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I know we do a lot of food threads on here, but this is about stuff you don't like but which seem universally loved by everyone else. Things where people think you are a freak because you don't like them.
Baked beans. Controversial I know. I'm probably the only one and it may well lead to my UK passport being revoked or something. I've tried, and tried but I just don't like the taste or the texture. If someone makes you a cooked breakfast, it seems it's the law to dollop them on there, without even asking if you like them. The disgusting sickly sweet sauce contaminating all the lovely fried goodness. The very worst thing of all, guaranteed to make me gag, is watching some creature eating them cold straight out of the tin.
Cadbury creme eggs. I like chocolate, I even like Cadbury chocolate on its own. It's the sticky, cloying, sickly sugar paste in them that makes me gip. I can just about get why kids might like them, but adults with functioning taste buds? No. Just no.
Olives. I have some middle class shame about this. It makes me feel a bit plebish and unsophisticated that I don't like them when literally everyone I know loves them. I even tried once eating them every day for a week to see if I could 'acquire' a taste for them. No - to me they have a deeply unpleasant bitter/rancid taste that I will never like.
Whatya got? Remember not just stuff you don't like, but stuff where people think you're odd for not liking it.
I read the thread title and instantly thought ‘baked beans!’ And then ‘I can’t post that - I’ll be flamed!’. Vile things! I totally agree on taste and texture. I’ll happily eat and cook with beans in meals.
Eggs too (boiled, fried or poached) I wish I did like them and have tried but the eggy/sulphury taste just makes me gag.
needless to say I’m not a big cooked breakfast fan…
Sounds to me like you’re a supertaster?
Sounds to me like you’re a supertaster?
A what now?
I'll start making a list - hopefully will be done by this time tomorrow.
With you on the Beans, can’t stand them.
Part of it is the texture I think for me. Also can’t stand it when they put beans (not in the sauce) in a salad, why?
Mash, really not a fan. Can force it down if needed, as was the case at a wedding a few years ago.
The above may well stem from 70’s junior school dinners.
Dislike most cakes, partly through in the past, when allergies weren’t a thing someone would lob some walnuts in stuff like cakes without warning. Leaving me choking and coughing on the floor.
Mostly though because too sweet for me.
Christmas cake, yuck
Rice pudding. Disgusting stuff.
Although I only realised that custard wasn’t poisonous in my 40s.
Just thought of another. Carrots, specifically cooked carrots. I like most other veg including the closely related parsnips. Weirdly, I really like carrots raw, grated in salads or for dipping into humus and stuff. But cooked carrots have a really unpleasant bitter taste for me. I can tolerate them in casseroles and stews but cooked carrots on their own are just awful. This is another one where I'm annoyed that I don't like them because they are so ubiquitous. I hate to be a fussy eater, so every now and then I try them again to see if my tastes have changed, but no. It's just not happening.
I agree on cold baked beans. Creme eggs (and even Dairy Milk) are just too sweet and sickly.
Olives - took me ages and a trip to Morocco to like them. They vary so much and I'd only tried bad ones before then.
Cheese. Pure rank.
Pizza cheese doesn't count, though. That's just some sort of plastic to hold the toppings on. Wouldn't eat it otherwise
Brandy butter - visceral revulsion
Bulots and winkles - like rubbery snot
They sell plenty of olives in Lidl & Aldi, so it ain't a class thing, self depreciating joke or not.
A Supertaster.
Interesting! I'll have to dye my tongue blue to find out. However, everything on that list of things supertasters often dislike, I do like - except olives.
They sell plenty of olives in Lidl & Aldi, so it ain’t a class thing, self depreciating joke or not.
I know 😉
Lamb
Just the smell of it cooking makes me retch, never mind the taste
I believe that’s quite a common one?
Olives are a combination of bitter and umami with relatively little aroma, which is why so many people struggle with them.
Lamb
Just the smell of it cooking makes me retch, never mind the taste
yep, with you on that. People seem to go mad for the stuff but I cannot stand it.
