What are some of your unpopular opinions about food?
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I don't like strawberry shortcake at all!3
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Where is that meme of donkey saying everyone likes cake and shrek isn’t having it2
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My favourite cake is black forest gateau2
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Where is that meme of donkey saying everyone likes cake and shrek isn’t having it
LOL this made me laugh.
I am not a big fan of plain white/vanilla cake or chocolate cake but I LOVE a good dense carrot cake with homemade cream cheese frosting!
I do get a craving for Funfetti cake with cheap Funfetti frosting from time to time though.1 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Nutella is an oversweet insult to both chocolate and hazelnuts.
And it contains palm oil, which is destructive to Orangutans natural habitat!0 -
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Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »Where is that meme of donkey saying everyone likes cake and shrek isn’t having it
LOL this made me laugh.
I am not a big fan of plain white/vanilla cake or chocolate cake but I LOVE a good dense carrot cake with homemade cream cheese frosting!
I do get a craving for Funfetti cake with cheap Funfetti frosting from time to time though.
Yesss, funfetti is my jam.0 -
Veggies! I hate veggies.......0
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MsBehaving_since_the_70s wrote: »Veggies! I hate veggies.......
What if they're in cake?5 -
I was the weird kid growing up that loved veggies...0
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Energy drinks like Bang are garbage.4
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Saying "I hate vegetables" is like saying "I hate books" or "I hate music" ... you can hate certain "genres" of vegetables... like leafy greens, brassica, root vegetables, etc. but to generalize is extreme. All in the preparation, too!
Also,most peoples definition is limited to iceberg lettuce, corn and tomatoes.7 -
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pancakerunner wrote: »Saying "I hate vegetables" is like saying "I hate books" or "I hate music" ... you can hate certain "genres" of vegetables... like leafy greens, brassica, root vegetables, etc. but to generalize is extreme. All in the preparation, too!
Also,most peoples definition is limited to iceberg lettuce, corn and tomatoes.
..and most people do not know how to prepare them properly...2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »Saying "I hate vegetables" is like saying "I hate books" or "I hate music" ... you can hate certain "genres" of vegetables... like leafy greens, brassica, root vegetables, etc. but to generalize is extreme. All in the preparation, too!
Agree. I like pretty much all veg I've tried if prepared correctly, but I think often the whole category write off is based on a lack of exposure or bad cooking.Also,most peoples definition is limited to iceberg lettuce, corn and tomatoes.
Totally disagree with this. I think some Americans may like only these, but not have been exposed to only these, and at least in my family growing up (way back in the '80s!) we knew corn was a grain and would never have considered it to satisfy the veg course. And we had other kinds of greens (mostly spinach and romaine) plus carrots and celery (of course), radishes, broccoli and cauliflower, squash and zucchini, some winter squash, and of course green beans (too often canned, and I hated them, unlike many of the prior mentioned, even though they are a favorite now). Also cabbage and brussels. Also peas, although I'd consider those a starch like corn, not a veg. There are also onions, scallions, and leeks, and of course peppers. Ones that seem common now but perhaps would have been less so in the '80s include fennel and asparagus (which was more of a delicacy when I was a kid), and artichokes. Other greens (arugula, kale, chard, etc.), jicama, and sunchokes are also more common now but hardly rare.
None of those seem to me to be obscure or unlikely to have been recognized as veg or tried by the average American.3 -
pancakerunner wrote: »Saying "I hate vegetables" is like saying "I hate books" or "I hate music" ... you can hate certain "genres" of vegetables... like leafy greens, brassica, root vegetables, etc. but to generalize is extreme. All in the preparation, too!
Agree. I like pretty much all veg I've tried if prepared correctly, but I think often the whole category write off is based on a lack of exposure or bad cooking.Also,most peoples definition is limited to iceberg lettuce, corn and tomatoes.
Totally disagree with this. I think some Americans may like only these, but not have been exposed to only these, and at least in my family growing up (way back in the '80s!) we knew corn was a grain and would never have considered it to satisfy the veg course. And we had other kinds of greens (mostly spinach and romaine) plus carrots and celery (of course), radishes, broccoli and cauliflower, squash and zucchini, some winter squash, and of course green beans (too often canned, and I hated them, unlike many of the prior mentioned, even though they are a favorite now). Also cabbage and brussels. Also peas, although I'd consider those a starch like corn, not a veg. There are also onions, scallions, and leeks, and of course peppers. Ones that seem common now but perhaps would have been less so in the '80s include fennel and asparagus (which was more of a delicacy when I was a kid), and artichokes. Other greens (arugula, kale, chard, etc.), jicama, and sunchokes are also more common now but hardly rare.
None of those seem to me to be obscure or unlikely to have been recognized as veg or tried by the average American.
I agree with @PAPYRUS3 's assessment. I grew up in that family where most of our "veggies" were starches. My family members were terrible cooks unless it was fattening comfort food. I remember as a kid getting loads of kale from a farm family friend at church and I ate most of it -- boiled with nothing but salt. Kale boiled is pretty nasty stuff, to be honest. We ate mostly what my Dad likes, and he was obese -- corn, peas and potatoes. If we had "healthy" vegetables, they had to be smothered in cheese sauce or similar.
It wasn't until I cooked for years on my own I started discovering how wonderful all the vegetables were. I eat kale now like twice a week -- never boiled, always in salads or smoothies. I love squash, something I never got as a kid. We ate some cabbage because I had a German family, but it was always in very sweet "Bavarian Red Cabbage" or with cabbage wrapped around fatty ground beef in cabbage roles. Way different than all the ways I use cabbage now. I love raw red cabbage in a lot of my salads and Asian dishes.
