Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

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Anonymous wrote:Raw celery. I can eat it in soups or sauteed in a dish with mirepoix but just munching it raw I can't do

Same. It's gross.

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Anonymous wrote:Fruit in salads. Fruit salad is fine, fruit with lettuce et al is a no.

I agree! Fruit doesn't belong in salads.

I really like apple, strawberry, or nectarines in my salads.

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A lot of the things folks have been mentioning are things I personally believe no one actually naturally loves the taste of. People eat all manner of weird stuff, because they have to, because they're curious, because they're showing off. But I truly doubt there are a lot of people who are going to proactively choose to live on rotten cheese and fermented cabbage when there are other available options.

I am personally interested in why we as a species got super into putting stuff in Jello. Personally, I think moving to office supplies over food is a huge improvement to this behavior, but why did it seem upper class and cool to congeal stuff that way?

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Anonymous wrote:100% of ultra processed food.

A bologna sandwich with Miracle whip and American cheese on Wonder Bread is about the grossest thing I can think of. So—agreed.

Any bread you buy at the store is ultra-processed, not just Wonder Bread 👍

Agreed. And I eat none of it.

Do you bake your own, or eschew bread entirely? Just curious!

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Anonymous wrote:1) Boiled potatoes. If you’re going to fuss with potatoes at all, make them good: mashed, baked, or roasted. Boiled? GTFO.

2) Boiled or steamed Brussels sprouts. Roasted only. Ideally with pancetta and balsamic glaze.

3) “Bowls” for dinner. Just no.

Mashed potatoes are boiled potatoes.

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Obviously one of the greatest foods ever, but I don’t understand honey. Like it looks so fake, so crystal clear and so sweet. Never goes bad… How is it real?!?!

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Anonymous wrote:1) Boiled potatoes. If you’re going to fuss with potatoes at all, make them good: mashed, baked, or roasted. Boiled? GTFO.

2) Boiled or steamed Brussels sprouts. Roasted only. Ideally with pancetta and balsamic glaze.

3) “Bowls” for dinner. Just no.

Mashed potatoes are boiled potatoes.

For some people. I like to add salt, butter, and cream to my boiled potatoes before calling them mashed potatoes. It's an old family recipe.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things folks have been mentioning are things I personally believe no one actually naturally loves the taste of. People eat all manner of weird stuff, because they have to, because they're curious, because they're showing off. But I truly doubt there are a lot of people who are going to proactively choose to live on rotten cheese and fermented cabbage when there are other available options.

I am personally interested in why we as a species got super into putting stuff in Jello. Personally, I think moving to office supplies over food is a huge improvement to this behavior, but why did it seem upper class and cool to congeal stuff that way?

Aspic, which is meat jello, used to be a very high class thing (because it’s difficult and labor-intensive to do properly so it shows you have good servants). When jello came along and democratized the “stuff in gelatin” field the middle class loved it. Why did aspic become a thing? Who knows.

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Anonymous wrote:Doritos and Cheetos
They just gross me out but people who I respect love them.
Is that one genetic, too? Ftr I like cilantro and beets.

My husband and I were talking yesterday about how gross Fritos are! So salty. People used to make taco salads and chili and add Fritos. Disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things folks have been mentioning are things I personally believe no one actually naturally loves the taste of. People eat all manner of weird stuff, because they have to, because they're curious, because they're showing off. But I truly doubt there are a lot of people who are going to proactively choose to live on rotten cheese and fermented cabbage when there are other available options.

I am personally interested in why we as a species got super into putting stuff in Jello. Personally, I think moving to office supplies over food is a huge improvement to this behavior, but why did it seem upper class and cool to congeal stuff that way?

Sauerkraut is fermented cabbage. Other cultures have their version of fermented cabbage. I don't think you can make a whole meal of fermented cabbage; it is a condiment that improves other foods.

As for rotten cheese, all cheese is rotten. That's cheese. Some are less rotten than others.

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Anonymous wrote:Doritos and Cheetos
They just gross me out but people who I respect love them.
Is that one genetic, too? Ftr I like cilantro and beets.

My husband and I were talking yesterday about how gross Fritos are! So salty. People used to make taco salads and chili and add Fritos. Disgusting.

Fritos are three simple ingredients: corn, corn oil, salt. No mystery ingredients. Nothing unpronounceable. It's practically a health food.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the things folks have been mentioning are things I personally believe no one actually naturally loves the taste of. People eat all manner of weird stuff, because they have to, because they're curious, because they're showing off. But I truly doubt there are a lot of people who are going to proactively choose to live on rotten cheese and fermented cabbage when there are other available options.

I am personally interested in why we as a species got super into putting stuff in Jello. Personally, I think moving to office supplies over food is a huge improvement to this behavior, but why did it seem upper class and cool to congeal stuff that way?

Aspic, which is meat jello, used to be a very high class thing (because it’s difficult and labor-intensive to do properly so it shows you have good servants). When jello came along and democratized the “stuff in gelatin” field the middle class loved it. Why did aspic become a thing? Who knows.

There's a book called Perfection Salad by Laura Shapiro that talks about how home economists of the early 20th century created this world and taste for these things.

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sweet potato
winter squash
beets

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Sushi is incredibly overrated and overpriced. It's so...boring. Yet people think eating it makes them so bourgeois.

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I don't understand oysters.