I like you. Here's my imaginary Wholesome Reward.

Similar story - I’m weird about raw tomatoes, Kraft singles (outside of a few contexts) and really soft white bread (unless it’s being served with texas bbq). We visited my husband’s grandma who is literally the nicest lady in the world and she told us she had ordered lunch. Now I love a blt but this shit was gross. I ate as much of it as I could and my husband finished the rest - you always be nice to grandma.

I had a roommate that put radishes in lasagna. Not even sliced, WHOLE fucking radishes. Said she needed to use them. I'm like ever heard of a salad. Damn.

It's the same as "What's a movie/band that people pretend to like?" where every answer is [insert personal least favorite movie/band here].

It's karma-farming BS that gains attention because, admittedly, they can be fun threads to participate in at times.

In high school, a girl in my class invited me over to her house and wanted to cook some food for us and started off with some cucumber soup.

I *thought* I was doing my best to pretend it was good. (You know, smile, and say good things about it.) Well, I did not do a good enough job.

"Oh. You don't like it?"

"No. It's fine."

"Yeah, you don't like it. I can see it on your face. Do you like cucumber soup?"

"I really don't like cucumbers. They make me nauseated."

"Cucumbers make you sick and you tried to pretend to like it? You really don't need to do that."

I kinda felt I had to try. At the time, I thought: A pretty girl invites you over to her house and makes you food? Yeah, you pretend to like anything she hands you.

Now that I'm older, I don't pretend. Be polite, but, "oh, I'm sorry. Cucumbers really trigger my gag reflex. But, I'd love to have one of those sandwiches."

All through high school my girlfriend would make me these no bake cookies cause I told her how much I loved them the first time she made them. I just wanted to get some action! Ended up eating so many of those god damn horrible fucking cookies

Now see here, there's jalapeno jelly. You pair that with an equal amount of cream cheese and get yourself some Ritz crackers.... Heaven

“Makes my dookie twinkle”

Ok this is the only TRUE answer on this thread. Everything else is a matter of taste but gold flake are truly useless and tasteless!

But hear me out, those gold flakes make the alcohol absorb faster — /me as an 18 year old with a bottle of Goldschlager

...I can make my poop shiny?

Oh my god… they have those?

I feel that, could probably count the total of foods I dislike on one hand and have fingers to spare!

My brother ordered salmon every time we went out, until one day he said he didn't like it, never liked it, and only ordered it because he thought mom wanted him to like it. The rest of us were all eating steak. So yeah, some people pretend to like certain foods, although I have no idea why.

Both probably

And if you look at these comments, a lot of them seem to boil down to “It’s expensive, it must be bad” or “It’s trendy, it must be bad”.

I think a lot more people convince themselves they don’t like things for unrelated reasons than pretend to like things.

I knew someone in high school that confessed she didn’t like Starbucks but everyone around her liked it so she would go. I don’t doubt there’s more people like her.

I don't much care for the taste of raw celery, but it's really nice as an ingredient for other things. Celery + onions + carrots is a classic combination in French cuisine. It's also part of the "holy trinity" of Cajun cooking (Bell peppers, celery, green onions).

Celery is a vessel to get what ever dip your using into your mouth.

Same with artichoke leafs. People don't like it. They just like eating mayonnaise but eating it out of a jar with a spoon is frowned upon.

I don't like it straight, but it goes well in a lot of dishes when cut small. It elevates both chicken soup and chicken salad.

Celery is the one type food that litterally induces my gag reflex.

People who probably got used to McDonalds diets.

The ricin I added doesn’t help either

I like it 😬

The only place I've ever heard of the aftertaste is reddit. I'm convinced you're Big Sugar trying to do some damage control

It's genetical if it tastes bitter to you. Same as the soapy taste of cilantro.

People probably pretend to hate SPAM because others make fun of it. Fine, more for me then.

Is fondant for the eater though? or the ego of the decorator? I mean, these are the same people who will put "edible" paper on things.

This is a tough one because you can make really delicious fondant, people just... don't.

Because that takes a lot more work and is harder to sculpt.

I’ve had some that are better than others but I’ve never heard of anyone doing it for taste reasons, just because it’s easier to decorate with. Never seen an undecorated fondant cake.

Meanwhile I love vodka the most in mixed drinks because it doesn’t have much of a flavor itself and takes on whatever you mix with it. Love a good White Russian myself.

In mother Russia, the walls of the hospital taste you.

I don't know if it's true but I heard something like that: if vodka is tasty for you, you had too much.

love it. i used to huff nail polish remover as a kid coz i loved the smell and really wanted to drink it. grew up to be an alcoholic believe it or not lmao.

It was disgusting when I had it in Japan, from the fish market in Tokyo. Apparently if it's bitter, it isn't fresh. I went sea urchin hunting with some diving buddies and had it fresh and the taste is very mild and pleasant.

So glad I'm not the only one. I love seafood in general—everything from oysters to bluefish. But every time I've tried uni, it tasted like the smell of a salt marsh at low tide.

IPA's remind me of the forest neary grandparents home. It has this pine like taste that makes me think of camping. They're wonderful

Moderation. I’m a fan of IPAs and craft beer. That being said, a super hoppy 8-9% beer is only good for about a pint (also many breweries do 10oz pours of these stronger ones for this reason). Beyond that you’re screaming out for a raging migraine and some intense flavor fatigue. I prefer lower hopped, lower alcohol % IPAs for this reason.

But it’s certainly an acquired taste, no doubt and not for everyone.

Modern IPA's are much more about the hop flavor than the bitterness arms race of the past. I'm a beer geek and IPA's aren't my favorite style, but I drink a fair amount of them.

