What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?

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  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    I hate cottage cheese.
    I also hate raw onions, but don’t mind if they’re cooked.

    I was always grossed out when my childhood babysitter would make sandwiches with nothing but raw onions & some kind of mayonnaise/miracle whip. Disgusting.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    edited November 2018
    It's the all day grazers I was referring to, primarily. People who have a half eaten bag of Doritos, a handful of gummi bears, and a half eaten bowl of chicken noddle soup on their desk at all times. The people who spend thirty minutes painstakingly preparing their instant oatmeal and then bring it to their 9:30 am meeting. That sort of thing. ugh!

    If someone is paying such close attention to me at my office that they know how often and what I eat during the day not to mention how long it took me to prepare my oatmeal, I think they need to work a little harder and worry less about me. We have a huge cafeteria but I never eat there. I prefer to use my breaks and lunches to get stuff done.

    One thing about work food - I don't think anyone should reheat fish in the microwave or deliberately burn popcorn (yes, I used to work with someone who did that). It smells up the office.

    A guy that used to work with me once put a cup of Ramen in the microwave & forgot to add the water. It smelled up the whole store.

    My son did something similar with malt o meal, but he was 3 at the time :lol: He just wanted a bowl of hot cereal, poor baby!

    My microwave was never the same.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    Me too! I love bananas and eat them daily but banana flavoring is awful. Cherry too.

    I never really liked artificial grape products. I can semi-tolerate the grape flavored water enhancers, but definitely not a flavor I would pick out often.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    mph323 wrote: »
    Me too! I love bananas and eat them daily but banana flavoring is awful. Cherry too.

    Oh, I love fresh or frozen cherries, but cherry flavoring tastes like cough syrup! I ordered a drink once that involved some cherry-flavored liqueur and gagged on the first sip.

    Yuck like this! Just awful. Reminded me of drinking cough syrup/mixed with downing nothing but artificial sweetener.

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  • MrSunshinez
    MrSunshinez Posts: 573 Member
    It's something about the texture of quinoa or grits that makes me sick.
  • admaarie
    admaarie Posts: 4,297 Member
    I’ve never had grits. I feel like it’s an American/southern thing, but I can imagine I wouldn’t like it. Lol.

    I do like quinoa but not warm - it has to be a cold salad for me to eat it.

    Also, I just realized how much I don’t care for other fish besides tuna or salmon. Everything else is blah.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    I like grits, but like a lot of regional comfort foods, there is a lot of nostalgia tied up in them and I am not sure I would choose to eat them if I hadn't tried them until I was an adult. Actually, I am pretty sure I wouldn't.

    Speaking of nostalgia, I have another item for the thread - shrimp boiling. When I was young, we would visit some of my favorite older relatives in the FL panhandle and whenever there was a big family gathering (and it was whenever we were there) they would do a shrimp boil. Boiling shrimp makes some people want to retch; some people will tolerate it at best because they enjoy boiled shrimp. Very few people enjoy the odor of a shrimp boil. It stirs up a lot of emotions for me and makes me smile. Shrimp boiled with Old Bay is one of my absolute favorite foods.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    I like grits. I never had them until I was an adult and a friend from NC made me cheesy grits. That's a great way to introduce them (well, to me at least), but also I like polenta, so why not grits? Anyway, I rarely have them, but I sometimes order shrimp and grits if we go to a southern-influenced restaurant that has them prepared in a way that seems interesting (soul or southern fusion seems to be a thing that you find here sometimes).
  • JBApplebee
    JBApplebee Posts: 481 Member
    AmyC2288 wrote: »
    Pepsi Max is the best of all diet sodas. Also- greek yogurt tastes exactly like spoiled milk (gosh that ones really been weighing on me).

    I'm right there with you on the Pepsi Max. No other diet pop even comes close (although I do like Diet Dr. Pepper). Here's mine. Pumpkin anything tastes like *kitten*, coffee, wine & beer are disgusting. I love Fireball.

    For those of you who don't like kit-kats or reeses cups, have you tried the dark chocolate versions? That's the best versions of those candies.
  • FitAndLean_5738
    FitAndLean_5738 Posts: 90 Member
    Ranch is disgusting
    Mayo is even worse
    Eggnog is the grossest thing ever
    Bacon on doughnuts .... this ain't it chief (that means it's also gross)
    Nacho cheese is a no for me
    Avocados are nasty by themselves but decent (edible) on bread
    Poached eggs are inedibly disgusting
  • JBApplebee
    JBApplebee Posts: 481 Member
    admaarie wrote: »
    steveko89 wrote: »
    My #1: Corn, in any form other than popped, salted, and buttered, is overrated and a waste of everyone's time.

    others receiving votes:
    - bananas are gross
    - I strongly dislike the texture of beans, in all forms
    - Granny Smith > any other apple variety... fight me.
    - I don't like avocado unless made into guacamole

    Ummm I think you meant to say gala apples 😉 haha

    I think you both meant to say honeycrisp apples
  • skelterhelter
    skelterhelter Posts: 803 Member
    Here's another: I can't bring myself to like grapefruit. It's only good with a lot of sugar sprinkled on top, but that defeats the purpose lol.

