I’m a big fan of fish and chips…I would gladly eat fish and chips every day if I could. However, I almost never eat the horrible cole slaw that usually accompanies fish and chips. the reason:very few places make their own cole slaw these days-they buy it premade (and it is horrible). Its a shame, because making a good cole slaw is so easy! You just shred fresh cabbage and carrots, ad the vinegra and mayonnaise, and a few spices (celery seed is essential). That’s it!
Another cole slaw lover here; I’ll take all of it. (I recently made up a huge bowl of vinegared cole slaw to take to a picnic, and returned home with about half of it. That was my dinner for the next 2 days - yummy).
My most detested food is raw carrots; give me a raw vegetable platter with dip, and I’ll eat the celery, broccoli, cauliflower, sprouts, pickles, peppers, whatever, but raw carrot will cause me to heave.
I’ll take 'em! Given a veggie platter with dip, the carrots are the only things I’ll eat. 
I’m way not a veggie person, but I like carrots and peas (so I’ll help out Ravenous Lady, too!). One of my favorite snacks is carrots & dip (I try to remind myself to reach for the fat-free ranch).
Eh, maybe, but it’s not a big deal. I’m usually in too much of a hurry, so I just remove them myself. The only thing I don’t like is when the onions cling to the pickle, because I LOVE onions!
Sixty-four replies about wasted food, and no one’s mentioned the sauces that come with an order of Chinese take-out? Most places will give you several packets each of that apricot-flavored “duck sauce”, “hot mustard” that isn’t hot at all, and nasty-salty soy sauce. I almost always end up dumping the packets into the disposal because I’ll never use them. Does anyone actually use all of the packets at once?
While the stuff you get in the packets is only a quarter as good as real duck sauce, it’s still pretty damned delicious and I’ve been known to just drink the stuff. I do throw away the soy sauce and hot mustard though.
Oh, you’re so right! I seem to only get Chinese food at work, so I donate all of my little packets to the “packet drawer” in the kitchen. I have never used one of 'em, myself.
I don’t use that disgusting mustard, but yes on the duck sauce and soy sauce.
Wow. I always use the packets…or at least some of them. Soy sauce and/or mustard on the egg rolls, “duck” sauce on the other egg rolls, mustard on damn-near everything… I get really upset if they leave any of the packets out of my order. 
I dislike the packets themselves (can never seem to get them open without getting the contents everywhere), but like the things that are in them.
And all of you who don’t like Chinese hot mustard can send yours to me. Chinese restaurants in the Bay Area tend to do chili oil instead of mustard, and I reeeeally miss the mustard I used to get with Chinese food when I was growing up on the East Coast. The chili oil is good and everything, but it’s Just Not The Same.
What’s not to like? How about the fact that they’re dried out fried pieces of crap.
ick…
When they used to serve them at Red Lobster, my mom would take them and eat them with scampi butter, now my wife eats them.
I’ll eat slaw, but not often, and pickles are an integral part of life.
Usually when I go out to breakfast, I’ll waste the toast. It’s not that I don’t like it, but it is my least favorite part of the meal and I’m usually full by the time I get done with everything else. Sometimes I order my meal without it.
I don’t like hushpuppies, but I also dislike seafood, so I rarely have to deal with them.
I can’t stand peas or tomatoes, but I also dislike croutons. Often, someone is willing to take them off my hands.
I forgot about raw onions, usually found on salads. Those seem hard to give away. Normally when I eat out, I put my salad aside and save all the room in my stomach for main course. If I’m still hungry when done, I might touch my salad.
I have my priorities.
Gimme the duck sauce, por favor!
The rest of them, I just check 'em in a draw somewhere.
You’d possibly want me at your Unwanted Food Féte, as most of the stuff I don’t like is really bland stuff that nearly everybody else likes, and lots of the stuff I can’t get enough of, like burger pickles and olives, other people hate.
My unwanted foods include:
[ul]The flat egg and baked beans that come with Full English Breakfasts (I don’t like egg on its own as opposed to as an ingredient, ever)
[li]Mashed potato[/li]
[li]Bananas (I hate the mushy texture of these and the above)[/li]
[li]Peanuts, other Groundnuts and Peanut Butter (leave a horrible weird aftertaste in my mouth. I still remember the first and only time I ate a Snickers bar, it took about 5 glasses of water to get rid of the peanut-aftereffect. Likewise when I ordered chicken satay in Halls thinking “Mmm… curry” without knowing exactly what satay meant!)[/li]
[li]Glacé cherries (proper cherries are so nice but I hate these awful things)[/li][/ul]
and probably the weirdest one, that came up today:
[ul]The bases of cheesecakes. I eat the yummy cheesecake but leave the base on the plate. Again, it’s more of a texture thing–it’s like eating soggy chipboard, but it’s got a slightly dodgy, un-cheesecake-or-fruit-like taste too (unlike chipboard, presumably)
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Oh no! Duck sauce must not be wasted. It goes on egg rolls. The chinese restaurant I go to most often doesn’t even have duck. But they have duck sauce, which goes on egg rolls.
A full English breakfast has baked beans? I’d probably pass on that as well, just because beans for breakfast seems wrong.
Unfortunately the crust of many cheesecakes is soggy, but if you get a nice crispy graham cracker crust it’s heaven.
If I could get a cheesecake with a “nice crispy Graham Cracker crust” I’d eat at that restaurant every time, just to save me scraping the cheesecake in half before I eat it!
Yes, Full English Breakfasts typically come with baked beans. They tend to consist of the majority, if not all, of the following ingredients:
Bacon
Sausages
Hash Browns
Egg
Baked Beans
Fried Tomato
Fried Mushrooms
At one time it contained: Spam
In Scotland: Haggis
You can perhaps guess why another name for Full English Breakfast is ‘Traditional Fry-up’. They are a particularly staple fare at the cafés at motorway service stations.
People with a list of food dislikes are my favorite kinds of people, because that means I can eat the stuff they discard while making sad faces. Tomatoes? Peas? Onions? Mashed potatoes? Cheesecake? Banana? Mushrooms? Hushpuppies? Coleslaw? Guacamole? Artichokes? Olives? Asparagus? Corn on the Cob? Pasta? Rice? Baked Beans? Pickles - Sweet or Dill?
Yes, please, thank you!
Just keep the flesh foods, and give me anything else, and we’ll be friends forever. 
Until I saw this…
I was going to offer you my 1000 year eggs. But I guess that would count as flesh food. 
Not that I have any 1000 year eggs, I’m afraid of them.