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Caviar. Stop lying it's gross.
Kalles Kaviar goes on everything.
Best breakfast too
I eat just about anything that comes out of fish. I think it's fine. Same with salmon roe and stuff. Cod sperm is the one I don't care for (at least raw), but that's a texture thing.
I had a sampler of about 8 different roe variants. The salmon roe were the best, like little salty bursts with a mild fishy taste. The flying fish were the worst; texturally like sand.
Alton Brown claims his favorite protein source is caviar.
Idk, I like fish eggs on sushi — but straight caviar on a cracker is horrifying to me.
Doesn't the cracker normally have some cheese on it? Like one of the white lumpy cheeses, not like cheddar or provolone.
I think you're thinking of creme fraiche, which is a kind of cream.
Maybe, I thought it was something more like ricotta or cottage cheese, but I haven't been to a fancy enough party to try the stuff. Just remembered a picture.
I think you could use something like ricotta as well, or some kind of cream cheese. I don't really like ricotta so I'm not sure I would, but it definitely isn't unheard of.
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A perk of being of Iranian origin is having tasted actual Persian caviar from Caspian sturgeons. And it's unfortunately very delicious.
Oh so maybe I've just had shitty caviar? My dad was an ambassador and we were always served it when we ate together. The one I remember most vividly was my first and it was at a state dinner in Mongolia, perhaps it's different there. I usually just declined where appropriate after that.
We used to sell caviar at a store I managed and the caviar guy came around to have the staff taste it for sales purposes. We went through like 3 tins of caviar and it was absolutely fantastic. Delicate, slightly briny, slightly sweet, could've eaten it all day.
I don’t even hate it it’s just like little grainy blobs and it’s ok so I just have a small amount to be polite.
I would like to try some before I can say it's overrated. But seing the price, it's probably overrated af.
You can get some pretty cheap, and that's probably what the poster had. From what I've heard, when it's good it's really good. The cheap stuff though is pretty plain. More of a texture than flavor. It's just little sacks of water basically. The more expensive stuff is more salty with fishy flavors, from what I've heard.
Lobster. Without the butter it tastes like almost nothing. With the butter it tastes like butter.
to me, lobster has a flavor and it is awful
It tastes like slightly lobstery butter with an immensely satisfying texture. It's good
I'd much rather just have an artichoke with a lemon and garlic and melted butter dip. Or a Lion's Mane mushroom, cut into slices and pan-fried in butter and salt, then topped with lemon juice. Or, for that matter, a Dutch Baby pancake. All of these strike me as being in the same overall flavor family as lobster, but I find them tastier, and they also avoid the cracking process, which I find messy and unpleasant.
It’s just expensive escargot
Snails>lobster, I'll fight over it
🐌⚔️🦞
I’d agree but escargot has that bad habit of popping molten hot butter on the people eating it so I don’t anymore
"it brings out the succulence, jerk!"
– Bob's Burgers extra
I knew someone from Maine who'd had lobster ice cream; if what you're saying is true, that might explain some things.
You are officially banned from /r/pyongyang
It taste like burning to me, but I think I might just be allergic.
People eat it for the texture
Black Licorice.
Now listen here you little shit
You can pry black licorice from my cold dead hands
dead from all the inedible licorice
Here lies Feathercrown, he died eating what he loved
How could they tell the difference?
I will happily have yours
Can you go to the Good n Plenty production line and just divert it away from the civilized world? Thanks.
That shit should just be called "Plenty".
Gladly
i flicking love it. even the odd kind from europe with ammonia or somesuch in it. or even just chewing on the root sticks.
careful with the blood pressure though.
salmiac
I was about to say this. Liquirice with ammonia taste would be awful.
thank you. ammonium chloride, no?
yes, salmiac is the mineral
Yes the name salmiak comes from sal ammonium, salty ammonium which is ammonium chloride
cool! i’ll thanks!
You insulted my Dutch heritage
I love Gustaf's double salt 🖤 it's difficult to find in my area in Canada though
I'll also insult your Dutch heritage. Black licorice is disgusting.
So… you don’t eat the best Haribo stuff?
i like it
I like it, but I can't have it because I've got high blood pressure.
I agree but I'm also saying if you had real licorice root, you wouldn't say this.
We aren't talking about real licorice root, we're talking about the candied abomination that is black licorice.
More for me! I'm willing to accept I'm the broken one.
Yes. It's not bad, but it's definitely overrated.
Raw oysters. They have the texture and salinity of snot
I like oysters. I don't like snots. Let's agree to disagree.
I assume you've tried at least a few but the difference in oysters around the world is immense. If, for example, you've only tried east Asian oysters, give north/south American atlantic/Pacific or European atlantic/mediterranean ones a try.
