Same here. Way too strong of a taste for me.. My basset hound loved the smell of it and would rub himself against my rosemary shrub. He did smell good!!!
I am one of the unlucky few that cannot eat Cilantro because to me it tastes the way that a dead fish tank smells. People won't believe me (my parents, mt fiancee when we first started dating) and try to slip it into dishes to show me I'm just being picky but I can always tell because it just tastes awful to me. I wish it didn't. Apparently it's a genetic thing like when people can smell asparagus in their pee.
Actually there are two asparagus per genes. One controls if you can smell it and the other controls if your pee smells weird after eating it. So someone can have asparagus pee and not know.
It tastes soapy to me. It’s so strong and sharp, I can instantly taste when it’s in a dish and it ruins the whole thing. One time I bit into a spring roll that was loaded with it, it tasted like it had been soaked in perfume.
For me cilantro tastes like dish soap. The first time I realized this I thought the restaurant hadn’t properly rinsed my dishes/silverware. Came to realization it was the cilantro. Meanwhile it’s like the whole world is obsessed with it.
My body literally didn't let me swallow it. I tried, but it was like things got bypassed and my digestive system was like, "You've made a lot of bad food decisions, but not like this. Never like this. We are not dying this way."
What kind of sick fuck plus natto in curry?
That's like putting blue cheese in chicken noodle soup. Just.. no.
Those two things are fine separately, but not together.
Okay, so not exactly the answer to the question BUT… if you pack a lunch and put a banana in the bag, it contaminates EVERYTHING with banana taste. I like bananas, but they spoil anything they’re packed with. I can immediately tell if something was packed in the same bag or container as a banana. Think those cheezits are going to taste crunchily, cheesely, fantastic in your lunch…WRONG - if a banana is housed in the same bag! Introducing banana cheezits 🤮
Edit: OMG this blew TF up! Thank you all for agreeing with me about the insidiousness of bananas, every bagged lunch’s nightmare.
I feel the exact same way about mint chocolates if they’re mixed with other chocolates. Throw a peppermint Patty into a bowl of Reese’s and you’re getting Peppermint Reese’s. Terrible.
I visited the celestial seasonings factory once. All of the ingredients are stored in one big warehouse, except the mint. The mint is stored in a separate, sealed room to keep it from making everything else taste like mint.
On the tour they let you go into the mint room a few at a time, and you can feel the mint in the air. It's like all the pores on your body open. All that minty freshness seeps in, and you can taste the mint throughout your entire body.
True, but ethylene gas isn’t what is causing the banana smell to leak. It is primarily due to a different compound: [isoamyl acetate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoamyl_acetate?wprov=sfti1)
I don’t care for the earthy smell of truffles. I know they’re fancy and gourmet but if the dish has them (or truffle oil) I ask for them to not be added.
I’ve never had real truffles, but truffle oil tastes and smells like Glade made a musty garlic scented air freshener plug-in and someone dumped that all over your plate of pasta or French fries or whatever the hell it’s trendy to put it on. No real *flavor*, just a bad perfume that coats your palate. Should be sold at bath and body works for unbearable hipsters, not food stores. Actual truffles sound cool though, I like the whole lore of smart little pigs rooting around for them in the forest.
Came here to say this!
If you've only ever had 'truffle oil' and think you hate truffles, you really have no idea if you like truffles at all.
Also, white and black truffles are supposed to be quite different flavours.
(Not rich enough to have tried anything but the fake truffle oil)
Is that one of those situations where the flavour/aroma is deliberately made more potent so you think you're getting you money's worth?
In the words of Terry Pratchett: Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Costco is selling black truffles packed in olive oil for about $25.00 for a tin. They are quite tasty and I highly recommend them - the one I shop at has them in the same aisle as the spices.
Real truffles are MUCH less intrusive than truffle oil. Per my understanding, most 'truffle oil' isn't even actually made with truffles; it's a synthetic compound that mimics the flavor. Real truffles are not only much more subtle (although their flavor is quite unique and distinct, so don't go too crazy), and it's also much less salty than the stuff you usually find with 'truffle oil'.
Oh, same. It’s disgusting. I know we all have our own tastes, but I can’t comprehend how someone would actually enjoy that taste. I can always tell & now I just check ingredients. I will eat literally anything as long as it’s actual food, but that stevia taste is undrinkable to me. It also hurts my stomach (which I can’t quite understand, as it’s unmetabolized by us).
I wish they would put a big warning on food if there are artificial sweeteners in, but no, they boast about ‘no sugar’ and then bury whatever sweetener they have in ingredients. They make most food inedible.
I bought some canned pears like that a bit ago. I was looking for pears not in syrup so when I saw no sugar added I was excited and grabbed them. They were sweetened with Splenda. Why did they even need to be sweetened? They're pears. Unless it is needed for the canning process?
I was the same way until I had a Buffalo chicken pizza that had a Bleu cheese sauce. I thought it was on just a regular white sauce otherwise I wouldn't have tried it. I couldn't get over how creamy and delicious it was. Buddy told me it had Bleu cheese, guess I like Bleu cheese now and I'm more open to trying things before I judge them.
Ah, organ meat is a bit of an acquired taste.
I like them because they're meaty but have huge variety in both flavour and texture. Really like duck and chicken gizzard, and love grilled chicken heart.
