DTX41 · 198 points · Posted at 05:04:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Masterchef: Ethiopian edition.
Gcarsk · 211 points · Posted at 05:13:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Masterchief: Halo edition
mcdok · 71 points · Posted at 06:23:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last Christmas I got my brother got an Xbox one bundled with the Masterchief Collection and it was late so we complained and I got a voicemail and the guy called it the Masterchef Collection and my dad threw a fit because he thought they messed it up.
Turns out they delivered it by mistake to my neighbor but they decided to wait 2 fucking weeks to give us back our package.
jmz_199 · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No problem buddo
SAGNUTZ · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found an open can of them the other day. Apparently, someone comes into my store once a week and opens a small can of Vienna sausages and eats ONE, then hides the open can behind other merchandise for me to find later. What a Cock-Smooch!
jmz_199 · 3 points · Posted at 17:37:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's... Definitely an interesting pick for food to steal. But to deter the sausage robber, just put rat poison in all of your cans.
SAGNUTZ · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That could actually work! No one ever buys them and the only movement of product is caused by this ONE sausage thief. /s
Wogner · 16 points · Posted at 08:44:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's literally cheese melted on chicken with some tomato sauce in between, and some of these really cheap places just put slices of kraft on some microwaved chicken low key. This guy is straight out the Key and Peele sketch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=st21dIMaGMs
SAGNUTZ · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the power of using euphemisms. It increases sales for (evil)marketers but, makes the consumer feel stupid when they figure out its just chicken with cheese on it...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What euphemism? Parmigiana is just one way of spelling parmesan.
When they "figure out" that chicken parmesan is just chicken with parmesan on it?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:13:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some states in Australia call it parmi, some states call it parma. But I think all of Australia can agree that parmo is a good name for it and sounds very Australian.
Oh god yes that would be so satisfying, even better if I move on to the next round because someone burnt something or worse and then I would get to do it again 😈
SAGNUTZ · 3 points · Posted at 15:42:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That has a hint of quiet brutality with an aftertaste that resembles righteous anger.
fprosk · 91 points · Posted at 06:02:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao and this guy has hated on raw onions in multiple episodes it's literally this post irl i love it
That's a poor judge, he's not supposed to judge on his personal likes or dislikes, he's supposed to judge the dish as a whole. He's way to bitter about the whole thing
Dasnap · 14 points · Posted at 17:24:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the thing that's always confused me with judging on cooking shows. Everyone has at least one thing that they don't like the taste of. It must be difficult to judge if something is bad because of the ingredient you don't like or because of the dish as a whole. You might either underscore it because of the ingredient or overscore it because you try to 'make up' for your personal pickiness.
It's probably just better to avoid the onions all together. He made it clear he didn't like them, and he still used them. If he was lactose intolerant he wouldn't cover it in cheese. He can't judge well while projectile shitting.
The chef (contestant) is crazy. Dude specifically says "I don't want raw onions" and he gives them to him anyway with the excuse "I thought they added to the freshness?" Come on, man. Is that what you are going to do in your restaurant? A customer orders something without whatever and you stick it in there anyway because you thought it tasted better? A chef that doesn't understand his customers is a chef without a job.
If someone ordered one of his meals and said something like, "no parsley on the dish", I'd bet dollars to doughnuts he would throw a bitch fit about not respecting his art or something.
Yeah but isn't the point of it being by the chef's design? He's more there for the ride and should have put his hate of the onions behind him, it's not a restaurant and he's not a customer.
grubas · 43 points · Posted at 05:40:54 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
God there was a great Iron Chef at one point where one of the judges was a complete bag of bitch. The ingredient was either shellfish or oyster, but she spent half the meal bitching about how she hated oysters.
Aren't the judges supposed to be experienced chefs/restaurant critics? That's pretty pathetic if she never heard of beef and potatoes even if it's not common in Japan.