Using snot as your salinity guide says a lot about you
You've never had a runny nose before?
That you use it as a benchmark is weird
pretty good as a benchmark in this case, imo. it’s universal and very evocative
It's weird
Not weird at all. Completely accurate, and I LOVE raw oysters. The texture is very weird though, like snot.
Kale
I like Kale. Im not even a health nut.
Nobody LIKES kale, it's just a health trend
It's quite popular in North German cuisine. As someone from North Germany I can confidently say this counts against kale as a food.
Actually, there are ways to prepare it so it's a tasty addition, like in a soup. As a salad it's awful, though.
Can confirm about the soup
I like kale and potato stew, I'd pick it over eggplant or quinoa.
with this one i think a lot of it comes down to if you can taste those test strips from high school biology class. if you can, you're going to hate kale. if you can't you're going to think the people who hate kale are being unnecessarily dramatic.
(bias report: i can taste the strips and i hate kale)
So it's like a cilantro tasting of soap thing? I'm so very glad I didn't get any of these, unless there's one for coffee. Can't stand the taste of coffee, even in tiramisu.
I hate kale. I can barely tolerate most leafy greens, and then along comes this trend of making every salad a kale one and now I can't order any fuckin salad unless I feel like paying to mentally fight my gag reflex the entire time I'm eating it
This is plainly untrue. I went through a period of eating lot of salad, and I can think of exactly one with kale.
I suppose it's been letting up the last few years now that I think of it. Also now that I'm back in a large city, most restaurants have more than 1–2 salad options so the chance of a kale trap is decreased
The garnish?
Starbucks
Dunkin
Oh you don't like coffee milkshakes?
I go there for the third-place experience. Of the drive-through.
Sadly the best chain coffee and yall can fight me on that. The rest is actual trash.
Alcohol.
If they discovered it today it would deffo be unlawful
There is so much good alcohol though! If all you're used to is shit lager and bourbon/tequila shots then I definitely understand this take. Give me some good micro-brewed beer, wine from the cellar door, single malt scotch, or well made cocktail and I'm a happy man!
You just want the effect, without too much bad taste.
I'm saying this as a now sober person, after having tasted the best wines in France for a long time (add in konjak, armagnac, Czech beer, pears, and so on) paired with the finest plates. It's for the effect.
Caviar.
Entirely caviar, it's a delicacy only because of its rarity.
True, but it does taste good.
Too expensive maybe, but it's delicious.
I've seen a cook using fish leftovers, color and flavoring to make cheap fake caviar that people did not notice as fake.
I find that hard to believe. However, if someone could use some molecular gastronomy to fake the texture, size, shape, color, and taste of caviar, I wouldn't even be mad, that's impressive, and probably harder and more expensive than just serving mid caviar.
There is a guy on German TV named Sebastian Lege, who shows how industrial food is made. He is both a chef and a food designer, and he has done a number of crazy things in his show. You really start watching industrial food differently.
Okay, this is probably a hot take, but fish.
I don’t understand how people like it. I get that taste is subjective and all that, but good Lord, I don’t like anything about fish. The smell, the taste, the texture. I don’t get it.
The smell comes from a base when the fish breaks down. That's why a spritz of lemon is such a common thing; it helps to bring the pH back down. I'm a big fan of a simple grilled salmon. Wrap it in aluminum foil with garlic salt. Cook, and spritz with lemon when it's done.
It depends on the fish. Growing up, my mom would buy very cheap white fish and fry it in a ton of oil, so I always assumed I just hated fish. As an adult I have been able to try lots of other fish dishes and enjoyed just about all of them.
I agree for the most part, however, I fucking love sushi.
So it has something to do with cooking it that makes it bad imo
I often try things I didnt like after a few years. Salmon was one of those I gave up on trying. Cooked salmon I found is completely different from sushi salmon and now I can actually enjoy salmon. For me it was less about the fishy taste/smell and all about the texture.
Cooked fish feels like wrong meat in my mouth and it's a gross feeling.
Yes, I fucking love raw salmon. Salmon with avocado and cucumber is prob my favorite roll
They're one of my favourite rolls. Some places will also let you add cream cheese to any roll for a dollar too which is tasty
I've had Philadelphia roll, that has cream cheese, but the ones I've had were with smoked salmon. Which was fine, but would have been better with raw probably
Yeah it's an option you can add to any/most rolls at many places in my area. It's nice. I also avoid smoked salmon in place of raw salmon
Salmon is very easy to overcook. It's almost a trial-and-error experience.
That's how I am with salmon. Most fish I love cooked, but salmon, you ruined some perfectly good fish by roasting when you could have smoked it
What kind of shit quality canteen boiled fish did you only get in your life lol.
