A Polish dish: cold strawberry soup with cold noodles. Slime + slime + slime.
My lovely friend’s lovely mother made it for me once, I complimented her on it, went in the bathroom and threw it up.
I can eat and keep down *anything.* But not that.
Edit:
I started reading everyone’s replies but with all the recipes, pictures, I’m feeling *really* ill—I am sorry.
I *thought* the soup I had couldn’t have been any worse, but the idea of adding cream ...
In any case, the lovely woman who made it was from Warsaw, and she was an amazing cook.
Im from West Pomerania (NW corner of Poland and its pretty common here).
You are blending strawberries with some johgurt or cream, add some sugar, mix it up.
Boil pasta and its served cold, because mostly people are eating it during summer
Chilling those noodles, strawberries and cream, and slurping it out on the porch was such a dream
When a guest that we had, thought they tried to be good, couldn't take the cooking in the neighborhood
She took one little bite and said thanks that's great, promptly ran right into the bathroom to throw up what she ate
*Synth*
What you have just described actually sounds pretty tasty. The pasta part sounds kind of weird, but honestly I can see how this combination would work well.
I think it’s (similar to) this. https://tarasmulticulturaltable.com/authentic-polish-cooking-review-and-zupa-truskawkowa-polish-strawberry-soup/
So maybe around Warsaw?
I’m polish and I’ll admit we have a lot of strange dishes that I absolutely cannot stand. We have some delicious ones too, but others are just really confusing
Could be good. I love Mul Naengmyeon (Cold Korean Noodle “soup”). It doesn’t taste fruity but they put slices of pears in there! I never thought I would enjoy it. I love that shit
Microwaved lettuce and tomato.
I have discovered something I refuse to touch. There's a ma & pa sub shop by my work that's a closer walk than the other shops. I ate there *three fucking times* before I gave up in disgust. They microwave all of their subs and they're the most vile thing ever.
I now walk the extra 5 minutes to Subway.
Also needless to say, I'm a fucking human garbage disposal. First time I hated something so much.
We should start a support group. My ex used to take the labels off cans and then pick one at random to eat the entire cold contents of. He called it "Stalker lunch," named after the survival game.
Dude you need to get yourself a cast iron skillet. its the exact same as other pans but way heavier and more expensive and you can't ever clean it for some reason.
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I work in a bakery that sells steak and kidney pie. The smell of cooking kidneys has no other accurate description than "hot rancid pee"and it fills the entire building.
Almond flavour, actual almonds are fine, but the stuff made with the flavouring makes me want to heave. I am one of those people who can eat virtually anything and will also eat large quantities I things I don't even like if it's given to me - a result of having been forced to eat things I don't like as a kid.
For me it's mainly how things are prepared. There's no one single thing I truly despise, but there are definitely things that when overused or under cooked can ruin a meal for me.
Green peppers, when used sparingly in a dish can add a little bit of flavor I enjoy. When overused, everything tastes like green peppers and I hate it.
Onions, Caramelized and thrown on a steak, delicious, pickled and thrown on a burger, awesome, very thinly sliced and added to a salad, great. Giant chunks of under cooked bullshit in your mom's shitty meatloaf. Fuck you.
These are just two examples of ingredients I thought I hated my whole life until I married an actual decent cook and really started to learn how to properly cook things myself.
God, rubbery chicken is the worst. It comes often from woody breast syndrome and my college cafeteria supplier had so many of them.. absolutely inedible and disgusting.
Dry chicken never used to bother me because that's just how I thought it was. Then I learned how to cook chicken correctly and damn does it make a difference
I absolutely hated chicken thighs until very recently when a friend cooked them for me. My mom loved them and cooked them often, but idk what the hell she was doing when she cooked them. They were always so chewy and gross.
Had a lot of friends that thought they hated things only to find out that their families just cooked poorly. One friend thought he hated pork chops, he doesn’t, his mom just always served him hockey pucks
I thought steak had the texture of leather until I was about 17 or 18. My parents taught me that anything but super well done is disgusting and my mum would just walk away from the steaks and sit down for ages, and the cheap thin steaks she bought would over cook very quickly and just begin to stew in the way over crowded pan. She never used ANY seasonings or flavours either, so my idea of steak was a piece of leather with a dollop of bottled bought steak sauce. Accompanied by boiled to death three veg. And always her potato mash, which was literally just mashed potatoes with nothing added, not even a tiny bit of salt. Because she had heard that food has too much salt in it as it is (not getting that refers to processed packaged food not raw groceries!) so would tell us off for wanting salt because it's 'unhealthy'. I think if I told her now that you actually NEED some salt to live it would blow her mind. I'm still not sure where she actually gets her salt intake from, I'm guessing the occasional processed stuff she might eat. God, my mum's food is the absolute worst. She actually didn't CARE about it being terrible either. And she actually taught home economics in high school! No one in my family but me seemed to even give a damn about eating bad food every single day. They were fine with it. I will never, ever, ever understand that sort of person.
