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Ever think you're a bit weird for not liking normal things that everyone else does?
I know we're all different and have our own tastes but there are certain things that everyone seems to like. I don't mean weird or niche things, just every day stuff.
For me it's wine, steak and football.
Beer, car noise, macho Hollywood films, beach holidays... .
Olives
Flat pedals
Any sort of talent show on TV
Salmon and trout, annoying as we live yards from a river where I could catch them 🙄
Tomatoes
I like tomato soup, tomato sauce, tomato puree and even cherry tomatoes, but I can't stand normal tomatoes – they make me physically wretch.
I really don't like fresh salmon. But I do enjoy tinned salmon, the cheaper pink variety.
I hate cheese apart from when melted on a burger.
Tomato's are vile.
Ketchup and brown sauce are also vile.
Fruit veg etc. I try but given an option it's crisps and biscuits.
I'm cold turkeying sweeties at the moment.
beach holidays…
Depends who's paying.
Anyway; "MOR Stadium Rock", like AC/DC, Guns 'n' Roses; all that shite.
The Mona Lisa, there I said it!
Does nothing for me 🤷♂️
Aha, finally a chance for me to get on my high horse.
Sourdough Bread.
It's fine I suppose, it is not actively bad, but unless you go to a greasy spoon literally everything that is served with bread is sourdough. For one it tastes kinda, well, sour. When toasted the crusts can be utterly impenetrable with the de-rigeur butter knife. In many places, the crumb is so full of holes that the misbalance between crust and crumb is just so weird.
It's gotten to the point where sourdough is so ubiquitous that I am convinced everyone is just slightly suffering a mass delusion that it is somehow better.
If you have a plate with buttered / toasted slices of the following are presented: Soda bread, plain fresh white bread, fresh granary bread, french baguette, plain pan loaf, even a morning roll...and sourdough. I genuinely think you are lying to yourself if you choose sourdough bread over any of those.
Football or team sports in general.
I just don't get it. It's better now but certainly a few years ago other men looked at me like I had an extra arm when I replied to the default 'who do you support' with 'No one - I don't follow football'. Even more so when I don't watch England play in a championship match or indeed a final.
Mayo. Try buying a sandwich from a shop that doesn't contain mayo. It seems like the world is expected to want mayo on a sandwich.
See also: Fresh tomato. Does anyone actually enjoy that pip filled slime that comes out the middle? Especially when sliced and put on a sandwich?
I’m with the OP on both Steak - chewy overpriced planet killing and Football - overpaid boring poor role models nasty game
Also agree with whoever posted Beach holidays, in fact most travel is overrated.
Ever think you’re a bit weird for not liking normal things that everyone else does?
No, I think everyone else is weird. 😁
Mayo. Try buying a sandwich from a shop that doesn’t contain mayo. It seems like the world is expected to want mayo on a sandwich.
This is the curse of the vegetarian. Order a beef burger, it comes with ketchup or chilli sauce or barbecue or some such; order the exact same thing with a veggie patty and they drown it in Satan's Semen. Why? Yes, it doesn't contain beef, but it's not a ****ing salad now is it.
As for "burger sauce," who thought a 50:50 emulsion of mayo and ketchup was a good idea? That's the rosé wine of condiments, you don't know if your host likes red or white so you choose pink thus guaranteeing that everyone will dislike it.
Does anyone actually enjoy that pip filled slime that comes out the middle?
As per johndoh,
My diet is tomato-heavy. I live off pasta in tomato-based sauces; my favourite soup (outside of home-made) is tomato; I cane through bottles of ketchup; but raw tomatoes, that mix of semolina and catarrh makes me want to heave.
Whiskey neat. Fine with a mixer but otherwise it's how I imagine drinking petrol tastes.
Everyone says "oh you've just not had a good quality whiskey/whisky/bourbon". Bollocks, it all tastes awful and burns my insides while doing so.
Custard. Don't know why, but the thick yellow jelly-like custard of the 1970's just made me vom, and now I can't get over it.
Football as well. Next few weeks will be miserable, and I'll be hugely relieved when "we" are knocked out.
Grand Tours other than the TdF: Just don't seem to be able to get excited about them, but I try and follow the TdF each year.
Wine for me. Hateful stuff.
And anyone that likes wine always tells me you have to drink X amount before you appreciate it.
So ultimately you force yourself into liking it. Keep drinking it until your body gives in and stops convulsing as the gear hits your taste buds.
odd. very odd.
