The cranberry topic got me wondering. There seem to be certain flavors that are particularly love 'em or hate 'em, at least among my friends and acquaintances. I'd like to take a little survey and see how they fare on Hatrack.
If you have a second to spare, can I get opinions on...
Black licorice?
Horseradish?
Cilantro?
Bell peppers?
(And if there's any items you'd like to throw in for later participants' input, what the heck, have at it.)
(And if you're curious, I favor all of the above.)
<EDIT: spelling and clarity>
[ May 23, 2006, 11:47 PM: Message edited by: Sterling ]
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Hate black licorice. It actually makes me gag. Love horseradish. Hotter the better. Cilantro tastes like soap. Hate hate hate. I like raw bell peppers. Cooked ones overpower everything else in the meal, and then your burps taste like peppers all day.
Ni!
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
I like all of them as well. Although, I get really picky on Horseradish. It has to be really strong. Usually, the Polish stuff at my grandfather's place satisfies.
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
Black licorice: Love it. Adore it.
Horseradish: Small doses, but I'm not a wasabi fan.
Cilantro: Yuck.
Bell peppers: Not a fan.
Those of you who have had Japanese food, what about natto? I love it and apparently that makes me just about the one American who does.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Black licorice? Nasty
Horseradish? I like it diluted, as in a horseradish sauce for prime rib.
Cilantro? Addicted to the stuff.
Bell peppers? Allergic to them raw, but love them cooked in some things--although the flavor can overpower a bit.
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
Black licorice? ADORE.
Horseradish? can take or leave, but pretty much only take at Pesach anyway.
Cilantro? hate the smell, don't really mind the flavor
Bell peppers? love them raw. I don't mind green cooked, but red, yellow and orange cooked are way too sweet.
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
Black licorice: like it unless the anise is overpowering.
Horseradish: On good beef only.
Cilantro: Love it fresh. Coriander seed (same stuff different day) in some tomato based dishes.
Bell Peppers: good in just about everything but desert.
How many have tried Yerba Mate. I really like it cold as Terere. But hot Mate is good on a cold morning. NOTE: For the dude cool crowd you can make it with Mountain Dew; then it's Teredew
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Black licorice? Yes please.
Horseradish? Yes please.
Cilantro? Whatever.
Bell peppers? No thank you.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Kristen: Despite eating Japanese with some regularity, I don't think I've ever been offered natto. Next time it's an option, I'll find out.
Artemisia: Similarly, while I believe I've had yerba mate mixed with other things, I've never had it as tea. The mixtures have all been fine, but then, they were heavily sweetened.
Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
Black licorice? I avoid it.
Horseradish? I don't even think I have ever tried it.
Cilantro? YUM!
Bell peppers? This is one of my least favorite foods.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Black licorice - I've actively hated it all my life, up until March 7th of this year. On that date I began appreciating it.
Horseradish - Meh. It's okay.
Cilantro - Love it. With the firey passion of a thousand suns.
Bell Peppers - Good, but something I'm never actively in the mood for.
[ May 24, 2006, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
Black licorice: I hate it with a passion.
Horseradish: I like it in really, really, small doses. I think I don't like strong flavors
Cilanto: I hate it with a passion.
Bell Peppers: I really like them raw, but as with most vegetables I don't really like them cooked.
Posted by Shanna (Member # 7900) on :
Black licorice: eww
Horseradish: can't eat it. even the smell makes me very very sick to my stomach
Cilantro: no particularly kind feelings
Bell Pappers: like onions but colorful and therefore good on almost anything
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Black licorice? - Hate Horseradish? - Love Cilantro? - Hate Bell peppers? - Can tolerate when cooked
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Black licorice: Yum.
Horseradish: Yum.
Cilantro: Hate it hate it hate it. Tastes like the smell of cat pee.
