist! A loving god would not deprive all you people of the joys of cilantro!
There is absolutely no reason to force yourself into culinary Stockholm Syndrome over cilantro. None.
Load More Replies...Cilantro leaves taste like a violation of fundamental human rights.
The author of the thread, redditor u/ahfansaerdet, has some very understandable pet peeves about food. In their opinion, there shouldn’t be any bones in stews or sauces. They’re also not a fan of cartilage in meals. And that’s fair! Ideally, everything on your plate is edible and you don’t have to get messy with your fingers and/or napkin. Yours truly, for instance, deeply loathes fish that still has bones in the filet. I don’t want to think about the (tiny) possibility of choking while I’m trying to enjoy the exquisitely-prepared dish.
Meanwhile, other redditors shared their own dislikes. Some, for instance, can’t stand dishes that have shrimp with tails on them if they’re not meant to be eaten by hand. Others don’t like eating salads where the ingredients are mega-sized: they don’t want to cut everything themselves. Still, others can’t stomach ordering meat dishes that are half fat (yuck!). In short, people expect chefs to maintain certain standards, not take the easy way out while picking the ingredients, cooking, and plating everything.
Getting a salad that's not chopped is infuriating to me. I don't have a chef's knife at the restaurant table. This is especially egregious when the salad is served on a small plate and I have a dull butter knife. It's no wonder so many Americans don't like salads. They've never had a well balanced, chopped salad and instead get a plate of full leaves, giant rings of raw onions, and huge tomato slices on a freaking tiny plate. I'll even order, "can I get this salad chopped please?" And they will stare at me like I'm crazy and tell me that's not possible. Ok, then can I go back there and chop it myself? I know you have a knife! Sir, calm down we are definitely not getting you a near a sharp knife.
I totally agree. A salad should not contain anything so large that it cannot fit into a small mouth. Say it again with me, "chop the dang salad, please!"
This thread is teaching me that apparently you're supposed to chop salad? I thought you just choke it down and struggle
Yet another reason why a gentleman carries a pocket-knife. Clean and sharp, of course.
If you go to a restaurant and don't get given a knife (except for soup) you're already in the wrong place.
What would you need a kitchen knife for in a restaurant?? (As a guest.) Not every restaurant is a steak house with steak knifes and a normal knife, which you commonly eat with, isn't good for chopping salad (not to mention that a salad is supposed to be chopped BEFORE you eat it anyway).
Load More Replies...Just like many people have and do, I used to work in a kitchen (have worked in a few actually) and I found myself to often not understand, or to disagree with, the way a restaurant is so buisnesstized. I used to be a fry cook who also made desserts, appetizers and salads. Making a salad meant dumping a small bag of precut and mixed salad onto a crescent moon saucer as an appetizer. Prepping was weighing the lettuce for each serving (2oz.) as I transfer it from a big bag into many smaller ones. I never put a knife to lettuce. Labor is expensive and presliced lettuce is more profitable. Does it cause the lettuce to wilt faster? Yes. Does it create unnecessary waste? Yes. Are the chefs responsible for your large lettuce dislike? Probably not unless they own the restaurant or have creative freedom (most chefs do not have creative freedom). Keeping down things like labor time, meal preparation time, time to table, and consumer turnaround are all part of a restaurant business's decisions.
Also a lot of Americans seem to have trouble using a knife and fork properly! I'm sorry, I know I'm going to get backlash from this but it's true! They seem to struggle using the fork in their left hand with the prongs pointing down and using the knife in their right hand to cut the food, and then lifting the food in the fork, prongs down, with their left hand! I'm so sorry, I know not all Americans will be like this but it seems that a lot are! I'm so sorry, again!
I hate those salads that look like stuff I raked out from under my bushes.
Are we going to do this again??? We get it, chefs need to cut the salad so it's edible!
Caribbean jerk places in my area all seem to just chop their jerk chicken with a cleaver in the most brutal way possible. While I love the flavor, I'm not fond of chicken bone fragments embedding themselves in my gums.
I recently got chicken wrap sold at street food stand and the chicken had bones in it. Also buchered in very unpredictable way, and had strips of raw carrot in it so hard to say sometimes what is bone and what is carrot. I tried to eat it but my teeth are not so good and binned most of it, you don’t want to search for a dentist in foreign country.
Have to admit, I agree. It's put me off jerk chicken - whether a food stall at a festival or a nice restaurant, the preparation seemed to involve a blunt hatchet and little regard for what part of the chicken you end up with.
That’s authentic Jamaican chicken butchering. Don’t appreciate the authenticity go eat your jerk chicken cooked by someone who isn’t Jamaican.
Same goes for a lot of the chinese duck dishes I've tried. There is a plum duck that I had that was great, except you were constantly spitting out shrapnel from the pulverised bones :(
Places where animal protein is a luxury, will hack poultry. That means instead just seven or nine pieces there are about 15 or so. After living in Asia I kind of like hacked chicken. Eat shrimp shells and whole baby crab too.
Load More Replies...I've never been to the Caribbean but I've been served chicken like that in PI. Ordered BBQ chicken and rice - which is basically what it was - but it was just whacked into bite sized pieces. A lot of Filipinos eat with their hands so not too big a deal to pick the bones out since your hands are in the food anyway. It's not my preferred way but I roll with it when I'm over there.
