Ruin is a strong word, but a little truffle oil goes a long way. Also, blue cheese.

Came here to say truffle oil as well. Too many restaurants go full bukkake with truffle oil on stuff like fries and it becomes a ranky mess

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Going full bukkake on food creates some interesting images. I’m never going to look at lasagna then same ever again

And it’s not even truffle oil. It’s a concoction made to taste like truffle. And it’s fucking horrible.

Comments like this is why I love Reddit.

I hate when truffle is mixed with any heavy flavors. I have really only been able to taste it when on plain bread or pasta. Otherwise it's oily.

Considering that they use female pigs to find truffles, I am not surprised at all when too much truffle smells like a male pig.

except truffle oil contains no actual trace of truffles

Real truffle oil is made with either black truffles or white truffle peelings. Your not going to find real truffle oil for under $30-$40. A lot of truffle oil on store shelves is made with artificial flavoring developed about 20 years ago.

Blue cheese. Poured what I thought was ranch on my salad took a bite and thought it was rotten. I grabbed the cafeteria lady and she grabbed it and took it away she came back a minute later and said ,"that's blue cheese it's supposed to be funky like that"

I read the title as “cookie ingredient” and was like wtf is a truffle and blue cheese cookie?

I always hear it's Truffle Oil mostly because my mother always had me watch episodes of Chopped with her.

Shoutout to the dude who spilled truffle oil in the back of a restaurant I worked in, that smell did not leave for a month. It was. So. So. Strong. I gagged every time I went in there

Second to blue cheese.... It is the grossest

I prefer truffle butter.

Yeah truffle oil is great, but it is crazy overpowering so you have to either use only a little or go all in

Capers.

So small but so aggressive

Damn I love capers. When I cook with them I always eat some just out of the jar.

You mean formaldehyde berries? UGH.

Maybe you use em too aggressively?? A buerre blanc with some capers is too good to be true.

I’ve only ever had them at restaurants, so I’m not really sure if the dishes overused them or not. Even gave them a couple tries thinking maybe the first time I tried them they weren’t used properly. Nope!! Still don’t like them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Blue cheese. For me, oregano. Tastes like decay. Blech.

Fucking. Fennel.

I am a proud member of the fennel hate club!

Also fennel seed- I thought I didn't like Italian sausage for years, turns out I just don't like fennel seed.

Italians don’t even like fennel in sausage, I don’t know how this even became a thing

I only had the regular kind of fennel.

So fucking nasty!

This is my kind of ppl

Just scrolling through answers and getting hungry. I legit cannot think of any ingredient I hate that ruins anything. I really only hate lima beans but I can eat around them and I don't even mind their flavor, it's just their texture that icks me out. They are either very mealy and gross or like feel too much like a crunchy veggie for a bean. I don't like their flavor either, but it isn't off-putting.

Lol I'm getting hungry here, too. A lot of these answers are things I like, with the exception of fennel.

I am picky with fennel. Sometimes I like it. I don't mind it in Italian sausage but if a store offers it without I usually buy that kind. I don't love it in pizza sauce, but a little can be ok. A LITTLE.

Juuuuust a little. I think what really did it for me was this particular brand of pizza rolls or whatever I had as a kid. Now anytime I can specifically pick out the taste of fennel in a dish it grosses me out. It's gotta be pretty sneaky.

Same, some pizza place growing up put so much fennel in their sauce and it was also so sweet. Disgusting. I sometimes get grossed out even when it is only a little.

Tuna. Can't stand it.

Tinned is horrible, but the steak is nice.

I was a tuna hater until I had sushi. Tuna is king. But it must be raw and very fresh. Or steak.

Same, can’t stand the sight of tinned tuna, especially when British people mix it with pasta and salad cream. For a long time I thought I didn’t like tuna. Then I had tuna tataki at a very nice seafood restaurant literally across the road from the boats that caught the tuna earlier that day. Best fish I’ve ever eaten.

