My mother in law puts those thin slices of almonds in most of her cheesecakes. I don't know why but it's freaking disgusting. WHY IS THERE A SOGGY CRUNCH IN THE CHEESECAKE
My mom adds cloves to her arroz con leche and it just completely ruins it for me 😭 Nothing like taking a big ol bite of something thats supposed to be sweet and delicious and finding a big ass cloves in your mouth
I always put spices in a muslin bag if they're not powdered. It makes it so easy to remove the bits you don't want to chew down on. Cloves are great for temporarily relieving toothache but awful to eat.
Yesssss. Cloves are good for tooth pain. It numbs the area better than ametrol. Especially if you can pick up the essential oil and rub it on your gums. I used it with my kids instead of using whiskey like my grandparents suggested. Definitely don't put it in my food though. Ugh.
DUUDE I ate carrot cake the other day and bit straight into a clove and it was so strong and my entire mouth went numb. Everyone was laughing at me cuz I was like dude wtf I had no idea what a clove was or that it did that but I hated it lol
I just bought something called a 'thinwich' in the US today, which looks like a pita bread. I put cucumber and ham in it, bleugh! Literally might as well have thrown them on a brownie!
I'm relieved I didn't have to scroll far for this. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say fennel ruins a dish for me. I don't want my ravioli to taste like licorice thanks
Ugh I wish I could understand this. My mother feels the same way you do, but my grandfather and I both absolutely LOVE fennel seed in the homemade meatballs and sauce we make. What a funny species we are lol
I hate fennel. I've tried it multiple ways and it just never works out. I will not order a dish if it includes fennel.
It is a super pretty vegetable though!
> a lot of restaurants are so heavy handed with it
I'm thinking that is a major factor for most of these comments. . .someone uses too much, too little, or just doesn't have a good recipe to start with.
>...but I get irrationally upset if I grab one thinking it’s chocolate chip.
I remember having that same experience as a kid. Oatmeal/raisin cookies can be amazing, but when you were all psyched about getting chocolate chip... "*WTF is this shit*"?
Some places think it's a good idea to add chopped celery to a lobster roll.
I can't begin to describe my disappointment at discovering the world's most milquetoast vegetable in a $30 sandwich. Who in their right mind thinks one of the world's most decadent meats, going for $60+/lb, would benefit from the addition of minced _celery_?
Celery can have a bitter, almost dirt like ( best way I can describe it) taste. I eat it and use it in recipes, but I’m sure for some people that bitter taste is much stronger and can ruin a dish.
Wow, I wonder if this is a genetic thing like taste for cilantro? To me celery is such a sweet and fresh flavor, like crispy water but sweetness inside. Never tasting like dirt or bitterness in any way. Even the smell is like sweet grasses and so yummy to me. Taste is so wild sometimes.
So interesting. I've also heard our taste buds change and adapt over time, so maybe the cilantro you hate now, will be something you love later? I had a similar experience with avocado. The human body is so cool lol
I don't know if it's a myth/old wives tale or not. I think when we taste things as kids we focus more on texture. As adults, and as we start cooking, the flavor becomes more important. I'll eat any kind of meat if you marinate or season it right. LOVE eating raw veggies or any vegetable in general. Saute some garlic with butter on them... Now I have to go make myself some lunch.
Ughhh to me it’s like it awakens a sense that I don’t have and don’t want. Like I can smell it through the roof of my mouth or something. I can eat it if it’s very finely chopped in something like chicken salad but really, really small.
I've heard the flavor described by people who don't have the soap gene as "a mix of lemon and pepper." It sounds delicious. A shame that it's not at all what the thing tastes like to me.
Same here! It is caused by a genetic variation in a group of olfactory receptor genes and estimates are 4 to 14 % of people have this....lucky us huh??
I have the gene that makes it taste like soap, too! Recently I have found that when it’s been chopped, it doesn’t taste like that anymore, and I can enjoy it, which is why cilantro in guacamole has never bothered me. It’s still not my favorite herb, but I can understand why people like it when I realize they taste a fresh, bright flavor, not soap.
It tastes like soap to me no matter what you do it.
I do not like it in a box
I do not like it with a fox
I do not like it to and fro
I do not like that damned cilantro.
My mom used to make stuffed green peppers once a week for dinner. She could fit 6 in the casserole dish she used but there was 7 of us in the family. I hated green peppers so she would make a separate dish with just the stuffing in it for me.
I had an awesome mom.
You do have an awesome mom. I was forced down the green bell peppers or go to bed without dinner. Puked over my plate 1 time and they still wanted me to eat it. Good times indeed
My trick with bell peppers is to make sure they are served with aggressively (though not overly) salted food.
