10 foods people love or hate

I can take or leave most of the listed foods but cilantro and licorice.

I hate cilantro, it taste like metal to me.

I'm with ehBeth on licorice/anise/fennel - I love that flavor.

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

I can take or leave most of the listed foods but cilantro and licorice.

I hate cilantro, it taste like metal to me.

I'm with ehBeth on licorice/anise/fennel - I love that flavor.

There must be a genetic component with many of these foods, since some can just adore a taste, and others find it nasty.

Cilantro just tastes "green" to me, sorta kinda like parsley. Obviously not like metal, or soap, or rotten.

black licorice.
I remember my father picking out all the black jellybeans for himself, and I thought he was just putting us on eating them. At that age I didn't know how people were so divided by that taste.

To me, licorice doesn't even taste like a food. Certainly not sweet.
Not bitter either, like like bitter, like black coffee and mustard greens.

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@chai2,

I like bitter foods, usually. I don't even think of broccoli as especially bitter, but I suppose it is compared to peas. I'll admit I like broccoli best when it is roasted, and rather sweet. I like all kinds of greens like mustard greens, collard greens, swiss chard (silverbeet), arugula (liking young arugula better). Many of my friends won't touch them, and some of the same people hate cilantro.

I have read that there is a difference in taste buds in different people re bitter..
that some don't detect it. I detect it, I just usually like it.

I also like bitter italian digestivos, like amaro, and frenet branca. Took a little getting used to.

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I prefer tart to sweet and to me, good licorice has a certain tartness. My Canadian friend brings me back several varieties of licorice every time she goes home since I can't find the good stuff here without really going out of my way. One kind is a salty Danish licorice that makes a devine lozenge when you have a cold.

With licorice flavors you have to seperate the candies from the real stuff.

I love root beer when it's the real stuff with that real licoricey flavor. Most of the microbreweries here make their own root beer that I'll take over a real beer any day of the week.

But I really like it in fennel sausages. Oh man. Good stuff.

I think caraway tastes like licorice. I buy havarti cheese with caraway seeds that everyone hates but me. Is caraway related to anise or fennel?

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I don't like cilantro much but can tolerate it in some dishes.

Can't STAND the smell of cumin (I always think it smells like B.O.) but again I don't mind the taste in some dishes, depends. E.G. likes to add it to refried beans and while I think it stinks up the kitchen, I don't mind how the resulting dish tastes.

Love anise, like some black licorice. When I don't like it it has more to do with the general quality than black licorice per se.

Love love love coconut, my favorite cake is just not the same without it. But ehBeth's nose-wrinkle at coconutty people got a reflexive nose-wrinkle from me too -- yeah, that's gross.

Have had good white chocolate maybe 2% of the time I've tried it, the other 98% has put me off it pretty thoroughly.

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@sozobe,

Oh and I LOVE stinky cheese. We used to go to a cheese factory in Wisconsin and get some divine, totally stinky cheese. German brick! (The name came back to me as I started to type that I couldn't remember what it was called.) It was a bit much even for my parents -- came packaged in this special tinfoil wrapping to try to contain the stink -- but they were amused that their kid liked such stinky cheese and indulged me. Absolutely amazing taste.

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

Oh and I LOVE stinky cheese. We used to go to a cheese factory in Wisconsin and get some divine, totally stinky cheese. German brick! (The name came back to me as I started to type that I couldn't remember what it was called.) It was a bit much even for my parents -- came packaged in this special tinfoil wrapping to try to contain the stink -- but they were amused that their kid liked such stinky cheese and indulged me. Absolutely amazing taste.

I think there are some foods, like stinky cheeses, some olives (especially when mixed with stinky cheese) whose taste is so overwhelming for the taste buds that it carries you off to another plane for a few moments, where all you can do is close your eyes and ride the taste.
Not trying to be nasty or suggestive, but it's like an orgasm. Sensory overload.

Sometimes I'll lunch on olives, cheese and a really good crusty bread.

I imagine being a shepard up in the hills in Greece, minding my goats and taking a break with my back against a warm rock, and a breeze on my face.

wow, all that from an olive?

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@chai2,

Yes!

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Yes!

Osso and her goat get in a little cardio before the midday repaste.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/coffee-dancing-goat.jpg

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

German brick! (The name came back to me as I started to type that I couldn't remember what it was called.) It was a bit much even for my parents -- came packaged in this special tinfoil wrapping to try to contain the stink -- but they were amused that their kid liked such stinky cheese and indulged me. Absolutely amazing taste.

we call this a German butter cheese. mrs. hamburger adores it. I can be in the room with it when it's being opened, but I used to get watery eyes around it when I was a kid.

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I love all that stuff except white chocolate, beets and perhaps sardines (too salty).

I tend to like bitter over sweet as well and as a result prefer veggies over most fruits. I tend to like fruits not considered in the fruit family like tomotoes and avocados.

And I really hate/detest apple pie.

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Another love'em or hate'em: anchovies.
I love'em.

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Here ya go, guys . . . you'll love this. My favorite pizza? Anchovies and green olives.

Hand me the salt cellar, will ya?

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@Setanta,

i've had anchovies on a hawaiian pizza (pineapple, onion, ham), a nice combination of sweet and salty

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@djjd62,

I like anchovies in my caesar salad.

On pizza too, except it's gotta be little tiny bits. I hate it when you get this huge piece just laying there.

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1. White Chocolate: I don't mind it, but it's not like real food. It's like children's junk food.

2. Cilantro: Great in most sauces.

3. Eggplant: I like it a lot. A true adult taste.

4. Coconut: Like it a lot (when it's real coconut).

5. Tomato: One of my favorite foods.

6. Sardines: Tastes great in bread with avocado.

7. Black licorice: YUCK! Giving it to children amounts to torture, IMHO.

8. Stinky cheeses: Usually I like them. Another type of adult food.

9. Mayo: Quite OK in a sandwich, usually hateful in a salad.

10. Bell Pepper: Another great food.

11. Beets: Still another adult food. Didn't like'em as a child.

(By the way, today I had beet & cilantro cream and "callos a la madrileña", which is tripe, garbanzo beans and bell pepper with tomato sauce)

Foods I hate (besides licorice):
Garlic -if it's more than a touch-; yucca, sweet potato, pumpkin. The first for its flavor; the others for their texture -and flavorlessness-.

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@chai2,

The goat is probably a better dancer..

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@Setanta,

Depends on the green olives...

(my fave are lemon brine picholines, but they don't exist here; next green bella cerignolas, next green "sicilian"... )

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Ossobuco's take on bitter stuff is telling.

American food is dominated by the sweet taste. It's so sweet sweet sweet. If you want to make an American happy with your recipe, just add salt and sugar to your normal recipe.

Mexican food is of course piquant, or "hot". If you want to make a Mexican happy with your recipe, just add some chile.

Italian food, I've noticed, is dominated by the bitter taste. Arugula, artichoke and specially eggplant contribute a lot. I also love "amaros". My favorite's are Campari red (not watered down, please!), Jagermaister (Swiss) and Unicum (Hungarian, the most bitter of all).
Somehow amaros have the virtue of making you taste the bitterness of life and find it pleasurable. An American would say they help make life sweeter.

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@fbaezer,

We differ so far only on garlic, and that by a long shot, and the squashes, which I usually like, especially when cooked in savory dishes.

I suppose it's time for me to mention my most despised food, raw sea urchin.

Far down from that (I'd eat them if I were starving) raw eggs, egg white as in sunny side up eggs, quail eggs as some kind of treat on sushi.

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