Foods you don’t like that always need explaining.

I’ll eat anything 🙂

Even tennis balls.. woof!

Milk

I like pretty much all dairy products, but can’t stomach milk.

I bulk-buy tins of Mutti finely chopped tomatoes

Mutti is excellent, it’s the best supermarket brand I’ve found for toms and sauces.

There is a flipside to this though, as in the kind of person who makes a fuss about the stuff they don’t like if it’s served to them or on a menu. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it, you don’t have to make a drama out of it.

I agree, but, these two scenarios do not have parity. The number of people you describe are statistically insignificant compared to the number who will make a big song and dance about what someone else does or doesn’t eat.

Me, if that happens then I’m mortified and want the ground to swallow me up. The dead last thing I want to do is draw attention to myself. The idea of eating out with folk other than close friends fills me with dread, and even then it would not be my first choice of activity. “Do you want to go out for a meal for your birthday?” No, I’d rather enjoy it.

Mrs Binners is the same about fresh tomatoes. She says that it’s the smell. One whiff of them and she’s gipping, but she’ll happily eat them once they’re cooked.

Fresh tomatoes on the vine is one of the bestest smells in the world IMO.

Actual tomatoes though, nope. I think it’s the snotty bit in the middle that gives me the wiggins, texture again.

My autistic son loves tomatoes, especially cherry ones. Could eat them by the bucketload! But then he also loves feeling any weird slimy textured stuff.

I’m not sure I’ve ever met another tomato hater before, never mind so many all at once!

My grandmother hated tomatoes, she always told me that it was her parents fault for not forcing her to eat them when she was a child. She also hated cooked cheese but was fine with uncooked cheese, which is just as well as she was french.

Although I do have a French cousin who I remember during my childhood couldn’t even stand the smell of cheese, he would instantly run out of a room if camembert was placed on the table. It made mealtime a tad difficult for him sometimes.

Another veggie here, I don’t mind folks having questions, that’s OK it mostly comes from a good place. Why folks think that bacon (of all things)  will ‘cure’ me is genuinely weird though , I mean have you smelt frying bacon, especially first thing in the morning?

As a vegetarian this is a Problem because so many times the veggie option, or if you’re really lucky options, are cheese-focused.

I would quite like to go veggie – however most veggie/vegan things seem to be based around tofu, mushrooms or lentils.

I despise all of them

Mutti is excellent, it’s the best supermarket brand I’ve found for toms and sauces.

Agreed – I discovered them when they were on offer at Morrisons and I won’t buy anything else now. I usually get them from Amazon as they are £1 a tin for a pack of six which is better than supermarkets most of the time.

Meat.

“But whhhyyyy….?!?!?!” Bugger off.

+1

Especially heading into “HOW CAN YOU ALWEAYS TELL A VEGETERIAN ……… THEY’LL TELL YOU HAHAHAHAHAH” joke season.

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When I’m in charge, people who put fruit in cheese will be first against the wall

The battle for the north will be fought at Ribblehead between the savoury warriors of the Lancashire plain and fruity cheese tribalists of Wensleydale.

I would quite like to go veggie – however most veggie/vegan things seem to be based around tofu, mushrooms or lentils.

I despise all of them

Tofu is absolutely amazing.

I’m convinced people who don’t like it have only had the disgusting deep fried shoe leather you get in Chinese buffets and takeaways. I’ve only ever had it once in a restaurant where it was cooked nicely (Thai corner on their vegie platter) , crispy, fluffy, light and absolutely soaked in their dressing.  Not likening tofu is like not liking steak having only ever had it fried for 10minutes each side with no seasoning.

Chop it into cubes, dry it, soak it in flavour, dry it again, dust in cornflour, then crisp on each side in a frying pan.

And silken tofu makes great puddings.  Pretty much substitute it for mascarpone or soft cheeses and you can make a much higher protein, lower fat version.

Pedantz gonna pedant, but I don’t think you know what gruel is (or how to spell it)

Groul: spelt correctly: pinched from the urban dictionary to describe ‘A useless organism, that stands around doing nothing.’ ie mushrooms.

Another veggie here, I don’t mind folks having questions, that’s OK it mostly comes from a good place.

I don’t mind people having questions. It’s them not dropping it when I’ve given answers that’s a pain in the bollocks.

I would quite like to go veggie – however most veggie/vegan things seem to be based around tofu, mushrooms or lentils.

I despise all of them

Tangent, but it’s not all-or-nothing. You can just cut down gradually if you like. “Plant based” is this week’s Marketing slogan but there’s a ton of stuff variously Quorn, TVP, pea-based protein and a host of others.