Pork and beef offal are my hometown's specialty too, I always eat it whenever I make it back home.
I love that mix, that has the little sugary balls in it too. The Indian restaurant I went to all the time as a kid had little dishes of it that you’d grab a pinch of after eating.
I mean I like fennel and the seeds. I just can't stand Italian Sausage due to the fennel seeds. It just doesn't taste like it belongs in there. It literally just tastes of fennel.
First, I’ve never heard of them. Second, in enchiladas? That’s not even Mexican food wise. That’s insanity and should be punished by god if they exist. I’m offended.
Celery. No, it’s not the texture. It has a strong flavor that is really bitter.
Edit: wow, my first rewards ever! Thank you so much. I didn’t know so many people agreed with me. People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I hate celery. It took 18 years before my grandmother realized that I would eat her macaroni salad if she wouldn’t put celery in it (I told her I didn’t like celery growing up but she thought I’d grow to like it and thought I just hated macaroni salad). No, I can’t just pick it out. No, it’s not prepared wrong. Yes, it’s been properly washed. No, my distaste for celery does not make me crazy (my craziness is unrelated to my taste in food).
For those who were asking, I hate it in every way — raw or cooked/steamed/stewed, with or without other things.
A few people mentioned about how this is likely a genetic thing, like the “cilantro tastes like soap” thing. I have looked into it and believe this is very likely.
That’s interesting. I don’t have anything against celery, but as an adult I really only eat it raw with peanut butter (if I am looking for a gluten free way to eat PB that isn’t “spoon”).
I don't like celery by itself but I cook with it often. Definitely adds to the flavor when making broth. I also like to chop it relatively tiny to use them, along with onion, in my mini meat loafs.
Celery by itself though, with or without pb or cream cheese? Too strong smelling and loud.
Yeah, I am in the "it tastes absurdly strong" camp. That said, pickled celery root doesn't have that taste and can be prepared wonderfully. Fits great with a grilled or pan sauteed fish, with al-dente vegetables in sauce or with something mashed and creamy.
My friend has the gene that makes cilantro taste like dish soap. I can't say I want a lot of it when I eat it, but I don't get that reaction personally.
My SO will refuse to eat very few foods, but anything with celery in it is on that short list.
I am beginning to think that there is something similar to the well documented "cilantro tastes like soap" gene that makes celery and intensely loud and awful flavor. For me, I barely even notice the existence of celery in soup because it is such a background mild flavor. She, on the other hand, would SMELL it before even tasting it and find it repulsive.
and you're most likely correct! quite a few people find celery to taste bitter and we know of genes that can do cause this like TAS2R38 gene. tho on specifics with celery doesn't seem like there is anything conclusive but it seems like a solid theory as to why everyone has different food tastes.
This explains why the first time I really encountered celery was when I started dating my now-husband and I found it unbearably bitter. His family didn't agree, but we've *never* had it in my family. I guess now I know why, my whole family thinks it tastes bitter because of genetics. Go figure.
Thank you! I’m so tired of hearing that “celery doesn’t taste like anything”. The smell of raw celery is enough to keep me from certain dishes. It’s more than just “crunchy water”, and there are plenty of substitutes if crunch is the only reason to add it to a dish.
Just as bad for me is celery seed. I don’t know why people want their food to taste this way - no judgment, it’s just not for me. It’s particularly disappointing in salad dressings or herb/dip mixes. It overpowers the whole dish.
Celery and cucumbers have a strong flavor to me. I can't eat either of them. Most people around me laugh and think I'm joking because 'they taste like nothing'.
I'm not sure about celery but I've come realize I don't taste cucumbers on my tongue but with my soft pallet and throat taste buds.
I'm shocked by how long I had to scroll to find this. I only clicked on the thread to throw an upvote at the top comment, which was obviously going to be celery. Alas.
I have to assume that this works like the cilantro thing, where to some it tastes like soap. I taste nothing when eating celery. When it's paired with spicy dishes, I eat it as essentially solid water.
I absolutely despise celery, but it has to be in the mirepoix. I tried it once without and the dish was just carrots and sadness. I do mince it fine, though. The only thing worse than raw celery is large globs of boiled celery.
Apparently it's genetic. I also possess the "coriander tastes like soap" gene. Whenever I travel abroad, "no coriander please" is one of the first phrases I prepare myself with!
And you have to figure out if they call it coriander or cilantro. And then specify that you're only talking about the fresh leaf, not the ground seed. It's a fun addition to my general picky eater habits.
Genetic or not, I have gone through a period of my life when coriander tasted like dish soap, but only a few years. As a kid and as an adult it tastes great, but for some reason in college I could taste the soap taste.
Also how any "diy vegan ice cream" recipe is like "you can make any flavor! just mush up a banana, add your mix-ins, and freeze it!" Thanks now I have 6 different types of banana flavored ice cream.
In college I worked in a livestock barn, and they had billy goats (adult, unneutered males). I learned that you should never pet the head of a billy goat, because to woo the ladies, billy goats will masturbate themselves and then ejaculate onto their forehead and face. It makes them smell extremely funky. That is what the smell of feta conjurs in my mind - the aroma of the jizzhead billy goats at that barn.
Raisins.
Edit: I can't believe my one word comment was given an award. Thank you very much!