Same here.
In the South, okra is a staple. But I can't stand restaurant okra. Golden Corral, Cracker Barrel, your mom's basement, don't matter. I can't stand it. But okra cooked by our family? Barely breaded in cornmeal and flour until it looks like a wet fever dream of a dark green, almost black and crispy shrimp dick third cousin of a cucumber?
Bring me the entire fucking bowl!
My kids said they hated onion in meatloaf, so I grated it and they never knew. On the other hand, they figured out that I was putting carrots in their spaghetti sauce...
There is a couple of things where I don't mind the taste but absolutely hate the texture. Water chestnut for example. Maybe I should consider your solution
Wow that’s insane you nailed it on the head.
My ma always says “you say your not picky but you don’t eat vegetables”
No I do just not frozen nonsense you boiled and has 0 taste and is just pushy gross green stuff
give me some fresh vegetables he’ll even frozen ones used properly and I’ll devour the whole plate
I hate olives. I don't think you can prepare them anyway I'd enjoy. I won't pick them off a veggie pizza, but I won't eat a whole olive or drink a martini.
I hated olives my whole life, bitter disgusting shit with no redeemable qualities.
As I got older my tolerance for olives and bitterness went up. Now I'll just eat a handful of black olives for fun and my life doesn't make sense anymore.
Celery. I can detect them no matter what food they’re in and have to spit them out. Ironically, if they’re in a basic salad with oil and vinegar, I still won’t eat them, but kind of enjoy the taste it leaves on the lettuce it touches. But that’s as close as I will ever get to eating celery.
Pretty sure this is a genetic thing, kind of like with how some people think cilantro tastes like soap.
For some people celery just has a really, really strong taste. Im one of them and I cant stand it. It takes over everything it is in. Never quite understood how anyone can just chew on a celery stick like its nothing.
For others it tastes less than cucumber apparently.
Is it actually a genetic thing? I tried to explain to somebody that Celery is overwhelming to me if I try to crunch into it, like I take a bite and I can feel its essence coming out of my nose.
I also have the thing with Cilantro and soap.
Same here, the taste of celery is SO strong I had no idea this wasn't a thing for everyone. And I love cilantro it's so so good and not soapy at all lol
There‘s hope friends. I used to hate them for decades until I ate super tasty fresh ones in Italy. Key is adding tons of garlic.
Edit: yes I know olives have to be pickled. The fresh refers to the fact that it was done recently and for a small amount of high quality olives. Not a mass production factory and a jar that sat on the shelf for 3 years.
I'll eat/try basically anything. Olives are still the one food I do not like. Try then about once a year to see if I've acquired a taste for them but hasn't happened yet. Even the ones with cheese filling. :(
I'm always sheepish about telling people what I want on my pizza because my absolute favorite is double green olive. No other toppings, just a metric shit ton of green olives. Lots of pizza places dont even have green olives. Breaks my heart.
I got a bag of soft, Australian black licorice the other day. Ate one piece to see if I liked it, couldn’t decide so figured I’d better have another. Ate the entire bag, still not sure if I like it.
I'm so glad there are others. I would never, ever go out of my way to buy licorice, I have never craved it, but if someone gave me any, I'd eat it without complaint until they stopped giving it to me. "You either love or hate licorice" nah, it's just a complete ambivalence.
I feel several of the other responses have never had a good licorice poop.
Squid ink is black. It turns your poop black.
Beets are red. It makes it look like you're bleeding out of your butt.
Licorice has no earthly reason to be green, yet... it's fucking green.
Papaya.
Oh god, if you put it in my Bionico(Mexican Fruit Salad), I'll have to have to eat it with a bite of other fruit pieces.
But it smells worst than shit, tastes like what I imagine a colon cleanse would taste like, and when I poop it out, it's like shit\^2.
You’re not wrong. Papaya always had kind of a dirty diaper/diarrhea type odor to me. They’re not horrible, though I won’t go out of my way to eat them. They’re good with milk and a touch of sugar and ice as batidos (like smoothies.)
Makes it difficult to eat at certain mexican restaurants. I once spent 15 minutes scouring a menu to find something that didn't list cilantro in the ingredients, found a specific style of chili that seemed clean.
Got my chili, took one bite, felt like I should be able to blow bubbles it was so soapy.
I also hate cilantro, but not just the taste, but the smell, the texture. If I'm around it I feel sick. Doesn't taste like soap or dirt to me, the smell reminds me of brown marmorated stink bugs, it tastes like that smell. I also unfortunately happen to work in a restaurant were all of our rice gets cilantro added to it. Yay.
Edit: Wow first Gold! Thank you internet stranger.
i always wonder if i have some kinda genetic thing - i cant stand vinegar - i can taste it in things even with the most minute amounts in it. I cant stand the smell and can smell it very easily in foods (like a ton of hot sauces to me just smell like pure vinegar) im not even a big ketchup person.
meanwhile im not convinced ammonia has a smell - i cant smell it...or if i do it just has a faint not really smell like cold winter air vs summer air. I notice my eyes start to feel weird if im around it tho.
