# Foods you freaking hate that lots of others freaking love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628 "2013-12-18T06:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/1 "2013-12-18T06:31:47Z")
I hate Marshmallows. Always hated those things. Even when I was a kid I couldn’t stand them. I loved toasting them over the grill so I could burn them to a crisp and throw them out. They started putting them in breakfast cereals and it’d make me gag! BLECH! Pop-Tarts. Might as well be called Poop-Farts. 2 pounds of crust with a teaspoon of melted fruit roll-up inside? Always hated them! Squash. summer squash, winter squash, butternut squash. Yuck! Like a blob of cat shit! Get it off my plate! Pumpkin too. I hate pumpkin pie! And brewers have to stop making beer out of slimy pumpkins! Cream of wheat. Like a mouthful of hot wino jizz. 'Nuff said. Butterscotch. Did you know there’s salt AND butter in this stuff? Just what a kid needs in his candy, high blood pressure and cholesterol! Jello. Are you kidding me? Ma thought she was giving us a treat with this slimy goop. I hate all Jello flavors, but a serving of butterscotch jello with marshmallows in it on my plate is going to get you punched! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/2 "2013-12-18T06:45:20Z")
Dairy Queen ice cream cakes. I don’t exactly hate them, but I’ll never eat one on purpose. I do hate going to birthday parties and they have ice cream cake - I’ll eat a few bites to be polite and my husband gets the rest. Rhubarb - again, don’t hate it, but if I never eat it again, I won’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/3 "2013-12-18T08:08:58Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Cream of wheat. Like a mouthful of hot wino jizz. 'Nuff said. I’ll have to take your word for it on that. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/4 "2013-12-18T08:26:03Z")
Tomato. Used to hate it, but I’ve gotten over it so that if it’s left in a burger, about 50% of the time I’ll pull the excess out, but eat some of it. The key is that something else (juicy, juicy, meat) is masking it. People talk about the relative benefits of cherry and plum and campari and heirloom, and I think they taste like the same bland mealy crap. I don’t believe butterscotch requires salt, although some recipes have it. Are you thinking of salted caramel? And by popular definition, Jell-O is a company that primarily makes Jell-O gelatin, a translucent fruity dessert. Butterscotch pudding is a separate thing and can be made by Jell-O or any number of companies. ETA: I don’t think I’ve ever had rhubarb in my life, but it’s more of a Southern thing, innit? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/5 "2013-12-18T08:57:37Z")
- Cheeseburgers. For most people, the idea of a hamburger without cheese on it is unimaginable. I, personally, find the melted cheese on the patty to be disgusting and I can’t even bite into it without gagging. (I do, however, like bleu cheese on burgers.) - Rare steak. The taste of undercooked meat, again, makes me gag. I can handle medium-well, if it’s fully heated through and there’s just a _sliver_ of pinkness in the middle, but any cooler than that and I’ll send it back. - Tabasco sauce. It’s too dang vinegary. Ditto for Frank’s Redhot, though the latter becomes more tolerable when it’s mixed with melted butter as for buffalo wing sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/6 "2013-12-18T09:03:35Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > ETA: I don’t think I’ve ever had rhubarb in my life, but it’s more of a Southern thing, innit? AFAIK, rhubarb is virtually unknown in the South. I’m from Alabama and I’ve never seen it or tasted it. I’ve never seen it grown here or sold in grocery stores. Recent thread: > **[Strawberry Rhubarb Pie - rare in parts of the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=708995)** > > I caught the last few minutes of a show called “fox Football Daily” I believe. It had the talking heads from Fox on it at least (Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, someone else), and they mentioned something about popular Desserts for US... My list: Mushrooms Asparagus Celery English peas Liver Coconut ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/7 "2013-12-18T09:11:23Z")
Tomatoes gross me out. Like in a spaghetti sauce. I can’t eat it with big chunks in there. My wife uses tomato puree to hide them. I remove tomatoes from burgers and other sandwiches. I like pizza if it doesn’t have a lot of sauce on it. A little is ok. Okra is nasty. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/8 "2013-12-18T09:23:55Z")
Seafood. All/any kinds/kind. Vile. Marshmallow Treats. Bite me, each and every one of you MTs! They are vomit. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/9 "2013-12-18T09:59:28Z")
Creamy sauces. I go out to dinner with a group of friends once every six weeks. Not all that often but, still, regularly. Because one of the diners is a pain in the bum with regard to what she will or will not eat, we always go to the same types of restaurants (Italian/Mediterranean). I’m finding more and more that most of the dishes are accompanied by a creamy sauce. Not just the pastas but chicken and veal dishes as well. I can generally manage to find one dish on the menu which isn’t creamy sauce based but the selection is getting narrower all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/10 "2013-12-18T10:00:42Z")
