Mine are brussels sprouts, beets, anchovies and livers
There are a lot of vegetables people don’t like because they are often prepared poorly. Brocolli, brussel sprouts, etc - seasoned and roasted, they’re great. Boiled to mush, not so much.
Brussels sprouts have also been bred over the last couple decades to be much less bitter and have generally a better flavour than what we’d have had as kids.
You’re right, they’re much more palatable these days. But even decades ago, roasting them with a liberal amount of salt, and maybe a bit of lemon juice on top, they were still decent. Boiled to mush with a single-digit number of grains of salt tastes bad regardless of the decade.
My theory is that back when most people smoked regularly, adults couldn’t taste anything and were generally not great in the kitchen because of it.
TBF getting high quality and well prepared veggies is hard and it’s expensive. the stuff sold in mass supermarkets is mid at best and that’s what most people have access to.
I grew up on awful quality veggies that tasted like shit, because my mom boiled and steamed everything and added no seasoning. also she did this with frozen stuff and we never had fresh. a lot of canned shit too that tasted awful.
this is the reason i never enjoyed vegetables until I was in college. they thought I was this shitty picky kid… but they were just awful cooks who prepared awful food.
when i took some pro cooking classes the chef asked me if my parents ever cooked with salt, because he was shocked how little i used…
I still use a lot of frozen veggies–not as good as locally sourced fresh ones, but with decent seasoning and cooking them properly, they’re still good. Not sure why people thought boiling everything was the answer for however many decades there…
because they were stupid and they thought trying new things made you into a homosexual.
my parents were amazingly stupid people.
Boiled to mush broccoli and brussel sprouts are kinda nice though…
Umm, how do most people feel about sauerkraut? It goes well with mashed potatoes and pork, or on a hotdog.
I recommend trying kimchi hotdogs
Sauerkraut and kimchi are so delicious! Fermented cabbage is so much better than it should be.
It’s really good as an ingredient in chicken soup.
Love it. Goes great with sausage (not sweet Italian sausage; the sweet flavor isn’t complementary).
Not a huge fan. I love bratwurst and will usually put onions and a dark/stone ground/spicy mustard on it. But if someone hands be a brat mit kraut, I’m eating it.
Hated Reuben’s as a kid but yeah, that shit smacks.
Fucking dope! Ugh, it is a top tier hot dog topping with spicy mustard.
I love fermented stuff, so real sauerkraut is on the menu for me, but I’d always choose kimchi if given the option.
I hate it but I know that it’s good for me, so down the hatch.
I hate sauerkraut. But kimchi is awesome
Vegemite, Malört, Peated Whiskey (might just be everyone around me only but still), black licorice, soy sauce, and natto.
Yes, I can still taste regular things, no, I’ve never smoked a day in my life. Now leave me and my slimy beans and my delicious toast alone
I think a lot of the Malört hate is hype. People love talking about how disgusting it is, and that’s just become the thing to do when anyone mentions it. The first time I tried it I thought, “I can understand why people don’t like it, but it’s just an herbal spirit like many others.” I tried it a second time years later and said, “Ah, okay. This really is disgusting.”
Exactly my experience. People love to hate what the Internet tells them to, but in this case, I’m on the Internet’s side
Nah peated whiskey is an acquired taste for sure. Even in my most alcoholic years, I wouldn’t touch the stuff haha
I was, well I was started on 5 o’clock (basically paint stripper if you don’t know it) and moved up to peated. Was never really anything in-between for me. I guess since it wasn’t paint stripper it was easier to acquire the taste, lol
Soy sauce? I do know many people who don’t like black licorice (the best licorice) and have no idea what the rest taste like, but soy sauce? Isn’t that in half the world’s dinner? ( plus secret ingredient for fluffy scrambled eggs?). I’ve never heard of anyone not liking that
Globally it’s probably not the most common one but growing up in the South a lot of people I knew would complain about how salty and disgusting it tasted. They were used to very plain food, under seasoned biscuits and gravy, barely seasoned chicken, grits with just shrimp no salt, etc.
Now, my own wife (from the North) also dislikes soy sauce though in her defence we found out she’s allergic and that might be why.
I would not have said that I have ever tried a peated whisky - but since Scotch is a whisky, and I distinctly prefer a peated Islay Scotch over a lighter Speyside - I guess that I am with you.
Peated Whisky Friends!
I don’t know what Malört is but I feel like you and I would get on real well.
It’s a wormwood liqueur from out of Chicago. Bitter and strong and delicious. It’s from Chicago, IL. Highly recommend finding some if you can. It goes right along with everything else on the list, it’s strong and knows what it is and isn’t afraid of itself.
Malort is truly revolting
Pleated whiskey tastes like burning tires smell, to me, lol.
Fruit on pizza.