All restaurant meals are by chef's design. And all of those meals are served to customers with some degree of tastes preferences, aversions, or allergies. It is your job as a chef to modify your design to fit the needs of the customer as necessary.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:57:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily. You don't have to accommodate somebody's dislike of raw onions, especially in the context of fine dining.
If you legitimately HATE the taste of something then how are you supposed to get past it?
It's happened occasionally when Scott is a judge that a contestant puts raw red onions on the plate. It very very rarely eliminates a contestant, and it's never the sole reason.
The judges aren't exactly customers, the cooks dont have to give a shit about what they like they just have to make good food with certain specified ingredients
Rowani · 47 points · Posted at 06:28:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure, but if you're in a competition why the hell would you shoot yourself in the foot like that by doing something you know the judge won't like.
Im not saying it was a smart idea, just that they dont take orders from the judges as if they were customers. Its all about the creativity of the chef and what they do with the given ingredients
What's the technicality? Yeah judging is subjective and all so tastes will come into play but I think cooking is an art and this guy went with his gut and stayed true to his own art form.
Is it not the smartest play? Yeah I'd agree it's a bit dumb. But I think he was making the best dish he thinks he could have made in a show about making your best dish.
Imo judges shouldn't bitch that much either but that's a different topic.
Let's make a really stupid hypothetical situation.
You have a test in literature, you know what the teacher thinks about the book the test is about but you have a different opinion, will you do it according the their opinion and risk them saying you're wrong and didn't understand the story or go along with their opinion so you can get the better grade?
Of course your opinion may be valid and maybe even more people and / or other teachers agree with you but why risk it for petty nonsense, even if you know you're writing garbage.
If you wanna pass a reality show you gotta appeal to the judges, it doesn't matter that your dish is objectively better than the other dish but they'll like the other dish more, after you win you can make the better dish for people that want it.
I mean it really depends on what your values are. One time I cheated on a final in high school and got away with it (grades submitted same day) but I felt so bad I admitted it the next day. Thankfully he didn't tell the school and only took off a letter grade but I could imagine a lot of people calling that stupid and while I won't deny that, I stand by what I did.
If your thing is just to win then yeah that makes sense. If your thing is do right by yourself then you're going to do things differently than the "right way".
They aren't there to enjoy food. They are there to judge the food based on quality, taste, execution, skill, and more. Sure you may not like it, but if you can't get past that and objectively look at the food for what it is, you shouldn't be judging.
In this case, despite hating raw onion, was it fitting for the meal? Did it add to the meal? Would the meal have been better or the same without? If you can't answer those questions objectively, you aren't for judging.
What if an Olympic gymnast judge said "well I would have given you a better score, but I just don't like spins and flips in routines." They would be laughed away for not being objective. Were the flips and spins executed perfectly? What flaws were there, if any? Could they be improved? If you can't find a reason they should not have been there, you can't remove points.
I mean you could go further and more extreme with anecdotes, but the point remains. Judges look at what is in question objectively. Not like a customer.
was it fitting for the meal? Did it add to the meal? Would the meal have been better or the same without? If you can't answer those questions objectively, you aren't for judging.
Objectively, if you hate the flavor of an item, then it never would add to it for you. Food palettes are completely and utterly subjective, there's no objectivity to be had in taste. For example, mushrooms make me feel ill. They taste like dirt, have the texture of pure animal fat, and smell awful. There is zero context where I find them even palatable, much less could enjoy them. If a dish were served to me with mushrooms, I can't say it fit the meal, added to it, and I know objectively the meal was worse to me for having them. Since I can't eat them without such a horribly averse reaction, how the hell would I "objectively" determine whether or not the mushrooms were even good in the context of the foods they were cooked with?
I totally agree with you, both about taste being subjective and about mushrooms tasting awful - to me the chewiness is what I imagine eating styrofoam would be like and the taste ranges from "why do people even bother, it literally has no flavor" to "goddamn, who rubbed their unwashed taint on my dinner,".