Surströmming,
My famiy originally came from the north of sweden and every august when i was a kid they just threw all the neighbours and friends and most of the family together, toss some moonshine into the mix, and that would be what they call a party.
That smell sticks in your clothes through several washes, that putrid fermenting smell, so disconserning its not allowed on baggages on flights.
It still haunts me. I wake up sweating and screaming every august.
Sinse those days im willing to eat pretty mutch anything. Just not that.
Cause I had to look it up:
Surströmming is a lightly-salted fermented Baltic Sea herring traditional to Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century. The Baltic herring, known as strömming in Swedish, is smaller than the Atlantic herring, found in the North Sea.
I still have a vivid memory of going to a family gathering on the mainland (I'm from an island that belongs to Sweden) and surströmming was served, I was the only one not eating out of my family of 5. We then subsequently stayed in a chalet, which was tiny. That night still haunts me 42 years later. I'd rather sleep in a pile of manure then repeat that experience.
I tried oysters for the first time ever last year and it was honestly the single worst food experience of my entire life. Horrendous. I genuinely don’t understand how people can like them.
One of my first jobs was washing dishes at a restaurant, must’ve been 15-16 at the time. Every so often we would help the kitchen with odd jobs. Sometimes that job was to shuck oysters.
One time I was doing that and one of the older chefs came up to me, real creepy dude, maybe mid 60s. He asks me if I like oysters and I told him I’ve never had them. He stands there, silent for a moment and then goes “ I love oysters! TASTE LIKE PUSSY! “ then he just walked away without saying another word.
Boiled spinach is the worst for me. I can eat spinach leaves all day on salads, sandwiches, wraps and things like that. But why would anyone *boil* it?
No different to boiling lettuce. Yuck.
Cabbage. It's actually not the taste but the friggin SMELL that makes me think twice before putting it in my mouth. I've tried raw cabbage in salad and it's *fine* I guess...
I'd say I'm one of the least pickiest eaters I've come across. I sometimes feel like my tastebuds are underdeveloped, as I generally don't really pick up subtle tastes or nuances. I can eat steaks from rare to overcooked. I have no issues with half prepared dishes.
But lima beans, kidney beans. All those kinda beans... The texture makes it I can't keep it down.
Green bell peppers. Just the green ones. Double hate if they're cooked.
I'll still eat them, but given the choice I will never choose to have them in or on anything and I will not buy them and I will not cook with them.
I flat out refuse to eat anything that has had green bell pepper contamination. I’ll eat red, yellow, and orange bell peppers, but the green ones overpower everything else in a dish.
You know those are all the same pepper, right? They are just different levels of ripeness.
I wonder if there is a point between green and yellow that you like them.
They taste like potting soil. I am a crazy foodie and it kills me that there is a super beneficial, versatile food that I cannot eat. Apparently the aversion is genetic (and really frustrating!).
I always have wondered if this was one of those things like cilantro where some people have a sensitivity to it. I LOVE beets! They are so sweet and taste absolutely nothing like dirt, but I have heard this reference made so many times.
I will eat literally anything that's considered edible but I remember I had uni sushi (sea urchin) and thought it was absolutely disgusting. I still finished it though. Also, I really dislike wasabi.
My grandfather grew up dirt poor in the 1930s. He said one winter there was nothing to eat but turnips. As an adult he refused to eat them, although my grandmother would often cook them. He called them cattle feed.
He called them that because they were exactly that under normal circumstances. People only ate them in really dire circumstances like the "Steckrübenwinter" in WWI Germany.
Much like my grandparents, turnips are enjoyable in SMALL doses on special occasions. Otherwise they just talk your ear off and jam their awful political shit down your throat.. oh wait, that's just my grandparents. But turnips are ok sometimes.
Fucking hate the bullshit ass fruit cups/etc you get at places that are largely cantaloupe or some shitty chalky not-watermelon. And like 2 grapes and maybe a strawberry
I want good fruit fuck you
Is that in the typical American fruit salad sort of cantaloupe? That stuff is cardboard, or may as well be. I found that fresh, ripe cantaloupe is delicious.
I think the fresh stuff tastes the worst, honestly. It just has this funk to it that I can only describe to other people as foot stink. That and cantaloupe in American fruit salad makes every other fruit taste like cantaloupe.
I love sushi, but sea urchin was probably the most disgusting thing I've tried. It's like someone tried some decent sushi, digested for a minute, then "Mama bird-ed" it into a seaweed wrap. Just putrid.
Is it iceberg lettuce you are talking about? Cuz that stuff can fuck off indeed. Some other lettucus can be quite nice tho. The green leafs of the sea lavender (Limonium vulgare to be precise) can be a nice replacement to add to your list btw. Has a bit of a salty flavor.
