Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

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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.

I eat potatoes cooked and served any way, shape or form: boiled, fried, roasted, baked, sauted, mashed, potato salad, au gratin, you name it. Yum.

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Your first point speared me straight through the heart. I love boiled potato. It’s the simplicity, topped generously with butter, dill and spring onions. It’s heaven. Pure heaven.

No specific foods that I don’t understand or find weird, more the tendency with some to add cheese to everything. Also creamy sauces with meat, chicken and especially with fish.

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Duck - I’m not a picky eater and I was so excited to try it after seeing on all the cooking shows. So nasty.

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Durian! The texture is weird, smells weird, tastes ok, expensive, etc. I don’t get it, why!

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Anonymous wrote:Bitter gourd

+1

My mom had it in her garden. Never acquired a taste for it. Yuck!

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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.

Only if you name it cutsy names like you'd give a pet. If you name your pig Porkchop, everyone is ok eating it later. It's a constant reminder of what the pig's purpose is, so you never get attached or think of them as a pet.

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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.

I’m really glad you said that. I’ve tried for years to like beets and I just can’t. Maybe it’s not a character flaw after all!

I adore cilantro. 😀

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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.

NP here. Another who things that beets taste like dirt. I've always wondered what they taste like. I have a couple of friends who love beets, but can't describe the flavor, and just say that they taste like "wonderful vegetables". I've tried both regular and golden beets and they both taste horrible.

I do love cilantro though. I have a few friends who have the soap gene and my family doesn't particularly care for it (doesn't taste like soap, but they don't like the floral flavor), so I tend to avoid it in cooking.

My spouse grows fresh basil in the garden, so I substitute a lot of fresh basic for cilantro if I need an herbal component.

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Aspic, anything jellied, and Jell-O—the texture is repulsive
Oysters—i don’t understand them and have no desire to try them
Wrap sandwiches are terrible 90% of the time

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OP, I agree with you about bowls. I’m actually fine with a bowl for lunch - And actually quite like a Poké bowl. But to me, they just don’t “count” as dinner.

I fully understand that bowls can be a nutritionally balanced whole meal. I think it’s because in my mind dinner has to have more than one component, if you will. For the same reason, I also don’t consider soup as a standalone to count as dinner, but I’m fine with it for lunch. As dinner soup has to be part of a larger menu one course.

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Injera bread and most of the Ethiopian dishes that accompany it

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Anonymous wrote:You had me on the first two. I love bowls. Specifically couscous bowls.

+1. Rice bowls, pasta bowls, salad bowls, egg roll in a bowl.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck - I’m not a picky eater and I was so excited to try it after seeing on all the cooking shows. So nasty.

You might have just had a crappy duck dish. It’s pretty good when it’s prepared well.

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Anonymous wrote:100% of ultra processed food.

So like, pasta

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Anonymous wrote:You had me on the first two. I love bowls. Specifically couscous bowls.

+1. Rice bowls, pasta bowls, salad bowls, egg roll in a bowl.

All fine for lunch, not dinner. -NP