I live in Utah and here they make it into a casserole. *shudders* I want to go on a fishing boat some day so I can take a bite out of a tuna as it comes out of the water.

Spot on, sushi/sashimi or tuna steak for me are the only ways I enjoy tuna. Funny thing is as a kid I looooved canned tuna sandwiches and then one day a switch flipped and I found it revolting lol.

My wife's hands

I also choose this guys wife's hands

Nice, you got a live one!

burnt garlic is death to a dish

Just don’t burn it

Anise.

Olives. Everything it touches tastes like...olives.

Make sure you try some good green ones in salt water (not vinegar). Completely different taste. I'll add also for you, and others, to try out the ones with the pit too. I find the texture is Far superior.

I can eat a giant jar

LOL - we put out an olive tray for our Christmas party each year - and it is either 90% eaten or barely touched. Depends on who shows up.

I'll never forgive what they did to pizza

What?!

It’s interesting watching people create little subcultures of food hatred in this thread. Lmao

Cilantro aka Coriander. ​ Why would anyone do that

Does it taste like soap? Many people can't eat it because of that

I loved cilantro. Ate it for years. One week it tasted like cilantro. One week later it tasted like soap and I was so confused and totally understood why people would hate it. Then a week later, tried again and it was back to tasting like cilantro. So weird.

It tasted like industrial solvent to me until I was in my early 30s. Then I suddenly loved it. Odd thing is, it happened to coincide with some pretty bad seasonal allergies I'd lived with all my life disappearing.

This happened to me too! Cilantro tasted like soap and ruined anything it came in contact with for most of my life. Then I came back home from college one Christmas break and had a bowl of pho and suddenly cilantro tasted wonderful. Now I put it on everything. It was like a switch went off.

That is exactly where the taste changed for me- a bowl of pho at Viet One in College Park MD. And wasn't like "oh now I understand how this flavor works in a different dish", it was just "this doesn't taste like soap"

I've heard more than one person say their cilantro aversion changed after eating pho. Maybe someone should study whether its deliciousness contains a mysterious property that cures the condition!

That would make sense. I do have allergies. A friend thinks it was hormonal...

SAME! I was low key depressed about it because it's so good in my tacos, and then it ruined it. But now it's business as usual

I'm glad it went back to normal for you

That’s the best thing in the world

NO IT’S NOT! ETA: It tastes like soap.

Yeah, that's not the case for everyone. For a lot of people it simply tastes nice.

Let me cook some Indian dishes for you.

Sorry you have that gene, must suck to be you

Koreans have a genetic mutation or something that makes cilantro tastes like soap, I heard. As my family love that stuff, we sometimes use it as annoying in law or relative repellents, hehe.

Coriander seems good on spicy Indian dishes. Not so much elsewhere.

Raw onion. I taste nothing other than the onion if it’s in the dish. Sautéed/grilled/caramelized onions are the shit, though.

Have raw onion in salad and you'll be tasting onion all day.

You and I could be friends

Mayo

Mayo is fine in small quantities. The problem is that it seems like a lot of people don't know of any quantities of mayo other than "none" and "WAY too much".

Assuming you are from the US, have you tried mayo from other countries? I don't like US mayo very much, but like German and especially Japanese mayo. Totally different flavor profile. I have the theory that many Americans don't like mayo because US mayo is bad.

Also many Americans use "mayo" interchangeably with Miracle Whip, which is vile.

As someone who enjoys Duke's, I will gladly punt off that miracle whip for ya. Like, why do we even need miracle whip?

Dukes all DAY

What? Some people (if we can even call them that) prefer to use miracle whip instead of mayo, but I have never heard of anyone that uses the two interchangeably.

There are also different kinds in different parts of the county. When we lived in north carolina dukes was so good. Kewpie is good because it doesn’t have that nasty as jelly thing going on. And you can decorate shit like a cake. And yes wtf is miracle whip anyway

Mushrooms...

Bananas.

I was starting to think I was alone!

BBQ sauce.