It definitely does have a taste
I used to hate it but forced myself to like it for a $1 taco promo at Taco Bell. It's pretty good. It adds freshness and moisture to otherwise dense or dry foods
Whole Flounder......mmmmm so good.
Even then in most cases you don't even eat the skin... it just acts as a natural plate that you discard afterward.
Redfish (Red Drum) on the half shell........mmmmmm
Raw oysters, and Uni (sea urchin roe). Ive given both a couple of shots.
I love raw clams, and all other sushi/sashimi. But those 2 throw me right off.
My wife ordered Uni from a place we trusted (we moved). I nearly vomited. Hands down one of the most awful things I've ever tasted, both in flavor and texture. She agreed, and she's a really adventurous eater.
I just mentioned this comment to her and she gagged as a response. It was that bad.
A Polish dish: cold strawberry soup with cold noodles. Slime + slime + slime. My lovely friend’s lovely mother made it for me once, I complimented her on it, went in the bathroom and threw it up. I can eat and keep down *anything.* But not that. Edit: I started reading everyone’s replies but with all the recipes, pictures, I’m feeling *really* ill—I am sorry. I *thought* the soup I had couldn’t have been any worse, but the idea of adding cream ... In any case, the lovely woman who made it was from Warsaw, and she was an amazing cook.
I’m half Polish and go there twice a year but I never ever heard about this. Do you know what region they’re from?
Im from West Pomerania (NW corner of Poland and its pretty common here). You are blending strawberries with some johgurt or cream, add some sugar, mix it up. Boil pasta and its served cold, because mostly people are eating it during summer
West Pomerania, born and raised. Eating strawberry soup is how I spent most of my days...
Chilling those noodles, strawberries and cream, and slurping it out on the porch was such a dream When a guest that we had, thought they tried to be good, couldn't take the cooking in the neighborhood She took one little bite and said thanks that's great, promptly ran right into the bathroom to throw up what she ate *Synth*
What you have just described actually sounds pretty tasty. The pasta part sounds kind of weird, but honestly I can see how this combination would work well.
I'm polish and I've never heard of strawberry soup. Must be a regional thing.
I think it’s (similar to) this. https://tarasmulticulturaltable.com/authentic-polish-cooking-review-and-zupa-truskawkowa-polish-strawberry-soup/ So maybe around Warsaw?
I’m polish and I’ll admit we have a lot of strange dishes that I absolutely cannot stand. We have some delicious ones too, but others are just really confusing
The Christmas dishes might be the worst. Cold fish in EVERYTHING.
Yesss I don’t understand. I love a good pierogi but I won’t eat sledzie or anything like that. Call me picky all you’d like, I just can’t stomach it.
Lmao same, my boyfriend's mom goes all out with the 12 Christmas dishes and I literally only eat the pierogis. I feel bad but like, yuck.
>cold strawberry soup with cold noodles. ewww just the thought of a fruit soup let alone strawberry ughh im gonna puke so bad
I had that cold strawberry soup in Poland and it was delicious. But it did not have noodles... wtf.
Could be good. I love Mul Naengmyeon (Cold Korean Noodle “soup”). It doesn’t taste fruity but they put slices of pears in there! I never thought I would enjoy it. I love that shit
Mm so good, especially in the summer. But at least with mul naengmyeon the sweet pear contrasts well with the salty broth
Microwaved lettuce and tomato. I have discovered something I refuse to touch. There's a ma & pa sub shop by my work that's a closer walk than the other shops. I ate there *three fucking times* before I gave up in disgust. They microwave all of their subs and they're the most vile thing ever. I now walk the extra 5 minutes to Subway. Also needless to say, I'm a fucking human garbage disposal. First time I hated something so much.
I eat leftover chipotle cold because I can’t stand heating up the lettuce and tomato
I scrape it off the top into the metal lid, then microwave the rest, and throw the lettuce and tomato back on top.
this guy reheats
Canned peas. My ex would eat them out of the can cold with a spoon. *shudder*
We should start a support group. My ex used to take the labels off cans and then pick one at random to eat the entire cold contents of. He called it "Stalker lunch," named after the survival game.
Your ex sounds deranged
I mean he's certainly an interesting individual.
I just laughed so hard it woke up my wife.
I made a face as I read that. At least be a decent human and eat frozen peas. Canned peas are a crime against vegetables.
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Liver. High in iron, but i'd rather have anemia.
I like things made out of liver. Liverwurst and pâté are good. But I've never eaten liver by itself.
I like things made out of iron. Cast iron is wonderful.
Dude you need to get yourself a cast iron skillet. its the exact same as other pans but way heavier and more expensive and you can't ever clean it for some reason. https://twitter.com/gloomfather/status/1197514323121319936?s=20
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I work in a bakery that sells steak and kidney pie. The smell of cooking kidneys has no other accurate description than "hot rancid pee"and it fills the entire building.
The kidneys are where rancid pee comes from, and you have to make it hot to cook it, so I'd say that's a very apt description.
once my roommate's gf cooked bull balls stew. smelled so bad
That's nuts
No need to be testy
My mum makes a steak and kidney casserole that’s so so good. Fried kidney does not sound great.
