# Foods You Can Eat In One Form, But Not In Another **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627 "2013-08-19T09:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/121 "2013-08-24T09:01:04Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ve never acquired the taste for eggplant, either. Likewise – fried, grilled, stewed, the flavor and texture are always nasty. Except baba ghanoush - I guess if you remove all texture and add enough olive oil and garlic, anything’s edible. Re: the OP, I have difficulty eating whole figs ever since I read the final chapter of The Blind Watchmaker. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/122 "2013-08-24T16:03:59Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > To be edible, the tomato must be sliced horizontally. If you slice the tomato from the side, you have ruined it. Clarification. I’m talking about the axis of the tomato here. Don’t cut the cheeks off. I don’t care how it’s held when you cut it. Oh, and I won’t eat tomato wedges, either. Those are yucky. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/123 "2013-08-24T16:18:52Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Sure. I hate olives - a real handicap here in the Middle East - but I’m fine with olive oil. Me, too. Except for the Middle East part. Carrots: raw = good. Cooked = yuk! But I love the flavor that carrots add to stock, and much it remains in the stock since it gets broken down to tiny bits. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/124 "2013-08-25T01:38:29Z")
As for olives, I don’t mind eating the one in my martini, but otherwise I don’t care for them much. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/125 "2013-08-25T08:05:07Z")
Love raw tomatoes, tomato sauce, and sun dried tomatoes–cannot will not eat stewed tomatoes, the texture is nasty. Love raw onions, put onion powder in lots of things–cannot eat cooked onions, again the texture is nasty. Love raw cabbage, coleslaw–cannot eat cooked cabbage, texture well you get the idea. Love raw spinach–cannot eat cooked, same as above I find myself to be a very texture oriented eater, and I do not do slimy, slippery well. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/126 "2013-08-25T11:26:45Z")
Raw or lightly smoked salmon, still pink and translucent - yum! Cooked salmon - blech. You might as well serve me tinned cat food. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/127 "2013-08-25T11:42:29Z")
Hey! For all you fussy eaters check out what _Thug Kitchen_ has to say about [food : EAT LIKE YOU GIVE A FUCK.](http://thugkitchen.com/post/45847588323/no-lie-its-been-a-while-since-a-thug-has-been-in) As you may have divined, NSFW if someone is looking over your shoulder, but no sound. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/128 "2013-08-26T02:40:59Z")
> [@want2befree](#): > > I love raw salmon but not cooked salmon. Same here. I love sashimi, nigiri, or rolled salmon. Cook it in any way and I cannot stand it. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627/129 "2013-08-26T06:23:29Z")
> [@JXJohns](#): > > Same here. I love sashimi, nigiri, or rolled salmon. Cook it in any way and I cannot stand it. About the only way I like it cooked is making salmon salad out of canned salmon, or the occasional croquette. I am the same way with tuna - sushi, sashimi or canned tuna salad or croquettes. Oh, and a lovely side of smoked salmon/lox - if it is salted and pressed is that considered cooked? It is a chemical cooking instead of a heat based cooking, like ceviche is considered cooking with acid instead of salt and pressure. How do you think tuna would be processed like lox? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-can-eat-in-one-form-but-not-in-another/666627.md?page=6)