# What food flavor or flavors do you dislike the most and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [August 28, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655 "2021-08-28T03:28:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/1 "2021-08-28T03:28:47Z")
For me, it is hazelnut flavored coffee. I find even the smell of it off-putting. To me hazelnut coffee is a complex flavor. It starts with a strong base of “creme” very similar to creme soda, which I also dislike. Then add in a dash of burped up baby formula and a subtle hint of just-barely-gone-off-olive oil and a gentle bouquet of “sour” that can often hit and linger on the back of the tongue. Sometimes there is a taste I call “chemical” because that’s the best that I can do to describe it. That’s hazelnut coffee to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/2 "2021-08-28T04:49:19Z")
Personally, I love the smell of hazelnut coffee. It tastes like dirt but it smells great. I guess that artificial strawberry is the one I hate the most. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/3 "2021-08-28T05:03:57Z")
I like spicy food, but there levels of heat that overpower any other flavors. These foods just taste like pain. I don’t see the point. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/4 "2021-08-28T05:10:38Z")
Well, the point is that everyone has different tolerances. Like what I find pleasantly warm others may find face numbing inedible. It’s not a brag or being macho — I’m far from it — if you love chiles, you just develop a tolerance for it. It’s difficult for me to find anything as spicy as I like it unless I make it myself. For me, maybe all this pumpkin spice crap, especially in beer. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/5 "2021-08-28T05:17:09Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > …if you love chiles, you just develop a tolerance for it. But at the high end of your tolerance, do you taste anything besides the heat? Even if you like that, doesn’t it tend to be one note? I like complex flavor profiles, with subtle notes and layers of flavor. Doesn’t that disappear when you make something that hot to you? ---
**Author:** ![steepone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@steepone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steepone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/6 "2021-08-28T05:36:55Z")
Capsicum (bell peppers), I absolutely loathe the taste of capsicum, cooked or raw I can’t eat anything with even a trace of capsicum in it ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/7 "2021-08-28T05:39:00Z")
I tend to like the extra hot range with more strongly flavored foods like curries or Thai holy basil chicken or jerk — the flavors come through fine. I don’t find it difficult to taste them, plus I have no problem with tasting the subtleties in the pepper itself (like in a Trinidad scorpion vs a chocolate habanero vs a fatalii, the latter two which I particularly like.) There really is no point where all I can taste is heat except maybe when you get to the crazy extract based hot sauce stuff (which I don’t particularly like because of the flavor.) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/8 "2021-08-28T06:08:11Z")
Fish/seafood. It all tastes the way dead seaweed smells. I’ve gotten stuck eating a lot over the years and no, I haven’t found anything that doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/9 "2021-08-28T06:30:26Z")
Coffee. Tastes absolutely awful. Even things with a tiny bit of coffee flavor are vile. Beer. I can deal with it used in something like beer batter, but as a drink, my lips sneer at the slightest taste. Coconut. Ruins anything it’s in. Coconut shrimp is like putting cigarette ash on a steak. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/10 "2021-08-28T07:07:14Z")
I’ll say it. Cilantro. Tastes like soap. I like peaches, but I can’t handle artificial peach flavoring. Peach-flavored ice tea is horrible. Mango. I just don’t like it. Went to a friend’s house for dinner and he had made a mango mousse from mangoes brought to him from a friend in India. I ate it, but have since refused any mango stuff from him. He loves mango and I have told him he’s wasting the mango stuff on me. He, plus other friends from India, have told me I have to go to India and try Alphonso mangoes straight from the tree and then I will also love mangoes. Rum. I just don’t get it. As a flavoring, it’s acceptable, but only if it’s combined with enough chocolate. Straight? Forget it. I don’t particularly care for hazelnuts. There is a variety of filberts (yes, it’s is a different name for hazelnuts) grown in part of the U.S. (I think it’s Washington), which has less of the bitterness that I don’t care for. I do eat Nutella, but will generally chose almond butter or peanut butter if I want something to go on bread. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/11 "2021-08-28T08:16:00Z")
Marizipan. I can’t stand the stuff. Any confectionary with a hint of marzipan gets spat out into the bin unless I’m trying very hard to be polite, in which case I fart to create a distraction, then put it in the bin. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/12 "2021-08-28T13:27:43Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > For me, maybe all this pumpkin spice crap, especially in beer. This is what I came to post, except especially in coffee. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/13 "2021-08-28T13:36:36Z")
Maple. It’s just nasty to me. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/14 "2021-08-28T13:45:04Z")
Mushrooms. Bad texture, taste like dirt. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/15 "2021-08-28T13:47:17Z")
Holy moly! This thread is a perfect illustration of “there’s no accounting for tastes”. Most of what people are trashing are things I love. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/16 "2021-08-28T14:16:45Z")
_Cloves and Anise_ are vile and are suitable only for use in pot pourri. _Curry_ smells like old sweat. _Fish sauce_ smells like a wet market in August. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/17 "2021-08-28T14:46:02Z")
Mint confection. I don’t like my sweets to taste like my toothpaste. Mint chocolate chip cookies are such a tragedy - perfectly ruined chocolate chip cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/18 "2021-08-28T14:53:25Z")
Fresh tomato flavor. I love tomatoes in all other forms, though. And if you marinate a fresh slice of tomato in vinegar for 20 minutes or so, then it’s delicious. And yes, I’ve tried them from the garden, tried the heirloom varieties, etc. There’s some component of the fresh tomato that tastes unpleasant to me. My eldest daughter notices this too. We’ll enjoy all things tomato, as long as they’re not fresh. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/19 "2021-08-28T14:59:12Z")
I can’t stand Brussels sprouts. Other people look forward to growing up so they could drink. I looked forward to being old enough not to have to eat Brussels sprouts anymore. (Some other things too, mostly vegetables.) They’re just awful. I guess I’d say they’re too bitter. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655/20 "2021-08-28T15:45:31Z")
1. hot peppers. I don’t think burning my mouth is a fun experience. A little is OK, but let me put cayenne or hot sauce on my food to my own taste. 2. cherry flavor. drinks, candy, ice cream, cake, whatever, artificial cherry flavor tastes unhappily like cough syrup. 3. mint flavor. like cherry, artificial mint in anything tastes unhappily like mouthwash. The worse is mint chocolate chip ice cream, which is mouthwash flavor filled with gravel. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-flavor-or-flavors-do-you-dislike-the-most-and-why/949655.md?page=2)