Someone Asked Folks Online To Share The Food They Never Grew Out Of Hating, And 30 People Delivered
Just like that feeling of lying in bed or going number 2, eating is one of those very few reliefs that life has to offer.
But, of course, that has to be ruined for us as well because the fact that it's food doesn't mean that it's necessarily edible. But not as in it's poisonous, but more how can anyone derive pleasure from this piece of culinary... something?
And no, it's not an acquired taste for some folks as they never liked it as a child and they still don't like it as an adult. This is what Redditors were preoccupied with lately—listing foods they hated as kids and continue to hate as adults.
We've compiled a list of the best (worst?) responses in the now-viral thread, so scroll through it below, upvote, and voice your opinions or perhaps share ways or recipes on how to make the listed consumable better in the comment section below!
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When we were kids, my mom said we could each choose one main dish that we didn't like, and if she served that she'd make something else for us.
Mine was liver, which was one of my dad's favorites. I thought it was so gross. Recently my wife said she wanted to try it, so we made some. Nope, still exactly as gross as I thought it was when I was 8.
I tried it again recently after hating it as a child. I thought perhaps my palate had matured. Was like eating a mouthful of dung.
I suspect it was overcooked. Flash fry it for the best taste.
Load More Replies...I have to think it's like cilantro. Either you love it, or you hate it. No inbetween.
Kind of like Dave Matthews! Love Dave, hate cilantro!
Load More Replies...I tried it when a neighbor made it. He beat the living daylights out of it to tenderize, had it marinating in teriyaki overnight. Then served it with a thin-ish slice of apple, a little basil leaf, cheese optional. It was... bizarrely tender and delicious. Not like any liver I ever had before.
i was the same with liver ….but a butcher told me “ if you let it soak in milk it will take the bitterness away” … i tried it, cooked it the way he told me……brushed with melted butter and grilled and he was right it was yummy
Mama's liver and onions was delicious. I never knew her secret but she did "something" to the liver to make it tasty.
Anjelikka said:
Black Licorice flavor. How the hell does anyone under the age of 80 enjoy this hellspawn poison?
ohwowwhatfun replied:
I had it once because everyone said it's so great... Couldn't wait to spit it out.. even had tears in my eyes 😂
jserpette95 replied:
*delicious hellspawn poison. It's my favorite candy, possibly due to the fact that I liked it and nobody in the house liked it so it was always safe from candy thieves.
The Dutch are coming for you!! (I love love love black licorice, especially when salty)
The Finns are out with their torches and pitchforks! (my wife, a Finn, and I love black liquorice, I even started to like Salmiakki (salty liquorice) it's delicious! and Salmiakki koskenkorva is a wonderful drink hehe)
Salty licorice is made from the devil's toe jam.
Load More Replies...Black liquorice I like, but salt liquorice is something else, and not in a good way. In Denmark there are some little chewy sweets called Spunk. Now the fruit ones are delicious, but the salt liquorice ones, well would YOU like a chew on some salty Spunk?
Hoah, Spunk is so good! You should try "Turkish pepper" (no idea if it really is from Tukey, and pretty sure there is no actual pepper in it). So good.
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AccomplishedWaltz802 said:
Cilantro, even tho it’s genetic.
Argentine_Tango replied:
It's genetic?
The first time I tried it was in a wanton soup. I may have vomited. I couldn't eat it for years. Then I tried it as an adult in certain dishes from my county and it's passable.
EgdyBettleShell replied:
Yup it is! It's caused by a gene that's called OR6A2, which, depending on the ancestry of, is present in between 3% to even 21% of all individuals in every human population - it codes an olfactory receptor protein that detects aldehydes from the same group of substances that we commonly use in the production of detergents, and that are naturally present in cilantro.
Bit of trivia: all the people who hate cilantro also feel a different taste than the rest of the world when eating cinnamon due to this specific gene. It's not soapy like cilantro, but it tastes much more earthy for all of you than it should for the rest of us.
I was so relieved to find out that it's a "thing" for some people that it tastes like soap. I thought people were out of their minds for liking it when it tastes exactly like a mouthful of soap to me.
UGH. I hate cilantro with a passion. It doesn't taste like soap to me, just bad. Yuck.
I agree - no soap taste - more like herbed vomit taste.
Load More Replies...I'm on board with the cilantro, it makes my salsas, guac and burritos so good. Here is my favorite cilantro comic. cilantro-6...73-png.jpg
Absolutely on board with this one. I love cinnamon though - I don't quite get that part in this post.
Same, I tried to like cilantro but I cannot escape the intense soapy taste. But cinnamon , I adore and love it in desserts and even my coffee
Load More Replies...doesn't taste good. Wish I could experience how it tastes to people who love it.
Last year I read something about a small % of the world taste soap when they eat cilantro. Tastes like soap to me. Hated it since forever.
TheCeilingIGuess said:
The fat on meat dude. The texture, and even when it's crispy the taste... I just can't put it in my mouth without gagging.
IllSeaworthiness43 replied:
I could never understand why people like it. They say it has all of the flavor but it doesn't taste like anything at all. It's so gamey and chewy and gross. I hate that springy-crunch that the tendons and fat have. Top sirloin all the way...
If I chew it and it doesn't break down or get chewed up why the hell would I eat it.
Lard is not just "the fat on meat" - it's a processed paste (it's rendered pig fat). -- That being said, I don't have an issue with the fat on my (beef / bison) steaks, or even gristle.
When I was little I ate anything my Mom made, but there were a few things I would pick out/off. Like whole caraway seeds, or parsley (the carrot part, not the greens). I hated any fatty part of all meat. My Dad who grew up in a rural area with more traditional "peasant" type meals, loved pretty much only the fatty parts so it worked out great, we sat next to each other and bartered. He could never understand what people liked about chicken breasts when "they have no taste". I could never understand how anyone could eat the "white part" of the traditional Easter cooked ham because it's yuck. He used to tell me that I'll know when I get older, I will realise that the "red part" is just there but the "white part" is the good stuff. I kept telling him no way. Now I'm 41. He was darn right!
Your Dad was right about chicken breasts with no taste, but that's only because the birds are a month old when slaughtered. If you can find some that are at least 3 months old, you'll tell a world if difference!
