# Foods you will only eat prepared a specific way (or, exceptions for foods that you otherwise hate) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496 "2018-05-20T07:32:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/41 "2018-05-21T17:57:29Z")
Canned tuna in tuna salad is fine. Canned tuna in tuna casserole is a little dish of hell. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/42 "2018-05-21T18:00:10Z")
I really like lemon. Lemon cake, lemon icing, lemon custard ice cream, lemon pastry filling, lemonade, lemon drop candy, lemon on my broccoli, lemon on my tilapia, etc. And I loved iced tea. I drink a ton of iced tea. Unsweetened. No flavorings. AND NO LEMON. I can’t stand lemon in my iced tea. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/43 "2018-05-21T18:12:24Z")
I’ll eat okra pickled, chicken livers made into a mousse and spread on toast or a banh mi, oatmeal if it’s baked into bread or a cookie, or I won’t eat these things at all. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/44 "2018-05-21T18:38:44Z")
Can’t even be in the same room with tuna after it’s been cooked/canned, but I love it raw in sushi/sashimi. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/45 "2018-05-21T18:49:07Z")
> [@nachtmusick](#): > > Cooked spinach is slimy, bitter-tasting pond scum, but I like fresh spinach leaves either as a salad or added to sandwiches.l Same here; love fresh spinach, won’t go near cooked spinach. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/46 "2018-05-21T19:31:10Z")
Brussels sprouts must be roasted - that’s the only way they don’t taste bitter to me. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/47 "2018-05-21T21:38:51Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I don’t mind the flavor of celery, but I will not eat actual celery unless it’s been cooked to the point of near-dissolving. I’m with you on this one. Celery salt in my soup = delicious. Celery in my soup = eww. I also hate tubed meats, but often enjoy the meat that’s in the tube. Example: breakfast sausage. In tubed form, it’s vile. In patty form, it’s delicious. I just can’t handle the texture of biting through the casing. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/48 "2018-05-21T22:07:58Z")
Peas. I’ll eat them in soup or casserole, but to just eat peas on their own… no. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/49 "2018-05-21T22:59:48Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I have only eaten ricotta cheese in lasagna. I haven’t refused it anywhere else, because it has never come up, but I bet I would. > (Oddly, I MUST have it in lasagna.) Adding two extra exceptions: 1. A few desserts 2. It’s also really good in calzones (as long as there’s mozzarella cheese in there too) Other than that, I agree ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/50 "2018-05-21T23:30:47Z")
> [@nachtmusick](#): > > Cooked spinach is slimy, bitter-tasting pond scum, but I like fresh spinach leaves either as a salad or added to sandwiches.l Agreed, as a free-standing cooked vegetable. However, I find it a delicious ingredient in soups, lasagna, and spannkopitas. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/51 "2018-05-21T23:40:00Z")
I hate seafood. All of it, foul smelling blobby yuch. Except fishsticks. They don’t count. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/52 "2018-05-22T00:53:10Z")
I cannot stand raw tomatoes, but love tomato sauces. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/53 "2018-05-22T00:54:17Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > I cannot stand raw tomatoes, but love tomato sauces. I used to be that way until I started eating home-grown, fresh from the garden tomatoes. Now I eat them like apples. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/54 "2018-05-22T02:17:47Z")
I don’t like peanut butter in baked goods (like peanut butter cookies), but sometimes a peanut butter (and jelly) sandwich is the best thing in the world you can eat. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/55 "2018-05-22T03:08:25Z")
I hate beets, except in the borscht my mother used to make. I like pretty much everything people in this thread hate. Except liverwurst. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/56 "2018-05-22T03:35:57Z")
Banana bread is fine. I loathe bananas in any other form. The smell, the taste, the texture, all of it. On the rare occasions I’ve been asked to peel one (usually for a little kid) I hold it with a paper towel so I don’t have to touch the gritty sliminess. Thinking about it, really the only food I can’t stand in any form whatsoever and can’t even choke down to be polite is raisins. If I take a bite of something and there turns out to be raisins in it, it’s getting spit back into a napkin. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/57 "2018-05-22T04:27:15Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Same here; love fresh spinach, won’t go near cooked spinach. I’m the other way around. When I was a kid, my mother would cook this frozen spinach for dinner, and it was just about the only vegetable I actually liked and would eat without complaint. Fast forward three or four decades, and the only spinach I can find is this fresh leaf crap that I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. It’s like eating grass. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/58 "2018-05-22T06:10:14Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Potato makes me gag unless it’s been cooked enough with a high enough surface area to make it all crispy. Really did not expect to see the fan favorite potato anywhere on this list. > [@nachtmusick](#): > > Tomatoes are essential on burgers, hot dogs and cold sandwiches, but I don’t like them on their own. When they show up in salads I pick them out, especially whole cherry tomatoes. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Right there with you. Raw tomatoes are foul. > [@Rysto](#): > > I cannot stand raw tomatoes, but love tomato sauces. Tomatoes are mine too. Of course like any good Midwestern boy I have my challenges with vegetables, but my relationship with tomatoes is the most complicated. I love ketchup, salsa and pasta sauces of all types. But raw tomato grosses me out…specifically the nasty slimy insides where the seeds live. Just horrific. Watching my wife eat tomatoes whole makes my usually strong stomach turn. I can tolerate eating raw tomato on a sammich or in a salad only when they are sliced very thin or diced very small and the slimy insides are cleaned out leaving only the meaty flesh. Typing that description made my skin crawl. Edit: That scene in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King where Denethor eats those tomatoes while Pippin sings is one of the more horrific scenes in film…gimme Human Centipede or Saving Private Ryan any day. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/59 "2018-05-22T23:45:59Z")
Sour cream on a baked potato, or in stroganoff? Yes please. On a taco, no way. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496/60 "2018-05-23T00:19:00Z")
I hate mustard in all forms, except the really cheap, crappy kind and only when it’s on a hotdog. Not on a burger, but on a hotdog. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-will-only-eat-prepared-a-specific-way-or-exceptions-for-foods-that-you-otherwise-hate/814496.md?page=4)