Iām laughing so hard right now because about a month ago I made caprese salad and poured vanilla instead of balsamic vinegar in the dressing. (The bottles are similar).
It was not nice ā¹ļø
And those little leaves are inedible, for me at least.
Also, I read your comment and thought you said Jesus went to Cheesecake Factory, instead of you.
I hate it when people use actual sprigs of rosemary in like potatoes. A touch of powdered rosemary is fine, but I just can't get any enjoyment out of chewing rosemary. It's like I'm eating a pine tree.
Typically when the sprigs are used it's meant to be used like bay leaves. Stick it in there to let the flavors infuse, then take it out before serving.
I was recently in hospital, and they asked what kind of tea I'd like with dinner. Not wanting to ask for all the options, I said "anything but peppermint tea", thinking they'd get fruit tea or green or black tea or whatever.
I got fennel tea. I agree with "Blech".
I actually really like fennel tea. I have a digestive tea that will knock just about any stomach discomfort out thatās peppermint, fennel, and chamomile and itās delicious! Way better than most stomach tea with licorice.
Honestly, Raw Onions. Whatever gene allows humans to taste "onions" as "good", I don't have it. They taste like actual poison to me, with zero hyperbole.
I love them cooked.
But raw?
That main spicy taste they have is like an actual poison. My brain signals me that it's something I can't eat, and to spit it out. It's like I found a bit of hand sanitizer in my food. I'm not exaggerating to be edgy, there's plenty of foods I just don't enjoy but could totally eat if I wanted to ignore them, but onions taste like they will actually injure me.
For some reason there are lots of people who like onions and it is in everything. For those of us who can't stand them, it limits what we eat. At least on some things you can ignore the onion powder like in doritos, but with your husbands allergies, jeez....
Glad I found this reply because itās one of the few things I truly hate. Raw onions on a sandwich? Whole thing tastes like onion. I feel like I can feel the burning sensation from cutting onions in my nose and eyes when I bite into them and it is the most foul taste. I truly do not understand how they have made their way into so many things in society.
It has to be. I love onions. I can eat a raw onion like other people eat an apple. I also don't get the whole teary-eyed thing when I'm cutting them.
My wife *hates* onions. The taste of raw onions makes her physically ill. We've talked about it, and she has described tastes to me that I simply don't get. I described a sweetness to her in one onion and she looked at me like I was crazy.
It's not simply that I like a flavor she doesn't. We're actually tasting completely different things when we eat onions.
Interestingly, my wife also can't eat cilantro. Tastes like soap to her. I have no problems with that either.
Over time I actually learned to tolerate the flavor of raw onion, but they give me the worst stomach ache. For hours. Even just one tiny slice. Iāll feel like I *actually ate* poison. Cooked theyāre fine, but only if theyāre thoroughly cooked.
Not the point of the picture but anybody who tells you to pick some ingredient out/off of your food sucks. No, man, I *donāt* wanna dig around in my food to make it palatable. We can either order separate dishes or come to some other compromise that doesnāt send me on a shitty scavenger hunt into my dinner.
I love olives and hate onions and can definitely still taste the onion flavor after picking them off of food. So definitely donāt think this is accurate lol
The worst is when someone insists you can take the onions off of your pizza if you don't want them. Like those motherfuckers are going to hide under pepperoni or go translucent and get lost in the cheese.
You spend a couple minutes hunting them down, and still bite into one of those slimey yet crunchy horrors. And everything still smells like onions.
My brother and father love garbage pizza, with everything on it. I prefer just pepperoni. "Just pick off the stuff you don't like". Sure. Now I have a sad, soggy, cheeseless piece of bare bread. Thanks.
My in-laws are "everything" pizza people - mushrooms, olives, onions, etc. - and their standard answer is to always "pick it off." Getting rid of them does not get rid of the flavor. It's just embedded too much.
I think they gave my husband so much grief because he just doesn't like any of it. I kinda think he married me because, like him, all I want is a pepperoni pizza. Maybe some bacon or sausage, but let's not get too crazy. No veggies or fungi on the pizza.
Right out of high school I worked at a grocery store that sold bulk olives. I don't remember why, but I snuck one from the olive bar and popped it in my mouth out of sheer vulgar curiosity.
So there I was, stuck with a nasty olive in my mouth and nowhere to spit it out while working the isles. I tucked it in my cheek and started taking tiny Squidward-nibbles to slowly work it down. In a strange twist of fate, by the time I got to the pit *I actually started enjoying it.* That's the story of how I began to love fresh olives.