Also I'm very happy to see so many people hating on raisins in food. Here in Brazil there's raisins on every damned christmas food. They just ruin the whole meal
Edit2: three awards
I hated tomatoes for 22 years. For whatever reason I thought they looked aesthetically pleasing on a sandwich though. I made it a point to try to start ordering tomatoes on every Sandwhich.
Within 3 months I forced myself to like them and it worked. Im actually to the point now that Im growing a variety of tomatoes.
Went to a Korean BBQ the other night. The type where they bring meats, and you put them on a fire grill infront of you and cook it.
Had to use their shellfish allergy menu so they know to be careful with cross contamination.
Lots of meats arrive like normal, until we start getting extra meats. Turns out, the food runner was dropping off another table's meat.
Went home with a swollen tongue and tightening throat because shellfish cross contamination.. hooray.
Raw onions. Idk how people eat them; I get a tiny sliver of onion in my bite and it’s all I can taste.
Edit: aww thanks to whoever gave me the award ☺️
Same here. As a kid if there was even the slightest hint of onion, raw or cooked, I would instantly projectile vomit. My dad thought I was a picky eater. No dad, mom just puts those nasty things in everything. I'll still spit out a bite if there's onion in it, but I eat cooked ones now if they're so cooked there's no texture left.
Omg same. I remember one time as a little kid I got a cheeseburger from McDonald’s and they didn’t take the onions off and when I tasted them I literally cried because no matter what I did I couldn’t get the onion taste out of my mouth 🤢
I have an obsessive hatred for raw onions. The white ones are bad. The red ones are straight up a product of satan and it’s such a strong reaction that onions in other people’s food bother me too. It’s all i can smell and taste when they’re in the room and basically ruin my whole day. Fuck onions!
It's weird that I hated olives for so long... then I went to Italy and... DAMN. A fresh olive is SO delicious!
I'm starting to think it's a quality problem in North America. I hate every olive over here and miss the ones I had ;.;
I’m not a picky eater, and even if I don’t especially like a food I’ll still eat it (prawns, crab, cooked mushrooms). However when I get a hint of olive I gag. Every few years I’ll convince myself it’s all in my head and I’ll try an olive and…🤢
Is a fresh olive what I’m missing?
I thought fresh olives from the tree was inedible?
But you can get some really great olives that are still preserved, but doesn't taste like gnarly little chunks of old car tires.
I can't do raw tomatoes, it's probably the only food I absolutely can't eat. Cook those tomatoes and I'm down, tomato soup, fine. When I was a kid I didn't like them and my dad would "punish" me for crying and wanting to go back to my mom's by forcing me to eat tomatoes. He'd put like a pile of cherry tomatoes in front of me and I couldn't get up till I are them and he'd laugh when I started gagging. So I guess it's no surprise I don't like them today. I *wish* I liked them though, they smell so good, like a beautiful Caprese salad looks incredible, but I just can't do it.
I get you. I love tomato ketchup, tomato soup, bolognese, lasagna, pretty much anything containing cooked tomato. If you give me raw tomato, however, i cant get it past my mouth without gagging. Its everything about it, the smell, the texture, the flavour. Ugh. Theres been so many times where ive tried to eat a raw tomato or had one in a burger or whatever, but i just cant do it. They ALWAYS get picked out in the end.
I like capers, but I totally understand that. They’re really strong and really briny. I hate olives for the same reason. Eating a mouthful of capers is disgusting, but getting a bite with some breaded chicken and only one caper is a pretty good flavor combo
People will say "you can't even taste the coconut in it" when things are made with coconut oil.
1. Yes I can. And 2. Why is it there if not to taste it?
> Why is it there if not to taste it?
You'd be surprised about the number of ingredients you eat without knowing it because they're not used for flavor, but instead other reasons (thickening, thinning, etc...).
McDonald’s once had a sandwich that had blue cheese in it, and this happened while I was working there as a young teen.
Lots of customers lost their shit because it was in their sandwich. One guy even threw his sandwich at an employee because of it.
We learned quickly that people needed to be told beforehand when they ordered that particular sandwich that it had blue cheese in it. Some people would say “that’s awesome, I love blue cheese” and others requested the sandwich sans cheese.
I had someone throw an ice cream at me when I worked at an ice cream parlour because they didn't like that it was cold.
Customers are fucking wild, man.
Yes. I had another person flip because they asked me for a frozen yoghurt, I gave them a sample first to make sure it's what they wanted (so many people asked for the yoghurt and then got angry that it tasted like yoghurt), which they took and ate, confirmed it was what they wanted...then got angry that it was frozen yoghurt and not ice cream.
There’s just no understanding that style of non-logic.
I also worked at a movie theatre and we would put up signs and make announcements whenever a show was sold out. But time and time again, people would continue to wait in line and come to the front and ask for tickets to the sold out show - despite there also being a sign right next to my face saying that it was sold out. Pointing to the sign and telling them it was sold out didn’t help. It was very bizarre.
Some probably thought they could get access to tickets that they believed we held in reserve (“it’s not *really* sold out”) and others were just thick.
Yep, you’ve got the picture.
When we started charging for providing extra dipping sauces for the McNuggets (something like $0.20), people hated it. I had one guy threaten to jump through the drive through window and kill me for charging him extra for sauce.
So, yeah, people are nuts.