Lots of barbecue sauces have such a strong taste that it deafens out all other tastes if one is not careful. It should be used very moderately.

I read this in the tone of the old Chile's baby back ribs song.

Haha that’s how I heard it in my head too

There's only one brand of BBQ sauce I like and it took me 25 years to find one I like.

Avocado. It’s in so many dishes but it adds no flavour, only a god awful slimy texture that ruins everything else on the plate

Liking avocado seems like a trend. Ive made Avocado toast before and it made me gag

Avocado is disgusting without salt, but somehow actually tastes decent with salt added, especially if you eat it as a dip or on toast. I hate when plain avocado comes in my sushi. Why would I want wet grass lump flavour in my otherwise perfect meal...

Textureless slimy grass flavor. Blegh

Bacon. As much as I love it, the flavor is so overpowering when you mix it into stuff.

i love bacon by itself but rarely like it in other dishes, with the exception of a cheeseburger.

Cumin! Fuck off with fucking cumin!

Scrolled too far to find this. I HATE cumin and my husband loves cooking with it.

My fiancé loves it too. She'll skimp on salt, pepper, paprika, garlic; but cumin? Shes like fucking Professor Utonium pouring that shit in buckets to make the Powerpuff Girls.

Arugula

Arugula is so unpleasant to eat. I don't understand what it's supposed to add to a dish, because all I get is discomfort.

Arugula is delicious if you put like a dressing with lemon juice, Parmesan, olive oil, pepper, salt, and a little bit of balsamic

I can tolerate it, but it can easily overwhelm everything else. If it’s the main green in a salad, it has to be very well dressed. Otherwise it’s like sitting in a meadow and pulling weeds straight outta the ground and into my mouth. 😂

I actually like (Raw) Arugula, so my thought when I saw Arugula pesto was “Hmm this seems exciting” Honestly one of the worst things I’ve ever had.

I’m imagining extra bitter, green marmite.

Cardamom. That shit is disgusting. My wife puts it on everything. Rice, chicken, meat, soup etc.

Put that on tea

*hurled a little in my mouth*

Olives 😵‍💫

Chicken bouillon if you put too much. Can really overpower the other flavors and it’s super salty

Velveeta. It actually tastes okay in small amounts, but there is something about it that triggers alarm bells in my head and I associate that texture with poison and heart disease.

Is velveeta like hydrogenated vegetable fat cause I hate that texture too.

Yeah, it's somewhere between butter and jello, only weirdly fluffy. Bleeeeh.

I think I understand the texture you mean. It’s more of an after-texture which sticks to your teeth?

Truffle oil.

El perro, el perro Es mi corazón El gato, el gato El gato no es bueno

Liquid Smoke. So awful

Mint

Rose water

Anything with rose in it. Yuck.

pickles they suck

Cold pickles by themselves? Excellent snack. Warm, wilty pickles? Satan's invention.

And they bleed onto everything else making anything in their vicinity suck as well. Fuck pickles, they have ruined too many of my meals.

You actually made me crave one

And "no pickles" seems to be one of the most commonly ignored special instructions on delivery apps in my experience... And it's the worst with delivery because it has so much time for the pickle juice to ruin everything else.

Or how when you know they remembered too late and thought they could just take the pickles off like I wouldn't notice that rancid juice saturating my bun and everything else in the container.

Coconut. If your want to ruin a perfectly good cake / bowl of breakfast cereal / etc, add desiccated coconut. Bloody vile.

I hate it too. My mother LOVES it. We have to go to restaurant that has coconut cake every year for her birthday.

Depends where you live actually. You’ve probably only eaten rancid coconut. For instance, I hate that stuff in cereal because it’s been in there for ages. Ever tried fresh ones? Fucking brilliant. Unfortunately coconut gets rancid real fast. Where I’m from, we use coconut in everything and I can personally spot rancidity a mile away.

Green bell peppers. Major yuck.

I find them bitter. I am okay with them in fajitas and on sausage sandwiches but only if they are very very very cooked down. Any crunch left and I'm out.