I don’t mind lentils but I rarely have them because I struggle to cook them, they seem to go from crispy to slurry inside of about six seconds; the only time I had tofu was on an airline and that put me off for life; mushrooms as discussed.

Another hater of the fresh tomato here.

Cook it and the tomato is possibly the top tier of meal bases but fresh it can get in the sea. Some heathens put it in the bottom of a burger which just makes the bun slimy and soggy and it also makes everything taste of tomato slime and sog. NO.

Also, mince pies.

We’re already well into ‘What is wrong with you, how can you not like mince pies’ season.

Nothing is wrong with me, I just don’t like them.

I thought that was the Vegan joke that morphed from the iPhone-owners joke 10 years ago.

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.

Dad, how long have you been on the forum?

Daughter has the mushroom issue, unless they are hidden in a sauce. Son will  basically only eat peas or baked beans, or mashed up pear. He’s 21. And its a proper phobia with him now, struggles to touch let alone eat anything else.

Also, mince pies.

We’re already well into ‘What is wrong with you, how can you not like mince pies’ season.

Nothing is wrong with me, I just don’t like them.

Amen to that. I mean, I can physically eat them, but there is not a single bit of pleasure in doing so. Then the net-zero experience becomes a downward spiral when I crunch into a bit of wayward stalk. Nah.

I agree, but, these two scenarios do not have parity. The number of people you describe are statistically insignificant compared to the number who will make a big song and dance about what someone else does or doesn’t eat.

True. There are also, of course, the third group – the people who make a fuss because you’re eating something they don’t like. You know, the “eugh, how can  you eat peanut butter” (or whatever) lot. They piss me off the most – I’m eating it because I like it, I’m not asking you to eat it, so pipe the f__ down.

Why folks think that bacon (of all things) will ‘cure’ me is genuinely weird though , I mean have you smelt frying bacon, especially first thing in the morning?

Surely your answer is ” coz it ain’t kosher”?

In fact I might start using that, my current response is “I don’t eat pig”.

Although “coz it ain’t halal” might worry them more.

Groul: spelt correctly: pinched from the urban dictionary to describe ‘A useless organism, that stands around doing nothing.’ ie mushrooms.

I might be wrong, but I can’t help thinking you struck lucky on a late Google search there 😉

My mum wouldn’t eat tongue. Her argument was “well, you don’t know what it’s licked.”

For an aweful lot of animals thats a whole lot of bum 😀

I’m a vegan, my whole life Ive hated anything with milk in it, turns out that’s because I have a dairy intolerance. My youth would have been a lot nicer if the UK wasn’t all about forcing various forms of milk into kids!

I never liked fresh tomatoes until I ate them in Italy – different game altogether. English British North European tomatoes are just pretty nasty generally.

I might be wrong, but I can’t help thinking you struck lucky on a late Google search there

You sound a little obsessed.

Gravy.

It’s not the I dislike it necessarily, but I prefer potatoes, Yorkshire pudding etc and want to taste them instead of turning everything into some brown, soggy, mono-tasting mess.

Tangent, but it’s not all-or-nothing. You can just cut down gradually if you like. “Plant based” is this week’s Marketing slogan but there’s a ton of stuff variously Quorn, TVP, pea-based protein and a host of others.

+1

50g  – you’ll get that just from the veg you eat already.

100g – easy enough if you add in some higher protein veggies (pulses, nuts, grains)

200g – into serious strength athletes here,  but even then you can get most of it by substitutions, e.g. pasta made from chickpeas, silken in creamy sauces, or just sperate out the idea of “food” and “nutrition”.  If you want that much protein just have a protein shake.

The rural area not so far from here uses the phrase 5 and drive,

Got to be Gower ….hear it all the time

Gravy?

Our family seems to need a tanker of it lol! We went for a family Sunday dinner, the poor waitress must have wondered what we were doing with it with the constant requests for another jug.

Just had lashings of onion gravy with sausage, mash and kale 😀

Do you like cheesecake out of interest?

No, cream cheese is still cheese.

What about stuff like samphire also. It’s not a fish or a crustacean.

What about paneer? That’s cheese but it’s not really much like normal cheese

No and no.

A friend of mine won’t eat cheese but is fine with pizza, despite the mozzarella.

That’s just fussy.

What about stuff like samphire also. It’s not a fish or a crustacean.

Of course it isn’t, it’s a plant!

I’m a bit fussy, I’m not keen on most meat, apart from white meat, but I’m rather partial to a kebab, especially after the pub. Anything with fat or jelly makes me heave – jelly literally made me sick as a kid, as did mushrooms, but I absolutely love mushrooms and can eat them any time I want.

I like most seafood, I had sea bass with mussels the other evening, I love scallops, crab, tuna, although I won’t eat squid, they’re far too intelligent to think about eating them.

