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.
Odd fave: cabbage
Can’t abide: tomato
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.
YES!
Love: Spam. Cold, right out of the can.
Hate: Shellfish of any kind.
Love: Kipper Snacks
Hate: Hard boiled or Deviled Eggs
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.
Love: PB & mayo sandwiches; mayo to dip my fries in
Hate: Beets, cooked spinach, Brussels sprouts, Belgian endive, raw fish
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.