Bell peppers: Ick. They get their gross, grassy, bell pepper juice all over anything they touch so you can't even pick them out of stuff effectively.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
It tastes like the smell of cat pee? That's so interesting; it doesn't smell like that to me, but I can perceive what it is that your system interprets that way. What do you think of broccoli, Dana? I'm wondering if maybe you're a supertaster.
[Edit--if only there were some way to test that.]
[ May 24, 2006, 10:55 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Noemon-- what happened on March 7th? That's LiteBrite's birthday. I'm trying to correlate your appreciation of black licorice with her turning 3.
Black Licorice-- foul, disgusting stuff.
Horseradish-- I like it on a rare Porterhouse, or on roast beef sandwiches.
Cilantro-- love.
Bell pepers-- raw or cooked, I'll eat them. But I don't like them on pizzas or sandwiches.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Black licorice? YUM.
Horseradish? YUM.
Cilantro? YUM.
Bell peppers? YUM.
I have a habit, though, of being on the "love" side of love-it-or-hate-it foods Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Scott, I was really, really hungry when my (now)ex arrived in town on March 7th for our then-upcoming dissolution hearing, box of Good-n-Plentys in hand. I reluctantly had some (hey, I was starving), and was shocked to discover that they weren't half bad. I only happened to remember the date because I knew that she'd gotten here two days before the hearing.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
What a bizarrely appropriate time for you to discover you like what you've thought you hated your whole life.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Noemon, I'm pretty sure I am a supertaster.
Mom attributes my love of black licorice to the fact that she stopped for black licorice ice cream after every doctor's appointment while she was pregnant with me. I have good associations.
Broccoli I sometimes love, sometimes hate. It has to be prepared just right (lightly steamed, so it's not mushy). I usually don't care for it raw, although sometimes it's okay in a salad if it has a sweet-and-sour type dressing.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Black licorice? Meh. I'll eat it, but only if offered and I'm already hungry.
Horseradish? No complaints, but I'm not going to trumpet my love in the streets.
Cilantro? A bit of an acquired taste, but I have no qualms eating it now.
Bell peppers? Mmm. It's a rare day that I don't use these in something.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Love black licorice.
Love horseradish.
Don't like cilantro, but there are a few things (curries and albondigas soup) I'll eat it in.
Bell peppers, no, although I'm getting to the point where I don't hate them quite as much, especially soup.
Here's another one for you all: rosemary! I love rosemary. Put tons of it in all kinds of things. You?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: It tastes like the smell of cat pee? That's so interesting; it doesn't smell like that to me, but I can perceive what it is that your system interprets that way. What do you think of broccoli, Dana? I'm wondering if maybe you're a supertaster.
[Edit--if only there were some way to test that.]
Do people usually interpret tastes in terms of smells? Because I do that a lot. For example, ginger beer has an aftertaste like the smell of potpurri.
As for those flavor listings, I hate all of the above.
-pH
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
Bad Good Good Good
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
I love the smell of rosemary, mmm. I don't think I eat anything that it would be appropriate in, though... I can't think of a time I've actually eaten it. Unless its what they put in the olive oil bread dip in the Italian restaurant down the street, that would make sense.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: What a bizarrely appropriate time for you to discover you like what you've thought you hated your whole life.
Heh, you're right; I hadn't thought of that (although it would be more bizarrely appropriate if she and I hadn't managed to preserve our friendship--we're still pretty close, though I think that at this point both of us are pretty happy with not being together (for those of you who don't know me so well, this was very definitely not something that I wanted at the time.)
That's interesting, dkw--I don't think I've ever heard of another supertaster who could tolerate broccoli. Are there any other common fruits or vegetables that taste especially ghastly to you? What do you think of cantaloupe?
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Oh, I love broccoli! And I am definitely a supertaster.
(edit: Cantaloupe is pretty gross, and I can just barely stand Mango and passionfruit)
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I like black licorice as a rule, although it depends on the type (I dislike the super-salty Danish kind).
I'm not sure about horseradish. I've probably had horseradish sauce, but otherwise it's not something that makes a regular appearance on the menu.
I don't remember trying cilantro, although I may have.
