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Folks Online Can’t Believe That People Actually Enjoy These 30 Foods And Drinks
When it comes to taste, we all have different palates and enjoy different foods and drinks. Some of us just love to try some new cuisines that offer us some never-before-seen dishes, while others enjoy more casual things. This is why there's no accounting for taste. But have you ever found yourself in a place where you tried something and didn’t like it a lot but continued to pretend to enjoy it? If so, you’re not alone. Reddit user @u/ExtremeCumMaster asked others online to share what is in their opinion that one food that everyone says tastes so great when in reality they just pretend to like it. The question “What food do you swear people only pretend to like?” received more than 37k responses that revealed some interesting and yet relatable answers.
While some people were interested in why others like to eat some less known foods that have a perhaps nasty-looking texture or smell and pretend to enjoy it, other users were naming things that they didn’t like at first but with time their opinion changed. How many of you also didn’t eat blue cheese or licorice because of its weird taste? Some Redditors not only mentioned foods but some drinks too, most of them being alcoholic beverages such as beer or vodka. One user also mentioned spicy food, knowing how some people love to eat extremely spicy dishes that make their mouth feel as if it's “literally on fire”.
What is one food or drink that you think others pretend to like when in reality they despise it? Don’t forget to share your answer in the comments section!
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Extremely spicy foods
I get liking a little bit of spice. But I don't see how it's enjoyable when your mouth is literally on fire.
Stevia...there's absolutely no way someone enjoys that aftertaste. It's a weird cult that I'm not willing to join and such a dominant flavor.
Even in the smallest amounts it makes me retch. And that aftertaste lingers for what seems like forever.
Extremely hoppy IPAs (if drinks can be included in the discussion).
I enjoy bitterness in my beer, and I know there are some good IPAs out there, but it's gotten to the point that breweries seem to be competing with one another to see who can make the bitterest, most unappealing beers imaginable. They taste like earwax.
I've always said it was an "Emperor's New Clothes" situation. He's still naked, and IPAs still suck donkey balls
I like a lot of stuff people are s******g on here, but I am in my 30s so I think tastes change as you get older.
Love me some cheese that smells of feet, anchovies on pizza and coffee strong enough that I see through time.
I used to go crazy for gummies, especially the sour ones. Now I find sweet things a bit, meh, I can take or leave it. But you'll have to prize a stinky cheeseboard out of my cold dead hands.
Grapefruit. People will be like "I love grapefruit" and then proceed to dump enough sugar on it to lose a foot.
Oysters. Revolting.
I was recently in Biloxi, MS for vacation and the oysters there were divine. Fresh harvested and chargrilled and enjoyed on the beach. I would go back tomorrow for more of those oysters.
Tripe, the smell of it makes me gag. My dad loves it because his dad loved it.
THE BUCK STOPS HERE TRIPE.
I'm white af but I was adopted at birth into a Mexican family. I grew up eating tripe (sometimes called "tripas" in Spanish). Menudo wouldn't be menudo without tripe. :) I can understand not liking it if you haven't been exposed to it properly. But please don't allude to it as "trash" or "dog food only"; there are many people that like it, and those are cruel labels for a food that other cultures eat and enjoy.
Turkish delight, never quite did understand why that little s**t betrayed his family for some perfume flavored rubber in the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.
Cilantro.
Yes, I have been informed that I must have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. But you cannot convince me that the rest of you cilantro-collaborators aren't just pretending.
Edit: everyone saying "It tastes like soap to me, but I learned to like it" just proves my point. It's the culinary equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.
It is a wonderful herb for those of us to whom it does not taste like soap. Salsa/pico wouldn't be the same without it
Any of those keto substitute foods. Use your imagination as much as you’d like but lettuce wraps will never be as good as a real sandwich with bread
Zucchini is so freaking awesome. I can eat it cooked almost any way possible.
