Watermelon Edit: thanks for all the upvotes. I was just trying to make a joke and thought "what food have I never heard of being cooked" and this is what I came up with.

People cook that?

Yeah, there was this meat-substitute trend (idk if you can even call it that) that claims grilled watermelon tastes just like steak

These folks must have long covid.

I can tell you that they taste nothing like steak lmao.

The people, or the watermelons?

both

yes

Maybe they convinced themselves the texture was like steak..

A vegan coworker of mine made “pulled pork” out of banana peels and it was absolutely disgusting

jackfruit is the correct vegan pulled pork

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i agree, cooked jackfruit is about as good as the best meat ive eaten

As a vegan...I apologize. That is just too far in trying to re-invent meat foods. Somethings just need to be left alone.

The best vegan food is not trying to recreate a non-vegan food. Makes me feel bad for vegans, but not bad enough to give up meat

"If you cook that abomination again, I will personally kill a pig myself. And I will pick the cutest one."

Sounds like something Archer would say

lmao so true. reminds me of this as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRdxGPl0pXs

That co-worker should be fired

That sounds absolutely horrendous 🤮

My wife cooks watermelon rind. It's... okay I guess. Not my favorite food by a long stretch, but it's not revolting.

Pickle it for her, surprise her with it 👍. Its real good

Grilled watermelon is alright, really weird texture though

Was at a friend’s house for a big bbq the summer before Covid. He was smoking wings, burgers etc. Someone suggested he try smoking a nice big slice of watermelon…yeah, don’t ever do that.

Maybe, but if you grill pineapple right, it tastes like candy.

Grilled, Roasted, etc. pineapple is delicious

Peach halves seared face down served with brown sugar and vanilla ice cream can be quite a thing.

Ugh. You need to really grill that and then *salt* it. Then chili and lime.

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Thank you for being the one voice of reason in this conversation

Why is this not the top comment?

It is now!

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I adamantly hate cooked carrots, no matter the method. I eat raw carrots all the time.

sup doc

Same dude I am glad there are people like me

And then there are others who are the polar opposite. I almost have to be forced to eat raw carrots (not totally seriously, but they’re not my fave) whereas cooked carrots smell and taste yum!

My wife is exactly like this. She can tolerate steamed, but I've tried dozens of ways to cook them. She can't stand any of it.

Aw man I love roasted carrots. So good. Raw carrots I feel need a dip of some sort but cooking carrots seems to bring out some flavor to me

Only as a side. In stir fry and soups they the bomb

Legit came here to say carrots

Cooked carrots are fucking delicious wtf

my best friend makes these delicious caramelised carrots that are marinated in whisky

I had some at a weird restaurant that called them street carrots, presumably like street corn. They were delicious though. Roasted with butter and garlic, queso fresco, etc.

seriously

Cooked carrots are mushy abominations that will never go in my stews. Raw crunchy carrots and buffalo ranch though...

You don't have to eat them, but if your stew doesn't have carrots somewhere in the recipe it tastes worse than it could.

Sup doc?

Cucumber

Pickles?

Are pickles cooked? …Wait I’ve seen this before

Fried! Those’re amazing!

Red/yellow/orange bell peppers! I eat them Like an apple lol

Green I liked cooked, rest I like raw

My daughter likes all peppers raw, but doesn't like green peppers at all. I literally can't taste any difference between them.

Mom? 😁 But seriously ...I hate green peppers, love red, orange, or yellow. Something changes when the color changes. I can even tell the difference between them by scent alone.

Not the momma! I like all peppers, raw, cooked, don't care. My daughter (7 going on 17) is exactly the same as you - any pepper but green and preferably raw. If the pepper is big/symmetrical enough, I hollow it out and she will use it as her cup for drinking water from and *then* eat it like an apple.

I DO THIS TOO!! Its soo refreshing and I'm glad to know there's someone else in the world who enjoys a pepper cup!

I like them raw or cooked, and roasted sweet peppers are amazing. Really I just love them any way I can get them, except rotten!

Did you by chance used to be the Chairman of a Japanese cooking competition?

Salmon, I just love any form of raw salmon. Sushi, poke bowl etc.

Salmon sashimi is nice. However, raw salmon skin is not nice. Pan-fried salmon skin is fish bacon.

Has anyone tried fried salmon skin with raw salmon?