I like 'bell peppers' (by this you mean the ordinary vegetable kind, not the hot kind?). I prefer red (and yellow and orange) bell peppers to green peppers, but I like them all, cooked or raw. These are somewhat of a staple in my house so its odd to me that they are listed as a love/hate thing.
Rosemary I associate exclusively with roast lamb, which I like.
I'm actually quite open (and a little apathetic) when it comes to food. The two foods I (irrationally) don't actually eat much of is coconut and almond (or rather, almond flavoured things, I eat almonds). I've had problems with those little octopodes ( )- or whatever they are- with the little legs and heads and everything, but if it looks like food, rather than what it originally was, I'm generally okay.
Here's one: How do people feel about asparagus? My family likes it and eats it when it's in season, but I get the feeling it's another of those things that you either love or hate.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I like cantaloupe if it is perfectly ripe. If it's underripe it's bitter and if it's overripe it's nasty.
Which is true of most fruits, actually.
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
Black licorice: hate
Horseradish: love
Cilantro: hate
Bell peppers: like, but only after I grew up. (Same with cantelope. They both had a mildew-y kind of taste to them when I was a kid. Come to think of it, they still kind of do...)
But... coconut? In my experience, this is often a love or hate kind of food, too. And I'm definitely a coconut hater. In fact, I hate it more than I hate any other food.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
When KarlEd and Chris were visiting a few weeks ago we had some rosemary & salt bread (bits of rosemary all the way through, with the loaf rolled in salt like a pretzel or something. It was quite good.
PH, yeah, the two sense are pretty inextricably linked, so it isn't uncommon to interpret one in terms of the other.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Oh, I remembered. The other food I do really not like is Pesto. Not the taste, necessarily, I just get a weird feeling of negativity or rejection when I eat it.
... and it occurs to me that the three foods I do not like are, or contain, nuts. Hm. Maybe I have a slight allergy.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
All kinds of pesto, or just basil pesto? I make a mean cilantro pesto.
Sharpie, is it the flavor or texture of coconut that you dislike? I have a coworker who despises the texture, but likes the flavor well enough. He's okay with coconut milk-based products, but hates anything that contains the meat.
quote: I can just barely stand Mango
Myr, them's fightin' words.
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
Black Licorice: Gross Horseradish: Good mixed with cocktail sauce for oysters or shrimp Cilantro: LOVE IT! So good in so many different ways. You can make cilantro mayonnaise! Hmmm.... Bell Peppers: Good raw and cooked in sauces and roasted.
Other loves: Tofu, eggplant, chickpeas, tomato, corn, all HOT peppers Only real hated foods: Squash, corned beef, and stuffing make me gag. Just the smell of corned beef is enough to send me running. It's been truly great living with parents who celebrate St.Pat's by cooking a huge disgusting corned beef. Blech! Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Every time we have corned beef, I have to try very hard to not gorge myself.
Two foods that I have an extrmely hard time swallowing: winter squash (I like summer squash) and beets.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote:All kinds of pesto, or just basil pesto? I make a mean cilantro pesto.
I've never had a pesto I've liked but I've never had it homemade though, or in a form where I know exactly what's in it, so I may have consumed only one type of pesto.
And it turns out I do like cilantro, at least in certain things. I just call it "coriander leaves". There's a rice and feta cheese "salad" that we make sometimes that contains cilantro and I love that.
quote:I have a coworker who despises the texture, but likes the flavor well enough.
I am a bit like this. I don't like coconut generally, but I prefer it if its merely coconut-flavoured, and not the crunchy texture of the meat. *wrinkles nose*
quote:stuffing make me gag
O.o I love stuffing! Of course, there are a million ways to make stuffing- I make mine with breadcrumbs.
I also like asparagus,beets, rosemary, the coconut flavor but not the shredded hairy stuff.
How about orange juice? I can't stand the stuff but I love to eat the fruit. (I can't stand the pulp but still don't like the pulp free variety).
