The tastes you hate (no more than 5) - Page 2

smoothmoniker · 03-21-2011, 11:47 PM

Brussel Sprouts
Avocado (texture)
Asparagus

Urbane Guerrilla · 03-22-2011, 02:30 AM

Chinese baby corn and the sauce flavored with it. Defies comparison with any other taste I know.

Urbane Guerrilla · 03-22-2011, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

See I would never hate sea urchin roe.

Cause I would never have tried it in the first place.

Comes up in sushi. Salmon eggs, too.

I'm just more adventurous than Pete is. Edible things rather seem to outnumber inedible things, as the late Ewell Gibbons taught us. If you're lost in the mountainous pine woods in early spring, you can probably make it out of there eating the just-emergent new tender pine needles right off the tree. Also prevents scurvy, if you're, uh, really really lost. Those and the hearts of cattails, which probably don't taste like all that much but would fill your stomach with something digestible and in some degree nutritious. (So never be without your knife to get at them.)

I can see where some people think cilantro tastes like soap, but it just doesn't go far enough in that direction to read like soap to me.

Some of you guys have the oddest dislikes. Avocado?! Couple months ago I had me the best avocado I've ever dug a spoon into: slowly slowly paperbag-ripened -- I was wondering if it ever would ripen -- until it had the slight yielding of the ripe avocado but not the squashiness of a 'cado past its peak. (Discolored avocados have lost it. Not much fun there.)

Halved, pitted, and lightly salted, it was so fresh and creamy -- it was like eating Gardevoir pussy. (Or the Firefly episode with the fresh strawberries.)

Cumin?! Good Lord. Without cumin, chili simply... isn't. And it puts depth in curry powders too -- which are at their peak made up and ground up the day they are used. It's good curry when you and the wife have been to an Indian restaurant, then make love that night, and the whole bedroom smells of curry in the morning.

GunMaster357 · 03-22-2011, 05:42 AM

Brussels Sprouts
Anise

Never went down the road of colonoscopy, so I cannot pass a judgement on that but any medecine one has to ingest is usually awful.

And I love sea food and fish.

infinite monkey · 03-22-2011, 07:44 AM

Hard to pick just 5. I kept thinking "hey yeah, I hate that too!"

Still, I'd like to add cilantro.

I left mushrooms off because for me it's a question of texture, not really taste. Since it was tastes you hate, I went for the stuff that makes me actually want to barf if I eat it. Some of the stuff I can't even stand to smell: coconut, green peppers.

I'm going to tell Pete right now that I hate pork (I dont' really) so he can persuade me with his BBQ ribs, though!

Spexxvet · 03-22-2011, 07:55 AM

scotch
licorice
celery
brussel sprouts

wolf · 03-22-2011, 10:40 AM

not in order of disgustedness:

Pickles (can't even have them touching my sandwich or potato chips ... nasty)

Coconut (allergy, even small amounts make me retch as I need to eject it from my body before damage occurs ... betcha didn't know that some of the cheaper cocoa powder mixes use coconut as a filler ingredient? ... and some chocolate covered ice cream bars and nuggets do the same thing?)

Mushrooms

Goat's Milk (never tried fresh, might be different, overpaid for a quart of the commercial stuff in the hippie aisle of my supermarket, couldn't manage it, even with chocolate syrup)

Snails (okay, I've never actually HAD snails, but I choose to dislike them on general principle)

Spexxvet · 03-22-2011, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Pickles (can't even have them touching my sandwich or potato chips ... nasty)

All pickles? A sweet gherkin tastes so different than a dill that it's hard to image that you hate both.

Cloud · 03-22-2011, 11:25 AM

avocados are just gross. I know lots of people like them, but they make me gag.

and cinnamon? That's a new one on me.

monster · 03-22-2011, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

I think you might change your mind if you had some of my BBQ ribs.

I don't like BBQ either. But pork makes me puke.

monster · 03-22-2011, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

All pickles? A sweet gherkin tastes so different than a dill that it's hard to image that you hate both.

no, it isn't. They would be on my list if I were allowed six.

and avocados. Only I thought, well, I haven't actually tried one in so long maybe my palate has matured and I like them now, who knows?

Wait.......

Where is UG?

and I agree with wolf about snails too.

monster · 03-22-2011, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

has matured and I like them now, who knows?

Wait.......

Where is UG?

haha, I hadn't even made it to the second page. I thought it was weird he hadn't showed up yet to criticize the avocado haters.

Undertoad · 03-22-2011, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

I'm just more

Another opportunity missed to shut the fuck up.

Pete Zicato · 03-22-2011, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

I don't like BBQ either.

What are you - UnAmerican?

Oh, wait.

Seriously, though. I think you are the first person I've met who doesn't like BBQ. To each their own.

Pete Zicato · 03-22-2011, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I'm going to tell Pete right now that I hate pork (I dont' really) so he can persuade me with his BBQ ribs, though!

It's true that my ribs are very persuasive.

03-21-2011, 11:47 PM	#16
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	Brussel Sprouts Avocado (texture) Asparagus __________________ to live and die in LA

03-22-2011, 02:30 AM	#17
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Chinese baby corn and the sauce flavored with it. Defies comparison with any other taste I know. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

03-22-2011, 05:42 AM	#19
GunMaster357 Professor Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Brest (FRANCE) Posts: 1,837	Brussels Sprouts Anise Never went down the road of colonoscopy, so I cannot pass a judgement on that but any medecine one has to ingest is usually awful. And I love sea food and fish. __________________ "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." - Ambrose Bierce

03-22-2011, 07:55 AM	#21
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	scotch licorice celery brussel sprouts __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-22-2011, 10:40 AM	#22
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	not in order of disgustedness: Pickles (can't even have them touching my sandwich or potato chips ... nasty) Coconut (allergy, even small amounts make me retch as I need to eject it from my body before damage occurs ... betcha didn't know that some of the cheaper cocoa powder mixes use coconut as a filler ingredient? ... and some chocolate covered ice cream bars and nuggets do the same thing?) Mushrooms Goat's Milk (never tried fresh, might be different, overpaid for a quart of the commercial stuff in the hippie aisle of my supermarket, couldn't manage it, even with chocolate syrup) Snails (okay, I've never actually HAD snails, but I choose to dislike them on general principle) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-22-2011, 07:44 AM	#20
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Hard to pick just 5. I kept thinking "hey yeah, I hate that too!" Still, I'd like to add cilantro. I left mushrooms off because for me it's a question of texture, not really taste. Since it was tastes you hate, I went for the stuff that makes me actually want to barf if I eat it. Some of the stuff I can't even stand to smell: coconut, green peppers. I'm going to tell Pete right now that I hate pork (I dont' really) so he can persuade me with his BBQ ribs, though!

03-22-2011, 11:25 AM	#24
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	avocados are just gross. I know lots of people like them, but they make me gag. and cinnamon? That's a new one on me. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

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