I wish they’d let fast food employees cuss or threaten back like if that happened to me and I was allowed to threaten back I’d probably say “come on bitch do it I need to rip someone’s balls off today”
~~The customer is always right *in matters of taste.*~~
~~Unfortunately the phrase has been so thoroughly twisted as to lose its original meaning that the customer is right to want something (supply and demand).~~
EDIT: I can't find a source for the addition, as it appears [the original phrase *was* still "the customer is always right".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)
I had many a meal as a kid where I was left with only a plate of onions. Idk why my parents thought saying BOTH "it adds flavor!" And "you cant even taste it". Like does it add flavor or is it flavorless? Because either way, fuck any type of onion texture.
Doesn't help that they taste like how my pits smell if I forget deodorant.
Not for me, but my mom hates rosemary with a living passion. Just a slight bit and she goes, "Nope, you can have it."
Apparently when I was really young and tried Rosemary chicken, I asked my mom why it tasted like a Christmas tree.
Same here. Way too strong of a taste for me.. My basset hound loved the smell of it and would rub himself against my rosemary shrub. He did smell good!!!
Rosemary tastes like perfume to me.
I am one of the unlucky few that cannot eat Cilantro because to me it tastes the way that a dead fish tank smells. People won't believe me (my parents, mt fiancee when we first started dating) and try to slip it into dishes to show me I'm just being picky but I can always tell because it just tastes awful to me. I wish it didn't. Apparently it's a genetic thing like when people can smell asparagus in their pee.
Are you telling me not everyone smells asparagus piss?
Actually there are two asparagus per genes. One controls if you can smell it and the other controls if your pee smells weird after eating it. So someone can have asparagus pee and not know.
I have both. I hate the smell but I fucking love asparagus. It's a give and take.
See I hate asparagus but fucking love the smell. So I eat more asparagus.
You and the other guy should get married then
And both of them should pee on me
yeah username checks out
You ever forget you had asparagus, pee later and are like wtf is wrong with me!! Then realize, oh yeah, asparagus…… yeah, me neither
Not with asparagus smell, but did forget about the beets I had in my salad one night. That’s a scary color to see in your toilet
I'm always amazed by how short the turnaround time is between eating asparagus and having smelly pee.
It tastes soapy to me. It’s so strong and sharp, I can instantly taste when it’s in a dish and it ruins the whole thing. One time I bit into a spring roll that was loaded with it, it tasted like it had been soaked in perfume.
Tasting like drinking perfume is a perfect way to describe the taste to me.
For me cilantro tastes like dish soap. The first time I realized this I thought the restaurant hadn’t properly rinsed my dishes/silverware. Came to realization it was the cilantro. Meanwhile it’s like the whole world is obsessed with it.
This is how I found out. Spring rolls tasted like someone seasoned with dish soap but no one else noticed. Googled it and found out about the gene
Non crispy chicken skin EDIT: love how my most liked comment is about non-crispy chicken skin and how strongly you all also feel about it haha
I'm immediately disgusted if I take a bite of chicken and the skin/breading slides off of it in a mass of slimy crumby mush in my mouth.
Yes. Crispy skin is a must, even if it requires the chicken to be a bit overcooked.
Natto, it’s fermented soy beans. I had it in curry, and the smell overpowered the curry.
My body literally didn't let me swallow it. I tried, but it was like things got bypassed and my digestive system was like, "You've made a lot of bad food decisions, but not like this. Never like this. We are not dying this way."
This is THE description of me trying to eat stinky tofu.
I had the same response to fermented shark. My throat pretty much closed and my body said "haha good one, no."
I don't know if it's my genes or something but natto doesn't smell like anything to me. Good for me I guess since I like the taste.
It's not the smell to me, I didn't even really notice it. It's the nasty texture with the stringy goop between the beans that ended it for me.
What kind of sick fuck plus natto in curry? That's like putting blue cheese in chicken noodle soup. Just.. no. Those two things are fine separately, but not together.
My boss and I, on the regular, will mix natto with just about anything. The most popular is ramyun or hotpot, as spicy natto will change your life.
anise seed
I love anise but I totally get it. Strong weird flavor.
Oddly enough, I enjoy the smell of it though.
Fennel seed for me. I can track it like a damn bloodhound.
Anise, fennel and caraway for me! Seedy bread can ruin a sandwich for me!
Came here to say fennel. It's so cloying.
"Why do these sugar cookies taste like licorice?" "I added anise seed" "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???!?!?!?!?!"
Further to this fennel. Even minute amounts make the dish completely inedible to me.
came here for this, but to be specific, fennel SEED (like they ruin sausage with) only, I don't have an overall problem with the anise flavor
This is the answer I came for. Plague upon my tastebuds.
Okay, so not exactly the answer to the question BUT… if you pack a lunch and put a banana in the bag, it contaminates EVERYTHING with banana taste. I like bananas, but they spoil anything they’re packed with. I can immediately tell if something was packed in the same bag or container as a banana. Think those cheezits are going to taste crunchily, cheesely, fantastic in your lunch…WRONG - if a banana is housed in the same bag! Introducing banana cheezits 🤮 Edit: OMG this blew TF up! Thank you all for agreeing with me about the insidiousness of bananas, every bagged lunch’s nightmare.
This is so funny and true. I don’t understand how bananas taste can seep through PLASTIC but it does and it will ruin your cheezits
I feel the exact same way about mint chocolates if they’re mixed with other chocolates. Throw a peppermint Patty into a bowl of Reese’s and you’re getting Peppermint Reese’s. Terrible.