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
I like broccoli and asparagus, properly cooked.
Don't really hate most mellons, but generally wouldn't choose to eat cantelope or honeydew- find them kind of cloyingly sweet. Watermellon's good, though.
Rosemary's great in some breads, with roasted meat, in stuffing, and in chicken soup. Generally like the flavor.
Like almonds and coconut.
Relatively few things I out-and-out despise. Red cabbage is the big one, and a thousand curses on whoever first said, "Y'know what, this salad needs some color."
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
I speak for many vegetarians by saying that the taste of meat absolutely grosses me out.
I have gotten to the point where I can appreciate meat which is super charred or fried, which essentially takes away the taste, but there is nothing more revolting to me than the thought of a sausage or a pork loin.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
*drools*
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
I hate licorice, but like the other three well enough. Also, I'm another liker of cocount flavor, but disliker of the shredded variety. I can't stand asparagus or any type of squash, but rosemary is awesome.
quote:Those of you who have had Japanese food, what about natto? I love it and apparently that makes me just about the one American who does.
For those who don't know, natto is fermented soy beans (linky). My family loves the stuff. I made the mistake of actually smelling it first (And the stringiness? Ugh), but I will try it one of these days.
What about olives, of any variety? (Kalamatas are me favorite.)
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
Juxtapose: Try it! It's best to ease into it with rice. I stayed with a Japanese family when I was younger, and I was really nervous about communicating my food preferences ("I don't eat meat" just doesn't translate in rural Japan) and as the daughter would eat natto every morning, so would I. Eventually, the mother saw that I was also eating it, laughed and exclaimed, "Oh no! That was never intended for you!" But at that point, I got accustomed to it and loved it.
But no, definitely not date food.
And I love all olives. Mmmmm.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
As of my most recent readings, here are some basic stats, for the curious.
I've had to interpret things a bit here and there; if people said they like things in x or y, or that they didn't used to like something but do now, they're lumped into "favor". Conversely, words like "tolerate" tend to put a vote into "against". Hopefully I haven't skewed things significantly.
Licorice: 48% for, 48% against, 4% No Opinion/Never Had/Neither for nor against.
Horseradish: 72% for, 8% against, 20% NO/NH/Nfna
Cilantro: 48% for, 36% against, 16% NO/NH/Nfna
Bell Peppers: 72% for, 28% against, 0% NO/NH/Nfna
More to come.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I despise licorice... growing up, I was the only one in my family who didn't like it, and my mother never remembered that I didn't, so she'd buy big bags of licorice (and black jelly beans at easter). She also cooked with anise now and then. Actually, she probably remembered full well that I didn't like it and was trying to make me "grow out of it". Well, I'm as grown as I'll ever be and I still HATE it Mom!!
Horseradish I like in sauces and things, but I LOVE wasabi.
Cilantro I can tolerate if it's not too strong in a salsa or something.
Bell peppers I like, especially on pizza or in stir fry, but I prefer red or orange ones to green ones.
I like most olives and Kalamatas are my favorite.
I've mentioned before that I can't stand "orange" foods like winter squash, pumpkin and cooked carrots.
I also don't like coconut - which makes me a freak here, I can tell you. My boss has coconut trees in his yard, and frequently makes haupia, which is a coconut pudding type treat. It's nasty, I tell you. Ugh.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Kristen, My grandmother told me that once, in feudal Japan, there was a wandering ronin who was starving, roaming the countryside looking for food, work, anything. Eventually, he became so hungry that he was absolutely desperate. He came upon a stable and was so famished that he ate what had been left for the horses: soy beans that had gone bad. He found them delicious and, his hunger sated, he went on his way. Through his skill with the blade and his wisdom, he rose to great power. He remembered the wonderful taste and had his cooks experiment with the fermentation process, and thus do we have natto.