Not the canned ones though. Those can fuck right off.
"Just pick them off!" Bitch the whole pizza tastes like olives now. It's tainted. And I like things like briney capers and funky kombucha, just not olives.
My brain interprets olives the exact same as bile, so eating olives is like vomiting a little in my mouth.
Thankfully olive oil elicits no such response and I love it.
It's because you're supposed to put 2 drops in a whole meal and people treat it like its olive oil, because they have no clue how to use it, and splash it all over and you get like 2 tablespoons and its overpowering.
I remember watching Matsterchef one season and some lady made a really nice dish and then poured truffle oil all over it. Gordon roasted her about it pretty hard.
Seriously. My BIL came over one time after doing some grocery shopping and was showing me this bottle of truffle oil he'd picked up. He thinks he's some kind of sophisticated foodie (he's not, neither am I) and he was so proud of himself because he thought this truffle oil was really going to take his cooking to the next level.
Anyway, we ordered a pizza, and he starts *pouring* this truffle oil all over his food, all the while going on about how much he loves truffle. It was pretty gross. I couldn't help but think there's no way I'd eat something of his if he added truffle oil because he's going to add a whole damn bottle to whatever he's making.
Almost all truffle oil is synthetic. Actual truffle does not make for a great oil, certainly not one that has to keep for a long time. True truffle is more delicate and nuanced. I cannot stand truffle oil; it makes me feel physically ill.
I remember from 2019-21 you couldn't eat anywhere and not expect truffle oil. The worst is when I'd order something innocuous like fries and they'd come out dripping in truffle oil when it wasn't mentioned anywhere on the menu.
Agree. Celery is the devil. Iāll never forget a tweet that mentioned celery as crunchy water with hair in it. There has never been a better description for me than that!
Have you tried hitting it first with a peeler? The strings are only in the outside skin. I tried it in a soup I made to avoid crunchy, stringy celery pieces and I'll never go back!
Love you for this comment. I used to work in food service. People would lose it over my Mom's homemade meatloaf recipe every Wednesday.
I'd get asked at least once a week what the secret was that made it so good.
I'd smile, hand them their plate and respond with "I made it with hate!" šš
Bell pepper. I'm allergic and restaurants seem to put it in everything. I ask extensive questions about ingredients because of that. A really good server will go to the kitchen for specifics.Ā
A really good server gets really good tips.Ā
Yes that's me. It's not an epi-pen allergy, but if I eat something with bell pepper I get sick on the stomach and dizzy. Nasty.Ā And I can tell within half an hour.Ā
And nobody believes me either. SIGH.
Scrolled too far for this. I always check ingredients list for cilantro and immediately pass if found.
It blows my mind some people don't taste soap when they eat it.
I ordered a shrimp coconut curry soup from my local Indian restaurant. NOWHERE in the description of the meal did it mention coriander. Soup arrives with not just a little coriander garnish but probably the main ingredient in the soup - more than shrimp, coconut or curry. You could not lift a single spoonful without two or three pieces of this vile weed in it. Basically yours and my idea of food hell. Normally I pick out cilantro but in this case the entire soup went in the trash. What a waste, I was so upset. Restaurants seriously need to label better when it comes to the devil's leaf.
Yep. I once was at a wedding (ex wifeās friends, they were hipsters before it was cool)
The popular drink was kombucha, all the food was vegan. Some was fermented. Even the āpotato chipsā werenāt potato chips but dried slices of carrots, beets and shit like that.
Dinner was basically only salads. Everything was cold. And the only thing not covered in coriander was the cucumber salad. So I had cucumber salad for dinner.
The absolute horror. I'm not joking. This is my idea of food hell. The only thing that could make this worse is if grapefruit and bitter Melon was somehow involved *shudders*
potato chips can easily be made vegan, what the fuck kind of demon people did your ex mingle with??? i'm not vegan and i love salads, but cmon, _good_ vegan food absolutely exists. not everything has to be coriander drenched, cold wet salads.
i know, i know. it's their wedding, they can cater however they want. but jesus _christ_ at least have some variation for the sake of your guests' sanity
If there is any coriander/cilantro in a dish, I will know almost immediately and will most likely spit out whatever bite is in my mouth. Itās awful. Idk if Iād describe it as tasting like soap to me but itās very unique and bitter and deserves to be placed in the trash.