Most of my food dislikes however have been cured over time by leaving home and fending for myself. My mother, bless her, was not skilled in the cooking dept. and Dad wouldn’t know a saucepan if it hit him over the head. Every meal had to be meat and 3 veg. As kids we were forced to eat all manor of over cooked vegetables, meats etc. and weren’t allowed to leave the table until they were all finished, even if stone cold 🤢. I think we’d have had more taste and nutrition if we’d have just drank the water everything was boiled to death in. They still to this day, cook all their food for the week on a Sunday then plate it up, cling film it, and then microwave it for each night as required.
I'm with you on Creme Eggs. The very thought of them makes my teeth itch.
Seafood and fish in general. I really want to like it but can't get over the taste.
Broccoli. It's only ever palatable in soup, with a excess of blue cheese.
Kramer
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A Supertaster.
Sounded made up to me, however I dislike most of the food on that list.
Gin and tequila are pretty much the only alcoholic drink I can’t drink.
Always thought carbonated water and tonic water were rank too.
Olives, chocolate and coffee are good though.
Broccoli. It’s only ever palatable
If cooked for the shortest possible time like most vegetables.
The invertebrate end of the seafood spectrum for me - especially living looking at the sea in Scotland, with little in-shore fishing boats pottering by, feels like I'm squandering a bountiful harvest.
Lamb
Just the smell of it cooking makes me retch,
Ahh now theres a side shoot here. Theres food I like but don't like to cook. I never cook beef or lamb in the house becuase I can't stand the residual smell in the days that follow, so its food I only eat if I'm dining out
Curry. Absolutely hate the stuff.
That absolutely nails the thread brief as it's relatively unusual to not like it, unlike some others (broccoli, I'm looking at you). I was well into my twenties before I tasted proper* curry, it was love at first taste which has lasted a lifetime.
*When I grew up in the late 60s/70s there were no curry restaurants and we never ate out anyway. My first meal out was in Woolworths cafe for my 14th birthday! But we sort of had curry at home. Vesta dehydrated curry if anyone remembers that? We thought it was super exotic but looking back it was awful cardboard tasting stuff!
I take it back from earlier, we're on the same level then. Harvester for me though.
I have never managed more than a taste of baked beans, they stink, look disgusting and have a horrible texture.
Tomato - except baby ones cooked on a BBQ.
Tomato ketchup. Vile, sweet and sickly.
Brown sauce, stinks, looks like shit and sickly.
Anything fishy, apart from fish fingers (doesn’t matter now as I’m a veggie and veggie fish fingers are great)
Full English breakfasts (the smell) has always made me want to puke
Coffee is just rank, I used to have the odd cup, but had to load it with sugar, anyway even if I did like it I can’t drink it without it making me ill
Olives
Mushrooms
Peppers (bell/salad kind, due to an intolerance of them 💩💩💩)
Try eating out, or grabbing some sort of ready to eat meal/sarnie as a veggie who doesn’t like mushrooms and can’t eat peppers
Lamb? The smell of it cooking has always reminded me of the smell of the gym changing rooms at secondary school, sweaty teenage boys 🤮
Prawns and other fishy creatures. You can have them.
MrsF doesn't do beans mainly due to her sister who used to push mushed beans through gaps in her teath and showing it to the younger MrsF. Her sister is in her 60's and is still a big kid.
As per crumpets thread, crumpets. Rubbery greasy, taste what is it, it's not great!
And haloumi - flavour good just can't do that rubbery squeaky texture.
tasted proper* curry,
The curry in restaurants seem to confuse heat with flavour. Also we have family friends who came over from India. They've cooked all sorts of 'proper' curries. There is something in the combination of flavour and consistency I just can't get on with. Plus I don't like chilli so anything that makes your mouth burn is out.
Turkish food on the other hand is lovely. Loads of spices and flavours but generally without the heat.
I don't think there's anything that I actually hate. I can pretty much eat anything.
Actually, not eating but drinking. Whiskey, how ever you spell it. I just throw up, the smell makes me gip. Horrible stuff.
Bacon.
I’ve been a vegetarian for over 30 years, so it doesn’t really affect me, but I hated it before that & I really don’t understand why it is supposedly the one thing people miss when they give up meat.
