How could you not like cilantro? Hated foods related
AKallDay
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My friend posted a link on her blog this week to a NY times article that spoke to a genetic predisposition to disliking cilantro.
She thinks it tastes soapy, which is what the article cited- I think it is a very flavorful and complex herb and I love it!
She also asked what foods people disliked - I am fascinated by what people don't like, food wise.
What foods do you hate?
I can't stand:
mayo
licorice
mochi
asparagus
red bull
cold cuts of meat - the texture alone is revolting
cheesecake
sweet cocktails of any kind
She thinks it tastes soapy, which is what the article cited- I think it is a very flavorful and complex herb and I love it!
She also asked what foods people disliked - I am fascinated by what people don't like, food wise.
What foods do you hate?
I can't stand:
mayo
licorice
mochi
asparagus
red bull
cold cuts of meat - the texture alone is revolting
cheesecake
sweet cocktails of any kind
Comments
raw/pickled ginger
red bull
cheesecake
asparagus
ew.
Dark chocolate, and orange flavoured chocolate.
Black licorice.
Cauliflower
Liver
Sardines
Coffee
Anchovies
Sweet Potatoes
Clamato Juice
I get this 100%. Definitely tastes soapy to me to.
There's some kind of genetic predisposition to the taste of cucumber aswell which makes it unpalatable to some
Those are three of my favorite flavours!
Eggplant
Natto
Marzipan
I love it.
Not much I wont eat.
One thing I can do with out that most people love are olives.
I will eat a few if served to me.
Brussels sprouts
beets
heart/brains/kidneys/tripe/liver*
octopus
carob (just eat fuckin' chocolate!)
* while in Florence, I ate crostini Toscana, which contains ground chicken liver. It was delicious, and I ordered it several more times. So there's that.
Oh shit, I forgot these two. (And not just clamato for me--regular tomato juice gets the gasface as well.)
As for anchovies, I again defer to Italy--I always detested anchovies, but then I ate some in Cinque Terre, and holy shit, they were amazing. Fresh and delicious and completely unlike what we call anchovies here in the States.
oh yes!- so chalky it's truly terrible.
i forgot to mention cream/citrus together! (key lime pie, lemon merengue pie, etc)
AND eclairs or anything where gelatinous goo is insidiously placed in a crusty shell, jelly donuts and so forth
I can eat anything except this.
Smells revolting to me.
Tastes revolting to me.
I've had a go, a few times, to see if my palate has changed (as I've got older, I have lost my sweet tooth) but, nah.
It's on so many sandwiches by default. And I can still taste it on the food after they take it off. Gherkins and pickles are fine, but the cuke is my Kryptonite.
Innards
Horse Meat
Carp
Swabian pockets
Chicken fricassee
After Eight Chocolate
If I walk into some random taqueria, for example, I'm most likely not gonna order head tacos. But if someone I know is all like "Dude, you gotta check this place out, they're famous for their head tacos and they use these special brain pieces and my boy knows the waitress and blah blah blah," then yeah, sure, why not.
I'd feel like a real rube if I had to be like "That famous head-taco place? Oh yeah, I went there...I got the chicken, though, 'cause I don't eat head tacos."
Also, it's worth noting that Not Liking Cilantro has in recent years become, as they say, "a thing," and there thus might be a decent possibility that some of these people are not so much down on cilantro as they are up on trends.
Fascinating! I've been hearing the soapy description for years...but only from men. I thought it was one of those things like they say some men have a hard time telling the difference between purple, blue and black.
Anyway -
relish
maraschino cherries
bell peppers
camomile
turnips
peas
corn
Black Licorice
Okra
Clam Juice (Clamato)
I love most organ meat, especially tripe (pan fried in a taco -delicious! or in a hearty menudo... yummi! I do not go out of my way to eat kidney though, in order to make it palatable you need to painstakingly clean it up from all the veins (they're not really veins since they don;t carry blood but urine to be filtered by the organ and having cleaned up many pounds of them when I used to work in a restaurant kitchen I can tell you that they stink like pee. Then you need to soak them in milk or butter milk t get the last remains of bathroom flavor out of them... I'm a strong believer that if you kill something you should be willing and able to eat the whole body but the kidneys I'd just throw the dogs. other than that I had various kinds of brain, boiled pig brain on ice -not so special, kind of bland, veal brain with scrambled eggs -nice! I love barbacoa which is goat or cow head, basically everything but the fur, horns and bone, there's lips, eyes and all those tender facial muscles in there and it's one of my favorites. I had bull's penis (not so special, nice sauce but the thing itself bland and of questionable texture), grilled turkey testicles (fucking delicious, seriously, and you'd be surprised how large they are!), sweetbread of course and all sorts of other stuff... never as a dare food as I respect food too much to make a silly game out of it but always out of curiosity and I can't recommend it enough to keep on expanding your culinary horizons. Some of the most delicious eats I ever had was from the side of the road while traveling through West Africa by bush taxi, what better way to experience a foreign culture by just participating in daily life and eat what everybody else is eating.
I'd never eat dog or cat though. Same goes for monkey. I tried horse once but couldn't do it again, I'm soft like that.
A friend of mine once was invited (by a special group of people in Brazil) to a dinner with a human thigh as the center piece. He didn't go.
Are you guys serious about listing Red Bull as a food? I wouldn't use it to loosen a rusty screw and would rather kiss a dead body than a girl who's just downed a can of that nastyness.
quite the opposite, i listed it as if to question its edibility !! its popularity eludes and saddens me.
Hair
Tendon
Stomach
Intestines (I like it as sausage casing but I don't like to eat the poop-chute by itself)
Octopus
Rubbery/chewy animal byproducts gross me out. Texture related.
However, because I have a bad heart and am boarder-line diabetic I can't eat starchy foods.
I can honestly say I'd never realised until I read this thread & then googled it. Of course I always knew it was soapy but I just thought thats how it tasted
The cucumber thing is some kind of aldehyde that a few people can taste but most can't
So apparently I can taste all sorts of things that other people generally can't. Mostly it's a pain, but sometimes it's a help. As a kid I'd be able to taste that the milk had gone sour a couple of days before the rest of my family. It can be handy to be able to pick out various flavours or individual ingredients in meals, so you can understand how to make them, or figure out what combinations make a dish interesting.
Wow, I knew that due to them having more active taste buds, kids would taste everything way more intense and how this was the reason about their many dislikes and also why they eventually grow to like them as their sense of taste becomes more "adult".
Even to me, many waters taste disgusting. Right now I'm drinking what supposedly is spring water as we get it delivered to the house in 5 Gallon bottles and it doesn't taste good to me at all but I drink about a gallon to a gallon and a half each day and just don't want to buy that much Evian... I don't even enjoy most brands of "better" water, Volvic for example I cant stand.
Coffee (coffee ice cream ok)
Mole
Cauliflower
Beef (all)
Pork (all)
Organ Meats (all)
Beets
Shellfish (all)
Macadamia Nuts (tool of the devil)
Walnuts
Cashews
Mountain Dew
Mr Pibb
Dr Pepper
Moxie (vile)
Sour Cream
Avocado
Potatoes (baked, mashed, any prep that doesn't involve frying basically)
Squash (all kinds)
Asparagus
Cole Slaw
Rutabaga
Swiss cheese
There's plenty more
I hate that I hate so much stuff, but I do. Why eat foods you don't like? If I was starving, I'd eat whatever, but I'm not so I won't.
Brussels sprouts are the worst, fyi.
i can't stand:
herring
carab
chocolate mousse/anything mousse
vegemite
miracle whip
spam/any tinned meat whatsoever
tarmosalata
flake tuna