I read/heard that there’s a biological reason why kids hate certain foods. Because they need to stay alive to get to adulthood, they naturally dislike tastes that could be poisonous. Something like that. Even if he’d tried them as a kid, he might not have liked them then, like me.
‘Like’ is far too weak of word, I’m totally in love with mushrooms and will eat them prepared any way. Heck, when I was a kid, I used to eat canned mushrooms right out of the can!
I will actually eat the weight penalty and carry a jar of marinated mushrooms while backpacking.
No.
Mushroom bad. Non-mushroom good.
Used to hate 'em, now I love 'em. As I have observed elsewhere, your tastes do change over time.
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Some years ago, Wegmans here put on a produce display of about a dozen different kinds of mushrooms, unusual ones, some very expensive ($20 a pound or more). I love mushrooms, so I picked and bagged a couple of each kind, separately, took them home, and we had a taste test. They were mostly good, but none were amazing. I liked shiitake the most, and then the regular white/brown button mushrooms. The others were fancy looking and had great names. I couldn’t resist something called Hen-of-the-Woods!
At worst, mushrooms can be bland. Usually they’re just fine. Occasionally, they’re great. And my favorite thing about them is their texture.
Sure a whole mushroom can look freaky, but by the time they’re in my food they look fine.
No.
Mushrooms are gross. I usually pick out as many as I can before eating.
I always miss a few and end up eating them. I don’t like the rubbery texture.
Love mushrooms. Canned, fresh, dried, you name it. One of my favorite fast dinners after a workout is to stop at the grocery store and get two portabella caps. Then visit the salad bar for spinach, bacon, peppers, and onion. Chop up the salad bar stuff and mix with cottage cheese and bread crumbs. Clean the gills out of the cap and stuff it. Then broil them. Yum.
Thinking i will make mushroom fajitas tonight.
There is an episode of Midsomer Murders that had that one in it (and other varieties). The episode’s called Destroying Angel (the name of the poisonous mushroom used to “do in” people). I didn’t realise you could get it outside England. I’ve never seen it here (but we have strict quarantine laws, so maybe they can’t bring it in).
Love mushrooms. Fried, sautéed, baked in lasagna, diced in lettuce wraps, sliced fresh on salads, grilled portobellos, pepperoni & mushroom pizza, etc.
Please come to my house for dinner and partake of the mushroom risotto and understand why there was never any need for this silly poll.
Mushroom walks into a bar. Bartender says, “We don’t serve mushrooms.” Mushroom says, “But I’m a ‘fun guy.’” Bartender says, “I just said we don’t serve fungi.” Mushroom says, “No, no, not ‘fungi,’ ‘fun guy.’ I made a pun.” Bartender says, “Get the fuck out of my bar.”
Maybe it’s the Italian in me but if someone said they hated mushrooms, I would have to stop myself from ripping their tongue out. But they have to be cooked properly. I typically sautee them sliced, with butter, diced onions, garlic, salt, pepper, various Italian or Greek seasoning, and a dash of white or red wine depending on what they’ll be served with. I do not stop cooking the mixture until is completely cooked down and devoid of unneccessary moisture, and is thickened and eventually seared. The mushrooms will completely absorb the flavor of all the seasonings and sauces so that each one of them packs a heavy punch of concentrated savory flavor.
There’s an Indian restaurant I go to / carry out from that also has a dish of mushrooms cooked in spinach, which I also love. In this case the mushrooms again absorb all of the flavor; there isn’t anything in the least “earthy” or “dirty” tasting about them.
Edit: also, when I cook roast leg of lamb, I roast it in mushroom stock…the type I buy comes in a small round plastic cup in a highly-concentrated brown gelatin-like consistency, which is supposed to be stirred into hot water to create a rich and savory broth. Better than any other kind of stock I’ve used for the same purpose.
Have the magic variety been discussed yet?
I enjoy an occasional psilocybin trip, but definitely not for the taste! People do all sorts of things to make them palatable; making “tea”, grinding them to a powder and consuming them in juice, etc. I just chew and swallow, like eating sawdust.
Can’t stand them. Also hate tomatoes and olives. Something about the texture, I guess…
Then what’s the point of mushrooms? For me, it’s that they actually taste like mushrooms. Sure, they do absorb some flavors, but they still taste like mushrooms, which I would best describe as “earthy” for lack of other words.
I would describe mushrooms as tasting umami, not “earthy”.
It’s interesting how the polling in this thread has been consistently 80% pro-mushroom and 20% anti-mushroom. I wonder how those figures compare to the general population’s preferences for them.
Being a terrible pedant, I’ve never felt happy with this joke, because of the grammar factor. It’s one fungus, more-than-one fungi – Latin plural: so the one mushroom calling himself a “fun guy” doesn’t sit well with me. I’d wish to adapt the joke so that the mushroom’s name is Augustus; whereby he can legitimately call himself a “fun Gus”. Admittedly, that spoils the whole thing through over-elaboration.