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?
Cooked chicken = me fed
Raw chicken = me ded
Nuff sed
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.
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
Bananas have about a 20 min viability window for me.
Raw tomatoes are a disgusting, slimy, mealy abomination. Tomato sauce, tomato soup, and ketchup are all excellent.
They only get mealy if your refrigerate them. They shouldn’t normally be slimy either. Juicy, yes, if properly ripe, but that’s not the same as slimy.
[Actually the seeds do have kind of a slippery coating, that I could see calling slimy.]
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.
Ditto. Can’t stand fresh tomato’s, makes me puke (literally). Any other way (cooked, etc) is perfectly fine.
Raw celery. Most people seem to say it has no flavour. To me it smells and tastes similar to vodka and makes me sick to even think about. It’s also kinda squeaky on the teeth which is unacceptable. Cooked in a soup or whatever is fine.
Cabbage rolls. Specifically that combination of ingredients has made me sick by smelling it in the past, though it’s not as bad now as an adult, and they do taste good. Cooked/boiled cabbage in any other context never bothered me.
Pickled onions. I love onions and can eat them raw, but I couldn’t even finish one mini pickled one due to the resemblance to stomach acid, taste and smell.
Celery - at least what I get from my local supermarket(s) - definitely has a whole spectrum of flavour, so I wouldn’t agree with anyone saying it doesn’t have any.
“Vodka-like” isn’t an adjective I’d use either, but for me the spectrum runs from bitter and almost urine-like to sweet and mild (but unmistakably still celery), so maybe there’s something in there that’s reminiscent of vodka for some people. I should note that this can apply to stalks on the same root as well. Younger/inner shoots tend to be sweeter, but that’s not a hard and fast rule.
Yeah well can’t blame you on the celery. I also don’t like it much. I can eat it but it’s kinda eugh and I agree it absolutely has a taste. I also find it more bland if it’s been cooked but I don’t see it as an improvement.
Yup, it can add some nice colour, but besides that there isn’t much point. Thanks for the celery validation.
Celery is used as a flavouring. People who say it doesn’t taste of anything probably had Covid or something…
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.
I imagine my mother was chucking any that looked off or more likely cutting off the parts that were bad and using the rest.
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.
It’s dinosaur time
Open the door, get on the floor!
Everybody chew like dinosaurs!
Same. Raw spinach salad for days, but cook or can it and it immediately becomes one of my most hated foods.
Carrots are not as bad but I don’t care for them cooked, especially when raw carrots are so tasty.
I like pop tarts way more if they aren’t toasted
Broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, and brussel sprouts.
I’ve heard “you just haven’t had them done the right way” so many times, from so many people, who then make them their preferred way and they still taste like straight up dookie.
No amount of butter, or cheese, or time spent cooking under any kind of application of heat makes these things taste palatable.
Plus they all stink like farts when cooked, which just makes it worse.
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.
I had no idea!
Nah, cabbage is okay. Tastes like crunchier lettuce. I don’t know why brussel sprouts taste different; they’re basically little cabbages 🤷🏻♂️
Parsley. Absolutely disgusting
Edit: i misunderstood - for the record parsley is awful in all shapes and forms
Raw carrot good
Cooked carrot bad
Love cucumbers, hate pickles.
Vinegar in general is just disgusting to me.
Onions
Raw: arrgg can’t stand them. Maybe if it is a sweet onion and very thinly sliced, but otherwise keep it away from me.
Sauteed: Mmmmm… spread them over EVERYTHING!!!
Caramelized: Extremely inappropriate moaning noises…
Love tuna sushi. Hate hate hate canned tuna!
