Which single spice you dislike most?

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Anonymous wrote:Anything licorice-y. So fennel, star anise, Chinese five spice, I'm sure the list goes on. It's the only thing I can taste and ruins the dish for me.

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I don't go to Chinese restaurants where I've found this flavor. Blech.

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Anonymous wrote:Another fennel/anise hater here. My MIL is Italian American and always uses anise in baking, it’s awful. On the plus side, I don’t eat her cookies/cake/whatever.
I love Italian food but their pasties, not so much. If they aren’t adding anise they add orange flavoring and non mi piace!

Agree! I can't handle anise. Also I have never met something made with Almond Extract that I didn't find so overpowering and gross. I love Almonds so I am not sure why I can't deal with it. Blech.

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Anonymous wrote:Caraway seeds! Ruins a food for me every time.

Sooo good in sauerkraut.

Good and sauerkraut do not belong in the same thought

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I wonder if scientists can use Crispr gene editing technology to fix the defect that make people not like cilantro.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if scientists can use Crispr gene editing technology to fix the defect that make people not like cilantro.

Maybe we aren’t the ones with a genetic defect?

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Dill - hate it

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Anonymous wrote:Oregano. I don’t even know why.

I hate how sandwich places (like Jersey Mikes) add oregano to the sandwich. It's so overpowering that its all you can taste. I never get the seasoning on it. A little goes a long way in Italian dishes, so it has its place, but I like it used sparingly.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm one who has the thing where cilantro tastes like soap.


I genuinely have no idea why people like it - I intellectually understand it tastes different to me, but I have a hard time imagining it. Why would you eat soap?

I am one of the people who tastes soap when I eat cilantro but I love it. Go figure.

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Anonymous wrote:Caraway seeds! Ruins a food for me every time.

Sooo good in sauerkraut.

Good and sauerkraut do not belong in the same thought

Hee hee.
Caraway in rye bread on a chicken reuben with caraway in the sauerkraut, swiss cheese and thousand Island dressing.
So good.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm one who has the thing where cilantro tastes like soap.


I genuinely have no idea why people like it - I intellectually understand it tastes different to me, but I have a hard time imagining it. Why would you eat soap?

I am one like that too. Posted earlier in the thread. Some kind of person pointed out a genetic component. There is a link to populations that dislike it more than others.

I love cilantro. It doesn’t taste anything like soap to me.

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Oregano and cumin. It’s a tie. Both are awful.

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I’m not a fan of that bagel spice blend.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird how many of you dislike cumin and other spices common to Indian cooking - I think they’re the most wonderful, and they’re also very healthful. It makes me sad how late in life I ‘discovered’ Indian food and cooking.

I dislike cumin but I LOVE Indian food. I tolerate the cumin, or it' not so bad if it's one of many flavors.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not a fan of that bagel spice blend.

I think I used it on avocado toast once and can't think of much else to do with it. I don't hate it, but it is definitely buried at the back of my cabinet.

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Anonymous wrote:Anything licorice-y. So fennel, star anise, Chinese five spice, I'm sure the list goes on. It's the only thing I can taste and ruins the dish for me.

+1

+2

I don't go to Chinese restaurants where I've found this flavor. Blech.

MY PEOPLE!!!! I can't stand it and some recipe once called for Chinese five spice, I went and obediently bough and added to my
supposed to be Chinese authentic dish.. This was my greatest culinary disaster to the date. This spice mix is unbearable..
and yes anything fennel.. star anise.. those are kitchen flavor assassination's herbs!

Anything licorice-y. So fennel, star anise, Chinese five spice,