That being said, most people like mushrooms (and onions) and maybe those of us that despise certain popular foods shouldn't be judges on cooking shows?
Even beyond that humans obviously die in large groups with distressing frequency there's the guy right above this one being mercilessly tortured to death.
"Your torturer isn't there and I'm not real either, you are dying alone like everyone, I swear."
Hey look, it's what's going to happen to me because of who I am as a person. Just a revolving door of field that I don't care about and then self destructing the second I think it might go anywhere.
It's actually more logical to fear things that are more likely to happen to you. So, it makes more sense for someone to have a greater fear of a minor socially awkward situation, then being tortured to death. Unless you living in the middle east and are white.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:54 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm also a picky eater and that's my fetish ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:49:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm also a picky eater and you're my fetish ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Michael Scott: My biggest fear is turning into [Ed Truck].
Creed: Michael, you should have much bigger fears than that.
Michael Scott: I wasn't talking literally, Creed. Yeah, being buried alive would be worse. Happy? Why am I talking to you?
biddily · 39 points · Posted at 04:45:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm allergic to both cheeses and red wines.
This is my fear every single time I go to a party. :( Only I can't choke it down cause it will be extremely obvious when my face starts turning red and swelling up.
willwcb · 47 points · Posted at 05:29:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Allergic is different from picky though
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 05:40:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wine I could do without...but cheese? Tbh a cure for lactose intolerance shoukd be second just after cancer on the world's things to cure list.
biddily · 16 points · Posted at 05:53:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If only it was lactose intolerance - its an actually allergy. like... swelling and rashes and itchiness. I can eat all the milk and ice cream i want though - so - ice cream! Also, the older the cheese the worse the reaction, so i can usually have a piece of pizza and only suffer a slightly itchy nose. Parmasean is off the table, and you should see what happened after I ate some cheeseits thinking there wasnt actually real cheese on them. (My lips swelled up worse than kylie jenner's bottle fad thing)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:00:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man thats wild, as a memer who knows jack shit a out food allergies Id have thought aged cheese woukd be better. Stay safe cheese pupper.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:44:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You'd think that because aged cheese has less lactose, so people who are lactose intolerant will tell you they can handle aged cheese.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Histamines specifically in cheeses? Or something microbiological?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:34:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 09:08:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Histamines are also present in foods (typically foods left at ~room temperature for long periods of time... like an aged cheese), and certain people can have issues with that.
KualaG · 10 points · Posted at 08:41:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It comes across as picky but I have what I can only describe as an anxious appetite. I'm not usually hungry when I should be (no appetite, nothing looks good at all). When I'm with people it makes it harder to pretend to have an appetite, especially for unfamiliar or disliked foods and the idea of eating makes me nauseas. Going out to new restaurants scares me because I don't know if I can find something normal enough I'd want to eat.
Still not sure what to do about this.
Chibils · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:41 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey friend. I've never met someone who can relate to this experience. I've never seen it described before but I have the same issue. Just wanted you to know you're not alone out there.
-Jaws- · 157 points · Posted at 04:59:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it bad that picky eaters annoy the shit out of me?
mantism · 31 points · Posted at 06:11:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I ate with a bunch of friends once, two of them who once said they were picky eaters. I didn't think much of it until we spent half an hour watching one pick bits of garlic from her pasta. I thought it was bad until the fried rice that the other picky friend ordered came in, and he started picking out every bit of vegetable and onion from it.
Funny you mention that vegetables are what is being picked off. From my experience most picky eaters are people who grew up unhealthy and cannot eat healthy or fresh foods. They prefer processed unhealthy stuff. My best friend says she's picky but it's mainly because all she eats is pasta casseroles and rices. Only vegetables she eats are things like canned peas and things like that. Obviously not all picky eaters are like that but most I have seen are.