I’m happy to eat most Asian, French, Spanish, Italian food, pasta etc; I can easily find something I like on most menus.
I think a lot of any issues I have with meat is my mum’s cooking, there wasn’t much variety in the 50’s, and smell and texture had a lot to do with it.

Carrots. Specifically cooked carrots. I love them raw. Grated in a salad? As crudités to dip in hummus? Bring it on! But as soon as they are cooked, they develop the most overpowering, bitter, vomity taste that just makes me heave! I sigh whenever I see “seasonal veg” as the accompaniment to a pub meal or roast dinner. You just know it’s going to include vomit flavoured orange medallions. I love a steak and ale pie or a winter stew, but people seem incapable of making them without adding Beelzebub’s root. Similar veg like parsnips I love and I’m pretty unfussy about veg generally. Because carrots are so universally popular, people flat out refuse to believe it when I explain how vile they taste to me.

Gravy.

If you’re not going to eat it, how do you feel about wrestling in it?!

Cake, and most desserts partly because they’re far too sweet and sickly for me and partly because people love slinging tree nuts in such things, which ends badly for me.

Saying you don’t like seafood is a bit weird, it’s a very wide range of flavour, texture and just concept of what things are. Its a bit like saying you don’t like fruit.

There’s very little I won’t eat around but I don’t like salad dressing and every bloody place drowns salad in vinegary oil, makes it inedible. Let me choose goddammit.

For me it’s coffee. Just the smell makes me gag, but so often I hear “let’s go for coffee, there’s an amazing place just round the corner”.

“No thanks the smell is revolting “.

“Have a cup of tea then, they do great tea there ”

“Yeah, but the whole place stinks of coffee, so no”. Etc

I get the alcohol thing as well, that’s annoying.

But the worst is my nut allergy and the people – MIL included – who think I’m just being fussy and try to sneak nuts into food. That was a fun few hours in a Swiss hospital…

Oh, and I always thought the joke that a vegan will always tell you was a myth (and of course for most people it is) but last year I was doing a job interview. First question “why do you want to be a librarian?”

“Well, I’m a vegan and…”

He didn’t get the job. Nothing to do with his dietary choices, more that he told us he’d killed his dad and he kept spitting on the carpet.

My statement that I don’t like anything sweet is always followed by

What? Not even biscuits?!

No

Cakes?

No

Chocolate?

No, because as I said; I don’t like anything sweet

What about sweetcorn on the cob in season? Not the supermarket plastic wrapped shit but the kind that comes in it’s own natural wrapper. I’m not a fan of cheap sugary upfs but natural sweetness in fruit and veg is so different.

Haloumi. I love cheese, i love grilled cheese, but **** that haloumi texture on my teeth squeaking with every motion of my jaw.

Other than that it’s contrary combinations, so with binners here. black pepper in strawberry jam -no. Orange with duck **** right off. Something sweet hideously combined with red cabbage bleurghhhhh. Chocolate in bolognese no no no! Etc

NO I DONT WANT SALT* IN MY PUDDING. EVRR

* as in listed as a feature for example, salted caramel cheesecake.

What about sweetcorn on the cob in season?

Nope. I just don’t like sweet things at all. My youngest daughter is the total opposite. When we have a barby, she’ll happily forsake everything else and just eat corn on the cob, one after the other.

Haloumi. I love cheese, i love grilled cheese, but **** that haloumi texture on my teeth squeaking with every motion of my jaw.

I bloody love squeaky cheese! I get you on the texture thing though. I can’t stand chickpeas because of the texture of them and humus is just garlic flavoured tiling grout

Otherwise, I’m with you all the way on putting sweet elements in savoury dishes. Just plain wrong! Especially when you get perverts putting pineapple on pizza and other such nonsense. Just NO! 

Yet another raw tomato hater here. Think it’s a textural thing, I’m fine with sauces, chopped tomatoes cooked into stuff, even sun-dried tomatoes and the lovely flavoured oil they’re in. Just hate the raw version.

Only two other major food hatings are coriander leaf (cilantro if we’re being ‘murican) and courgettes – the former tastes of soap and the latter of wax.

I firmly believe that olives are just solidified Fairy liquid

Just don’t look in that other thread, it… Unspeakable depravity. The work of something… Beyond the devil.

On the tomato hate….. Tinned plum tomatoes… Bork!!!

Why would I want my lovely cooked breakfast ruined by those foul watery insipid things?!

I’ll eat almost anything bar marshmallows, just weird and yuk.

Love fungi but a mate had a girlfriend who couldn’t eat mushrooms as the texture of a dry uncooked field mushroom reminded her too much of the head of a penis. I sometimes have to unremember that.