Love/Hate variations of the same food?

buffalogal42
buffalogal42 Posts: 374 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I can think of two for me:

1)Tomatoes - love them raw, stewed, pasta sauce, salsa, sun dried, as tomato soup ... but I despise ketchup and tomato juice.
2) Eggs - give me boiled, scrambled, over easy, over hard, poached, omelettes, quiche ... but put egg salad or deviled eggs in front of me, I gag. To me, eggs and mayo don't mix!

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 17,956 Member
    Raw mushrooms - yuck!! Cooked mushrooms - yum!!

  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Burger: okay
    Moussaka: the best kind of yum
    Beef chunk or steak: I can't even bring myself to chew it.

    Skinless chicken breast: okay
    Cordon Bleu: yes
    Fried chicken/bone in or skin on chicken: the smell alone makes me nauseous

    Eggs in all forms, including with mayo: yes
    Eggnog: keep it away from me

    Oatmeal: love it
    Savory oatmeal: I tried so hard to like it but I had to give up

    Borscht: one of my most favorite foods of all time
    Beetroot any other way: nope.
  • shandy82165
    shandy82165 Posts: 184 Member
    Coconut flavored things - yumm
    Actual coconut? Blech

    or Mushroom cooked into food, or flavored - ok
    Whole pieces of raw mushroom? yuck.

    Peach flavored things - good
    Biting into a real peach? Not my fav.

    Most of these are texture issues, really, vs. taste issues.
  • dammitjanet0161
    dammitjanet0161 Posts: 319 Member
    Glad to see I'm not the only contrary person :)

    I hate mushroom soup or creamy mushroom sauces yet I love mushrooms in any other form (even raw). Maybe it's the cream that doesn't go with the mushrooms?

    Banana flavoured desserts, yet I like bananas - banana muffins/banana bread isn't too bad but you can put banoffee pie, banana ice cream or banana protein shakes in the bin as far as I'm concerned.

    I'm fussy about cooked cheese, so I would happily eat cheese on toast, but I hate nachos or cheesy chips (fries) - ok while the cheese is still hot and melty, but as soon as the cheese topping starts to go cold it puts me off, and I'm not keen on cheese sauces.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Raw celery - inedible.
    Celery in casseroles - wonderful.

    Canned mushrooms - urgh.
    Fresh mushrooms - yum.

    Fresh tomatoes, chunks - don't touch.
    Tomato paste, passata, ketchup - versatile.

    Canned corn - disgusting.
    Fresh corn - delicious.

    Pickled beets, borsch - scary.
    Fresh, raw beets - delightful.

    Peanut butter in oatmeal - destroys both peanut butter and oatmeal.
    Peanut butter in almost any other combination - makes everything even better.

    Hard boiled eggs - the smell, the texture :s
    Soft boiled, omelette, scrambled, poached, used in cooking - eggs are so versatile.
  • lightenup2016
    lightenup2016 Posts: 1,055 Member
    Spinach--raw, sautéed from raw or frozen--fine. Canned?--just, no

    Oysters raw--yum! Cooked?--foul

    Also, there are a lot of cheeses that I can't eat if they're not melted.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,134 Member
    Kinda the same as OP.

    Raw tomatoes - no f'king way
    Hard-boiled, deviled, in a salad eggs - NOPE
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I'm surprised how many people hate raw tomatoes. When I was a kid, to ease my anxiety when I skinned a knee or had a minor cut, my mom used to say "don't worry, that's just tomato juice leaking out from all the tomatoes you eat".

    I consume 1-6 pounds of raw tomatoes a day. When they're cheaper in season I eat more, less when they're more expensive.
  • lilithsrose
    lilithsrose Posts: 752 Member
    Raw Grapes = Good
    Anything Grape Flavored = Foul, disgusting lies.

    Oranges = Good
    Anything Orange Flavored = Gross

    Most Cheeses = Delicious
    Cottage Cheese = Makes me gag. The texture is like vomit.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
    Like raw carrots, hate cooked carrots
    Eggs=the best, unless they're hard-boiled. I can't stand hard-boiled yolks (yeah I'll eat the whites)
  • jbirdgreen
    jbirdgreen Posts: 569 Member
    rhaiin wrote: »
    Raw Grapes = Good
    Anything Grape Flavored = Foul, disgusting lies.
    .

    THIS x1000!

    I love carrots. Cooked carrots, raw carrots. Hate carrot juice and the abomination that is carrot and raisin salad. Those things barely go together in carrot cake -- why would you just chuck them together in a "salad?" I did a diet in 2000 that was mostly carrot juice, and it exacerbated the hate for that product..

    I enjoy orange juice like a good little Floridian, but if it has pulp... forget it. Same goes for lemonade.

  • richplank4
    richplank4 Posts: 9 Member
    edited February 2017
    buffalogal42 wrote: »
    I can think of two for me:

    1)Tomatoes - love them raw, stewed, pasta sauce, salsa, sun dried, as tomato soup ... but I despise ketchup and tomato juice.
    2) Eggs - give me boiled, scrambled, over easy, over hard, poached, omelettes, quiche ... but put egg salad or deviled eggs in front of me, I gag. To me, eggs and mayo don't mix!
    I hate raw tomatoes, but eat every variation of them cooked.
  • xmichaelyx
    xmichaelyx Posts: 883 Member
    Cold pasta is unacceptable.
  • laur357
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
    Man. When tomatoes are in season I literally take a knife & salt shaker to the garden and eat raw tomatoes straight from the vine while they're still a little warm from the sunshine. One of my absolute favorite things.


    Whole citrus yes, pulp-free juice yes, juice with pulp NO
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    Boiled Brussels sprouts = gag
    Roasted or sauteed Brussels sprouts = delectable

    Fresh spinach lightly wilted = yes
    Fresh spinach raw = no
    Canned spinach = get thee behind me Satan

    Mayonnaise in potato salad or coleslaw dressing = delectable
    Mayonnaise on a sandwich or anything else = gag worthy



  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
    I forgot this one...I hate almost all nuts...but I love peanut butter
  • ptsmiles
    ptsmiles Posts: 511 Member
    Canned or cooked Spinach-yuck.
    Fresh Spinach-yum

    Banana flavored things except banana bread-yuck
    Bananas-Yum

    Clams in soup-yum
    Any other way-yuck

  • dietstokes
    dietstokes Posts: 216 Member
    Carrots ( I can stand raw...used to love until they were my last food had before a stomach bug...) but hate them cooked.

    My sister will douse everything in ketchup, but hates an actual tomato. She also loves banana bread, but hates an actual banana (sugar seems to be the factor here)
  • RandiNoelle
    RandiNoelle Posts: 374 Member
    Raw green bell pepper - Yum, crunchy perfection
    Cooking green bell pepper - *gag* Especially when it's in spaghetti sauce

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