There are so many kinds of fish with so many different kind of cooking them, you can't just not like fish in general.
And I am not an especially big fan or expert of fish myself, I just think this statement can not be correct/accurate.
My dad's an expert with fish. Fishing is his favorite hobby. He'll catch them, gut and fillet them in his backyard, and cook them up that same day.
But I'm with OP, fish is nasty. It doesn't matter how fresh it is or how it's prepared, I can't stand the smell/taste/texture as well. Different people have different sensory experiences, it's just a fact of life.
Same here. I’ve tried fresh fish of many different sorts, and just never liked them. I do have a feeling that I just don’t like things from the ocean, because I don’t like seaweed either. For example, I’ve tried sushi with fish and without, and didn’t like either of them.
Depends on preparation, like anything else. You could eat an egg raw or burnt to a crisp and it would be a horrible experience, but if you have a recipe where it works well on its own or have experience with seasoning and combining it with other ingredients it works wonderfully as a meal.
Fish is similar, although I agree that some preparations are more appetizing than others to most people. You'll probably have more people clamoring for sushi or fish 'n chips (deep fried prep) rather than baked in an oven or grilled in a pan.
Also, some fish just are not worth eating, for sure.
I eat fish twice a day It's incredibly healthy
US government scientists tested fish in 291 streams around the country for mercury contamination. They found mercury in every fish tested, according to the study by the U.S. Department of the Interior. They found mercury even in fish of isolated rural waterways. Twenty-five percent of the fish tested had mercury levels above the safety levels determined by EPA for people who eat the fish regularly.
In 2012 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reported on chemical contaminants they found in the food of over 20 European countries. They established that fish meat and fish products were primarily responsible for methylmercury in the diet of all age classes. Particularly implicated were swordfish, tuna, cod, pike, whiting and hake. The EFSA recommend a tolerable weekly intake for methylmercury of 1.3 μg/kg body weight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
It's probably fine.
Fish is eaten all around the world and has been since the dawn of time, super healthy cholesterol reducing fish.
A great way to earn a few bob too, all you need is a boat and a net, lower your net and you get not fish but money, each one of them is free money, there are trillions of them swimming about just waiting to be caught.
Salmon fillet sections, coated in olive oil, dusted with salt, pepper, smoked paprika and garlic powder, then cooked in an air fryer for 8 minutes. Serve with Spanish rice and oven-roasted asparagus (coated in olive oil, with a bit of S&P, broil in oven on Low for ~10 minutes, or until tips start to brown slightly). Yummy.... Kids keep asking for it, but shit's expensive 😅. I also just leave the skin on. Much easier to handle. Some eat it, I don't.
Another one is fish tacos with.....fishsticks. We call them "Del Taco style", and they're a hit in my house. Basic fishsticks, sour cream, halved cherry tomatoes, avocado dressing, shredded cabbage, and fresh lime slices. Served on either lightly-fried corn tortillas, or warmed flour tortillas. Both taco-sized.
Growing up as a lower class white kid in the USA, my main exposure to fish for the first 20 years of my life were cheap, frozen fish sticks.
Turns out good fish doesn't taste "fishy" like old cheap gross frozen fish bits.
Maybe you've tried good, fresh fish and didn't have my experience, I dunno. But I have had God-tier fish dishes that are in the same category as quality steak is to canned dog food.
I’ve tried a lot of different fish, from fresh to frozen, and never liked any of them. The main one I try every year is salmon, and I just never enjoy it.
It’s probably me being very picky.
I don't like fishy tasting fish either. To me that means it's old.
Cooked salmon is actually the fishiest of the restaurant style fishes. It's always overcooked and the oils in it taste fishy.
Grilled mahi or a tuna steak is delicious.
Or if you can get a whole deep-fried sheepshead or redfish.
Blackened trout filets if you're in the Appalachians.
None of those taste "fishy", unless it's old nasty shit.
Avocados.
Guacamole is so goddamn good though.
It's also great on a turkey sandwich
Don't even need the meat. Guacamole, a slice of tomato, a slice of cheese, and a light swipe of spread (butter or mayo are my go-tos, but I'm sure other spread can work). Makes a lovely sandwich. Throw on some baby leaf spinach for greenery and vitamins to help make it more filling.
Its in the categories of "Nice but; overrated, overpriced, and not the star of any show" for me.
There was a post a few months ago comparing the taste of avocados to the taste of clean dick, and now i think about that every time I see one.
Very much untrue. I do not understand for the life of me how something so gross can be compared the the fine taste of dick
Wrote a whole disquisition pretty much exactly on these lines before reading through more comments. Can't be arsed to find it back again to erase. Anyway yes.
Mushy peas. I’m from northern England and therefore should genetically love it, but I just don’t. Maybe it’s because I never went to watch football and rugby games in the rain and cold.