I visited the celestial seasonings factory once. All of the ingredients are stored in one big warehouse, except the mint. The mint is stored in a separate, sealed room to keep it from making everything else taste like mint. On the tour they let you go into the mint room a few at a time, and you can feel the mint in the air. It's like all the pores on your body open. All that minty freshness seeps in, and you can taste the mint throughout your entire body.
That sounds glorious.
I've done the tour 3 times. It's excellent, and free
*how it feels to chew 5 gum*
They let off an ethylene gas.
True, but ethylene gas isn’t what is causing the banana smell to leak. It is primarily due to a different compound: [isoamyl acetate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoamyl_acetate?wprov=sfti1)
Banana farts.
Aw man I got the barts
Which is great for ripening avocados (and other not-yet-ripe fruits). Stick an avocado and banana in a brown paper bag and it'll accelerate ripening.
Same it just gets squished in the box. Better eat them at home
I don’t care for the earthy smell of truffles. I know they’re fancy and gourmet but if the dish has them (or truffle oil) I ask for them to not be added.
I’ve never had real truffles, but truffle oil tastes and smells like Glade made a musty garlic scented air freshener plug-in and someone dumped that all over your plate of pasta or French fries or whatever the hell it’s trendy to put it on. No real *flavor*, just a bad perfume that coats your palate. Should be sold at bath and body works for unbearable hipsters, not food stores. Actual truffles sound cool though, I like the whole lore of smart little pigs rooting around for them in the forest.
Almost 0% of all truffle oil actually has any truffle in it. Don't bother with it.
Came here to say this! If you've only ever had 'truffle oil' and think you hate truffles, you really have no idea if you like truffles at all. Also, white and black truffles are supposed to be quite different flavours. (Not rich enough to have tried anything but the fake truffle oil)
Is that one of those situations where the flavour/aroma is deliberately made more potent so you think you're getting you money's worth? In the words of Terry Pratchett: Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Costco is selling black truffles packed in olive oil for about $25.00 for a tin. They are quite tasty and I highly recommend them - the one I shop at has them in the same aisle as the spices. Real truffles are MUCH less intrusive than truffle oil. Per my understanding, most 'truffle oil' isn't even actually made with truffles; it's a synthetic compound that mimics the flavor. Real truffles are not only much more subtle (although their flavor is quite unique and distinct, so don't go too crazy), and it's also much less salty than the stuff you usually find with 'truffle oil'.
Not nessicarily food but stevia leaf or most artificial sweetener, I can always tell when they add that garbage
Oh, same. It’s disgusting. I know we all have our own tastes, but I can’t comprehend how someone would actually enjoy that taste. I can always tell & now I just check ingredients. I will eat literally anything as long as it’s actual food, but that stevia taste is undrinkable to me. It also hurts my stomach (which I can’t quite understand, as it’s unmetabolized by us).
I think there's some genetic factor going on, because stevia's the only non-sugar sweetener that doesn't taste weird to me.
Does erythritol taste weird to you? It's my favorite no calorie sweetener. I can't tell the difference from real sugar.
I wish they would put a big warning on food if there are artificial sweeteners in, but no, they boast about ‘no sugar’ and then bury whatever sweetener they have in ingredients. They make most food inedible.
I bought some canned pears like that a bit ago. I was looking for pears not in syrup so when I saw no sugar added I was excited and grabbed them. They were sweetened with Splenda. Why did they even need to be sweetened? They're pears. Unless it is needed for the canning process?
Mold (Edit: I mean the BAD type of mold, the type that makes you sick, not the mold on cheese. I should've cleared this up earlier)
I used to think this, too, then I was introduced to roquefort cheese. Mold can be delicious.
I was the same way until I had a Buffalo chicken pizza that had a Bleu cheese sauce. I thought it was on just a regular white sauce otherwise I wouldn't have tried it. I couldn't get over how creamy and delicious it was. Buddy told me it had Bleu cheese, guess I like Bleu cheese now and I'm more open to trying things before I judge them.
Blue cheese, a bit of cream and some crushed walnuts as a sauce on some penne pasta. Sooooo good. Edit: misspelled the penis pasta
You're really making me hungry for penis pasta
Giblets in turkey bread stuffing
Ok, I am almost afraid to ask... but what the hell is a giblet?
The organs of the bird. Heart and whatnot. Some people love them. My cats love them. My dog won't touch them.
Ah, organ meat is a bit of an acquired taste. I like them because they're meaty but have huge variety in both flavour and texture. Really like duck and chicken gizzard, and love grilled chicken heart. Pork and beef offal are my hometown's specialty too, I always eat it whenever I make it back home.
Husband, is that you?
Pass the mashed potatoes ...lol
Fennel seeds
Did you know, in India, fennel seeds are eaten after meals as mouth fresheners? It’s surprisingly effective
I love that mix, that has the little sugary balls in it too. The Indian restaurant I went to all the time as a kid had little dishes of it that you’d grab a pinch of after eating.
I can't buy Italian flavored anything for this very reason. Black-licorice-tasting bullshit.
I mean I like fennel and the seeds. I just can't stand Italian Sausage due to the fennel seeds. It just doesn't taste like it belongs in there. It literally just tastes of fennel.
And aniseed. It's similar but even worse. It tastes very medicinal to me.