    I also like my bananas very spotty, just before rotten.
  • JBApplebee
    JBApplebee Posts: 481 Member
    Rocknut53 wrote: »
    kam26001 wrote: »
    Eating ice cream during the winter months is weird.

    That and iced tea.

    Far less weird than drinking hot coffee during the summer months.
  • JBApplebee
    JBApplebee Posts: 481 Member
    kam26001 wrote: »
    The chicken planks at Long John Silver's are criminally underrated. I know, I know... why are you ordering chicken at Long John Silver's? Wait, why are you eating at Long John Silver's?!!! I don't care if they're deep fried in motor oil, they are really tasty.

    Why are you ordering chicken at LJS? Because it's insanely delicious, that's why!
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    It's something about the texture of quinoa or grits that makes me sick.

    Agree on quinoa texture. Blech! I've never had grits.
  • debrakgoogins
    debrakgoogins Posts: 2,033 Member
    Ruatine wrote: »
    Seafood is only masquerading as food. In reality it's a gag reflex waiting to happen.

    My husband is a Maine lobsterman from a long line of proud, hardworking lobstermen. He doesn't eat lobster.
  • MoHousdon
    MoHousdon Posts: 8,723 Member
    I hate cottage cheese.
    I also hate raw onions, but don’t mind if they’re cooked.

    I was always grossed out when my childhood babysitter would make sandwiches with nothing but raw onions & some kind of mayonnaise/miracle whip. Disgusting.

    That wasn't a babysitter...that was a psychopath!
  • workinonit1956
    workinonit1956 Posts: 1,043 Member
    I love cheese grits, the creamy cheesy texture.....
    Hate grapefruit, tastes so acidic to me but I enjoy all other citrus fruits.
  • stephanne13
    stephanne13 Posts: 212 Member
    admaarie wrote: »
    Blue cheese was made by the devil himself.

    Truth. It tastes like you threw up in your own mouth.

    I love the *kitten* out of some blue cheese, but this reply had me laughing so hard, I had tears in my eyes.
  • spinnerdell
    spinnerdell Posts: 233 Member
    Grits are one of my all-time favorite foods, but only the stone-ground, slow-cooking kind, a la "My Cousin Vinny", with liberal additions of butter and cream, carefully weighed and logged, of course.
  • admaarie
    admaarie Posts: 4,297 Member
    I think plantain chips are the only chips worth eating.
    And sun chips lol
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    I've never had grits. I think I need to try them.
  • New_Heavens_Earth
    New_Heavens_Earth Posts: 610 Member
    edited December 2018
    My husband makes peanut butter and bologna sandwiches.

    Grits do not belong in fusion foods.

    I will not eat chitterlings, maws, pig feet, pizelles, or chicken feet. I don't care what a local delicacy they are, no.

    Poached or runny eggs are food poisoning in waiting to me. So is *gasp* rare steak.

    Kale is delicious, except for kale chips. Those are just dead leaves.

  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    My husband makes peanut butter and bologna sandwiches.

    Grits do not belong in fusion foods.

    I will not eat chitterlings, maws, pig feet, pizelles, or chicken feet. I don't care what a local delicacy they are, no.

    Poached or runny eggs are food poisoning in waiting to me. So is *gasp* rare steak.

    Kale is delicious, except for kale chips. Those are just dead leaves.

    Wait, what's a pizzelle to you? To an Italian like me, it's this:


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  • MrSunshinez
    MrSunshinez Posts: 573 Member
    My husband makes peanut butter and bologna sandwiches.

    Grits do not belong in fusion foods.

    I will not eat chitterlings, maws, pig feet, pizelles, or chicken feet. I don't care what a local delicacy they are, no.

    Poached or runny eggs are food poisoning in waiting to me. So is *gasp* rare steak.

    Kale is delicious, except for kale chips. Those are just dead leaves.

    Wait, what's a pizzelle to you? To an Italian like me, it's this:


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    Those are so delicious!
  • MrSunshinez
    MrSunshinez Posts: 573 Member
    It's something about the texture of quinoa or grits that makes me sick.

    Agree on quinoa texture. Blech! I've never had grits.

    Yeah, grits? All I can say is maybe there are some good recipes out there that you can add to them but to me it's like eating buttery sand.