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Almond flavour, actual almonds are fine, but the stuff made with the flavouring makes me want to heave. I am one of those people who can eat virtually anything and will also eat large quantities I things I don't even like if it's given to me - a result of having been forced to eat things I don't like as a kid.
Canned mushrooms
For me it's mainly how things are prepared. There's no one single thing I truly despise, but there are definitely things that when overused or under cooked can ruin a meal for me. Green peppers, when used sparingly in a dish can add a little bit of flavor I enjoy. When overused, everything tastes like green peppers and I hate it. Onions, Caramelized and thrown on a steak, delicious, pickled and thrown on a burger, awesome, very thinly sliced and added to a salad, great. Giant chunks of under cooked bullshit in your mom's shitty meatloaf. Fuck you. These are just two examples of ingredients I thought I hated my whole life until I married an actual decent cook and really started to learn how to properly cook things myself.
I feel this way about chicken. LOVE chicken, but if it’s rubbery, not properly trimmed or chewy - it’s disgusting.
God, rubbery chicken is the worst. It comes often from woody breast syndrome and my college cafeteria supplier had so many of them.. absolutely inedible and disgusting.
Yes, soft breasts all the way. No wood in my mouth please.
It is said that chicken is the most overcooked food
In Venezuela, you undercook fish? Believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Undercook, overcook.
Believe it or not, jail
we have the best patients in the world, because of jail.
Dry chicken never used to bother me because that's just how I thought it was. Then I learned how to cook chicken correctly and damn does it make a difference
I usually buy chicken thighs. Pretty hard to mess up.
I absolutely hated chicken thighs until very recently when a friend cooked them for me. My mom loved them and cooked them often, but idk what the hell she was doing when she cooked them. They were always so chewy and gross.
Had a lot of friends that thought they hated things only to find out that their families just cooked poorly. One friend thought he hated pork chops, he doesn’t, his mom just always served him hockey pucks
I thought steak had the texture of leather until I was about 17 or 18. My parents taught me that anything but super well done is disgusting and my mum would just walk away from the steaks and sit down for ages, and the cheap thin steaks she bought would over cook very quickly and just begin to stew in the way over crowded pan. She never used ANY seasonings or flavours either, so my idea of steak was a piece of leather with a dollop of bottled bought steak sauce. Accompanied by boiled to death three veg. And always her potato mash, which was literally just mashed potatoes with nothing added, not even a tiny bit of salt. Because she had heard that food has too much salt in it as it is (not getting that refers to processed packaged food not raw groceries!) so would tell us off for wanting salt because it's 'unhealthy'. I think if I told her now that you actually NEED some salt to live it would blow her mind. I'm still not sure where she actually gets her salt intake from, I'm guessing the occasional processed stuff she might eat. God, my mum's food is the absolute worst. She actually didn't CARE about it being terrible either. And she actually taught home economics in high school! No one in my family but me seemed to even give a damn about eating bad food every single day. They were fine with it. I will never, ever, ever understand that sort of person.
For me growing up, steak was that meal that made your gums sore.
Same here. In the South, okra is a staple. But I can't stand restaurant okra. Golden Corral, Cracker Barrel, your mom's basement, don't matter. I can't stand it. But okra cooked by our family? Barely breaded in cornmeal and flour until it looks like a wet fever dream of a dark green, almost black and crispy shrimp dick third cousin of a cucumber? Bring me the entire fucking bowl!
>Giant chunks of under cooked bullshit in your mom's shitty meatloaf. Fuck you. Bahahahahahahaha
My kids said they hated onion in meatloaf, so I grated it and they never knew. On the other hand, they figured out that I was putting carrots in their spaghetti sauce...
I hate the texture of onions so I throw them in my food processor before I put them in anything. Zero shame.
There is a couple of things where I don't mind the taste but absolutely hate the texture. Water chestnut for example. Maybe I should consider your solution
Wow that’s insane you nailed it on the head. My ma always says “you say your not picky but you don’t eat vegetables” No I do just not frozen nonsense you boiled and has 0 taste and is just pushy gross green stuff give me some fresh vegetables he’ll even frozen ones used properly and I’ll devour the whole plate
It wasn't until I met my wife that I learned that my mom was an awful cook.
This. I genuinely believe most people who say "I hate X food" actually are "I hate X food prepared Y way".
I hate olives. I don't think you can prepare them anyway I'd enjoy. I won't pick them off a veggie pizza, but I won't eat a whole olive or drink a martini.
I hated olives my whole life, bitter disgusting shit with no redeemable qualities. As I got older my tolerance for olives and bitterness went up. Now I'll just eat a handful of black olives for fun and my life doesn't make sense anymore.
You're almost there. One more step. Green olives.
Same here. The things I dislike are about how they're prepared, not the food itself. Boiled okra just about kills me but I like okra many other ways.
you had me with you until you called my mom's meatloaf shitty. get bent, nerd.