This. Every picky eater I've met grew up very poor and won't eat things like vegetables or seafood. Most of them have seemed to break the habit as they age though, there's only so many business lunches you can order Chicken fingers at before people start thinking it's a sign of larger issues.
I don't think it has to do with growing up poor. I grew up poor and it meant we had to eat whatever my mother served. That meant learning to like eating eggplants, mushrooms, olives, okra, etc.
I think it has to do with the culture in the West where both parents work and cheap food doesn't mean veggies, it means KFC. Kids grow up without needing to try new foods and with the privilege of simply not eating what they don't like.
Not the same person, but whenever I taste a really tough bitter leaf, cooked onions, mushrooms, or bananas, I gag :/
Cakeo · 5 points · Posted at 11:28:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm the same with hollandaise sauce just interested in other people's gag food. Cooked onions? Onions are literally in verything under the sun and are amazing. Red or brown?
I'm late but yellow mustard makes me gag even if it's such a tiny amount that most people wouldn't taste it. I once took a bite out of a sandwich that had a tiny bit of mustard on it because the person making it didn't wipe the knife off before cutting it. I didn't even see the mustard but one bite and I gagged. Literally can't even swallow it. Even the smell is nauseating for me.
Cakeo · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:02 on January 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of mustard? English or American? I think there is a French as well? Spicy or not?
GODDAMMIT YES. I am incredibly picky with ground beef and things like that, so I just can't do burgers. I fucking hate it. Everyone makes burgers sound so good and I wanna experience that but I can't because it just makes me gag.
Dasnap · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't have a dislike for burgers, but I can only take about three bites before my mouth is bored of them and then it becomes a chore to eat. Beef tastes of nothing to me, and I've eaten it at multiple restaurants to try and 'train myself' to like it. I usually give up half way through.
In all seriousness though, taste preference is really easy to change. There are a handful of things you may never like, but if you force yourself to eat foods you don't like, they will eventually grow on you. They won't be your favorite but you'll definitely expand your taste. I learned this the hard way by spending 4 weeks in a country where I had 0 access to "normal" food 90% of the time. By the end of the trip I enjoyed many of the things I hated at the beginning. I went from choking down 2 or 3 bites of muck to eating whole meals in about a week. Unless you have dietary restrictions you can easily change.
I find it gets easier by both, being hungry, and being drunk
Dioxy · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can force yourself to change, I used to be super picky just a few years ago, but I forced myself to try new foods until I enjoyed them, and now I'll eat anything
no, but it can be difficult choosing a place to eat or even cooking for them or planning party of food when they have an extremely limited palette. it's more bothersome for me when you date a picky eater vs. friending one.
Me not liking onions isn't a fucking choice. Cook whatever the fuck you want.... it doesn't bother picky eaters not to eat onions so it shouldn't bother you.
when people are real picky eaters you have to cater to them fully because they won't shut the fuck up about it because they feel discriminated against. if you don't like onions that doesn't make you a picky eater. if someone won't eat anything but chicken fingers, fries, and mac and cheese then they are, and this severely limits the things you can eat with them because you have to go somewhere that has one of their top 3 foods or they won't fucking eat it. in this scenario no one can go get ramen or pizza or mexican or chinese because they have to cater to this one person who eats nothing but french fries because they have failures for parents.
no one sane gets mad at someone for disliking things with strong flavors like onions or gross textures like mushrooms, it's when they've refused to try new things their entire life so their taste consists of literally 5 foods.
You are missing the point. You want people to change themselves for your convenience. You are more worried about how awkward you feel when they do not eat something than how bad the feel for not eating it. You need to get over yourself. You don't get to decide what people like.
Not really.... you are just wrong and using explicit language helps drill in the message. So, to sum up, go fuck yourself you self-centered piece of shit.