Fresh peas straight from the plant are such a world away from whatever monstrosity processing turns them into. Mushy peas are gross, but I will happily pick every pod in the garden and greedily eat every pea out of them if given the chance.
You may be from the north Jon but you'll never see winter southerner
I enjoy canned and frozen peas a lot. But when they gave me that little cup of mushy peas with my fish and chips. I gave it a shot. It's like pea flavored pudding, nope.
How do you cope with curry sauce at the chippy? I’ll pour it over everything, still with salt and vinegar. Similar consistency but less green tasting.
I don't know what that is. I was just visiting London.
Omg it’s amazing, but a very specific fruity curry sauce (I think) developed in Ireland.
Ahh I didn't make it to Ireland. Scotland was very nice.
I love a good sauce though, definitely would have tried it. I believe they just gave me tarter sauce in England.
Kale....
You don't like it when your lettuce tastes like Windex?
Season makes a huge difference. Kale is best when harvested after it's been hit by a frost. Since it's become more popular they've started growing it in all seasons and harvesting without a frost, which makes it a lot more bitter.
Kale is great when it's been hit by a frost, softened, baked, salted, covered in cheese & dressing, you get a $1000 for every leaf you eat.
Fuck kale, it should be forever condemned to $ .03 a bushel and only allowed over ice on the Sizzler Salad Bar.
Eggplant.
I think the flavor is fine, but I have texture issues with it. It needs to thread the needle and not be squeaky on my teeth but also not be complete mush.
The flavor can get quite bitter depending on the plant. It combines really well with tomato sauce.
Cut em in half, scoop some of the middle out to make a boat fill the scoop with spiced beef mince mixed with fine diced onion, garlic and pepper of choice, slather in olive oil and slap that in the oven. Shit slaps. Eat with humus and pitta
Eggplant is delicious.
Eggplant tempura is delicious.
I used to feel this way until I spent time in Corsica, it’s practically their official food and they know how to use it.
Eggplant I cook however? Yeah overrated
I had cooked eggplant for the first time a few years ago. I have to say it was a surprising taste, but I liked it.
Matcha
I hope the fucking tend ends because I can't get any proper matcha in Japan.
Ground up tea leaves that haven't been otherwise processed and bitter as fuck. Nasty shit.
Even better is when you do tea ceremony and they make the extra thick koicha. Basically a green tea slurry that is so thick it won't even pour.
Even people who had been studying tea ceremony for years found it hard to choke that stuff down.
Boiled peanuts
The fuck is a boiled peanut?
it’s exactly what it sounds like. they are … weird. i do not like them.
Many people have had them and don't realize it. Many brands you buy were boiled in a heavy brine before roasting. Just like that 'baked potato' you eat from a restaurant is often boiled.
A frozen potato.
popular in the south. soak overnight in brine and then boil peanuts (in the shell like this 🥜) until they turn soft, then you pop them out of the shell and eat the soft, salty nut
When a liquid gets hot enough, it turns into a gas. When a liquid is hot enough that it's turning into a gas, it's said to be boiling. Immersing raw food products in boiling liquid is a common cooking technique, food cooked in this way is said to be boiled. A peanut is the edible seed, or pulse, of a peanut plant, a tropical legume. Ergo a boiled peanut is a peanut which has been boiled.
Nah fam, boiled peanuts are fucking awesome
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Ever had 'em fresh? Love me some warm nuts.
Wouldn't that be filicide?
This is the most bizzare thing I've heard of, and I just can't stop laughing.
Cajun boiled peanuts are heaven. Now I'm hungry.
When you lose your teeth and still want to eat nuts
... The fuck??
Caviar. Salty raw fish eggs. I think the rich started this rumour that it was an excellent gourmet item just so they could secretly laugh at the poors when they spent a bunch of their hard earned money on fish eggs, just to appear "Classy".
Shellfish. The smell alone often makes me wretch.
Sea-bugs are awesome. Can I have yours?
My wife already has dibs on all my shellfish. Pickles too. Sorry.
Jesus do you like anything?
Yeah
Dubai chocolate bars. $15 for a candy bar that just tastes like sweet? Makes no sense to me.
Raw tomatoes. You're eating eyeballs and it's not okay.
Are your songs not fit for my hall, master hobbit?
I've eaten lots of eyeballs and lots of tomatoes and I can tell you, they are not the same at all. Not even in the slightest.
See I would’ve said massive boogers but eyeballs work too
Hahaha.
My favorite breakfast when I lived on the farm, was fresh tomatoes from the garden. I will absolutely eat them like an apple.
Bottled water bought by people whose tap water is perfectly fine (i.e. almost everybody who buys it).
Truffle.