Truffle oil. I'm so glad the big truffle oil fad has mostly died down. Everything smelled/tasted like a stale armpit for a while.
Most truffle oil contains no actual truffle. It contains 2,4-Dithiapentane which is prepared by the condensation of a compound called methyl mercaptan, the main aromatic compound in both halitosis and foot odor and a secondary compound in flatulence. Yum.
Amen! I HATE truffle oil with a passion, stop putting it on everything, cooks!
I love truffle, but I swear any time I eat something with truffle in it, I can smell truffle seeping out of my pores for the next 2 days.
My brother once ate a giant bulb of garlic on a dare. He stunk up the house for several days afterwards. I swear he was sweating it out. So gross. Teenage boys are weird. :)
Load More Replies...Thank you! Truffle Fries is a recipe for stomach issues later in the bathroom. SO MUCH OIL!!!!
I never enjoyed truffle anything, smells gross and taste like musty dirt lol
Anything with truffle in that only tastes of truffle, really strong overpowering truffle, urgh.
While it’s fine to be picky about what you eat, it’s best to focus on the quality of the ingredients and to focus on healthy dishes, rather than to boycott something because you find the texture weird or it ‘looks icky.’ If you go down the latter path, you’re effectively limiting yourself. And it can be quite fun to expand your culinary horizons.
For instance, ‘So Yummy!’ points out that some of the top ingredients that people loathe include beets, olives, and cilantro. As it happens, they’re ingredients that yours truly has had a particularly tough time enjoying, growing up. However, after getting the initial ‘ick factor’ and trying the items in different forms and dishes, I’ve genuinely come to enjoy them. Personal growth? In a small but satisfying way—yes! Culinary adventures are a simple, fun way to spice up your life (though I still prefer my beets caramelized rather than raw).
Chicken stews/sauces/casseroles with bone-in chicken pieces. Why the F**K would I want bones in something sticky that I'll have to either awkwardly pick away at with a knife and fork, or have to pick up to eat, which will make my fingers all nasty. Also cartilage seems to fall off and/or somehow always make its way into your mouth so you'll have to chew it and spit it out.
I don't get this one. If you were served the same piece of chicken by itself, you'd use a fork and knife, yes? Why does it become awkward if it's part of a casserole?
Because you eat bone-in chicken with your hands, and are expecting to have to eat around the bones. You eat casserole with a fork, and trying to remove the bones from a piece of meat without getting the rest of the dish all over your hands is awkward. Also, I don't know many people who eat soup/stew with a knife & fork.
Load More Replies...My old man would make chicken cacciatore (which he loved) and he would throw whole chicken parts in there...
Load More Replies...yes but take them out first please unless it's meant to have bones to eat it (like wings)
Load More Replies...If the casserole is cooked properly, the meat falls away from the bone easily.
Nah, I don't mind this. In my view it's using all of the animal and therefore fully acceptable.
The bone adds SO much more flavour to your dish, and helps keep the meat more moist and gives it more flavour.
Calling something "triple chocolate" and one of them is white chocolate. I'm sure white chocolate has a purpose but I just cannot stand it personally. It tastes like sickly sweet fat to me.
I only like White chocolate, it has a bad rep but its delicious :(
It's not even chocolate. It contains no cocoa solids. It's just sugar.
Load More Replies...My mom likes to say that white chocolate is chocolate without the chocolate...
Yeah... I never liked white chocolate. As I get older, I'm not real fond of milk chocolate either. Give me semi-sweet dark chocolate.
Triple chocolate? Yes, thanks. I will take that sickly sweet death by chocolate any day. Except pickle Tuesdays.
Ahh, chocolate - I hate the darn stuff, and these days it's almost impossible to get a pudding (or biscuit/cookie) that hasn't been chocolatified.
It doesn't even meet the definition of chocolate as it has no cocoa solids in it.
I neither hate nor like white chocolate. It doesn't have enough of a flavor for me to even form an opinion about it.
Big slices of onion in my salad. I'm going to have to pluck it all out to chop it up to distribute the flavor.
Just put chopped onion in a cup on the side.
I hate raw onion. I always ask for no onion in my salads. Bad thing is its flavour permeates anything that has had the most soft contact with it
okay, can we all agree that we all want our EVERYTHING in our salads chopped into bite size pieces
Just leave the onion out altogether! It taints everything it touches!
As we’ve mentioned on Bored Panda previously, what foods you’re going to enjoy comes down to a mix of nature and nurture: specifically, it depends on your tastebuds, as well as what your relatives cooked for you when you were little. If you’re used to stronger spices because they’re what’s used in your culture’s traditional meals, you’ll be more positively predisposed to spicy food than someone from a different background. Meanwhile, if your parents avoided mushrooms or never really told you to eat your greens, you might find the texture too exotic to enjoy. As 'Your Kids Table' notes, some kids might simply be scared or anxious to try new ingredients.
If you’re a parent, you can always try bribery to make your kid try something new or nutritious. There’s nothing like the promise of ice cream or video games to improve someone’s chances of taking a bite out of that weird tiny tree-like thing they call broccoli. However, you shouldn’t force your children to eat something that they absolutely despise. Otherwise, you might create more negative associations in their mind.
Ocra... vile slimy weed.
You got a downvote for some reason but I fixed it +1
Load More Replies...Agreed but just about everything is great battered and fried.