Load More Replies...I cut all the fat off before I begin to eat my steak so I don't accidently get a mouthful and ruin a great meal!
Load More Replies...On the other hand, it was probably in some of the best pastries and pie crusts that you ever had.
Blue cheese once almost made me throw up from nearly the smell alone, I had it in a burger and the first bite I took I immediately lost my appetite. To top it off I had covid, I wasn’t supposed to taste or smell anything but blue cheese doesn’t seem to obey that rule.
This is my "adult" food. I keep trying it every so often, and when I finally like it, that is when I will become an adult.
By that scale, I will NEVER grow up and will be forever young!
Load More Replies...Blue cheese smells like my dad’s feet after he he’s worn his boots all day in 100 degrees out on the farm. 🤢
I could wallow in blue cheese especially Roquefort or gorgonzola. My husband can't stand it and I can't fathom how, it's so delicious with fruit or on its own.
My father had a government job that, among other things, awarded contracts to various companies. So representatives were always trying to curry favor with him. Each year at Christmas a contractor from a state famous for its dairy products would send a wheel of blue cheese. Through the mail. Back when there were no express delivery companies. By the time it arrived it was exceptionally, um, aromatic. So I hated blue cheese. Years later, during college summer break, I worked as a cook at a buffet restaurant. They made their own salad dressings. The woman who prepared them knew how much I detested blue cheese and always waited until I was on shift to make up a batch. Even from the far end of the kitchen it overpowered every other aroma.
Capers. What kind of a*****e looked this foul tasting thing and thought it was a good idea to add to food?
I like them enough to eat them with a spoon right from the glass. Guess I'm a minority here with that.
They are so expensive... and belong atop a tasty serving of airfrier salmon...
Olives, I don't get how people can enjoy the taste, they immediately overpower anything else you try to eat them with.
My favorite late night snack is olives, cheese and crackers with a side of gin.
That sounds amazing for tonight after work!!!!
Load More Replies...Agreed. I make a very good pizza with kalamata, mozzarella, artichoke paté
Load More Replies...For me it is the canned California black olives. I detest them, one of the few foods I cannot eat. Olives vary a lot though, I especially like munching on them with charcuterie and cheese. Especially if they still have the pit because I like how the flesh holds up more.
What I want to know...considering that a raw olive in inedible...how did some person figure "maybe if I pickle it, it will taste like something someone would want to eat?"
some-girl-online said:
Celery. I understand why it's important in soups and stuff, but god I hate it.
Apple22Over7 replied:
I can't stand raw celery. Like, at all. It's got an almost reverse taste/smell which is horrible, that I can only sense in the back of my throat/nose when breathing out. I just.. Urgh. The stringy texture doesn't help either.
Cooked in soups/stews/whatever I can tolerate it. But raw? Makes me feel ill.
I like it, it's a near zero calorie way to transport dip to my face hole!
It's a negative calorie food, you burn more calories eating it than you get from it.
Load More Replies...Celery. I've loved every single food I've seen on here so far, (except horse milk, which I haven't tried, but would be willing). Celery, though... It's always been my ONE food I couldn't stand. I never understood how anyone could eat it without gagging. Everyone tells me it's supposed to taste like water, or have a very light vegetable flavor. That's not how my mouth interprets it at all. It almost tastes like soap mixed with the way motor oil smells, and it's so overpowering I can taste the tiniest hint of it in anything. Doesn't matter if it's cooked or not, my taste buds don't think it's food. I'd never heard anyone else say they don't like it until today. I thought I was alone! I tried it again as an adult and still hated it. And as a bonus, I ended up getting foodsick due to an allergic reaction after eating it. So, my guess is I was always allergic to it and didn't know how to interpret that as a kid. My reaction to the taste was probably just my body's way of trying to steer me away from it. The lesson is, if a kid hates something, don't make them eat it. There could be a good reason. I was lucky my mom understood that. It probably helped that I would eat anything else she put in front of me, and loved to try new things. I was not a picky eater
Not alone, although i'm not allergic. I can eat it in siup (as long as it is miniscule enough to not bite on it.... *shudder*) and in powdered stuff. But raw, like some here eat it? Huuuuge nope! And it doesn't matter if it is the green one or the white roots....both terrible
Load More Replies...I can deal with it cooked. But raw? Nope. FWIW, I feel about the same about radishes.
I HATE this vegetable. I love or like most vegetables, but not this stringy, weird tasting stalk of gross. Why is it's flavour so strong? One of the reasons I can't eat chicken noodle soup unless I make it myself is because of this god-awful vegetable. It is all I taste! Don't try to dress it up with raisins and peanut butter and call it "ants on a log", or put cheese on it because no amount of dip or spread is going to hide the fact that it is terrible. Rant over.
I remembering my mother made it like an oven dish. Cooked those gross green vegetable put cheese on top of it and let it melt in the oven. OMG even thinking of it makes me sick.
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HeWhomstDealtIt said:
Cottage cheese.
rianpie replied:
It’s like someone chewed white cheese for a bit and then spit it out and now I’m supposed to eat it?!
TheMultiRounderGamer replied:
As an Indian it hurts seeing someone describe cottage cheese like that LMAO.
You probably didn't cook it properly, its amazing.
ccnomad replied:
I suspect you’re thinking of paneer, which is glorious. What West Europeans and Americans refer to as cottage cheese is this sort of lumpy, not-quite cheese resulting from milk separated into curds and whey using acid. The whey is discarded.
The texture is off putting, for sure. But peaches and cottage cheese? Amazing
Load More Replies...don't attack me but i freaking love cottage cheese. sweetened and with cinnamon on it.... better than any kind of pudding out there according to this set of taste buds!
The texture reminds me of that one prank alcohol shot. Baileys Irish cream+ Rose's lime, swish the mouth. *instant* curdling and vile flavor. The look of the cottage cheese reminds me of that. Never. Gonna. Eat. it.
Cottage cheese should have a lightly sweet, creamy taste. Most don't. String cheese tastes the most like how cottage cheese is supposed to taste. Some parts of the country don't sell some name brands, but CA has the sweet stuff, the midwest is a bit sourer.
