A Secondary Food Meme: What Do and Don't You Like?

[browngirl]

Inspired by the Omnivore's 100, griffen asked people to list ten foods they'll just about always eat and ten they really dislike. And so:

1. Scale fishes. :) Seafood, really. Fresh, smoked, salted, canned, whatever, with very few exceptions (I can't think of any at the moment).
2. Carrot cake.
3. Challah and other egg breads.
4. Cheddar cheese.(Most cheeses are worth trying on me, though I don't love them all, but I have never disliked cheddar.)
5. Pomegranites. Most kinds of fruit, but especially pomegranites.
6. Maple syrup.
7. Duck.
8. Most kinds of dumplings.
9. Artichokes.
10. Garlic!

1. Avocadoes. It's the flavor, as I like the texture. I don't know why I dislike the flavor.
2. Peanut butter, except in confections. I will eat peanut noodles if there's sufficient other flavors in there, and enjoy peanut butter cups, but I can't bear PB&J sandwiches.
3. Licorice. I like its sisters anise, fennel, and sambuca, but not licorice.
4. Hummus and other chickpea products.
5. Cumin. To me it smells like old sweat.
6. Alfredo sauce. It's a long story.
7. Olives. I like olive oil, and I'll eat olives in things, but by themselves or as a major component, I don't like them.
8. Lima beans.
9. Shiitake mushrooms.
10. Coffee. I hate coffee.

So, what are yours?

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

10. Coffee. I hate coffee.

And yet, you love me anyway.

[chillyrodent.livejournal.com]

Dislike = cilantro

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

It always tastes like soap to me. bleah.

[chillyrodent.livejournal.com]

I've read that's the most common complaint about cilantro. To me it tastes like some sort of vegetation that people aren't supposed to eat.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm one of the cilantro-is-unpleasant-to-eat people, but to me it doesn't taste like soap, and I've described it pretty much as you have. It just isn't something that belongs in my mouth.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Yes! I've described it as tasting like grass before. Some non-human-edible leaf matter or other.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

1. Roasted and/or grilled chicken. (And you remind me of duck. Mmmmm duuuuck.)
2. Cheddar cheese. (The only cheese I really don't like is swiss. Well, and bad American. And many Provolones.)
3. Fiiiish. (With scales, yes.) Salmon in particular right now, but that's just my mood.
4. Shellfishy type things.
5. Soups I make myself.
6. Wasabi and other horseradishy things.
7. Doughy white bread.
8. Nuts.


1. Lima beans.
2. Cod.
3. Things with weird textures.
4. Um. I'll think about this later.

i think

[andreas_schaefer]

the bracketed comment on like #2 carrot cake belongs to #4.

There is a vast variety of olives with really different tastes : and if the are pitted they can be filled with a variety of fillings: experimenting might be worthwhile.

Re: i think

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

And months and months later, I finally moved it! *laugh at myself*

[libitina]

YAY!
1. Spinach (this is a food where I'll just start craving it)
2. Bagels
3. Cream Cheese (you'd think that'd be combined with bagels, but cream cheese goes in *everything*. Cream cheese even makes curry better)
4. Onions & Garlic (I just feel weird when I make food that doesn't start with onions and garlic in the pan first)
5. Chocolate
6. Duck, Lamb, Goat - meats other people complain are gamey
7. Yeah... dumplings... Mmmmm
8. Avocados & mangoes (I know they have nothing to do with each other, but they are grouped together in my head because they are very tasty but in completely different ways and various levels of ripeness)
9. Rice (Hmmm... let me list the kinds of rice I have on hand right now: basmati rice, long grain (Carolina brand) rice, asian short grain rice, brown rice, arborio rice, french red rice, and some not quite rice - wild rice)
10. squid/cuttlefish - I have been very lucky in that most places I have seen this it has been prepared in some way delicious and intriguing. I have not had much problem with chewiness. That said, I don't often get to places where I'd be ordering it.
*if I ever cook for you, remind me you don't like cumin - I use it a lot and quite enjoy it, but it didn't seem like the kind of thing to singlehandedly make me love a dish