It's so overpowering and stinky, I don't understand why people want to pile it up on things or distill it to a liquid to turn the flavor of whatever you're eating into gym socks.
Truffle fries? No. Stop. Go away.
Cilantro, it ruins everything people decide to put it in.
That's because you're genetically inferior and should be exterminated.
I don't propose active violence just putting cilantro in everything. Including drinking water🤤
caviar/oyster
Craft beer. No way so many people genuinely enjoy that shit.
Craft beer
Are you talking about overly hopped IPAs? Because there's "craft beer" versions of every style of beer that exists
Not op, but yeah. If I wanted to drink a literal handful of hops I'd make a hops shake.
I like some craft beers that recognise that beer has more ingredients than just hops.
I hate IPAs, but there are some absolutely amazing amber craft beers out there. I'll take that over a pilsner any day
I've had some really nice craft pilsners, and some absolutely vile ambers....guess it's almost like people have different tastes 🤷
Yes, that is the point I was making..
Yes, that was the point I was agreeing with and reiterating.
Stouts and porters as well
I was recently at a trendy store, and they were selling hops-flavored (non-alcoholic) seltzer water. I finally had to admit that some people must actually like the flavor. I figure these people spent years associating the flavor with alcohol's feel-good brain chemicals, but I'm just guessing.
I mean, if you want a similar flavour and don't want to drink beer, just stuff a fresh nug of weed in your mouth. You probably won't even get stoned due to the bio-availability quirks of THC.
I do hate that IPAs took over the craft beer scene. There are other good styles.
Even craft lagers are rarely drinkable
I enjoy (well, mostly used to since I'm not supposed to have wheat-based stuff anymore) a lot of them. I oddly have trouble with bitter chocolate and don't enjoy certain veg with bitter compounds as much, but black coffee (depending on roast, I guess) and very hoppy and bitter IPAs were something I loved.
Motherfucking cantaloupe. I'm mildly allergic to all melons, but I only avoid cantaloupe. Stupid orange rectangles that infest every fruit salad. And the name itself sounds like something inquisitors would yell as they dragged you out of you hovel for knowing too much about herbs.
Why do people keep growing those awful, inflamed-testicle-looking pieces of shit? Even taking the people that punch holes in the side and fuck them into account, I can't imagine the demand is that high.
Caviar
Lobster.
I think: "but it's really god when prepared in an air-fryer" for about half of what people comment here. (Kale, gnocchi, eggplant, ...)
aint no way air frying can fix lobster though
Eggplant is so good when prepared correctly. There are a thousand different Arab and African recipes for eggplant that are really good!
I mean, asparagus is trash unless prepared properly (blanched and shocked).
Naw, it's great straight from the garden
It is though, pick some wild asparagus and it's amazing
Avocados in/on anything, except maybe guacamole.Tasteless yet slightly off, melty mush. There was a popular tweet suggesting it tastes like clean penis, I agree (and like them even less), but it's more the texture that doesn't do it for me I guess. And don't get me started on the ethics of them. So I'm happy to boycott, except for the very occasional guacamole default side.
The variety of avocados sold in stores is like the worst one because all the tasty ones just don't work on store shelves.
Then I guess I never had a tasty one - like many other people's mentions here haha
by itself it's just nothing, I agree, but somehow mixing it with onion, mayo, and salt & pepper makes it delicious beyond what is added by the other ingredients
Gnocchi. Looks like larva grubs, thick enough that you can taste the blandness even through the sauce they come in.
You have had some sad ass gnocchi my friend.
Haha you’re probably right. I have only ever tried Slavic interpretations of what gnocchi is supposed to be. Open to having my mind changed though.
it's worth trying Italian gnocchi. they are bland by themselves like most pasta, but they're supposed to have a pleasant springy yet yielding texture that complements the sauce
i always say restaurants overcook gnocchi in the united states and my wife says i just don't like properly cooked authentic Italian food. but i think their main customer base are people from the Midwest who overcook their pasta. anytime a read about good gnocchi it's supposed to have a bit of chew to it, but at restaurants it's always soft and mushy.
unrelated though: if you haven't fried gnocchi you really owe it to yourself. it gets a delightful crispy on the outside, doughy on the inside texture. best served with a very creamy sauce. boiled gnocchi i usually do basil pesto, but fried gnocci is going to at least have some cheese on it
Honestly the simplest answer for me was making it myself. Every so often I get frustrated with commercially available gnocchi and go this route.
I admit, I do cheat a little and use dehydrated potatoes (because dang it takes forever otherwise), but I can confidently say even half-assed home-made gnocchi is way better.
You can get cheese filled gnocchi, I start them in a pan with oil the soften them, when that is almost browned add a knob of butter and diced garlic, then take them out before the garlic burns. Season with coarse black pepper.