Load More Replies...Well yeah they wont be as good but they're still tasty in their own way if you're not expecting a specific flavor. Lettuce wraps are delicious but nothing compares to bread; not fair to Lettuce with that comparison
I actually personally disagree - I LOVE a homemade lettuce-wrapped burger with romaine and lots of sauce 😍 for these 3 owls it is better than bread
Load More Replies...I like riced cauliflower, but keep your "zoodles." I actually do like zucchini in its proper context. Pretending to be pasta ain't it.
Some bread is delicious and so worth it, but I'd much rather take fresh lettuce over the cheap sliced bread/buns.
Tuna wrapped jn lettuce is better (to me) than tuna sandwich made with bread.
Load More Replies...I don't think of them a subsitues and somethings can taste good for being their own thing. For example I've found a really yummy vegan "bacon" recipe, I won't say it really tastes like bacon, but it is yummy in it's own right.
I have tofu bacon recipe I tried once, it wasn't bad, but it sure wasn't bacon.
Load More Replies...I recently didn't have bread at home and didn't wanted to run to the store so I put some friend chicken, feta cheese and tomatoes in some lettuce leaves and it was pretty good. Probably a lot healthier too.
Well, it works. Source: just hit goal after losing 50lb. Now I can have the bun! Or pretty much whatever I want in moderation.
Yeah, whoever thought that cauliflower was a good substitute for things like rice or mashed potatoes deserves to be shot. I can do the noodles made from zucchini, but I will leave the cauliflower in your cold, dead hands
Maybe not as a substitute for anything, but have you tried roasted cauliflower? Delicious tossed in olive oil with a little salt and pepper, but you can pretty much toss it in whatever you'd like and bake until browned. Yummy!
Load More Replies...Eh, I don't use as a substitute, but that can be a great wrap idea for some recipes. Some Asian fish recipes or rice dish ones perhaps. Fresh tasting! Also the picture looks good to me, but I love me some zucchini.
I beg to differ. I think a chargrilled burger tastes better on an Iceberg lettuce bun with all the condiments. Hot burger with cold salad. Not only is it delicious, it's a fraction of the calories of a hamburger bun and you don't feel like curling up for a nap after you eat it.
I had some for the first time today! It was indistinguishable from any white bread I've ever had - you know, bland, tasteless, just there to hold up the meat.
Load More Replies...I hate bread, and bread hates me. Bread is a middleman, it's what you eat when there's not enough of what you're putting between the bread slices to make a meal of. It's rice, it only exists to stretch a meal out. It also reconstituets in my stomach as a large, heavy brick whenever I eat it. I'd rather have a full meal of beef, turkey or ham!. (Grilled cheese and garlic bread are the obvious exceptions...)
an fyi for some of the commenters: some people have epilepsy and other conditions that can be managed by a ketogenic diets so it’s not always a choice or a weight loss thing
I make zucchini boats that looks very similar to the top pic...cooked ground chicken or turkey + sweet baby ray's buffalo sauce, throw onto the zucchini, topped with cheese and throw it in the oven for a few...OMG so yum
It really depends on the bread. Fresh, homemade stuff where the person is a pro? Hell yeah, gimme some of that carbohydrate goodness! But mass produced stuff that feels like cardboard and tastes like nothing almost? I can easily skip that
Diabetic so have to be inventive. Rounds of cucumber with cheese, sliced radish, half a tiny tomato etc. Occasional fancy bread when I crave a real sandwich
One CAN make many wrapped things without bread that are super delicious. Be informed!!
I LOVE zucchini! And I love lettuce wraps! And I love sandwiches! The thing is... it depends on WHAT do you put on the filling? You can just leave the zucchinis, lettuce and toast alone and those are great for me!!!
There are great keto breads at Costco. Very good stuff!
Agreed! From someone on a keto diet who has lost 90 pounds in a year! I'll do it to keep from being diabetic, but I miss a good hamburger or tuna sandwich like my mom made!!
