# Foods you're glad you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245 "2010-10-25T03:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/61 "2010-10-27T03:51:00Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > they will wax poetic about how healthy seafood is for you while dunking their lobster chunks in liquid butter. GET AWAY FROM THIS THREAD AND GET AWAY FORM MY LIQUEFIED BUTTER RIGHT NOW! - **lindsaybluth** , who, once every two months or so, orders cinnamon raisin french toast and dunks it gleefully in liquid butter. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/62 "2010-10-27T09:48:31Z")
So far, lobster is all I can think of. At least, the one time I had it, it wasn’t good. I tend to like other seafood, although some of the slimier ones can be a texture problem. But lobster tastes weird. I used to be that way about added butter, but it’s grown on me. It’s still something I can go without, but I don’t hate it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/63 "2010-10-27T13:48:28Z")
I just reaffirmed how much simpler my life is not liking milk on my cereal. Makes it much easier to eat breakfast at my desk at work. I bet my co-workers wish I’d use milk to mute the crunch crunch sounds, though. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/64 "2010-10-27T14:03:40Z")
By disliking Alfredo sauce, I feel like I’m missing nothing - except the huge fat and calorie penalty it carries over tomato sauce. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/65 "2010-10-27T14:22:37Z")
Raisins. There are foods I dislike, but raisins are in a different category. It shouldn’t even be considered “food.” The worst is when they’ve been disguised as chocolate chips and put in cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/66 "2010-10-27T15:13:21Z")
I looooooove nearly every kind of food served at Thanksgiving except for Green Bean casserole. Which is weird because I love green beans, I like good old fashioned casseroles, I like most anything with cream of mushroom soup, but something about that glob all mixed together just tastes BAD to me. No problem by me, leaves more room for other Thanksgiving-y goodnesss. Alfredo or cream sauce on pasta. Succotash. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/67 "2010-10-27T16:34:55Z")
Hard liquor, beer, and wine. (I put the latter two in the “foods I wish I liked” thread too, simply because being able to tolerate drinking a bit of them would make social interactions easier. But since I do tend to have a bit of an addictive personality regarding food/drink, it’s probably for the best that I don’t care for the taste of any of them). Beets. Liver. [QUOTE=Winnie] I looooooove nearly every kind of food served at Thanksgiving except for Green Bean casserole. Which is weird because I love green beans, I like good old fashioned casseroles, I like most anything with cream of mushroom soup, but something about that glob all mixed together just tastes BAD to me. No problem by me, leaves more room for other Thanksgiving-y goodnesss. [/quote] Cool with me. We can do Thanksgiving together–you can have all my sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce, and I’ll eat your green bean casserole (I adore the stuff!). We’ll split the turkey and pumpkin pie. Deal? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/68 "2010-10-27T18:17:28Z")
> [@infovore](#): > > cool with me. We can do thanksgiving together–you can have all my sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce, and i’ll eat your green bean casserole (i adore the stuff!). We’ll split the turkey and pumpkin pie. Deal? 🙂 deal!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/69 "2010-10-27T18:38:41Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > GET AWAY FROM THIS THREAD AND GET AWAY FORM MY LIQUEFIED BUTTER RIGHT NOW! > > - **lindsaybluth** , who, once every two months or so, orders cinnamon raisin french toast and dunks it gleefully in liquid butter. I’ve got no problem with liquid butter. As long as you aren’t going on about how healthy you’re being with your bowl o’butter I’m cool with it and would gladly join you on a dunking spree. ---
**Author:** ![Chest\_Rockwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@Chest\_Rockwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chest_Rockwell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/70 "2010-10-27T21:03:52Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > The other one I am glad I don’t like is seafood. It is too funny to me that people will expound on the virtues of fish but their favorite fish is salmon because “it doesn’t taste like fish!” That’s odd, because (to my palate at least) salmon is among the fishiest-tasting of fish. And I do love it so. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/71 "2010-10-27T21:11:21Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Raisins. > > There are foods I dislike, but raisins are in a different category. It shouldn’t even be considered “food.” The worst is when they’ve been disguised as chocolate chips and put in cookies. Word, and preach it, brother/sister. Who the hell was hungry enough to eat them first? Hungry dude: Hey, I found some grapes! Looks like they’ve been sitting out a long, long time, though. D’oh. Hungrier dude: Oh, those look ok. I’ll eat 'em if you won’t! Hungry dude: All you, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/72 "2010-10-27T21:17:27Z")
Another mayonaise hater here. Never could stand the stuff. One of my sisters likes it so much that she’ll squirt half a container into a cup and dunk french fries in it. I can’t watch when she eats french fries, I have to go into another room. I’ll also nominate doughnuts and pastries in general. It’s not so much that I hate them, that’s a bit strong of a term. They’re…okay…I guess, but nothing special. I never, ever get cravings for sweet dough and sugar, and will only eat them if someone else brings some in and I’m really hungry and don’t have anything else to eat. I’m not a big fan of vinegar based food. Pickles are good (not great), but anything else pickled or cooked in vinegar is a big NO for me. I do like hot sauces, but try to find ones that don’t have much or any vinegar in them. I can’t stand Tabasco or Franks Red Hot and similar sauces. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/73 "2010-10-28T01:32:47Z")
Pies, for one. Perfectly good fruit, cooked to mush with too much sugar. _Maybe_ something like a tart tartin, but in general I avoid cooked fruit. And bar food: Buffalo wings, deep fried whatevers, stuffed mushrooms, toasted raviolli. No purpose other than to take up eatin’ space that could be used for _enjoyable_ food. ---
**Author:** ![Chest\_Rockwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@Chest\_Rockwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chest_Rockwell)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/74 "2010-10-28T04:31:22Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > And bar food: Buffalo wings, With you all the way on this. > [@Lightray](#): > > deep fried whatevers, stuffed mushrooms, toasted raviolli. No purpose other than to take up eatin’ space that could be used for _enjoyable_ food. Aaaaaaand then you lost me. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/75 "2010-10-28T04:45:51Z")
Ketchup. Dark chocolate. Junk food that’s basically neon blobs of sugar and artificial flavoring. Okay, I like Candy Corn and those button things. But not jellybeans and Mike’n’Ikes, and most stuff like that. Ketchup. Ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/76 "2010-10-28T07:52:56Z")
Bleu cheese, tofu and chili. Blargh. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/77 "2010-10-28T15:03:45Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > :eek: > > And to think I’ve played _Scrabble_ with you! You’re tainted! Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245/78 "2010-10-28T18:47:28Z")
Pickled herring is just about the only kind of food I can’t eat. Might as well drink vinegar straight from the bottle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-youre-glad-you-hate/558245.md?page=3)