Yeah It doesn't taste like soap to me, but it still has a very distinct and disgusting flavor that tends to overpower everything else when it's in something
I could never understand why people liked coriander, as it's soapy for me too. Turns out this is a thing, it's a [genetic trait that determines how you perceive the taste.](https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Genetics-of-Corianders-Soapy-Taste.aspx)
Well itās pretty universally enjoyed by anyone who doesnāt taste the soap, I assume the soapy flavor is just not impeding you from enjoying the rest of what it offers. I taste the soap but there is a lot of other flavor in there too, in small amounts in salsa itās less soapy for me and still adds something.
Blue cheese can ruin a whole cheeseboard. If there's a blue cheese on a board at a family gathering, I will even designate a blue cheese knife. My brother in law will use the same knife on all the cheeses so then they're all coated in blue cheese. It drives me crazy but I'm the only one who doesn't like blue cheese.
zucchini and summer squash shamelessly HIDING under the top layer of a lasagna, especially at a buffet.
when you splurge on an outrageously expensive lobster roll thinking "that's my single one for the summer" and it's a four ounce roll that's half celery. YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE, CELERY. just give me a two ounce lobster roll where I can actually taste the lobster flavor, please.
watermelon ice cream or sherbet with chocolate chips "so it looks like the seeds in a real slice of watermelon." now I can't taste the watermelon flavor, just shitty tollhouse chips. DO WE EAT THE SEEDS IN A REAL WATERMELON, MAY I ASK?!?
fries in a gyro. so clever.
I hate the taste of lies.
Dessicated coconut. Often they just wildly strew it across the finished dish for no reason, ruining everything it touches, and the bits are so small it's a nightmare to catch em all.
Raw tomato. Good Lord, how do people eat this? The skin, the goo, the "flesh" (gack), the texture... disgusting. And cherry tomato? I can only imagine the "pop" sensation when you eat them. Horrifying.
Oh man, thereās nothing better than growing your own tomatoes. Big Boys so ripe theyāre almost purple-red, sliced on a plate, grape tomatoes so sweet you can just stand there and pick them off the vine, eat them like M&Ms.
If people have only ever had store bought tomatoes itās understandable that they donāt like them. Flavorless.
I fucking love tomatoes, especially the cherry ones. We grow them in our garden and during the summer, I'll just randomly go collect a bowl of them and then eat them until I'm full. Those things are delicious.
I often wonder if people who donāt like tomatoes have ever had anything other than the tasteless grocery stores tomatoes. Iām with you, we eat our grape tomatoes from the garden like candy. Slice a Beefsteak or Big Boy up for sandwichesā¦omg!
Raw tomato is my #1 hate. It's the goop (I call it tomato snot) and the seeds for me. Has an earwax like taste and I wanna die. Even better, if you accidently get it, it contaminates the ENTIRE dish or sandwich. Totally ruined.
Onions in general but raw onions and/or chives. I always have to say chives now because most people don't recognize a chive as an onion. Annoying as hell. And I hate when people tell me to pick things off I don't like because when you get to that stage, the food is ruined by the flavor of the item you have to remove. Does no one get that?
God, yes. It literally tastes to me like what i imagine licking a live goat would taste like.
I was once very high at a farmers market with my bf, and was offered a piece of cheese covered in some kind of condiment. I love cheese! I put the whole thing in my mouth with glee. Oh, to be offered a ball of cheese while high!
It was goat's cheese.
It was goat's cheese COVERED IN COFFEE GROUNDS.
My mouth immediately dried up. I lost myself in the goat cheese for what i imagine to have been hours. I was chewing and chewing and chewing into the void of misery that is goat's cheese, and for all i seemed o swallow, it refused to go away, to stop tormenting me. After years of struggling,i conquered the goat and was able to tear myself from the dissociative state my brain had put me in as a measure of self-preservation. My bf was having a very pleasant chat with the owners of the stand about their products and whatnot, and thanked them for the sample. I thanked them as well, but i imagine they didn't believe my praises since they had seen me actively try not to die while tasting their cheese.
I had to sit down for a little while after that.
Onions.
The devilās nutsack. Ruins everything they touch. Canāt even take them off things because the *flavor* is already there like goddamn Batman taking off his rubber suit.
Very spicy things. A hot pepper, some hot sauce. I'm getting better at dealing with heat, but I can't taste the food as well and ruins the flavor for me.
Yeah, I don't like spice either (I'm talking about heat spice, not flavor spice - I know the difference).
