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I like mackerel and I’d never even considered putting gooseberries with it. I’d give it a try though👍
Its a Grigson recipe. The acid tartness of the gooseberries cuts thru the oiliness of the fish. Its a 2+2=22 situation 🙂
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
You aren’t supposed to eat it without sauce/other flavours? Same as rice.
Crumpets. They feel weird in the mouth.
I don't mind pasta, but have never been wowed by any pasta dish, even in a restaurant. I can take it or leave it except....
If it's cold. Cold, sticky, starchy pasta makes me retch
Many, many, many things. I have issues. It's one of the reasons I like to cook, I have direct control over and knowledge of what I'm putting inside me.
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.
This is a weird one for me. I like beans generally, I get through a good deal of canned spaghetti which is arguably "the same" except it's not, there's something off about baked beans which I can't quite identify. By any measure I should love them but I just can't.
Curry. Absolutely hate the stuff.
I'm struggling to parse this. It's like saying you don't like soup, or sauce. Curry is a food group in its own right, about the only thing a madras has in common with a korma is that it's runny and has veg/meat in it.
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
Cheese. I hate it, and I don’t understand why people feel the need to put it on *everything*.
I'm veggie and can't eat cheese. I feel your respective pains. The vegans have (ironically) buggered this up for me even more now that vegan cheese-a-like is a thing.
As a veggie, I always seem to end up eating it on ferries though. What’s that all about?
If you're going to be sick you might as well go all-in?
Pasta on its own is fairly bland but as has been said, you're supposed to have it with something. You also need to salt the cooking water quite a lot. With a young child I'm currently cooking salt free and it makes a massive difference to pasta dishes.
And I will echo that tomatoes need to be quality. Ripe, in season and room temperature or don't bother. If you can find some locally grown ones then they are night and day compared to cheap supermarket ones.
Chicken and grapes? Wtaf??
Another baked beans but not other beans hater here.
Bananas for me. Want to like them for all their good qualities but the texture, taste, smell are all massively disgusting. Also they ripen weirdly.
Also hate coconut apart from when it’s in a curry. Like eating suntan lotion.
Just off for a curry, a really hot curry 😊
Without a lager 😭
I'm one of the (apparently) rare people that loves lime pickle on the pickle tray
Also hate coconut apart from when it’s in a curry. Like eating suntan lotion.
I dislike too much coconut. Like, I'm fine with it sprinkled on soup or some such, but Bounty bars or those blue bastards in Quality Street masquerading as fudge are boak. Malibu can get in the sea as well.
Cucumber.
To most of you a watery, almost tasteless experience.
To me a bitter, overpowering rancid flavour that cancels out everything else.
Nothing worse that a bought sandwich that doesn’t list them then they’re there, lurking and contaminating the rest of the fillings.
Awful awful stuff.
Oh and mushrooms. Slimy evil non-food.
I detest Oreos, just can’t see why people eat them.
I detest Oreos, just can’t see why people eat them.
Agreed. There is something difficult to pin down that I find unpleasant in most American sweet snacks I've tried. Palm oil perhaps? Oreos? Gipping. Hersheys 'chocolate'? Absolutely rank. On a trip to San Francisco they made a massive thing about Ghiradelli chocolate. We tried it, just the once...🤢
Just off for a curry, a really hot curry 😊
I like my curry spicy but not madly so. I like to be able to taste what's in it.
I’m one of the (apparently) rare people that loves lime pickle on the pickle tray
But I love lime pickle.
I haven't seen any mention yet of tapioca. The only food I've had that I would genuinely refuse if ever offered again.
There is something difficult to pin down that I find unpleasant in most American sweet snacks
It's not that difficult, they taste of sick.
The
perceptionthat American chocolate tastes “like sick” can be attributed to the presence of butyric acid in some American chocolate recipes. Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit, which is why it might evoke a “sick” taste association.
Chicken with grapes even has a bit of a fancy name - chicken veronique. Still doesn't make it better. The schizophrenic flavour which divides myself is honey - I can't stand it as a standalone taste and there are some dishes which I eat and I think 'hmmm, not sure about that' and the only ingredient which I can point to is honey, but there'll be others which are a bit moreish and the same scan of the ingredients reveals the most likely source of satisfaction to be honey.