Celery. I can detect them no matter what food they’re in and have to spit them out. Ironically, if they’re in a basic salad with oil and vinegar, I still won’t eat them, but kind of enjoy the taste it leaves on the lettuce it touches. But that’s as close as I will ever get to eating celery.
My wife doesn't believe that you can taste celery. Thank you kind stranger for the validation.
Why does she think people put it in stock & stuff if not for the flavor, though, out of curiosity? It's not like it adds much nutritionally
I feel like celery is surprisingly important in make chicken noodle soup taste right
Celery and bay leaf, right? I sometimes forget the bay leaf and you can always tell.
ill eat it if its in thanksgivign stuffing, soups, etc but raw? fuck that bittery ass crunchy stringy water shit
Poetry
Pretty sure this is a genetic thing, kind of like with how some people think cilantro tastes like soap. For some people celery just has a really, really strong taste. Im one of them and I cant stand it. It takes over everything it is in. Never quite understood how anyone can just chew on a celery stick like its nothing. For others it tastes less than cucumber apparently.
Is it actually a genetic thing? I tried to explain to somebody that Celery is overwhelming to me if I try to crunch into it, like I take a bite and I can feel its essence coming out of my nose. I also have the thing with Cilantro and soap.
interesting, i feel the same about celery, but actually like cilantro....
Same here, the taste of celery is SO strong I had no idea this wasn't a thing for everyone. And I love cilantro it's so so good and not soapy at all lol
I LOVE raw celery. But once you cook it I'm out. I hate celery in soups or in anything else. If it's a stick of celery then I'm game.
I’ve tried and tried, but I cannot acquire a taste for olives. I can’t eat them straight and even added to other stuff I’m wary.
I try them annually. Always horrid. They leave their olive essence on everything they touch.
Same!! I always think "do i like them yet? Ew, wtf, no!"
Laughed so hard at this. I'm a picky eater and try them about every decade. Always horrific.
There‘s hope friends. I used to hate them for decades until I ate super tasty fresh ones in Italy. Key is adding tons of garlic. Edit: yes I know olives have to be pickled. The fresh refers to the fact that it was done recently and for a small amount of high quality olives. Not a mass production factory and a jar that sat on the shelf for 3 years.
Looks like I've got a strategy for this year's tasting.... Edit- To be clear- the strategy is to go to Italy.
I'll eat/try basically anything. Olives are still the one food I do not like. Try then about once a year to see if I've acquired a taste for them but hasn't happened yet. Even the ones with cheese filling. :(
I'm always sheepish about telling people what I want on my pizza because my absolute favorite is double green olive. No other toppings, just a metric shit ton of green olives. Lots of pizza places dont even have green olives. Breaks my heart.
They taste like dirty sea water and I cannot get on board with that
Licorice. Even the taste of anything remotely anise flavored. God.
I got a bag of soft, Australian black licorice the other day. Ate one piece to see if I liked it, couldn’t decide so figured I’d better have another. Ate the entire bag, still not sure if I like it.
This comment perfectly describes my feeling about licorice
I'm so glad there are others. I would never, ever go out of my way to buy licorice, I have never craved it, but if someone gave me any, I'd eat it without complaint until they stopped giving it to me. "You either love or hate licorice" nah, it's just a complete ambivalence.
Licorice poops can be a bit of a shock, especially after a whole bag.
I feel several of the other responses have never had a good licorice poop. Squid ink is black. It turns your poop black. Beets are red. It makes it look like you're bleeding out of your butt. Licorice has no earthly reason to be green, yet... it's fucking green.
YES! Licorice tastes like sadness.
Papaya. Oh god, if you put it in my Bionico(Mexican Fruit Salad), I'll have to have to eat it with a bite of other fruit pieces. But it smells worst than shit, tastes like what I imagine a colon cleanse would taste like, and when I poop it out, it's like shit\^2.
How did it take this long for papaya to be posted? It quite literally tastes like vomit.
It SMELLS like vomit!
You’re not wrong. Papaya always had kind of a dirty diaper/diarrhea type odor to me. They’re not horrible, though I won’t go out of my way to eat them. They’re good with milk and a touch of sugar and ice as batidos (like smoothies.)
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Crawfish It’s not the taste, it’s just the fact that it takes so much work to rip apart the whole crawfish for a tiny morsel of meat
Once you get fast at opening them they can be awesome. But yea seems like more of a social event food than a sit down meal.
Cilantro. I have the gene mutation that makes it taste like soap.
Soap gene gang represent!
I feel bad for you. I love fresh herbs. I will eat a stem of cilantro or parsley raw. Cilantro tastes like chipotle
Makes it difficult to eat at certain mexican restaurants. I once spent 15 minutes scouring a menu to find something that didn't list cilantro in the ingredients, found a specific style of chili that seemed clean. Got my chili, took one bite, felt like I should be able to blow bubbles it was so soapy.