I had to go on a special restrictive diet to treat a digestive disorder called SIBO and yes, it is tough to get used to not having breads (and many other things), but you get used to it when you have to do it to feel better. And I will say that extra weight I was carrying around for a dozen years did melt off and I was never hungry, plus I did intermittent fasting.
Maybe not sandwiches but Keto showed me a way to leave out a lot of the carbs. My husband didn't have to go on medication once I started learning how I could get around a lot of the carbs.
Do you think we don't know that? That we eat that stuff because we don't like bread? It's built into us as humans to love carbs. We'd rather eat lettuce wraps than lose a leg. 😡
Oh yes, I’ve tried them all and they are ALL terrible. You cannot convince me that a watery, tasteless veggie is like spaghetti (courgette, spaghetti squash) and cauliflower rice/pizza crust is NASTY!
I've never been crazy about bread, so lettuce wraps are perfect for me.
There's also the lettuce wraps from the Chinese restaurant, they're pretty yummy. I'm not as big a fan of bread as I used to be either. I stopped using hot dog buns, and started using pita bread.
Not idea if it's keto but the diet "hack" of replace sour cream or mayo with greek yogurt, is an enormous load of bull. Tried it with onion dip (sour cream) and broccoli salad (mayo) . Was terrible in the dip, and more tolerable in the broccoli salad but still very off.
Doesn't work for me either, and now that I'm on heart meds reading labels has turned me off of yogurt all together, even though the doctors keep saying it's healthy.
Load More Replies...I hate healthy substitutes for "unhealthy" items. I don't mind meals that are keto, but don't turn delicious pizza into a cauliflower abomination
Far as I'm concerned it's a cheese, and processed meats commonly used on pizza that are the danger.
Load More Replies...Tried few substitutes and they all tasted like hell. Cauliflower pizza is not "almost indistinguishable" from a real deal and zoodles carbonara is just gross. Brocolli or green beans instead of potatoes as a side, chicken soup without noodles, burger without bun etc. on the other hand is very doable. I did keto for 5 months and lost 20 kg.
Keto is a diet for epileptics. How the hell did it hijacked by these arrogant a*s fitness people?
Serious inquiry: what about keto helps epikeotics? How does that work?
Load More Replies...Peeps... wtf they're terrible! The whole experience is just... terrible.
Cat food. I mean come on, my cat can't like eating that every day. I think she's just being polite.
Circus Peanuts.
There's no way people are actually out there enjoying those things, but enough people pretend to keep them in business.
Kombucha
My wife and I were outside doing something or other and was drinking this, and takes a drink and says to me 'Wanna taste my kombucha?" Well I had never heard of this stuff before. So with a look of shock, I ask her " Out here in front of everyone baby? I didnt think you were into that kind of thing. But if you really want me to, ok."
Chitterlings. My mom-in-law made some at my house, and it smelled like a grown man s***ted all over my home and walls.
Chitterlings are one of the vestiges of the history of enslavement in this country. In Southern Death Camps where enslaved people were held captive, they had to make do with what the Human Traffickers holding them gave them to eat. Often, after feeding the owners, the enslaved people took what was left to feed their own families. Such was the case with chitterlings, which, for those who don't know, are the intestines of a pig. To survive, the enslaved people often took what their owners wouldn't eat, and prepared and seasoned it in such a way as to make it palatable so their own families wouldn't starve on the meager food they were provided. In time, some of those dishes became delicacies. I personally don't eat chitterlings, but my many family members who came from the South still do.
Stunt foods on Instagram.
Pizza cones, Barria meat Ramen, and of course when they freaking drown a burger, and I mean waterboard it with melted cheese.
Also, those overstuffed sandwiches that have half a dozen different types of meat. What's the point? I can't fit the damn thing in my mouth, and the individual tastes gets lost in the maelstrom of meat.
Overnight oats. It's what I imagine prison food to be like; sloppy and cold.