And never been a fan of steak. the only flavour comes from the sauce you dowse it in. (i dont eat meat anymore, but when i did, always found steak massively overrated. )
Whiskey
The Arctic Monkeys
Car ownership
Football
New Year's Eve
Coffee (unless part of a tiramisu, so with a ton of cream, sugar and booze to mask the taste)
Don’t have a sweet tooth either. Strongly ambivalent to chocolate
Big meals - I have a difficult relationship with food anyway but just don't get the the idea of sitting down to 4, 5 or more huge courses leaving you either feeling bloated and unwell or only fit to snooze away the rest of the day.
Wine, tea, coffee, ice cream (although I found a delicious Gelato maker but shes's moved to Devon), sports involving a ball, shopping, reality telly, soap operas, country and Western music, make-up, beauty products, wearing trousers, having a bath, chillies, mars bars, sand in your toes and really hot days.
Gosh I'm sad.
Sport - 'traditional sport' like football, cricket, tennis etc.
IPA especially if it comes in a fancy can.
Coffee - I don't get what a makes a 'good cup of coffee'...it all tastes like cr@p to me
Blue Cheese - I mean,why?
Coffee is another I should have added to my OP. Like steak and wine, it's another one where aficionados tell me I just haven't had a good one but it all just tastes like different flavoured dirt to me.
Lot's of dislike for raw tomatoes so far and whilst I tend to agree, I do eat them in salads if they're chopped and have had the slimy innards removed. Sun dried tomatoes on the other hand, and I could happily eat a whole jar of those.
Absolutely can't stand cucumber, although I think that's probably a more common dislike.
Branston pickle
It constatly baffles me that I don't like it. It does not compute at all. It ticks so many of my food boxes, being a combination of all the things I love, that it actually undermines my identity and sense of self that I absolutely hate the stuff. Its all so confusing.
I know this is petty and self-defeating but there are a couple of TV series and films' that close friends have kept repeatedly recommending to me in such an over-enthusiastic manner that I have secretly decided to myself that I'm now never going to watch them at all.
Tomato ketchup-I like tomatoes in every other form ( well apart from fried tomatoes obvs)
Buying clothes to be fashionable- I can’t understand how much money people are willing to spend on ‘ designer’ jeans for example
Eating outdoors, except when out on a walk, or on a ride, or whilst sailing etc. I have never enjoyed picnics or barbecues because they are outdoors, but enjoyed the food or company, which would have been just as good indoors.
Sunbathing
Whiskey! 🤮
I don't actually believe people really enjoy it, I think they just daren't say they don't like it. The smell of it makes me wretch. I've tried it and its wrong. Hateful stuff!
Coffee.
Used to drink upto 10 mugs of the stuff daily, but the vile aftertaste got increasingly worse after covid.
Switched to tea, was fine for a while, but now standard teabags and "hard water" teabags are starting to leave me with an unpleasant aftertaste.
Never enjoyed taste of most "spirits." About only exception, which I rarely have these days, is variations on Baileys.
Football, work social events and dogs. Strange combo 🤔
Jazz.
All the hip musos like myself seem to love jazz. 6Music squeezes some in at every opportunity. But I can't stand it, really offends my ears, even more than heavy metal... Well, maybe about the same.
Oh and Star Wars. I work in IT and colleagues seem obsessed with it. To me, it's a kids' film - yeah I enjoyed seeing it in 1977 but since, nah. Took my son to see some of the later films and they were junk too.
The Olympics.
RM.
So ultimately you force yourself into liking it.
I can honestly say that I've never had to force myself to enjoy wine. Cask bitter? Nope still tastes like soap, but wine? Easy.
Cold Play
'nuff said.
work social events
Thats perfectly rational though. Why would anyone actually like a work social event? I'd rather w*nk tramps than ever go on any 'work' event and have successfully managed to avoid them for my entire working life,basically by replying 'I'd rather w*nk tramps' when asked to attend
Similar to Spin's Terry Pratchett comment.... can't be doing with Slow Horses. Just not quite there for me after a lifetime of reading le Carré, and rewatching TTSS any time it's on iPlayer (see also Smiley's People).
Tried book one Slow Horses, just too slow moving, too much daft language and in jokes, and nothing happening that I could care about. Much as I have the hots for Kristen Scott-Thomas (in the bath in the English Patient) I can't bring myself to take out an AppleTV subs for a month to see if the adaptation is any better (with apologies to the multiple fanbois on the forum.....)