Ok, obviously not for anyone who dislikes cottage cheese, but! take some pineapple, pour it overa bowl of cottage cheese (about a 1-1 ratio) and enjoy! Great snack for kiddos in particular.
I like cottage cheese, especially very fresh and dry, small curd. I eat it plain or with fruit. I cook with it as inexpensive ricotta in many Italian dishes. The wet cottage cheese is too much like soured milk. The large curd is OK, but I would rather get the actual finished curd from the cheese factory.
OldBob10 said:
Lima beans. Nasty little chalk pellets - NO, MOM, I’M NOT EATING THEM!!!
afoz345 replied:
My Mom would always serve them to us. She would never eat any. She always told us she had hers before we sat down. Come to find out, she hates them and wouldn’t eat them. Trickery!!!
OldBob10 replied:
Lima beans were actually my “big rebellion” as a teenager. (Why, yes - I’m very conformist. How did you know?) As a pre-adolescent I was required “…to eat one for each year old you are”. Not eating something was intolerable. Finally when I was fifteen I told her one night, “I’m not playing this game any more. I don’t like them and eating one more every year isn’t going to get me to like them any more. I’m done with this”. I don’t think they were ever served again…
My mom would make us eat succotash. Lima beans and cream corn. I don't mind cream corn, but haven't touched a Lima bean since I became an adult.
Thank you! I always wondered what succotash was, but never had enough interest to google it. Now I know. It sounds pretty disgusting.
Load More Replies...popping pockets of dust. i haaaaate lima beans. i will die on this hill.
Yet another food I flatly refuse to eat regardless of how it’s cooked. Lima beans just suck.
Rihanbrohe said: Mayo. Saraniah replied: Even the name sounds horrendous! To top it off, it tastes and smells like puke. Cyno01 replied: Are you sure you mean mayo? I have a theory that most people who hate mayo had a traumatic experience with miracle whip as a child. I know i did. Mayo is just eggs and oil, fairly innocuous, not really much flavor on its own, just a mild sandwich lube or a base for dips and stuff. Miracle Whip on the other hand is f*****g nasty.
That really depends on the talent of the cook.i tried it and it was such a fail that i'm not ever doing it again because of the waste of oil and eggs!
Load More Replies...I agree with Cyn001 about “traumatic experience with miracle whip”. I had one such experience myself!
I'm not allowed (😉😂) to use store-bought mayonnaise for potato/pasta salad, since I started making my own mayonnaise about 35 years ago. A lot of people use vinegar, but I've always used lemon juice. So... if you don't like mayonnaise, maybe try it yourself and use lemon juice, instead of vinegar. Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1 tsp mustard, 1 tsp lemon juice, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1 1/2 cup oil... milk and/or juice from pickled cucumbers, if you like. All ingredients should be at the same temperature (room temperature is best). Mix the eggs, mustard, lemon juice and sugar well and slowly add the oil. If necessary, dilute the finished mayonnaise with milk and pickled juice, to the desired consistency.
This is by far my most unpopular food opinion. I hate avocado. I don’t think it’s gross or tastes TOO bad, more so that it’s unnecessary, tastes relatively close to dirt to me, and has a weird texture. I like guacamole, because it’s well seasoned and joined up with other great flavors (cilantro, lime, salt, peppers, all things I love) but the avocado craze in the USA of the last 10ish years has always baffled me. Avocado on burgers, avocado toast, avocado ice cream. I don’t get it. I don’t like the taste of it at all and don’t understand why it belongs on top of everything.
I don't know what starving person decided that what looks like poop falling off a tree should be eaten.
And unsustainably farmed too... I'll skip it for that *and* the flavour... >shudder<
YYEEESS! Thank you! I do not understand the fascination with avocados. It tastes like creamed grass to me. And it's on every diet list, every nacho, every taco... I get that some people are obsessed and love it but I wish so many recipes didn't have to include it. If you go to some places to get a taco if you don't want guac then you get like cheese and meat and maybe lettuce. There are other veggies, you know!
avocado w lemon juice and salt is probably one of my favorite foods. my family likes to joke that if you gave me an unlimited supply of avocado i wouldn't need any other food for the rest of my life.
Load More Replies...The magical ultra-delicious green grace of God. Avocados are the best fruit out there. Guacamole is to die for. Yum yum yum.
I like avocados with soy sauce… which is why I am sooooo weird
living1day1time said:
Tomatoes. I hate tomatoes. But I eat salsa, ketchup, and tomato sauce. I know it is baffling but there you go.
RosenrotEis replied:
I'm the same way.
Which reminds me of one time when I was in 3rd grade, my teacher was growing cherry tomatoes and brought some in for the class to try. Another student and I both declined, stating that we simply did not like tomatoes. She asked if we were allergic, to which we said no. She then asked if we liked ketchup. My classmate said yes, and I said no(mustard is far superior IMO, but to each their own. I'll gladly trade my ketchup packets for mustard). She then asked if I liked pizza sauce. I said yes.
Her next words have burned in my head since: "Then you like tomatoes."
And then forced me to eat one. I gagged and almost threw up.
Lady, just because I like pizza and the sauce on it doesn't mean I like the bubble of seeds and mush that is a cherry tomato. And I respectfully declined in the first place.
I'm still heated about that moment.
Love tomatoes. Here in New Jersey it's currently tomato time. I'll eat em like an apple. Gimme gimme.
I know a few people that can eat tomato based sauces but not fresh tomatoes or sauces with big chunks of tomato.
Yep.. I'll eat ketchup, pasta sauce, etc. But I won't eat an actual tomato.
I.love fresh tomatoe, tomatoe sauces and even gazpacho (raw tomatoe soup). But i hate tomatoe soup. Whats wrong with me?
Load More Replies...I get what these people are saying, but tomatoes are delicious. I love them.
I love tomatoes!!! Just sliced with a little garlic salt... sooooooo gooood!!!!
I'm in love with tomatoes, growing a lot of them in the garden right now and they are fantastic. That said, forcing a kid to eat something they are disgusted with is beyond wrong. That teacher should be being force fed dog turd all day, every day.
I could eat tomatoes 'till they come out of my eyes.....Nothing like a fresh tomato picked straight off the vine...
Mysterytophat said:
Pop tarts. I just really don’t like them. A lot of my classmates eat them. Coffee too, I think it’s terrible.
