The first thing that came to mind was eggs. It would be such a cheap, easy meal. I’ve been thinking I’d like to keep some chickens, but I don’t eat eggs and couldn’t kill one. The dozen or so eggs a year I bake with doesn’t justify keep a flock of chickens.
I’m a picky eater. usually I can find something I’ll eat anywhere, but I do wish I liked green peppers. Lots of things (I’m looking at you, mushrooms) you can pick out or eat around and it’s fine, but bell peppers taint the flavor of everything around them.
I don’t really miss not liking alcohal, or seafood. I sometimes wish I liked coffee and tea, (especially iced tea, living in the South), but I’m a Coke drinker.
Cantaloupe. Any melon really. It’s cheap, looks tasty and tastes like grainy nothingness to me. I don’t even really like watermelon because of the texture. In any given fruit cup or fruit salad, I will pick the one strawberry, two grapes, and two bits of pineapple out and gaze wistfully at the other 80% of the dish, which is all melon, and wish I liked it.
Raw tomatoes. Unless they are still warm and from my garden, they are generally grainy and tasteless to me. It seems a waste to throw away the tomato that came with my salad and wish for carrots instead. I like tomatoes cooked in any form, but raw… bleargh.
Raisins. Hard to avoid in pastries and cookies sometimes. I love both and hate to bite into what looks like a chocolate chip cookie only to find I’ve been snookered and that I’ve actually bitten into an oatmeal raisin cookie. I will dissect an oatmeal raisin cookie to pick all the raisins out, but I prefer it if people didn’t make these decoy cookies to begin with. Or at least if I liked raisins, I wouldn’t care which kind of cookie it is.
Fruit. (apples, bananas, oranges - the thing moms buy because it’s good for you). It’s boring. Oh, I’ll eat it, but without enthusiasm. Most fruit is either too ripe or not ripe enough, and why is it pears will come home from the grocery store looking like they were attacked by a mad slasher, no matter how coddled on the trip? I do like fresh pineapple, all berries, mangoes, and kiwis. I would like to like peaches but maybe one in ten is worth eating.
And steak and prime rib. Chewchewchewchewchewchewchew. (this is blah) Swallow carefully. Chewchewchewchewchewchewchewchew. (this is blah) Swallow carefully. Unless it’s cooked over charcoal and seasoned really well, I don’t get the big deal.
Rare tuna. I get why it shouldn’t be cooked to a gray dry slab, but there’s a fine line between just cooked enough and icky-raw.
Cake from a cake mix - same deal as fruit. I’ll eat it, just to be polite, but without enthusiasm.
It’s quite possible I have - I know for certain I’ve had better quality tea than grocery store-variety tea - drank in better restaurants and venues, but I couldn’t tell you its provenance. Although I could objectively discern a difference, subjectively, nope, still tastes like mulch!
I’m not a super-taster, my palate has been dulled by decades of tobacco and vodka, and it still tastes like one would imagine the worst juice leaking out of a dumpster would.
I don’t know, but whoever it was should be beaten with a dessicated grape vine.
I came back in here to add: I wish I could find a local pizza place I liked. Last night, I was munching on a slice from Papa John’s and, aside from noting that the sauce is way too damn sweet for me, the pizza had virtually no other discernable flavor. I had to dope it up with a bunch of italian herbs and crushed red pepper flakes just so I could feel like I was tasting something.
There is a locally owned place in town called “Decent Pizza” and it is accurately named. The pizza is decent, but not awesome. It just sucks that in a college town like this, I have such a hard time finding A) a great pizza, B) good Chinese take out, or C) decent Mexican food.
V8. I love tomatoes. Red tomatoes, green tomatoes, yellow tomatoes. Raw or fried, it doesn’t matter. Maybe it isn’t the tomato juice I dislike, but I also like the other vegetables they put in there. It should be a tasty and nutritious drink, but I have never liked it. I should try another brand of tomato juice someday.
Stinky tofu, because I love smelling that awful smell and then try to find the tofu as fast as possible. After discovering its location, I want to buy it, but I know that I’ll regret it after the first bite. Then I’ll watch a group of people enjoying their stinky tofu and feel so left out.
Durian is a cool looking fruit, and even though it smells awful I would love to enjoy eating it, but it tastes even worse than it smells.
People who hate people who eat turnovers/popovers. Dried cherries are better than raisins in every application, but I would not put them in a turnover.
Dried cranberries are also an acceptable substitute, but again, should be banned from turnovers. Isn’t that the 11th Commandment? Thou shalt not put dried fruits in turnovers? :dubious:
If I don’t like it, I don’t wish I did - except when the family makes tuna salad and I will eat it having wished for chicken salad. The uncooked oily smell is off-putting.
Tea and coffee never appealed. They all just taste like bitter water. I can disguise them with lemon and sugar and cream, but that bitter water taste shines through. Oddly though I love the bitter taste of Coke.
Alcohol has never appealed to me. It is just a burning smell or taste to me. I was forced at my bachelor party to try things like lemon drops and yeagermeister (that one has just got to be a joke people play on rubes), but the burning alcohol taste was bad. Even champagne’s are chalky and bitter. We toasted with strawberry milk at our wedding. One night gaming, my friend suggested I try his 12-year old Scotch. I did. I immediately had to run to the kitchen and drink some milk to get the taste out.
Most of the foods listed I like, except carrots. They trigger the gag reflex in me.
In general, I wish I liked vegetables in raw form. That would be healthier eating at the hors-d’oeurves table. I like cauliflower, broccoli, etc, cooked, but not raw.
All the cilantro votes have really got me curious- I can’t remember trying it, or how I felt about it if I did! I see salsa popping up here, I’ve certainly eaten salsa before, but- nope, not ringing a bell. After all the soap comments here, I’m not sure I want to find out, either. :eek: Is it often in anything else?
I wish I liked shrimp. I like seafood, I like tiny foods you can eat without utensils- seems like shrimp ought to be the perfect combination. But I never enjoy it. Something about the texture just turns me off.
I also wish I liked sushi. I’m a pretty adventurous eater, and I like a lot of different food from a lot of different cultures…and sushi looks cool, anyway. But any time I try it, a little voice in my head says, “Ehhhhh…not great.”
I’m hopping on the cilantro train. Soap-taster here. Also the vegetables-in-general train. I wish, wish, WISH I could sit down and enjoy a plate of celery and carrots and onions, and things that have those in them, but I can’t. The only vegetables I actually enjoy are the starchy ones (corn, peas, beans, potatoes) and tomatoes. The vegetable that are absolutely free-to-eat on most diets are the ones I can’t stand. Go figure.
It’s in a lot of Mexican and Vietnamese food (my first major experience with it was in pho, and it ruined the whole night for me because that Ivory soap taste would NOT leave my mouth after the one mouthful I had). The soap-taste is apparently a genetic thing…some people taste soap (and it’s SOAP, not some mildly soapy flavor) and some people taste (according to non-soap-tasters) “fresh air”, “green meadows”, “heaven”. Which sounds like people rubbing it in, to me…
Most fruit is either too ripe or not ripe enough, and why is it pears will come home from the grocery store looking like they were attacked by a mad slasher, no matter how coddled on the trip? I do like fresh pineapple, all berries, mangoes, and kiwis. I would like to like peaches but maybe one in ten is worth eating.