My obaachan is a funny lady. Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I initially read that as a wandering robin, which made perfect sense until you got to the part about skill with the blade.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I learned about natto just this week. I work with a Japanese woman, and this weekend there was a Japanese cultural festival here. There was a natto eating contest at the festival, so my friend was explaining it to me. She even had some in the freezer here that she bought on her way to work. Since it was frozen, it didn't smell at all. She said she'd bring some in some day for me to try if her family left any (which she said was not likely - they love it).
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'm honestly not sure if I've had natto or not. From what I'm gathering, the fact that I don't have a strong memory of it one way or the other suggests that I haven't had it. I'd love to try it.
I love meats in general. I love the flavor and the texture of most meats, and generally if it's safe the rarer they are the better I like them. I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of eating meat, but if I give it up it won't be because I dislike it.
I've never met an olive I didn't like. As a kid I loved canned black olives, in great part because I enjoyed sticking them on the ends of my fingers, pretending to be an alien for a while, and then plucking them off with my lips one by one. As an adult I find the flavor of canned black olives to be less intersting than most other varieties, but I'll still eat them.
Maui babe, do you generally dislike all foods with high amounts of beta carotene?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'm honestly not sure if I've had natto or not. From what I'm gathering, the fact that I don't have a strong memory of it one way or the other suggests that I haven't had it. I'd love to try it.
I love meats in general. I love the flavor and the texture of most meats, and generally if it's safe the rarer they are the better I like them. I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of eating meat, but if I give it up it won't be because I dislike it.
I've never met an olive I didn't like. As a kid I loved canned black olives, in great part because I enjoyed sticking them on the ends of my fingers, pretending to be an alien for a while, and then plucking them off with my lips one by one. As an adult I find the flavor of canned black olives to be less intersting than most other varieties, but I'll still eat them.
Maui babe, do you generally dislike all foods with high amounts of beta carotene?
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: If you have a second to spare, can I get opinions on...
Black licorice?
Horseradish?
Cilantro?
Bell peppers?
Don't care fo black licorice, but could eat it if I had to
Like horseradish (if not overdone)
Not sure what cilantro tastes like
I LOVE bell peppers. On everything.
I'm not a picky eater at all, and eat almost anything. The only flavor/taste that I really cannot stand, for some reason, is raspberry. Although I've never had a fresh raspberry fruit, I can't stand even the smell of raspberry -flavored anything -- candy, soda, koolaid, etc. etc. I can smell raspberry a long ways away and I just can't stomach it.
FG
[ May 24, 2006, 04:16 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
quote:posted by dkw: I initially read that as a wandering robin, which made perfect sense until you got to the part about skill with the blade.
That does paint an entertaining picture.
"Do not approach robin-san. His temper is short, and his blade quicker than the beat of his wings." ... [/lip-movement]
quote:I've never met an olive I didn't like. As a kid I loved canned black olives, in great part because I enjoyed sticking them on the ends of my fingers, pretending to be an alien for a while, and then plucking them off with my lips one by one. As an adult I find the flavor of canned black olives to be less intersting than most other varieties, but I'll still eat them.
If I didn't know any better, I could have thought I'd written this. It amazes me when people tell me they don't like olives.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Maui babe, do you generally dislike all foods with high amounts of beta carotene?
Maybe, I'm not sure. I like most fruits with beta carotene - apricots, mangoes, papayas, canteloupe. But if they're overripe, I have the same reaction as I do to sweet potatoes or pumpkin. Green vegetables that are purported to be high in bc are kale, collard greens, spinach, leaf lettuce and broccoli. I don't recall ever having kale or collard greens, but the others are fine. And as I said before, I prefer red/orange bell peppers over green ones. (But ALWAYS green chile over red!)
I suppose I'm just a freak. Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
quote: I've never met an olive I didn't like. As a kid I loved canned black olives, in great part because I enjoyed sticking them on the ends of my fingers, pretending to be an alien for a while, and then plucking them off with my lips one by one. As an adult I find the flavor of canned black olives to be less intersting than most other varieties, but I'll still eat them.
