I’ve never been able to comprehend why anyone ever thought that was a good idea.
Well one reason it's a good idea is that cooking tomatoes increases their lycopene content. And lycopene helps to fight cancer and heart disease.
They are also delicious fried and the moisture from them helps to counter the dryness of bubble. Although obviously not if you have baked beans, you can't mix fried tomatoes and baked beans.
Blimey, there’s a lot of fussy eaters.
Fresh tomatoes are ace, as is tomato sauce like on pizza. The only tomato I’m not so keen on are fresh ones halved and fried with breakfast. Just give me half a fresh one.
Milk is about the only thing I can’t do. Fine in anything, but in a glass nope. Not a chanc
so many fussy eaters, and you are one of them!
Although obviously not if you have baked beans, you can’t mix fried tomatoes and baked beans
I’m sorry but tomatoes have no place on a cooked breakfast Ernesto. Beans do, but only under strict conditions. Under no circumstances can the bean juice touch the egg. This may necessitate the use of a sausage ‘dam’
Never cross the streams!!!!
Mrs Dubs is allergic to tomatoes*, but given the chance she would eat them..
* actually lots of stuff in the nightshade family - it's a pita...
I’m sorry but tomatoes have no place on a cooked breakfast Ernesto. Beans do, but only under strict conditions.
To be honest I don't even know why I said don't mix fried tomatoes and beans, I do it all the time!
As someone who doesn't eat pig for breakfast my standard combination in a greasy spoon is "tomatoes, bubble, and beans, two slices of bread and butter, and a mug of tea, please" (eggs are only allowed if they are guaranteed free range, so no chance)
I reckon what I must have been thinking of is that you don't need fried tomatoes to take the dryness away from bubble if you have beans.
You’ll have to come round to ours for a Sunday morning breakfast Ernesto. The eggs are from the chucks from the farm at the top of our road, which I ride past all the time as they cluck about, happy as Larry. As free range as it gets
Meringue. I absolutely gorged myself on it when I was about 3 years old and then puked it all up. Decades later, I still remember the taste and texture and I just can't eat it, I've tried and my stomach starts heaving as soon as I put it in my mouth. I've had a couple of awkward times visiting people where the hostess proudly produces some utterly lovely looking homemade meringues and then I have to explain that I physically cannot stand to have it in mouth.
they cluck about, happy as Larry.
This is why I don't have a problem eating eggs....... you steal their eggs but they don't seem to mind.
I agree with your fried egg not touching baked beans comment btw, as soon as you break the yolk it all runs away into the baked beans sauce, and completely loses its significance once it has been watered down and disappeared into the baked beans sauce.
Meringue. I absolutely gorged myself on it when I was about 3 years old and then puked it all up. Decades later, I still remember the taste and texture and I just can’t eat it
this happened to me. What cured me was a pavlova in my 30’s.
I don't eat meat.
Stock response is "but bacon!".
**** off.
Cucumber. To me it is the most rancid, bitter and overpowering flavour in existence. It contaminates everything it touches and I can taste it on a chopped tomato in a sandwich if the knife had first chopped a cucumber.
I accept that most people find it a mild and inoffensive flavour but it’s so hard to find anyone who believes me and keeps cucumber separate so I can eat the rest of the sandwiches/salad etc.
i'm with your comrade. the struggle is real
awful stuff, doesn't taste of much, but what it does taste of infects everything else it comes into contact with and renders it inedible.
oh, and cooked mushrooms can do one too. slimy, sluggy texture and tastes of dirt.
All fish, crustaceans etc smell and taste the same to me. The smell alone makes me gag. I wish I did like it but just can’t stand it. Such a strong smell and taste that contaminates everything. If someone near me is eating any seafood it puts me off my food in seconds. Again, I wish I did like it but just find it all vial.
Same.
As a kid I used to go with my grandad to do the weekly shop round the market stalls on a Saturday morning. Walking past the fish market, I'd hold my breath until we'd passed.
Stock response is “but bacon!”.
I think bacon stinks as well. I think this might be a big part of the problem, if the smell of something makes me boak there's no way I'm eating it.
In a past life I worked in a bowling alley. One of the shift positions was working the Diner, I hated it so one of the duty managers used to deliberately rota me there just to spite me. (I don't think it was personal, he was just a ****. He used to rota a lass on the Quasar arena because he knew she hated that, we used to swap stations with each other and he'd tell us off for it like it made the blindest bit of difference.) Flipping burgers as a vegetarian wasn't pleasant but I could deal with it. Then they introduced a bacon burger and there was just no way, I used to tell customers we'd run out.