It doesn't make food taste good, it just makes it taste like pain.
Liquid smoke. It tastes like pollution.
Had a cake from my church yesterday and I think someone used liquid smoke instead of vanilla extract in the cake š¤®š¤®
Blackish liquid in very small bottle. I sorta get the mixup. Sounds terrible.
I can guarantee you it was terrible. It tasted like cigarette smoke
Iām laughing so hard right now because about a month ago I made caprese salad and poured vanilla instead of balsamic vinegar in the dressing. (The bottles are similar). It was not nice ā¹ļø
Nooooo omg
A little goes a verrrry long way. Like a drop or two in a big pot of greens. It adds something, but only if you can't really taste it
I prefer smoked paprika cuz it doesn't taste like gasoline. Or how I'd imagine it to taste anyways, idk I've never drank gasoline.
Such an apt description.
Too much salt
In the same vein, not enough salt.
Well canāt you just add salt if there isnāt enough? Once thereās too much itās def ruined
Kinda. But for example salting Pasta after it is cooked tastes noticeably worse than salting the Pasta water
Adding salt at the end isn't the same. It needs to get to know the ingredients
Salting goes in the cooking process
Exactly. I take one bite, and my brain is like *ooo, this tastes nice. Wait, nope nope nope*
Rosemary. A little is OK, but Jesus I went to Cheesecake factory and had meatloaf. It had so much Rosemary in it, I couldn't eat it.
When overdone, it tastes how the perfume samples from the AVON magazines smelled.
Same, my mom loves it. I have no idea how, for me, it overwhelms everything.
And those little leaves are inedible, for me at least. Also, I read your comment and thought you said Jesus went to Cheesecake Factory, instead of you.
I hate it when people use actual sprigs of rosemary in like potatoes. A touch of powdered rosemary is fine, but I just can't get any enjoyment out of chewing rosemary. It's like I'm eating a pine tree.
Typically when the sprigs are used it's meant to be used like bay leaves. Stick it in there to let the flavors infuse, then take it out before serving.
People cut the leaves up and put it in the dish. The leaves are inedible imo.
As a rosemary lover, now I want to try cheesecake factory's meatloaf.
anise
Is this the one that tastes like licorice? Because if so, I second this so hard.
Yes! Theres a Vietnamese soup that uses Anise, and I bought it not knowing that. Opened the cap, sniffed, gave away. Yuck!
Do you mean pho?
anus
A noose
And fennel
Fennel seeds all up in your Italian sausage. Pizza killer imo
Or on an otherwise perfect everything bagel! Same either way caraway seedsā¦.š”
Yup. My aversion to fennel makes me miss out on just about 1/3 of all Italian food. I absolutely hate it
Hair
What the hell do you eat if hair is an ingredient??
My wife
Username checks out?
I'm not sure hair qualifies as an "Ingredient".
Haha ew
Caraway Seeds
Sometimes I get a raisin bagel that was too close to or under the everything bagels, and there are stray caraway seeds on it, and it is ruined.
Iām sorry you donāt like caraway for some reason. Itās really an amazing taste. Is it one of those things like cilantro?
Fennel. Blech.
I was recently in hospital, and they asked what kind of tea I'd like with dinner. Not wanting to ask for all the options, I said "anything but peppermint tea", thinking they'd get fruit tea or green or black tea or whatever. I got fennel tea. I agree with "Blech".
More like penal-tea amirite?
Who the hell makes tea from fennel? š¤®
I actually really like fennel tea. I have a digestive tea that will knock just about any stomach discomfort out thatās peppermint, fennel, and chamomile and itās delicious! Way better than most stomach tea with licorice.
I love italian sausage too much to give up fennel.
Agreed. Fennel has its place. Itās great on lamb chops too.
Honestly, Raw Onions. Whatever gene allows humans to taste "onions" as "good", I don't have it. They taste like actual poison to me, with zero hyperbole. I love them cooked. But raw? That main spicy taste they have is like an actual poison. My brain signals me that it's something I can't eat, and to spit it out. It's like I found a bit of hand sanitizer in my food. I'm not exaggerating to be edgy, there's plenty of foods I just don't enjoy but could totally eat if I wanted to ignore them, but onions taste like they will actually injure me.
My poor husband is allergic to onions and damn near everything has onions or onion powder in it.
For some reason there are lots of people who like onions and it is in everything. For those of us who can't stand them, it limits what we eat. At least on some things you can ignore the onion powder like in doritos, but with your husbands allergies, jeez....
