# "Does this taste funny to you?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709 "2009-10-13T22:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/21 "2009-10-14T14:23:17Z")
Raw or near-raw onions have an overwhelmingly sulfurous taste to me. I absolutely cannot stand the intensity. I don’t have a complete aversion to sulfur, as I semi-regularly eat dried apricots that have been treated with a sulfurous compound to preserve the color, and I don’t even notice. I got sick on onions as a little kid and have been working for years to counteract the aversion. (I started with lots of garlic, which I adore, and moved to garlic chives, regular chives, leeks, and so on.) I still don’t love them absolutely - too much stringly leek in a dish will get pushed aside, that kind of thing, but I am so much better than I used to be. Also, the trick of refrigerating an onion before chopping (or even freezing it for a short time, maybe 10-15 min) is a miracle; my eyes water and hurt terribly otherwise, no matter what trick I tried, and this helps encourage me to use onions. ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/22 "2009-10-14T14:37:04Z")
Some cheeses, like Gorgonzola. Generally, I love cheese, but many of them smell like attic to me, and once it’s there, I can’t get that smell out of my nose. I’m also starting to have a hard time with packaged goodies, like cookies. I feel like I can taste the plastic in them. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/23 "2009-10-14T15:18:25Z")
Cheese. Unless it’s really bland, texture only cheese like the kind you find on pizza. I’m talking about the kinds of cheese that stand out as ingredients, be it warm goat cheese on salad, or the pre-desert cheese platter. I mean… don’t any of you people notice it smells like a fart and tastes about the same ? Why, and how, do you people eat that stuff ? I’m at a loss here. Surely as a species we’re long past the socio-economical stage where \*not \*eating the rotten milk left over from last January was wasteful. ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/24 "2009-10-14T19:24:09Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Surely as a species we’re long past the socio-economical stage where \*not \*eating the rotten milk left over from last January was wasteful. Yes. Now we are at the stage where eating rotten milk left over from last January costs $14.99 a pound. For me, a lot of greens, as well as bell peppers, taste incredibly bitter, and I can’t stand them. Also won’t eat onion, unless it’s cooked and pureed (i also hate the texture of cooked onion). Oddly, I love leeks, chives, and garlic. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/25 "2009-10-14T19:40:41Z")
> [@runcible\_spoon](#): > > Also won’t eat onion, unless it’s cooked and pureed (i also hate the texture of cooked onion). Oddly, I love leeks, chives, and garlic. Yeah, I’m still having the texture issue. I tend to mince the onions or chop them pretty small. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/26 "2009-10-14T20:31:49Z")
> [@runcible\_spoon](#): > > Yes. Now we are at the stage where eating rotten milk left over from last January costs $14.99 a pound. > > For me, a lot of greens, as well as bell peppers, taste incredibly bitter, and I can’t stand them. Also won’t eat onion, unless it’s cooked and pureed (i also hate the texture of cooked onion). Oddly, I love leeks, chives, and garlic. How do you feel about mince and sliced quince? ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/27 "2009-10-14T20:43:20Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Between the two, I find cheesecake almost impossible to eat. I’m so glad to hear I’m not alone. I despise cheesecake. The combination of cheesecake’s texture and underlying flavor are so completely disgusting to me. It doesn’t matter what flavor of cheesecake it is or how hidden that sour, creamy cheesiness is - raspberry chocolate, pumpkin, New York style…any kind of cheesecake and I get that raunchy undertaste. Other foods that I just don’t care for include most desserts of milk-solid origin (rice pudding, yogurt-based desserts, milk-based candies, anything with marscapone in large quantities), raw and cooked carrots - though I force myself to eat them raw anyway since they’re so portable - and anything that has ricotta in it. I’m also not a fan of rice. I don’t find it disgusting, but it tastes a bit off to me. Cous-cous has the same effect. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/28 "2009-10-14T21:38:16Z")
I find olives so unbelievably vile that I don’t understand how anybody can eat them. There are lots of things I don’t particularly enjoy, but I get why people enjoy them. I mean, I would never choose to eat cauliflower, but I understand why other people consider a viable option when they’re hungry. But if it was the end of the world and all I had to eat was a jar of olives, I would starve to death. Not because I would refuse on principle to eat food I find unappetizing, but because every time I put an olive in my mouth, my entire throat gets tight and closes and my jaw starts to seize. I know that’s an extreme (even childish) reaction, but it happens automatically, like my body wants to protect itself from what must surely be the most hideous of poison. And I’m talking about simple black olives here. I tried a green olive once and I thought it would probably kill me. When offered an olive, I’ll politely decline, explaining I don’t really like them. But “don’t really like” is a very extreme understatement. ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/29 "2009-10-14T22:15:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > How do you feel about mince and sliced quince? Funny you should ask - I’ve been doing some canning lately, and I bought some quince because it was the first time I’d seen it raw, and it smelled amazing. I didn’t slice it, but I took a bite out of a raw one, because everything I’d read said it was inedible raw, and I’m perverse like that. Anyways, I thought it tasted pretty good, if more as a sour treat than something I’d want to eat a whole meal of. