I thought I hated capsicum most of my life but lately (past my mid 30s) I’ve come to actually really like it raw. As in salads or sandwiches. I’m enjoying that. As a child my parents would add it frequently to meals but it would always be cooked and I was never a fan.
Or mushrooms for example. I love them almost any way except preserved. If they came from inside a tin or jar with long shelf life the taste is just horrendous.
Similar for artichokes, they must be fresh.
I love sesame seeds, but I absolutely hate sesame seed oil and I can’t understand why. The taste is so different.
Curious about yours. Any similar examples?
Onions
Raw: arrgg can’t stand them. Maybe if it is a sweet onion and very thinly sliced, but otherwise keep it away from me.
Sauteed: Mmmmm… spread them over EVERYTHING!!!
Caramelized: Extremely inappropriate moaning noises…
I don’t like:
- hot fruit
- crisp vegetables cooked past al dente
- salt (a little, but way less than anyone else likes)
- putting fruit in pastries or bread (my wife’s caramel apple crumble pie is an exception)
- raisins in anything (especially cookies and bread)
I like fruits and vegetables, but generally speaking only in whole-form.
I think i do not, but my gf loves raw cabbages and cannot stand it when it’s cooked in any form.
Similarly I also prefer cabbage raw, but it’s just a preference.
Raw cabbages are delicious. It’s a way better green for salads than any kind of lettuce. It’s crispy.
Raw Brussel sprouts are better than boiled. I can’t eat raw apples because of the texture but I love apple flavoured stuff. Beans are good when they’re not boiled or from a tin.
What? Raw brussel sprouts? I haven’t tried them raw, any recommendations?
Beans? You mean like green peas right? Otherwise the red kidney or black beans are mega hard if not boiled or not from a tin.
I mean peas, yes. Brussel sprouts are even better cut in half and slightly seared on a pan.
Have you tried many different types of apples? I find that some have a gritty almost fuzzy texture that I can’t stand, but some other apples have a completely different texture.
I have and I can’t stand any of them. Probably related to my autism.
Raw celery. Most people seem to say it has no flavour. To me it smells and tastes similar to vodka and makes me sick to even think about. It’s also kinda squeaky on the teeth which is unacceptable. Cooked in a soup or whatever is fine.
Cabbage rolls. Specifically that combination of ingredients has made me sick by smelling it in the past, though it’s not as bad now as an adult, and they do taste good. Cooked/boiled cabbage in any other context never bothered me.
Pickled onions. I love onions and can eat them raw, but I couldn’t even finish one mini pickled one due to the resemblance to stomach acid, taste and smell.
Yeah well can’t blame you on the celery. I also don’t like it much. I can eat it but it’s kinda eugh and I agree it absolutely has a taste. I also find it more bland if it’s been cooked but I don’t see it as an improvement.
Yup, it can add some nice colour, but besides that there isn’t much point. Thanks for the celery validation.
Celery is used as a flavouring. People who say it doesn’t taste of anything probably had Covid or something…
Celery - at least what I get from my local supermarket(s) - definitely has a whole spectrum of flavour, so I wouldn’t agree with anyone saying it doesn’t have any.
“Vodka-like” isn’t an adjective I’d use either, but for me the spectrum runs from bitter and almost urine-like to sweet and mild (but unmistakably still celery), so maybe there’s something in there that’s reminiscent of vodka for some people. I should note that this can apply to stalks on the same root as well. Younger/inner shoots tend to be sweeter, but that’s not a hard and fast rule.
Okra, regardless of how it’s prepared, is absolutely disgusting. And I say this as a veggie lover
Cheese is great on a pizza.
But:
Cheese is terrible in mac & cheese (I mean like: I hate mac & cheese)
Cheese also ruins a sandwich imo
Ok… Do you like cheese alone? What about a cheese platter with crackers maybe?
No lol.
For me, cheese is only like a condinment. It goes on other stuff, not a food by itself (imo, at least)
Cheese goes on pizza, Burgers, but not a sandwich. Like it feels a bit weird to have some food with cheese, if you know what I mean. I grew up acustomed to Chinese food (and Americanized Chinese food too), so I guess I just never have real exposure to what “western” food is really like (even tho I live in the US, I guess I’m just a picky eater… 🤷♂️)
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Cherry Tomatoes. Raw I hate them. Cooked they are great.
Ahhh tomatoes yes forgot about these. I love them in all forms except sun dried. Interesting that your issue is with cherry tomatoes only, can you eat regular tomatoes raw?
Yeah, I don’t like them because they explode in your mouth and are too sweet for salads and most people ise them in salads. Funnily enough I love apples or pairs in my salads because of the sweetness they add but cherry tomatoes are a no no.
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Not exactly what you asked but while I do like fruits I don’t like them in salads. I also don’t like sweet and salty mixed together though there are some exceptions like pineapple in pizza.
I can understand and I’m usually like you, not liking the sweet and salty mix. But Hawaiian pizza is not for me
I can’t stand raw celery because it makes me lightheaded and dizzy.
… That seems like an atypical response to celery? Are you allergic to something in it that breaks down with heat?
Raw spinach is great, I can just eat handfuls of that all day. Cooked spinach is gross, both in flavor and texture.
It’s dinosaur time
Open the door, get on the floor!
Everybody chew like dinosaurs!
The only thing I like cooked spinach for is spinach dip. It’s acceptable as a layer in things like lasagna, but I won’t complain if it isn’t there.
Same. Raw spinach salad for days, but cook or can it and it immediately becomes one of my most hated foods.
Carrots are not as bad but I don’t care for them cooked, especially when raw carrots are so tasty.
Pineapple needs to be fresh. Coconut on the other hand, as awful as it is in shredded form, it turns out is actually WORSE fresh.
Tuna. When I was a kid, I was sometimes fed canned tuna in sandwiches and they were vile. I always thought the person who made them put way too much mayo in (I was also off mayo for a long time) but it occurs to me now that maybe it was Miracle Whip? Anyway they were awful. My brother threw up all over the table once during such a lunch.
Anyway, as an adult I finally was brave enough to try sushi tuna, and it’s fine. If you sear it though, it tastes enough like the canned stuff that I can’t eat it. 100% raw is okay though.
Raw tomatoes are a disgusting, slimy, mealy abomination. Tomato sauce, tomato soup, and ketchup are all excellent.
They only get mealy if your refrigerate them. They shouldn’t normally be slimy either. Juicy, yes, if properly ripe, but that’s not the same as slimy.
[Actually the seeds do have kind of a slippery coating, that I could see calling slimy.]
Ditto. Can’t stand fresh tomato’s, makes me puke (literally). Any other way (cooked, etc) is perfectly fine.
None of that is true for a ripe tomato. Problem is, the vast majority are picked green and ripen on the truck, and they are indeed repulsive.
Another issue is that we bred tomatoes to be nice and round and have smooth, evenly colored skin. That killed the genes that made them sweet and acidic. Try an “ugly tomato”, or maybe an heirloom, if you can find one.
Not a fan of the one on the right, but the pic mostly gets the point across.
I like pop tarts way more if they aren’t toasted
