# Food love vs. hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615 "2014-11-25T18:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/41 "2014-11-26T18:34:59Z")
Love: Bring on the veggies, the stronger the better (with a very few exceptions). Hate: Mint. All melons. Cucumbers and cooked spinach. Also, my mom always made a dish made of ham, green beans, and potatoes. Everyone else went wild for this dish and I found it loathsome. Each of the ingredients is fine, but all together? Nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/42 "2014-11-26T19:19:53Z")
Odd fave: cabbage Can’t abide: tomato ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/43 "2014-11-26T19:33:31Z")
It is hard to nail down just one food that i love above all others. If I were forced to choose, it would be Tomatoes. Adding tomatoes to almost any dish improves it for me. So much the better if the food also contains sauteed peppers and onions. I really can’t think of a food that I “hate.” I have never had much of a sweet tooth, and as I get older i find that I I like sweets even more unappealing. If I were to single out one food from this group, it would have to be chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Zorkmid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e68b1a/32.png) [@Zorkmid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zorkmid)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/44 "2014-11-26T20:54:50Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Love: Soggy cereal. Every single cereal is improved massively by sogginess. YES! Love: Spam. Cold, right out of the can. Hate: Shellfish of any kind. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/45 "2014-11-26T20:57:28Z")
Love: Kipper Snacks Hate: Hard boiled or Deviled Eggs ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/46 "2014-11-26T21:00:32Z")
Love (when prepared right) okra, brussels sprouts, liver, haggis, anchovies, mackerel, sardines, sweetbreads. Really do not like: Cranberries in any form, soft drinks, milk as a beverage. Oh, and hot dogs make me gag. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/47 "2014-11-26T21:40:02Z")
Love: PB & mayo sandwiches; mayo to dip my fries in Hate: Beets, cooked spinach, Brussels sprouts, Belgian endive, raw fish ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/48 "2014-11-27T00:25:43Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Love: chicken liver and various types of pates. > Hate: anything clove/black licorice flavoured. I liked liver (mainly cow liver) when I was young, and had no idea that many other people don’t like it. I won’t go so far as to say I “loved” it. (That honor is reserved for barbecue-sauce drenched ribs and chocolate chip cookies.) One day in fifth grade, the teacher mentioned how healthful liver is (because all the Vitamin A) and almost the whole class in unison said > [@Almost whole 5th grade class in unison](#): > > **YUCK!** except for me. That was the first inkling I got that maybe it’s not that popular a dish. I later learned that the liver is one of the body’s toxic waste Superfund dump sites and tends to have an accumulation of poisons sequestered in it. That’s when I joined the > [@Me too now](#): > > **YUCK!** crowd. ETA: I don’t actually hate liver now. I still kinda like it, but I don’t choose to eat it. If I find someone serving it to me, I’ll eat it. So, somethings I hate: Eggplant. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/49 "2014-11-27T01:57:18Z")
> [@DingoelGringo](#): > > Howe could anybody actually work up hatred for a food. Unless maybe you are forced to eat it. You put it in your mouth, and it’s so awful tasting that “dislike” doesn’t cover it. Sometimes you’ll feel a nearly uncontrollable urge to get it out of your mouth. If you manage to swallow it, you may feel the urge to throw up–and sometimes you actually do. I’ve only encountered it with really bitter things, though, nothing anyone else normally likes. Still, for the purposes of this thread: like: Lima beans hate: this one salsa from Aldis. Everyone else thought it tasted normal. I say it was bitter and foul. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/50 "2014-11-27T02:36:44Z")
Love: Brussel sprouts, very spicy food, unpopped popcorn kernels, sauerkraut and kimchi, sparkling water Hate: Cake. Seriously, I’ve never had a cake that wasn’t horrible. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/51 "2014-11-27T02:53:46Z")
Yum: Beets! (beeturia is an entertaining side effect. Someday, I’ll have to make a meal of beets and asparagus to double the fun!) Yum: chicken and turkey thighs. The thighs are the prime rib of poultry! Yuck: Cilantro!!! OK, I know things taste differently to different people- but could you like an overpowering herb that tastes of equal parts of flowery dish soap, kerosene, rotten grapefruit, and stinky paperwhite narcissus fragrance? That’s what cilantro tastes like to me. Yuck: sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts. Liver, too, but it smells great when fried with onions. Too bad it tastes like liver. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615/52 "2014-11-27T12:42:37Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Oh, and hot dogs make me gag. Had a comment that I thought was really funny. Then I had second thoughts. Then I thought some more and was going to post it along with a disclaimer pointing out it was a joke. But had second thoughts here as well. So anyway, I’ll leave it at that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-love-vs-hate/705615.md?page=2)