Meat.
Also, nuts in things (like chocolate) I don't mind nuts, I often don't mind the things they get put in, but not together. Nuts in things are weird. Just say no.
Almonds/ Marzipan.
I don't like Christmas cake or any of those rich/fruit/boozey christmas flavours (Mince Pies, Mulled Wine)
Don't particularly like Marzipan either but.... Marzipan that has been peeled off a christmas cake is lovely.
Similarly I don't like porkpies but like the crust from a pork pie. I actually think there would be a market for buying pork pies, pealing the crusts off and selling them in bags a pub snack and selling the centres in Holland And Barrat as 'Atkins Pork Pies'
food (esp puddings) with alcohol in - sherry, tiramisu etc. Shite
Seafood - wish I liked it. Was brought up believing I was allergic to it all, which was entirely wrong. Trouble now is, it all tastes too "fishy" (oddly, especially the non-fish stuff like crab etc)
+1 for aubergine, but then clearly NOBODY actually likes that shite
it’s just wrong to have really hard things hidden inside soft things.
Said the actress to the bishop.
Steak - it's always okay, but I feel there's usually better things you could do with it. Fillet > Wellington for example.
+1 for aubergine, but then clearly NOBODY actually likes that shite
Aubergine Parmigiana is ambrosia.
Orange with savoury meals is the work of Satan. Its like a pollutant that spoils the entire dish, doesn't in any way enhance meat.
Herbal Tea - most is fine for the first few mouthfuls, but toward the bottom, it's bloody awful. Removing the bag helps, but it's still mostly horrible stuff. Especially if it has berries or spices in it - why would I want turmeric in my drink?
Herbal Tea – most is fine for the first few mouthfuls, but toward the bottom, it’s bloody awful. Removing the bag helps, but it’s still mostly horrible stuff. Especially if it has berries or spices in it – why would I want turmeric in my drink?
I sometimes drink it as the wife has a whole cupboard dedicated to the stuff. Dozens of different flavours which actually all taste the same (i.e. of nothing). It always over promises and under delivers. Smells great, but tastes of barely perceptibly flavoured hot water.
Herbal Tea
Squash for adults
I like mackerel and I’d never even considered putting gooseberries with it. I’d give it a try though👍
Its a Grigson recipe. The acid tartness of the gooseberries cuts thru the oiliness of the fish. Its a 2+2=22 situation 🙂
As a side bar - theres a really interesting book called the 'Flavour Thesaurus' by Niki Segnit, not a recipe book but a sort of reference book that lists key foods and then details methodically all the things they pair with well.
As you can imagine '..... and bacon' appears a lot 🙂
Cucumber.
To most of you a watery, almost tasteless experience.
To me a bitter, overpowering rancid flavour that cancels out everything else.
See, I don't mind cucumber per se. Rather, I object to having cucumber-flavoured burps for the next four hours.
Tomatoes. Well some of them. It is weird - I like cherry tomatoes (raw or cooked), I like anything tomato-flavoured (puree, soup, ketchup etc), I am quite happy eating cooked tomatoes. But a raw 'normal' full-sized tomato – awful. I have tried eating them several times as an adult but I have an instant gag reflex.
I like my curry spicy but not madly so. I like to be able to taste what’s in it.
The hottest curry still has lots of flavour if it is cooked properly. In fact I'd go as far as suggesting a hotter curry has *more* flavour.
@johndoh - Mrs Binners is exactly the same about tomatoes. If they’re cooked, she’s fine with them.
She thinks it’s the smell of the raw tomatoes she finds so off-putting
Herbal Tea
Now I can get along with most herbal teas, some work better with sugar/honey some without, and mint or rosehip tea is really nice, BUT Pukka teas seem to think that every single flavour needs to have liquorice in. No! Makes me nauseous.
Which is weird because liquorice (the sweet) I really like, even the salty Dutch stuff. But plain liquorice root or aniseed is horrid, even though it smells amazing.
Speaking of Dutch stuff, I tried some honingdrop (honey sweetened liquorice) for the first time the other day. It was a sugar-free version and my wife warned me "it's not quite as good as the normal one". OMG I have genuinely never tasted anything so vile. Had to spit it out. Tasted like a combination of Chapstick, scented candles and vomit.