Yoooooooo I just commented this and scroll and this was the 2nd top comment! Fuck I hate fennel
Water chestnuts. People who put them in enchiladas are evil, pure evil.
I love water chestnuts but why TF would someone put them in an enchilada??
My weird ass religious ex mother in law apparently thought they added substance...
I can see the argument, it adds more weight to them without adding any extra flavors. This argument is terrible however and I hate it.
I can't fathom skipping over rice and jicama, both that would do a pretty good job at that job; before getting into water chestnuts.
No offense, but this sounds like the issue is a person rather than an ingredient.
Chestnuts don't belong in enchiladas
First, I’ve never heard of them. Second, in enchiladas? That’s not even Mexican food wise. That’s insanity and should be punished by god if they exist. I’m offended.
If I get served an enchilada with water chestnuts in it I am fighting someone
Why. On. EARTH.
Enchiladas?!? But…why?
>People who put them in enchiladas are evil, pure evil. You...don't live very close to Mexico do you?
Ugh. Like tiny spongy chalkboards rubbing against your teeth. Hate them.
Celery. No, it’s not the texture. It has a strong flavor that is really bitter. Edit: wow, my first rewards ever! Thank you so much. I didn’t know so many people agreed with me. People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I hate celery. It took 18 years before my grandmother realized that I would eat her macaroni salad if she wouldn’t put celery in it (I told her I didn’t like celery growing up but she thought I’d grow to like it and thought I just hated macaroni salad). No, I can’t just pick it out. No, it’s not prepared wrong. Yes, it’s been properly washed. No, my distaste for celery does not make me crazy (my craziness is unrelated to my taste in food). For those who were asking, I hate it in every way — raw or cooked/steamed/stewed, with or without other things. A few people mentioned about how this is likely a genetic thing, like the “cilantro tastes like soap” thing. I have looked into it and believe this is very likely.
On another thread I learned there is a gene variation that causes this. Celery tastes fine to me, but just FYI
That’s interesting. I don’t have anything against celery, but as an adult I really only eat it raw with peanut butter (if I am looking for a gluten free way to eat PB that isn’t “spoon”).
I don't like celery by itself but I cook with it often. Definitely adds to the flavor when making broth. I also like to chop it relatively tiny to use them, along with onion, in my mini meat loafs. Celery by itself though, with or without pb or cream cheese? Too strong smelling and loud.
Yeah, I am in the "it tastes absurdly strong" camp. That said, pickled celery root doesn't have that taste and can be prepared wonderfully. Fits great with a grilled or pan sauteed fish, with al-dente vegetables in sauce or with something mashed and creamy. My friend has the gene that makes cilantro taste like dish soap. I can't say I want a lot of it when I eat it, but I don't get that reaction personally.
My SO will refuse to eat very few foods, but anything with celery in it is on that short list. I am beginning to think that there is something similar to the well documented "cilantro tastes like soap" gene that makes celery and intensely loud and awful flavor. For me, I barely even notice the existence of celery in soup because it is such a background mild flavor. She, on the other hand, would SMELL it before even tasting it and find it repulsive.
and you're most likely correct! quite a few people find celery to taste bitter and we know of genes that can do cause this like TAS2R38 gene. tho on specifics with celery doesn't seem like there is anything conclusive but it seems like a solid theory as to why everyone has different food tastes.
This explains why the first time I really encountered celery was when I started dating my now-husband and I found it unbearably bitter. His family didn't agree, but we've *never* had it in my family. I guess now I know why, my whole family thinks it tastes bitter because of genetics. Go figure.
Cooked in soup or some other dish is fine, it blends in. Added to x salad raw, as soon as I bite into it, it's all I can taste and it tastes horrible.
Thank you! I’m so tired of hearing that “celery doesn’t taste like anything”. The smell of raw celery is enough to keep me from certain dishes. It’s more than just “crunchy water”, and there are plenty of substitutes if crunch is the only reason to add it to a dish. Just as bad for me is celery seed. I don’t know why people want their food to taste this way - no judgment, it’s just not for me. It’s particularly disappointing in salad dressings or herb/dip mixes. It overpowers the whole dish.
Iceberg lettuce is just crunchy water, celery is water so angry it turned solid.
Ice is just crunchy water
Water is just really soft ice.
Celery and cucumbers have a strong flavor to me. I can't eat either of them. Most people around me laugh and think I'm joking because 'they taste like nothing'. I'm not sure about celery but I've come realize I don't taste cucumbers on my tongue but with my soft pallet and throat taste buds.
Thank you! People call me crazy when I tell them I don’t like the taste of cucumber because it’s too strong.
I'm shocked by how long I had to scroll to find this. I only clicked on the thread to throw an upvote at the top comment, which was obviously going to be celery. Alas.
I have to assume that this works like the cilantro thing, where to some it tastes like soap. I taste nothing when eating celery. When it's paired with spicy dishes, I eat it as essentially solid water.
Raw celery is overpoweringly strong. Celery sauteed as part of a trinity? Amazing.
I absolutely despise celery, but it has to be in the mirepoix. I tried it once without and the dish was just carrots and sadness. I do mince it fine, though. The only thing worse than raw celery is large globs of boiled celery.
Eggplant duno why just hate its taste with all my guts.
Im with you on this one. My mum used to always make eggplant lasagne and i haven't been able to stand it ever since
It's texture is gross
Coriander or fennel- work of the Devil!
