Would include sprouts, turkey and pigs in blankets.
And I suspect most people find them so bad they only eat them one day a year, as opposed to the 50 or more days a year they eat stuff they like.
So why is it, in mid-November, you can't turn on the radio or TV without hearing everyone (including otherwise likeable people) wittering on about how they're going to try to make them barely palatable on something they refer to as the "Big Day"?
I eat sprouts most days during the winter, they're bloody lovely. I don't need the telly to tell me that though.
Spam, lamb, pigs in blankets, roast turkey, jelly, jacket potatoes, most types of takeaway - for starters and main and dessert.
Can’t stand sprouts, they’re like gross concentrated cabbages on steroids. The smell is gross, the texture is gross and the taste is rancid.
Turkey is good though - love cooking a Turkey crown basted in garlic butter, covered in slices of oranges, then a layer of smoked bacon on top of that. Lush.
Pigs in blankets - how can anyone not love those bad boys??
Next you’ll be saying you don’t like Christmas Pudding and Mince Pies and brandy cream 🤯
Sprout curry FTW
Is FTW an approximation of the noise you make after?
Is it a vegetable ?
No thanks, sorry.
Add to that any dried fruit like raisins, or anything raisinesque for that matter.
Spicy ?, not for me.
I’d happily dispense with all the other elements of Christmas and just replace it with a big bowl of pigs in blankets.
If you don’t like pigs in blankets then I actually pity you. It’s a dream combination of the two greatest foodstuffs on earth.
Do you dislike sausages and/or bacon separately? Or is it their marriage that you can’t abide?
Turkey (breast) is prob my least favourite meat, but don’t mind a leg.
Sprouts are ok if cooked nicely.
Struggling to think of anything I won’t eat at all, save from Parma Violets.
If you're starving you'll eat anything, and like it.
Sprouts
Brocolli
Cauliflower
Liquorice
Heinz Crème of Tomato Soup
That’s about it.
Pigs in blankets - cheap chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon; what's to like in that combination?
I wouldn't give them to next door's dog.
If the offering was, say, venison sausage wrapped in chorizo - yes please.
Ooh good shout on liquorice. I can handle aniseed flavours in small doses, but too much makes me retch.
Anything that can blink.
Plus cephalopods.
Anything that can blink.
All round to Ernie’s for a festive feast of fish, snakes and lizards then!
Pigs in blankets – cheap chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon; what’s to like in that combination?
Erm… just, like… EVERYTHING!
Well Lizards do have the ability to blink Tom but I had assumed that the question was in relation to what you can buy in a UK supermarket 😁
When it comes to foods* I can’t eat, I’m still in awe of the Greek Tiling Grout Marketing Board when they came up with the genius idea of adding garlic flavouring to their waste product, labelling it as something called ‘Hummus’ and flogging it to gullible middle class people
It’s not for me, personally, eating tiling grout, but if that’s what floats yer boat
* is it technically ‘food’?
Parboiled crushed sprouts stir fried with pancetta or lardons, a bit of soy or Maggi's sauce (umami)
Nomnomnom
Meat, cheese and mince pies. Everything else is fair game - even sprouts.
Well the user name doesn't check then
You don’t like cheese?!!!
Chicken with bones in it. Utter horror for me. Fillets fine no probs, but chicken with bones in it gives me the heebie jeeebies. Totally freaking.
I've have my hands in cattle, sheep and pigs moments after slaughter, and thats not problem, but place a chicken thigh or wings on the plate and im getting ready to boak.
Pigs in blankets – cheap chipolatas wrapped in streaky bacon; what’s to like in that combination?
If you buy shit you eat shit*
Quality chipolatas + quality streaky bacon = heaven on a plate AKA the kilted sausage.
Turkey can get to **** though. Goose please (or glue all the kilted sausages together with a mustard mash into the shape of a large bird.
*Still going to eat the lot though.
Meat.
I once had a meal in Japan, part of which appeared to be snot (I think it was a fungi of some sort) I wouldn't be in a a rush to have that again.
errrr...that's it I reckon.
Sprouts are grown seasonally which just happens to be around Christmas, this is how food was and is supposed to be consumed. IME this how most if not all food in other countries like Italy is consumed. It help that they have great weather so can grow more diverse crops, but nevertheless we should be eating more seasonally, instead of flying foods halfway around the world.
I'd happily eat sprouts every week, they're just not very available all year roumd.
