Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beets. Every year I’m tempted to buy them because they’re such a pretty color. And then I cook them and remember they taste like dirt.

Also natto. If it smells rotten, I cannot put it in my mouth, I’m sorry.

Like cilantro, beets have a genetic component. They taste great to some people and literally like dirt to others, and it’s not a matter of taste, it is actually how the brain receives it. Like cilantro literally tastes like soap for people who are genetically predisposed to taste it that way.

This explains things. I have had people go on and on about how great beets are, so I have tried to like them and just can’t.

I do like cilantro.

[Anonymous]

I don't like organ meats, tails, tongues, or feet.

[Anonymous]

All meat. I was raised vegetarian, and it seems super wacky to me that people want to kill animals and then eat their flesh. Obviously I know it is common, but to me it does seem very weird.

[Anonymous]

Is it weird to you that other carnivore animals eat meat, or just humans?

[Anonymous]

I’m also vegetarian and while I don’t find it weird that people (or other carnivores) eat meat, I do find it strange that little kids are taught to think of farm animals as cute cuddly creatures but not give a thought to the fact that they are mostly being raised for slaughter.

[Anonymous]

Soft shell crabs! -lifelong Marylander

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m also vegetarian and while I don’t find it weird that people (or other carnivores) eat meat, I do find it strange that little kids are taught to think of farm animals as cute cuddly creatures but not give a thought to the fact that they are mostly being raised for slaughter.

Lol. My parents live on a farm, and my kids grew up visiting them several times a year. We were always very open and forthright about the destiny of those animals, but I still remember the light bulb going off in toddler DC's head one night at dinner. We're having chicken for dinner ... I fed the chickens this morning ... they're the same thing???!?

[Anonymous]

Waldorf salad- celery, apples, mayonnaise and sugar

[Anonymous]

I’m French. I cannot stand the thought of escargot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waldorf salad- celery, apples, mayonnaise and sugar

Don’t forget there’s also chicken, grapes and tarragon. People used to think it fancy. Different times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m also vegetarian and while I don’t find it weird that people (or other carnivores) eat meat, I do find it strange that little kids are taught to think of farm animals as cute cuddly creatures but not give a thought to the fact that they are mostly being raised for slaughter.

Lol. My parents live on a farm, and my kids grew up visiting them several times a year. We were always very open and forthright about the destiny of those animals, but I still remember the light bulb going off in toddler DC's head one night at dinner. We're having chicken for dinner ... I fed the chickens this morning ... they're the same thing???!?

I grew up in farm country and yeah, my granny named all her sheep lambchop and would talk about the animals they were while we ate them. I get vegetarianism and I get omnivorism but I was really thrown in university when I met people who disliked meat that looked like the animal it was (like they’d eat chicken nuggets but not roast chicken; hamburgers were fine but roasted fish grossed them out). That was a mental disconnect that I could never fully understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beets. Every year I’m tempted to buy them because they’re such a pretty color. And then I cook them and remember they taste like dirt.

Also natto. If it smells rotten, I cannot put it in my mouth, I’m sorry.

Like cilantro, beets have a genetic component. They taste great to some people and literally like dirt to others, and it’s not a matter of taste, it is actually how the brain receives it. Like cilantro literally tastes like soap for people who are genetically predisposed to taste it that way.

This explains things. I have had people go on and on about how great beets are, so I have tried to like them and just can’t.

I do like cilantro.

Ah lightbulb moment! Beets taste like dirt PP here. I am intensely dislike cilantro although I don’t think I have the soap gene because it doesn’t taste like soap to me, it just tastes bad. What do beets taste like if you don’t have the dirt gene? I’m now super curious. I always assumed people just like the pink dirt flavour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beets. Every year I’m tempted to buy them because they’re such a pretty color. And then I cook them and remember they taste like dirt.

Also natto. If it smells rotten, I cannot put it in my mouth, I’m sorry.

Like cilantro, beets have a genetic component. They taste great to some people and literally like dirt to others, and it’s not a matter of taste, it is actually how the brain receives it. Like cilantro literally tastes like soap for people who are genetically predisposed to taste it that way.

This explains things. I have had people go on and on about how great beets are, so I have tried to like them and just can’t.

I do like cilantro.

Ah lightbulb moment! Beets taste like dirt PP here. I am intensely dislike cilantro although I don’t think I have the soap gene because it doesn’t taste like soap to me, it just tastes bad. What do beets taste like if you don’t have the dirt gene? I’m now super curious. I always assumed people just like the pink dirt flavour.

Beet lover here (not PP). They don't taste anything like dirt to me! They are sweet and kind of floral tasting. Maybe a hint of bitterness. I love them paired with citrus, the acidity highlights the sweetness of the beets.

I love cilantro. Fresh and herbal, not soapy.

[Anonymous]

I love bowls.

I hate snails and find them disgusting. Same with frogs legs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soft shell crabs! -lifelong Marylander

So gross