Mine are brussels sprouts, beets, anchovies and livers
Durian. I don’t even think it smells bad. Smells okay and tastes good to me
came here expecting to see this at the top.
Durian is alright
Not quite in the spirit of what you’ve asked, but I think this still applies:
Cold food. I have no problem with it. I get distracted by kids and my wife gets worked up about how I could come back to cold food and not heat it up. Doesn’t bother me.
Same food every day. I’ve spent years eating tuna sandwich and an apple for lunch every day of the working week. “Don’t you want variety?” Nope. I also used to bulk cook food. So even my dinner was the same every day. Didn’t bother me.
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same food every day gang! it’s cheap, nutritious, delicious, and a breeze to prepare, what’s not to like?
I’ve been eating the same three “meals” every day for about four years now. Lunch is the main meal, the other two are more like snacks. No processed foods, in that the packages have only one or two ingredients listed.
It’s convenient, because I know exactly what I’m going to buy at the store each week. I never waste food. It’s fast, because I make it the same way every day. The main meal takes just under twenty minutes to prepare, including cleaning up the kitchen.
It’s similar to the way Einstein had a closet full of the same suit, so he didn’t need to think about what he was going to wear that day. Except I’m an idiot.
This all started when I decided that food is not entertainment, and food is not reward. Because, that’s how I often treated food in the past.
i can’t eat the same thing for more than 3 days without it making me gag
I love tuna but im worried about mercury poisoning :(
I still eat tuna but im weary of eating it for longer than a week at a time.
If by cold food you mean room temperature food then I definitely agree. Doesn’t bother me in the least. But if you mean fridge cold, most times I’ll want to heat it at least to room temperature first.
Have you ever had cold fried chicken that’s still crispy and then drizzled with hot sauce? Or cold pizza? Either of them straight from the fridge?
So. Fucking. Good!
I like cold pizza, but I’d still prefer it slightly heated to room temperature. Can’t say I’ve tried the other one, though.
Valid! I think most people prefer a warmed meal, tbf. And most foods ARE better that way!
I cook a lot (not a chef by any means but just a hobby home cook).
Heat masks a lot of flavor. I always think that if the food that I make tastes bad cold, it was shit food to begin with and the heat just hid it.
Texture is another thing, but my food goal is that my meals taste as good cold as they do hot.
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Room temperature coffee and beer tastes just as good.
Depends on the specific coffee or beer. Extreme temperatures dull our sense of flavour, so a shitty coffee can taste fine if its very hot, or a crappy beer can taste fine if it’s super cold. This is why Coors Light ads are hilarious. They focus on the cold because it’s a requirement to make it drinkable, and there’s nothing else good they could say about it without lying.
Yeah, that’s definitely true, espresso shots can be pretty ass at room temperature and you need to get through the bitter foam while it’s still hot. I feel the beer one specifically is an acquired taste, at first I felt too exposed to the beer taste but now I enjoy it, to me a shit beer tastes both bad cold and room temp.
Special case for beer is around 35C (100F) it becomes kinda weird IMO.
Black licorice. I don’t understand why it’s an uncommonly liked taste, it’s just a delicious “rooty spice” taste like root beer.
It was one of the most famous candy in the 19th century and made a german company grow into one of the biggest candy manufacturers in europe (haribo). I don’t think it’s uncommon to like it but that it’s rather a generational difference since we now have a bigger variety in sweets you can learn to (dis)like.
There are a lot of vegetables people don’t like because they are often prepared poorly. Brocolli, brussel sprouts, etc - seasoned and roasted, they’re great. Boiled to mush, not so much.
Brussels sprouts have also been bred over the last couple decades to be much less bitter and have generally a better flavour than what we’d have had as kids.
You’re right, they’re much more palatable these days. But even decades ago, roasting them with a liberal amount of salt, and maybe a bit of lemon juice on top, they were still decent. Boiled to mush with a single-digit number of grains of salt tastes bad regardless of the decade.
My theory is that back when most people smoked regularly, adults couldn’t taste anything and were generally not great in the kitchen because of it.
Boiled to mush broccoli and brussel sprouts are kinda nice though…
TBF getting high quality and well prepared veggies is hard and it’s expensive. the stuff sold in mass supermarkets is mid at best and that’s what most people have access to.
I grew up on awful quality veggies that tasted like shit, because my mom boiled and steamed everything and added no seasoning. also she did this with frozen stuff and we never had fresh. a lot of canned shit too that tasted awful.
this is the reason i never enjoyed vegetables until I was in college. they thought I was this shitty picky kid… but they were just awful cooks who prepared awful food.
when i took some pro cooking classes the chef asked me if my parents ever cooked with salt, because he was shocked how little i used…
I still use a lot of frozen veggies–not as good as locally sourced fresh ones, but with decent seasoning and cooking them properly, they’re still good. Not sure why people thought boiling everything was the answer for however many decades there…
because they were stupid and they thought trying new things made you into a homosexual.
my parents were amazingly stupid people.
Umm, how do most people feel about sauerkraut? It goes well with mashed potatoes and pork, or on a hotdog.
I hate sauerkraut. But kimchi is awesome
I hate it but I know that it’s good for me, so down the hatch.
I recommend trying kimchi hotdogs
Sauerkraut and kimchi are so delicious! Fermented cabbage is so much better than it should be.
It’s really good as an ingredient in chicken soup.
I love fermented stuff, so real sauerkraut is on the menu for me, but I’d always choose kimchi if given the option.