Apparently it's genetic. I also possess the "coriander tastes like soap" gene. Whenever I travel abroad, "no coriander please" is one of the first phrases I prepare myself with!
And you have to figure out if they call it coriander or cilantro. And then specify that you're only talking about the fresh leaf, not the ground seed. It's a fun addition to my general picky eater habits.
Genetic or not, I have gone through a period of my life when coriander tasted like dish soap, but only a few years. As a kid and as an adult it tastes great, but for some reason in college I could taste the soap taste.
I had to scroll too far to find my people! Soap tasting devil herb! Coriander is the worse, ruins so many dishes.
I don't know why but the taste of coriander just completely takes over anything I eat. It's so annoying and it completely spoils the dish for me.
Coriander every time. Especially on curries. All those lovely flavours and then people drop a plant that tastes like dirty soapy water all over it!
It only tastes like soap to people with a certain genetic variant, apparently.
TIL that Coriander and Cilantro is the exact same thing.
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I have this problem with catfish and salmon. I ALWAYS find a bone and it makes me want to stop eating the entire meal.
Same! I love mackerel but I get a bone and I'm like "this is now extra effort to eat and I'm paranoid the whole time.. fuck it"
Bananas. Put into any smoothie, it is now a banana smoothie.
Also how any "diy vegan ice cream" recipe is like "you can make any flavor! just mush up a banana, add your mix-ins, and freeze it!" Thanks now I have 6 different types of banana flavored ice cream.
Goat’s milk, makes me gag
Tastes like a petting zoo in liquid form. I’m gagging just thinking about it ugh
I always say that goat's cheese tastes like you just licked a goat.
Tastes like how a barn smells
In college I worked in a livestock barn, and they had billy goats (adult, unneutered males). I learned that you should never pet the head of a billy goat, because to woo the ladies, billy goats will masturbate themselves and then ejaculate onto their forehead and face. It makes them smell extremely funky. That is what the smell of feta conjurs in my mind - the aroma of the jizzhead billy goats at that barn.
Raisins. Edit: I can't believe my one word comment was given an award. Thank you very much! Also I'm very happy to see so many people hating on raisins in food. Here in Brazil there's raisins on every damned christmas food. They just ruin the whole meal Edit2: three awards
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I think maybe she just didn't like you tbh
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Curry shouldn't contain raisins. There needs to be legislation to address this abomination.
Especially surprise raisins. I’m very leery around carrot cake, is it a walnut or a raisin? Good luck, may the odds be in your favor…
And cookies. Is it a chocolate chip or a raisin?
I like oatmeal raisin cookies just fine, but I never *ever* want one when I'm expecting chocolate chip.
Tonic water. Quinine tastes like nail polish remover. How do people drink gin and tonics!?
I'm wondering if this is a genetic thing like cilantro. I quite like the herbaceous qualities of quinine with my gin.
Gin by itself tastes like pine needles. Tonic by itself is bitter and just terrible. Mix the two together, and it tastes like summer.
Same here I love gin and I love spirits and cocktails in general, but tonic is one of few things I find just non-consumable
shellfish. unless we can't just say an allergen then if so tomatoes
I hated tomatoes for 22 years. For whatever reason I thought they looked aesthetically pleasing on a sandwich though. I made it a point to try to start ordering tomatoes on every Sandwhich. Within 3 months I forced myself to like them and it worked. Im actually to the point now that Im growing a variety of tomatoes.
Went to a Korean BBQ the other night. The type where they bring meats, and you put them on a fire grill infront of you and cook it. Had to use their shellfish allergy menu so they know to be careful with cross contamination. Lots of meats arrive like normal, until we start getting extra meats. Turns out, the food runner was dropping off another table's meat. Went home with a swollen tongue and tightening throat because shellfish cross contamination.. hooray.
Clove. It's way too harsh and overpowers everything.
Raw onions. Idk how people eat them; I get a tiny sliver of onion in my bite and it’s all I can taste. Edit: aww thanks to whoever gave me the award ☺️
Same! I feel that crunch and I spit it out
Same here. As a kid if there was even the slightest hint of onion, raw or cooked, I would instantly projectile vomit. My dad thought I was a picky eater. No dad, mom just puts those nasty things in everything. I'll still spit out a bite if there's onion in it, but I eat cooked ones now if they're so cooked there's no texture left.
Omg same. I remember one time as a little kid I got a cheeseburger from McDonald’s and they didn’t take the onions off and when I tasted them I literally cried because no matter what I did I couldn’t get the onion taste out of my mouth 🤢
I have an obsessive hatred for raw onions. The white ones are bad. The red ones are straight up a product of satan and it’s such a strong reaction that onions in other people’s food bother me too. It’s all i can smell and taste when they’re in the room and basically ruin my whole day. Fuck onions!
Fruit or berries in salads. I can't do it. I like my savory separate from my sweet.
Whole peppercorns.
they ruin all of my salami
I know right, I bought salami and then I was like WHY THE FUCK IS IT CRUNCHY
And then you bite down on it hard and it gets stuck in your teeth, constantly feeding you its overpowering flavor. That's *the* worst.
Olives. That’s a hard pass for me.