I'd also happily eat turkey over chicken, it's so much better tasting (if cooked well), but again it's not as available the rest of the year.
It's fish that I can't stand, but thats less Christmas related.
Not much I won't eat, although I don't do offal beyond paté or tongue, and have grown to dislike anything with more than a hint of cinnamon.
As I get older, it's more a case of low quality crap just isn't worth it. See instant coffee, instant gravy, cheap supermarket ice cream etc. Ask yourself during consumption "Am I actually enjoying this?" and if the answer is no, stop shovelling it in.
This applies to turkey. I think we'll do a chicken and gammon this year and save £££ in the process.
Eggs. In any shape or presentational format. (Ok I realise they’re in cakes and the like which I don’t mind).
Can't think of anything I won't eat. I can even eat celery nowadays whereas when a kid I wouldn't touch it as it tastes very strong to me. As a 15 year old I was a bit fussy, as a 55 year old I have grown up and just eat things.
There is something to be said for eating something a good number of times rather than just rejecting it from the start. I used to spit out olives when young as hated them, then just ate them a few times and now can eat loads of them.
Is that an age thing, a mental thing, a taste change thing - who knows
Well Lizards do have the ability to blink Tom but I had assumed that the question was in relation to what you can buy in a UK supermarket
Well no food sold in a supermarket can blink.
marzipan is possibly the only food i cant eat.
i have and will try anything. some things are not too enjoyable tho.
i eat food i enjoy. which is mostly protein type things, either roast or fried.
Well Lizards do have the ability to blink Tom
beg to differ.
I find most Christmas foods a bit meh.
Sprouts. No.
Turkey is a crappy meat, but then I rarely eat chicken.
Pigs in blankets is just a waste of bacon. Would rather have them separately.
Mince pies and Christmas pudding do nothing for me. Only used to eat a bit of Christmas pudding because my aunt used to put money in it and there was a chance of finding a quid.
Sprouts are delicious.
I was cutting up sone chicken breast the other day to feed to my family, suddenly understood why my mum said she hated cooking meat, chicken in particular. Depressing stuff.
Tofu FTW but my children refuse to eat it because it doesn't taste like chicken.
So I don't eat tofu, not because I don't like it but because they don't.
Surströmming, Coffee.
I've eaten pretty much everything else that's been put in front of me in the last 50 years.
Including Ants, snake, eel and various pickled, battered or fried extremities.
Some of it i'm not a massive fan off, but will eat it.
Mrs g mekes mincemeat for the mince pies and they are fab! Really fruity and not too sweet the filling is quit unlike that sugary dark gloop you get in grocers' mince pies. Also made in standard shortcrust pastry not that weird sugar coated stuff that can barely hold the filling in. But you need to start making the mincemeat at the beginning of Nov to allow it to mature.
Not a big turkey fan, we have a goose. But **** me the prices this year - 100 quid!!!!!
The anti-sprouters.......
Have you tried them since you were about 8? The pretty massive change in our taste receptors over time means you might well be pleasantly surprised. And of course an appreciation of whoever is doing the cooking that there are alternatives to boiling them to ****.
Love a good sausage and also love bacon but somehow putting the two together is less than the sum of its parts, not more. It doesn’t help that shops sell those horrible pre-built efforts which just taste of fat and water.
A well cooked sprout is a beautiful thing
Turkey? Nah. Just tastes bland. We have a combination of a free range chicken and home made nut roast.
Marzipan can get in the sea, along with Turkey which is the worst roast meat going. Surely very few people would consciously choose it over anything else for a normal Sunday roast? Why ruin a massive family meal with a difficult to cook correctly expensive leftover dinosaur.
Try this to make the sprouts more acceptable:
Melt some butter in a frying pan, throw in half an onion, sliced sprouts, pancetta cubes and a few chopped chestnuts. Liberally season with whatever you like.
Not long after you've got a lovely sprouty piggy side dish. It's nice on sourdough toast too
It's around this time of year that my grandma (back in the days we used to go there every Christmas) would put the sprouts on to be ready in time for Christmas Day. She was obsessed with putting the sprouts on.
What arrived on the plate was a pale green watery mush with a faint hint of sprout still lingering.
It's only very recently (30+ years later!) that I've been able to tolerate properly cooked sprouts.
Turkey is terrible - again this goes back to my grandparents days when they'd get a turkey the size of a donkey from their local turkey farmer friend and we'd be eating sodding turkey for the next 2 weeks. Dry and flavourless.