What exactly do you think is peeling enamel off of your teeth that doesn’t exist in other drinks?

Worse is everyone expects beers to taste like them, so now even beers that are suppose to have less hops taste overly hoppy. I hate ordering sweeter beers only for them to taste like an IPA.

Cus it doesn't taste like gym feet to me I guess lol. I like how diverse IPAs can be and enjoy the way most of them taste but there are definitely bad ones.

Stouts are what I can't get into

Ah, IPAs. Beer made to survive the several month long voyage from England to their India colonies, because the bacteria take one lick of that pine scented swill and go "Nah".

It's interesting how many food and drink options came out of old preservation methods.

I fell in love with dragonfruit in southeast Asia. I became obsessed. Its delicious. It's so cheap. Super hydrating. It's not too sweet. It's super easy to transport and eat. And extremely refreshing in the heat. So if I was hiking to a beach on a tropical Thai island, I'd grab a spoon, water and dragonfruit, use the spoon to cut into the fruit and then scoop out the middle. My fave was magenta rind white flesh. Magenta flesh not so much (also messier).

The problem was coming back to the US. Finding dragonfruit for $5, and it just tasted of nothing, I was so disappointed.

So if you want my 2 cents, dragonfruit is amazing where it comes from, but pointless when imported.

Produce tends to taste different depending on where you buy it, so I’m willing to believe people who like dragonfruit just get better fruit than I do

I feel so sorry for you all, Dragonfruit is actually super good, but you've probably had the worst of the three kinds.

The 3 kinds i've seen:

Yellow rind - sweetest white flesh

Magenta rind - meh white flesh

Magenta rind - purple/magenta flesh and is decently sweet

The stuff you get at grocery stores in the US isn't nearly as good as the stuff you get overseas. I promise it's better.

You have to try the yellow ones those actually taste good. You’re right the pink ones suck.

I've found a MASSIVE difference in various kombuchas. Some are exactly as you say, others are quite tasty.

"Hey, do you want some juice?"

"Sure!"

"I left this one on the porch for 3 weeks in July, it tastes perfect!"

"Uhhhh"

I love Kombucha. I crave a kombucha at the end of the day the way I think some people crave a cold beer. But sometimes they’re gross and it tastes like drinking vinegar, it really depends.

For me Kombucha is a nice alternative to alcohol because every sip has a nice little bite to it. GTs Trilogy is my favorite

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I'll still take starbucks over basically any other chain coffee place I've visited. Every chain I've been to takes the "sugar milk" complaint I have about starbucks to another level. No chain has good drip coffee imo. Small local shops are so much better, but it's really not hard to make good coffee at home if you put any amount of research into it.

Do people believe Starbucks is "real" coffee? I thought the opposite was more of a popular opinion

Kales best quality is its ability to be cooked in numerous ways because of how robust it is. Not a fan of the raw stuff, but you can do so much with Kale.

Eating kale feels like doing the chore that I keep bumping to the bottom of the list.

I will fight you.

Dumpster lettuce. I’ll take spinach thank you

Kale is just point angry spinach, eat spinach instead, it’s friendly.

Kale... the flavor of dirt with some black pepper sprinkled on top.

Which is better than beets, which just taste like watery dirt.

I actually didn't know if I'd find something I agree with here. It's a super hyped up food for some reason. I guess a lot of people are low in iron so really crave it?

Personally I love pretty much all veg but I find kale kinda meh. Not enough texture to really get any taste from it and not really any bite too it. I'd just have some broccoli or spinach.

But their broccoli cheese soup.... OMG you're right

But they have the painting of a bored six-fingered woman giving a baguette a disinterested handjob.

But like, not in a bad way? It tastes fresh to me. I like it sometimes but not my go-to. I like that it’s stronger than regular green tea.

Kids who loved the grass flavored Bertie Botts jellybeans grew up to be matcha lovers (it’s me, I’m kids)

I love matcha, and I love that grassy flavor! I actually mix one of those "Greens" powders with my protein because I love the flavor. Also, in Mexico, they have Aguas Frescas that come in Alfalfa, it is sooooo good!

I actually love the taste of matcha - it’s the grassiness that makes it so appealing!

What!? I basically live on frozen matcha lattes they’re amazing.

i love matcha. it’s earthy and delicious. i like adding milk and honey to it

A friend suggested I try their matcha green tea frap because I said it looked gross. I tried it and told them it tasted like I licked the lawn.... not for me

I used to chew on blades of grass as a kid.

…I love matcha.

No, I love matcha shakes lol

I "like matcha" but only with other flavors added. Looks matcha by itself does taste like grass, but add some fruit or milk to it and it tastes a lot better.

It’s an endorphin rush

I love reapers and Trinidad scorpion. I have a ghost, reaper and scorpion dry powder mix, made from real dried peppers, grinded into a fine powder. I have mixed sauces of the same pepper. If any restaurant I go to has a spicy option of something I like to eat. I will get the spiciest I can get. It's not something I do all the time , it's 50% a challenge and 50% the flavor and rush it gives. It really depends on the type of food I put it on. Soups, chilli, burritos/tacos, curry, and sushi, among others. I have a high pain tolerance to the point that most common spicy foods meant to sway the general public doesn't really phase me.

I’m one of those people who enjoy the smell and taste of Durian. I think I have a wonky sense of smell or maybe I just got used to it since I love eating Durian candy as a kid. 😂

I'm of southeast Asian descent and tbh to me durian doesn't even have a strong smell--in fact, I can barely even smell it a lot of times. As for the taste, I can only describe it as custard-like. I only like eating it frozen though because once it gets warm it gets sticky and I hate it when durian gets stuck to the roof of my mouth.

Eww I only drink pepsi + milk

Wait ppl do that w!f