Boo!
1. Olives (I am just starting to find a few olive things I'll like, but mostly this is an instant yuck)
2. Capers (tried them again recently just in case I was being unreasonable. Nope. They still make me unhappy)
3. Coffee (not even a little. I've gotten so I don't even like Kahlua anymore)
4. Licorice (or most variations, though I am fine with small amounts of fennel and 5 spice powder is a staple for my spice cabinet)
5. Large white beans with no flavor: chickpeas, lima, broad beans, etc. (but, no, I do like hummus)
6. water chestnuts
7. celery
8. plasticy fake diet dairy products with more stabilizers than food
9. Bizarrely... most corn meal products: corn bread, corn tortillas, polenta, grits, etc.
10. Barley. It seems like a simple enough ingredient, but I think haggis was the only time I ate it when it wasn't an unpleasantness
*I've heard that it's genetic whether cilantro tastes like soap, but sometimes it does to me and sometimes it's perfectly lovely.

Fun!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

1. Cherries. I love most fruits, but they are my favorites, especially sour or pie cherries.
2. Garlic (yeah, me too!)
3. Lemon- or lime-flavored desserts, especially those topped with curd!
4. Bean soups. I'm mad about beans of most kinds.
5. Tea, especially jasmine tea
6. Dark chocolate
7. Chicken wings (I'm crazy about them!)
8. Perfectly-cooked prime rib (rare but not bleeding) with horseradish sauce)
9. Asparagus
10. Sugar snap peas

1. I used to like peanut butter, but now that I realize that it's given me migraines for years, the very smell makes me feel odd.
2. The very smell of stale coffee makes me feel ill, and less than a cup of coffee is enough to send me to bed with an absolutely blinding migraine and an upset stomach. I don't really like the taste, either. Good thing my mother didn't approve of growing children drinking the stuff, isn't it?
3. Venison. It always tastes bad to me, even a bit spoiled. I'm fine with some other game meats, but venison just tastes nasty.
4. Durian. It always tastes as revolting as it smells--just like rotten garbage.
5. Sweetened flavored waters, especially the kind sweetened with artificial sweeteners. They leave a vile taste in my mouth.
6.Slim Jims and other trucker-style meat snacks. Ick. Not only are they full of nitrates, but one brand I tried was the vilest food I've ever put in my mouth. The first taste of it was so disgusting I spat it further than I've ever spat before.
7. Gefilte fish. I've guess I've never had the dish well prepared, but it just never tastes good to me.
8. Matzo. They taste like the box they come in.
9. Bitter melon and all bitter stuff like Campari. I tried and tried to like this stuff when I was starting to drink, because I thought it was the height of sophistication, but it tastes like poison to me. It's so damned bitter! Bitter things make me shudder.
10. White chocolate. It just tastes like fat to me.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Have you tried different varieties of avocadoes? I know that there are taste and texture differences between the different types. My parents always used to complain that the avocadoes you could get in New England were tastless and expensive. (They blame that for my continued dislike of them.) Granted, that was thirty years ago, so I'm sure that the avocadoes available have improved. But it may just be that you dislike Haas avocadoes and would be fine with some other varietal.

Note: I dislike avocadoes, so I am not questioning that anyone could dislike them. I'm just saying, there are some differences in flavor between varieties, so you might experiment.

[vass]

Likes:
1. Garlic. With everything.
2. Potatoes. In almost any configuration possible.
3. Tomatoes as a component. I'm less fond of plain, uncooked tomatoes unless they're a breed with a lot of flavour.
4. Capsicum. Especially roasted.
5. Most kinds of beans, except for green beans.
6. Cracked black pepper.
7. Bread, especially wholemeal bread, especially wholemeal bread with lots and lots of different kinds of seeds.
8. Sesame seeds and sesame-based products.
9. Cocoa and the stuff you make from it.
10. Strawberries.

Dislikes:
1. Those little yellow squashes that look disappointingly like cupcakes, and have bitter skin and watery, pulpy insides.
2. Most mushrooms (shiitake is an exception.)
3. Alcohol.
4. Animal fat, and people frying vegetable products in it and not warning a person.
5. Grapes with seeds.
6. I like the flavour of cloves, but I hate unexpectedly biting down on them. This goes for galangal too.
7. Licorice.
8. Passionfruit.
9. Melons.
10. All cheese, and anything that tastes like cheese. I've hated cheese since before I could talk.