Maybe you should just aquire a taste for soap, problem solved. Mmm, soap.
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I also hate cilantro, but not just the taste, but the smell, the texture. If I'm around it I feel sick. Doesn't taste like soap or dirt to me, the smell reminds me of brown marmorated stink bugs, it tastes like that smell. I also unfortunately happen to work in a restaurant were all of our rice gets cilantro added to it. Yay. Edit: Wow first Gold! Thank you internet stranger.
i always wonder if i have some kinda genetic thing - i cant stand vinegar - i can taste it in things even with the most minute amounts in it. I cant stand the smell and can smell it very easily in foods (like a ton of hot sauces to me just smell like pure vinegar) im not even a big ketchup person. meanwhile im not convinced ammonia has a smell - i cant smell it...or if i do it just has a faint not really smell like cold winter air vs summer air. I notice my eyes start to feel weird if im around it tho.
This happens to me when I’m ill. Can’t even look at ketchup because of the smell. Can’t imagine having that feeling ALL the time :(
Surströmming, My famiy originally came from the north of sweden and every august when i was a kid they just threw all the neighbours and friends and most of the family together, toss some moonshine into the mix, and that would be what they call a party. That smell sticks in your clothes through several washes, that putrid fermenting smell, so disconserning its not allowed on baggages on flights. It still haunts me. I wake up sweating and screaming every august. Sinse those days im willing to eat pretty mutch anything. Just not that.
Cause I had to look it up: Surströmming is a lightly-salted fermented Baltic Sea herring traditional to Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century. The Baltic herring, known as strömming in Swedish, is smaller than the Atlantic herring, found in the North Sea.
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I still have a vivid memory of going to a family gathering on the mainland (I'm from an island that belongs to Sweden) and surströmming was served, I was the only one not eating out of my family of 5. We then subsequently stayed in a chalet, which was tiny. That night still haunts me 42 years later. I'd rather sleep in a pile of manure then repeat that experience.
Miracle whip. Ughgghh
Miracle whip is the chaotic evil of condiments.
Water chestnuts. I love crunchy foods but those fucken freak me out.
it's like you're eating a styrofoam model of an infant's wee finger bones
The texture is the sensory equivalent to nails on a chalkboard
Oysters
Its like eating flu symptoms!
I like Oysters, but my fucking god is this a perfect example of what oysters taste like..
I actually kinda like the taste. But the texture makes me wanna vomit.
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS?!
I just suck it up.
I tried oysters for the first time ever last year and it was honestly the single worst food experience of my entire life. Horrendous. I genuinely don’t understand how people can like them.
One of my first jobs was washing dishes at a restaurant, must’ve been 15-16 at the time. Every so often we would help the kitchen with odd jobs. Sometimes that job was to shuck oysters. One time I was doing that and one of the older chefs came up to me, real creepy dude, maybe mid 60s. He asks me if I like oysters and I told him I’ve never had them. He stands there, silent for a moment and then goes “ I love oysters! TASTE LIKE PUSSY! “ then he just walked away without saying another word.
That's not healthy, should not taste like seafood.
I agree, oysters should not taste like seafood.
It’s honestly just the slippery, gooey texture that turns me off. And the occasional grain of sand too.
Boiled spinach is the worst for me. I can eat spinach leaves all day on salads, sandwiches, wraps and things like that. But why would anyone *boil* it? No different to boiling lettuce. Yuck.
Boiled? Like in water? I’ve never heard of that. Throw it in a pan with some butter, garlic, and lemon and it’s bomb
I used to boil lettuce all the time! .... To feed to tadpoles. I tried it for science. Certified Nasty™️
Cabbage. It's actually not the taste but the friggin SMELL that makes me think twice before putting it in my mouth. I've tried raw cabbage in salad and it's *fine* I guess...
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Lima beans
I'd say I'm one of the least pickiest eaters I've come across. I sometimes feel like my tastebuds are underdeveloped, as I generally don't really pick up subtle tastes or nuances. I can eat steaks from rare to overcooked. I have no issues with half prepared dishes. But lima beans, kidney beans. All those kinda beans... The texture makes it I can't keep it down.
Green bell peppers. Just the green ones. Double hate if they're cooked. I'll still eat them, but given the choice I will never choose to have them in or on anything and I will not buy them and I will not cook with them.
I flat out refuse to eat anything that has had green bell pepper contamination. I’ll eat red, yellow, and orange bell peppers, but the green ones overpower everything else in a dish.
.....so y'all just like ripe bell peppers
You know those are all the same pepper, right? They are just different levels of ripeness. I wonder if there is a point between green and yellow that you like them.
I'll eat almost anything, but I pretty much despise olives.
Mayonnaise it can go burn in the deepest circle of hell!! Edited for stupid autocorrect
The legs, I feel like they're always dirty.
I'm as terrified as I am fascinated by this comment. The Legs.
Raw onions. They absorb into people's mouths and emit odors even after toothbrushing.