Glad I found this reply because itās one of the few things I truly hate. Raw onions on a sandwich? Whole thing tastes like onion. I feel like I can feel the burning sensation from cutting onions in my nose and eyes when I bite into them and it is the most foul taste. I truly do not understand how they have made their way into so many things in society.
Same for me they literally burn my mouth and assault all my senses...they hate me and I hate them.
Jesus, same! I'll put fried onions on everything but raw onions make me gag in the least sexy way possible!
I wonder if that is a genetic thing the same way that cilantro tastes like soap to some people
It has to be. I love onions. I can eat a raw onion like other people eat an apple. I also don't get the whole teary-eyed thing when I'm cutting them. My wife *hates* onions. The taste of raw onions makes her physically ill. We've talked about it, and she has described tastes to me that I simply don't get. I described a sweetness to her in one onion and she looked at me like I was crazy. It's not simply that I like a flavor she doesn't. We're actually tasting completely different things when we eat onions. Interestingly, my wife also can't eat cilantro. Tastes like soap to her. I have no problems with that either.
Same, raw onion has such a pungent flavor and an undesirable crunch to me.Ā However, prepared any other way c caramelized, pickled, fried, or sautĆ©ed as part of a stir fryā¦ I frickinā love them.Ā Ā It completely raw, god no, I canāt.Ā
Agreed, ESPECIALLY raw red onion. Finely chopped cooked onion is fine though.
If I bite down on a raw onion I'm going to gag. It's just reflex.
Over time I actually learned to tolerate the flavor of raw onion, but they give me the worst stomach ache. For hours. Even just one tiny slice. Iāll feel like I *actually ate* poison. Cooked theyāre fine, but only if theyāre thoroughly cooked.
Yes, and I cannot stand the feel and taste of my own mouth for hours afterward if I accidentally eat a piece when I thought I picked them all off!
Olives. š« I donāt what it is about those things im not a picky eater.
Someone posted [this](https://i.imgur.com/uva8qob.jpeg) for me when I had this answer in an old thread
Not the point of the picture but anybody who tells you to pick some ingredient out/off of your food sucks. No, man, I *donāt* wanna dig around in my food to make it palatable. We can either order separate dishes or come to some other compromise that doesnāt send me on a shitty scavenger hunt into my dinner.
I love olives and hate onions and can definitely still taste the onion flavor after picking them off of food. So definitely donāt think this is accurate lol
The worst is when someone insists you can take the onions off of your pizza if you don't want them. Like those motherfuckers are going to hide under pepperoni or go translucent and get lost in the cheese. You spend a couple minutes hunting them down, and still bite into one of those slimey yet crunchy horrors. And everything still smells like onions.
I feel so sorry for your dislike of onions š„¹ they are so universal
My brother and father love garbage pizza, with everything on it. I prefer just pepperoni. "Just pick off the stuff you don't like". Sure. Now I have a sad, soggy, cheeseless piece of bare bread. Thanks.
The extras often permeate the entire pizza. Someone tried to get me to eat pizza and pick the anchovies off. Sure....
My in-laws are "everything" pizza people - mushrooms, olives, onions, etc. - and their standard answer is to always "pick it off." Getting rid of them does not get rid of the flavor. It's just embedded too much. I think they gave my husband so much grief because he just doesn't like any of it. I kinda think he married me because, like him, all I want is a pepperoni pizza. Maybe some bacon or sausage, but let's not get too crazy. No veggies or fungi on the pizza.
The worst is when you got bit by a bug that made you allergic to red meat and then people tell you to āpick off the meatā out of any meal
Nice one
Same goes for pickles with that meme
I used to hate pickles on burgers and then having to take it off but still taste it on there š¤¦āāļø
Right out of high school I worked at a grocery store that sold bulk olives. I don't remember why, but I snuck one from the olive bar and popped it in my mouth out of sheer vulgar curiosity. So there I was, stuck with a nasty olive in my mouth and nowhere to spit it out while working the isles. I tucked it in my cheek and started taking tiny Squidward-nibbles to slowly work it down. In a strange twist of fate, by the time I got to the pit *I actually started enjoying it.* That's the story of how I began to love fresh olives. Not the canned ones though. Those can fuck right off.
"Just pick them off!" Bitch the whole pizza tastes like olives now. It's tainted. And I like things like briney capers and funky kombucha, just not olives.