Cakeo · 11 points · Posted at 10:57:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Edit: I kinda lost sight of what I was talking about
The way you are responding to these comments is proving his point. It's clearly a touchy a subject for you. I don't care nor think what my friends eat though when we go out, if you don't like anything on the menu cos you don't eat ( for example ) carrots then tooooo baaaaad. I'm not going to look for specific restaurants to suit everyone's needs. On that note you should give everything a 2nd, 3rd and 4th try and then keep trying it. I hated mushrooms, tried again last year and now I love them on my steaks. Still hate tomatoes but im sure one day I'll get it 😂
It's a problem because it's what 6 year olds do, not grown adults.
It also bothers me because most people aren't picky eaters because they don't like the food, but because they don't like the idea of that food. Most picky eaters won't have a problem eating a food they don't like if they think it's something else.
Idk, I'm one of the pickiest eaters I know and it's because I can't deal with the texture or taste of some foods without feeling sick. It may be because of autism, but I always feel horrible when I can't eat something because of it. Some people can't help it at all, and it sucks being picky. I wish I could enjoy food normally, and I'm sure most picky eaters do, too.
Not to mention, some people have certain taste receptors others don't, so certain foods can end up tasting repulsive to one person and good to another, like cilantro or dark green vegetables.
Yea I know people who have I assume have different taste receptors and react to differently to common foods.
As someone who was diagnosed with a form of autism as a child, that was how I behaved. Somewhere the line I stopped giving a shit though. The reaction to the texture was usually something that was in my head before I tried it. Ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 10:41:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It makes me irrationally angry to hear picky eaters talk openly about how picky they are. It's like dude you should be ashamed of that, not walking around advertising you have the eating habits of a child. For me it just makes me think someone is immature and spoiled. When I was a kid my mom's rule was eat it or don't eat, and it should be the same for picky eaters, eat the food or shut up and don't eat.
You really think we want to be picky? I hate it but I can't do anything about it, so it's better to laugh about it than sit in a corner and cry because you can't like all those amazing things that others eat.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 12:02:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I kinda honestly think you just haven't pushed yourself outside your comfort zone and as such have developed a phobia of things that are unfamiliar
Nah, I was always trying new things.(except from when I was a little kid) I want to be able to eat tomato so badly and I just can't. I want to be able to eat mushrooms, they taste SO FUCKING GOOD but they feel gooey and slimey. Like, I can eat some of those if it's with other food and not too many, but they still annoy me a bit. Yesterday I ate at a friend, delicious pasta with cheese and mushrooms. I ate all the mushrooms from my plate in my first bites with the rest of the food, so that I could have only pasta on my last because I don't like mushrooms.(was fine, but I would definitely prefer if I could just take them out and I would have done so if I was alone at home)
Edit: also, I'm kind of relieved lately, because I started liking more food. People have always told me it will happen when you grow up, everyone says it happened to them around 20(I'm some years late but I can see it's starting). I honestly have been trying everything forever, textures still bug me, I always try or even eat a lot of food that friends made although it has stuff that I don't really like, but only recently I started liking some more flavors. Textures still annoy me and I hate it.
That's how I was as a child, and most people. Once you stop giving a shit and worrying about if you like it or not it won't bother you. Textures really are a mental thing.
Nah I'm not worrying that I might not like something, I just I don't like stuff, there's nothing more to that. i don't think it's something mental, it's a characteristic(that maybe goes away with age?). I can eat pizza, for example, with mushrooms. Sometimes they don't bother me because they are well cooked(I think?), and you can just bite into them and it's just the taste of mushroom that I like and a normal texture, sometimes(well, usually) they are exactly like you got them out of a can, that sound and feeling like you're biting plastic, and they bother me. I'm never worried, I just bite and if it feels weird I take out the big pieces or endure it.
There are people that don't like jelly, but are not generally picky. Is that mental? I can't understand why they don't like it, just like others can't understand my weirdnesses, but I accept it.