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/30 "2009-10-14T22:34:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Once I decide that a substance does not taste right for me to eat it, for my purposes, it is no longer considered “food.” > > So, there are no “foods” that I will not eat becuse they taste peculiar. Excuses, excuses. :rolleyes: > [@Dinsdale](#): > > The thread title reminded me why cannibals won’t eat clowns. You get the no-prize for being the first to remark upon this. That joke is what inspired the title. > [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > My contribution to the thread: raw tomatoes. Other people seem to love good, garden fresh ones. They go on and on about how juicy and sweet and wonderful they are. I, however, find them slimy, not at all sweet, and mealy no matter where they came from. > > I love them cooked an almost any manner, though. Ditto! Did I say that in the OP? (Checks) No, I didn’t! That’s the reason I always order my burgers “No tomato, no onion.” Half the time they tell me "It doesn’t have tomatoes (or onions or, occasionally, neither). I just tell 'em I’m taking no chances. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/31 "2009-10-14T23:53:51Z")
I love cheese, but can’t understand how people can like goat cheese. No matter how fresh, it always has that fetid, gamey, goat flavor. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/32 "2009-10-15T00:24:36Z")
I can’t stand most store-bought sweet bakery items. Especially the ones packaged in plastic for individual sale. I swear there must be some preservative in there that tastes hideously bitter to me. At the same time they’re excessively sweet. Ugh. Danishes and muffins are the worst. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/33 "2009-10-15T00:47:28Z")
I have always disliked salads. It has to do with the taste of all salad dressings I have come across–ranch, 1000 island, vinegar and oil, etc.–and the texture of the vegetables. It feels so…raw and unfinished, as if someone has forgotten to prepare something. That, combined with the coldness of it, absolutely disgusts me. It’s odd, because I have no problem eating some vegetables cooked in with other dishes, or by themselves on sandwiches. I also love all fruits. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/34 "2009-10-15T01:42:15Z")
Peas smell like urine to me and they taste how I imagine it tastes. Maybe it’s the association with the name. Snow peas and peas still in the pod don’t smell or taste like pee, though. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/35 "2009-10-15T01:58:48Z")
A lot of these–cheese, tomatoes, sweet potatoes–are [umami-rich foods](http://www.umamiinfo.com/umami-rich_food/). Others like olives and cheeses are fermented. I tend to love stinky foods, and explaining to me that a food is stinky won’t actually make it less appetizing to me. The closest I can come to this is red and yellow bell peppers. I find them to have an unpleasant petrochemical aftertaste that others don’t seem to taste, and I find them pretty distasteful therefore. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/36 "2009-10-15T03:22:06Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > A lot of these–cheese, tomatoes, sweet potatoes–are [umami-rich foods](http://www.umamiinfo.com/umami-rich_food/). Others like olives and cheeses are fermented. I tend to love stinky foods, and explaining to me that a food is stinky won’t actually make it less appetizing to me. > > The closest I can come to this is red and yellow bell peppers. I find them to have an unpleasant petrochemical aftertaste that others don’t seem to taste, and I find them pretty distasteful therefore. I also hate bell peppers. No problem with any other [as long as they are not scorchingly hot. I dont understand people who risk chemical burns] but I absolutely detest bell peppers. Raw or cooked. I make my own salsa that doesn’t use cilantro or bell peppers [tomatillo, tomato, mango, pineapple and ancho chiles, with ground cumin, oregano and lime] ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/37 "2009-10-15T04:58:58Z")
theres these two cannibals and they are eating a clown when the first one turns to the second and says “does this taste funny to you?” seriously that is the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/38 "2009-10-15T05:30:42Z")
Yogurt. As I said in another thread, it just tastes like I’m eating mold. I know that cheese is basically aged milk mold, but it doesn’t taste like it, at least not to me. Yogurt does. And putting flavors in it doesn’t help; that rotten taste overpowers them. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/39 "2009-10-15T05:41:29Z")
(Eastern) Tea [[or not, you’ll see where this goes]]. In an East Asian Languages and Cultures class I took over the summer we did a tea ceremony. We tried different types of tea and that stuff freaking BETRAYED me. I mean, people were actually suppressing laughter the way I looked at the cup after I drank some. Of course, when they brought out the really fancy “only sold in China main, harvested once every 3000 years on top of the highest mountain, costing $50 a tin” I was the only one who liked it. The reason? I HATE the taste of warm water, it’s terrible. People insist that water has no taste but it just tastes atrocious to me. Cold water I can stand (though most bottle brands and unfiltered tap are just as bad cold), but anything room temp or lower tastes terrible to me. The reason I liked the last type of tea was that it was the only one strong enough to be able to mask that horrid water taste. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709/40 "2009-10-15T14:25:22Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Cilantro, which tastes like soap to me. That’s genetic, though, apparently – there is a small but not insignificant minority of people who have the same reaction. I desperately want to like cilantro because of its omnipresence in Tex Mex food but apparently I have the same genetic mutation. I don’t understand how anyone can eat parmesan cheese given its butyric acid content. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-taste-funny-to-you/513709.md?page=3)