I've always liked olives as well - as long as they're brined. When I was a girl, growing up in Northern California, we used to get fresh olives from many different sources. Usually, my mother would see a tree growing in someone's yard and make me go up to the door and ask if we could take some. I HATED that.
She would put the fresh olives in a gallon jar with some cloves of garlic and pieces of onion, then pour olive oil over them. She'd eat them with bread, or sometimes in a sandwich. I never liked the olives prepared that way. They were far too bitter for my taste. I might feel differently now, but I'm not gonna start knocking on people's doors asking to take their olives any time soon.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I'm not extraordinarily fond of basil (I like dried better than fresh), and I abhor pine nuts (they taste like resin.) So pesto is not my thing.
I'm not so big on olives. I only like the black kind in a can. Green, kalamata, or anything exotic, I hate. I don't even like a strong taste of olive oil.
Ooh, remembered another one I don't like: smoked foods. Really, almost anything smoked makes me gag. My mother-in-law always "forgets" (I think it may be a passive-agressive thing) that I can't stand barbeque and serves it for family get-togethers. For our going away dinner when we moved, she was all proud of herself for remembering no barbeque; she served us brisket marinated in liquid smoke instead.
(I took a tiny piece, cut it up, smothered it in ketchup, and ate it without chewing. I didn't want to make a scene.)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and then there's liver. My mom and one of my sisters love liver and onions, liverwurst, and all other things liver. I can't stand liver. Neither can my other sister.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I'm not extraordinarily fond of basil (I like dried better than fresh), and I abhor pine nuts (they taste like resin.) So pesto is not my thing.
I'm not so big on olives. I only like the black kind in a can. Green, kalamata, or anything exotic, I hate. I don't even like a strong taste of olive oil.
Ooh, remembered another one I don't like: smoked foods. Really, almost anything smoked makes me gag. My mother-in-law always "forgets" (I think it may be a passive-agressive thing) that I can't stand barbeque and serves it for family get-togethers. For our going away dinner when we moved, she was all proud of herself for remembering no barbeque; she served us brisket marinated in liquid smoke instead.
(I took a tiny piece, cut it up, smothered it in ketchup, and ate it without chewing. I didn't want to make a scene.)
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and then there's liver. My mom and one of my sisters love liver and onions, liverwurst, and all other things liver. I can't stand liver. Neither can my other sister.
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
quote:And as I said before, I prefer red/orange bell peppers over green ones. (But ALWAYS green chile over red!)
They really are all the same veggi. What most of us are calling a bell pepper (chili de campana, that n needs to be an enye but I don't have the right button) is probably a Yolo Wonder. The other chiles have more or less of the capsicum that makes them hot. That and the shape are the discriminators. The all come from Mexico at some point.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I like bbq okay, but I don't like smoked cheese. My ex-husband and his family LOVED that stuff. Ugh. But I won't get started on what unspeakable things I've seen people do to food. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Black licorice? My very favorite candy. Love it.
Horseradish? Can take it or leave it, but it is a must to go with gefilte fish.
Cilantro? Delicious.
Bell peppers? I especially like the red ones, and eat them raw for lunch or snacks. The green ones aren't as nice.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Black Licorice: in small doses
Horseradish: in small doses
Cilantro: Demon Weed
Bell Peppers: In EVERYTHING. If they made Bell Pepper Ice Cream... well, ok I wouldn't eat that.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
How do you guys feel about onions?
I like onion powder, but not the actual onion. And if, say, food had onions on it, and then the onions are removed, the onion flavor left behind still makes me kind of nauseous.
But I like onion rings.
-pH
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
Black licorice? ACK!
Horseradish? Yes!
Cilantro? Yeah, and more to eat plain. Bell peppers? "" Onions? ""
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I like it all.
Except natto, which I have never tried.
Actually, I don't like almond flavoured things either (marzipan = YUCK!)
Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :
quote:Sharpie, is it the flavor or texture of coconut that you dislike? I have a coworker who despises the texture, but likes the flavor well enough. He's okay with coconut milk-based products, but hates anything that contains the meat.