Load More Replies...okra in chili is actually really good, kinda unconventional but delicious
I am SO glad that we pandas can coexist, whether we find okra to be yummy or vile and slimy. Making it work, folks. That's the name of the game.
i just wish it could be the same with pineapple
Load More Replies...its only slimly when it isnt cooked properly. Slimy is a sign the person did it incorrectly.
DH's Nana (from Bama) would soak okra in buttermilk before cooking - no slime. Nana was the BEST!
Load More Replies...Fried is wonderful - not very healthy but yummy good. Anyway else, is gross.
Raisins in anything savory. I just can’t do it!
Arabic cookery often uses fruit with savoury. European pork with apple, beef with prunes, then becomes a tagine with chicken and raisins.
I felt this exact same way until I married my Indian husband. They use green or golden raisins in different savory dishes and it's totally different than the purple ones. The flavor is not as strong it just hands like a tiny mildly sweet burst here and there. Purple raisins should not be used in cooking at all. Use the proper raisins and it's a whole different thing.
Yeah, please keep those things out of my empanadas! I had an Argentinian friend whose grandma always put raisins in her incredible empanadas. I used to pick them out - sorry but cheese, beef, and raisins don't go together!
I like raisins just by themselves. Would eat em by the handful. But I cant enjoy them in other dishes.
Load More Replies...mmmm, empanadas, couscous, bracciole, basteya....there is a place for raisins in savory dishes...and it's been there for a long time...including in most steak sauces (which are, at base, raisins, anchovies, and tomatoes)
I don't like raisins in anything really, I try to avoid any foods with raisins! But one that really drives me nuts is sticky toffee pudding! I hate seeing a delicious looking sticky toffee pudding, I'm all set to buy it and then I check the ingredients and it has raisins in it! It makes me want to cry!
The amount of mayo used at a lot of sandwich and burger shops, I typically just go without. Nothing worse than a big glob of mayonnaise. (And especially if it's hot, even worse).
I liked mayonnaise sandwiches when I was a kid and, when my mother wasn't looking I'd eat it out of the jar with a spoon. I'll be 71 next month and I still eat it that way.
Load More Replies...For any sandwich sauces. If I'm eating it later, just salt and pepper please, cause the bread is soaked and mushy and crumbling within 15 minutes.
Came down with covid a few months ago. Two days in, feeling absolutely rotten, I realize I haven't eaten anything and that's probably not helping. Spend $30 on uber eats for a subway sandwich bc it's the least gross fast food type thing I can think of. Sandwich shows up just globbed with mayonnaise. I forced myself to take about two bites and wound up throwing the rest away.
I'll cheers to hating this nasty "food". I don't want any of my food soggy and sour and smeared with raw egg. 🤮
Load More Replies...And really don't go for the fish sandwiches... it's like 5 oz of fish and a quart of tartar sauce.
What are your biggest culinary pet peeves, dear Pandas? Do you consider yourselves to be picky eaters? What would genuinely need to happen to make you send back a dish at a restaurant? Feel free to drop by the comment section to share your thoughts with us and all the other readers. (And if you've got any fave dishes you'd love to tell us all about, we're always looking for fun recipe ideas!)
Raw onion. I realize that I am probably on an island on this one but for me, raw onions are one of those things that I just really, really dislike. I find the texture off putting and find once I bite into it, it just takes over completely and that is the only thing I can taste. I have the same reaction to green peppers (cooked or raw) as far as taste goes. Not sure if it's a genetic thing (like people who think cilantro tastes like soap or people who have asparagus pee) but something about raw onions and/or green peppers is just repugnant to me.
Oddly, cooked onions I am fine with as I am with yellow/red/orange peppers.
I am the exact same way regarding onions, even down to liking them cooked
I like raw onion and I prefer onion to be lightly cooked so it still tastes like onion. I hate it when friends bbq it till it's basically so soft, black and wilted it's nothing like onion.
Load More Replies...Onions have gotten a LOT stronger in the past few decades. I only buy sweet onions (like Vidalia), which are delicious raw, and red onions (for pickling).
Sorry, I love onion. It’s just I dislike tasting it every time you burp afterwards. Still, a crusty cobb with mature cheddar and thinly sliced onion is definitely worth it.
fully agree with the statement about green peppers. They ruin anything they are in.
So I have this quirk too. Turns out I'm fairly allergic to allisyn, the substance in onions and garlic.
I don’t like the taste or texture of chicken fat
i like everything chicken lol heheehehehehehehehehehehe i wont eat it if its boiled doe i dont trust boiled chicken fat idk why
crispy chicken skin is awesome, chicken chicharrons is a fantastic snack at my local bar. especially with some lime and a little chili.
Considering that it is one of the most unhealthy fats ever.... I must agree !
Chicken and waffles. Chicken, I get. Waffles I get. But the two of them together make as much sense as to me as serving baked beans on lemon icebox pie.
While working in New Orleans, my chef made a fried chicken and waffle that would blow your mind. The secret was pure maple syrup, a sweet potato compound butter, and crushed corn-flakes in the breading. Tourists would be skeptical but always left happy.
Lets explain how this dish was created. In the 1930s a bunch of jazz musicians went to a diner late night in Harlem for some classic soul food. And one them on the spot asked from fried chicken on top of waffles. Now if you know about the jazz clubs back then in Harlem, there is a 99% this guy was high a kite. But others heard about it and it caught on.