FloriaFlower replied:
I hate how dry, flavorless and boring they are relative to the amount of sugar they contain. There's like 1mm thick of filling between 2 plates of thick hard and sandy crust. Almost everything that contains the same amount of sugar is way more interesting to eat.
My mom never bought them when I was growing up and I thought I was missing out on something, until I actually tried one. It's like sugared cardboard.
I enjoy them. Don't know why but I do. They are kind of tasteless and dry. They used to be much much better when I was a kid. The filling would sometime break though the seam. And the shell was lighter not so thick. Like most food items today are not really the same as they were years ago.
Toaster Strudels are much better but some flavors of Pop Tarts aren’t bad. I love the Peach Cobbler ones!
In Germany, you can't even buy them, only as horrendously expensive import food. I've always wondered why, since German supermarkets are full of other Kellogg's products.
Don't bother trying to find them here. I had them once and i firnly agree with this post. Rather cover a toast in sugar.
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Koomis. AKA fermented horse milk. I mean - growing up in Kazakhstan, it was okay as a child, but I didn't take to it like the other kids and it just doesn't stack up to a good PB&J with the crusts cut off.
It's fine as long as they use the milk of the mares, not so fine when they use stallion milk.
The yields of milk from stallion farms are much lower than that of other kinds of dairies, but the animals are far, far happier.
Load More Replies...TIL that people milk horses, drink that milk and also let it ferment.
I have never tried this, and I am not sure how I feel about fermented milk.
I have never heard of it. But, fermented? That sounds nasty, like sour milk.
Yeah, I hate it when I pick up a bottle of it by mistake at Wal-Mart.
This is almost certainly what Genghis Khan would get drunk off of.
So curious what this tastes like. It's not something you find in America
also wtf.... I'm Canadian.... I've never said soda in my life until now and I don't know what caused me to change lol
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jam219 said:
Brussels sprouts.
Bophall replied:
This is another interesting one because there was a targeted selective breeding program to make them taste better that started in the 90s, so they really do taste better post 2005 or so.
So I guess what I'm saying is that if you haven't had them in more than 20 years, they will be less bitter than you remember. You might still dislike them, but they will taste better in an objective sense.
atreethatownsitself replied:
Tell that to my dad. He was traumatized by his father as a kid by sitting in this high stool type seat for hours until he finished his Brussels sprouts. They were quite literally not allowed in our house growing up.
Roasted Brussels sprouts with garlic & bacon! I can & have eaten them for breakfast!
Roasted! Honey-garlic-bacon, Thyme-oregano-garlic, Balsamico-garlic-smoked paprika or Teriyaki-sesami-oil. All very yummi
Load More Replies...I recently rediscovered brussels sprouts, fried in duck grease with duck livers and shallots — it was absolutely delicious
I toss mine in brown sugar/melted butter then season and cook with bacon and they're so good
Load More Replies...I was the weird little kid who liked Brussels sprouts, which I called “little cabbages”, and broccoli, which I called “baby trees”. Still like both, btw.
I thought they were disgusting until a chef friend roasted some on the barbecue grill with oil and herbs. Entirely different from the boiled-to-death things my mother served.
Yep, mum used to boil them so they smelled a lot, just roast them, so healthy and delicious!
Load More Replies...Hated them as a kid, still hate them now. The mere smell of them will put me off.
Cook them in high fats, bacon, air fryer, and roast them in high heat. Perfect! Plus when I get them it is during Thanksgiving week. See Alton Brown for this particular episode
YES! There’s an Alton Brown recipe for Brussels Sprouts with bacon, blue cheese, and apple (maybe pear?) that is very amazing.
Load More Replies...Take your sprout, toss it in boiling water and add butter when you take it out, or just nuke it.
Maximiliano_Molina said:
Tripas
Argentine_Tango replied:
Same. There's a Peruvian dish my sister loves, called cau cau, that I can't stand. Even the preparation stinks up the house because you have to boil it. Ugh.
It's boiled bovine stomach. Very pungent with a strong umami taste and jelly-like texture. I grew up with it in my Texan/Pacific Islander household.
Tripe, not a taste or texture I can stomach either.
Load More Replies...My grandmother used to make a stew that I used to think was fish and I hated it. One day I tell my dad I think her fish stew is going bad and he said it's tripe. I had no idea Mundongo was tripe for like the first 16 years of my life
Is that tripe? That's a food I never tried. My mum told me that her brother hated it as a kid and her parents made him eat it, and my dad probably wouldn't eat it either, so she never made it for us. I would be curious to try it, but not the way my grandparents made it which I think was in this gelatinous white sauce, which sounds disgusting.
I finally got to try some. I'm a food s**t', so I'm always looking to try new foods. It tasted... not good. Sort of organ-y, but without the iron taste that at least liver has. Mind you, I like liver, but I didn't care for tripe. Organ flavor without the slightly tangy/iron flavor that liver has ends up tasting sort of like dirt. And I prepared it myself, so I know it was good and clean. I even put it in a stew I knew I liked. Ended up having to pick most of it out
Load More Replies...Some people eat it over here but it’s mainly used as dogfood in the Netherlands. Me? I can just about boil the stuff without retching.
Oh no! my dad & brother were bbqing them one sunny afternoon and in my pregnant state, I got so sick from the smell! NOOOOOO!!!!!
Tripe, well cleaned and prepared in a mild curry is delicious.can also be prepared in a version of feijoada.
Never tried it, but it doesn't sound that appetizing to be honest.
cardboardtube_knight said: Chitlins. Crosswired2 replied: I ate them once because my daughter's grandma made them. I don't think anyone particularly liked them but everyone else got to eat them with hot sauce. I hate hot sauce so I just ate them plain. At least they tasted better than they smelled cooking, but I won't eat them again.
Someone once heated up chitlins in the work microwave. It smelled like a decaying foot.
They should be fired. Chitlins smell so bad. I'd rather someone heated up fish.
Load More Replies...Never really understood what these are. The only reference I heard to them was in Quantum Leap. Aparently they are the small intestines of pigs, which are cooked and eaten as food. Which doesn't sound that dissimilar to sausages and the like, but from the pictures, it looks more like tripe.
They are pig Intestines and I find them revoltinng!
