I buy more into the supertaster idea. I am a supertaster, and I can’t stand most vegetables.
People are always trying to get me to eat them, and they want to know why I don’t like them. I don’t like them because they taste like #$%^.
I’m a 300 lb guy, and I dig me some veggies too… even to the point where my wife and I grow our own. Planning on making okra & tomatoes this weekend, and we’ve probably already eaten a couple pounds worth of green beans from our garden in the last week, as well as an obnoxious number of radishes. I really dig me some asparagus and broccoli too. I even really like brussels sprouts. Not a fan of beets or endive though.
That being said, I like bacon, cheese, fries, ice cream, etc… as well. Like others have said, it’s calories in vs. calories out that determines your weight. I think the misconception here is that somehow not eating veggies makes you fat… which isn’t the case.
The real advantage to eating veggies if you’re fat and trying to lose weight is that they’re relatively bulky for the same number of calories compared to meat, cheese and grease. Think about how much squash you’d have to eat to get 250 calories worth (14 oz)… then think of how much steak that would be (3.5 oz). If you don’t eat veggies, you have to eat that much more food volume to feel full of relatively high calorie food.
Since the premise is false, this thread serves nearly no purpose. Anyway, I see zero evidence for a genetic link of obese folks disliking vegetables.
I think you need to establish the premise before you go speculating on the reason. A bunch of anecdotes don’t prove anything. Anecdotally, I’m obese but I love vegetables (cooked more than raw, though). I just hate food preparation, so I usually go for something pre-processed and hot. But put some steamed broccoli in front of me, or boiled cabbage, or spinach, or a baked potato, or a veggie platter with baby tomatoes and those little peapods, and I’ll love the hell out of it.
I have not noticed the same correlation. I know a lot of fat people, and their eating habits and preferences are just as varied as that of thin people I know. Plenty of fat people I know eat very closely to the USDA recommendations: lots of whole grains, vegetables, fruit, plant proteins, limit their saturated fat, etc.
Anecdotal, but my best friend is about 90 lbs overweight and her sister is at least 200 lbs overweight - both of them love vegetables. We have prepared and eaten veggies many times together - but not plain steamed! I’m a very thin person but I want fat and flavor on my vegetables.
Cecil addressed this to some extent, albeit more with speculation than definitive answers, in Why do you soon feel hungry again after eating Chinese food? Or do you?
Grits made with lard would be revolting. Where ever did you come up with such a notion? Were you just lumping together every Southern food stereotype you could think of? Grits are corn meal and are properly cooked with water, milk, and .75 metric tons of butter.
And they are yum! But alas I am a Northerner and eat them with sugar on top. 
Steamed veggies can be disgusting, though. I wonder if a whole generation of Americans doesn’t hate veggies just because the only way they were exposed to them was having them cooked to within an inch of their life. Veggies cooked properly are delicious.
I think the gist of this thread so far is that because you see fat people around where you live not eat vegetables, that not every other (fat) person in other places do the same.
I’ve been losing weight myself, but its not with vegetables entirely. 
My problem was with sugary drinks and after I started to drink water or diet drink mixes, I’ve actually lost weight even when I didn’t eat more veggies than usual.
For certain veggies (for not liking them), its the texture it brings into certain foods (eg. I’m expecting a burrito to be soft and meaty on it the inside, and I taste the crunch of an onion it would repulse me.) and not the veggie themselves. Though the taste of carrots do bring a gag reflex and if i try to eat one, i will vomit.
But it perplexes me why I don’t have a problem with salsa. :smack:
Exactly. Biscuits are made with lard.
Oh, Lordy yes.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Y’all are making me hungry.
Try some vegetables.
Could it be that nobody ever tries to convince a skinny person to eat vegitables?
If anything could be considered proof of a loving god, it’s biscuits.
Please don’t spread misinformation in GQ. Nobody who cooks grits uses the metric system.
Seriously. Actually, I would argue that a significant portion of people who cook grits regularly don’t use any sort of measuring system whatsoever. One of the greatest magic tricks of my life is watching my grandmother cook. Her recipies are totally awesome - ‘handfuls’ and ‘sprinkles’ and ‘bits’ and ‘tosses’ all over the place.
And for our anecdata tally on the thread topic 
I’m skinny and a supertaster, and veggies (along with a ton of other things) are nearly unbearably bitter to me. It’s taken a long time to find ways of cooking and types of veggies that I actually like, or can at least stand enough to eat a serving of them. If it weren’t for fruits and starches, I don’t think I’d eat enough plant material to measure in a given day.
So count one in the opposite direction: a skinny person who hates veggies!
I stand corrected.
To what gene would this behavior be linked, and what is the product of the expression of this gene that results in an aversion to vegetables? Be specific.
Stranger
It’s the protein.
There’s a billion studies on it (I could cite all day, but a quick Google search will throw up millions of results for your pleasure). Protein satiates hunger for longer than other food groups.
(One of the reasons Atkins works).