I am Indian and I love to cook many kinds of cuisines because my family likes the variety. I cook Indian, Thai, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Japanese and American food. It is not as if I enjoy each and every dish in every cuisine. You try different things and pick your favorites.

There is such a huge variety in Indian cuisine that I feel that the people who hate it have only ever eaten curries. The Indian restaurants are not the best places for either vegetables or variety. Most have the same old menus so really the exposure to the variety of Indian foods for most people is minimal. The best food is still cooked in homes of people and even there it really depends on who is a good cook and how vast is their knowledge of different regional cuisines.

Anonymous wrote:That's OK. I'm the only person I know who gets queasy at the sight and smell of mac & cheese and any kind of deli meat. Been that way my whole life. Yack. To each her own.

I hear you on the deli meat. Gross!

Anonymous wrote:That's OK. I'm the only person I know who gets queasy at the sight and smell of mac & cheese and any kind of deli meat. Been that way my whole life. Yack. To each her own.

I hear you on the deli meat. Gross!

I feel this way about POTATOES and I think people just find it to be so weird. they literally make me gag.

At Indian with my husband I get the murgh malai kabob - it's really just chicken for people who don't like curry.

Anonymous wrote:I love Indian food but I've come to terms with the fact that it makes me violently ill. I am allergic to something in it. I wish I knew what!

This exactly!

Hate it. Can't stand the smell, can't stand the look of it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm married to an Indian and we eat it all the time. But I know many, many Americans who just can't eat it. There are some very strong flavors in Indian cooking and lots of non-Indians just can't acquire a taste for them.

I, however, am the only person in the world who hates popcorn!! Anyone else out there??

Yeah I'm pretty ambivalent about popcorn. It's so pointless.

I feel the same way about spaghetti. Blah!

I love Indian food but I've come to terms with the fact that it makes me violently ill. I am allergic to something in it. I wish I knew what!

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP. totally agree with pp, can't stand to smell food hours after it has been eaten. Don't want to taste it in burps, either!

yes! Also a really good hood is essential so I don't wake up to a kitchen that smells like last night. Too bad we can't air out the people on metro.

Ham is a food that I can't eat - throw up almost immediately!

I'm another one who dislikes Indian food. I love many kinds of food from all over the world, but curry and the spices in many Indian dishes are just sickening to me.

For years, I lived in an apartment building that was mostly Indians. Great neighbors in every way except for the nauseating cooking smells.

I like it, but it is so pungent with spices.

To each their own but you guys are crazy. Indian food is fantastic!

I'm OP. totally agree with pp, can't stand to smell food hours after it has been eaten. Don't want to taste it in burps, either!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear you on the lingering, OP. I love garlic and onions but will not ever eat them because of the lingering smells. I can only eat Indian on very rare occasions and I hate smelling food smells when I am not expecting to smell food smells. It's actually nauseating.

If you don't eat garlic and onion, doesn't that omit pretty much every type of cuisine?

As long as ginger is ok, you can make a fair amount of Japanese food without garlic and onion.

I love ginger! And small amounts of well-cooked garlic and onion is ok. I just don't want to smell like my food after I have eaten it, and I honestly don't want you to either.