Eating them as soggy pasta would indeed be grub like but this way they are crisp and garlicky.
Hella satisfying
Hot honey. I keep seeing it on menus. It's just rubbish honey that's had chili added so you can't taste how rubbish it is. Ugh.
Raw onions. Their taste is overpowering, taking over any other flavors in a dish, just to leave onion-breath at the end. Different kinds of onion don't make a difference, either - I've been suggested red onions and sweet onions, but they all have that "onion-y" sense, so no dice.
Cooked onions rock, but only if they're fully cooked (translucent and soft.) One of the reasons I stopped getting onions in meals at Pei Wei was because they don't seem to understand what "cook the onions thoroughly" means. They think heating them up but keeping them half-raw is enough, but I think doing that ruins the dish.
Then there are burgers and sandwiches, where bits of raw onion get hidden in the middle, only to be discovered after a horrifying crunch with a stinging on my tongue.
I don't really believe people are pretending to like them, though. I've asked around people who like raw onions in their food as to why, and almost universally they say they like "the crunch" it gives. Which leads me to think this is just another sensory difference between us - they don't even mention the taste, whereas the taste is the biggest thing I pick up from it.
Shrimp. I've had so many different kinds of shrimp, and they all feel disgusting in my mouth. I can't handle it. I'm almost 40 and at this point I've written off shrimp entirely.
Can I have yours?
I would eat shrimps. If I could.
Not disgusting to me but barely having any taste. Totally not worth wrestling with the shells.
Many gluten-free alternatives are just awful. I may not have had real cracker or cookie in a decade, but whatever this garbage is, should not be food.
The thing that is the absolute worst about gluten free food is how many times some company starts with gluten free and goes wild.
Oh look a gluten free key lime pie, but it’s also
- dairy free
- egg free
- fat free
- sugar free
- tree nut free
- vegan
- made out of sustainably harvested kelp
Like fuck off, my spouse has a gluten intolerance not whatever the fuck this list is for.
I sometimes think about make a gluten free food company that is called “just gluten free” and it uses all the rest of the food stuffs. It’s hard enough to make bread that has a reasonable texture without gluten, we don’t need to make this an impossible task by excluding 80% of the rest of the ingredients that make food taste good.
They just want to get as many markets as possible but it's always just. The saddest food.
Everyone can eat it! (But no one wants to!)
Ok but celiac people all agree with this take. They aren't pretending it tastes good, they just have to eat it.
Edit: It occurs to me that you may be in the aforementioned group yourself and complaining about the outliers.
Worst pizza I ever tasted was gluten free.
Reading this thread for me is really funny. People are hating these foods that I love. Kale, licorice (especially good salted, though apparently other Americans hate this for some reason), raw oysters (I love them and eat them frequently), etc. I feel like people just like the things they're comfortable with. I've always liked flavors others disliked though. Even as a kid, I loved spinach and black coffee, but never cared for sweets as much. Something might just be wrong with me.
Beer. And alcohol in general.
Steak, just generally not a fan of the flavor and especially the texture of beef. But people are crazy for this stuff.
I'm loving all unpopular opinions here.
i’ve never been impressed by lobster and folks i’ve eaten it with always lose their minds. the best lobster dish i’ve ever had was mac & cheese, and even that got blown out of the water when i tried it with crawfish instead.
Kale.
Stay out of my country (Netherlands) - we have "boerenkool stamppot" - baked bacon cubes, a (typically) Unox sausage, mashed potatoes, and a fuck-ton of kale. Could add some cubes of goat or Edammer cheese, maybe replace the Unox with something similar (and better quality). Maybe add some gravy, mustard and/or pickled cucumber.
Some of the best winter-foods there is, IMO.
I've been to your country several times. In fact, the last time was just a few weeks ago. I don't recall ever seeing kale on the menu but then again, I would have just avoided it anyway.
I like kale cooked like southern collard greens. And in soups. Beet greens are good like that too. Or any greens really.
It's not so much the taste, it's the razor blade texture I didn't like.
Steamed kale is so sweet and delicious!
I fucking hate kale, since I was a little kid. Never grew to like it.
Beets.
They taste like the smell of a rotten dish rag. 😝
Wime, specifically Pinot Noir. It's disgusting. It tastes like rotten dirt.
Grapefruits
Nuts of any kind. Peanuts, almonds, pistachios. Sure the flavor is fine, and the first crunchy bite can even be good. But then I’m left with not a nut in my mouth, but a bunch of smaller nut bits, and when I chew on those they turn into even smaller hard bits that get into every nook and cranny of my mouth. I swallow and feel the little bits scrape down my throat which is kinda uncomfortable.