Mushrooms - can’t stand them. Don’t like the taste or the texture, and in my mind are always associated with rot and decay, so there’s an ick factor. Bleu cheeses - see above. Plus, it smells like fermented sweaty gym sock, except less tolerable. Tomato - hate it in solid form, but oddly I quite like it when in liquidinous form; ie. pasta sauce or ketchup. Like many a red-blooded american I quite like a nice plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce, and carrots dipped in ketchup is just divine! It’s all the other things in those sauces that transmutes the awfulness of the red devil into something that can actually be found to taste enjoyable. Plus, is it a fruit? Is it a vegetable? I don’t care! Just get it the fuck out of my garden! I’ll second the OP’s squash comment. No thanks! Canned tuna/salmon - vile, horrible stuff. This is something I truly hate. The other entries are things I merely dislike, but canned tuna and salmon are truly terrible. For one, it’s got a stench that could gag a maggot. Even you folks that like the stuff have to admit it’s not an appetizing odor. It smells like a cat that’s eaten porpoise hork and that’s then proceded to yak it back up in your sweat stained gym sneakers. And then you slop on enough mayonaise to give a horse angina, and have the brass stones to call salad! And let’s not forget that you people’s voracious appetite for dolphin sick is the direct cause of said cetaceans and literally hundreds of other not-as-cute marine species being killed en masse to fill tins with the ruined and desecrated flesh of a noble, and otherwise ostensibly tasty, creature. I’m telling you, it should be banned! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/11 "2013-12-18T11:47:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > - Cheeseburgers. For most people, the idea of a hamburger without cheese on it is unimaginable. I, personally, find the melted cheese on the patty to be disgusting and I can’t even bite into it without gagging. (I do, however, like bleu cheese on burgers.) ^ This. Only no exception for any sort of cheese for me. I find the texture of melted cheese revolting, and I don’t like it hot. (I’ve learned to tolerate melted mozarella) Also, cilantro. I hate hate hate cilantro. Ya’ll are eating Pine Sol mixed with Pledge with a side of yuck. It’s disgusting and totally un-foodlike. Tomatos - although the face I react to them like most folks react to poison ivy is probably a factor here. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/12 "2013-12-18T11:57:00Z")
Cheese. Well, not _all_ cheese. A scant few are a’ight, or at least non-intrusive and completely ignorable. Like pizza cheese : no smell, no taste, just a rubbery texture. That’s fine - I love raw squid so rubber is no issue. But \*most \*of them are disgusting and smelly and oogy and runny and blood curdling and what could possess anyone to ingest that rotten milk paste ? WAKE UP SHEEPLE, CHEESE IS ROTTEN MILK PASTE ! Why do you all want to ingest rotten milk paste ?! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here ! ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/13 "2013-12-18T12:16:01Z")
Lima Beans Cilantro Liver Veal Sauerkraut ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/14 "2013-12-18T12:35:15Z")
Cake. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/15 "2013-12-18T12:52:38Z")
Yes to okra. Also eggplant. Whoever it was that said squash is slimy should have some nice eggplant. Topped with okra. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/16 "2013-12-18T12:58:20Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Also, cilantro. I hate hate hate cilantro. Ya’ll are eating Pine Sol mixed with Pledge with a side of yuck. It’s disgusting and totally un-foodlike. **YES!** To me, it tastes the way your mouth tastes after you throw up. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/17 "2013-12-18T12:59:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Cheese. > > Well, not _all_ cheese. A scant few are a’ight, or at least non-intrusive and completely ignorable. Like pizza cheese : no smell, no taste, just a rubbery texture. That’s fine - I love raw squid so rubber is no issue. But \*most \*of them are disgusting and smelly and oogy and runny and blood curdling and what could possess anyone to ingest that rotten milk paste ? WAKE UP SHEEPLE, CHEESE IS ROTTEN MILK PASTE ! Why do you all want to ingest rotten milk paste ?! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here ! I can tolerate some cheese more than others (mozzarella on a pizza, for instance), but overall, I’m not a cheese person either. If I’m in a fancy-schmancy restaurant and a cheese plate is put in front of me, I’m going to offer it to everyone else at the table. I don’t like the texture of raw cheese, don’t like the odor of some of it, don’t like the mouthfeel of something creamy like brie (YEEEECH!). The only exception to this is feta. I’m fine with feta. It must be the Greek blood in me 🙂 I don’t like hot creamy things like mac and cheese, cream of wheat, and any cream-of soup. Part of it is my lactose intolerance. Part of it is mouthfeel. Cold, sweet, and creamy is one thing. Hot, creamy, and savory is the cystic pimple of the culinary world. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/18 "2013-12-18T13:17:04Z")
Persimmons…ugh! Wet, slimy, consistency like frog spawn. My wife loves them…only "fruit"said to taste better when mostly rotten,😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/19 "2013-12-18T13:31:08Z")
Gooey sweet coconut filling. As in a mounds bar or German Chocolate Cake frosting. I like fresh coconut fine, just the sweetened sawdust stuff I despise. Candied yams. Way to ruin perfectly good sweet potatoes, which I like fine baked instead of russets. ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628/20 "2013-12-18T13:52:39Z")
Freaking fish. I hate the freaking smell. I hate the freaking consistency. And I freaking hate the freaking taste. Freak! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-freaking-hate-that-lots-of-others-freaking-love/676628.md?page=2)