Load More Replies...I tried booty noodles once and gagged, it’s one of only a few food items that did it to me
Wait until you find out what they are, and how thoroughly they have to be cleaned before being cooked.
My grandma made this for me once with hot sauce as a kid. Never again! 🤢
Wikipedia needs an edit: "Chitterlings sometimes spelled chitlins or chittlins are the small intestines of domestic animals, especially when cooked and eaten."....0_0' !
pool_and_chicken said:
Beets.
swan4816 replied:
Came here for this. I want to like them because they're beautiful and so healthy!
car0saurusrex replied:
I never liked beets either but then I tried roasting them with green beans (drizzle the veggies with olive oil and whatever seasonings you prefer) and OMG. So good. It doesn’t taste like fried potatoes per se, but somehow it satisfies my craving for fried potatoes? Now I want to go make some.
Beetroot is fine, they have them in ready to eat packets in shops now, as a snack. The only problem is when you go to the loo and think your innards are falling out.
I can vouch for that. Thought I was going to need a doctor's appointment, then remembered what we'd had for dinner the night before!
Load More Replies...Have tried them so many times. I want to like them because they are healthy and make things pretty in salads! They taste like dirt. Just pure dirt. Actually, I ate clean dirt as a child in a greenhouse. They taste like dirty dirt.
Have they been peeled each time? I've never thought beets tasted like dirt, but I've also never eaten them not peeled.
Load More Replies...When I a kid I put a rock in my mouth. It tasted less like dirt than beets.
Love them pickled the best, but they're good hot with butter on them too!
Cold with orange juice and a little zest, touch of garlic 👌
Load More Replies...Yuck, beets! Another of my mother’s favorites which I always considered foul, and still do today.
Raisins, I mean come on now. Wrinkly, tiny, the feeling I get when I eat a oatmeal raisin cookie disguised as a chocolate chip cookie. I'd rather eat stale farts then that.
A quote from the movie Benny & Joon: "Raisins used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes."
Actually, I’ve noticed an increasing number of hard overdried raisins in each box. Where we used to get nice fat chewy raisins, we’re now getting hard dried inedible husks. Raisins aren’t supposed to be crunchy. For the amount of money that’s being charged for each box, less than half are edible.
Load More Replies...I won't fight you... I'll give you mine so I don't have to eat them!
Load More Replies...GOOD raisins are great. But most on the market are sad, dry, pointless little things. Although even those become a lot better if you soak them in some warm water, milk or rum. We have lots of grapes and I tried drying them, but they are not the kind that were intended for raisins and have big seeds. So I had to cut them up one by one to remove the seeds. I only made a little batch because it was a bit labour intense. It came out so great that this year I'll put in the work and make a lot.
No, all raisins in any form are evil. This is one of the great absolutes of life. I just know this.... wait... rum? Did you say rum...?
Load More Replies...Raisins.. when eat a bagle and think they are chocolate chip and turn out to be raisins, that's the main reason I have trust problems.
I mean, if it was between a raisin and a stale fart, I suppose I could choke a wrinkly
GhettoSauce said:
Mushrooms. I'm fascinated by them but I won't eat them. Unless they're magic.
Fixes_Computers replied:
I learned to be okay with mushrooms as they have a high "good stuff to bad stuff" ratio to them.
For standard white mushrooms, slicing them raw onto a salad works okay. Not much flavor, but I can understand if the texture is unpleasant. If cooked, just make sure they aren't the primary ingredient.
If you want the nutritional benefit without having to deal with the flavor and texture, blitz some in a good processor and mix them in to whatever you're making. You won't even notice them if you keep the quantity low enough.
For myself, I've also tried other varieties. I recommend going to an Asian market to find the largest selection. Enoki is fun as it's similar to pasta (with different texture to it) and it largely absorbs the flavor of whatever you put it in.
My ex-husband used to hate mushrooms until my mom did her favorite hobby (hiking the woods to collect mushrooms) and sauteed them in butter with onions. She forced him to try one bite - he cleaned out the pan and took her hiking several times after that.
I used to steal mushrooms from the kitchen counter whenever my mom cooked when I was little. She never minded tho since I was eating veggies
Weellll, they aren't veggies, per se, but fungi. They're classified in their own kingdom, they aren't even considered to be a plant really. But very tasty, and some have amazing health benefits.
Load More Replies...Make some plain spaghetti noodles and pour a heated can of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup over (no added water) and you will think you are having a steak dinner!
BakerAnnual5453 said:
Tuna. There's something fishy about it.
Toulamarr replied:
I had a can of tuna tipped over me in primary school and the teachers wouldn't let me wash it off. I had to sit, for hours, covered in tuna, in the middle of summer. I cannot stand the smell and I would rather die than eat it.
what's the difference between a piano and a fish? You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.
Load More Replies...Cooked tuna, like from a can, tuna mayo, etc is absolutely vile, but raw tuna on sushi is fine.
I don't like tuna although I don't like pink flesh fish. I like fish such as flathead, whiting, snapper and gar etc. Nice white, flaky fish.
All kinds of tuna and preparations? This is broad. I like most tuna, but my fav is bluefin or yellowfin (served raw of course). Tuna casserole on the other hand...gag
tuna steak on the grill for me - 'bout 1 to 1 1/2 - min. each side
Load More Replies...I absolutely loooooove canned tuna, I know how unhealthy it is but it’s just so good, hate raw tuna tho
-Miss__Information- said:
Peas.
reydolith replied:
YES! STUPID GREEN DEHYDRATED EYEBALLS THAT POP PATHETICALLY AND UNAPPETIZING IN MY MOUTH!
KKarIo repliedL
Imagine eating only the dehydrated ones and thinking they suck.
Oh to never experience eating fresh ones straight from the plant.
postmoderngeisha replied:
I agree. Whenever I buy English garden peas, I never can get any into a pot to cook them. I end up popping the raw peas into my mouth while I am shelling them!
even my picky texture-adverse child love raw sugar snap peas straight off the vine (to be clear, you pick those before the peas get too big so you're basically eating the pod.)
I can do sugar or snap peas like that. I just hate bigger peas and many beans.. it's a texture thing for me too.