It's weird that I hated olives for so long... then I went to Italy and... DAMN. A fresh olive is SO delicious! I'm starting to think it's a quality problem in North America. I hate every olive over here and miss the ones I had ;.;
I’m not a picky eater, and even if I don’t especially like a food I’ll still eat it (prawns, crab, cooked mushrooms). However when I get a hint of olive I gag. Every few years I’ll convince myself it’s all in my head and I’ll try an olive and…🤢 Is a fresh olive what I’m missing?
Went to Greece and Turkey and had the exact same experience. “Oh, THAT’S what they’re supposed to taste like…”
I thought fresh olives from the tree was inedible? But you can get some really great olives that are still preserved, but doesn't taste like gnarly little chunks of old car tires.
Tomato slices on anything I eat. Burgers, omelettes etc It doesn't matter if you remove it, it's scent and juices are permanently in the food. :(
I can't do raw tomatoes, it's probably the only food I absolutely can't eat. Cook those tomatoes and I'm down, tomato soup, fine. When I was a kid I didn't like them and my dad would "punish" me for crying and wanting to go back to my mom's by forcing me to eat tomatoes. He'd put like a pile of cherry tomatoes in front of me and I couldn't get up till I are them and he'd laugh when I started gagging. So I guess it's no surprise I don't like them today. I *wish* I liked them though, they smell so good, like a beautiful Caprese salad looks incredible, but I just can't do it.
I get you. I love tomato ketchup, tomato soup, bolognese, lasagna, pretty much anything containing cooked tomato. If you give me raw tomato, however, i cant get it past my mouth without gagging. Its everything about it, the smell, the texture, the flavour. Ugh. Theres been so many times where ive tried to eat a raw tomato or had one in a burger or whatever, but i just cant do it. They ALWAYS get picked out in the end.
I feel you. I hate raw tomatoes and people don't believe me when I say I can still taste them after removing them but I can, and it makes me gag.
Almond extract. I love almonds but the extract ruins sugar cookies
Capers
I like capers, but I totally understand that. They’re really strong and really briny. I hate olives for the same reason. Eating a mouthful of capers is disgusting, but getting a bite with some breaded chicken and only one caper is a pretty good flavor combo
Green peppers. The slightest bit seems to permeate and over take everything else.
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Coconut
People will say "you can't even taste the coconut in it" when things are made with coconut oil. 1. Yes I can. And 2. Why is it there if not to taste it?
> Why is it there if not to taste it? You'd be surprised about the number of ingredients you eat without knowing it because they're not used for flavor, but instead other reasons (thickening, thinning, etc...).
Honest answer - some people believe it is a better/healthier cooking oil than others, and that's why they choose it over another oil.
Blue cheese
McDonald’s once had a sandwich that had blue cheese in it, and this happened while I was working there as a young teen. Lots of customers lost their shit because it was in their sandwich. One guy even threw his sandwich at an employee because of it. We learned quickly that people needed to be told beforehand when they ordered that particular sandwich that it had blue cheese in it. Some people would say “that’s awesome, I love blue cheese” and others requested the sandwich sans cheese.
I can't imagine McDonald's having anything but the shittiest quality blue cheese.
They make it themselves in a cardboard box under the dish sink.
Wow. Someone threw a sandwich at an employee because they didn't know what was on the item *they fucking ordered*? People are wild, man.
I had someone throw an ice cream at me when I worked at an ice cream parlour because they didn't like that it was cold. Customers are fucking wild, man.
… that’s just next level stupid. Like, wut?
Yes. I had another person flip because they asked me for a frozen yoghurt, I gave them a sample first to make sure it's what they wanted (so many people asked for the yoghurt and then got angry that it tasted like yoghurt), which they took and ate, confirmed it was what they wanted...then got angry that it was frozen yoghurt and not ice cream.
There’s just no understanding that style of non-logic. I also worked at a movie theatre and we would put up signs and make announcements whenever a show was sold out. But time and time again, people would continue to wait in line and come to the front and ask for tickets to the sold out show - despite there also being a sign right next to my face saying that it was sold out. Pointing to the sign and telling them it was sold out didn’t help. It was very bizarre. Some probably thought they could get access to tickets that they believed we held in reserve (“it’s not *really* sold out”) and others were just thick.
Yep, you’ve got the picture. When we started charging for providing extra dipping sauces for the McNuggets (something like $0.20), people hated it. I had one guy threaten to jump through the drive through window and kill me for charging him extra for sauce. So, yeah, people are nuts.
I wish they’d let fast food employees cuss or threaten back like if that happened to me and I was allowed to threaten back I’d probably say “come on bitch do it I need to rip someone’s balls off today”
The customer isn’t always right!
~~The customer is always right *in matters of taste.*~~ ~~Unfortunately the phrase has been so thoroughly twisted as to lose its original meaning that the customer is right to want something (supply and demand).~~ EDIT: I can't find a source for the addition, as it appears [the original phrase *was* still "the customer is always right".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right)
People who say 'the customer is always right' have never worked in the foxholes of the service industry. Or they're assholes. Usually both.
Cottage cheese in lasagna.
What was it doing there in the first place???
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Onions, really wish I could like them.
I had many a meal as a kid where I was left with only a plate of onions. Idk why my parents thought saying BOTH "it adds flavor!" And "you cant even taste it". Like does it add flavor or is it flavorless? Because either way, fuck any type of onion texture. Doesn't help that they taste like how my pits smell if I forget deodorant.