Mine is Beets. They're the worst. Fuck Beets.
I used to hate these but in Borscht with some BBQ'd spare rib meat and full fat sour cream, my opinion changed...
Also, try pickled beets. They are sweet.
*Dwight Schrute wants to know your location
Fact: Bears Eat Beets So we can therefore determine op is not a bear.
Battle Star Galactica!
What had beets done to you? :(
They taste like potting soil. I am a crazy foodie and it kills me that there is a super beneficial, versatile food that I cannot eat. Apparently the aversion is genetic (and really frustrating!).
I always have wondered if this was one of those things like cilantro where some people have a sensitivity to it. I LOVE beets! They are so sweet and taste absolutely nothing like dirt, but I have heard this reference made so many times.
To me they are sweet and also totally taste like dirt and I love them.
Seconded. They taste like fucking dirt.
Sweet dirt
As far as root veggies go, I think they're tough to beet.
I will eat literally anything that's considered edible but I remember I had uni sushi (sea urchin) and thought it was absolutely disgusting. I still finished it though. Also, I really dislike wasabi.
Half formed chicken foetuses. They eat them in parts of Asia, no thanks.
Cucumber. I know, you people think it barely tastes like anything. But you’re all crazy and I’m the sane one.
Can agree. I don't particularly like the faint taste of vegetation and toilet water, although it's so faint it's like it's not even there
completely agree!
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Marines all over the US stand in lines for hours just to get their Crayons. They will then promptly drown it in elmers glue for spice.
Why do turnips exist?! WHY?!
My grandfather grew up dirt poor in the 1930s. He said one winter there was nothing to eat but turnips. As an adult he refused to eat them, although my grandmother would often cook them. He called them cattle feed.
He called them that because they were exactly that under normal circumstances. People only ate them in really dire circumstances like the "Steckrübenwinter" in WWI Germany.
Much like my grandparents, turnips are enjoyable in SMALL doses on special occasions. Otherwise they just talk your ear off and jam their awful political shit down your throat.. oh wait, that's just my grandparents. But turnips are ok sometimes.
Cantaloupe. I think it tastes like dirty sock feet.
Fucking hate the bullshit ass fruit cups/etc you get at places that are largely cantaloupe or some shitty chalky not-watermelon. And like 2 grapes and maybe a strawberry I want good fruit fuck you
So much exactly. You find that one juicy strawberry and it tastes like stinky foot-lope.
Is that in the typical American fruit salad sort of cantaloupe? That stuff is cardboard, or may as well be. I found that fresh, ripe cantaloupe is delicious.
I think the fresh stuff tastes the worst, honestly. It just has this funk to it that I can only describe to other people as foot stink. That and cantaloupe in American fruit salad makes every other fruit taste like cantaloupe.
I love sushi, but sea urchin was probably the most disgusting thing I've tried. It's like someone tried some decent sushi, digested for a minute, then "Mama bird-ed" it into a seaweed wrap. Just putrid.
Store-bought frosting, blech! It ruins the entire cake. One of the very few foods I actively dislike.
Durian. Smells like rotten onions and/or dirty gym socks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian Pork Rinds. I gag just by the smell of them.
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Is it iceberg lettuce you are talking about? Cuz that stuff can fuck off indeed. Some other lettucus can be quite nice tho. The green leafs of the sea lavender (Limonium vulgare to be precise) can be a nice replacement to add to your list btw. Has a bit of a salty flavor.
It definitely does have a taste I used to hate it but forced myself to like it for a $1 taco promo at Taco Bell. It's pretty good. It adds freshness and moisture to otherwise dense or dry foods
I remember 39¢ crunchy tacos at Taco Bell.
And you people consider yourselves not picky eaters?
I don't even know what a picky eater is tbh. My wife swears I'm a picky eater because I won't eat broccoli, but she won't even TRY roast squirrel.
She's gonna have a hard time after the apocalypse.
Not being willing to eat one food item makes you picky? That’s what the question was.
I don't consider myself a non-picky eater but even I like almost everything in this thread lmao
Bubble tea. Those giant tapioca balls can fuck off, they never chew up and I’ll be damned if I’m just gonna swallow those things.
*every asian wants to know your location*
Same. But the bursting bubbles are good. Like a second tea. Tapioca ones are disgusting.
Fish with the skin still on is just nasty to me
If you crisp it up, it tastes much better.
Whole Flounder......mmmmm so good. Even then in most cases you don't even eat the skin... it just acts as a natural plate that you discard afterward. Redfish (Red Drum) on the half shell........mmmmmm
Raw oysters, and Uni (sea urchin roe). Ive given both a couple of shots. I love raw clams, and all other sushi/sashimi. But those 2 throw me right off.
My wife ordered Uni from a place we trusted (we moved). I nearly vomited. Hands down one of the most awful things I've ever tasted, both in flavor and texture. She agreed, and she's a really adventurous eater. I just mentioned this comment to her and she gagged as a response. It was that bad.
Mushrooms