There is almost nohing I won't eat, most of which I also enjoy. Back to the OP I could happily live on a diet of Baked Beans and Creme Eggs. Love olives too. Thinking of preferences though I won't eat Salt and vinegar crisps unless there is nothing else available, and prpoer corn on the cob with butter will probably make me gag (I can eat it out of the tin with a spoon though, go figure). Other than that, not much I won't try
To be fair, most food is fairly bland, until you add spices or condiments, so that sentiment could be applied to so much
Cream. I don’t absolutely hate it but I don’t like it and don’t understand why everyone seems to love it on strawberries, scones, etc. but I love ice cream…
She thinks it’s the smell of the raw tomatoes she finds so off-putting
I practically live off tomato-based stuff like pasta. An actual tomato though, no. I think it's the texture, or the combination of them. Skin, flesh, snot.
No one got coriander yet?
Tastes like washing up liquid to me, seems to be a genetic thing.
Comes as a default sprinkling to spoil too many dishes. Makes a good curry inedible.
No one got coriander yet?
Tastes like washing up liquid to me
I really like coriander but dislike parsley which other people tell me they find quite similar.
It's weird this personal taste thing!
Curry. Absolutely hate the stuff.
As someone who was weaned on Asian cuisine, I feel genuinely sad for you. There's so much variety, so much depth of flavour. I do understand people being averse to the heat though; Bangladeshi cooking is particularly hot, some of it, and I'm not a fan of chilli obliterating any other flavours. But that's not good cooking. A lot of that is down to 'Indian' restaurants just putting loads of chilli in everything, thinking that's what British people wanted. Fortunately fashions have changed somewhat.
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 was once given some of that by a white friend's family; lovely people who bucked the trend at the time where many people were deeply racist, and just wanted me to feel included, bless them. 🤗 It was truly, truly dreadful. And worse, it had raisins in it. I hate raisins. I politely ate it, but had to push all the raisins to one side. My friend's mum was a bit upset by that I think. But he had a quiet word, and after that they'd give me proper 'English grub', so it was burgers and hot dogs and all sorts of wonderful things (often pork products) I didn't get at home. I didn't tell my parents though.
I have not checked completely to see if this point has been made, but baked beans - try them with garlic and a splash of red wine, suitably cooked off.
Not for breakfast though in my view.
Lots of mentions of snot. I'd give it a go.
Eggs. Fried, scrambled, boiled, poached, omelette, all of those things make me retch as soon as I smell them. I've tried to like eggs but I just can't do it.
Just been to the US where everything at breakfast seems to include eggs, I got a few incredulous looks when I asked for 'no eggs'.
We ordered our usual mains at the curry house today.
The owner said he'd make us an alternative dish for a change. It was delicious - when I asked what it was, he said it's what they normally eat, rather than the dishes on the menu 🤣
Rare steaks. I like my food cooked thank you<br />Whereas I prefer not to have my food the same texture/toughness as my shoes.
Medium rare is perfect for me... over done just ruins it, but equally, rare steak is like eating red slugs.
Curry. Absolutely hate the stuff.
Yeah , like what @brownperson said 'curry' encompases so many different styles it's almost a pointless term, it's a bit like saying you don't like music that has guitars in it 😀
Not read it all,
Baked beans. (Also aphabetti spaghetti and spaghetti hoops) it's the sauce. It's too sweet but I can eat creme eggs and tablet. So too sweet for the food group.
Mushrooms, I want to like them, but they make me boak.
creme eggs and tablet
What?
Oh and cucumber.
It's one of the few green things my eldest eats so I tolerate having it in the house
I*'m not a curry fan at all because I do not like chilli at all. Hot food just burns my mouth and I can taste nothing. My guess is I am just sensitive to chilli and that includes good home made curries
What?
Tablet - a scottish sweet. Sort of like crystalized fudge condensed milk and sugar IIRC. Very very sweet
Lamb, spam, corned beef (unless in a pie),
re-formed ham, blue cheese, mass produced 'chorleywood process' bread, skate wings, mass produced sausages (more rusk, filler and fat than meat), eggs except for poached to consistency of squash ball, overcooked steak - anything beyond medium rare, creme eggs, most chocolate as it's full of stuff a chocolatier wouldn't recognise, any packaged food where you don't what many of the ingredients are, jacket potatoes.