When toasted the crusts can be utterly impenetrable with the de-rigeur butter knife.
That gives me an idea... I'm going in invent a knife made for cutting through crusts on bread and toast... I shall call it.... a bread knife.
Netflix
Coffee
Spirits
Wine
Reality TV
Football
Sci-fi
Most people
People and football/team sports seem to quite common responses so far.
Maybe that's why we've all gravitated towards cycling, because it's something we can do on our own or with the select few people we do like?
Doesn't explain why many of us don't like raw tomatoes though.
I like people generally, and I watch football as well.
Thats perfectly rational though. Why would anyone actually like a work social event? I’d rather w*nk tramps than ever go on any ‘work’ event and have successfully managed to avoid them for my entire working life,basically by replying ‘I’d rather w*nk tramps’ when asked to attend
I feel sorry for you, I work with some great people.
another for whisky, dad was an alcoholic and could drink a bottle of Bells/ Teachers, and then go to pub, house used to reek of it, tried the "good" ones, still does nothing for me.
Bananas, again a childhood thing i think, i know they are good fuel, but just the smell turns my stomach
Radiohead, i know they are supposed to be brilliant musicians, but his voice goes through me like nails down a blackboard.
...and another for football, there is no duller sound on the planet than two men discussing football....
Rugby; just can't see what the attraction is... Too many head injuries
Tomatoes are fine just not in a sandwich it's too wet
I love jazz but have no affection for Metal, I think Biffy Clyro is my heaviness limit
Baked beans
Olives
Football
Karaoke
Shellfish
Any sugary/sweet alcoholic drink
Steak - and the weird obsession with having it barely cooked. It's just raw meat.
Football - is just very boring
Tomatoes - uncooked are rank, bloody love a sun dried tomato though
Cucumber - absolutely horrible and ruins everything it touches, so a sandwich remains tainted if you pull out the cucumber, or if a knife has been used on a cucumber then to slice cheese, the cheese is ruined. Tzatziki though..... Love that
Dogs - nothing good about them, they're noisy and smell and I'm not interested in yours, nor do I want it to approach me when we're outdoors or bark at me when I come round your house (I know, you won't invite me anyway 😜)
Tattoos - everyone's got them now. Be different, don't get one! Or use henna, then you could draw something different every week 😂
Big food.
Burgers and sandwiches that are too big to eat in the traditional way. A sandwich should be tops two inches wide, with a bit of a pre squish, just the right size to stick in yer face hole.
Steak. Oysters. Taylor Swift. Tubeless.
@elray89 you're welcome to an opinion but get in the sea but get in the sea for sourdough! (I'm baking a load as I type). Slice it, toast it, rub it with garlic, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle salt, eat with a well dressed salad.
Tea.
Netflix
That just got objectively worse now they "bumped" the £7/month down to £5/month WITH ADS.
ooh thought of another, *****n brioche buns for burgers, one place did it, now every one blinkin does it. It basically meat in cake... usually done by same placed that think i want fries in a little basket..
Salmon. I even tried to learn to like it when I had covid and not much taste but.....
Cycle touring.
Terry Pratchett as well.
Star Wars.
Massive SF fan when growing up, read all the SF books in the library, but never got into Star Wars.
Pratchett is an odd one. It's logical to start at the beginning with his books, but the first couple are objectively poor until he finds his mojo. There are better jumping-off points than The Colour Of Magic.
Donald Trump apparently
The Youtube algorithm seems to have twigged that I'm a middle aged white male with an interest in military history, the great outdoors, barbecuing stuff and with an occasional passing interest in video games.
As a result it constantly hoses my feed with "watch as based sigma male DESTROYS woke SJW with LOGIC" alt-right nonsense. Even creepy Andrew Tate fanboy stuff.
The fact that there appears to be bottomless well of this clap-trap out there and that therefore there must be an audience for it is somewhat depressing.
Beer
Football
Babies/Children
Meeting lots of new people
Sitting in pubs
Dancing
Singing
Books
Another vote for football and steak here. In fact, watching any sport at all. Love cycling, don’t like road cycling. It is in the same sphere as running for me. Just can’t grasp how anyone would find it fun and everyone I see doing either always look really ****ing miserable.
I feel sorry for you, I work with some great people.
This, some of the best nights out I’ve ever had have been work ones.
This, some of the best nights out I’ve ever had have been work ones.
