# Foods (seemingly) everyone likes but you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320 "2019-02-11T03:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/81 "2019-02-12T02:05:15Z")
There are a number of things that I wish I could eat but can’t due to my digestive issues, but there are very few things that I don’t _like_. The only things that come immediately to mind are cilantro (who wants to eat soap?) and egg drop soup (slimy snot soup). I’m unusual in that I love liver. That’s a good thing because it’s high in iron (which I have a deficiency of) and other nutrients and I’m able to digest it. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/82 "2019-02-12T02:26:13Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I’m aware of quite a few folks who don’t particularly like a particular fish or even a class of seafood (e.g. sushi, shellfish), but I don’t know of anyone but me who despises seafood in any and all forms. Me! The only seafood I eat are fried clam strips, which a lot of people find odd because they have a strong taste. But they don’t have a classic fishy taste. I also dislike beer, dark chocolate, coffee, and many green veggies because they all taste bitter. (why yes, I am a super taster.) And I dislike grape wines of any color because they uniformly taste moldy to me. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/83 "2019-02-12T02:57:16Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Most people don’t eat large chunks of fat, though. Or am I living in an alternate universe where everybody loves fat? I mean, isn’t that why chicken breast and tasteless meat like that is king here in the US? Because everyone hates fat? All fats are not equal. The buttery fat you get from a ribeye is MUCH tastier than the rubbery fat you get from a top round for example. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/84 "2019-02-12T03:02:55Z")
Truffles or truffle oil. Reminds me of something nasty from organic chem lab. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/85 "2019-02-12T03:27:43Z")
I can take (or oftne leave) much of the above, but one I haven’t seen mentioned is something I have never eaten in my 65 and a half trips around the sun. Pizza. Just don’t like tomato sauce or for that matter, everything else that goes with pizza, and have managed well without it all these years, so…no pizza. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/86 "2019-02-12T03:55:31Z")
Foods I hate: - Vegemite and Marmite - Any fish that still looks like a fish (phobia category) Foods that are meh: - Ketchup, steak sauce - Squid, why not just fill your mouth with rubber bands? - Mayo on fries or a burger, blech at the thought - Poutine, I love the ingredients but together, not my thing. - Watermelon, I just don’t get it. - Most fish, strangely, I find I can eat it if it doesn’t look like a fish but most of it tastes blah and is wasted on me. - Navy beans, canary beans, they have no discernable flavor or texture that makes them interesting. - Peanut butter as a sweet, though I like peanuts in savoury cooking ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/87 "2019-02-12T03:56:49Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Lamb. Cool. I’ll have your serve. 😃 Another for watermelon. Missed out as a kid because it looked like SO much fun to eat on a hot summer’s day! And like Qadgop, I can and will eat every colour of capsicum (bell pepper) except for green. Now I’m sure if you blindfolded me and I was to taste samples of each kind, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. But yeah, I buy and love the red varieties, just not the green. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/88 "2019-02-12T04:04:41Z")
Coffee. Somehow I just never acquired the taste. It always seems bitter and burnt to me. When I do drink it, I need sugar and a whitener. I will have a latte or something at a coffee house. Occasionally I buy B&J coffee toffee crunch, or at 31 jamoca almond fudge. I’d buy Starbucks frozen frappuccino bars once in a while when they were still available. Pepperoni, especially on pizzas. As far as I’m concerned, it just doesn’t belong on a pizza; just cheese and sausage for me, and mushrooms if I’m in the mood. I don’t like spicy hot foods in general, except when I can get a beer to nullify the heat. And Chinese hot mustard is great with egg rolls. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/89 "2019-02-12T04:38:29Z")
Licorice and root beer. Also, celery root and brussel sprouts which have a hint to licorice flavor. Oh and cloves. Basically anything with that “earthy” flavor. And yes, I DO know what dirt tastes like. 🙂 Also, too much black pepper. If I can distinctly taste it, it’s too much. I posted in another thread about how my favorite Mexican food place changed chefs and the food went drastically downhill. The greatest abomination was salsa with way too much cracked black pepper (which AFAIK has no place in salsa at all). When I asked the waitress why there was so much pepper in the salsa, she said it was because that’s the way the chef liked it. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/90 "2019-02-12T04:43:51Z")
Fat on meat. I will carefully cut the fat off all meat. Other fats are fine. I can happily eat a piece of bread thickly spread with butter. Which leads us to… Bacon-that is, typical American strip bacon. Don’t hate it just don’t really see the point. Yes, a BLT is a good sandwich but as for adding bacon to everything-just don’t. It adds nothing to breakfast (except the very thought of bacon or sausage in the morning gives me heartburn-so partially a conditioned response). It doesn’t enhance a salad or a burger. If I am having meat with breakfast I would prefer Canadian bacon or ham. If I want a salt and fat fix, there are other things so much better, like potato chips or olives. Why would somebody want to eat nasty fatty greasy bacon instead. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/91 "2019-02-12T06:13:17Z")
Oranges, or really any citrus flesh. You can keep your weird chewy little alien pods. I’ll drink the juices, even grapefruit juice, happily. But the bizarre, chewy texture of the flesh is just a recipe for gag time in my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/92 "2019-02-12T06:32:47Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > How have we gotten this far without mentioning the evil, dreaded _cilantro_? And it’s in everything now, even in Mom & Pop diners! On the cooking shows, the TV chef will put together a wonderful, beautiful, yummy-sounding dish and then ruin it by topping it with “bright, citrusy cilantro.” Bright? Citrusy? To some people cilantro tastes like soap. To me it tastes the way your mouth tastes after you throw up. I’ve no cite for this (would love to know the dope actually) but I have heard this is a specific genetic biological effect. As in there is a specific gene that X percent of people have that makes cilantro/coriander taste soapy and horrible. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/93 "2019-02-12T07:52:14Z")
