What unpopular food opinion do you have?

Patsy167

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119092780#Comment_119092780

I would have assumed that's a majority view, assuming Naan, focaccia, garlic bread don't count. I have fond memories of fresh Tiger bread but it can be very doughy if not done right.

put_the_kettle_on

I'll probably get piled on for this but I hate junk food. All the Macdonalds, KFC, Burger King etc. greasy sh**e fried in hydrogenated oil. Yuk.

* legs it *

The Continental Op

Your not the only one MacDonalds always gives me really bad indigestion and KFC just looks like greasy mank.

The Nal

Celery is evil

whisky_galore

Vinegar smells like piss.

SunnySundays

Bread is better than chocolate.

Starters better than desserts.

My love is carbs is not good for me but I crave carbs more than any sweetness.

Pineapple totally belongs on pizza and is a delicious topping with ham. The perfect combination of sweet and salty also. I've never tried it but I have seen pizzas with chips added to the top. I bet they too would be delicious.

Also Audi Xzero cola is the best cheap brand cola bar none and tastes almost exactly like Pepsi Max.

ednwireland

https://patatastorres.com/ are the tastiest crisps

The Nal

If you're over 6 years of age you shouldnt be eating ketchup.

fits

MCDonalds do a grand coffee.

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119083051#Comment_119083051

The flake is a nice idea but it's too cold to appreciate it. I like to let chocolate melt in my mouth so i can really taste it. But if you're eating an ice cream that's not going to happen. You can smell the chocolate when you chew it, but it won't really melt so I don't bother with the flake.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119081360#Comment_119081360

Yes! This x 10.

Way too much sauce too. Pizza is not supposed to be wet. There shouldn't be so much sauce on it that the dough gets soggy, and it starts to run off when you pick up a slice.

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119102281#Comment_119102281

I completely agree. I worked in Pizza Hut in college and that's how they're supposed to make them. People complain when there aren't enough toppings, but there are already far too much sauce and cheese. Not to mention that the cheese is really crap, rubbery, plastic, half mozzarella, half cheddar. It's all wrong.

The best bit about a pizza is a the base. Nice dough, cooked in a really hot oven with the beginnings of charred patches and minimal toppings. Delicious when done well. The ones I made in college, were not good.

DBK1

YR sauce is lovely on a roast beef dinner, especially on the roast potatoes. Cover everything with the gravy and then add the YR sauce 😋😋

the beer revolu

Chocolate should never be kept in the fridge (except in very hot places).

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119102713#Comment_119102713

Things going into the fridge that do not have to be in the fridge is a real pet peeve of mine.

Cold dulls taste. Cold chocolate loses flavour. Cold tomatoes lose flavour.

notAMember

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119102830#Comment_119102830

Yes. Tomatoes in the fridge are no good. They become grainy miserable things. A good tomato is a thing of beauty.

Judging by this thread, my unpopular food opinion is that I love olives, decent olive oil, all seafood but in particular shellfish like mussels and oysters and oily fish like sardines or anchovies, blue cheeses the stinkier the better, chillis, spices, capers, pickles, interesting veg or salads. Quite a lot of the population here prefers such very plain food. Chicken, sausages, pizza, pasta, burgers, coleslaw. That stuff is grand, it's what I cook half the time for kids anyway. and I'll eat it away with them, but given the choice I prefer to choose the more interesting flavours.

Also probably unpopular, but to me, 99's, or anything made from powdered milk products (like protein powder) smells / tastes like something a baby regurgitated.

'Well done' is a perfectly acceptable way to have a steak, if you like it

Cranberry sauce is disgusting

Baked beans on a fry is for paedophiles only

Coffee>Tea by a long chalk

Guinness is pretty bland for a stout

awec

When making sandwiches, using bread other than a sandwich loaf / sliced pan is rubbish.

Sourdough is massively over rated and awkward to eat.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119103211#Comment_119103211

I hate people acting like the steak police.

Have it whatever way you like it, you're paying for it.

Can't agree on sourdough, I'm afraid. That stuff is dynamite. Plain white sliced pan is nearly the worst bread for a sambo.

Tomatoes ruin burgers, they don't add much flavour and make the entire thing slippery and unstable. Don't get me started on the big hockey pucks they add to make burgers look bigger.

While I'm on the subject, bigger burgers should be wider, instead of taller. If you can't hold it and bite into it, then you've messed up. Anything that needs to be held together by sticks can piss off.

woodchuck

Salad is better without salad dressing. Salad dressing usually just makes salads too sloppy and vinegary. I want to taste the actual food, not the vinegar it's swimming in!