We had left over pumpkin pie filling. Mixed it in with waffle batter. Ate with leftover turkey and cranberry sauce. OMG it was amazing!! You gotta love the salty sweet mix to enjoy these dishes.
That's why I opened the comments. I knew someone would say that!
Load More Replies...It's the combination of sweet and savory. Like french fried dipped in a chocolate milkshake or eating pears with cheese. Delicious.
You had me until you said pears with cheese 😭 I've honestly never heard of that, but I have heard of apple pie with cheese
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My big one will always be using celery in a dish or cuisine that doesn't normally use celery.
Yes mom, it adds crunch. It also makes the whole damn dish taste like celery.
It's great for casseroles (particularly vegetarian ones) as it gives such a good flavour to the stock.
To be fair, with most dishes if you use the right amount of celery instead of going overkill, it simply amplifies the flavors within the dish that were already there. But i feel your pain, my dad also puts an unreal amount of celery into everything for 'the crunch'
I ONLY like it in tuna or chicken salad. It gets picked out of any thing else.
yet, it is in the base of most european soups (the mire poix of celery, carrots, onion), the spanish/cajun trinity (celery, peppers, onion), and so many other dishes...stuffing is just awful without celery...TLDR: don't eat is separately, but don't avoid foods with it as an ingredient
i agree i detest celery and that is the reason i refuse to drink v-8 juice although i love tomato juice v-8 taste just like celery
Nuts in bread. I like bread, I like nuts, but don't put them together, please. Bread is soft, it's weird to have crunchy bits floating around in it.
As a German I can only say: Nutbreads are the beast! Try with sunflower or potato & walnut!
As a fellow European I agree. We even have a very common bread sold in stores with 7 seeds and nuts.
Load More Replies...If it's decent bread, it has a nice crunchy crust anyway. It's weird not to have crunchy bits when eating bread. Having said that, I do not tolerate walnuts in my bread. But that's due to the wal- bit, not the nut.
I make sunflower seed, walnut and honey bread that is amazing. I love the consistency
Raisins in oatmeal cookies, carrot cake, stuffing. All my favourite things I end up spend half the time digging raisins out
No, no, no. I love that you are an individual. But you are totally wrong about raisins. Try cranberries as a starter and move on to raisins.
i never moved on from cranberries because they are just too good <3
Load More Replies...But I love raisin oatmeal cookies if I just eat one, if I eat two the raisins miraculously sticks to my teeth
I don't know who downvoted you but I fixed it, at least for now.
Load More Replies...Raisins are awful. Anything but raisins. They're tiny chewy sugar bombs. Yuck. if you must berry me, blueberry, please. :-)
freshly picked blueberries are the absolute best. If you have a blueberry farm near you that does fresh picking during the season, I highly recommend. The one near us we go to every year, and we pay by the pound. We always have enough to make two blueberry pies and more! The farm doesn't use pesticides so you can eat the blueberries off of the bush to see if it's a good bush. Amazing, and we leave early so it's not too hot, so I get to watch the sunrise
Load More Replies...Never put raisins in cheesecake. Who even does that?!?
Load More Replies...Hate swollen raisins in anything. Look like big, fat Bottle Flys ready to drop maggots
Ah. A new reason to add to my list of why I hate raisins XD
Load More Replies...I have raisin trauma from childhood. Don't put them anywhere near me.
Celery. I hate the stuff.
Try stuffing it with either peanut butter or cream cheese. Delicious!
I will proudly admit I love celery (raw). Cooked it sorta goes weird, IMO
I usually don't like celery, but I once (at a work do) had celery sticks that were used to dip in sour cream mixed with mashed blue cheese. The combination was actually pretty good.
Lavender, roses, and orange blossom in food- save that stuff for the potpourri bowl, please. Also weird additions like chilis and basil in chocolate- chocolate is delicious, it doesn't need some savory spice horning in, that's just weird.
I mean didn't the Aztecs put chilli into their hot chocolate? Or someone did anyway, mind you that was old school chocolate, not the sweet milky stuff.
Turkish marmelade made of roses on a piece of quality white bread, delicious !
Chili is delicious in chocolate, flowery stuff is amazing in some desserts. There’s a place near me that has lavender scones… so good 🤤
I hope OP is talking about savoury stuff and not dessert because lavender and orange blossom water are amazing in things like cupcakes and cookies. Also Turkish delight is usually flavoured with rose water and it's amazing. I've had Lindt chocolate with chilli and I really like it. So overall I guess I disagree but to each their own.
Lavender is a really good herb to use on roast chicken. I also make lavender jelly to serve with roast lamb and claqueret.
I found an amazing recipe for lavender fried chicken! Yum!!
Load More Replies...Those additions are not weird (OK, maybe basil in chocolate), they're just cooking from different cultures. Chili & chocolate go into mole sauce. Rosewater is used in the Indian dish galub jamun. Orange blossom water is a common ingredient in Morocco, and some Arabic countries add it to their versions of baklava. (I may be misremembering that last one; it might be rosewater that they use.)
I have had it most often with orange blossom water. But rose sounds delicious, too!
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Fennel. I think it tastes awful and ruins otherwise well flavored dishes
Fennel should be slowly roasted or grilled and used with delicate flavours like salmon. But if you don't like aniseed, give up.