Load More Replies...I always like that POP sensation when biting into peas. It to mention the taste. But they can’t be undercooked, overcooked, or mushy (sorry Brits). There’s a sweet spot in cooking where they’re Cooked through and hot, but not mushy.
My dad always grew rows & rows of peas. The day he showed me how to open a pod for myself (having first shown me how to hold the plant with one hand while pulling off the pod with the other so as not to uproot the plant), that was the beginning of the rest of my life. Peas and love!
i love them row - fresh from the plant - cooked ? juck - never liked that
Suitable_Brain7650 said:
Eggplant
AfterEpilogue replied:
Eggplant is definitely one of those dumpster foods where when I eat it I feel like a dog when it finds some dead rotting thing in the yard and nibbles on it with its jowels raised despite it being gross because it's just so bad it's good. Like it's funky as hell and if I eat it more than a couple times in close proximity I'm over it but for some reason the first time I have it in a while it's kind of fire in the worst way possible.
Eggplant Parmigiana and fried eggplant sandwiches on Italian bread are both so good you’ll think you died and went to Italian restaurant heaven.
Make stuffed egg plants with cut from the round side 1 and 1,like a X...fill will a mix of Indian spices... turmeric,salt,red chilli, coriander powder,and dry mango powder...add a pinch of asafoetida,and carom seed....no water to be added...cover the pan and keep stirring....will love the results.
Depends on the variety. Japanese or Italian eggplants can be very good, but it also depends on how they are cooked.
smolinga said:
Coleslaw will never be good. Regardless of its base.
DrRichardJizzums replied:
Spent my whole life avoiding coleslaw until this year at 29. Found one place, a local BBQ joint, that makes it amazing. The main difference I've noticed is they have super thinly sliced onion mixed in with the cabbage which by itself is a game changer for me, but their dressing also has a little something different to it that I haven't been able to place. Maybe a bit of horseradish sauce? Idk but the dressing has a bit of kick usually missing from all other slaws but it's complex and delicious. The whole thing is an interesting and well seasoned affair. Since trying theirs I have ventured to try others but haven't enjoyed any others so far.
Depends on how it’s mixed and what it’s mixed with. Some slaw tastes sour, some overly sweet. But when you get slaw that’s just right, it is bliss.
BBQ places usually have a great, bold-tasting coleslaw. On the other end of the spectrum is the runny, extra sweet kind like KFC. I make mine with onion and horseradish plus some shredded carrots and some other stuff.
Depends on how it’s made. I’ve tasted some that I’ve liked and I’ve tasted some that made me want to gag.
I love the crispy bite but when all I taste is some mayo[many overdo this]..........................I'll pass
Much_Committee_9355 said:
Freshwater fish, it always tasted like mud and it always will…
SuzieCat replied:
Does this include trout, bass, and whitefish? The bigger fish? I like these, but not the bottom feeder or trash fish.
Much_Committee_9355 replied:
Trout is ok, depending on the farm you get them from. I don’t really we don’t have too much bass, but whitefish is trash and still has a muddy after taste, even the really expensive Amazonian species are lackluster.
I much rather even if I eat less fish, get some hake, red snapper or mullet, even the grilled sardines I find much more enjoyable.
SuzieCat replied:
I’m with you. Just to be clear, Lake Superior has a fish that is literally called “Whitefish.” It’s not a crappy version of any whit fish. Whenever I’m at a restaurant I ask for clarification. Technically tilapia is white fish, but it’s not “Whitefish.” Whitefish is far more similar to trout, and is often smoked. It’s honestly very good. Hard to find outside of the Great Lakes region maybe.
tip: before cooking freswater fish soak it in 2% milk for 30 mins. cook as you wish. it tastes like the best fish you've ever had! no muddy weedy taste.
in Lake Winnipeg we used to catch Pickerel, a lovely white fish, so sweet, covered in bread crumbs and fried in butter !!
I grew up beside a lake and was raised on perch, pike and your fish too!
Load More Replies...Guys- Asian carp. Eat them. They are super invasive and hardy but taste amazing. Grilled, fried, baked. Salt, pepper, lemon, butter. Amazing. Eat those invaders If they are near you.
Gotta fish for your own, and it depends on the body of water. Blue gill, walleye, perch, white bass... all so tasty. Plus... if it ain't fried, it probably just won't be as good. Not saying it won't be good... just not as much so. (edit): Whitefish is easy-ish to icefish with a little setup. quite fun. But... very delicate. tasty though.
NEVER EAT FISH FROM A FARM! You want good fish, Walleye is the best. Lake trout from Lake Superior are very fatty. If you want real trout you get them out of freshwater streams. Brown, rainbow or brook trout will be the best you have ever eaten. Any fish can be good if cooked right. The same with ruined if not cooked right.
Will not eat any fish that are farmed, if they’re not wild caught I won’t eat them.
Pumpkin anything, but especially pie. As a kid it looked like baby poop to me (oldest of 6, there were always babies in the house). Even now, I just can’t.
Pumpkin pie is my second favorite pie next to apple pie. Both with loads of whipped cream. 🥧
Loads of whipped cream will cover up any bad flavor… even liver!
Load More Replies...A canned pumpkin is unnaturally orange and does not taste nearly as good as a fresh pumpkin. A pumpkin from your garden, cooked in the oven and purred is the basis for any pumpkin dish. A fresh pumpkin pie is a tan or brownish color and is similar to a sweet potato pie, but better.
We have been over-pumpkin spiced recently. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, and pumpkin bread is OK. Pumpkin stuffed ravioli is a little bit of heaven right here on earth. P I haven’t tried it, but I would think pumpkin soup (something eaten back during colonial times, btw) would be good. But a lot of the stuff they’re flavoring with pumpkin spice these days? F*****g disgusting.
Pumpkin si great if the spices are right. My favorite is strawberry rhubarb! YUM!
I make a great pumpkin pie. My secret ingredients are maple syrup and bourbon.
AeroBassMaster said:
Coconut. F**k coconut.
pomdudes replied:
Albino sawdust.
holy_plaster_batman replied:
Nothing was more disappointing to me than discovering the filling of German Chocolate Cake is full of coconut. No thank you!
Mmmm… love coconut... Fresh from the shell, or dried... Favourite snack as a kid was a chocolate cookie with shredded coconut - looked like little porcupines.