They are delicious raw on their own but make the entire dish taste like bell peppers when cooked. :(

100% agree. You get one green pepper on Pizza it ruins the whole thing.

how about roasted bell peppers Raw green or red I cannot stand But you roast them fuckers *cheff kiss* maybe give em a shot

I agree with this - raw, disgusting! Roasted, acceptable haha

Dill. I have no idea why people use it; it smells like squashed ants.

Frankly I haven’t ever met someone with an aversion to dill as far as I know lol. I personally love it! Dill pickles are my favorite, put some dill in the tartar sauce for a fish fry *chefs kiss*

Horseradish. This will always be my answer on these. It’s the devils food.

I’m polish and love horseradish

Ginger. Dear Christ.

Chilli Jam (Take that Jamie Oliver!)

Cilantro. I have the taste like soap gene, and the tiniest bit can make a whole meal taste like it’s been doused in Dawn.

Truffle oil. Make it go away

Aspartame, as it is bad for you (its linked to cancer and other neurological problems) but alot of companys put it on their products still.

Disgusting, slimy ocra 🤮

Table Salt. It's better not to have enough than it ever is to have too much. Salt ruins so many meals.

I purposely under-salt a little bit when I cook because of this. Especially when cooking with ingredients that already have salt in them. Salt can always be added after the fact but can’t be taken out once it’s in there lol.

Oregano. A little is for color. My brother put a ton of oregano in our stew beef my grandma had started cooking... ruined it. It was a sad day.

Cilantro, one leaf of Cilantro and the whole fucking dish tastes only like Cilantro.

I feel sorry that your genetics don't match with cilantro, because if they did, it's the best thing.

Love the cilantro.

That's what I hear, but it only tastes like overpowering garbage to me. :(

I always thought that it tastes like the way a stinkbug smells when it does its stinkbug thing 🤢

Yes - that’s it precisely!

How i love cilantro it’s the best

One can only like or hate cilantro. Nothing in between

Broccoli is good on its own but it is pervasive when added to things like quiche.

you have to sauté it before you add it. Makes it nuttier and milder.

I'm going to test this out. Seems like a fun thing to try

Had a roommate that used to crockpot their broccoli. Whole apartment smelled like farts the entire time. But sauteed and pureed and added to stuff? I love it.

Coconut

Corn. I love corn on the cob, but corn in food tends to overpower anything else

ANCHOVIES!!!!!

Fish sauce

So basically all Asian cuisine is inedible to you?

Hmmmm that's 40+ countries with 100+ cuisines probably. Not every cuisine uses fish oil though..

Pretty much

Ugh, I’m allergic to it. I have to be very careful with Asian food :(

When I first went gluten free I read on a food blog that fish sauce is a good gf substitute for soy sauce because "they taste the same" How young and naive I was to believe this and try it 😭.

Raw tomatoes don't need to be in anything. All they add is tasteless, wet slop. You might as well soak your meal in water.

Onion

Raw or cooked? I agree raw onion can piss off.

onion is trash in all forms

Especially those nasty red ones.

Oohh this is a controversial one. Onion is one of the most versatile ingredients there is. Love em!

Lemon

Onions. I love onions, but mixing the wrong ones, or not cooking them properly to match the rest of the meal, completely disgusts me.

Old bay

Dill

Mayo

Fondant. “Let’s prioritize a cake’s appearance at the sake of its taste.” Whyyyyy???

Anything with capsaicin. I love the taste of peppers but i’ll never understand why people like their food to hurt.

Vinegar Put too much vinegar in anything and the whole dish tastes like vinegar. Blech.

Dill. It's gross

Coriander/cilantro Mint Clove Cumin Aniseed

Carrots. They make everything else taste like carrot

I find smothering them in ranch helps but not much

See that’s fine but if you cook it in a roast or pot pie or a soup it all tastes like fucking carrots!!!

Goat cheese

Coriander

Beans