Just the smell of anything aniseed or liquorice flavour makes me wretch. Eating it would be vomit-inducing. There are other flavours I dislike but none that I have such a visceral reaction to. I have no idea why.
Anything anise makes me sick. And I mean nauseous and throwing up sick. Fennel is one of the foods that I don't tolerate, no matter its state. Raw is the worse, simply smelling it in the store can ruin my day. But any form of cooking it, I won't get near. Best way to keep me away from the kitchen/table/house.
Not a big fan of black licorice so don't really like the taste of fennel.
This one comes down to taste. If you Google "perfect roast chicken recipe," you get one with fennel, lemon, garlic, and thyme that is out of this world. It has its place. But if you hate the flavor, you hate the flavor. Substitute white onion and don't let anyone force you to eat it.
Artichokes. What a pain in the a**. And also a pain to cook for little payoff. But they’re so delicious!
I love quartered artichoke hearts in vinegar marinade. Sooo good, very satisfying texture
There's a restaurant in Pescadero CA that deep flies baby artichokes, and then serves them with a garlicky aioli. Every time I go there, I make an absolute pig of myself.
I bloody love artichokes. Also, how are you preparing them that you think they're difficult? Wacky...
It's mostly that you get so little reward for the effort. Each leaf only has a little bit of meat on it and the hearts generally aren't that big, so you have to make several to get any real substance out of them.
Load More Replies...'A pain to cook'? Which part of steaming them is a pain? The part where you add water or the part where you set the timer? I would hate to eat a meal from the kitchen of a person who thinks boiling water is 'a pain'.
WTF??? Who doesn't love artichokes? I'm sorry that some of us have developed our taste buds beyond a ham and cheese sandwich.
Tarragon. Marzipan or other almond flavoured stuff. I can handle almost anything else but those two items, ugh, even the smell makes me feel bad.
my wife would always buy marzipan as a treat for herself. She knew I disliked it and so it was safe, unlike chocolate that she had to hide.
I LOVE marzipan, to the point where I make my own sometimes... It's actually really easy to make in a food processor!
Tarragon can be an interesting herb! Try chicken stew with lemmon, ground green pepper, a hint of vanilla, cream and fresh tarragon added in the end. A whole new and wonderful taste experience!
Agree! Tarragon is the "bay leaf" of chicken dishes. Used sparingly, it elevates the flavor.
Load More Replies...Well, we can't get married then. The wedding is off. I LOVE tarragon on my salmon and am growing some on my front porch right now. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE almond flavored / almond paste bake goods and stuff. A Dutch almond paste roll (BANKETSTAAF) is just like a Scooby snack for me. I'll make mmm mmm noises and float up into the air.
tarragon is probably my favorite thing to use for cooking. i put it in rice related things most of the time
I love both. Especially marzipan. God I could eat an entire platter of marzipan.
Green peppers. To me, they taste like dirty feet smell. So gross.
dang, didn't think they smelled strong at all! to me they just smell ✨fresh✨
And the flavor overtakes all others so you can't even pick them out/off of foods
My favorite are the mini orange bell peppers. The best way to describe it is like they're spicy without being spicy. Like they have the flavor of a spicy pepper, but with none of the heat whatsoever. It's really interesting.
Load More Replies...The green ones can be quite bitter, especially if you're cooking them. The red, orange, or yellow ones are much sweeter.
Bitter spicy rocket (arugula)on an otherwise lovely sandwich or paired with a mild cheese or something delicate like crab or crayfish.
Raw onions in my salad sandwich or burger. No.
I've heard people saying arugula has a nutty flavor. To me, it tastes like rubber smells, bitter and spoils the whole salad or dish. Maybe it's some kind of weird gene, like with soapy cilantro?
Rocket is horrible. I know most people say coriander (cilantro) tastes like soap (and it does), but to me so does rocket. Yuk.
Arugula looks like a weed I've seen in my yard. Did somebody just decide it was a veggie?
Sugar in marinara sauce. Absolutely gross and unnecessary, imo. Not everything needs to be dessert!
Sugar has its place in tomato sauces if the tomatoes are not quite in season and are a bit tasteless or even bitter. Then a small amount of sugar balances the acidity.
Use carrots instead of sugar. Carrots naturally turn sweet when cooked and those natural sugars will balance out the acid of tomatoes. You might need to use grated carrot if the dish is more delicate but diced pieces are just find in spaghetti-esk sauces.
Load More Replies...A friend of my mom's once made us something called "Irish spaghetti". The recipe called for 2 cups of sugar!! It was like 15 years ago but I'm still traumatized. :)
Sugar is meant to cut acidity from the tomatoes to minimize heartburn. You usually won't taste it.
Sugar corrects sour tomatoes, and it's only a teaspoon in a family dish. Otherwise it's disgusting.
A bit of honey does the trick too when the tomatoes are the disappointing kind (which is way too common)
Load More Replies...My college roommate made a few of us dinner one time. It was spaghetti. It was so-so. She was super excited to share her big secret about her sauce. She added sugar. It wasn’t horrible, but it added nothing to the flavor. I’m feel like the sugar adding was passed down through generations to correct something that the factory canned stuff already corrected.
Ketchup. Almost always too sweet for my liking.
I personally loathe the stuff, but I know many people who love it. Ain't it great, pandas, that we can disagree in civility?
