The tastes you hate (no more than 5)

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by wolf

...Every year her tin of Christmas Cookies went straight into the trash. EVERY year.

People who make anise cookies are HIGHLY suspect. I'd watch 'em.

[monster]

Do we need a field of 64 thing?

[Undertoad]

Simple question: 5 tastes you hate.

Everyone answering.

UG response:

I'm just more adventurous than Pete is. Edible things rather seem to outnumber inedible things, as the late Ewell Gibbons taught us. If you're lost in the mountainous pine woods in early spring, you can probably make it out of there eating the just-emergent new tender pine needles right off the tree. Also prevents scurvy, if you're, uh, really really lost. Those and the hearts of cattails, which probably don't taste like all that much but would fill your stomach with something digestible and in some degree nutritious. (So never be without your knife to get at them.)

I can see where some people think cilantro tastes like soap, but it just doesn't go far enough in that direction to read like soap to me.

Some of you guys have the oddest dislikes. Avocado?! Couple months ago I had me the best avocado I've ever dug a spoon into: slowly slowly paperbag-ripened -- I was wondering if it ever would ripen -- until it had the slight yielding of the ripe avocado but not the squashiness of a 'cado past its peak. (Discolored avocados have lost it. Not much fun there.)

Halved, pitted, and lightly salted, it was so fresh and creamy -- it was like eating Gardevoir pussy. (Or the Firefly episode with the fresh strawberries.)

Cumin?! Good Lord. Without cumin, chili simply... isn't. And it puts depth in curry powders too -- which are at their peak made up and ground up the day they are used. It's good curry when you and the wife have been to an Indian restaurant, then make love that night, and the whole bedroom smells of curry in the morning.

No answer to the question.

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Simple question: 5 tastes you hate.

Whoops, I forgot to answer.

Store-bought pickles
Chicken cooked by me (I always mess it up somehow)
Iceberg lettuce
Frozen or canned spinach
Vanilla soy milk

[Aliantha]

Well I didn't really respond to the question either, and there are a few others who haven't, and other general discussions seem to be going on too. I guess I just don't get why you singled UG out.

I thought thread drift was accepted in this community. Even encouraged at times.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Well I didn't really respond to the question either, and there are a few others who haven't . . .

I thought thread drift was accepted in this community. Even encouraged at times.

I'd already put in that I dislike Chinese baby corn and its sauce. Couldn't really think of another four I disliked as much, though raw carrot is in there unless mixed with other things that rescue it.

This thread would simply have to drift anyway, from food group to food group.

Nobody's remarked on anything dairy? Some have distinct likes and dislikes among, say, the cheeses.

[casimendocina]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Nobody's remarked on anything dairy? Some have distinct likes and dislikes among, say, the cheeses.

I never saw the point of cheese with dried fruit or nuts in it....I don't particularly dislike, just would rather eat other things given the choice.

[monster]

that bit of red stuff you need to remove from round pecans....

[glatt]

I forgot: marzipan. But that puts me over 5. Oh well. Never mind. I guess I like it after all.

[glatt]

Me. Me. Me. Let's go back and see what I said in this thread. Because ME.

Originally Posted by glatt

coconut
brussel sprouts
cooked spinach
raw mushrooms
rust (in water, etc.)

Originally Posted by glatt

I forgot: marzipan. But that puts me over 5. Oh well. Never mind. I guess I like it after all.

I've since changed my mind about brussel sprouts. My wife makes a variety that is roasted in a little bit of olive oil and sprinkled with a dash of salt, and they are absolutely delicious. It turns out I just hate poorly prepared brussel sprouts. So that makes room for marzipan.

[/ME]

[monster]

Defy the Five!

[Sundae]

In that case, cry havoc and let loose the dogs of urgh....

- Margarine
- I don't hate all nuts, but I dislike the fact that they are so ubiquitous. People put them places they were never intended to go.
- Dried Apricots. Because I dislike the flavour coupled with the texture of dried scrotums.
- Cheese & Onion crisps.
- Celery. I can only accept it if the taste is completely negated by other ingredients. Which it isn't in a salad. Off it goes to the side of the plate!
- Sick in my throat. Well, it is a taste after all.

[Stormieweather]

I love almost all flavors. Except...

I dislike Avocados because my first one was spoiled. Can't even tolerate the color. Do.not.let.it.touch.my.food.

I don't like licorice. It looks and tastes like someone else threw up in my mouth.

That's it.

[ZenGum]

I no-one going to say getting butt-fucked in the mouth?

[Nirvana]

Stewed tomatoes and bread crumbs
sea urchin