1. Filo pastry.
It tastes like paper. And it explodes all over your clothes. I especially hate things wrapped in filo sold in cafes, like fetta and spinach. Especially when they heat them in the microwave.
2. Snails
They look ugly alive or dead.
3.Kiwi fruit
They just don’t taste good. Unless they’re on top of a pavlova. (and you pick them off and throw them in the bin).
4. Brussels Sprouts
There’s a reason everyone goes ‘oh but with some butter and hazelnuts, they’re fab.’ Because they taste like shit on their own.
5. Tomatoes from the fridge
They make me shiver. Bloodless, cold, flavourless things.
6. Quinoa
I’ve given it a bloody good go, but it’s boring and tasteless.
7. Banana lollies
Who likes them? Really, who?
8. Nutella
Disgusting stuff. It doesn’t taste like chocolate and it leaves a nasty greasy, plasticky layer on your tongue.
9. Cottage Cheese
Yuck.
10. Raw Celery
I hate the smell and I hate those stringy bits on it and how it’s wet and crunchy.
So what do you hate to eat dear readers? Give me your lists.
March 26, 2012 at 12:03 am
ok, “hate” is a bit of strong word, but I really dislike… carrots. can’t stand the texture, and they are just insipid, pointless things.
oh wait, I do know what I hate: english curly leaf parsley. Why does anyone persist with it once they’ve tried the italian version?
ditto for iceberg lettuce, what an utter waste of agricultural resources growing that stuff.
Can’t stand pawpaw – it smells like vomit.
Not a huge fan of berries either, although I won’t dismiss them, seeing as half the world raves about them. Perhaps I’ve never had good ones. Whenever I read “berry” in a dessert list I just stop reading and skip ahead to the next offering. (it’s a dire situation when all the desserts have berries). And don’t even bring up goji berries – yuk.
I really must defend celery. I used to hate it too but sometime in the last few years I have come around, and I love that weird flavour. Plus, it gives an amazing boost to stock and soups, so it could never be on the “hate” list.
and finally, something I don’t like but currently don’t have a choice over seeing as the Bardon foxes have killed my flock: supermarket eggs. (and eggs out of the fridge, double yuck).
March 26, 2012 at 8:35 am
I don’t mind cooked celery, just hate it raw. Love berries, but often find things like berry coulis are too sweet and cloying.
March 26, 2012 at 8:20 am
Cant stand pumpkin or sweet potato. The texture drives me mental
March 26, 2012 at 8:34 am
I don’t like roast pumpkin.Especially when it has stringy bits. I like it mashed though. And I love sweet potatoes.
March 26, 2012 at 8:34 am
Brussel sprouts. My kids are adventurous eaters and will try anything but they still talk about the one time I served brussel sprouts. A first and last for us all.
March 26, 2012 at 8:37 am
Brussel sprouts top my list – no way to redeem them, as far as I can tell.
And snails, too. Icky and chewy – I just like the garlic butter and can have that on prawns instead.
However, I do take issue with banana lollies – I’m very fond of them. At least they won’t pull your fillings out like bloody Minties and Fantales.
March 26, 2012 at 8:47 am
Cucumber. I can’t stand it and don’t understand when people tell me it doesn’t even have a taste – I can detect a tiny sliver of cucumber if it accidentally makes its way into my salad sandwich!
March 26, 2012 at 8:56 am
cucumber? really?
March 26, 2012 at 11:57 am
Couldn’t agree with you more – except for the following exceptions (I know, I know!!
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1. Quinoa – it’s very bland, like brown rice (which I like). I know you’ve tried a gazillion ways of cooking, but I’ve found a few I really quite enjoy, which is great considering how nutritious it is. Key thing with quinoa – rinse the heck out of it before you cook it – get rid of the saponins, or you’ll end up with an upset stomach.
2. Brussels Sprouts – Still working on convincing James that *roasted*, they’re delicious. Boiled/over-boiled, they’re foul. Roasted, even WITHOUT anything other than oil, salt & garlic, they’re delicious – as long as they’re a little bit crispy… but add some caramelised onions and some pistachios and they’re even better.
What do you think about puff pastry? Filo is way too fiddly/unsatisfying for me – but I love puff, despite the explosions. But full-fat only, thanks!
March 26, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Love puff pastry and will always use it when filo called for.
March 27, 2012 at 8:06 am
I used to loathe Cucumber and it was the easiest way to ruin a sandwich. God forbid somewhere put it on a burger. These days I don’t mind it in salads or tzatziki or similar. I still pick it off sandwiches.
I can’t agree with you on Brussels Sprouts. They’re amazing. With colatura & hazlenuts or with bacon and maple or on a white pizza with bacon and bocconcini. Or even just drizzled in olive oil, seasoned and roasted till they’re almost overcooked. Easily in my top three vegetables.
I also have a soft spot for banana lollies. Fake banana everything really, it’s one of my favourite fake flavours.
I can’t handle cold-smoked salmon. Texture and taste. I like hot-smoked or raw salmon or really any other preparation but cold-smoked salmon is just not for me.
March 27, 2012 at 10:12 am
Fake banana? OMG gag.And you just proved my point about brussels sprouts. You have to dress them up to make them palatable, unlike something like carrots or peas for example. I agree with you re smoked salmon. Think I overdid it in the nineties.
March 27, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Most vegetables need at least a little dressing up to make palatable though.
Banana lollies are really the only fake banana thing I would ever eat now and even then, very rarely. When I was a kid though I liked that horrible Banana Milk.
April 4, 2012 at 4:05 pm
1) Sprouts
2) Frozen Peas
3) Raw capsicum
4) Paw Paw – yep the smell is vomit
5) Compound Chocolate – whatever the hell that is
I have a mild dislike (not hatred per se) for bland and pointless things like Zucchini, Egg Plant, Choko, Okra and others of their ilk. Only good if you add garlic and butter but that works for most things
April 4, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Agree
Nope
Totally agree. Especially green capsicum. Vile.
Frozen peas I totally disagree with. I don’t think in this country we grow enough to pick fresh to make them not $7.99 a pack and I think frozen are pretty good. I admit, my preferred method of cooking is pureed with a little butter and perhaps a touch of parmesan or pureed with broadbeans.
Okra. Urgh. Eggpant by very nature has to be dressed up.
April 12, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Three main dislikes.
The first is raw celery. I always call it the vegetable from hell.
The second is cherry brandy or almond essence. These taste exactly the same to me (I have no idea if anybody besides me thinks this) and the smell is enough to put me off. Had a huge disappointment recently when I ordered a $8 brownie for dessert and it gave off the foul odour of almond essence. So sad when you can’t take a bite of dessert.
And the combination of fruit and meat in a ‘savoury’ dish. Just not my cup of tea.