I have a friend that literally drenches every dish in existence in ketchup. I like ketchup in appropriate portions on appropriate dishes BUT DEAR KETCHUP GODS NO!
Load More Replies...The best "ketchup" I've had with french fries was actually seasoned tomato sauce. I never would have thought that a chain restaurant would have made so much effort and it was so good that I used my french fries to empty the cup from every corner. Usually, ketchup is too sugary and you have to mix it with pepper to make it tastier.
Excessive cheese on stuff (like all the cheesy foodporn stuff), cheese with strong flavor profiles + seafood, cheese with asian food, excessive sugar (like most 99% of cheap desserts), excessive use of cream.
nah cheese is love, cheese is life. i don’t care about the heart attacks give me the CHEESE.
can't believe porn got through the bp censors. guys, take a pic, it'll last longer
Porn isn’t censored. P**n (p a w n), however, is. Ffs.
Load More Replies...When I'm feeling really low, I make oatmeal and eat it with whipping (not whipped) cream.
Load More Replies...I can't stand cheese on meat . . . .Why? It totally takes away from the taste of the meat, completely ruins a meal. The only time I'll tolerate cheese and meat together is in a lasagne.
i lost "cheese privileges" because i kept putting "too much cheese" on my food smh. there's no such thing as too much cheese.
This is blasphemy! There's never enough cheese. Also, it's so satisfying pulling something apart and seeing the cheese struggling to hold itself together before being devoured...
Capers, i hate capers.
what in the what is a caper?? what does it taste like? (asking for a friend)
Capers are the unopened flowerbuds of the caperplant (bush?) that have been pickled. They taste fresh and sour and are used to enhance flavor, for instance in tuna salads or on certain pizzas.
Load More Replies...I like 'em, but I think everyone here knows I'm a weirdo by now, LOL.
Served with bagels (mit shmir kez) and lox, with slices of tomato and orange, they add a sour component. But green olives, including heat from the pimento, is my preference.
Unlisted ingredients. Some 'fast casual' type restaurants are terrible for this unless you go poke around their website. I don't want to order a sandwich and end up with it covered in mayo, or find a bunch of raw tomato or steamed broccoli wasting space on my plate.
Yes, my friend is deathly allergic to artificial sweeteners. One place she went apparently puts them in all their dishes but, though she asked, they didn't tell her (probably the server didn't know). She spent all night puking at the ER.
Load More Replies...This has happened in a few places here in Jozi. Panarotti's served my brother something with sweet chili sauce in it (he hates it and it WASN'T listed!) and Doppio Zero served him a mushroom dish in which the mushrooms had been marinated in chili. He couldn't even eat it (gastric problems). This kind of thing should be illegal.
Parsley. It tastes like soap to me. And no I don’t mean cilantro. I like cilantro. I HATE parsley.
I was thinking this, I didn't even know it had a taste
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Ricotta or cottage cheese in a lasagna, get that s**t away from me, texture nightmare. Give me a good classic beschmel and I'm happy, but keep your grainy cheese mush out of my food lol
*good* baked ricotta is amazing. But we often find a very crappy one.
Load More Replies...Although, if I had the option, I would prefer homemade, I sometimes buy a frozen lasagne for when I'm too lazy to cook. For some reason all the gluten free ones don't have bechamel or even cheese on top!
Because bechamel is technically made with butter, flour and milk. So if you're looking for gluten-free, you don't want that. Might be possible to get the same thickening reaction with gluten-free flours and/or starch, but yeah. No idea about the cheese though... I know that grated cheese bought in bag is sometimes thinly coated in potato starch or something, to prevent it from sticking and forming a massive block, but that has no gluten. note : I'm French, so my knowledge of processed foods might be different 🙏
Load More Replies...Bechamel : "traditionally made from a white roux and milk, with ground nutmeg added to enhance the flavor."
Restaurants only offering brioche buns and no other options. I do like brioche but I dislike the lack of variety and options. It also doesn't always go well with the toppings and sometimes I want something more savoury. What's wrong with offering sesame?
Agreed! They are far too sweet for most dishes, and there's no alternative offered, yet restaurants seem to consider them a premium item they can charge more for 🤷🏼♀️
when blue cheese is put on anything.
Blue Cheese is definitely an acquired taste I think. I hated it when I was younger, you couldn't have paid me to eat it. But now Im getting old and I love it. Would have it on everything if it wasn't so expensive these days. Its even good on Pizza.
Same, blue cheese smell was too overpowering for me well into my 40's, these days I sometimes steal some straight outta the packet
Load More Replies...Mmmmmmmm. Bleu cheese. Closely related to Roquefort cheese. Both tangy and sweet and absolutely yummy. In my own personal opinion, that is.
*lol* In my school my class cooked together once a month. Once the teacher decided on doing a meal with a cheese sauce. No joke, it smelled like it had been eaten once and then returned, but it tasted soooo awesome!
there are dozens of different blue cheeses, so saying blue cheese doesn't mean anything
Marbled meat textures. They seem to be highly desirable to other people, but they are a sensory don’t for me.
I used to hate it. Put a scotch fillet in front of me now and it's gone instantly
I'm gonna need an explanation for this one. Does it refer to meat cuts that are strung with fat/that chewy tendony stuff? If so, yeees, I can't stand that either...