Most people I know seem to hate it unfortunately
Well-made sauerkraut is delicious
People dislike saurkraut?
I think a lot of people haven’t had actually fermented fresh sauerkraut/pickles, just the vinegary preserved stuff that is shelf stable.
I probably haven’t either, but back when I ate meat even kraut from a bag was a valued part of a Ruben sandwich.
Not a huge fan. I love bratwurst and will usually put onions and a dark/stone ground/spicy mustard on it. But if someone hands be a brat mit kraut, I’m eating it.
Hated Reuben’s as a kid but yeah, that shit smacks.
Fucking dope! Ugh, it is a top tier hot dog topping with spicy mustard.
Love it. Goes great with sausage (not sweet Italian sausage; the sweet flavor isn’t complementary).
Pineapple pizza
Mushrooms and anchovies. Pickles. Olives. Give give
If you like anchovies, try Colatura di Alici if you can get hold of it. It’s a direct descendant of Roman garum and is like a magic button for improving a lot of dishes.
Oooooooooooo
black liquorice
Same. But I’m from Northern Europe, so black liquorice haters are a minority here.
The only true licorice.
black licorice jelly beeeeeans 🤤
Cabbage, Bovril spread on toast, haggis, black pudding.
American cheese.
I say this as someone that much prefers the expensive aged stuff. Once I learned that it’s just cheddar with sodium citrate in it, I saw it for what it was: enhanced for things that normal cheese can’t do. Granted, it’s not top-shelf cheese by any measure; you wouldn’t put this anywhere near a charcuterie board. That said, it works great as a cooking ingredient.
Also: I’m going to guess that not many would like salty licorice. I once had a bad head cold and took some of those I picked up in Iceland to help with the symptoms. They were just the thing to keep my sinuses clear.
Blue Cheese. I spread it on crackers.
Can’t believe I forgot that one. I found a jar of green olives recently that were stuffed with blue cheese. Would recommend.
Those are the garlic-stuffed ones are my family’s go-to green olives.
I fucking love blue cheese. Easily the best cheese.
Tastes like vomit to me. My bf enjoys it, though.
I have a taste for habaneros. A lot of people can’t stand the spice but I’m here for it.
Once you get past the heat, some peppers have amazing flavor. Jalapenos and bird’s-eye chilies are my favorites for that.
Habaneros as mentioned have a smoky savory flavor under the napalm.
They’re usually more fruity to me
Vegemite, Malört, Peated Whiskey (might just be everyone around me only but still), black licorice, soy sauce, and natto.
Yes, I can still taste regular things, no, I’ve never smoked a day in my life. Now leave me and my slimy beans and my delicious toast alone
I think a lot of the Malört hate is hype. People love talking about how disgusting it is, and that’s just become the thing to do when anyone mentions it. The first time I tried it I thought, “I can understand why people don’t like it, but it’s just an herbal spirit like many others.” I tried it a second time years later and said, “Ah, okay. This really is disgusting.”
Exactly my experience. People love to hate what the Internet tells them to, but in this case, I’m on the Internet’s side
Nah peated whiskey is an acquired taste for sure. Even in my most alcoholic years, I wouldn’t touch the stuff haha
I was, well I was started on 5 o’clock (basically paint stripper if you don’t know it) and moved up to peated. Was never really anything in-between for me. I guess since it wasn’t paint stripper it was easier to acquire the taste, lol
Soy sauce? I do know many people who don’t like black licorice (the best licorice) and have no idea what the rest taste like, but soy sauce? Isn’t that in half the world’s dinner? ( plus secret ingredient for fluffy scrambled eggs?). I’ve never heard of anyone not liking that
Globally it’s probably not the most common one but growing up in the South a lot of people I knew would complain about how salty and disgusting it tasted. They were used to very plain food, under seasoned biscuits and gravy, barely seasoned chicken, grits with just shrimp no salt, etc.
Now, my own wife (from the North) also dislikes soy sauce though in her defence we found out she’s allergic and that might be why.
I would not have said that I have ever tried a peated whisky - but since Scotch is a whisky, and I distinctly prefer a peated Islay Scotch over a lighter Speyside - I guess that I am with you.
Peated Whisky Friends!
Pleated whiskey tastes like burning tires smell, to me, lol.
Malort is truly revolting
I don’t know what Malört is but I feel like you and I would get on real well.
It’s a wormwood liqueur from out of Chicago. Bitter and strong and delicious. It’s from Chicago, IL. Highly recommend finding some if you can. It goes right along with everything else on the list, it’s strong and knows what it is and isn’t afraid of itself.
I really like the taste of cough medicine and pretty much any digestif/amaro/bitters you put in front of me.
I could sip Malort neat and be happy as a clam, but on the rocks dilutes the sweetness a bit.
My man!!!
I recently got into Old Fashioned cocktails, which means I’ve added a dasher of Angostura bitters to my bar cabinet.
Neat it’s kind of miserable. It’s like, go to your mom’s house, get the five oldest jars out of her spice cabinet, boil the contents in vodka for an hour.
Diluted with some sugar water and it tastes like understanding your grandparents. It has a clove-forward spice flavor that seemed to follow my ancestors everywhere, I came to associate it with old people who had no idea how to relate to me. But served with some whiskey and a twist of orange, I get it.
I really like the taste of cough medicine and pretty much any digestif/amaro/bitters you put in front of me.
Same as you
i also like the artificial banana taste of that gross antibiotic they give kids (in north america, at least)