Edit: no topping makes this not true.
Slugs
Edit: I am soo sorry! I meant snails! Not slugs
Edit the second: I see we have a highly defended culinary niche and I am willing to surrender! Please have mercy!
Do not eat slugs! Seemingly some of them are deadly! Oddly enough I am having so much fun reading through your responses and stories xD
Snails need to be 'cleaned' before eating. I quote "Rinse them in cool water and prick out the meat with the tip of a knife. To remove the last of the slime, rinse the snails in a bowl of vinegar water (1/2 cup of vinegar per gallon of water). Repeat this process several times with fresh water and vinegar until the mucus is gone." serve with garlic butter and yum.
Hákarl.
I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy smelling, ammonia flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening.
It seems like survival food - you will stay alive if you eat it, but it’s not appealing … to me.
If you’re Icelandic - please help me understand why this is a thing.
Once upon a time I swore that salted licorice was the most vile thing ever to have graced our fair planet. However about a year ago my wife made me try some and much to my surprise, I liked it!.
Chicken feet
I love chicken foot soup. It not only tastes good, but reminds me of family dinners in the winters when the power was out and it was cooked in summer kitchen. Ah!!!!!
Any cookie with raisins in it. Those are an insult to chocolate chip cookies.
I think the reason raisin cookies are hated it because they look like chocolate so you feel betrayed when you realise. Personally I like raisin cookies made of oats
Vegemite
LISTEN UP NON AUSTRALIANS, ITS NOT NUTTELA. So many people who try it say its horrible cause they've spread it on like Nutella. Just toast a shitty piece of white bread, slather it with butter/margarine and spread like 5 grams on top, thats it. PERFECTION. Eat it like that and you can be a happy little vegemite too.
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I've not heard of half of these and way too lazy to look them up :)
Durian? Don't mind the taste.... But the smell!! Like Satan's armpits....
Load More Replies...Yum! I’ve made really good ones from scratch too. But why bother when you can open a can?
Load More Replies...If you like it, and it's fairly healthy - who cares if everyone else on the planet hates it?
Truth! Some of these people with these extreme dislikes are in the minority. Except for the dog meat. That's pure evil.
Load More Replies...Try drip coffee with better beans. I have a friend who grows and sells coffee. Ever since I drank black coffee at his orchard, I've never added cream or sugar.
Load More Replies...Guacamole. Ick. Nasty green color, slimy, weird texture, almost no taste
Whoever is feeding you this "guacamole" is doing it wrong. It can be heavenly if done right.
Load More Replies...Until recently I would have said Waldorf salad, but my mom has made it two weeks in a row and it’s one of my new favourite things.
Okay fine - you’re right, they’re actually not very good.
Load More Replies...I would vote for Frisee. What a horrible little bitter, dirt flavored leaf. All the cooking shows I watched where they rave over a Frisee salad have me convinced to try it. Didn't even have to chew it to taste the bitter. And I like bitter most times.
Quick question: Anyone here ever tried porridge with boiled frogs? The texture... -_-
If you've never tried nattō, be sure not to. Sticky, disgusting fermented Japanese beans, yuck!
Caramilks. They even had to implement a search for some golden key to get more sales. Anyone think there's an actual metal key, and try breaking all the Caramilks at the store thinking you could just feel for it? I'm guessing it's not a real key. Idk.
I hate Italian sausage. All I can taste is the fennel. So if I eat something with Italian sausage, my brain hyperfixates on the flavour of fennel.
You all need a good famine and see what it feels like. Pampered species.
Life is too short to care about what someone thinks about what you eat. Opposingly, it's also too late to care about what others eat. Just enjoy what you do! (Except people's pets...even if their pet is something that's normally a food item where you are.)
Bananas. Yech! Can't stand them. The taste, the texture, the smell. All gross. I can't even be in the same room as someone eating them. It's weird as, aside from bananas, I will pretty much eat anything. Plus, like everyone in the world seems to love them. I swear people often look at me like I said I like to eat babies or something when I tell them I hate bananas.