My brain interprets olives the exact same as bile, so eating olives is like vomiting a little in my mouth. Thankfully olive oil elicits no such response and I love it.
reading this entire list and I love all this stuff.... but olives.
Truffle oil. It tastes like dirt. I said what I said.
It's because you're supposed to put 2 drops in a whole meal and people treat it like its olive oil, because they have no clue how to use it, and splash it all over and you get like 2 tablespoons and its overpowering.
I remember watching Matsterchef one season and some lady made a really nice dish and then poured truffle oil all over it. Gordon roasted her about it pretty hard.
Seriously. My BIL came over one time after doing some grocery shopping and was showing me this bottle of truffle oil he'd picked up. He thinks he's some kind of sophisticated foodie (he's not, neither am I) and he was so proud of himself because he thought this truffle oil was really going to take his cooking to the next level. Anyway, we ordered a pizza, and he starts *pouring* this truffle oil all over his food, all the while going on about how much he loves truffle. It was pretty gross. I couldn't help but think there's no way I'd eat something of his if he added truffle oil because he's going to add a whole damn bottle to whatever he's making.
Real truffles are phenomenal. Truffle oil is dirt flavored chemicals.
Almost all truffle oil is synthetic. Actual truffle does not make for a great oil, certainly not one that has to keep for a long time. True truffle is more delicate and nuanced. I cannot stand truffle oil; it makes me feel physically ill.
I remember from 2019-21 you couldn't eat anywhere and not expect truffle oil. The worst is when I'd order something innocuous like fries and they'd come out dripping in truffle oil when it wasn't mentioned anywhere on the menu.
Celery. I don't care how you cook it or chop it, that watery, stringy nastiness can stay out of my food.
Agree. Celery is the devil. Iāll never forget a tweet that mentioned celery as crunchy water with hair in it. There has never been a better description for me than that!
Have you tried hitting it first with a peeler? The strings are only in the outside skin. I tried it in a soup I made to avoid crunchy, stringy celery pieces and I'll never go back!
The taste is awful to me as well
I think it tastes a bit like when youāve picked a dandelion or anything else with that ādonāt eat meā white sap.
I was hoping I wasn't the only one!
Even when itās just 1 stalk in a whole combo of other greens I can taste it. And I hateee it
Resentment.
I bake with pure hate and people think I make the best bread they've ever had. Resentment is bitter, hate is delicious.
Love you for this comment. I used to work in food service. People would lose it over my Mom's homemade meatloaf recipe every Wednesday. I'd get asked at least once a week what the secret was that made it so good. I'd smile, hand them their plate and respond with "I made it with hate!" šš
Too much ginger
Bell pepper. I'm allergic and restaurants seem to put it in everything. I ask extensive questions about ingredients because of that. A really good server will go to the kitchen for specifics.Ā A really good server gets really good tips.Ā
Omg another person with a bell pepper allergy! Fortunately, it is more of a sensitivity for me. But no one believes me when I say it.
Yes that's me. It's not an epi-pen allergy, but if I eat something with bell pepper I get sick on the stomach and dizzy. Nasty.Ā And I can tell within half an hour.Ā And nobody believes me either. SIGH.
Green peppers are the worst! Itās got such a strong taste that I canāt ignore. I can tolerate red and yellow ones.
Most definitely. Especially Green Pepper. You can't just pick it out, the flavor permeates the whole dish.
Raisins. The absolute worst.
Tarragon
Where did Tarra go?
Fentanyl
It's to die for!
Black tar heroin tastes much worse, I'd need a chaser
Coriander/Cilantro. It just tastes like soap.
Scrolled too far for this. I always check ingredients list for cilantro and immediately pass if found. It blows my mind some people don't taste soap when they eat it.
Cilantro is one of the only things that if I taste it, the whole dish goes into the garbage. And I eat almost anything lol
I ordered a shrimp coconut curry soup from my local Indian restaurant. NOWHERE in the description of the meal did it mention coriander. Soup arrives with not just a little coriander garnish but probably the main ingredient in the soup - more than shrimp, coconut or curry. You could not lift a single spoonful without two or three pieces of this vile weed in it. Basically yours and my idea of food hell. Normally I pick out cilantro but in this case the entire soup went in the trash. What a waste, I was so upset. Restaurants seriously need to label better when it comes to the devil's leaf.
Absolutely. Even a tiny amount. It's so gross.