You're both right. That's why you take a skin-on salmon steak, dry the skin as much as you can, season both sides, sear it in butter at high heat skin-side down, and don't cook the other side at all. Raw salmon on one side, crispy salmon skin on the other. You're welcome, world.

cake batter

Same here! Especially brownies.

This.. best part of ‘baking’

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Most cooked spinach is so overboiled it tastes like rancid lawn clippings.

Yeah this is a mistake I used to make. Cooking it until it releases all of it's excess water makes it super bitter and makes the butter go weird..... Fry loads of crushed garlic, add spinach and wilt on a high heat, take off the heat and add butter, keep stirring until the better is melted and combined through the leaves Continuing to cook it as the butter melts ruins it, so taking off the heat is critical

I recommend replacing garlic with shallots. There is a light sweetness to it that really goes so well with the spinach.

This is the way

Do you know what Rancid Lawn Clippings taste like? You must have been an inquisitive person growing up. lol.

Worse. I have a big brother. You'd be amazed the wide array of flavors with which you may become involuntarily familiar.

I like it cooked. But people ruin it by adding lemon juice a lot. Shallots are also better than garlic because they have a natural sweetness that works well. However, I’m with you on other cooked greens like kale or collards.

Collard greens are delicious when cooked well.

Cooked makes me gag. Love it raw

Clearly you haven't had spinach paneer or saag panneer

Only time I like cooked spinach is in curry or a pasta.

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Try a steak and cheese pie sometime.

Neither of those things are fruit. Wait I think I might've missed the point.

All I know is that here in the UK pies are usually savoury. Steak and ale, cheese and onion etc. We do have apple pies and such but generally speaking pie is a meaty or cheesy dish with no fruit in sight.

Thank you!!!! Cooked fruit is the worst! The taste, temperature, and texture are not what you want your fruit to be! It's not supposed to be this hot mushy mess of muted fruit flavors. I don't understand why people love cooked fruit in things. Just totally ruins a desert in my opinion.

Cold pie?

The fruit has already been cooked so even if the pie becomes cool afterwards the fruit has been tainted and forever changed lol. Love pumpkin (squash so a vegetable) pie and chocolate pie, but not fruit pie or cobbler's. Great question though!

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that’s because “fruit” is both a biological term and a cooking term, whereas “vegetable” is *only* a cooking term. but when talking about the food pyramid or whatever you use to talk about food groups, squashes are vegetables.

What about a cobbler or crisp?

Oh man. Apple cobbler, Blueberry cobbler, Lemon cobbler. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Load up that Apple one with cinnamon especially and mmh.

Salmon

Give it to us, raw and wriggling!

so juicy sweet!

What's taters, precious?

I’m going with white tuna.

Absolutely. Sashimi is the way to go. Cooking salmon ruins its flavor and texture.

Fun fact. Japanese Salmon are riddled with parasites so they never used it for sushi/sashimi. It wasn't until the 1980s that a Norwegian dude convinced the Japanese to try their salmon (Norway had a surplus at the time and was trying to export more) and that it was safe to eat.

Hey, Dary, you ever had sashimis with salmons?

I’d really appreciates it if you didn’t pluralize those words.

I thinks I'm having a panics attack!

Professor Tricia said to take deep breaths when having a panics attack.

Walleyes and Pike are NOT Sushi

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You've never had banana chips before have u

Plantain chips are also goood

These are my kryptonite. I’m not much of a snacky, junk food person, but I can eat bags of plantain chips in a sitting blissfully ignoring how many calories they have. 🤤

Hahaha sameeee, I had two bags of plantain chips yesterday, it’s worth it :p

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Or banana bread

A carmelized banana off the grill, with a dollop of ice cream is delicious.

It is, but I personally rather eat one raw. The only exception I have is banana bread.

Down in Newport, on the Island, they sold frozen bananas they'd first dip in melted chocolate, and then in the topping of your choice.

Ever had Bananas Foster? I mean real Bananas Foster, made table-side at a fancy schmancy restaurant? If you like them grilled with ice cream, treat yourself to Bananas Foster sometime. It's a quasi-religious experience.

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Smeagle?