[Aside: never order food in a bowling alley. The stories I could tell, and I doubt they're atypical.]
When I’m in charge, people who put fruit in cheese will be first against the wall
Bloody hell! That's twice in the last month we've agreed on something. I can only assume people put fruit in cheese to disguise the flavour of the cheese. Why the hell would you want to do that? It's cheese FFS.
Cucumber.
Oddly, I quite like cucumber. I don't eat it very often though because what I don't like is cucumber-flavoured burps for several hours afterwards.
I'm pretty sure most of these food aversions are more psychological than genuine dislike. I'm not knocking this as I won't eat boiled or fried egg but will eat scrambled.
For example the tomato, they don't all taste the same, far from it. A sun ripened one straight off the vine is world's away from a rock hard supermarket one that's been grown under lamps in winter and picked when still rock hard.
Meringue. I absolutely gorged myself on it when I was about 3 years old and then puked it all up. Decades later, I still remember the taste and texture and I just can’t eat it, I’ve tried and my stomach starts heaving as soon as I put it in my mouth.
Pavlova-ian reaction?
I’m pretty sure most of these food aversions are more psychological than genuine dislike.
The explainers are in! (Not just you). Nothing psychological about my mushroom hatred. Look, taste, texture, head of a penis*. It's all wrong. They once served me lasagne in Belgium, telling me it had no mushrooms. It tasted disgusting, Yeah, they were cut tiny, but had infused their vile groul (nice word) flavour into the sauce.
I even thought, hey, I didn't like these as a kid, maybe they're ok now. Once. Just once. Bluergh.
I also hate coffee. Then yesterday, the very day this thread was started! I drank some concoction I'd accidentally picked up in Lidl - iced pumpkin coffee juice. Hmm, it was ok. So not sure if I can still say I hate coffee.
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As long as it's dead, or nearly dead i will eat it. However even I have one thing I can't eat... semolina.
I can only assume people put fruit in cheese to disguise the flavour of the cheese. Why the hell would you want to do that? It’s cheese FFS.
Although grapes and apples are often found on a cheese board, and toast with strawberry jam and cheese (Cheddar or Wensleydale are my favourites) is wonderful, so fruit clearly goes with cheese.
NO I DONT WANT SALT* IN MY PUDDING. EVRR
* as in listed as a feature for example, salted caramel cheesecake.
+1, salted caramel anything has never been an improvement on just caramel, I can see how a pinch of salt in the mix might add a bit to the flavor but it's universally overpoweringly salty.
Coffee.
Lord I’ve tried. From shit instant to the best and rarest in the world, it all tastes far too bitter for my child like palette.
I’ll see myself out.
Coffee.
Lord I’ve tried. From shit instant to the best and rarest in the world, it all tastes far too bitter for my child like palette.
Ah but have you had it made from a machine that costs more than your bike?
Salmon
I'm veggie but years ago when i wasnt i always hated fish, especially Salmon. The amount of fish lovers who could not get their head around this was staggering and I was always met with the phrase "yeah, but really well cooked fresh salmon? Ever had that?"
I was lucky enough to visit La Gavroche and have the Salmon there are part of their taster menu. It was cooked by Michelle Roux Jr himself and i still hated it. Yet this still isn't enough for some people.
Ah but have you had it made from a machine that costs more than your bike?
Or made from coffee beans that have been defecated by an Asian palm civet?
Or made from coffee beans that have been defecated by an Asian palm civet?
Yeah, actually. Had it a couple of weeks ago at Ynyshir in Machynlleth. That’s what shown me that there’s no hope for me as a coffee drinker. Was made palatable as it was in a tiramisu, so predominantly cream and sugar, but the coffee bit just tasted too bitter
Ah but have you had it made from a machine that costs more than your bike?
This always makes me laugh. Everyone who's even vaguely "into coffee" knows that the machine has very little to do with it. Its about the actual quality of the coffee and how well the operator has dialled in the match between grind and machine. Yet still people spend silly money on flash Italian chrome steampunk nonsense.
The Asian palm civet shit directly onto a wonky plate?
That's niche!
Very little I don’t eat.
Tinned tuna - overly fishy and odd texture but would eat it if there nothing much else
Veg: Broccoli, Green cabbage and sprouts
Cottage cheese - has no significant taste and just wrong.
Other than that there’s some foods I’ll eat sometimes and not others.
My eldest doesn’t eat cheese but loves piazzas with cheese on and cauliflower cheese.