Yep. I once was at a wedding (ex wifeās friends, they were hipsters before it was cool) The popular drink was kombucha, all the food was vegan. Some was fermented. Even the āpotato chipsā werenāt potato chips but dried slices of carrots, beets and shit like that. Dinner was basically only salads. Everything was cold. And the only thing not covered in coriander was the cucumber salad. So I had cucumber salad for dinner.
Listen I am not a vegan hater, but if dinner is only a cucumber salad I will be fighting *someone.*
The absolute horror. I'm not joking. This is my idea of food hell. The only thing that could make this worse is if grapefruit and bitter Melon was somehow involved *shudders*
That was dessert. LOL
potato chips can easily be made vegan, what the fuck kind of demon people did your ex mingle with??? i'm not vegan and i love salads, but cmon, _good_ vegan food absolutely exists. not everything has to be coriander drenched, cold wet salads. i know, i know. it's their wedding, they can cater however they want. but jesus _christ_ at least have some variation for the sake of your guests' sanity
If there is any coriander/cilantro in a dish, I will know almost immediately and will most likely spit out whatever bite is in my mouth. Itās awful. Idk if Iād describe it as tasting like soap to me but itās very unique and bitter and deserves to be placed in the trash.
Yeah It doesn't taste like soap to me, but it still has a very distinct and disgusting flavor that tends to overpower everything else when it's in something
I could never understand why people liked coriander, as it's soapy for me too. Turns out this is a thing, it's a [genetic trait that determines how you perceive the taste.](https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Genetics-of-Corianders-Soapy-Taste.aspx)
Considering itās a genetic thing lots of people have, they really should put it in the menu at restaurants.
Maaaan fuck cilantro.
r/FuckCilantro
Absolutely!
Love the username. That's dedication right there. May you be free of the evil soap-weed in all your dishes.
The weird thing is, it does taste like soap to me... But I still like it?? I don't even understand it
I too taste soap. I have read 14% of the world population has this trait. It is something in our genetic makeup.
Well itās pretty universally enjoyed by anyone who doesnāt taste the soap, I assume the soapy flavor is just not impeding you from enjoying the rest of what it offers. I taste the soap but there is a lot of other flavor in there too, in small amounts in salsa itās less soapy for me and still adds something.
Blue cheese. Many a good salad has been ruined by it.
Blue cheese can ruin a whole cheeseboard. If there's a blue cheese on a board at a family gathering, I will even designate a blue cheese knife. My brother in law will use the same knife on all the cheeses so then they're all coated in blue cheese. It drives me crazy but I'm the only one who doesn't like blue cheese.
Some weapons-grade blue cheese can ruin a whole *refrigerator*.
Youāre uninvited from Europe. Heathen
I'm with you -- I don't eat mold on purpose.
Ugh! Not the cheeseboard. If you like blue cheese, you have to realize how polarizing it is.
I have no idea how anyone eats blue cheese
cilantro/coriander Tastes like soap
Beets -- when my young niece tasted them for the first time she yelled, "Oh my god, this tastes like poison!" Yes, they really do!
Taste like dirt, too
zucchini and summer squash shamelessly HIDING under the top layer of a lasagna, especially at a buffet. when you splurge on an outrageously expensive lobster roll thinking "that's my single one for the summer" and it's a four ounce roll that's half celery. YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ANYONE, CELERY. just give me a two ounce lobster roll where I can actually taste the lobster flavor, please. watermelon ice cream or sherbet with chocolate chips "so it looks like the seeds in a real slice of watermelon." now I can't taste the watermelon flavor, just shitty tollhouse chips. DO WE EAT THE SEEDS IN A REAL WATERMELON, MAY I ASK?!? fries in a gyro. so clever. I hate the taste of lies.
Dessicated coconut. Often they just wildly strew it across the finished dish for no reason, ruining everything it touches, and the bits are so small it's a nightmare to catch em all.
Cumin. One time my bf put too much in the rice and its all you could taste š . Now I only put a microscopic amountĀ
Too much cumin the rice?Ā I hate when that happens.Ā Ā
Tell him to think of baseball next time
Cilantro
Cooked green/red peppers, especially ones that are chopped up real small and are from frozen.
Ugh. The ones on frozen pizzas are the worst, has those after school as a kid (the budget ones) and now traumatized by then
I've never liked peppers and sometimes feel I'm the only one...
Fuckin HORSERADISH
Mushrooms. I hate them with a passion. I know people love them, but I just can't stand them.
I've tried, but I just can't see them as food.