*I also stopped giving a shit 2-3 years ago, I saw difference indeed, but only a really small part of it was mental. 5-6 years ago I wouldn't touch things I knew I don't like, now I can eat them and don't act like a spoilt child(I really couldn't eat those things though, I remember how I felt when I chewed them) but I still don't like many things, and I still will take the onions out of my bolognese if they bother me when I'm alone lol.
I'm not a mushroom person, but I've heard good things about portobello mushroom burgers. According to the weirdos who like them, they have a really meaty texture when you cook them the right way. You might try that?
There's a place close to my house called "the mushroom"(in my language) they have mushroom-meatballs(made out of mushroom, dunno how to call them). They're fucking delicious. I could try what you said, indeed.
I have many friends that dislike mushrooms. I thought I've hated it too because my mom would prepare these dried shiitake mushrooms that I absolutely hated. Until I got older and was able to taste different kinds on my own; enoki mushrooms in Asian soups, stir fried shiitake (non-dried), or even on pizza.
I tried a weird kind of mushrooms(that persons mother picked them in the village she lives or something) fried, they were the best thing ever. When I say I don't like mushrooms I'm talking about the mushrooms we usually see the most.
This was my grandmas rule and if i didn't like something i just wouldn't eat that night. No reason that should bother you. Also no matter the restaurant im sure i can find something on the menu to eat so my friends don't have to worry about choosing places i dont like
Holy crap you are judgemental and don't even have a clue what you are talking about.
I don't have a choice about being a picky eater, is a very annoying and serious thing. Your post is like bashing people with OCD. I physically can't eat the vast majority of food, I will get sick at the very thought of it.
then you're not a picky eater because you have an actual reason
that's like a guy on here saying they hate people who don't eat gluten for arbitrary reasons and then someone with celiac coming in and going FUCK YOU I CANT EAT GLUTEN it's like hey, we're not talking about you we're talking about the people who don't eat anything but pizza because their parents sucked
chisoph · 2 points · Posted at 13:00:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not exactly a picky eater, there are a few foods that i won't choose to eat on my own but if it's in front of me I'll go for it anyways.
That being said, I absolutely positively cannot stand olives. Black or green, they gross me out. If I catch a whiff of olive I vacate. I don't know what it is, I just can't do it.
We don't have a choice, the texture of a food makes a HUGE difference. Just the thought of eating many foods will make me sick. No, I've never tried raw fish. No, I'm not going to. Just the act of trying to eat it would have me throwing up on the floor regardless of what it tasted like.
It's not a choice for many adults that are picky eaters any more than it's a choice for people with OCD to wash their hands until their hands are raw and bloody or to flip a light switch four hundred times a day.
For me it's just like... some foods I just can not scarf down... like most sort of beans... and I come from a hispanic family. Like I simply can not eat beans, refried or anything, because I will gag and throw them up.
I'll tell you whats 10X worse then picky eaters. People who are picky about cola. coke vs pepsi vs rc. I can understand having a favorite. But why people have to be like "ew fuck. A pepsi, no thanks." Like you just offered them dogshit instead of a nearly identical tasting product.
-Jaws- · 8 points · Posted at 07:06:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes! I refuse to believe that one can be disgusting while the other is delicious - they're virtually identical.
Totally. I prefer pepsi but the difference is very small. I actually don't really love pepsi OR coke, but I like the diet versions. I can definitely tell the difference between diet pepsi and diet coke, but it's not that big a deal. I find regular coke and pepsi too syrupy and they leave my mouth feeling weird after drinking them.
I don't drink cola but sprite vs 7up is huge for me.
7up is honestly disgusting and gives me a lot of mucous for some reason.
scamp41 · 53 points · Posted at 05:04:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a former picky eater, no they are annoying. Food is good get over it and try some.
-Jaws- · 79 points · Posted at 05:08:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I mean I get not liking something, but with some people it's ridiculous. I know they usually can't help it, but it doesn't make it any less annoying. I have a friend who won't eat fish, won't eat anything goopy, won't eat fast food cheese, and on and on. It's fucking ridiculous. One time I made him and I spaghetti when he spent the night and he said "it tastes gross because you made it with sink water". Fuck off.