Most pizzas have tomato on?
Scientific taxonomy =/= cultural classification
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put it on a fruit salad.
Yes! Hawaiian pizza but add cherries. Cherries look beautiful and go great with the rest of the pizza.
Not peppers (green/red bell, jalapeño or shishito) or olives? Mushrooms? (Mushroom caps and stems are the fruiting body of a fungus)
You forgot pepperoni and chives.
In USA pepperoni is a spicy salami. I think in Italy peperoncino are spicy peppers and peperone is sweet pepper. Confusing, no?
Black licorice.
There is such a variety of black licorice though. Some I love and some I hate. Like Icelandic licorice I love, but the one with the brown powder (Finnish?) I hate.
I’ve had people tell me “you don’t really like them you just want to be weird”
How is this different from those shrimp chips?
No idea what are shrimp chips?
I don’t see crab in the ingredients… So they aren’t actually crab flavored, right? They are just seasoned with Chesapeake bay seasoning?
Exactly no crab just the old bay seasoning.
FWIW, you can find old bay seasoned peanuts too. I wasn’t expecting to, but I liked these best of all the flavored peanuts I tried.
A lot of people seem to balk at canned sardines. Maybe it’s the crunch of biting into the spine that puts people off…
I vividly remember my horror when first totally unexpectedly encountering anchovis.
Ordered a pizza during a school trip to Norther Italy.
Read the “anchovis” on the description, but confused it with “artichoke”, which I like.Instantly spit out the fish part, dissected the pizza and confronted the waiter with the fact that there were “dead fish complete with bones” on my pizza.
I guess this is one of the stories the waiter still tells, when asked about the most crazy customers… ;-)
dead fish complete with bones
Well they’re harder to keep on the pizza when they’re alive!
Keep in mind that I still was under shock and just kept repeating, horrified as I was, the first thing that came to my mind: “Da ist ein toter Fisch auf meiner Pizza!” (Southern Tirol is a German speaking part of Italy), which also became a running gag and stayed with me until the end of class :-)
It’s honestly my comfort food. Cook it with chili paste and onion, or mince it and mix it with onion and egg and then fry it, then slap a piece of bread on top.
It’s definitely the crunch for me. Wouldn’t mind the flavor if it wasn’t for that.
A lot of folks are saying brussel sprouts… interestingly:
the flavour has changed…Blue Cheese. I spread it on crackers.
I fucking love blue cheese. Easily the best cheese.
Can’t believe I forgot that one. I found a jar of green olives recently that were stuffed with blue cheese. Would recommend.
I LOVE blue cheese stuffed olives.
Those are the garlic-stuffed ones are my family’s go-to green olives.
Tastes like vomit to me. My bf enjoys it, though.
I totally get it. Completely valid response. I can’t believe I love it. It’s exactly the kind of thing I should absolutely hate, but I LOVE it.
Pineapple pizza
Apparently it’s very dark beers. I can’t find any grocery store regularly selling them but I can find a million IPA’s. I don’t mind an IPA but I like to mix it up and also cooking with dark beers is amazing.
Porter used to make some great stuff (probably still does). Pretty sure they made my favoritiest dark beer, the Russian Imperial Stout. Phenomenal.
Guinness is legit delicious.
Just dont chug 4 of them.
Guinness is only a dark beer in colour though. It taste basically like creamy water. Imperial Stouts is where it’s at when it comes to black beers.
I liked Crystal Pepsi. I am the only person I have ever met who did.
The name sounds like a version of Pepsi that’s sold exclusively at strip clubs.
Would have been a better marketing campaign than what it had.
I was a preteen when that came out. Me and my friends shared a bottle and made faces and gagged for yucks, but I honestly just remember it tasting like a thinner, less carbonated Pepsi. Not bad, but not really better.
If I drank it today I might have enjoyed having a less syrupy non diet cola.
I drank Pepsi Blue nearly every work day the year it came out, but I also had frosted spiked hair and wore silky shirts with flames on them, so I suspect my tastes have shifted somewhat.
I forgot about Pepsi Blue.
Then you’ve never met the L.A. Beast.
Durian. I don’t even think it smells bad. Smells okay and tastes good to me
Durian is alright
came here expecting to see this at the top.
Black licorice. I don’t understand why it’s an uncommonly liked taste, it’s just a delicious “rooty spice” taste like root beer.
It was one of the most famous candy in the 19th century and made a german company grow into one of the biggest candy manufacturers in europe (haribo). I don’t think it’s uncommon to like it but that it’s rather a generational difference since we now have a bigger variety in sweets you can learn to (dis)like.
I use to eat black olive by the can and sour cream by the spoonful. Also fresh tomatoes are disliked by some but man. My garden fresh tomatoes are amazing.
Green olives for me. I can just sit and eat a jar full.