The feeling of meringue on my teeth is the sensory equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. Add in that it’s overly sweet and I just can’t understand why it’s a delicacy.
Hey, for the weirdos like me who love the texture -- check out freeze-dried fruit. It's available in a lot of grocery stores near the snack nuts and has that same delightful cronch.
*googles meringue* Ah I'm alright with it, I'll live if I never have it again too..
Chunks of avocado on sandwiches. Chunks of avocado in sushi. Chunks of avocado in anything.
I have to disagree with this as well. avocadoes are food of the gods (especially with lime salt and pepper if you haven't tried that please do)
If you don't want your avocado, I'm here to help you dispose of it properly into this waste can affectionately called "My Stomach". Dispose responsibly people 😜
avocado on rice, my aunt used to do this when we dont have any left over dishes
I like avocado but get stomach pains if I eat it so I agree with this one, especially now it's super popular.
Maybe you have a slight allergy? Avocado in the morning soothes my stomach. It coats it with healthy fats. I didn't realize that I was allergic to unripe bananas until a few years ago. I thought they were supposed to make your mouth a little itchy.
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I really dislike fruit in savory dishes. Mango/pineapple pico or berries in a salad, those types of things are a a hard no. The only fruit that’s an exception is apples.
Hard no to apples, but for me a careful yes to mango in a dish. Anything else can be kept away from my savory meal.
Rosemary.
I begrudgingly accept its existence during the holidays, but will become irrationally angry if it's in a dish the rest of the year. It overpowers everything it's in no matter how little is used.
Roasted rosemary potatoes! I admit that I would put a little rosemary on everything, and luckily it can be made into a hair spray that I also use in the summer to repel mosquitoes when I mix it with other herbs. I also mix rosemary water for the sauna. The smell and taste of rosemary is just completely irresistible to me.
Oh man, I love rosemary. Smashed red potatoes with butter and rosemary is one of my favourite foods.
The mere smell of rosemary makes me feel sick. I once ate way too much rosemary bread, and now I cannot eat any of it lol. Bad decisions lead to consequences. I can only eat it with lamb.
It's about balance. Rosemary can easily overpower flavors if you use too much. But I wouldn't want to roast a chicken or make a stock without a little sprig.
If you grow your own, then take a couple of sprigs to cook with, and then remove. You'll have the flavour without the greenery. Dried Rosemary is more like eating pine needles - they need to be soaked first.
Horseradish. I'm a super taster and no matter how you try to hide it, its all I can taste.
Powdered donuts. The powder specifically. Nothing better then forgetting to not breathe and sucking that powder into one’s lungs.
Not me, but my partner can't stand sweet and savory together. It's disgusting to them. Even some bbq sauces and ketchup is too sweet. I disagree and think honey glazed ham is delicious but they won't touch it
SAME. BBQ is nasty and anything savory (except a few cheeses and Asian food) with something sweet is gross.
Ham cooked in coca cola with a side of maple cashewv coleslaw is delicious too
The only exception for me is "Chinese" food sweet & sour chicken or shrimp. And yes, I know it's not "real" Chinese food. :) It's a comfort dish for me.
Raw fricking tomatoes! I can’t say how many times I’ve asked for none and gotten them anyway, or menus that don’t list them on sandwiches or pasta garnish. I detest them and they ruin dishes either by seeping their vile watery ick onto sandwiches, salads, or burgers, or they adhere to a sauce so you lose half the sauce by scraping them off. Now I just send the plate back if there’s tomatoes, can’t deal with them. Also cilantro, it’s ubiquitous these days and also terrible tasting to me. Not in the soapy way of genetics, just generally gross. I don’t know how it became so popular even in Tex-mex dishes because it was never present in anything I ever ordered until about 25 years ago. Both are things I wish I enjoyed.
It’s sad because home grown tomatoes can be really good but most commercial ones are grown for looks, not flavor, and are therefore absolutely vile.
I've heard that they are more grown for sturdiness and shelf life. I've heard no one call a normal grocery store tomato a looker. Though it is true that they are uniformally bland looking and tasting.
Load More Replies...I wonder what's in raw tomatoes that deteriorates with cooking, because same. Cook your sauce for three hours and I'll still spend the rest of the night in the bathroom. I may be allergic to something, but tomato soup, ketchup, and even sieved tomatoes are fine.
It's possible to be allergic to a food item raw and be fine with it cooked when the heat has broken down whatever in them causes the reaction. Cabbage is the same way for me
Load More Replies...This is why I like little cherry/grape tomatoes better. They're much sweeter and more flavors, and much less... drippy.
Mango and miso. I’ve tried them so many times, in so many ways and I just can’t stand them. I’m not the biggest fan of curry either.
Aw, guys. No need to downvote this just because OP dislike something you like. I found some people mentioned they dislike raw onion, raisins, olives, etc while I LOVE them so so so much. Yet I don't downvote them. It's just personal preference! I too love mango and miso, but here an upvote for you :)
I have a full on taste aversion to mango, can't even smell it without getting nauseated.
I have no issues with bone-in meat - more flavour - BUT I hate it when the bones have bit chopped mid-bone, not just at joints. When I get a small piece of meat, I expect it to be bone-free. It's easy to eat around a full-sized bone. I don't like melted cheese other than: mozarella (pizza, lasagna), eggplant parmesean, burgers, fondue, french onion soup, grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese (and iterations w protein/veg.) It does nothing for me at all when I see it on like a random chicken breast, steak or stuffed in most things that make no sense to me. They end up kind of salty, greasy. Undercooked mushrooms where they are kind of slimy.