Cheesecake. The name offers so much and delivers so little. It is neither cheese or cake just overly sweet gunk on a bed of wasted biscuits.
+1 to bacon
And haloumi – flavour good just can’t do that rubbery squeaky texture.
Boil it in the bag, rather than frying, for about half an hour. Turns it into a sort of mozzarella/burrata type consistency, really creamy, but no squeak. Eat it quick though.
Tomato ketchup
Strange as I love tomatoes, tomato soup, sun dried tomatoes etc. etc. it’s just ketchup
Bacon.
Cheesecake.
Again, nailing the brief!👏 I never imagined there were people who didn't like those! Chuckling at 'wasted biscuits'! 😂
Tomato ketchup
Strange as I love tomatoes, tomato soup, sun dried tomatoes etc. etc. it’s just ketchup
Same. For me it's the vast amount of sugar that's in it. I just don't want that all over a savoury meal. Though somewhat hypocritically, I am partial to a bit of sweet chilli sauce!
I can't stand fatty or slimy stuff, meat fat etc. I don't eat them anyway but just the thought of eating stuff like shellfish is revolting. Raw oysters are a delicacy? 🤢
Prawns/shrimp? That has way too many legs to be edible, surely.
Fish bones give me the creeps something awful. Salmon fillet? 👍 Salmon steak? 👎
And the amount of people that are happy to eat fried eggs with undercooked white is terrifying.
Agree with lamb having an off-putting smell... tastes good though!
And I'll happily eat baked beans cold out of the tin 😁
What about foods you like that everyone else hates? I love most veg, raw sprouts and greens are great.
Or weird foods you like that family members hate. I think cheese and chocolate (in any form) go amazingly well together, my wife thinks I'm insane. I've no idea what's "normal" here. How many separate threads do we need here?
I’ll not eat eggs in pretty much any format. If they’re hidden in a cake I’ll have them but boiled, fried, scrambled, poached, omelette, or any other horrific combination you can keep.
Yes, uncooked white in an egg is a big no. When frying and bulk of egg is cooked but around the yolk is still runny, they only need flipping for a few seconds and they're then perfect. Poached egg is one of my favourites ways to have egg these days, as long as the water is properly drained before egg hits the toast and there is no abundance of froth.
Garlic.
I don't dislike it, I just don't see the point in it.
Butter on bread.
Yes a small amount on toast, but not on bread.
No Jam or Marmalade at all thanks
Baked beans ruin cooked breakfast IMO.
I’ll take just about any accompaniment to dessert other than custard - traumatised since school days I think.
Baked beans ruin cooked breakfast IMO.
It's been genuinely therapeutic to realise I'm not alone!
BBQ sauce - as found on chicken in so many pubs and restaurants - far too sweet for me.
Just about any of the brassicas (can tolerate small amounts of the fluffy green bits, but wouldn't choose it from a menu.
Strong cheese - particularly Stilton - but love Edam, red Leicester, Monterey jack, Emmenthal etc.
Brown sauce. Why put vinegary molasses all over your food. If you do not like the taste of the food then eat something else
Love it on a Sunday roast (chicken) 😊
Baked beans ruin cooked breakfast IMO.
It's actually the grilled tomato in a cooked breakfast that breaks ma wee heart. Neither cooked - which is lovely, or fresh, which is also lovely - just sort of bullied and humiliated. I can't think of any other culinary setting where you'd treat a tomato like that an put it on someones plate.
Any raw fruit beginning with the letter T.
Trifle
It's like eating very sweet, chilled puke. Gopping stuff.
Tangerine?
Trifle
I think that's quite common. It's a very old fashioned dessert I suppose and I can understand how the texture of cold custard etc. can put people off. I really like it though. Shop bought trifle is rank, but a good homemade sherry trifle, with a thick layer of whipped double cream and homemade vanilla custard on top is great. I'm in a minority though. My wife hates it and my grown up kids gag at the very the sight of it. They just can't comprehend how anyone can like the "vile, cold, sliminess"!
Tangerine?
No, that is just a variety of Orange from Tangiers. Just like a Satsuma is also a variety of Orange, but from Japan.
Oranges are fine.
