Foods you don’t like that always need explaining.

Or with seafood, people keep asking if I like a specific fish after I’ve said I don’t like seafood.

Not being facetious, do you like freshwater fish?

I detest desiccated coconut. Can’t eat anything with it such as chocolates and cookies, but love raw coconut.

I’m another who can’t stand fresh tomatoes, but eats plenty of tomatoey things like pizza

Me too. I normally tell people I don’t eat any raw fruit beginning with the letter T.

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 chance.

Apart from that, if it’s food or drink, I’ll consume it.  Better still if it’s something I might be intolerant to 🙂

Storm Darragh was probably just me farting after having raw red onion on my side salad that evening.

The only tomato I’m not so keen on are fresh ones halved and fried with breakfast

To me that’s just half a raw tomato warmed up – no thanks.

I’ll eat any food except liver ( paté is fine), kidney, mashed swede and mince pies.

I love tongue. I think it’s the name that puts people off, too anatomical. If topside beef was called ‘arse’ I doubt it would sell so well.

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.

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.

The only tomato I’m not so keen on are fresh ones halved and fried with breakfast

I’ve never been able to comprehend why anyone ever thought that was a good idea.

I’ll eat any food except liver ( paté is fine)

That’s the only thing I can think of not liking… but apart from pate i don’t think i’ve had it since liver and bacon mum made when i was a kid. It was so damn dry like chewing sandpaper, but that might just be because she cooked it wrong.

fried tomatoes and bacon is the best bit about breakfast! Amazing combination!

also… I’ll eat anything and fussy people annoy me ?

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’

Are you insane? The bean juice MUST TOUCH the egg!

Infact, egg + beans one toast: one slice egg beneath beans, the other slice, beans beneath egg, so you get the best of both worlds there.

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?

:applause:

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.

*bottom of page 2

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!