I don’t loathe it, but I usually eat around it if it’s in a salad. The other night, however, I grew a new appreciation for it when it’s cold.
I ordered a dish at a Thai restaurant, and it had hot cucumbers in it. That’s just a sin against man and God.
Snails: when cooked in garlic and btter, they taste like garlic and butter.
Summer squash-you have to add salt, pepper and butter-then it tastes like salt, pepper and btter. I don’t know why people bother to eat it.
Iceberg lettuce: tasteless withot salad dressing
Abalone: despite its high cost, it really tastes like vulcanized rubber
Cucumber: crunchy, but tasteless
“Light” beers: tastes like carbonated water
The point of matzos isn’t for them to taste good. The point is that, while you eat them you should be thinking about what it must be like to be stuck in a desert for forty years.
That being said, matzos are great if you spread a little butter on them.
Leave it to us Jews to perfect “guilt food!”
I’ve always found kiwifruit to be virtually taste-free… its primary purpose seems to be decorative. But maybe I haven’t had good kiwifruit.
I think you got bad kiwis. They tend to range from tart to pretty sweet. Very similar in flavor to strawberries.
Styrafoam cups and rice cakes. Tried both, couldn’t tell the difference.
Some kiwi fruits are really good, some are blah.
But speaking of decorative but tasteless fruits, I nominate the dragon fruit. It has a teensy bit of sweet flavour, a teensy bit of radish-y flavour, and not much else. Looks great, though.
I came here to say “out of season strawberries”, because they are all texture (bad, horrible, seedy texture) and no taste. Tomatoes, although very taste reduced, still have some tomato essence.
Rice cakes are disks. Styrofoam cups are truncated hollow cones. That’s how you tell them apart.
Wow. Tastes really do vary. I love the flavor of cucumber and matzoh and will eat both plain (cukes with or without skin).
I like matzoh.
Also-I disagree about cucumbers. Try making gazpacho without them and you’ll realize how much flavor they have.
My vote? Star fruit. Crisp texture, gorgeous to slice, but … no flavor. None.
I’ve always had a hankerin’ to try fresh mozzarella. I bought some recently - it came in a tub and each mozz was sphere-shaped - and was supremely disappointed. It tasted like nothing. (I suspect I should seek out another sample from a different source).
As for tomatoes, if I lived somewhere that I could not get fresh 'maters, I would move.
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I disagree about lettuce, cucumber, oatmeal, and potatoes. They all have taste. It’s subtle but it’s there. Boiled white rice, pasta, and boiled noodles not so much. Since I started trying to lose weight four years ago, I almost never eat either rice, pasta, or noodles and I don’t miss them. I still eat spaghetti sauce (without spaghetti), beef Stroganoff (without noodles), and all sorts of Chinese food (without boiled rice or noodles). I find that I actually like them better that way, although it took some getting used to at first. I do still eat fried rice occasionally because it actually tastes like something.
The Indian cheese ‘paneer’ tastes completely flavourless until it’s been cooked to add flavour.
Definitely starfruit. So pretty and so tasteless.
I have tiny Alpine strawberries all over my yard. According to all the literature I’ve read, they’re delicious and sweet and best-ever. But mine taste like pretty little bright red firm drops of water. It’s a bummer.
Water chestnuts. But their texture more than compensates.
Are the strawberries sweet at all? Is it possible they’re mock strawberries?
Also, I wonder whether things like dragon fruit and starfruit are better if you’re buying them in, say, Thailand instead of in the US. It may be that the ones picked for export are picked unripe, or are from varieties bred for shipping.
It may be true that summer squash have no flavor until you salt and pepper and fry them, but last night I chopped one up and salted and peppered and fried it, and goddamn, it was tasty.
Egg whites.
Zucchini.
And 3 out of the 4 cantaloupes I, Salinqmind, picked out of the herd this summer. There’s nothing more disappointing than that big Tupperware container, filled with tasteless orange wedges.