Capellini - Divine!
Spaghettini - Awesome
Spaghetti - Excellent
Linguine - Tolerable
Fettuccine - Ugh
Papardelle - Get out of my house.
Onions: never raw, must be cooked enough to lose their “squeaky” texture.
Olive oil is fine. Olives are disgusting.
I’m pretty sure it’s stated in Leviticus that okra should be fried. Stewed/boiled is punishable by stoning or something.
Eggs: scrambled, poached, fried, never boiled.
And I hate boiled chicken. For soups or dumplings or such, I roast the bird and add to the pot at the end.
Some of the tomato hate reminds me of when Daughter 2.0 was small. She would eat catsup or tomato based sauces, but I had to refer to that red stuff from Campbell’s that you serve with grilled cheese sandwiches on gloomy days as “catsup soup.”
And I only like bananas if they’re slightly green, never cooked in any form, and never ever “banana flavoring.” I’m pretty sure the aversion to the artificial flavor stems from the novocaine my childhood dentist used.
To all of you raw-tomato-haters: Have you ever had one fresh from the garden? If you have and still don’t like them, never mind, forget I asked, but if you haven’t, you should try at least one.
Peanut butter - I hate it on its own, YES EVEN THE ‘NATURAL’ AND ‘REAL’ PEANUT BUTTER BEFORE YOU ASK, but I love it in certain deserts and other cooking applications. It’s mostly a texture thing for me.
Oysters - can’t stand them on the half shell, again mostly due to texture but the taste is also awful, but I do like them in other things sometimes if cooked well.
Celery - Don’t care for it raw, at all. Love love love it when it’s cooked down and soft.
Same here.
Also, I like orange juice but not actual oranges (though I like the small ones/clementines/tangerines/mandarins), grape juice but not actual grapes, and real apples but not apple juice.
I like most raw vegetables (except the cruciferous ones) but I can’t stand cooked vegetables with the exception of corn, potatoes and peas.
I also like tomato products but not tomatoes raw or in any chunky form.
I like canned tuna fish mixed with mayonnaise for sandwiches, but I can’t eat any other form of tuna or other fish.
Love raw raspberries (right off the bramble is best) but hate anything with cooked raspberries or raspberry flavoring.
Duck sauce, on the other hand, is not made out of ducks. It’s made to be served on duck. Its ingredients are mostly fruit. Same thing with lobster sauce; it’s served on lobster not made out of lobster. So it’s not unreasonable to think that oyster sauce contains no oysters.
Echoing the tomato statements above. Smooth sauces or salsa are fine, but no chunks or slices please.
Yes, I have. I’ve tried raw tomatoes on several occasions and never like them. I’ve even had people who love tomatoes offer me a slice from a tomato which they are eating and that they tell me is particularly good but I still don’t like it.
It makes me wonder if there’s a genetic factor like there is with cilantro and some people actually taste tomatoes differently than other people do.
I detest fish, and most sea life. Yuccky, smells bad, feels like huge snot balls when eaten.
Fish sticks? Yum!
Corn, yum, on the cob, as a side, but never ever in a soup or stew, yech
Peanut butter-PB&J only, no peanut butter cookies, candy, cake whatever
Fruit. Fruit is lovely. I eat fruit every day. A fruit or 2, cut up on a plate, or out of a dish. NEVER EVER put fruit in food-no grapes in the goddamn chicken salad, or pineapple in the cole slaw, never ever ever mix fruit into my real food. Maybe cereal. But that’s all.
Raw fresh tomatos, no way.
But marinate it in a vinegar for salsa, sun-dry it, juice it, paste or sauce it, cook it in any way, and I’m loving it.
And yes, I’ve tried dozens of varieties, garden-fresh, from folks who’ve told me I just haven’t tasted a good one. I’d really really like to enjoy a fresh raw tomato. But they taste nasty to me. The nasty goes away with drying, marinating, or cooking.
Like apples but can’t drink apple juice - ditto for grapes and grape juice - the effect they have on me is not pleasant.
I like raw nuts but not in my food. I’ll gnaw a chunk of coconut but the shredded stuff? Ah, no.
However nuts in candy bars are acceptable (but not coconut).
Love tomato sandwiches and a BLT, I don’t want tomato on a sandwich otherwise.
Yes to cooked mushrooms, no to raw.
Don’t do raw blueberries, they have to be in muffins or pancakes.
But as my mother raised me, if some one serves it to you, you have to eat a little of it to be polite. So I have.
Enjoy the taste of banana containing foods, like banana bread or pudding. A whole raw banana? Nope. It’s all about the consistency when you chew it up.
That goes for several other foods, actually. Mushrooms are nasty spongy ickyness on their own, but I can appreciate what they add to sauces and pizza if they’re not too large.
Do not enjoy cheese on my sammich or burger unless it’s well melted, but I will eat large chunks of fresh cheese on their own.
Broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, cabbage - all delicious raw or barely BARELY cooked. Stewed or steamed or cooked to anything like mushiness and the flavor completely changes and becomes Satan’s poop on a plate.
I like pretty much every kind of fruit raw.
In jam, however, no way. The only jams I like are blackberry & apple, and rhubarb.
Cherries processed in pretty much any way are anathema to me. Straight off the tree - magic!
I used to be particularly awkward with eggs - I’d only have the yolk if it was soft boiled and only the white if it was hard boiled. These days it’s just no eggs less processed than cake or pancakes.
Came to mention tomatoes. I guess it is pretty common.
I’m the opposite, they are a few of the fruits I do like but I don’t like any of the juices.
Although if you add vodka or tequila to the orange juice I like it.
Yeah, I hate tomatoes as tomatoes but like them as sauces/catsup, too.
Never had a non-newton’d fig, tho.
I’ll admit my views on fried eggs makes no sense. Fry them up regular and I don’t like the taste of either the yolk or the white. But scramble them together before you fry them and somehow the tastes balance out for me and I love them.
I love tomatoes in every form, except ketchup,which is fucking disgusting.
I love apple sauce, apple juice, apple pie, but for some reason do not like plain apples. I will eat them, but they are never my choice.
Also, lettuce in a salad or on a cold sandwich, I like. Put it on something hot, like a burger and i want to gag.