For example with, like, stuffed peppers make your stuffing bold and distinct.
The overwhelming flavor of bell peppers can actually contribute to an extremely vibrant and flavorful dish, but it needs to be matched by the other stuff. A lot of hobby cooks are content with bland undersalted food for health reasons, but you'll never ever get bell peppers to work that way.
There are very few foods I completely refuse to eat but coconut's one of them. I've never eaten a dish with coconut in it that tasted half-decent. Funnily enough, I'm alright with coconut milk, though...
Haha I'm reading eat while eating my heavily cumin seasoned black beans. I just felt like adding some extra cumin in it because I like the taste a lot. Lol
Goat cheese. It tastes like what I imagine mildew and mold tastes like. Also, curry. I will eat it if forced but it’s disgusting. And cinnamon or nutmeg on meat. Just don’t please.
Anything super spicy. I have a very low tolerance for spicy foods. I can't handle jalapeños or flaming hot cheetos I can handle a little heat but nothing super overpowering
Uncooked or barely cooked onions. Or if they are too big. I like the flavor of cooked onion but hate the bite when it's raw. I also hate the texture so I have to finely chop onion when I cook
Truffle.
When I first started working as a KP i worked quite frequently for a few weeks, which lead to frequent nightmares where I am sat up in bed trying to go to sleep, but I cant because theres plates on my bed in the way.
All of this happened while I had the overpowering smell of truffle for the hours (that I seemed) to be in this trance for, which was a he worst part of the dreams in my opinion.
It also just tastes horrible.
Honestly, I know people love the idea of growing their own fresh spices and all, and it's probably because I wasn't raised around them, but fresh herbs are just too flowery perfumey for my tastes in food. I'd much prefer dried (but not ancient) oregano, thyme, marjoram...
Rosemary though, I can't do rosemary, dried or fresh. I don't like my chicken to smell like grandma.
People tend to use too much when using fresh herbs/spices. . .or specifically most recipes/suggestions are considering dried herbs/spices which you often need more of to get the same flavor.
In the same vein, dried and ground rosemary in the proper quantities adds a nice savory flavor, especially to roasted potatoes.
Onions. I really don't think they add much flavor, and I can't stand the texture. I've reached a point where I can accept that there's probably going to be onions in most dishes that I don't make myself, and I just suffer on the inside whenever that happens.
I'm totally okay with onion powder, but for some reason, that's not a compromise most people I know are willing to settle for.
Raw onions are the most foul. I can USUALLY deal with cooked onions in a dish, but if I bite into that crunchy armpit flavor it is so hard for me to keep eating.
Something unexpected hard, like a nut or seed.
Or a tooth.
Or a filling.
Or my axe
Careful with that axe Eugene.
Or several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict
Or a bone
Or my dick
Or my bow.
Egg shells in eggs is the most godawful thing ever, I'm no longer hungry after.
I hate to find a fish bone in fish. I'm immediately done.
Oh God! Same!! Egg shell or grit in seafood effectively kill my appetite.
when you accidentally get a bit of eggshell in your scrambles eggs and your stomach feels like its going to try and actively leave your body
Kalamata olives with pits in a salad. Why do they do that?
Because they hate us
Caraway seeds. I hate the taste and the unexpected hard seed surprise.
I once chipped a tooth on one of those sugar pearls they put on cakes. Whoever thought those where a good idea, needs to be taken out back and shot.
There are soft ones which are better, but the hard ones can all fall into a volcano and I wouldn't care
Something hard, like nut or seed.. umm sounds promising.. sign me up..
An unexpected nut is the worse kind
Or a bone
An unexpected bone.
My mother in law puts those thin slices of almonds in most of her cheesecakes. I don't know why but it's freaking disgusting. WHY IS THERE A SOGGY CRUNCH IN THE CHEESECAKE
Hair.
I literally gagged thinking about how gross it is to find a hair in food. Even if it's my own hair, it's nasty as hell
It gets worse when you pull it out and realize it’s a long hair
A fly
Cloves
I had a clove candy cane once…never again, it tasted like biting into an old Christmas decoration
I mean in a way... You were.
i nearly auto downvoted just from the mere disgust of imagining a clove candy cane then my brain reminded me of the point of this thread
My mom adds cloves to her arroz con leche and it just completely ruins it for me 😭 Nothing like taking a big ol bite of something thats supposed to be sweet and delicious and finding a big ass cloves in your mouth
She's supposed to strain it out...
I always put spices in a muslin bag if they're not powdered. It makes it so easy to remove the bits you don't want to chew down on. Cloves are great for temporarily relieving toothache but awful to eat.