Thanks TJ, every day is a school day. I lived near Edinburgh for 3 years in the 90s and sampled many local cuisine, 'experiences' but I never came across 'tablet'.
Did you have a macaroni pie? Thats a weird local delicacy. Yes a pie full of macaroni cheese
I*’m not a curry fan at all because I do not like chilli at all. Hot food just burns my mouth and I can taste nothing. My guess is I am just sensitive to chilli and that includes good home made curries
As above, not all curry has loads of chilli in it, some has none/hardly any.
Saying you don't like curry because of chilli, is like saying you don't like rock music because you listened to a death metal band once.
Unfortunatly, most 'standard' uk curry houses tend to go hard on the salt and chilli, or the other extreme, a gopping korma full of raisins!
Chilli is often used to overcompensate for a bland dish, or equally it can overpower a perfectly good dish if used to excess... it's a 'seasoning' like any other and should be used to compliment rather than dominate.
https://minimalistbaker.com/30-minute-coconut-curry/
Blokeuptheroad / blokedowntheroad.
Try macaroon. A wee bit of tattie, mixed with icing sugar then coated in chocolate and dusted with toasted coconut.
Spuds and chocolate? With coconut! I'm out....
Horseradish.
I throw up within seconds. I order a roast beef sandwich with nothing on it and occasionally the serving staff bring it and say 'they just put a bit of horseradish on' and I suggest they take it back and replace it - NOT scrape the horseradish off- or I'll eat it and puke everything all over the table and THEN get my unsullied beef.
My biggest single problem with pub food. Grr.
Four pages and no-one has mentioned mayonnaise, aka Devil Jizz. The ruination of an otherwise perfectly good sandwich, and snuck in undercover so the unsuspecting Ransos is unaware until he's taken a bite and his mouth is coated with this vile slime.
Unbelievable - just popped back to have a look at the progress and ransos has voiced almost my exact views on Satan's spunk even down to one of the "so called" abusive things I call it. Still compiling my list.
Aww man... Mayo mixed with a bit of chilli sauce is better then sex!
Our Indian friends used to have loads of parties where they cooked lots of authentic Indian food. I've tried in excess of 30 different curries. I didn't like any of them therefore I don't like "curry". Actually, there was very little of the Indian foods I would eat which is a shame as it smelt really nice.
I don't know what about the combination of spices in Indian foods that I don't like but for whatever reason it is I just can't stand it.
A lot of the Turkish and North African food though are really nice.
I think with me it would be easier to include what I will eat, and basically discard everything else.
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Meats- though no fowl on the bone, and veg like potatoes, onion and garlic. Pasta, breads.pulses in soups, cereals.
Everything else can do one.
Mighjt find me enjoying a glass of orange juice, but no bananas apples(Unless its an alcoholic cider) or dried fruit
Champagne. Like fizzy battery acid I imagine.
Any fruit in a savoury dish. Keep that apricot away from that pork.
Avocado
Asparagus
Aubergine
And coriander in anything beyond tiny anounts
Avocado
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Asparagus<br />
Aubergine
What about
Zucchini
Zander
Zebra?
Any fruit in a savoury dish. Keep that apricot away from that pork.
Now see this is a very complex issue. Raisins in a curry? Pineapple on pizza? No. But you can involve all sorts of fruits in savoury dishes. One of the best curries I've had involved Guava, I think. Pomegranate seeds in salads, and the juice is used in salad dressing in Turkish food. Duck a l'Orange, of course. Prosciutto and melon? Devils on horseback! Who knew??<br /><br /><br />
This should turn a few peoples noses up...
Sauce from a jar - check!
Lots of Fruit - check!
Lots of Corriander - check!
It's not bad actualy, athough it is very fruity...too sweet for a daily driver, it allegedly has chilli in it but you can't taste it over the sugar content!
Blokeuptheroad pinge your address and I'll fire a mid range bar of each down. You can then review here.
That's very kind but it would be wasted on me and I wouldn't do it justice. I just don't have much of a sweet tooth.
Coffee and beer. Yes I'm a super taster.