What are your least favourite flavours?

Faith · 09-02-2010 12:02pm

Goats cheese (tastes like feet, how does anyone enjoy it?)
Most stinky cheeses
Brussel sprouts
Cauliflower (unless it's in a soup)
Fishy fish

joolsveer · 09-02-2010 12:14pm

I detest parsnips in any form and fish (or anything that swims).

The Black Oil · 09-02-2010 1:21pm

Cucumber
Fish
Brussel sprouts
Gurkins, beetroot, etc!
Coleslaw
Glace cherries, e.g, in Christmas pudding
Ham and cabbage (cabbage full stop)
Orange chocolate (jaysus)

Miaireland · 09-02-2010 1:28pm

I forgot to say goat cheese and smelly cheese.

lucylu · 09-02-2010 5:09pm

Pig - anything from a pig I detest
Looking at cooked Porridge or seeing someone eat it makes me gag.

brumindub · 09-02-2010 6:34pm

Moonbaby wrote: »

Brussel sprouts get a bad rep because alot of people overcook them, and make the bitter.

I can't believe so many people dislike poor oul coriander.

I only tried brussel sprouts once and almost threw up so am never going near them again!

Coriander I don't like probably because my parents use it to garnish almost all curries they cook.

I forgot to add that I can't stand raisins or cashews either.

cee_jay · 09-02-2010 11:34pm

Celery - vilest food ever.
Cucumber
Marzipan
Coconut (love the smell though)
Scallops & Mussels (that could be more the texture rather than the flavour though)
Blue Cheese
Orange & Mint Chocolate

duploelabs · 09-02-2010 11:50pm

I will eat nearly everything but brown rice and hake I detest, more to do with texture than flavour

brian ireland · 09-02-2010 11:58pm

lucylu wrote: »

Pig - anything from a pig I detest
Looking at cooked Porridge or seeing someone eat it makes me gag.

Nice1 thats funny

susanroth · 12-02-2010 6:08pm

sweet and sour sauce
mushy peas

13-02-2010 2:15pm

brumindub wrote: »

I only tried brussel sprouts once and almost threw up so am never going near them again!

Coriander I don't like probably because my parents use it to garnish almost all curries they cook.

I forgot to add that I can't stand raisins or cashews either.

I was googling.
Apparently if your a super taster, roughly 25% of the population are.
Coriander does indeed come across as soapy.
And brussel sprouts extra bitter.
The benefit, is that sugar and fat are also less attractive to you.

Ouh and how did I forget my arch nemesis. The Sultana. yick!

Snowie · 13-02-2010 3:54pm

whats with the I hate corriander club what are you doing with it ?

_blank_ · 13-02-2010 8:27pm

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

whats with the I hate corriander club what are you doing with it ?

It's not what we're doing with it, it's what chefs up and down the land are doing with it.

It seems to be the "herb du jour" in a lot of places.

Indian restaurants whacking it on everything.

Wedding meals having it plastered on every course (one wedding I was at it was on the soup, the starter and the mains, I was surprised we didn't get "Coriander Fool" for dessert).

Added to the fact that I don't actually like the taste of it, it is fairly irritating to have to pick it off everything I order when I go out. It's never listed in ingredients on menus, so I have to ask every time I go out, just in case the chef has it in his brain that coriander is a must in every damn thing he makes.

enda1 · 15-02-2010 2:36pm

Mr.David wrote: »

For me:

1. Marzipan - Eugh :eek:

2. Parsley

3. Chinese Five Spice

Ye wha?

I think we both know that cinnamon is the devil!

neuro-praxis · 15-02-2010 2:45pm

Er, I love nearly every thing listed in this thread...

Kovu · 25-09-2013 7:18pm

livinsane wrote: »

Did whiting fillets pan fried in breadcrumbs, with some ginger mixed into the coating. Served with mash made from sweet potato, potato and celery. Obligatory cherry tomatoes and spring onion that I throw on nearly everything I eat.

:eek:

Why would you ruin perfectly good mash with celery!

It tastes like leaves.
Very very horrible leaves. Although I recall reading somewhere that the taste for it is genetic, or something like that......
Also can't stand tarragon or cloves. But thats another story!

livinsane · 25-09-2013 10:32pm

Kovu Murr wrote: »

:eek:

Why would you ruin perfectly good mash with celery!

It tastes like leaves.
Very very horrible leaves. Although I recall reading somewhere that the taste for it is genetic, or something like that......
Also can't stand tarragon or cloves. But thats another story!

The celery is my favourite part! I love the smell of it too. I also love tarragon and cloves..

seosamh1980 · 26-09-2013 5:06pm

Kovu Murr wrote: »

:eek:

Why would you ruin perfectly good mash with celery!

