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Umm, how do most people feel about sauerkraut? It goes well with mashed potatoes and pork, or on a hotdog.
I love anchovies on pizza. I should do an anchovy, onion, and mushroom pizza…
My username says it
But I guess it sits at a weird crossroad of "it's all over Instagram" and "most people don't seem to like the taste"
I love mayonnaise.
foods that a lot of people dislike
mayonnaise
The entire state of Minnesota would like a word with you.
Brussels, anchovies, kimchi and mushrooms. Never tried liver. I'll have to put it on my list.
black liquorice
black licorice jelly beeeeeans 🤤
Raisins.
I also like anchovies on a pizza, but only when done right. Right being basically 1 fish per slice; not completely covered.
Haggis and organ meats.
I've had people tell me "you don't really like them you just want to be weird"
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.
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.
I like the taste of orange juice after I brush my teeth
Not quite in the spirit of what you've asked, but I think this still applies:
Cold food. I have no problem with it. I get distracted by kids and my wife gets worked up about how I could come back to cold food and not heat it up. Doesn't bother me.
Same food every day. I've spent years eating tuna sandwich and an apple for lunch every day of the working week. "Don't you want variety?" Nope. I also used to bulk cook food. So even my dinner was the same every day. Didn't bother me.
same food every day gang! it's cheap, nutritious, delicious, and a breeze to prepare, what's not to like?
i can't eat the same thing for more than 3 days without it making me gag
Brother
Cilantro
I don’t know if this one counts. Aside from what those who have it taste like soap, isn’t this one very commonly liked?
~~Note: The same gene that makes cilantro taste for them like soap, lets them smell formic acid produced by ants.~~
Edit: I looked into this and it is a rumor, nothing else.
That’s cool -ish. But ants are everywhere
That is kind of the sillness of the original question.
A lot of people will love everything that everyone will respond with.
A lot of folks are saying brussel sprouts... interestingly:
the flavour has changed..
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
Pleated whiskey tastes like burning tires smell, to me, lol.
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."
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Black licorice.
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Unseasoned / plain food; no salt, sugar, sauce, or herbs at all. I just like the flavour of good ingredients prepared well. I find that herbs make things taste "grassy" and that salt is overpowering.
As an American not many people I've come across like Icelandic licorice like Opal but I love the stuff. If I go back I'm stuffing my suitcase to the fills with it. Costs way too much to get it shipped here.
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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.
Have you ever tried jam or marmalade on pizza? Hear me out, it's actually really good.
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Moxie. It's one of those cough syrup flavored type of sodas. I also like the taste of Jagermeister too.
Inverse... I don't like lobster. Everyone says it's so amazing but it tastes like nothing to me. Flavorless.
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