Coconut that’s still in the coconut, unfortunately yeah. But once removed and mixed with other stuff, the coconut and its milk are scrumptious.
kiddles4321 said:
Zucchini it's f*****g disgusting.
akiroraiden replied:
Gotta ask though, have you ever tried grilled zucchini?
I used to hate it too, raw/boiled/cooked it's pretty disgusting.
But put it on a charcoal grill after it sat in salt for 2 minutes? Delish.
kiddles4321 replied:
Yeah still not a fan it's better than normal zucchini but I'll stick with other veggies.
Try zucchini bread. I make it with some chocolate chips thrown in, and my kids love it. They don't like it as a veggie side.
Zucchini is my favorite vegetable- grill it up with some squash and olive oil, a little bit of parmesan sprinkled on top- or saute it with olive oil and a little butter... so good. The trick is cooking it until it's a little burnt on the edges.
Fried zucchini. Sliced thin, skin on, floured (in sifted flour mixed with salt and pepper), and deep fried til crisp, both zucchini and yellow squash are a delight. Fried green tomatoes, however, require a bread coating, but are equally delicious.
So good sauteed with onions! Good raw in salads and to dip. Deep fried are really good too!
You can use zucchini in an apple pie recipe instead of apples. Tastes like apple pie. So weird.
I made that recently, because I can't eat apples, and it was great. I'm planning on trying it with chokos next time because my mum said that's what she had as a kid.
Load More Replies...Grilled Zucchini is absolutely delicious 😋 I love it! Fried Zucchini is incredible too!
Mr_mohammad10 said:
Onions by all the types I know they're healthy but I don't like them.
idratherchangemyold1 replied:
When I was little I liked onion rings but not the onions inside the rings. I'd pull out the onions instead and just eat the crust. My parents got mad at me for doing that and I'd be like, "What, I don't like the onions." They'd say, "Be nice." What does being nice have anything to do with it? I don't like the onions... for some reason they thought it wasn't nice to take out the onions and say I don't like them? I don't get it. My parents were weird about food like that. Other stuff too but mostly food.
Onions are the best! For summer, tomato, cucumber and red onion salad, to die for.
My fave salat is spinach leaves, cauliflower, and red onions.
Load More Replies...I can't digest them raw and can only tolerate small amounts of cooked onion.
Raw onions gave me migraines, cooked make me sick due to IBS.
Load More Replies...I adore onions. I also love breath mints, so I guess that works out well.
Yes!!! The texture of raw onions gets me every time. It's like a less intense version of biting into an eggshell. But I absolutely love grilled onions and onion rings!
Load More Replies...I'm allergic to onions and it is so hard to avoid them in prepackaged or prepared food. They are everywhere!! I am also allergic to cinnamon which is also hard to avoid when reading ingredient lists because it is often included under the heading "natural flavors".
I'm allergic to soy and it's the same. You always roll the dice when it comes to "natural flavors." Also, there are over 90 different names for soy.
Load More Replies...They’re just overpowering to me. Like, if I eat a burger, there’s the bun, patty, lettuce, tomato, cheese, sauce, all these rich and varied flavors—and then I bite into an onion and it’s literally all I can taste. All of that other goodness is just gone, and I can still taste the onion hours later. And when people “you can’t taste the onion” in some dish they’re liars. Filthy liars!
All kinds of onions and garlic are wonderful! The secret ingredient in many recipes. YUM!
Lol I do the same thing! Can't stand onions but I like the flavor of the onion ring crust
OMG! I absolutely love Onions! I won’t eat a Burger if it doesn’t have onions on it!
Serge_Karamazov said:
Endives... Raw in a salad or baked with cheese... it's still an abomination.
flash_Aaaaaaa replied:
Same for me with frisée. Makes food look fancy but tastes like bitter garbage.
Apparently it's a type of leaf vegetable with a bitter taste! Had to google it, never heard of before.
Load More Replies...I like Vidalia onion slices on n everything toasted bagel with cream cheese, loz and a thin slick of that specific onion. Beyond that I can't stand the taste, texture or smell of cooked onions.
helltothenoyo said:
I've come around to a lot of stuff as I've gotten older but I still don't trust rhubarb.
TonyThrowmo replied:
Yup I don’t understand why you would combined Rhubarb with beautiful strawberries to make a pie. It ruins it. Cherries, peaches, lemons, limes, apples and bananas all have their own pies and strawberries get screwed getting paired up with this disgusting bitter trash veg that is Rhubarb. Nasty it’s like shoving some Raddicchio in peach pie and saying, “hmmmm sweet and bitter!! The umami!!”🤮
Rhubarb crumble and custard. Oh god, I'm salivating at the thought of it, especially if it has a pinch of ginger added to it. Yum yum yum!
That sounds delicious! Are you thinking of just rhubarb or strawberry-rhubarb? I could go for either , especially paired with a nice summer drink. Also, you gave me a good idea for a cocktail;thank you.
Load More Replies...I didn't like rhubarb as a kid, but now I love it. Especially good since I can't eat apples anymore so I can opt for stewed rhubarb, cooked by mum of course :)
Rhubarb pie is amazing when done correctly with fresh rhubarb. But as a family member once pointed out, anything you put 4 cups of sugar and 2 sticks of butter in would have also tasted amazing.
Some say rhubarb is poisonous ius if eaten raw. Something to so with a chemical in it. Dont know, but I do like it with strawberries in a pie.
Not posionous if you harvest it before it blooms. I think it contains chinin in high doses? Which isn't exactly healthy in lsrge doses. Let's google-check, though. Update: no chinin. It does have high amounts of oxalic acid, which can make it dangerous for people with gall- or kidney-diseases. So those and children should be cautious
Load More Replies...I love rhubarb and strawberry compote. Key is the correct way, otherwise you have a sour, mashy undeliciousnm)ness
Found a recipe for rhubarb cookies and have made it several times. The cookies are really delicious, unfortunately I don’t have any rhubarb anymore. :((
im_a_dick_head said: Lobster. gummby8 replied: Meat should not be sweet. It's weird. northcrunk replied: Depends where you get it. Caribbean lobsters are so much different than the cold water lobster available most places in north America.