We have venison and duck now - much nicer meats!
Overcooking the turkey is optional
It's a very nice meat if cooked well and it's really not that hard to cook
Yeah, I never really got the whole Turkey thing. It’s dry and completely tasteless. We never have it as there are so many tastier alternatives. You’re just making a roast dinner, after all.
I'm vegetarian, so tasty meat is out.
I'll eat pretty much anything else apart from capers which are Satan's ear bogies.
On the cheese front my recent MOT showed that cholesterol levels could be lower... so cheese consumption has been throttled back. Therefore, as of last week I'm about 30% tomato.
I'm sure I've seen a blinking lizard...
😉
I'm firmly in the don't like sprouts camp.
don't like parsnips either.
or my mums stew, smells like BO.
curry with raisins.
korma
don't really like steak. not over keen on beef.
lamb chops are a waste of effort
same with unshelled prawns.
some stuff i like the taste of, but my body doesn't so I don't eat it, like hummus, or anything overy chickpea, or concentrated cashew/almond.
will pretty much eat anything else outwith a bushtucker challenge.
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Anything that wobbles.....
Apart from jelly. But anything else that wobbles wont go down
Anything that can blink.
What about winking. Would you eat Anne Robinson?
Turkey can be dry, but brining overnight really helps, plus it cooks quicker. I always go for the dark meat on the bone, way more flavour than the breast meat.
But yeah, there are tastier alternatives. I will probably do beef rib this year.
Sprouts are great. Even raw. Yum. I could eat them roasted until I burst.
Also roast parsnip.
Liquorice is an odd one. Can't stand the root or flavour in things like herbal tea, however the chewy sweet is great, even the salty version. Also aniseed. The smell though of both is amazing! How something can smell so gorgeous and taste so vile is beyond me.
Fatty/slimy/boney bits of meat or fish is the worst for me. And undercooked egg whites 🤮
My kids will happily eat fat, marrow jelly, fish eyes (!), makes me ill just watching.
I have many, many intolerances...
But I am very happy indeed to eat pretty much anything including sprouts etc etc.
However, not been veggie for years bar a few before we had kids and then a few as kids went through veggie phases. But latterly we've stopped buying dairy -it's an unkind industry- any pig products and cheap meat generally. And octopus is off the menu. They've started farming the intelligent little buggers which just seems wrong. I have not researched squid and have no desire to as I love squid.
Might waive some of this for Christmas, we'll see.
There's nowt so queer as folk.
The anti-sprouters…….<br />Have you tried them since you were about 8?
Yes, still horrible. Both my kids loved them when they were toddlers, won’t entertain them now.
There’s nowt so queer as folk.
Well yeah . But to complete the adage it goes "there's nowt so queer as folk save thee and me, and thou art queer sometimes". As in we're all weird. And??
Well no food sold in a supermarket can blink.
You've obviously not been to the exciting supermarkets.
I won't eat rice pudding, or deep fried crickets ever again.
I love sprouts. Sprout curry, sprout samosas things I won't eat meat, fish aubergine, anything from Greg's Mc Donald's, kentucky fried anything Burger King. Vegan imitation meat etc
Especially not grilled gizzards which we on the menu in France.
Try sprouts every Christmas, still hate them, no matter how there cooked or prepared. Used to have a sprout catapult (should make a new one) the best thing you can do with them is fire them into oblivion.
Also detest any shell fish, pumpkin and coffee flavoured food items
When it comes to foods* I can’t eat, I’m still in awe of the Greek Tiling Grout Marketing Board
ah, perhaps you should try humus from the area that it was actually invented, rather than Greece? Proper, hand made (or home made!) hummus is a real treat as opposed to that shite sludge that supermarkets sell.
As in we’re all weird. And??
You are right of course, it's all a matter of taste (literally in this case).
Well this appears to be 50/50
You've just not tried it cooked/prepared properly
And
It doesn't matter how it's cooked/prepared I'm never going to like it
In equal measure, and either, or both, could be correct.
Wasnt aware of the rest of the adage, will remember that, thanks johnx2
Snails & tripe for me, not much else I wouldn't eat if hungry, but I try to be choosy.
I saw a vid years ago of a guy in Gibraltar giving one of the monkeys a Brussels sprout. The monkey spat it out and then slapped the guy 😆
If monkeys wont eat them, that tells you everything you need to know about Brussels sprouts.
