Also hate coconut apart from when it’s in a curry. Like eating suntan lotion.
I dislike too much coconut. Like, I'm fine with it sprinkled on soup or some such, but Bounty bars or those blue bastards in Quality Street masquerading as fudge are boak. Malibu can get in the sea as well.
Cucumber.
To most of you a watery, almost tasteless experience.
To me a bitter, overpowering rancid flavour that cancels out everything else.
Nothing worse that a bought sandwich that doesn’t list them then they’re there, lurking and contaminating the rest of the fillings.
Awful awful stuff.
Oh and mushrooms. Slimy evil non-food.
I detest Oreos, just can’t see why people eat them.
I detest Oreos, just can’t see why people eat them.
Agreed. There is something difficult to pin down that I find unpleasant in most American sweet snacks I've tried. Palm oil perhaps? Oreos? Gipping. Hersheys 'chocolate'? Absolutely rank. On a trip to San Francisco they made a massive thing about Ghiradelli chocolate. We tried it, just the once...🤢
Just off for a curry, a really hot curry 😊
I like my curry spicy but not madly so. I like to be able to taste what's in it.
I’m one of the (apparently) rare people that loves lime pickle on the pickle tray
But I love lime pickle.
I haven't seen any mention yet of tapioca. The only food I've had that I would genuinely refuse if ever offered again.
There is something difficult to pin down that I find unpleasant in most American sweet snacks
It's not that difficult, they taste of sick.
The
perceptionthat American chocolate tastes “like sick” can be attributed to the presence of butyric acid in some American chocolate recipes. Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit, which is why it might evoke a “sick” taste association.
Chicken with grapes even has a bit of a fancy name - chicken veronique. Still doesn't make it better. The schizophrenic flavour which divides myself is honey - I can't stand it as a standalone taste and there are some dishes which I eat and I think 'hmmm, not sure about that' and the only ingredient which I can point to is honey, but there'll be others which are a bit moreish and the same scan of the ingredients reveals the most likely source of satisfaction to be honey.
Meat.
Also, nuts in things (like chocolate) I don't mind nuts, I often don't mind the things they get put in, but not together. Nuts in things are weird. Just say no.
Almonds/ Marzipan.
I don't like Christmas cake or any of those rich/fruit/boozey christmas flavours (Mince Pies, Mulled Wine)
Don't particularly like Marzipan either but.... Marzipan that has been peeled off a christmas cake is lovely.
Similarly I don't like porkpies but like the crust from a pork pie. I actually think there would be a market for buying pork pies, pealing the crusts off and selling them in bags a pub snack and selling the centres in Holland And Barrat as 'Atkins Pork Pies'
food (esp puddings) with alcohol in - sherry, tiramisu etc. Shite
Seafood - wish I liked it. Was brought up believing I was allergic to it all, which was entirely wrong. Trouble now is, it all tastes too "fishy" (oddly, especially the non-fish stuff like crab etc)
+1 for aubergine, but then clearly NOBODY actually likes that shite
it’s just wrong to have really hard things hidden inside soft things.
Said the actress to the bishop.
Steak - it's always okay, but I feel there's usually better things you could do with it. Fillet > Wellington for example.
+1 for aubergine, but then clearly NOBODY actually likes that shite
Aubergine Parmigiana is ambrosia.
Orange with savoury meals is the work of Satan. Its like a pollutant that spoils the entire dish, doesn't in any way enhance meat.
Herbal Tea - most is fine for the first few mouthfuls, but toward the bottom, it's bloody awful. Removing the bag helps, but it's still mostly horrible stuff. Especially if it has berries or spices in it - why would I want turmeric in my drink?
Herbal Tea – most is fine for the first few mouthfuls, but toward the bottom, it’s bloody awful. Removing the bag helps, but it’s still mostly horrible stuff. Especially if it has berries or spices in it – why would I want turmeric in my drink?
I sometimes drink it as the wife has a whole cupboard dedicated to the stuff. Dozens of different flavours which actually all taste the same (i.e. of nothing). It always over promises and under delivers. Smells great, but tastes of barely perceptibly flavoured hot water.
Herbal Tea
Squash for adults
I like mackerel and I’d never even considered putting gooseberries with it. I’d give it a try though👍
Its a Grigson recipe. The acid tartness of the gooseberries cuts thru the oiliness of the fish. Its a 2+2=22 situation 🙂
As a side bar - theres a really interesting book called the 'Flavour Thesaurus' by Niki Segnit, not a recipe book but a sort of reference book that lists key foods and then details methodically all the things they pair with well.
As you can imagine '..... and bacon' appears a lot 🙂
Cucumber.
To most of you a watery, almost tasteless experience.
To me a bitter, overpowering rancid flavour that cancels out everything else.
See, I don't mind cucumber per se. Rather, I object to having cucumber-flavoured burps for the next four hours.
Tomatoes. Well some of them. It is weird - I like cherry tomatoes (raw or cooked), I like anything tomato-flavoured (puree, soup, ketchup etc), I am quite happy eating cooked tomatoes. But a raw 'normal' full-sized tomato – awful. I have tried eating them several times as an adult but I have an instant gag reflex.