No, no. I hate it in all forms. I am suspicious of anything that looks like it could harbor coconut: cakes with "hairy" looking frosting, those ambrosia-like jello salads, etc. I track down the makers and ask them suspiciously if there is any coconut rather than risk taking a bite .
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I'm not a fan of the coconut, either. It is always a nasty surprise when I bite into what looks to be a perfectly innocent chocolate, only to find that it is harboring a coconut filling.
And it is beyond my understanding why anyone would ruin a perfectly good cookie recipe by spiking the dough with coconut.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Black licorice? take it or leave it. I would eat if I wanted something sweet and it was the only thing available.
Horseradish? not sure if I've ever tried it
Cilantro? good in salsa
Bell peppers? no - I usually try to pick them out.
------------------- never heard of natto before; coconut is good (love Mounds candy bars) but I don't care for German chocolate cake (the cake would probably be okay without the frosting); don't care for squash, except for zucchini sliced thin, floured and fried; liver (no onions) is good floured and fried, then eaten with plenty of ketchup; don't like marzipan, like green olives but not black; asparagus and canteloupe, yes; beets, no; cheese for the most part if it's melted, with the exception of feta cheese (Subway used to have a Mediterrean chicken sandwich that I loved - it had feta cheese) and queso fresco in enchiladas (it doesn't really melt); onions - for the most part no, but the cheese enchiladas really need them, so I put up with them in that case. I've got other likes and dislikes, of course, but that's enough for now.
Here's a question for you all - do you like the foods you grew up with? I ask this because I cook things that I grew up with that my mom cooked (well, some of them). My kids don't like many of them. In fact, they don't even like things they liked earlier in their lives.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I put onions in everything too. They are the perfect companion to Bell Peppers (along with Garlic).
Coconut is hit or miss with me
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
I love onions, and coconut.
As to the foods-you-grew-up-with-question... My mom's favorite foods are the exact opposite of mine, and she considers me a picky eater because I don't care for anything she makes. This is, of course, because she makes what she likes and its always the same few things.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
My mother wasn't the best cook, although she did have some things she could do well.
For example, I LOVED her potato salad. But I grew up hating cornbread. It wasn't until I was in my late 30's that I tried someone else's cornbread (mostly just to be polite) and realized it didn't suck. So now I make cornbread 2 or 3 times a month. But I don't use my mother's recipe, that's for sure.
My sister has been more of a traditionalist, especially during the holidays, always making sure to make the stuffing and the gravy exactly as our mother did. I'm comfortable with the fact that I'm a better cook than my mother was, so I make things my own way without any guilt.
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To be fair, I was a SAHM for nearly 20 years and had plenty of time and opportunity to practice and learn to cook. My mother was a single working mother since I was 6 years old, so it's not really a fair comparision. She did a fine job with the resources and the time that she had.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
I loved my grandmother's gravy (my dad's mom) but my mom's gravy tastes weak to me, so I usually just don't have gravy with my potatoes. I get along fine with just butter and salt.
What about regional foods? As an example, I love Twin Bing candy bars. They have a cherry-flavored center, with chocolate on the outside. In the chocolate are crunched-up peanuts. The cherry inside I wouldn't call a nougat, because to me that implies a harder center, more like caramel consistency. Palmer Candy - home of the Twin Bing. Twin Bings are made in Sioux City, Iowa, so I would call them regional.
Yesterday I saw a brand of sandwich spreads I had never seen before. They were in plastic bottles with flip tops, and horseradish was one flavor. There was some kind of hot mustard, maybe with jalapeno or something. I can't remember the brand, and I can't check until Tuesday because that store is closed until then, But it got me thinking about what kinds of foods are specific to an area and do you like them or not? (Vegemite - Australia is an example.)
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
I love all of them except black licorice. Strangely, the anise taste I love. I could chew on an anise stem all day. The actual black licorice tastes like tar to me.
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