I have made comments and asked questions but never hear anything back, why?
I don't like the taste of alcohol any it's weird but they all have a weird aftertaste thing that's the same it's hard to explain kinda like how you can feel cranberry juice on your tounge after But then again I am a fan of pineapple on pizza so I'm probably a psychopath lol
Nah. Took me 7 years to even try to drink a full glass of alcohol after I hit the legal age. I still can only drink theore fruity ones so I can't really taste the alcohol.
Load More Replies...Omg yes it taste suck but it's the texture that gets me it yuk
Load More Replies...I ate cooked chicken heart when I was in Tokyo. was really surprised at how good it tasted!
I used to eat that when I was a teenager; my dad would buy a whole pack of them and I would fry them up. Miam.
Load More Replies...I've not heard of half of these and way too lazy to look them up :)
Durian? Don't mind the taste.... But the smell!! Like Satan's armpits....
Load More Replies...Yum! I’ve made really good ones from scratch too. But why bother when you can open a can?
Load More Replies...If you like it, and it's fairly healthy - who cares if everyone else on the planet hates it?
Truth! Some of these people with these extreme dislikes are in the minority. Except for the dog meat. That's pure evil.
Load More Replies...Try drip coffee with better beans. I have a friend who grows and sells coffee. Ever since I drank black coffee at his orchard, I've never added cream or sugar.
Load More Replies...Guacamole. Ick. Nasty green color, slimy, weird texture, almost no taste
Whoever is feeding you this "guacamole" is doing it wrong. It can be heavenly if done right.
Load More Replies...Until recently I would have said Waldorf salad, but my mom has made it two weeks in a row and it’s one of my new favourite things.
Okay fine - you’re right, they’re actually not very good.
Load More Replies...I would vote for Frisee. What a horrible little bitter, dirt flavored leaf. All the cooking shows I watched where they rave over a Frisee salad have me convinced to try it. Didn't even have to chew it to taste the bitter. And I like bitter most times.
Quick question: Anyone here ever tried porridge with boiled frogs? The texture... -_-
If you've never tried nattō, be sure not to. Sticky, disgusting fermented Japanese beans, yuck!
Caramilks. They even had to implement a search for some golden key to get more sales. Anyone think there's an actual metal key, and try breaking all the Caramilks at the store thinking you could just feel for it? I'm guessing it's not a real key. Idk.
I hate Italian sausage. All I can taste is the fennel. So if I eat something with Italian sausage, my brain hyperfixates on the flavour of fennel.
You all need a good famine and see what it feels like. Pampered species.
Life is too short to care about what someone thinks about what you eat. Opposingly, it's also too late to care about what others eat. Just enjoy what you do! (Except people's pets...even if their pet is something that's normally a food item where you are.)
Bananas. Yech! Can't stand them. The taste, the texture, the smell. All gross. I can't even be in the same room as someone eating them. It's weird as, aside from bananas, I will pretty much eat anything. Plus, like everyone in the world seems to love them. I swear people often look at me like I said I like to eat babies or something when I tell them I hate bananas.
I have made comments and asked questions but never hear anything back, why?
I don't like the taste of alcohol any it's weird but they all have a weird aftertaste thing that's the same it's hard to explain kinda like how you can feel cranberry juice on your tounge after But then again I am a fan of pineapple on pizza so I'm probably a psychopath lol
Nah. Took me 7 years to even try to drink a full glass of alcohol after I hit the legal age. I still can only drink theore fruity ones so I can't really taste the alcohol.
Load More Replies...Omg yes it taste suck but it's the texture that gets me it yuk
Load More Replies...I ate cooked chicken heart when I was in Tokyo. was really surprised at how good it tasted!
I used to eat that when I was a teenager; my dad would buy a whole pack of them and I would fry them up. Miam.
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