Reader, I married her ......
Louise?
Another to add:
Cheese (including pizza. It's mostly cheese)
Fish
Mushrooms
Whiskey! 🤮
I don’t actually believe people really enjoy it, I think they just daren’t say they don’t like it. The smell of it makes me wretch. I’ve tried it and its wrong. Hateful stuff!
Believe what you want, the six bottles lurking just behind my head puts the lie to that statement. As do the number of people I know who are very happy indeed to receive a nice single malt or a good bourbon.
Never been interested in football, I really don’t like red meat, although, perhaps oddly, I do appreciate a kebab from the van just off the A350, roughly a mile from where I live, especially on my way home from the pub.
Never liked olives or Guinness/stout, until I grew up a bit, and my taste buds developed a real thing for them. My taste for whiskey developed a lot earlier though, in my early twenties.
Lots of other things I don’t like, such is the human condition, but I’ve got wildlife to feed, along with myself, and those are much more important considerations.
Dogs
Mushrooms
Fish
Chicken on the bone
Babies
wine
Craft beer, most of it seems to be overpriced crap, lots of good beer available now without paying ridiculous money
Believe what you want, the six bottles lurking just behind my head puts the lie to that statement. As do the number of people I know who are very happy indeed to receive a nice single malt or a good bourbon
I mean, I wasn't being entirely serious!! But it is ****ing rank. I will literally throw up if I drink whiskey.
Lots of things I don't like. Of those mentioned so far, Terry Pratchett and Footie.
But I really can't think why I should probably like them.
Another whiskey hater here, plus any other spirits (vodka ect ect) All tastes/smells horrid to me. Fancy coffees too, An instant does me fine, caramel latte if I'm feeling decedent.
Mayo. Try buying a sandwich from a shop that doesn’t contain mayo. It seems like the world is expected to want mayo on a sandwich.
This x100, I ****ing hate mayo. I x1000 hate manky, cheap sandwich mayo.
But, not the whole world thinks this way. Go and buy a sandwich from a service station in France and very few will have mayo in them.
Because they use ingredients that have some ****ing taste of their own.
Avocados in general……no point to them.
Whiskey.
Coffee.
Football.
Healthy eating.
As for “burger sauce,” who thought a 50:50 emulsion of mayo and ketchup was a good idea? That’s the rosé wine of condiments, you don’t know if your host likes red or white so you choose pink thus guaranteeing that everyone will dislike it.
I love burger sauce and rosé. It's even better when it's fizzy. And sparkling wine is great too!
Fizzy burger sauce is even more wrong.
Isn't burger sauce basically like Marie rose sauce.. A blend of ketchup and mayo?
Babies
Ah, how did I forget this.
It's seemingly a broken gene in the male lineage of the Cougar family. I don't get it, I can't help it, it's just not there. "Isn't he cute?" Kittens and puppies are cute, human babies look like they've been dropped.
People bring babies into work, the office stops, I stop too because I go and hide in the kitchen until they've taken it away again. Don't get me wrong, you're lovely and I couldn't be happier for you, but please go away and come back to me when they want Lego.
Of late I've been minding my partner's grandson for the two minutes it takes her to go for a wee. I'm terrified, I don't know what I'm doing, yet this is seemingly assumed knowledge. What if he, like, spontaneously combusts or something?
I'll refer you to sun tzu.. Sometimes the best form of action is inaction.
Unless the baby is on fire, of course.
In which case.. Get some water.
Beer... Being ambivalent to football is way less of a problem in social circles (most people I mix with actively dislike football to be fair, I can give or take international footy it's just club footy and its 10 1/2 month grasp on society I have an issue with) than disliking beer... I recently went away to Europe for 5 days with a load of mates I have previously been to both Devon and North Wales with, neither previous destination it was at all difficult to get a decent pint of Cider in... But being told "I've ordered you a beer mate" repeatedly only to have to tell them for the 3rd time that night "why? I don't drink beer" got really quite tiring... I mean, I could drink a pint of weak lager rather than going thirsty if I had to, but I would much rather drink a pint of water. Or more's the point, a nice dry cider, or a glass of red, or a decent G&T... In fact, in Luxembourg, when actually asked what I'd like to drink instead of someone ordering me another beer that they would inevitably have to drink for themselves, I responded with "a G&T please" to be derided with cheers that it was a "girl's drink"... 🤦🏻 I give up!