If monkeys wont eat them, that tells you everything you need to know about Brussels sprouts.
Or that sprout-haters are closer in genetic alignment with monkeys than the rest of us.
Personally, goats cheese, or strong blue cheese. Something about it triggers the gag reflex.
Any guts-related offal, eg andouilette. Bits used to make sausage skins/ haggis excepted.
Or that sprout-haters are closer in genetic alignment with monkeys than the rest of us.
Try this to make the sprouts more acceptable:
Melt some butter in a frying pan, throw in half an onion, sliced sprouts, pancetta cubes and a few chopped chestnuts. Liberally season with whatever you like.
Us monkey men know that disguising the flavour of sprouts with other much nicer stuff is something that our monkey mothers used to do when we were toddlers. 😀
I've been known to eat at the downstairs restaurant on occasions.
I’d happily dispense with all the other elements of Christmas and just replace it with a big bowl of pigs in blankets.
@binners - I spent 10 days in Myanmar and found most restaurants sold pigs in blankets... Next to thier official dish (a fish curry/soup) it's apparently an 'unnoficial' national dish.
I of course was happy to support this.
Thing about sprouts is that most people's hated memories of them is being presented with a portion that had been boiled to oblivion for almost the entire time the turkey was cooking. Roast or fry them in butter, properly seasoned, they are much nicer.
I like turkey and sprouts. But pigs in blankets take two good foods and combine the worst of both.
I like curry, I like ice cream. But I've never though Sag chicken and vanilla ice cream a good idea.
Our local butcher makes beautiful pigs in blankets. Ah now sprouts, the ones home grown are sweet and delicious. I slice them finely, pop into stirfries and soups.
I detest gristle or fat of any type, but also chillies, or spicy food.
My missus is good at picking food off forrin menus that is truly awful.
Spain - "Pigs Trotters": a pile of wobbly gelatinous gloop. I wretched watching her poke it about her plate.
Japan - "Fishy Custard": Custard, with oily fish gunk in it. A slightly nicer looking version made an appearance on Masterchef last week, like a baked egg custard with prawns on. Still though, fish + custard? And she didn't choose that, it was presented as a delicacy so she had to have a go at eating it.
BOKE.
It’s a very nice meat if cooked well and it’s really not that hard to cook
I agree about the first bit, disagree about the second.
I cook a lot. I reckon that getting a roast turkey right is about one of the hardest things I cook.
Due to a fairly savage tree nut allergy i can be quite picky.
I rarely eat cake/pudding or stuffing or anything someone might think nuts might ‘be a nice touch’. Obviously it’s easy not to have nuts in these things but through the years it’s meant I avoid such foods and it’s easier for everyone.
I get a hay fever type reaction if I’m in a room where someone starts cracking walnuts.
Probably controversial but I won’t eat, for no other reason than I don’t like them:-
Bananas
Beans of any kind
Black pudding
White Pudding
Haggis
Liver
Kidneys
Mash potato
Swede
Yogurt
I have eaten some of the above in the past to be polite or because I had no choice, but given the choice I wouldn’t.
I'll eat most stuff I reckon, including insects. Pets at home never did reply to my email asking if their insects are safe for human consumption...
Anyway, white onion unless it's basically disintegrated. For some reason I can't eat oatmeal or rice pudding without getting nausea and a really intense sense of deja vu - I pretty quickly stopped googling when I tried finding out more information on that.
Both my kids loved them when they were toddlers, won’t entertain them now.
My 2 are the same, however, I'm a sneaky sod, so every Christmas Day dinner they get them, eat them, and never once have complained...I may have finely sliced and incorporated them with the creamed savoy cabbage and bacon that they love, but they still eat them 🙂
Liquorice (in any form)...an abomination. It should reside in a special place in hell along with Pernod, Malibu and pine nuts
My mum used to always ask me "do you *still* not like baked beans", when her list of preferred food was vanishingly small (Chicken Maryland, anyone).
Off the top of my head, my dislikes are : baked beans, tea (as in e.g. Indian tea), bananas (stomach cramps up), marmalade, and stuff like liver &c. It's not a huge list! ^^ I didn't used to like stuff like tomato juice, black pudding but partial to both now - or at least will happily have tomato juice. mmm, Bloody Mary.
A veritable AAAA andouillette with potatoes or choucroute/sauerkraut is a wonderful thing with Dijon mustard
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