Peas. Disgusting, whether fresh, frozen, or canned, mushy or whole. Beans–the legume type. I’m OK with green beans. Or wax beans, though I can’t see the point, as they taste like…wax. I won’t eat sushi, but that’s because some food scientists ruined it for me by discussing parasites thereof. I’d had it once before that and liked it. And slightly off-topic, I’m also grossed out by yellow cheese on pizza (like American, cheddar) and, of course, pizza with pineapple and ham on it. Abominations. Why they’re popular, I’ll never know. Also, catsup on a hot dog is nauseating, but that’s cultural. Almost everyone from Chicago knows better than to put catsup on a dog. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/94 "2019-02-12T08:18:20Z")
Avocado- why in hell is this even considered food? Satan’s pus filled scrotum Ketchup-nasty corn syrup with “tomato” added, Satan’s semen Green olives-again, why in hell are these disgusting things considered food? Satan’s pickled testicles Coffee from starbucks or starbucks wanna be clones-why are you serving me over heated and burned coffee you let sit on a hot burner all day yesterday in a glass pot at very over inflated prices? Convenience stores, for the most part have better coffee. Starbucks style coffee is Satan’s ass juice after a hard night of drinking and eating pickled eggs with sauerkraut All these “foods” are punishments inflicted upon us by an angry vengeful god for some sin committed by humanity that was so egregious that it has slipped from the collective memory. Ok, maybe that was a bit over the top, but not much. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/95 "2019-02-12T09:43:06Z")
Pumpkin, squash, beans of any sort. My main issue with these is their texture, with awful taste a close second. Also macaroni cheese, I eat almost any other pasta dish but mac&cheese just doesn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/96 "2019-02-12T15:13:23Z")
Since I feel compelled to offer my opinion here: some of these answers don’t really seem like foods that nearly everyone else likes. But CINNAMON ROLLS? MACARONI AND CHEESE? Those are legit answers. It blows my mind that someone can not like those foods. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/97 "2019-02-12T23:14:01Z")
> [@LoneRhino](#): > > Bell peppers. There are some cuisines that seem to put them in every dish. I’ll eat them but I have never had a dish with bell peppers that wouldn’t have tasted better without them. Green or ripe? Those are NOT the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/98 "2019-02-12T23:16:41Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Funny, the only thing I really like about bananas is the texture. I don’t have the flavor, but most foods would be better without it. (Yes, I prefer them a little under-ripe, after the astringency is mostly gone, but before too much flavor develops.) > > Probably the weirdest is that I don’t care for avocado. I don’t hate it, and I don’t bother to pick it out of my sushi, but I don’t get the appeal. If there’s a large chunk in my salad I will offer it to others. > > And the weirdest that I won’t eat is bell pepper. I don’t mind fresh green pepper. But if you cook it or even if it gets old it develops this really nasty flavor. And that flavor gets into everything. I don’t even want to sit next to you if you are eating a stuffed roast pepper. Ick!! > > When I got married, it took a while for us to figure out why I didn’t like tomato sauce (which my husband loves) because I like both fresh and cooked tomatoes. Turns out that my mom always put green pepper in it. And lots of other places do, too. Some brands of canned tomato sauce include some bell pepper, even! And that makes it taste disgusting. > > In general I like foods that are more mildly seasoned that most people. That’s not true for every seasoning (I love ginger) but I have a sensitive palette, and enjoy most foods more if I can taste the underlying food (beans, vegetable, meat, cheese, rice, whatever) and not just be overwhelmed by the seasoning. My sense of taste isn’t as sensitive as it was when I was a kid, and I find I can now tolerate (sometimes even enjoy) tiny amounts of highly-flavored things like mustard. But a lot of foods other people like just taste overblown and brassy to me. Are you a super-taster? Some people really do have more sensitive taste buds than others. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/99 "2019-02-12T23:23:27Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, well put. For something that smells that good, it is especially disappointing. That said, while I did initially vote popcorn, I do like the occasional bag of cheese popcorn mixed with caramel corn. By “occasional,” I mean like once ever year or two. I also remember one of my odder WTF experiences, going to a movie theatre in Germany to watch “Shakespeare in Love” with a friend of mine. Since it’s the movies, I’m compelled to buy popcorn, because that is what one does, and even if I don’t eat much, whoever I’m with will. I take my first bite into the popcorn, expecting salty, buttery goodness, and I get a faceful of _sweet_. I don’t know if it’s a regular thing, or if it’s just that theatre or region or what, but my brain took a few seconds to wrap itself around the subversion of expectations. Sounds like this theater served kettle corn or some similar variation, which is also very popular in the Midwest and is sweet. When my sibs were teenagers, they both worked at an independent movie theater that used real butter on their popcorn. At least once a night, someone would bring their Vat-O-Popcorn back and ask, “What’s this stuff all over my popcorn?” Yup, real butter, not butter-flavored oil. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/100 "2019-02-12T23:55:15Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Most people don’t eat large chunks of fat, though. Or am I living in an alternate universe where everybody loves fat? I mean, isn’t that why chicken breast and tasteless meat like that is king here in the US? Because everyone hates fat? No, it’s because Americans like their food very bland. They love fat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320.md?page=6)