Cheese... Physically makes me sick... ANY of it... To the point where I consider myself to be allergic to it, because it isn't a voluntary "dislike" of it, it physically repulses me to the point of being ill... Cold, hot, plasticky or boutique french shit, and everything inbetween... It's the Devil's food! At no point in my life have I gone into the fridge, opened a carton of milk to find it slightly gone off and thought "hmmm, that'd be lovely warmed up on a bit of toast"... No, it goes in the effing bin where it belongs! This of course, ironically, is MUCH more of a problem liking Italian foods in general in the UK (where everyone assumes that all Italian foods are completely immersed in the Devil's knob rot) than it is in local restaurants in Italy, where Cheese is considered to be an ingredient choice (even on a Pizza much to the chagrin of many of my friends!) rather than compulsory...
Mushrooms... Vile, just vile! At least I only strongly dislike them, so can pick them out of stuff, or push them to the side if required... Not like cheese, where if a knife that has cut cheese was then used to cut my food, I'd have to send it back for another dish!
Mayo... Yuck! Who assumes that everyone wanting to eat a Sandwich wants it dowsed in this god awful stuff?!?!
Ketchup... Absolutely awful! I could sit and eat good quality raw tomatoes all day long (cheap UK supermarket ones are pretty shit granted)... In fact, when I came back from a week in Florence celebrating a friend's wedding many years ago, the only thing I purchased as a souvenir all week was a punnet of local tomatoes from the local supermarket... They were THAT good! 😍 I'm just imagining them now, along with some lovely warm sourdough bread, some olives, a nice glass of Red... I am salivating at the thought!😂 But ketchup can get in the sea...
Gravel Bikes... I bought one, it's a very nice thing. I bought it primarily because everyone was going on about them, and how great they are at doing everything (I have owned CX bikes in the past before "Gravel" was Gravel, felt they were arguably more useful as they had more of a defined purpose)... So I bought one... And I have absolutely no enthusiasm for it. I would rather be on an MTB or on a road bike to be quite honest. Gravel Bikes to me are the worst of both worlds rather than some fantastic hybrid "jack of all trades" machine. I am absolutely amazed that the marketing hype has lasted this long to be honest, but there we go...
Babies... Firmly on board here... I'm not particularly a dog person, but even I can watch vids of cute little puppies doing cute little puppy things half adoringly. Videos of kittens get me seriously hormonal, and I'm a 43yr old bloke! But actual human children... Good god no... At least not until they're old enough to be into bikes, radio controlled cars or lego...
Camping... No thanks. I'll stay in a B&B with a shower and a toilet thank you very much. The only time I have slept in a tent as an adult was when taking part in 24hr races, and given I haven't done that for a decade or more now, I haven't had to suffer the ignominy for some years now thankfully. And no, buying a camper van or even a bloody great motorhome doesn't somehow make it worthwhile. It may bring a small amount more comfort to the process of sleeping, but is equally devoid of running water and typical hygienic amenities unless you are paying for the privilege to be hooked up to them on someone else's land... And you've had to drive some god awful house on wheels there rather than the convenient car you already owned... B&B's for the win... 👍🏻
Cold Play
NOBODY is supposed to like Coldplay... I am certain they are just an "in joke" and as and when they retire Chris Martin is going to announce "I can't believe any of you stupid ****ers bought our albums, the band was a just a practical joke that got taken too far"... It's those who actually like them that should feel awkward and full of embarrassment!
Sat here feeling really sorry for some of the people who can't enjoy a good steak... It's very rare that I do (I firmly believe it should be a rare privilege rather than a frequent indulgence), but a good steak (medium rare at most of course, rare if it's a particularly choice cut of meat) can be an orgasmic experience! I remember sitting in a very well recommended steak restaurant whilst in South Africa many years ago and after the first mouthful, every single piece of steak afterwards I started cutting smaller and smaller to make it last longer, whilst making sure I didn't swallow anything until there was no chewing left to possibly be done... Preferably served with some vine cherry tomatoes on the side of course! 😉
I thought my blood pressure was high and I was quite stressed but people on here are getting very angry over small things.
its made me feel quite relaxed….well until someone decides to eat tuna anywhere near me!
Whiskey is generally manky, but I'll make an exception for a glass of Oban, straight, no ice
Cheap supermarket steak is chewy and grim, decent butchers are too pricey, but Lidl do fantastic quality fillet steaks, you'd be a fool to miss out.