Most Americans still don't know what Sunchokes are and that's too bad -- great for fiber. Never had Fennel until my 30s. My wife and I both love green beans now, but both hated them as kids because the way they were always prepared -- in a pot of ham and potatoes. Now I make them typically with red pepper, onion, lots of garlic, mushrooms and EVOO. World of difference.
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I hated green beans as a kid too, because we had canned green beans (which I still dislike) -- similar green beans were part of some of our school hot lunches too. I don't disagree that lots of veg can be ruined by bad cooking, and that some ways that are common for them to be prepared are unappealing, but I do strongly disagree that Americans are unaware of/haven't had occasion to try foods like carrots, cucumbers, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, spinach, green beans, etc. IME, these and many others are extremely common and you will find them all over unless one is actively trying to avoid them.6
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Speaking of unpopular foods -- pickled beets, done right, are amazing.5
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I like microwave popcorn...especially "butter flavored".1
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
Hate it. I've long ago reached #getoffmylawn age and think PWOs are throughly unnecessary.1 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »Speaking of unpopular foods -- pickled beets, done right, are amazing.
the only way I like beets!1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »
Hate it. I've long ago reached #getoffmylawn age and think PWOs are throughly unnecessary.
I'm with ya on that one. However, once in awhile I grab a Monster to make it through the day.
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quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
Hate it. I've long ago reached #getoffmylawn age and think PWOs are throughly unnecessary.
I'm with ya on that one. However, once in awhile I grab a Monster to make it through the day.
If they would just throttle back on the sugar, the sweetners, the flavor, and the taste of it, it would be a perfectly acceptable product oh and make it taste more like coffee.3 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »Speaking of unpopular foods -- pickled beets, done right, are amazing.
For my taste - which not everyone will share 😆 - savory pickled beets > sweet pickled beets, by a lot. Harder to find the savory ones, unless I make them myself, though.
Just to weigh in on the vegetable thing: When I was a kid in the 1950s-60s, we had a range of vegetables. Sometimes they were canned, but all summer long they were garden fresh. We did eat the more starchy ones potatoes, peas, carrots (<= those all not mostly homegrown); but also green beans, radishes, tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, and asparagus ** from the garden; and other things from the store, usually fresh, like broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce (usually iceberg, I admit), cabbage, spinach, celery, etc. I would think of all of those things as very manstream - they were in our small-town grocery, and even the ones we didn't grow in our garden, some other folks did, so considered common stuff.
We didn't ever have eggplant (I started eating that in college, I think) - I think one of my parents must've disliked it, because it was available. They had a brief kick for (brace yourself) canned zucchini in tomato sauce (commercial), which I thought was awful (canned zuke is mush!), but other than that I happily ate all the veggies in childhood and beyond (except lima beans).
Maybe this is partly an urban/rural or subculture thing, to only know and eat a tiny range of veggies, but there was quite a range of them in my very provincial life, even way, way back.
** I was mildly jolted to see Lemur describe asparagus as a delicacy, though I suppose that was true for many - but my blue-collar working class rural family had grown a big patch of it for decades before I showed up, and my dad continued to do so until his 80s. It was never frozen/canned, because that was considered non-good, but we ate many pounds of it fresh every spring.2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
Hate it. I've long ago reached #getoffmylawn age and think PWOs are throughly unnecessary.
I'm with ya on that one. However, once in awhile I grab a Monster to make it through the day.
Does caffeine count as a food? Foods and drinks with caffeine and I don't get along. At all. I can maybe handle a bit of cola or chocolate.0 -
RelCanonical wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
Hate it. I've long ago reached #getoffmylawn age and think PWOs are throughly unnecessary.
I'm with ya on that one. However, once in awhile I grab a Monster to make it through the day.
Does caffeine count as a food? Foods and drinks with caffeine and I don't get along. At all. I can maybe handle a bit of cola or chocolate.
My two sodas a weekend has turned into two sodas a day...the big ones.
For the caffeine.
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RelCanonical wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »
Hate it. I've long ago reached #getoffmylawn age and think PWOs are throughly unnecessary.
I'm with ya on that one. However, once in awhile I grab a Monster to make it through the day.
Does caffeine count as a food? Foods and drinks with caffeine and I don't get along. At all. I can maybe handle a bit of cola or chocolate.
My two sodas a weekend has turned into two sodas a day...the big ones.
For the caffeine.
I've recently become nearly convinced that I've developed an allergy to caffeine. I used to work in restaurants for years and I LOVE black coffee. I literally would drink a pot of coffee years ago every day.
Now, if I have two large cups of coffee (and I use Organic, well, because I'm a coffee snob), I start getting headaches the next day. I've noticed that if I stick to one and a half cups or less, I'm fine the next day. I also sneeze -- a lot -- after drinking a few cups. I have read that some can be allergic to caffeine. Maybe I just had so, so much in my youth, back in the restaurant days, that it reached a tipping point.
I went for several years only drinking tea. Might have to go back to that, but man, I'd miss my coffee.2 -
with the exception of frozen french toast sticks, I have never liked french toast3
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pancakerunner wrote: »with the exception of frozen french toast sticks, I have never liked french toast[/quote]
Me too! Thought I must be the only one not liking French Toast!0
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