# Foods that you love in one form but hate in another **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [July 12, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320 "2021-07-12T16:48:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/81 "2021-07-15T04:14:35Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Cucumber is okay, if not bitter … pickles aren’t food. They’re not even what food eats (e.g. lettuce and such). > > ETA: response to @Shoeless Opposite. I love pickles. Fresh cucumbers I’ll happily let my wife steal off my salads. She’s with you - she makes cucumber water but can’t even eat a hamburger that had pickles taken off. For me, raisins aren’t even food. Grapes? Good. Wine? Great. Dried corpse of vine fruit? Nauseating chocolate impostor masquerading as something edible. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/82 "2021-07-15T04:19:28Z")
I’m really partial to corned beef hash, but cold corned beef is pretty inedible. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/83 "2021-07-15T04:59:42Z")
Eggs: Hard boiled are fine. Soft boiled? UGH! Whose idea was it that these are good for you if you’re sick, anyway? They are NASTY! I like BBQ sauce and salsa, but I have never liked ketchup even though there’s a lot of overlap between their ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/84 "2021-07-15T05:21:28Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I like raw spinach in a salad. I hate any form of cooked spinach. Exactly the opposite. Love cooked, very much dislike the texture of fresh (and I have no problem with canned spinach or really any canned vegetable - not the best, but edible). Almost everything else people have listed here I’m fine with except sashimi. Despite a dozen+ attempts over multiple decades I’ve never been able to develop a taste for it. The very best I can do is choke it down rather unhappily. And it’s not a family thing/upbringing - all the rest of my kin are big fans. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/85 "2021-07-15T06:27:25Z")
I love sweet potatoes. I love fried foods. I dislike sweet potato fries. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/86 "2021-07-15T16:34:38Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > You don’t have to boil it and shouldn’t—you’ll drain away what flavor it has. Instead, sautee with zero water or oil, concentrating the flavor for omelettes etc. 90% of it cooks away. Good lord, yes. I grew up with a mother who apparently thought “flavor” of any kind was maybe carcinogenic. Or poisonous in some way. Everything was boiled. Including meat. But especially spinach. Just don’t. Don’t even steam it, that’s just a half-step from boiling it. Put a bit of olive oil and some crushed garlic in a skillet. Throw the spinach in. Toss it around, get the oil all over. Raise the heat. Cover. Takes about 90 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Franklymydear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Franklymydear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Franklymydear)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320/87 "2021-07-16T23:00:30Z")
Thinly sliced deli ham? with Swiss on a har roll? YUM Ham Steak, Easter Ham, Canadian bacon? Get that vile stuff away from me [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-you-love-in-one-form-but-hate-in-another/946320.md?page=4)