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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.
You're reading an article about food people hate. What did you expect? They hate the food not the culture. Also its eaten everywhere. Not just mexico. NZ, Scotland, the person who wrote this one could be from anywhere.
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The trick with tripe is how you cleaned them and the way you cooked them.
My grandmother (English) used to love it-she boiled it in milk and served with loads of salt and pepper. I tried a tiny bit once and it was just rank. I'm convinced she ate it because when she was a child, her family was quite poor so real meat wasn't really eaten much-they mostly ate offal (kidneys, sweetbreads, liver) so she just got used to it.
My mum was from the north of England , and grew up dirt poor, so I grew up on tripe and onions.... My mouth is watering just thinking of it.....
Load More Replies... I suspect this is an example of people hating things they haven't even tried. In the UK tripe had a terrible reputation because it was working class food- served boiled with vinegar. I hated it as a kid. Now I love it- because when you eat it in spicy hotpots in China it makes so much more sense.
How is it hating something you haven't tried if you grew up eating it and then reject internalizing the generational cycle of pretending it's good. Just because YOU have extremely snobbish and classist hang ups, doesn't mean everyone has the same reasons for hating on on foods. Y'all also decided potatoes and onions were peasant working class foods. That doesn't mean they aren't wildly popular worldwide by this point because they actually do taste good. Just try an Oklahoma onion burger (made popular during the great depression to save money) with a side of Cajun fries to see that yeah. Peasant food is often really really good. But then there's also tripe, spam, and Jello based dinners that really aren't that great to most people who have a choice Most people, surprisingly enough, don't really give q c**p about your personal classist hangups or said standards from the UK.
Load More Replies... While I realize there are those who love it, even my mom, but... it reminds me most of a boiled terrycloth towel.
yikes, my dad only bought this sometimes as a treat for the dog
White slav here. I absolutely hate tripes. But, rest of my family love it. They also love hladetina (aspic jelly) that I also hate and I am not food picky.
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Tripe is great in menudo and other soups, especially hot pot, but prepared like pictured I can understand there is sometimes still that smell thats off putting
Trippa has the taste of pasta or rice without condiments. That's to say none. The sauce and preparation make it, but its origins are as cheap source of protein for poor people. Almost every ethnic cuisine has a "trippa" dish.
Eh, I generally don't seek it out, but I'll absolutely eat it in pho. All the beef stuff in the pho!
I love tripe! It's a main ingredient in Philadelphia Pepper Pot soup and I make that often.
whats tripe? ive never heard of it but it looks pretty good judjing by the picture!
I hated it until I tried my husband's abuela's menudo....don't know what she did to it, but it was amazing in the soup
I've never had tripe. But I used to feed it (ground up) to my dogs and they loved it. But it smelled so awful.
Who ever looked at this and thought it would be a good idea to eat it? Disgusting!
In Puerto Rico we eat tripe in a dish called mondongo, which is divine and another called cuajo (cow’s stomach) that’s eaten with hot sauce and it’s to die for.
My mum and dad loved Tripe, not for me. Can still remember the smell
If you eat meat you should have the nuts to eat all parts of the animal, jeez.
Or chitlins. When you have to wash the food to ensure there's no pig sh*t in it, I'll pass.
I commend the people that can eat the more unsavory or unused parts of animals and literally leave nothing to waste! Just don't add me to that group
I thought it was some ice cream and waffles at first glance, no tripe for me thanks.
"Tripes à la mode de Caen is a traditional dish of the cuisine of Normandy, France. In its original form this dish consisted of all four chambers of a beef cattle's stomach, plus the hooves and bones, cut up and placed on a bed of carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, cloves, peppercorns, a bouquet garni, a bottle of cider and a glass of calvados in a tripière (a special earthenware pot for cooking tripe) covered and hermetically sealed with dough and simmered in the oven for fifteen hours. The hoofs, bones and bouquet garni are removed before serving with a sprinkling of some more cider."
I love fried Cod tongues and have even eaten escargot and frogs legs, but I'm not sure of the consistency of this 🥴
OhMG OhMG we used to eat this with parsley sauce regularly as children without any complaints, then I made the same recipe one day a few years back ( like 50 years or so had passed)and the smell alone was so bad I could not relate to that 'youthful acceptance'. It hit the bin promptly gahhhhgh..