Sure some of it ends up a manageable paste (which still isn’t great) but the time and effort it takes to dig every bit out from around my teeth and get every last bit ground down into paste so heavily outweighs the reward that I just don’t understand how people enjoy it. And all that is eating a single nut. You throw more in the mix and it just gets worse and worse.
All that said, peanut butter and nut-derived foods that don’t have that texture can be pretty great.
I don't mean this to be insulting. I think something might be wrong with the way your mouth works.
Whatever you do don't try to swallow the nut whole you have to work up to it
Complains about texture. Goes on to say peanut butter is great.
?!?!?!?!
Yes? One is smooth and the other isn’t.
Chew more 🤷
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The time and effort it takes to dig every bit out from around my teeth and get every last bit ground down into paste heavily outweighs the reward.
It sounds a lot like this is a spectrum related sensory thing.
Nah, I just don’t care for gritty foods and all nuts end up gritty as they are chewed. I forgot the word gritty exists while writing my original comment so it ended up written weird.
Honey Dew. Water Chestnuts. Stop forcing these on us they will never be good
Fugu, Japanese blowfish.
Cacao
Yeah, it may be healthy, but I don't understand how anyone can say that they enjoy the flavor.
Salted caramel and desserts topped with sea salt
Most of chinese meme cuisine. The shark fin soup and all of that garbage. Disgusting and literally tasteless.
Woah I love so many of these. Give me your licorice, your onions, your cilantro and oysters, your cooked greens and water chestnuts. Lobster, crab, avocado, yum.
Beets I don't like but can imagine liking. Honeydew melon, ripe is heavenly but the underripe flavorless ones that are usually in fruit salad are absolute nonsense.
The ones I have trouble believing anyone likes are natto and negroni. Natto I guess you have to grow up with and negroni hits me tooth shattering sweet, disgustingly sweet, so sweet and so bitter, but mostly just syrupy hypersweet.
steak flavored potato chips. Every incarnation I've ever tried smelled like a bag of hot vomit.
Strawberries. So often I hear "I like strawberries but only if it's really ripe and I get a good one." If only one out of ten strawberries is actually good, you don't like strawberries, you like the idea of strawberries.
It is like saying you like stakes but only like certain cuts of meat and will not eat rotten meat.
Commercially grown strawberries sold in stores are grown for volume and having a (barely) edible taste. About 1 package in 10 is at peak ripeness and even then only half of them are good.
Picking ripe strawberries from a bush, just about all of them are great. Those berries only grow to a quarter size of what you see in the store and it is a struggle to get them ripe before animals destroy them, so I can see why they are never in stores.
Strawberries been sucking of late. Just straight up did not care for them. Like you said so many not ripe or good.
But someone hooked us up with these hand picked ones and they all been good, like I'm hyped for them now.
I feel tomatoes have gone this way, just no flavour or unripe. Been on the look for handpicked ugly ones like the ones my grandad used to grow.
Maybe it's a failure of automation/ripening/logistics and the specific types of fruit/veg being grown.
Norwegian grown ones only
Creamed corn. Disgusting to eat on its own, but I'll use it in my corn chowder.
Pomegranate. It's not that tasty and the pits makes it an unbearable mouth feel
Sushi
Sushi is like saying "Sandwich"
Unless you hate bread or rice there's probably a kind of sushi or sandwich you'd like.
Yep. I wasn't a fan of raw fish BEFORE I took the fish-farm job for uni cash. The experience did not sway me positively!
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The only item I agree with here is black licorice, beets, and the gluten-free bullshit. I would also accept Walnuts, most of the fake milks and artificial sweeteners, too.
Anyone saying you think everyone hates fish and sushi, I feel really bad for you. And I could probably also eat a bacon cheeseburger once or twice a week.
Personally identifiable information. What's the deal, yo?
Asperagus.
croissants
Dumplings.
Fuck you.
Anything that is a vegan/vegetarian replacement for x. If x is so bad for not being vegan/vegetarian, why are you trying so hard to replicate it? You should have plenty of vegan and vegetarian dishes such you shouldn't need to replicate around your restrictions.
There are vegans and vegetarians who like the taste of animal products but choose not to eat them for ethical reasons alone. I don’t think it’s strange or wrong to want to replicate a familiar and enjoyable recipe. That being said, there are many times where I would prefer a recipe that was created with whole plant-based ingredients than eat ultra-processed, artificial tasting animal product substitutes.
Agreed. Ultra-processed wannabe meat isn't the best option and there are some genuinely good plant-based alternatives that aren't held back by trying to be meat.
That said, most dairy replacements are markedly sad with the exception of cashew milk and plant-based cream replacement (where flavor and shelf life are so obviously superior that I stopped buying the real stuff).