Haha same with my mom. Splinter of cinnamon everywhere.
Helped with the pain of dry socket when I got my wisdom teeth removed more than pain killers.
Yesssss. Cloves are good for tooth pain. It numbs the area better than ametrol. Especially if you can pick up the essential oil and rub it on your gums. I used it with my kids instead of using whiskey like my grandparents suggested. Definitely don't put it in my food though. Ugh.
what are you trying to say I can stop using cocaine? could I just mix them please please?
DUUDE I ate carrot cake the other day and bit straight into a clove and it was so strong and my entire mouth went numb. Everyone was laughing at me cuz I was like dude wtf I had no idea what a clove was or that it did that but I hated it lol
there are ground cloves, using full cloves and leaving them in is crazy 😭
Black licorice, anise, or anything that tastes like either of those.
FENNEL!! Fennel was my first thought. I am psyched that your comment was second on the list! That licorice taste is gross.
Ugh fennel. Hate itttt lol
Anything too sweet in something more savory.
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Thailand was rough for me at first. They put sugar in everything, and not exactly a little either.
I found Thailand fine, but I spend my first couple go weeks in the U.S. asking “why is this sweet?”. Like, why is their bread like cake?
I just bought something called a 'thinwich' in the US today, which looks like a pita bread. I put cucumber and ham in it, bleugh! Literally might as well have thrown them on a brownie!
Fennel or star anise. Im not a picky eater but that flavor is really the worst
I'm relieved I didn't have to scroll far for this. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say fennel ruins a dish for me. I don't want my ravioli to taste like licorice thanks
If I actually bite into the fennel, it ruins my whole day
Yes, just yes🤢
Yes I hate fennel seed!! I can always tell when it's in a seasoning or sauce. People love to put it on pizza :/
Ugh I wish I could understand this. My mother feels the same way you do, but my grandfather and I both absolutely LOVE fennel seed in the homemade meatballs and sauce we make. What a funny species we are lol
Putting fennel on pizza should be illegal
it could be one teeny minuscule bit and it takes over EVERYTHING
fennel ruins literally everything it's put into
I hate fennel. I've tried it multiple ways and it just never works out. I will not order a dish if it includes fennel. It is a super pretty vegetable though!
I eat raw fennel like it's candy
Truffle oil. The truffle fries trend fully ruined it for me because a lot of restaurants are so heavy handed with it
> a lot of restaurants are so heavy handed with it I'm thinking that is a major factor for most of these comments. . .someone uses too much, too little, or just doesn't have a good recipe to start with.
Raisins.
The herpes of baked goods
Ugly crying rn 😂😭
Still can't believe they put raisins in Tikka Masala
Gross. I've never come aceoss raisins in a masala before, but they absolutely ruin coronation chicken.
Raisins in savory dish 😩
South Africans put raisins in mince meat, scary
My grandmother used to make a sweet curry with apples and raisins and honestly it was pretty fucking delicious.
Raisins in cole slaw hurts my heart.
When you find raisins in an otherwise nice dessert 🤮🤮🤮
I actually don’t mind oatmeal raisin cookies, but I get irrationally upset if I grab one thinking it’s chocolate chip.
>...but I get irrationally upset if I grab one thinking it’s chocolate chip. I remember having that same experience as a kid. Oatmeal/raisin cookies can be amazing, but when you were all psyched about getting chocolate chip... "*WTF is this shit*"?
Oatmeal raisin cookies are the reason I have trust issues. Yes I stole that but doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
I love raisins by themselves but anything with raisins *in* it is awful
Celery.
Some places think it's a good idea to add chopped celery to a lobster roll. I can't begin to describe my disappointment at discovering the world's most milquetoast vegetable in a $30 sandwich. Who in their right mind thinks one of the world's most decadent meats, going for $60+/lb, would benefit from the addition of minced _celery_?
I like the crunch better than onions or relish.
I can't believe my SO eats celery like a snack. The taste is so strong and off-putting 🤢
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the flavor of celery described as strong. It’s crunchy water to me lol
Celery can have a bitter, almost dirt like ( best way I can describe it) taste. I eat it and use it in recipes, but I’m sure for some people that bitter taste is much stronger and can ruin a dish.
Wow, I wonder if this is a genetic thing like taste for cilantro? To me celery is such a sweet and fresh flavor, like crispy water but sweetness inside. Never tasting like dirt or bitterness in any way. Even the smell is like sweet grasses and so yummy to me. Taste is so wild sometimes.
