I made a conscious decision in my mid-20s to stop being so picky.
Best decision I’ve ever made. No regrets, at all. There is so much to discover in the world. Why would you limit yourself?
I really feel like some people cling to listing the foods they don’t like as some unique part of their personality. Like they picked it at their character selection screen and they’re sticking with it.
I’m knocking on the door of 60. There’s three things I don’t like and one I wouldn’t try.
I don’t like broad beans (aka fava beans), Brussels sprouts, or peas. One of the best things about being an adult is being able to say ‘No, thanks’. I try them again every few years, just to check. With peas and sprouts I still hate the taste horribly. Broad beans can taste alright but have to be properly prepared and cooked and it’s just easier to say no because when they’re not right they’re the thing I dislike the most.
The one thing I wouldn’t try would be balut. The idea just makes my skin crawl for some reason.
I had balut in the Philippines when I visited around 2008.
Not my favorite thing to eat, but I could see how some people like it.
If you ever get to the Philippines give it a try! Ask for the “young” balut so it’s more like an egg and less like a baby duck.
And yeah, almost all beans have to be prepared right to be good. If it’s just mush then it’s overcooked.
If you ever get to the Philippines give it a try! Ask for the “young” balut so it’s more like an egg and less like a baby duck.
No thanks!
Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there’s a middle category of foods that I don’t go crazy for but aren’t bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn’t like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).
I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn’t trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people’s bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it’s just sensations that you can get past. It’s a mental block that if you can get past it, you’ll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.
Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don’t think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety… I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).
Every time I eat onions, it takes about 5 minutes until it feels like someone is repeatedly stabbing me in the guts with a rusty knife. So yeah I avoid them
Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.
Nobody says the come and go. They can come on later in life but once there you are basically stuck with it. Reason being is that allergies are an immune reaction. These are mediated by immune cells, antibodies, that bind to the $insert_bad_thing and put a “murder me” sign on its back. These cell are produced by long lived immune cells.
Same for me with corn!
I know someone who was allergic to onion and garlic. Their food choices made me sad, but yeah, go get checked for food allergies if you can. That not being weird enough, lymphatic cancer cured them of the allergy.
Onions make me ill in quantity so, uh, yeah.
There is no life without The Trinity! (onion, garlic, peppers)
But there are people that just can’t eat some foods without digestive repercussions. And food tolerances can even change as we age. I used to love eating peanuts and other tree nuts. But as I have aged, my digestive tract can no longer tolerate eating them except in small amounts. But I now pile on the herbs and spices when I cook. I want strong bold flavors in my food as I have aged.
Life, it seems is weird and changing.
A lot of people who are super tasters find alliums like onions and garlic incredibly overpowering unless they are in really small amounts.
I was thinking to myself that it can’t be that many people, but sure enough I was wrong and was surprised to learn the following from the Wikipedia article about super-tasters:
“Research suggests 25% of the population are non-tasters, 50% are medium tasters, and 25% are supertasters.”
Quite interesting and concise page, recommended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster
That article is wild to me. I consider myself a super taster and smeller. The list of foods super taster’s avoid is basically a list of my favorite flavors. Maybe I’m just a slightly above average taster?
Most of the list is true for me. All seltzers are disgusting due to the presence of Bitter 2 which makes them undrinkably gross. Diet soda works extremely well and tastes great. Beer, wine, coffee, and unsweetened tea are pretty awful. Savory deliciousness is magnified and a fantastic steak (medium rare to medium) will knock the soul out of my body. Cheese and spicy food is life and I eat spicier stuff than anyone I know. Onion powder and garlic salt are vastly preferable to the actual full vegetable. Dark chocolate is repulsive. Pineapple is godlike, melons are foul. Cucumber smells so bad I will flee a room to avoid it but a pickle spear is decent. Just a window into how my tastes work.
I’m a big fan of fajitas.
Off topic: who is that actress?
Same, asking for a friend!
Did a reverse image search - appears to be Leighton Meester, in a role as “Blair Waldorf” from Gossip Girls.
Correct. My wife loves that show lol
The meme photo is the most “my type” photo I could find, unfortunately, so I fear I don’t have a new “ship” :/
Classic Civil War about to start: Cornfederacy vs The Onion
Onions and peppers? At that point you’re basically ordering ‘food, but with the flavor DLC removed.
Peppers, Yes.
Onions, ⛔👎🏼🙅🚫🚽
💯💯💯
Uncooked onions can be pretty overpowering to me, burying the taste of everything else. Grilled onions, on the other hand, overpower everyone near me after they’ve been digested and farted out.
Onions are gross. Shallots however, are divine
my husband hates onions. not the flavor, but the texture.
This also made me find out I have autism🥲
Wait, why not all three?
You can reasonably use all three in an omellette or rice based dish or soups or many other possible kinds of meals.
… And … there are many kinds of onions, peppers and corn, and many ways of preparing them for inclusion in some kind of food.
You can also mix diced onions with corn kernels, and spray some lemon an black pepper on top and it would be good to eat.
Although I find raw onion to be too strong to eat in such proportions, a few fistfuls should be fine.Yeah, that’s a great example!
You can make a bit of a salad outta that with some kind of leafy green, as a main portion of all that, maybe some croutons or broken up tortilla chips, i dunno.
Like hell, uh… proper sauerkraut. Korean pickled onions, radishes, cabbage.
People will just eat that shit as a whole meal, I’ve seen it, even dated someone who did at one point.
And its usually at least as, if not more pungent than raw onions, unless you just chopped those onions.
Personally, that’s a bit wild for my tastes, but… I’m not German or Korean.
I eat white onions only if they are fully caramelized and dissolved into something, and red onions only raw. Peppers have to be spicy or I can’t eat them. That’s the weird one, I have no problem with the taste or anything but I just can’t swallow them its like my throat is trying to squish a rock or something. If it’s blended into something like hummus its fine though.
This is kind of what its like for me. White onions, same as you, they need to be basically liquid/mush before i can eat them.
Red onions however are the devil. I can’t stand them in any form.
For me its an issue of texture, i hate how it feels to eat onions and peppers. I have been physically sick (vomited) because i bit into a bit of onion/pepper i didnt know was in my food. My body just rejects them.
White onion= flavour good, texture bad (unless mush) Red onion= flavour bad, texture bad Pepper=flavour overpowering and i am never sure if i like it or not, texture bad.
I actually only became able to eat them at age 26-27. One day they just didn’t taste like shit any more. Several other thibgs too, but still not brussel sprouts which just taste like dirty dishes or dishes left on a drying rack that have been splashed while washing other things.