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Sometimes you want to try a recipe and it’s so tied to the meat (texture usually) that a substitute works better (or at least makes it so you don’t have to muck around to find the right texture/taste).
I’ll give tacos as an example. As a kid we’d just ask to sub beans into the taco. And they were okay. Then one day, I tried it with Beyond Beef, and I suddenly understood why people liked tacos so much.
For me only diced mushrooms came close, but even that texture was inferior, compared to the Beyond Beef. Flavor was just as good though.
Because I want the flavor without the cruelty.
Nah, I'm definitely enjoying it to the point where the only thing left that's meat that I kind of like is fried chicken, but even that's only for the coating, not the meat itself.
Go get yourself to a top vegan/vegetarian restaurant and you'll see what I mean.
Any animal based product is overrated. Go 🐰egan.
I've been vegan almost 5 years and I can say pretty confidently that cheese isn't overrated. It's the one thing I miss since going vegan.
That being said, I'll take mediocre vegan cheese over the real thing knowing the cruelty involved.
Vegan question. I’ve been to dairy farms now where the cows aren’t forced to be milked but have automated milking stalls they can choose to walk into.
Could that milk be considered vegan if the cows were making a feee choice to be milked?
Good question! On the surface, it may look like these cows are happily giving away their extra milk, until you consider the factors of the situation:
- Cows, like other mammals, produce milk to feed their offspring. Dairy cows need to be regularly impregnated, generally through artificial insemination, in order to keep up milk production.
- Since the newborn calves would otherwise drink their own mother's milk (leaving less for the dairy industry), industry practice is to separate them as soon as possible. Dairy cows have been observed mourning their lost calves.
- Dairy cows have been selectively bred to produce much more milk than their closest natural ancestors. This results in higher rates of mastitis, as well as pain and discomfort from the sheer volume of milk production.
These cows are "freely" choosing to be milked because they've been bred to produce painful amounts, and they no longer have calves to drink it.
Good points. I think people should live with cows and horses to appreciate how they are. Did you know that cows seem to have friends? In a herd cows will frequently pair off and spend the majority of their time with their chosen friend.
Beautiful animals, having a big cow come up and want to spend time with you is a special feeling.
Thanks for your answer. It seems kinda impossible to have animal derived food stuffs at any scale that would be voluntary for the animal. If you are open to more questions I’m curious about other animal products that one could consider less harmful.
The big one I’m curious about is honey. My mother in law got into beekeeping and the bees seemed more than happy to produce an endless supply of honey and didn’t seem any worse off for her taking the excess. Is honey vegan or is that also considered an animal products?
Most people, including myself consider honey to not be vegan. I'll admit that it's a lower moral priority for me, since insects very likely have a much lower capacity for sentience than mammals, birds and aquatic creatures. My specific issues with honey production are both moral and environmental:
- Artificial insemination typically requires the crushing of drones to extract semen.
- It's pretty common practice to clip the wings of queens to keep them from leaving the hive.
- Transporting bees and hives increases the spread of diseases which can affect wild insects.
- Western Honeybees are invasive to many parts of the world, including the Americas.
- Studies have shown that Honeybees disrupt local plant/pollinator networks by outcompeting local pollinators.
This article goes into more detail: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/
Wow, thanks, didn't know most of that before.
Yeah it kind of blew my mind when I started looking into it. Pretty much everyone assumes that beekeeping is beneficial to the environment. There's a rather famous quote among ecologists, "Conserving honeybees to save pollinators is like conserving chickens to save the birds."
Cool well I appreciate your answers, all things I could Google but it’s nice to hear from someone directly their thoughts on it.
I’m not vegan myself, but starting to go low meat. Ive lived around farm animals some and have a great deal of respect for them and consider them to be sentient beings with feelings and consciousness.
Respect for vegans even if I haven’t gone that way yet. Have a lovely rest of your day! :)
No problem, it was great chatting!
No. Definitely not. Why does a cow lactate? Because she's got a baby. Why did she have a baby? Because she was inseminated against her will. What happens to the male babies? I let you fill in this one. There's no cruelty-free milk but plant based milk.
The reason people don't go vegan is because they enjoy it too much. Doesn't fit the prompt, sorry
Anemia is also a good reason. Chrones makes vegetation hard to process also.
I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but t-bones are way overrated. And I've had some rated as top quality "impossible to get in store" meat.
Give me a good chili if you want me to enjoy beef...
I'm all in on the go vegan to save the world, but I would/will/do 100% miss the taste.
Hit me up if you're interested in recipes!
Madly overrated, but people get so angry and defensive about it. It’s irrational and it says a lot about us.
I made the best vegan red sauce and spaghetti a couple of days ago. Lots of basil, a bit of chilli, topped it off with fried panko. So good.