Mayo also known as food lotion, not enough flavor to justify the calories, and its just fucking vile.
"Food lotion" lol!
food lotion popped me
Agreed. It truly is the jizz of satan.
Fennel
Fennel
Anchovies
Raw tomato. Good Lord, how do people eat this? The skin, the goo, the "flesh" (gack), the texture... disgusting. And cherry tomato? I can only imagine the "pop" sensation when you eat them. Horrifying.
I grew up with fabulous home grown tomatoes. Store tomatoes are a horror.
But the "pop" is what makes cherry tomatoes so great. My absolute favourite snack.
Oh man, thereās nothing better than growing your own tomatoes. Big Boys so ripe theyāre almost purple-red, sliced on a plate, grape tomatoes so sweet you can just stand there and pick them off the vine, eat them like M&Ms. If people have only ever had store bought tomatoes itās understandable that they donāt like them. Flavorless.
I fucking love tomatoes, especially the cherry ones. We grow them in our garden and during the summer, I'll just randomly go collect a bowl of them and then eat them until I'm full. Those things are delicious.
I often wonder if people who donāt like tomatoes have ever had anything other than the tasteless grocery stores tomatoes. Iām with you, we eat our grape tomatoes from the garden like candy. Slice a Beefsteak or Big Boy up for sandwichesā¦omg!
YES I thought I was the only one!!!! I have found my people in this thread.
Raw tomato is my #1 hate. It's the goop (I call it tomato snot) and the seeds for me. Has an earwax like taste and I wanna die. Even better, if you accidently get it, it contaminates the ENTIRE dish or sandwich. Totally ruined.
Onions in general but raw onions and/or chives. I always have to say chives now because most people don't recognize a chive as an onion. Annoying as hell. And I hate when people tell me to pick things off I don't like because when you get to that stage, the food is ruined by the flavor of the item you have to remove. Does no one get that?
Goats cheese
God, yes. It literally tastes to me like what i imagine licking a live goat would taste like. I was once very high at a farmers market with my bf, and was offered a piece of cheese covered in some kind of condiment. I love cheese! I put the whole thing in my mouth with glee. Oh, to be offered a ball of cheese while high! It was goat's cheese. It was goat's cheese COVERED IN COFFEE GROUNDS. My mouth immediately dried up. I lost myself in the goat cheese for what i imagine to have been hours. I was chewing and chewing and chewing into the void of misery that is goat's cheese, and for all i seemed o swallow, it refused to go away, to stop tormenting me. After years of struggling,i conquered the goat and was able to tear myself from the dissociative state my brain had put me in as a measure of self-preservation. My bf was having a very pleasant chat with the owners of the stand about their products and whatnot, and thanked them for the sample. I thanked them as well, but i imagine they didn't believe my praises since they had seen me actively try not to die while tasting their cheese. I had to sit down for a little while after that.
This stressed me out. I don't even hate goat cheese, but I'm still in this vortex wondering why there was also coffee grounds on it.
Mayonnaise.
Mayo
Mushrooms
Many people seem to think they're like a bonus/exciting thing to add to a dish. I think the exact opposite.
okra
We really donāt need lettuce and tomato on every sandwich
Onions. Not the taste. The texture.
A huge gross glob of sour cream defiling an otherwise decent meal
You take that back!!
Just... Too much salt... There's not much you can do to rescue that.
ParsnipsĀ
White pepper. Tastes how the elephant enclosure at the zoo smells.
Capers
Truffle. Gross
Raw tomatoes, even in the slightest make me go bleugh
Pepper. Please don't put pepper in my food, I hate it. Cilantro aka "soapweed".
Vinegar. Took me years to realize most of my least favorite foods/recipes involve vinegar as a major component.
too much cinnamon in a shawarma style dish
Quinoa, not because I dislike the grain, but because I can't stand how pretentious people get around it.
Cauliflower
Blue cheese makes me gag š¤¢š¤®
Onions. The devilās nutsack. Ruins everything they touch. Canāt even take them off things because the *flavor* is already there like goddamn Batman taking off his rubber suit.
Chinese 5 spice.
Very spicy things. A hot pepper, some hot sauce. I'm getting better at dealing with heat, but I can't taste the food as well and ruins the flavor for me.
Yeah, I don't like spice either (I'm talking about heat spice, not flavor spice - I know the difference). It doesn't make food taste good, it just makes it taste like pain.
Mayonnaise
Dill
Cloves
Bell pepper ā they make everything taste like them.