Any foods you prefer or can't stand depending on whether they are raw, fresh, pickled, cooked etc?
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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
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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?
Fun fact, that gene is only about whether you can smell the compound in the piss, not whether your body processes asparagus into that smell.
They tested this by having people smell other people's urine, and found that the people who can smell it in their own piss can also smell it in the piss of everyone who eats asparagus, even of the people who claim not to produce that smell.
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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?
Hmm. Only thing I've found is I don't like hot lettuce (so on a hot sandwich where it also gets hot). My husband hates raw tomatoes but loves everything they become. Sibling hates raw onions but likes them soft and cooked into soups and the like.
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Hmm. Only thing I've found is I don't like hot lettuce (so on a hot sandwich where it also gets hot). My husband hates raw tomatoes but loves everything they become. Sibling hates raw onions but likes them soft and cooked into soups and the like.
Fair fair. Yeah I'm not a fan of soggy lettuce, I can tolerate it now but as a kid I was adamant on not having it as part of my toastie or, even better, add it after toasting.
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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.
I imagine my mother was chucking any that looked off or more likely cutting off the parts that were bad and using the rest.
