Foods I don't like

[archerships]

Inspired by plantgirl, a list of foods I don't like:

Foods I loathe

lamb/mutton
liver
anchovies
wine

Foods I don't like, but can tolerate in small quantities

white chocolate
sashimi (california rolls and sushi made with cooked meat is okay)
horseradish sauce
french mustard
ginger
wasabi
squid
clams/mussels
blue cheese
tea
boba tea
pork rinds
cake frosting
beer (and most other alcoholic drinks)

Comments

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, the only ones I share are cake frosting and white chocolate. Okay, and boba tea, if that's the stuff with the tapioca pearls in it. Nasty. I don't always like beer, but I do enjoy it on occasion, and some of the others top my list of favorite foods.

There's an earthiness or mustiness to many of those foods, and most of them are certainly strongly flavored. Out of curiosity, do you like truffles? (The fungi, not the chocolates.) I will also guess that you don't like goose, venison, bison, or octopus. Have you had any of them to know if I'm right? And how do you feel about cranberries?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Yea, boba tea is the stuff with the tapioca bubbles.

I don't think I've had truffles, though I'm not a huge fan of fungi in general. I've not had goose, venison, or bison. I don't care for octopus. I like cranberries. (Chocolate covered cranberries are one of my favorite treats.)

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

If you like duck, you might like goose, but if you don't like lamb, you probably won't like either venison or bison.

If you like cranberries, it's not intensity of flavor or acidity or tannins. So now I'm curious, what does wine taste like to you? Is it the presence of alcohol you dislike? Or the flavor of the wine itself? Both reds & whites?

If you're not a huge fan of fungi in general, and you don't like liver, you won't like truffles. I adore most types of fungi, but find truffles off-putting. They are usually too earthy/funky/musty for me. I feel guilty about this, but I must be true to myself! ;)

Do you eat sardines? They're not as salty as anchovies, but they can be as fishy, depending on the brand.

In case all my questions haven't made it clear, I'm fascinated by how people perceive food, and am trying to figure out if there are common things among what you dislike. (Actually, I'm fascinated by people's likes & dislikes in general, and love mapping them to see where they lead.)

:)

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Wine tastes like what it is -- rotted grapes. I don't like the "rot/fermented" flavor--I don't think it matters whether the wine is red or white, though I really haven't drank enough to say if there's much of difference. I like duck and chicken, so I suspect I'd like goose as well. I don't like sardines--it's the strong "fishy" odor that I don't like. (I do, however, like fresh fish. )

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

I make wine, but my grapes don't rot -- they ferment! :-P

I don't like vodka because I swear it tastes like rotten potatoes. I don't know of anyone else who thinks so, but it's very distinct to me.

I've never noticed any kind of "rotted grapes" taste to wine. I'm not a huge fan of wine, but some of them I like with certain foods.

BTW, goose is much greasier than duck.

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

Lamb is greasy, and venison and bison are both very low fat, so I don't think it necessarily follows that if you don't like lamb you won't like the others.

Though I have to wonder whether Chris has actually ever had lamb, or if he's had mutton that was sold as lamb. That happens a lot. I love lamb, but hate mutton.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

I may not have had lamb, though I have had what i was _told_ was lamb. That said, most of my exposure to sheep meat has been via gyros.

I do, however, like goat meat salami. So perhaps I'd like lamb/mutton better if it were spiced appropriately.

???

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure lamb & mutton are two different words for the same thing - meat from sheep.

Re: ???

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

That's incorrect. If you would look the words up, you'd find that lamb is a very young sheep, while mutton is an older sheep. It's like the difference between a young fryer chicken and an old stewing hen.

Mutton has a very gamey flavor. Lamb has a much more delicate flavor, especially certain cuts.

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

I really dislike the taste of beer, too, especially ales and lagers. I've found I like stouts and porters, but anything lighter than that just tastes awful to me, no matter how expensive or cool it is.

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

I generally prefer dark beer as well, but I've learned to like some light beer. And temperature makes a difference. If it's bloody hot out, I don't want a guinness, no matter how much I love it at other times, and a lighter beer is more likely to taste good to me.

