# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/141 "2019-02-16T14:27:41Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Potatoes. :eek: What did I ever do to you? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/142 "2019-02-16T17:28:30Z")
^ C’mere, you, a waffle-fry maker awaits. ---
**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 17, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/143 "2019-02-17T03:08:33Z")
Rhubarb. I ate it when I was small, but what was I thinking? Blech. The local store throw rhubarb into all it’s pies claiming to make them healthier, instead of the real reason - it’s cheaper than out of season berries. They used to make good pies. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/144 "2019-02-17T04:46:36Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Rhubarb. I ate it when I was small, but what was I thinking? Blech. The local store throw rhubarb into all it’s pies claiming to make them healthier, instead of the real reason - it’s cheaper than out of season berries. They used to make good pies. Sigh. I love, love, love rhubarb. One of the joys of moving to Indiana is the easy availability of rhubarb pie at mom-and-pop diners all over. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/145 "2019-02-17T05:20:19Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > :eek: > > What did I ever do to you? Yeah, sorry, and \*\*Creole Tomato, HazelNutCoffee, needscoffee, coffeecat, Ellen Cherry, FoieGrasIsEvil (especially!), Taters, \*\*and **Vinyl Turnip**. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/146 "2019-02-17T06:25:29Z")
I have never liked guacamole, so I figured I didn’t like avocados. I recently ate a slice of avocado, and it wasn’t bad, just a bit greasy. It occurred to me that it was the cilantro in the guac that I hated! Another poster described cilantro as tasting like vomit. I don’t taste that, but it’s sort of soapy, rotten grapefruity, with strong notes of stinkbug, catalpa blooms, and paperwhite narcissus. It overwhelms anything it’s added to. For those of you unfamiliar with catalpas and paperwhites, they \*\*\*stink \*\*\*extremely sweetly. There really aren’t that many other things I can’t eat. Sweet potatoes are one of them. A taste of them when I was a child would make me want to puke. Now, they aren’t that bad, but I still don’t like them. Brussels sprouts are iffy. If they would just taste like the little cabbages they resemble all would be well! Sometimes they’re good and sometimes they’re vile. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/147 "2019-02-17T08:23:11Z")
Oh another US thing is the herb , fennel I think, that gets added by the ton to sausages around here, particularly to Italian Sausage. I am not a fan, and never encountered it anywhere else. Including in Italy (though I’ve not travelled to extensively in Italy, I guess it’s based on a regional dish that just became “Italian Sausage” in the states) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/148 "2019-02-17T15:54:54Z")
It’s fennel seed (so technically a spice.) It is used in a type of cured sausage/salami in Italy called Finnichiona. Don’t know where the blueprint for the fresh fennel sausage that you commonly get in the States comes from, though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/149 "2019-02-17T16:08:41Z")
Oh, and given the genesis of many Italian-American foods, my guess is the blueprint for US Italian sausage is probably based on some Sicilian or Southern Italian fresh sausage. Why that became the predominant sausage in America, I’d be interested to find out. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/150 "2019-02-17T16:57:05Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > WHY are you imagining that sort of thing??? > > :eek: Because when I was forced to gag those items down as a child, thats the first thought that would come to mind, “this must be what satan’s naughty parts are like”, or something close to that anyway. That’s just how vile and revolting they are to me. On the other hand, I do like brussel sprouts. I don’t give crap to people who don’t, they are bitter. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/151 "2019-02-17T17:13:02Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I have a friend who will not eat bananas. She’ll eat banana bread, canned bananas in fruit cocktail, banana-flavored candy, etc. but the peel and eat variety? Nope. For her, it’s a texture thing. I’m somewhat similar – enjoy most “banana-ish” products available in temperate Western countries; but have no enthusiasm for fresh bananas plain and simple (“peel and eat”, as said). For me, not about texture – I _will_ eat them plain-and-simple, but don’t seek them out: just find their taste faint / insipid / dull. I gather that this is, in part anyway, to do with happenings now long ago – I forget the “names of strains” concerned; but, bananas as grown where they grow them, used to have a fuller and more flavoursome taste, than obtains nowadays: some catastrophic disease almost wiped the species out – in dramatic circumstances, it was possible to save things in the nick of time, by substituting a different strain of banana, unaffected by the disease but markedly less flavour-ful. Banana flavouring for sundry things, has and retains the taste of the all-but-extinct “old type” banana; not so, though, with the fresh fruit. ---
**Author:** ![edspellman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@edspellman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edspellman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/152 "2019-02-17T23:14:05Z")
The whole “cilantro tastes like soap” thing may even be genetic from what I’ve read. Cilantro to me tastes fresh, “green” and a little peppery, (like basil tastes fresh and licorice-y)but my wife’s cousin tastes cilantro as soapy, so lots of people must share this. ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/153 "2019-02-18T00:42:07Z")
Nutmeg – it is just nasty. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/154 "2019-02-19T15:33:55Z")
> [@edspellman](#): > > The whole “cilantro tastes like soap” thing may even be genetic from what I’ve read. Cilantro to me tastes fresh, “green” and a little peppery, (like basil tastes fresh and licorice-y)but my wife’s cousin tastes cilantro as soapy, so lots of people must share this. I wonder if it’s more of a conditioned thing; Cilantro used to be an extremely strong unpleasant “soapy” unpleasant taste back 10 years ago or so, but it’s grown to be a lot less obnoxious now. Not pleasant, but not really unpleasant either. I mean, I don’t go sprinkling chopped cilantro on stuff like it was parsley, but it doesn’t really bother me when it’s done that way, like say in an Indian restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/155 "2019-02-20T17:45:11Z")
Have Oreos been mentioned? Because,Oreos. And Hydrox. I think they’re boring and a waste of calories for the day, at least the chocolate. After all these years I feel if I’m going to eat cookies I deserve something better… I kind of like the lemon or key lime, though, if I had a choice. ---
**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 24, 2019, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/156 "2019-02-24T03:32:28Z")
OMG fish paste sandwiches. And fish pickle sandwiches. Whose evil mother thought those up? ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/157 "2019-02-26T21:22:25Z")
Avocado - tastes like green mush. Radishes, beets, cilantro (definitely tastes soapy, probably Lifebuoy), licorice along with any anise-like flavor except basil, and coconut, especially the texture of shredded coconut. It’s like trying to eat a torn-up corrugated cardboard box, I can’t even swallow the stuff. Olives are another texture turn-off, but I love olive oil and cook with it almost every day. But slick squishy green or black olives? No thanks. Not even sliced and on a pizza. But I love a lot of things mentioned here as common dislikes. Hated mushrooms as a kid and then did a complete 180 and became addicted to them as a teenager. Asparagus? I can never get enough of the stuff and scarf it down right out of the steamer basket. Red bell peppers - ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320/158 "2019-02-26T22:02:17Z")
Bananas. It’s not the taste so much as the smell that turns my stomach, especially the smell of very ripe bananas. Also ice cream. Can’t understand the enthusiasm for it. It is so cold you can’t taste anything except intense sweetness which I find too sickly. Also I have sensitive teeth and anything very cold really hurts! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-seemingly-everyone-likes-but-you/829320.md?page=7)