Your support makes Blue Moon possible (Patreon)I've been thinking about this a lot lately, after talking to a new co-worker who has surprisingly had very little in the way of experience with too many different varieties of foods which really surprised me for someone who isn't younger than 20.
But I did get reminded about a few foods I'm not keen on and while I'm the type of person who'll try anything once before rejecting it, there are a handful more than even I realized that I just won't stomach, and will literally spit out once I taste them. So what foods make your body reject them, and not just in a food allergy way?
Sauerkraut is one of mine. Something about the taste of whatever it's pickled in just rubs me entirely the wrong way. Curiously I am not opposed to kimchi, even though my friends tell me it's similar but with a bit of spice to it.
Coleslaw is another one of those and I guess depending on what it's made of, maybe I can sometimes stomach it, but often whatever dressing they are using is so similar to how I feel about sauerkraut, I can't handle it.
Sweet. Pickle. Relish. So you've got a green vegetable that I'm only willing to eat when it's either pickled or cooked, so 2 out of the three are just fine. But then you throw in that utterly nauseating, vomit-inducing sweetness into something that sour and salty with the texture of something that has no business being sweet? Yeah, no, sorry, that will make me evacuate the contents of my gastric sac faster than accidentally biting down on a bitter pill. That's not even the worst bit; this is what makes it impossible for me to eat 99% of macaroni and potato salads. If I had a time machine I would literally assassinate every person who ever attempted to pervert the recipe for those two party dishes by poisoning them with that awful taint.
Cherries. I love cherry juice and the flavor of cherries in most things. But biting into one, somehow it just has a bizarre texture I wouldn't expect them to and the taste isn't anything like when it's been juiced. Maraschino cherries are even worse, somehow the texture is even more impossible to chew and you don't even get the remote resemblance of the original cherry flavor.
Cranberries and cranberry sauce. Can't stand it. At least with cranberry juice, it's delightfully sweet before that acute bitter aftertaste bite once you swallow it. But with cranberries and the sauce (jellied or the real thing), it's nothing but bitter from start to finish. I will never, ever understand why people like that stuff.
And I guess for the sake of full disclosure, most raw green vegetables. Cooked, there's almost none I would not be fine eating, though some are less desirable than others, but I'll still eat them.
On a related note, I have never tried beets, pickled or otherwise and I believe at least in the latter case, I probably wouldn't care for them in the same vein as sauerkraut and/or sweet pickle relish. I am also eager to taste durians but I don't think that will be possible without leaving the country.
But I did get reminded about a few foods I'm not keen on and while I'm the type of person who'll try anything once before rejecting it, there are a handful more than even I realized that I just won't stomach, and will literally spit out once I taste them. So what foods make your body reject them, and not just in a food allergy way?
Sauerkraut is one of mine. Something about the taste of whatever it's pickled in just rubs me entirely the wrong way. Curiously I am not opposed to kimchi, even though my friends tell me it's similar but with a bit of spice to it.
Coleslaw is another one of those and I guess depending on what it's made of, maybe I can sometimes stomach it, but often whatever dressing they are using is so similar to how I feel about sauerkraut, I can't handle it.
Sweet. Pickle. Relish. So you've got a green vegetable that I'm only willing to eat when it's either pickled or cooked, so 2 out of the three are just fine. But then you throw in that utterly nauseating, vomit-inducing sweetness into something that sour and salty with the texture of something that has no business being sweet? Yeah, no, sorry, that will make me evacuate the contents of my gastric sac faster than accidentally biting down on a bitter pill. That's not even the worst bit; this is what makes it impossible for me to eat 99% of macaroni and potato salads. If I had a time machine I would literally assassinate every person who ever attempted to pervert the recipe for those two party dishes by poisoning them with that awful taint.
Cherries. I love cherry juice and the flavor of cherries in most things. But biting into one, somehow it just has a bizarre texture I wouldn't expect them to and the taste isn't anything like when it's been juiced. Maraschino cherries are even worse, somehow the texture is even more impossible to chew and you don't even get the remote resemblance of the original cherry flavor.
Cranberries and cranberry sauce. Can't stand it. At least with cranberry juice, it's delightfully sweet before that acute bitter aftertaste bite once you swallow it. But with cranberries and the sauce (jellied or the real thing), it's nothing but bitter from start to finish. I will never, ever understand why people like that stuff.
And I guess for the sake of full disclosure, most raw green vegetables. Cooked, there's almost none I would not be fine eating, though some are less desirable than others, but I'll still eat them.
On a related note, I have never tried beets, pickled or otherwise and I believe at least in the latter case, I probably wouldn't care for them in the same vein as sauerkraut and/or sweet pickle relish. I am also eager to taste durians but I don't think that will be possible without leaving the country.