I like my curry spicy but not madly so. I like to be able to taste what’s in it.
The hottest curry still has lots of flavour if it is cooked properly. In fact I'd go as far as suggesting a hotter curry has *more* flavour.
@johndoh - Mrs Binners is exactly the same about tomatoes. If they’re cooked, she’s fine with them.
She thinks it’s the smell of the raw tomatoes she finds so off-putting
Herbal Tea
Now I can get along with most herbal teas, some work better with sugar/honey some without, and mint or rosehip tea is really nice, BUT Pukka teas seem to think that every single flavour needs to have liquorice in. No! Makes me nauseous.
Which is weird because liquorice (the sweet) I really like, even the salty Dutch stuff. But plain liquorice root or aniseed is horrid, even though it smells amazing.
Speaking of Dutch stuff, I tried some honingdrop (honey sweetened liquorice) for the first time the other day. It was a sugar-free version and my wife warned me "it's not quite as good as the normal one". OMG I have genuinely never tasted anything so vile. Had to spit it out. Tasted like a combination of Chapstick, scented candles and vomit.
There is almost nohing I won't eat, most of which I also enjoy. Back to the OP I could happily live on a diet of Baked Beans and Creme Eggs. Love olives too. Thinking of preferences though I won't eat Salt and vinegar crisps unless there is nothing else available, and prpoer corn on the cob with butter will probably make me gag (I can eat it out of the tin with a spoon though, go figure). Other than that, not much I won't try
To be fair, most food is fairly bland, until you add spices or condiments, so that sentiment could be applied to so much
Cream. I don’t absolutely hate it but I don’t like it and don’t understand why everyone seems to love it on strawberries, scones, etc. but I love ice cream…
She thinks it’s the smell of the raw tomatoes she finds so off-putting
I practically live off tomato-based stuff like pasta. An actual tomato though, no. I think it's the texture, or the combination of them. Skin, flesh, snot.
No one got coriander yet?
Tastes like washing up liquid to me, seems to be a genetic thing.
Comes as a default sprinkling to spoil too many dishes. Makes a good curry inedible.
No one got coriander yet?
Tastes like washing up liquid to me
I really like coriander but dislike parsley which other people tell me they find quite similar.
It's weird this personal taste thing!
Curry. Absolutely hate the stuff.
As someone who was weaned on Asian cuisine, I feel genuinely sad for you. There's so much variety, so much depth of flavour. I do understand people being averse to the heat though; Bangladeshi cooking is particularly hot, some of it, and I'm not a fan of chilli obliterating any other flavours. But that's not good cooking. A lot of that is down to 'Indian' restaurants just putting loads of chilli in everything, thinking that's what British people wanted. Fortunately fashions have changed somewhat.
But we sort of had curry at home. Vesta dehydrated curry if anyone remembers that? We thought it was super exotic but looking back it was awful cardboard tasting stuff!
I was once given some of that by a white friend's family; lovely people who bucked the trend at the time where many people were deeply racist, and just wanted me to feel included, bless them. 🤗 It was truly, truly dreadful. And worse, it had raisins in it. I hate raisins. I politely ate it, but had to push all the raisins to one side. My friend's mum was a bit upset by that I think. But he had a quiet word, and after that they'd give me proper 'English grub', so it was burgers and hot dogs and all sorts of wonderful things (often pork products) I didn't get at home. I didn't tell my parents though.
I have not checked completely to see if this point has been made, but baked beans - try them with garlic and a splash of red wine, suitably cooked off.
Not for breakfast though in my view.
Lots of mentions of snot. I'd give it a go.
Eggs. Fried, scrambled, boiled, poached, omelette, all of those things make me retch as soon as I smell them. I've tried to like eggs but I just can't do it.
Just been to the US where everything at breakfast seems to include eggs, I got a few incredulous looks when I asked for 'no eggs'.
We ordered our usual mains at the curry house today.
The owner said he'd make us an alternative dish for a change. It was delicious - when I asked what it was, he said it's what they normally eat, rather than the dishes on the menu 🤣
Rare steaks. I like my food cooked thank you<br />Whereas I prefer not to have my food the same texture/toughness as my shoes.
Medium rare is perfect for me... over done just ruins it, but equally, rare steak is like eating red slugs.
Curry. Absolutely hate the stuff.
Yeah , like what @brownperson said 'curry' encompases so many different styles it's almost a pointless term, it's a bit like saying you don't like music that has guitars in it 😀
Not read it all,
Baked beans. (Also aphabetti spaghetti and spaghetti hoops) it's the sauce. It's too sweet but I can eat creme eggs and tablet. So too sweet for the food group.
Mushrooms, I want to like them, but they make me boak.
creme eggs and tablet
What?
Oh and cucumber.
It's one of the few green things my eldest eats so I tolerate having it in the house
I*'m not a curry fan at all because I do not like chilli at all. Hot food just burns my mouth and I can taste nothing. My guess is I am just sensitive to chilli and that includes good home made curries