There are delicious dishes made from tripe - I used to go to one Filipino lunch buffet mainöy to stuff my face with their tripe dish (I don't know what it's called). Also trippa romana, and Polish flaki, yum yum.
the only food I'm not allergic to that makes me want to vomit just from the smell
We Call It Bariga (Belly) Or Mondongo. We're Dominican-Puerto Rican. 💕 💕 Now My Just Made A Cheesy Joke. She Asked Me How To Say "Mama No Te Vayas" In English. I Was Confused But Ended Up Answering. The Answer Is "Mom Don't Go". She Replied With: "Mom Don't Go" = Mon-Don-Go"!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂😂😂💕💕
Anything that andrew zimmern describes as sinewy or intestinal is a no for me. It's the texture
Back in the day (yes, I'm old), Campbells Vegetable Soup contained tripe
I don’t have it in me to even give this a try.😢 maybe if someone snuck it in my food and I tried it blind? Plus I have a lot of textural issues around food.
Never tried it but not against it. I remember grandpa cooking up some liver when I was a kid and thought it smelled amazing, not my favorite flavor though. That one incident made me think offal gets a bad name
in fact liver, spleen and lungs are among the worst without special preparation - everything else is much better.
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I think it has more to do with the preparation and cooking than the tripe itself. I can take or leave it but have never personally had an instance where I've immediately disliked it so Ive fortunate I guess.
My grandma and grandad would boil it and drown it in malt vinegar. I tried it once, but like pretty much all offal its not for me.
Ciorba de burta, Romanian tripe soup, I think is the only way I've had it. Perfectly edible, if not necessarily a first choice.
Try a tripe soup from Romania! Or any Eastern European countries! I was sold!
in fact, it comes from Turkey (iskembe corba). Two people making the same mistake shows that romanians are very good in publicizing as their own things that others consider too mundane to talk about.
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It is great if you make them right. I buy precooked, because if you clean it and cook it yourself, you'll hate it because of the smell. Then I make it with "trieste sauce", smoked paprika, tomato sauce, onions and bacon and then sprinkle parmesan. Great!
Bought this for my dogs and it went into a container that I could not use for anything else due to the smell.... did NOT know people ate it as the smell is horrific enough that the thought of tasting it was frightening... so sorry that it's a cultural food... no offense
There are many cultures who have tripe as part of their cuisine :) Please keep a respectful open mind that while others may not share the same tastes as you do, you do not have to insult and scorn their tastes as "vile" and refer to a part of their cuisine as literally "dog food". Unless you are saying that you feel that anyone who eats tripe is a dog rather than a human being?
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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
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.
Sparkling water.
People are like "oh yeah, yeah I like it." But on the inside it's just
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Vodka...it taste like the walls of a hospital
I think any alcohol can fit into this list. I wonder how many people actually hate alcohol but drink it anyway because it's a social norm / because of peer pressure.
There's an emotional reaction to foods (and other sensations) that develops over time. Eventually, it gets to the point that the food--regardless of what's disgusting about it--makes you feel something enjoyable and pleasant.
If I'd never eaten Bleu Cheese before, I'd be disgusted by it now. But, I unknowingly had some when I was 4 or 5 at a family Christmas party in a cheeseball. When I eat Bleu Cheese these days, it reminds me of warm happy Christmases of decades long ago.
My roomie be eating squid out a can
Chicken liver, my family makes it for every big holiday dinner, I’m convinced that no one actually likes it but they make it out of tradition and the older people force it down.
My mom used to make chicken liver pâté to Julia Child's recipe. I really, really dislike the smell and taste of liver, but loved the pâté. I also love Mother Goose liverwurst, but no other brand.
Fruitcake
Not all fruitcake are created equal. My dad loved the stuff so I tried several and there are many different types; some delicious and some meh
Nattō
How the f**k can you like milk and water mixed?
What?! Is this a thing done outside of affordability and instead out of desire/preference/taste?
Gefilte fish
Canned one? Hell no. But traditional homemade? I will eat as much as I can, especially the one done by my grandma... that is all in the past though...old generation passed away and no one knows how to make it anymore...
The fat part of the meat. Come on, the texture and taste are gross
Balut
Tried one once on a dare. If anything it tasted worse than it looked. Youth and alcohol were involved.
Caviar. It's so salty.
Fun fact (cmiir): you're supposed to eat it with a spoon made of bone because using metal causes a chemical reaction thereby altering the flavor.
What about fingers then? Also does ANYTHING work? Like a bamboo spoon?
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....
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Yum! I’ve made really good ones from scratch too. But why bother when you can open a can?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Omg yes it taste suck but it's the texture that gets me it yuk
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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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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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