Fun fact: In the late 1800s lobsters were fed only to prisoners and poor people.
can't agree with the sweet meat comment. Some of my favorite asian dishes are sweet and are delicious. Mongolian beef and stir fry's. Char Sui pork and sweet and sour pork. Yumm! Orange chicken is pretty good. And some BBQ ribs are sweet, too.
Mmmm… Fresh Atlantic lobster from the Maritimes... Nothing better! -- Fun fact: At the turn of the(20th) century, domestic servants had clauses in their employment contracts preventing them from being *forced* to have lobster more than a set number of times per month. (It was used as animal feed, so almost considered unfit for human consumption.)
I tried to try it once but, I couldn't get fork past my nose. I couldn't stand the smell. This was fresh lobster too so I know it wasn't bad.
I hate lobster and crab. Tried them many times and cannot stand them.
DaZozz said: Grapefruit. All kinds of no! motherofgreatdanes12 replied: I’ve always felt like grapefruits taste the way B.O. smells. Acrid and sour. No thank you.
Grapefruit is toxic with certain medications. Be aware of this if you have to take nerve medications or antidepressants
Mmmm… Love 'em. I sometimes peel 'em like an orange and eat one as a meal.
Try pink grapefruit, they are sweeter. Still have some tart, but not the puckering power. That being said, I'll eat either. (I love eating lemons too.)
Load More Replies...Put sugar on your grapefruit to the people in the comments. Makes a world of difference
Uh.. why are people saying grapefruit is sour? One time my family accidentally got grapefruit instead of oranges, and it tasted kind of like cucumbers I guess. Also, the grapefruit tic tacs are sooo bad
yeahwellokay said:
Pickles and olives.
percautio replied:
Same! And weirdly, I like anything else in pickled form. Just not pickles themselves.
museumlad replied:
I've found that it's really just American style pickled cucumbers that I hate (probably partially due to the fact that I cannot stand dill in anything except ranch dressing and tzatziki sauce). I love quick pickled cucumbers, especially using rice vinegar which has a milder taste, and a bunch of kinds of Japanese pickles. I'm not big on fermented foods otherwise, though.
PICKLES!! I love them so much. I make fridge pickles at home and everyone gets a jar, they are divine. Here's the recipe I use if interested. https://everydayannie.com/2013/08/05/refrigerator-dill-pickles/
My favorite are Grillos, they are wonderful
Load More Replies...Love pickles so much! My go to snack, I can eat a whole jar in 1 sitting. Nothing like a good pickle. Low in calories and carbs 😋
You want to try the "Bread & Butter" style pickled cucumbers. Look up recipes for dill pickles, and 'bread & butter' pickles. The differences are significant.
I found a recipe for bread and butter pickles recently and have been meaning to make them. I can't stand dill pickles.
Load More Replies...Wait... Tzatziki has dill in it? Since when? I've been to Greece and I have eaten an ungodly amount of tzatziki there, in a ton of local varieties (one even had carrots in it) But never EVER was there dill in it.
It certainly doesn't! If it does, it's not tzatziki!!
Load More Replies...My Eastern European heart cries a little while reading some of the hate for pickles....
Love pickles, I keep several jars of dill pickle spears in my pantry. They’re great for cutting down on charley horses
Dill pickles are amazing and so are the spicy ones from Super Duper burgers. I will die upon this heavenly hill.
Seaweed salad (wakame) it tasted like millions of dead things rotting in an ocean and the slimy texture...
I tried 31 of these things. 3 of them have to be prepared a certain way for me to like them. 14 of them I generally like.I absolutely love 14 of the things
I like your comment and how you added-up the posts and made your own stats; I've never seen that before.
Load More Replies...Same so when my husband buys a rhubarb and strawberry pie, he knows it's all his.
Load More Replies...I can't stand lentils. The taste is just urgh, but the worst part is that it reminds me of the worst eating-related experiences I had at home. My mother made lentil soup from these dried lentils. It looked disgusting, smelled disgusting, tasted disgusting. I was still forced to sit at the table and eat, every time, lots of screaming, lots of violence. I tried lentils some years ago in an Indian dish. Still can't stand it and felt sick after the first bite. And this, people, is why you shouldn't force your children to eat anything they don't like.
Classic way to create a food aversion in kids! For me it was mango. I knew (and so did mum) that I didn't like it, but one day she made me drink a smoothie without telling me what was in it. I drank one mouthful and then threw up. Now even the smell repulses me.
Load More Replies...there are very few things i really loathe: organ meats from mammals (but i like duck and goose liver patés). Lima beans. Licorice and Anise. And i have stopped eating octopus, cuttlefish, and squid because they are so intelligent. but otherwise, while i have preferences for sure, nothing else i have come across stops my stomach, and i even can eat cilantro, though it's soap. ☘️
Seaweed salad (wakame) it tasted like millions of dead things rotting in an ocean and the slimy texture...
I tried 31 of these things. 3 of them have to be prepared a certain way for me to like them. 14 of them I generally like.I absolutely love 14 of the things
I like your comment and how you added-up the posts and made your own stats; I've never seen that before.
Load More Replies...Same so when my husband buys a rhubarb and strawberry pie, he knows it's all his.
Load More Replies...I can't stand lentils. The taste is just urgh, but the worst part is that it reminds me of the worst eating-related experiences I had at home. My mother made lentil soup from these dried lentils. It looked disgusting, smelled disgusting, tasted disgusting. I was still forced to sit at the table and eat, every time, lots of screaming, lots of violence. I tried lentils some years ago in an Indian dish. Still can't stand it and felt sick after the first bite. And this, people, is why you shouldn't force your children to eat anything they don't like.
Classic way to create a food aversion in kids! For me it was mango. I knew (and so did mum) that I didn't like it, but one day she made me drink a smoothie without telling me what was in it. I drank one mouthful and then threw up. Now even the smell repulses me.
Load More Replies...there are very few things i really loathe: organ meats from mammals (but i like duck and goose liver patés). Lima beans. Licorice and Anise. And i have stopped eating octopus, cuttlefish, and squid because they are so intelligent. but otherwise, while i have preferences for sure, nothing else i have come across stops my stomach, and i even can eat cilantro, though it's soap. ☘️