The Continental Op

"Reduced Salt" always sucks.

...Ghost...

Mushrooms and hash browns don't belong in a fry up.

Gloomtastic!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104167#Comment_119104167

But they do improve it! 😜

Avocados are incredibly bland and overrated.

Supermacs is by far the nicest of the large fast food chains, and it isn't even close.

The cheaper the sausages the better.

Some people try and appear sophisticated by ordering their steak rare, when most cuts lend themselves far better to being cooked medium.

Salad cream on a sandwich is only lovely.

Archeron

The single nicest food on earth is the toast you get in hospital when you wake up after an operation.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119103956#Comment_119103956

Thicker burgers are far nicer though. Juices hold better

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104350#Comment_119104350

Just the right mix of crisp and floppy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104277#Comment_119104277

So much steak needs to be medium to allow rendering but that's a preference.

If they want it rare, so be it.

There just are cuts better suited to that cook, though

mikeybhoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104110#Comment_119104110

For me anything that's reduced in fat, salt or sugar free is always bad. Just eat something actually healthy like fruit and veg rather than eating a unhealthy product pretending to be healthy.

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119104886#Comment_119104886

Only if cooked rare/med rare and who does that?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119105234#Comment_119105234

Not right. Thinner burgers dry up far too easily

YellowFeather

Chocolate isn’t interesting unless it is salted or spicy.

Avocados are bland on their own.

There is no meal that can’t be improved with a pint glass of milk with ice in it.

A slice of baguette with butter, roe (/caviar), apricot jam and course salt is heavenly! Seriously, it’s amazing.

Bacon and marmite are friends.

Shenshen

I never would have guessed, but it seems that the cheesy, soggy and crispy bread that tops French onion soup is controversial.

Personally, I absolutely love it. It's one of my childhood favourites, we used to fight over the bread and leave the soup! But it has to be nice bread, to hold it's shape when soggy and not disintegrate.

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119105508#Comment_119105508

A classic and controversial at the same time!

I'm not buying that any part of the combo is crispy, though. Melted cheese isn't crispy.

Shenshen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119105562#Comment_119105562

No, but you don't cover all of the bread. The edges get a nice, crispy texture from being toasted.

black & white

One of the nicest meals I ever had was in rural Spain, Tagliatelle with truffles cooked in truffle oil. Might have been a few others ‘tastes’ in there too but that was what the menu said.

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119105375#Comment_119105375

Not right, right back at you.

If a thick burger is cooked to the recommended temperature in the centre, the outsides are all over cooked, dry and hard.

A thinner burger cooks to temperature more quickly, thus preventing parts of it being overcooked and giving a juicier, more evenly cooked burger.

Perhaps if you overcook both, the thicker one might be a little more moist. Cooked correctly, the thinner will always be juicier.

Tell me you're basting the top of the burger to stop dry out

the beer revolu

Gotta love the "Irish people eat junk food and bland things but I'm really edgy and eat olives, fish, chillies and interesting food", narrative! 😂

sam t smith

Beans on toast should be toasted and buttered white sliced pan with baked beans.

Possibly some grated cheddar cheese on top m.

No fancy bread, no fancy beans, no fancy cheese.

the beer revolu

Beans are a wonderful food - all kinds - except baked beans which should be uninvented!

Shenshen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119106395#Comment_119106395

I had baked beans in Montreal, homemade. That was just a whole different level of wonderful - sweet and savoury, hot and soft and just soooo tasty.

Now, I don't mind a tin of beans on toast, but I can understand why plain beans in a watery tomato gravy may not be everyone's cup of tea. But the "real thing" is something quite different. I found a recipe that is quite similar to what I had back then : https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/18255/boston-baked-beans/

Trust me, they're good.

the beer revolu

Oh, I'd be totally on board with the real thing.

It's tins of baked beans I can't stand - irrationally, so.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119106336#Comment_119106336

Reverse food snobbery. Add that to the list.

the beer revolu

Floury potatoes are not better (or worse) than waxy potatoes.

Coffee tastes like diluted burnt toast

Still love it though

jiltloop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119080894#Comment_119080894

That's crazy talk!

Processed cheese slices are manky. Sometimes I'm not sure whether I've taken all the plastic off because the cheese is so similar to the plastic.

Nice crumbly mature cheddar is amazing on the other hand. And it melts properly in to everything unlike plastic processed crap.

jiltloop

Speaking of cheese, my controversial delicacy which I inherited from my dad is Bovril spread on toast with cheese. It's amazing!