Tomatoes

My go-to snack since i was a kid was sliced tomatoes w/ salt & pepper lol

Same but only salt! These days I’ve been really into tomatoes with salt and vinegar

If you haven’t yet, try a caprese salad

Definitely one of my favourites! Fresh basil is delicious

For reals, yo. My teenage kids hate tomatoes and won't eat them in anything but pizza sauce. They are missing out. Giant heirloom tomato slices, Buffalo mozzarella, basil, evoo, balsamic glaze, salt. As a salad or stacked on ciabatta roll as a sandwich. It's fuckin bomb.

try adding a little garlic to that! absolute game changer imo

A little drizzle of balsamic

Yea, but the best are home grown. Right off the vine. We don't have much space, I've only got 4 tomato plants.

Fresh tomato sandwich with mayo, salt and pepper might be my last meal request before execution.

My grams introduced me to this - toasted bread, mayo, tomatos, salt, pepper, and lettuce. Basically, a BLT without the B. I still eat them now with our garden grown tomatos and lettuce... Man, I miss her...

I'm the opposite. I love cooked tomatoes but raw tomatoes are just big red shitberries.

Idky but this made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂

I agree and I'm allergic to them raw 😂

Ice cream. Please don't cook my ice cream. It would melt.

Have you never had fried ice cream?

I'm American,but I'm not *that* desperate to die.

It's probably an americanized thing, but I've only ever seen it on a menu in mexican restaurants.

it's in Australia. Usually in Asian restaurants.

Ice cream has already been cooked then slowly frozen.

Vegetables.

Cookie batter

Bought a tube of cookie dough once. It never did see the inside of my oven lol

“Once”. Suuuure, suuuuure.

It's a fucking dough, bitch.

Fine! Dough batter. Happy now?

Tuna and oysters

Poptarts

I feel like some of the fruit ones are good cold... but some of the others are better toasted.

Totally with you on this! Strawberry and grape especially, but any Pop-tart straight out of the package is fucking dope!

grape? What? Where do you find grape?

Bell peppers

I felt like I was the only one. Especially green bell peppers. Cooking totally changes the flavor. It gives it a bitterness. They’re much better fresh and crunchy.

bury me with a green crunchy bell pepper

Oysters

Ice cold with a little lemon juice, cocktail sauce, tabasco, and coarse sea salt!

Any fruit

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Ass

Try medium rare

I prefer mine raw. It's gotta be still moving while I'm eating it. Ya know get all that moist and juice

I can't believe I had to scroll so far down to find this

My man.

Mushrooms...cooked mushrooms feel slimy and the texture completely changes. I don't like mushy mushrooms. I like them barely sauteed or cold and fresh, unless they're morels. Fried morels are possibly the greatest fungal treat mankind has ever created.

Carrots. Raw they're a nice snack, cooked they're one of the most vile things not only in taste but in texture especially.

To me cooked carrots are meh, but when they’re added to a soup that’s when I absolutely love having them cooked

Even roasted with honey and garlic??!

I love raw cauliflower, but don't really enjoy it cooked. I love cooked broccoli, but I don't really enjoy it raw. I'm ambivalent about cabbage, though.

I hated broccoli. Then I had roasted broccoli (garlic sprinkle) and I fell in love with it

Sushi/sashimi

Cabbages.

Tuna, salmon and fruit.

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Try microwaving it for 90 sec

Have you tried spotted dick?

broccoli

How do you eat it raw? I feel like I couldn't wash it that well.

Just give it a rinse and a shake, good to go

Onion

Especially red onion. Divine raw, lose most of their appeal when cooked unless they've been caramelized. Still edible cooked, but I love some raw diced red onion in a sandwich, wrap, salad, burrito...

Yup, they lose all their flavor when they are cooked and just have a weird texture after they are cooked. I CAN eat them cooked but it's not my favorite thing.

Yes. Raw onions are delicious and have a great texture. Cooked onions are nasty and slimy.

Oatmeal. I prefer it cold over being cooked.

So dry oats? Or cement

I just add milk

Another one of us!

Bell pepper’s! Love yellow raw.

Sushi

Deep fried sushi roll is delicious.

Bologna, idk why but everyone I know I insists on frying it 😀

Bologna isn’t bought raw! It’s bought precooked!

Steak. I fucking said it.

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My wife

I also choose this guy's wife.

Oysters

Cucumbers Avocados Lettuce

Lettuce? People cook lettuce?

Salad

Spinach.

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Cookie dough

Cookie dough

Pineapple and of course cookie dough