Lots of people don’t drink now so its not unusual for someone on a night out to not be drinking.
Octopus. I don't eat it because they're too smart. I recall eating it barbecued on holiday as a kid, and it being delicious, but that was before I knew they were clever! I can't get past the idea of them knowing what's about to happen to them when they're caught, or the other octopuses watching and being sad.
Almond/marizipan stuff too. Absolutely revolting. And since I have no need of liking anything else unhealthy, I haven't tried to adult my way into eating it and liking it.
And eggs. Boiled eggs or fried - absolutely despicable. Scrambled I can just about cope with if very very cooked. I blame it on being poor when I was a kid, but having chickens. Apparently for a long while I refused to eat anything yellow, convinced it would be egg.
Lots of people don’t drink now so its not unusual for someone on a night out to not be drinking.
I totally agree – twice recently I have been out (with different groups of people) and each time about half the group were not drinking – there were no questions, people just accept it now.
Octopus. I don’t eat it because they’re too smart.
Yeah, I’ve had a few times over the years but in more recent years I have been reluctant to order it for the same reason. Then I kind of think it’s not dissimilar to other meats, they’re all shitting themselves before we dispatch them.
TBH, the worst i've met was my brother, but that was 100% psychological, he wouldn't eat anything much that he couldn't recognise 100% of the contents. And the recognition wasn't logical either. He'd eat fish fingers and chips (ingredients on the packet), but wouldn't eat fish and chips from the chippie (actual identified fish, rather than "80% fish products").
Would eat things like home made bolognese, but if someone added anything herby, that he subsequently spotted, the rest of the meal would be left (is that fleck of green basil, thyme or oregano?).
He got much better in his 20's and now eats pretty much anything. Also became an award winning chef...
Just remembered that my childhood best mate was terrified of tomatoes, didn't just dislike them but was scared of them.
Him mum used to line the fridge and cupboard shelves with them to stop him nicking snacks 😀
Stock response is “but bacon!”.
I had beers last week with a friend who’s been working overseas for the last 15 years, first in the Middle-east, now in Asia. He said that when he went to the M.E., he didn’t think that not being able to eat pork would be a big deal, but then when he left and could sit down and have a beer and a burger with bacon or some roast pork, he realized just how delicious it is. I get that some people don’t eat meat for perfectly good reasons but, for anyone who likes roast pork or bacon, it really is difficult to comprehend how someone could not like something that delicious. It’s like people who say they don’t like chocolate, it just doesn’t make sense to anyone who likes chocolate.
When I tell people I don’t like cheese they usually ask if I like pizza. Well no, it’s got cheese on it. Then if I like cauliflower cheese. No thanks, it’s cheese. How about in a burger? Sigh.
Similar, but as mozzarella isn't very cheesy when cooked...I like pizza. Imagine trying explain that!
Octopus. I don’t eat it because they’re too smart.
Absolutely, I agree 100%. And not only are they very smart but they are also emotionally highly sensitive.
Which is one of the reasons that they often take to captivity extremely badly. It can deeply affect them psychologically and they can end up nervous wrecks determined to escape.
Octopus. I don’t eat it because they’re too smart.
Yeah, I’ve had a few times over the years but in more recent years I have been reluctant to order it for the same reason.
Same here, and coincidence, one of my daughters has just sent me a pic of her lunch, baby octopus salad. I replied saying 'poor baby octopus, but delicious!'.
Have you read this:
Octopus. I don’t eat it because they’re too smart. I recall eating it barbecued on holiday as a kid, and it being delicious, but that was before I knew they were clever! I can’t get past the idea of them knowing what’s about to happen to them when they’re caught, or the other octopuses watching and being sad.
Cows aren't thick. Some dairy cows are hilariously crafty about breaking the system.
Although grapes and apples are often found on a cheese board
As an accompaniment. Not obliterating the flavour of the cheese.
and toast with strawberry jam and cheese (Cheddar or Wensleydale are my favourites) is wonderful, so fruit clearly goes with cheese.
Another wrong 'un outs themself.
As for foods I don't like, mayonnaise is devil's spunk and ruins a perfectly good sandwich. It's particularly insidious as it's often hidden and the unassuming consumer is unaware until they take a bite and get a mouthful of Beelzebub's jizz.
and toast with strawberry jam and cheese (Cheddar or Wensleydale are my favourites) is wonderful, so fruit clearly goes with cheese.
Jam is effectively a form of chutney. Of course fruit goes with cheese but I’m not a big fan of fruit in cheese anymore.