I’m absolutely with you on olives. They’re the devils chug-nuts
I try them periodically to see if my palette has changed but no, they still taste of washing up liquid
Spaghetti bolognaise for me. Can’t be arsed fighting with my food in an attempt to get it in my mouth.
And whipped cream is awful stuff, with you on the cream eggs too.
Any raw fruit beginning with the letter T.
Tomato
Garlic.
I don’t dislike it, I just don’t see the point in it.
Take an entire garlic and slice the top off, so each clove has the tip cut off.
Roast it, serve hot. Squeeze the now mushy/creamy cloves out through the hole onto whatever food you have. Mmmm.
Trifle
It’s like eating very sweet, chilled puke.
I love trifle, but I'll be thinking of that next time. Thanks 🤢
Tomato
raw tomatoes were created by the devil to make oysters seem relatively palatable.
I hope the tomato haters are checking the right type. Tasteless supermarket toms? Try some with flavour, get the cherry "finest" "taste the difference" or whatever version and report back. Eat at room temperature, not cold.
The smell of tomatoes on the vine is heavenly.
The best toms we've ever had were on holiday in France somewhere, bought at the local market. Sun ripened and eaten at (French summertime) room temperature, we gorged on them!
Crushed avocado with a cooked breakfast - in fact with anything. Horrible greasy nastiness and has no place with nice fried food FFS...
Fish.
I'll only eat fish if it doesn't actually taste of Fish.
gravy.
This thread is definitely drawing all the wrong uns out of cover! 😄
I view most savoury dishes which have a sweet item added with total suspicion. As a small highlight in skilled hands it might just about pass my lips but general offerings of duck a la orange - who adds marmalade to game?, chicken with grapes - nope, gammon with pineapple - just not meant to be.
Crushed avocado with a cooked breakfast
I agree. A ****ing travesty.
Blackhat - you should try mackerel with gooseberries 🙂 Divine
Fish and Pasta are a big no for me, Tuna pasta is my idea of food hell!
I dont mid a bit of Cod now and again but most fish to me smells like cat food!
Pasta i just dont get, no real taste, you have to add loads of stuff to it to make it even remotely nice and if eating it on its own its just tasteless, boring and bland
Have to agree with others on Tomatos, basic supermarket ones are tasteless, under ripe and not worth the money
Now vine tomatos, nice and ripe are devine!
Calmac macaroni cheese. Lathering overcooked pasta in pints of yellow non-cheese flavoured gloop is bad enough; keeping it hot for hours under a grill to dehydrate it is another level. I was once asked if I'd "like an extra slice". I can only imagine its American in origin rather than Italian. Although to be American you'd have to put half a pound of sugar in it as well as that hideous 'American cheese' - which clearly is not cheese by any definition I'm aware of.
As a veggie, I always seem to end up eating it on ferries though. What's that all about?
A friend of mine was staying at a posh hotel for a wedding. The breakfast in the morning was cooked to order, not a buffet. My friend asked if he could have beans with his eggs, bacon, sausage etc etc and the waiter said ‘no sir, we’re not a transport cafe’ 😂 True story, sort of sums up baked beans for me.
gooseberries
They are quite divisive full stop are they not? I hated them as a kid, the taste but also the fact that they were hairy. Who eats hairy fruit ffs? I really like them now though and we grow our own. Homemade gooseberry fool is incredible. I like mackerel and I'd never even considered putting gooseberries with it. I'd give it a try though👍
Apple sauce (as in with pork) yet I love apples.
Cranberry sauce.
Agree with rice pudding, cheesecake, creme eggs, trifle, BBQ sauce and the smell of lamb cooking. Though I do like a nice grilled lamb chop.
Lurpak.
Hot chocolate.
My missus hates "warm" cheese (can smell it as an ingredient from a mile off) and eggs (their sole purpose is to be an ingredient in cakes).
Me, not a fan of olives, but I wouldn't say I hate them. I do have a "memory reaction" to curry having worked in India many years ago for a few extended periods and getting Dehli belly. The mere smell of it makes me feel unwell. Saying that, I'll still eat it to keep others company, just wouldn't choose it.
Mild dislike is as much as I can muster against food.