Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

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100% of ultra processed food.

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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.

I love beets but NATTO!
My sister lives in Japan and prides herself on having "gone native" as they used to say. She makes a big deal about serving natto for breakfast and insists "we love it in this family." I grew up with her and there is no way she actually loves this Nickelodeon Floam scented like athletes foot. She's putting it on!

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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.

Same here - love a good beet salad with slices of mandarin oranges, roasted walnuts, a bit of soft cheese, fresh herbs. Yum.

And I can't get enough of cilantro. Smells so good. Tastes even better.

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Pickled herring. Herring in cream sauce. Yes I've lived in central Europe and never ever got used to this.

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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.

Boiled potatoes with parsley and butter can be quite lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:Soft shell crabs! -lifelong Marylander

Stick some bread and mayo around it.

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Bitter gourd

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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.

I had an aunt that didn't know what eggs were. I grew up on a farm. You don't name your food. It makes it hard to eat.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

People are different. I was raised vegetarian and when I first had steak at around 14 I was like, "OMG, how have you people been holding out on life when this exists! Give me a gun and I'll kill it myself!"

I actually do love vegetarian food and eat less meat than probably 90% of Americans but...I'll never be truly veg again. You can pry the meat and seafood out of my cold, dead hands.

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Not a good but mulled cider. It’s nasty! 🤮

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Cottage cheese

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I hate lamb.

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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.

Boiled potatoes with parsley and butter can be quite lovely.

They would be better with parsley and butter either as mashed potatoes or as baked potatoes. Pick a lane! Boiled potatoes are just potato purgatory.

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Red bean paste

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Anonymous wrote:Soft shell crabs! -lifelong Marylander

+1. I love Old Bay though, just not on crab.