Any foods you prefer or can't stand depending on whether they are raw, fresh, pickled, cooked etc?
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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?
As a kid, I passed a strawberry jam factory each day,on my way to school. The horribly sweet smell made me abhor any processed strawberry. But fresh strawberries? Anytime.
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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?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, and brussel sprouts.
I've heard "you just haven't had them done the right way" so many times, from so many people, who then make them their preferred way and they still taste like straight up dookie.
No amount of butter, or cheese, or time spent cooking under any kind of application of heat makes these things taste palatable.
Plus they all stink like farts when cooked, which just makes it worse.
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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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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?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm the opposite of a picky eater, I'm a goat and there are almost no foods i won't eat. Except for raw celery. Good lord is that stuff difficult to choke down. Cooked up it's great!
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Raw tomatoes are a disgusting, slimy, mealy abomination. Tomato sauce, tomato soup, and ketchup are all excellent.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.]
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It's dinosaur time
Open the door, get on the floor!
Everybody chew like dinosaurs!
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Broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, and brussel sprouts.
I've heard "you just haven't had them done the right way" so many times, from so many people, who then make them their preferred way and they still taste like straight up dookie.
No amount of butter, or cheese, or time spent cooking under any kind of application of heat makes these things taste palatable.
Plus they all stink like farts when cooked, which just makes it worse.
I've got that gene that converts asparagus into, uh, interesting smelling piss. Weird thing is that it hits within an hour of eating it.
I can only guess that you forgot and left out cabbage?
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I've got that gene that converts asparagus into, uh, interesting smelling piss. Weird thing is that it hits within an hour of eating it.
I can only guess that you forgot and left out cabbage?
Nah, cabbage is okay. Tastes like crunchier lettuce. I don't know why brussel sprouts taste different; they're basically little cabbages
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Raw tomatoes are a disgusting, slimy, mealy abomination. Tomato sauce, tomato soup, and ketchup are all excellent.
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.
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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?
Bananas have about a 20 min viability window for me.
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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?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Parsley. Absolutely disgusting
Edit: i misunderstood - for the record parsley is awful in all shapes and forms
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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?
Main one is cucumbers, after my generous neighbors in my childhood gave us 2 large paper grocery bags of cucumbers and my mother used them in everything for the next month I was done for life, can’t stand them raw, but I will eat pickles all day.
The other would be raw tomatoes, the seed slime is not good for my autistic mouth
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I not only hate vegetables but what they do to me is just plain nasty.
I can only eat peas, artichokes and sometimes corn. Oh and marmite, I can eat that stuff right out of the bottle.
I eat any veg and bam I am a fart machine for hours, my stomach hurts like hell and my bowels freak out.
I am almost 70 and I have yet to die from not eating veg. What I almost died from was friends and family incessantly saying “eat your vegetables” like I am 5 year old.Do potatoes also go in your blacklist? Most veg rejectors I've known seem to be okay with that
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Strawberries and watermelon. The flavors are terrible in any way but fresh.
I'm 100% with you on the watermelon. Strawberry, I like good quality strawberry preserves and jams.
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I mean peas, yes.
Brussel sprouts are even better cut in half and slightly seared on a pan.Will try those sauteed sprouts, sounds good
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Main one is cucumbers, after my generous neighbors in my childhood gave us 2 large paper grocery bags of cucumbers and my mother used them in everything for the next month I was done for life, can’t stand them raw, but I will eat pickles all day.
The other would be raw tomatoes, the seed slime is not good for my autistic mouth
Oh no cucumbers have a very short shelf life if you spent a month eating cucumbers from the same batch they were probably going off by the end.
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Do potatoes also go in your blacklist? Most veg rejectors I've known seem to be okay with that
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Love spuds, no issues at all. Avocados now that I think of it as well sometimes.
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Raw spinach is great, I can just eat handfuls of that all day. Cooked spinach is gross, both in flavor and texture.
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.
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Cooked chicken = me fed
Raw chicken = me ded
Nuff sed
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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?
I'm not a picky eater, I can appreciate most flavors and textures, even if it takes some time. I guess I don't really care for baked potatoes? I don't dislike baked potatoes, I'll eat em up, but I'd prefer practically any other method of preparation. Mashed, scalloped in a Dutch oven or stovetop, hash browns, fries, tater tots, soup.
Hmm, actually boiled has to take bottom rank, even in the best pot roasts the potatoes are the weak link