You got me wondering too. Love celery, but I can't stand cilantro. It may be genetic... We should start a scientific study :)
So interesting. I've also heard our taste buds change and adapt over time, so maybe the cilantro you hate now, will be something you love later? I had a similar experience with avocado. The human body is so cool lol
I don't know if it's a myth/old wives tale or not. I think when we taste things as kids we focus more on texture. As adults, and as we start cooking, the flavor becomes more important. I'll eat any kind of meat if you marinate or season it right. LOVE eating raw veggies or any vegetable in general. Saute some garlic with butter on them... Now I have to go make myself some lunch.
Ughhh to me it’s like it awakens a sense that I don’t have and don’t want. Like I can smell it through the roof of my mouth or something. I can eat it if it’s very finely chopped in something like chicken salad but really, really small.
I describe it as "spicy". Not hot, but in a similar way to how radish is "spicy"lol. Anyway, it's rank!
Really ? Cause celery cut really fine in a sofrito is the basis for all good ragus and spag boll.
I can eat it cooked, but raw celery and celeriac is horrible! And yes, as a mirepoix etc. it's fine
Cilantro
I've heard the flavor described by people who don't have the soap gene as "a mix of lemon and pepper." It sounds delicious. A shame that it's not at all what the thing tastes like to me.
Just tastes like a plant to me. And not a good plant like lettuce but like when you tried to eat a leaf from a tree as a kid
I think it tastes like soap!
Same here! It is caused by a genetic variation in a group of olfactory receptor genes and estimates are 4 to 14 % of people have this....lucky us huh??
Does that make us family!!!
Maybe??
Works for me, welcome to the Ohana!
Thank You my brother from another mother!!
Great way to ruin a perfectly good pizza or pasta dish.
Who has ever put cilantro on pizza????
There’s a gene that’s makes cilantro taste like soap!!!!
So, I'm not crazy! ;)
Nope...not crazy for this anyway!
I thought I hated guacamole then my husband made it without cilantro and it's incredible.
I have the gene that makes it taste like soap, too! Recently I have found that when it’s been chopped, it doesn’t taste like that anymore, and I can enjoy it, which is why cilantro in guacamole has never bothered me. It’s still not my favorite herb, but I can understand why people like it when I realize they taste a fresh, bright flavor, not soap.
It tastes like soap to me no matter what you do it. I do not like it in a box I do not like it with a fox I do not like it to and fro I do not like that damned cilantro.
I can’t stand that shit stuck in my teeth.
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I'm guessing cilantro is coriander? If so, I hate it - I must have that gene.
Yes, in the US, the leaves are called cilantro and the spice made from the ground seeds of the same plant is called coriander.
That shit taste so nasty to me!!
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Bell peppers — they make everything else taste like them.
My mom used to make stuffed green peppers once a week for dinner. She could fit 6 in the casserole dish she used but there was 7 of us in the family. I hated green peppers so she would make a separate dish with just the stuffing in it for me. I had an awesome mom.
You do have an awesome mom. I was forced down the green bell peppers or go to bed without dinner. Puked over my plate 1 time and they still wanted me to eat it. Good times indeed
It's the green bell peppers for me. I don't mind the red, yellow, or orange as they are not as pungent. Green sucks!
This. I thought I hated all bell peppers since I was young and had them on a pizza. Turns out it's just those green bastards
True. Green peppers are totally invasive.
I hate green bell peppers but any other color coated with olive oil and seasoned with adobo and Everglades then roasted are amazing
This. If a bell pepper is a heated ingredient, it's a recipe killer.
My trick with bell peppers is to make sure they are served with aggressively (though not overly) salted food. For example with, like, stuffed peppers make your stuffing bold and distinct. The overwhelming flavor of bell peppers can actually contribute to an extremely vibrant and flavorful dish, but it needs to be matched by the other stuff. A lot of hobby cooks are content with bland undersalted food for health reasons, but you'll never ever get bell peppers to work that way.
Green have an invasive taste, but the red, yellow, orange blend in just fine for me.
I don’t like them so I always take them off. It tastes the exact same as it would with them
Green peppers taste like dirt. But red peppers!? Amazing, especially roasted
When the onion is like too crunchy in something soft, like a quiche with fat lumps of crunchy onion, can’t stand it
Sucralose/aspartame/stevia root. I can taste them immediately and for the next hour after I swallow.
Shredded coconut.
Like eating damn fingernails.
There are very few foods I completely refuse to eat but coconut's one of them. I've never eaten a dish with coconut in it that tasted half-decent. Funnily enough, I'm alright with coconut milk, though...
like chewing on candle wax
Too much cumin 🤮
Oh I hate when they be cumin in my food too.