I agree about the mushrooms. I absolutely love them if they are cooked properly but they aren't pleasant if they are slimy. Can't agree about cheese, though. In my opinion, there isn't much that can't be improved by melting some cheese on it!
Chopped walnuts in desserts like carrot cake or brownies. My mom’s candied yams. Canned yams mixed with booze and tons of brown sugar and cinnamon and then topped with marshmallows and baked. It’s so sweet…too sweet. Raisins…I hate raisins. Great way to ruin a cinnamon roll. Olives. If there are olives in it, I’m picking them out or skipping the meal. Black olives to me taste like a mixture of salt and the can they were in. Very metallic tasting to me.
Black olives (especially the crappy export ones) do exactly taste like salt and the can they were in, because they are literally painted black and dowsed in other chemicals during processing. Now, if you'd ever had the opportunity and pleasure to taste Kalamon olives, the real deal, you'd change your mind in a heartbeat. Signed, someone who has been there, done that
I'm awfully glad I'm not cooking for the OP. They would starve at my house.
i agree olives are one of my favorite foods-
Load More Replies...All recipes for carrot cake call for walnuts or pecans. So, what the OP likes is an adoration of the original and not likely to be found easily unless homemade specifically for him/her/them.
Peas in anything but samosas. Fantastic way to ruin any dish.
I hated peas as a kid, except blended in soup. Now I don't mind them, but still not a huge fan.
*googles samosas* WHAT?? Of all things you don't like peas in, you pick samosas that you do?? LOL
Before Europe had potatoes, the main vegetable was peas. Dried peas were the winter staple and 'pease pudding' was a dish served to king and pauper alike. So, peas have a place in our food, particularly now with frozen, which are tasty, easy to cook, and a good source of fibre. Rather have peas than munch on bran.....
Gherkins
You can pry my holiday gherkins from my cold, dead fingers.
Sigh *googles Gherkins* Ah! Baby pickles how we call it here. I'll take em'!
I always think of gherkins as a race of minor characters in "Lord of the Rings".
This isn't about food trends as much as it is a rant against a food or how it's prepared or presented.
Yes, they hit around 3 trends, then it was just "I hate olives. I hate tomatoes."
Load More Replies...Highly unpopular opinion, but I hate nuts in my sweets. Chocolate with hazelnuts? No. I can tolerate almonds though. Cake with walnuts/hazelnuts/other? No. Snickers? Hell no. Now downvote me into oblivion if you please.
Why should we downvote you when you so clearly stated that it is your own unpopular opinion? :3 The only ones that could possibly be insulted are the mentioned rejected food items and I'll gladly take them instead :3 :3
Load More Replies...Honey mustard is awesome. Even better with a touch of curry powder.
Load More Replies...surprised no one mentioned pineapple on pizzas. personally, i love em! duuno why the hate by many.
there were multiple posts about unchopped lettuce, but does anyone else just hate lettuce in general? i’m fine with most other vegetables but i cannot stand the texture and flavor of lettuce, cooked or raw
depends on the kind of lettuce but i definitely agree with the texture thing
Load More Replies...The thing I dislike is random chili powder in everything, or mor accurately chili powder in general. I hate that stuff.
chili powder is bomb. but i think i love it. cuz my indian parents put it on everything.
Load More Replies...Under cooked aubergine (egg plant in America) Texture like blotting paper. Big fave for breakfast is toast with chopped tomato, Tahini and Tamari. Yum.
Reading this made me grateful to be an omnivore. The only food I really dislike is marshmallows, in any shape or form. Oh! And white chocolate.
This isn't about food trends as much as it is a rant against a food or how it's prepared or presented.
Yes, they hit around 3 trends, then it was just "I hate olives. I hate tomatoes."
Load More Replies...Highly unpopular opinion, but I hate nuts in my sweets. Chocolate with hazelnuts? No. I can tolerate almonds though. Cake with walnuts/hazelnuts/other? No. Snickers? Hell no. Now downvote me into oblivion if you please.
Why should we downvote you when you so clearly stated that it is your own unpopular opinion? :3 The only ones that could possibly be insulted are the mentioned rejected food items and I'll gladly take them instead :3 :3
Load More Replies...Honey mustard is awesome. Even better with a touch of curry powder.
Load More Replies...surprised no one mentioned pineapple on pizzas. personally, i love em! duuno why the hate by many.
there were multiple posts about unchopped lettuce, but does anyone else just hate lettuce in general? i’m fine with most other vegetables but i cannot stand the texture and flavor of lettuce, cooked or raw
depends on the kind of lettuce but i definitely agree with the texture thing
Load More Replies...The thing I dislike is random chili powder in everything, or mor accurately chili powder in general. I hate that stuff.
chili powder is bomb. but i think i love it. cuz my indian parents put it on everything.
Load More Replies...Under cooked aubergine (egg plant in America) Texture like blotting paper. Big fave for breakfast is toast with chopped tomato, Tahini and Tamari. Yum.
Reading this made me grateful to be an omnivore. The only food I really dislike is marshmallows, in any shape or form. Oh! And white chocolate.
