Love/Hate variations of the same food?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

I forgot this one...I hate almost all nuts...but I love peanut butter

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)

brussel sprouts - fresh roasted or sautéed in oil = yum; frozen, boiled or steamed = yuck
oats - in cookies or toasted = yum; cooked in liquid = yuck
raw tomatoes - fresh from the garden or farmer's market = yum; fresh from the grocery = yuck
dark leafy greens (any - spinach, collards, kale, turnip, etc.) - fresh, lightly cooked or frozen = yum; overcooked or canned = slimy yuck!

malibu927 wrote: »

Like raw carrots, hate cooked carrots

All this on the carrots. What happens when you cook them? They go from crunchy, fresh loveliness to sweet and squashy. So wrong.

Fruit as a sweet - oh, yes, feed me alllllll those fruits!

Fruit as part of anything savoury? Get behind me, Satan!

rhaiin wrote: »

Raw Grapes = Good
Anything Grape Flavored = Foul, disgusting lies.

Oranges = Good
Anything Orange Flavored = Gross

Kinda like this for me too, with pretty much any fruit really, but mostly cherries.

My biggest one is butter. I can't stand sticks of butter (I feel like they absorb al the smells of fridge, but love thebspreadable container type. Must be land o lakes though.