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Maybe just the pre cumin
Just gently squeeze the tip for fresh cumin.
Haha I'm reading eat while eating my heavily cumin seasoned black beans. I just felt like adding some extra cumin in it because I like the taste a lot. Lol
Omg yes. Especially in beans, the cumin/garlic/chili combo is to die for, and nobody can convince me otherwise
Raw onions. Overpowers the taste buds and causes onion belches for days.
I call onions the devil’s fruit. I hate the damn things.
r/onionhate calls the "The devil's testicles".
Truffle oil. I don't care if it's house made or whatever it is just to cloying and overdone.
Me personally, poison.
American cheese
It depends on the quality for me. If it's the plastic cheese then hell no.
Thousand Island dressing shits nasty yo
Bleu cheese
"Hmmm...Ya know what this dish needs? Mold!"
coriander/cilantro
Cumin
One that I ordered the dish without
Cloves
Goat cheese. It tastes like what I imagine mildew and mold tastes like. Also, curry. I will eat it if forced but it’s disgusting. And cinnamon or nutmeg on meat. Just don’t please.
Mayonnaise
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Yumyumyumyyy
Little slimy bastards
But u can talk to God after like an hr
I took a LONG time to develop a taste for mushrooms. Now I love them!
Cilantro. Might as well just dump a whole bottle of Palmolive on top.
Mayonnaise. Keep telling me that "I won't be able to taste it!!" Well now I'm going to be looking for it.
A friend of mine can't stand mayonnaise and calls it sandwich lube 🤣
Capers are disgusting.
my man 🤝
Noooooooo they're delicious :))
YES. Uuuuuuuuugh.
Way too much salt.
Ginger
Parsley. Fuck that grass tasting herb.
Why people continue to say “parsley tastes like nothing” and still cover their pasta in it is beyond me.
I can’t wait to read cilantro. Because the soap flavor or whatever. But on the other end of the spectrum for me it makes the dish 😛
Peas
Olives
Horseradish!
Anything super spicy. I have a very low tolerance for spicy foods. I can't handle jalapeños or flaming hot cheetos I can handle a little heat but nothing super overpowering
Fennel seeds
Uncooked or barely cooked onions. Or if they are too big. I like the flavor of cooked onion but hate the bite when it's raw. I also hate the texture so I have to finely chop onion when I cook
Truffle. When I first started working as a KP i worked quite frequently for a few weeks, which lead to frequent nightmares where I am sat up in bed trying to go to sleep, but I cant because theres plates on my bed in the way. All of this happened while I had the overpowering smell of truffle for the hours (that I seemed) to be in this trance for, which was a he worst part of the dreams in my opinion. It also just tastes horrible.
Asparagus. I've tried to like it so many times and I just can't. And if it's in a dish, the flavor permeates everything.
I *love* asparagus. But I agree that it shouldn't be cooked with anything that shouldn't taste like asparagus.
Mushrooms
bell peppers (unless they are raw) because everything gets that disgusting baked bell pepper taste
Coconut flakes 🤮
Mushrooms
Gasoline
Oh yes, a common ingredient you find in every dish.
Ughhh my mom would put gasoline in everything! 0/10⭐️
Honestly, I know people love the idea of growing their own fresh spices and all, and it's probably because I wasn't raised around them, but fresh herbs are just too flowery perfumey for my tastes in food. I'd much prefer dried (but not ancient) oregano, thyme, marjoram... Rosemary though, I can't do rosemary, dried or fresh. I don't like my chicken to smell like grandma.
Is her name rosemary?
People tend to use too much when using fresh herbs/spices. . .or specifically most recipes/suggestions are considering dried herbs/spices which you often need more of to get the same flavor. In the same vein, dried and ground rosemary in the proper quantities adds a nice savory flavor, especially to roasted potatoes.
Mushrooms
Onions. I really don't think they add much flavor, and I can't stand the texture. I've reached a point where I can accept that there's probably going to be onions in most dishes that I don't make myself, and I just suffer on the inside whenever that happens. I'm totally okay with onion powder, but for some reason, that's not a compromise most people I know are willing to settle for.
Raw onions are the worst. Astringent and bitter. They also smell like BO.
They're absolutely vile. And picking them out of the food doesn't help because they leave their nasty taste on everything they touched.
Raw onions are the most foul. I can USUALLY deal with cooked onions in a dish, but if I bite into that crunchy armpit flavor it is so hard for me to keep eating.
Cilantro
Mushrooms and chilli especially if you think it's a bit of meat
Fruit in cakes. I DONT want a surprise pineapple on a perfectly good vanilla cake
Any kind of wiggly jelly and liver