I think beer is a learned taste. I mean, it a lot of ways it tastes like dirt. (This observation was made by the son of a friend of mine, but once I heard that description I've never been able to forget it.)

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

Hm. It doesn't so much taste like dirt to me as it does water that's gone very, very bad.

[kindofstrange.livejournal.com]

Agree with you on:
Liver
Anchovies
White Chocolate
Wasabi
Blue Cheese

Disagree with you on:
Boba tea
Lamb (though I'm extremely picky about lamb and only like certain cuts & preparations)
sashimi (one of my favorite foods)
horseradish sauce
french mustard
squid
clams/mussels
tea
boba tea (only like the firmer tapioca pearls. The squishy jelly ones are not okay)
pork rinds
cake frosting (reeeeeally picky on this one. If I taste sugar 'grit' my skin crawls)
beer

Things I hate:
Cilantro (#1 on the hated foods list)
Ginger
Lots of various textures
Most heavy curries
Anything with too much spice
Various types of bitter lettuce, no idea what they're called
Creme Brulee (though I don't really hate the taste, more the texture)

[kindofstrange.livejournal.com]

Point of clarification: clams / mussels must be cooked, otherwise... ick! I'm not a fan of paying to eat something that feels like a giant wad of snot sliding down your throat.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

With respect to cake frosting, it's not so much the frosting itself, but the amount that most bakers apply (1/8 - 1/4 inch). I like frosting if it's applied sparingly.

I've tried to like sashimi/sushi, as many of my friends like it, but it just tastes nasty to me.

What would be an example of something you dislike because of the varied textures?

Fortunately, I'm not a cilantro "taster". (Although if one adds too much, it can be overpowering.) BTW, have you seen this site?

[evelynne.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD, that site is hysterical!! Anticilantro haikus!! Tales of heartbreak and tragedy from cilantro victims! kitiara needs a site like that for celery.

BTW, when I first had it I thought cilantro tasted like soap. Then it kept turning up in Chinese and Mexican foods when I lived in California, so I became able to tolerate it in small quantities. Now you can load up a plate with cilantro and I'll gobble it down. I don't know wtf happened. I like it. It doesn't taste like soap anymore.

I'm still waiting for this to happen with stuff like wine and beer. The smell of them both makes me giddy and I love them in cooking but I can't drink them straight.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

According to ihatecilantro, both cilantro and celery belong to the apiaceae plant family (as do cumin, coriander, fennel, anise, and dill). (1) I wonder how kitiara feels about those spices? And perhaps it explains daemonwolf's aversion to heavy curries as well (which tend to have lots of cumin and coriander).

(1) http://www.ihatecilantro.com/research.php

I think that I could build a tolerance/taste for alcohol, but given that two of my uncles are alcoholics, perhaps it's best that I avoid it altogether.

[fishsupreme]

I do like cilantro, but I have to agree that it tastes like Palmolive smells. So I'm in the strange situation of liking cilantro and thinking it tastes like soap.

[quodlibetic.livejournal.com]

Just a correction to your list:

Sashimi=fish pieces with rice on the side
Sushi=fish served on top of rice, or rolled with rice

I think you meant to say "sushi or sashimi, unless it's California rolls or cooked."

Have you tried unagi (eel)? It's cooked, and I quite like it. :)

[crasch.livejournal.com]

No, I don't recall trying unagi. Thanks for the suggestion!

[chutzpahgirl.livejournal.com]

I'll have to quibble with you on both wine and beer... two things I really love. Perhaps you've had too much cheap stuff?

And you may (or may not) know white chocolate is not "chocolate" in the sense that there's no cocoa butter in it. And cake frosting would have to be on my "loathe" list.

Meat Products

[extremejessy.livejournal.com]

While I was in AU they would have things with "meat" which meant a great variety of things. Usually involving lamb. But nobody ever knew for sure what "meat" consisted of.

I find sheep-based meats overpowering unless heavily seasoned. So any meat product with 90% other un-specified meats and 10% lamb tastes like all lamb to me.

Bletch!