It tastes like leaves.
Very very horrible leaves. Although I recall reading somewhere that the taste for it is genetic, or something like that......
Also can't stand tarragon or cloves. But thats another story!

We're genetic twins! Celery tastes like I imagine a blade of grass would if I was tiny like Honey I Shrunk The Kids and took a chunk out of one. It's absolutely horrific. I also despise the flavour of tarragon, I can just about tolerate the flavour of cloves with ham or apple-y things, just about. But yeah celery, work of the devil.

Kovu · 26-09-2013 5:14pm

seosamh1980 wrote: »

We're genetic twins! Celery tastes like I imagine a blade of grass would if I was tiny like Honey I Shrunk The Kids and took a chunk out of one. It's absolutely horrific. I also despise the flavour of tarragon, I can just about tolerate the flavour of cloves with ham or apple-y things, just about. But yeah celery, work of the devil.

I'm 100% sure I read an article on tastebuds that mentioned why this occurs. I think it's 10% or maybe 1%
I honestly can't remember!:o
Do you by any chance DETEST cucumber?
As I can't even touch a salad that it's been in,
cucumber flavour everywhere.
Tonight I'm having a Subway Veggie Delight. Oh so healthy :pac:

seosamh1980 · 26-09-2013 5:57pm

Kovu Murr wrote: »

I'm 100% sure I read an article on tastebuds that mentioned why this occurs. I think it's 10% or maybe 1%
I honestly can't remember!:o
Do you by any chance DETEST cucumber?
As I can't even touch a salad that it's been in,
cucumber flavour everywhere.
Tonight I'm having a Subway Veggie Delight. Oh so healthy :pac:

Was just about to mention cucumber, I've heard that tasting that is genetic too. Cucumber to me tastes just like water, watery, bleh. I have trained myself to eat big fat chunks of it if it's dipped in hummus, mainly because my mum loves cucumber so it was always there to snack on when I was growing up. But I wouldn't eat a chunk of it where I could actually taste only cucumber, and for some reason really thin slices of it are just horrific, wouldn't even go near one of them.

Kovu · 26-09-2013 6:07pm

seosamh1980 wrote: »

Was just about to mention cucumber, I've heard that tasting that is genetic too. Cucumber to me tastes just like water, watery, bleh. I have trained myself to eat big fat chunks of it if it's dipped in hummus, mainly because my mum loves cucumber so it was always there to snack on when I was growing up. But I wouldn't eat a chunk of it where I could actually taste only cucumber, and for some reason really thin slices of it are just horrific, wouldn't even go near one of them.

I shall have to research more into this. I adore savory foods so maybe it's the acidity

But it's the genetic hatred of tastes that intrigues me atm. Esp as you hate the same as me!
And they all seem to be the same kind of taste things,......hmm.

Anyone else the same?

RasTa · 26-09-2013 11:03pm

I love celery but used to hate cucumber and fresh coriander. Good article on it here

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html?_r=0

I started growing the stuff and picked leafs daily to get over my hatred, sushi got me over cucumber but I'd probably still pick it out of a sandwich.

IvyTheTerrible · 27-09-2013 7:00am

seosamh1980 wrote: »

Was just about to mention cucumber, I've heard that tasting that is genetic too. Cucumber to me tastes just like water, watery, bleh. I have trained myself to eat big fat chunks of it if it's dipped in hummus, mainly because my mum loves cucumber so it was always there to snack on when I was growing up. But I wouldn't eat a chunk of it where I could actually taste only cucumber, and for some reason really thin slices of it are just horrific, wouldn't even go near one of them.

I think the genetic mutation makes you taste cucumber as really bitter though, not just watery.

Kovu · 27-09-2013 9:46pm

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I think the genetic mutation makes you taste cucumber as really bitter though, not just watery.

YES! A really really sharp bitter taste, and as it's so watery anything it's in gets the flavour too.

The Hill Billy · 29-09-2013 3:58pm

Recent posts split from the 'Here's What I've Had For Dinner...' thread.

tHB

Cork selfbuild · 29-09-2013 5:24pm

Coriander, got food poisoning one time from a Thai and it's the one sticking memory, can't eat it in years since....

Wurly · 29-09-2013 6:20pm

Parsley. Absolutely disgusting stuff!! Hate it!:mad:

MissFlitworth · 29-09-2013 9:01pm

I hate the taste & smell of honey - smells like feet. Taste & texture of celery (and when people tell me that you can't taste it when it's used in a mirepoix I have to put my fingers on my eyes to stop them rolling into the back of my head). There are some spices that I like the taste of but don't like cooking with because the smell of them reminds me of unwashed hair, I think that's me being weird though.