I mean, honestly, what would they propose you make it with? Evian? Perdot? Frigging dick butter? Come on now.
Your plight resonates with me as my wife is a picky eater and I like seafood. I love preparing it and eating it. Guess who used to not be able to eat seafood because "the taste lingers on the pans" after being washed by hand and then in the dishwasher? :L
Compromised this Christmas though when I asked for a set of pans and pots exclusively for seafood so I can simultaneously make her chicken or tacos. :D
Holy crap that is horrible. My wife is picky, and allergies to some so those are ok. But she doesn't care what was in the pan before. It doesn't have anything left. It is a placebo if anything.
It was an odd statement to hear, but I don't care to argue over silly things so I was fine to let it go and figure out a means of compromise.
It did get me to ensure my dishes are clean when washed by hand so there is that. I always do a "smell-check" now for residual odor because I did notice an odd smell on certain dishes when used for particular foods. For example, canned baked beans leave a very unpleasant odor behind on cheaper teflon and it's hard to get the scent out for some reason so I use better pots/pans for those. I wouldn't say it is exactly the odor of what was on it prior but it comes close. So a little bit more elbow grease, some mix-and-match with cookware and all is well.
Fair enough. Although another question, does she do the same when going out to eat? Those pans have been used for anything and everything the kitchen cooks. Seafood, chicken, beef, pork, etc. does she go out and get a dish only to not like it because of a seafood taste?
Gotta be honest, I can often tell when a pan has been used to cook seafood. It's probably because I hate the taste so much I can detect it in minute amounts but it does linger.
jbg830 · 24 points · Posted at 05:30:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know someone who doesn't like white food and it drives me nuts. We were roommates for a bit and I love to cook, but if it had anything like mayonnaise, sour cream, mushrooms, cream sauce or even white cheese, she wouldn't eat it. I'm a pretty ok cook too, she missed out on some great meals.
I honestly don't get picky eaters. Like, there is a ton of food I don't like, but I eat it. I'll eat it until I like it. Like I used to hate brussel sprouts but I forced myself to eat it and now I love it.
My brother is picky and every time he says no to a certain food I call him weak, lol. I mean, I love the guy, but I don't understand people who turn down food.
Your friend sounds like someone I wouldn't wanna make a meal with; who hates ingredients based off their natural color?
Would she be cool with it if you dyed them a different color? I have so many questions for her, haha.
That's stupid. I don't really want to be a picky eater I just can't stand eating much besides grain diary, and meat. I recently tried more types of meat with more spices so baby steps I guess.
-Jaws- · 13 points · Posted at 07:10:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I understand where you're coming from, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. I'm sure it's annoying being a picky eater too, so it's really just a shitty situation all around.
Former picky eater. I missed out on so many great things. My granny would try her best to get me to eat strawberries & I wouldn't. Not talking store bought... These were family farm grown. Now that she's deceased & I'm an adult, I realize I was an asshole kid that didn't want to try new stuff. That's when I decided to try new foods. I started slow with broccoli & brussle sprouts and it's been an amazing adventure since I made that decision. That was about 10 years ago & now I crave new things. Even if I don't like it at least I tried.
I wish my wife would do this... it took me two years to get her to try hamburgers. Because she never liked premade, or fastfood hamburgers. FINALLY she tried mine and she asks for them at least once a week, like tonight (three more years down the line).
There have been countless things she has tried and liked, and some she hasn't. But it can irritate the crap out of me when I ask her to try something and she flat out refuses for 20 minutes only to love it and want my plate of food instead.
This is my philosophy, try it, the worst thing that is going to happen is you won't like it. But at least try it. I used to be extremely picky, then I just realized that food is good. And if picky people just tried the food, it would probably turn out that they like it. I'll There are things I don't like either but if they are in something, I won't pick it out. Things don't taste exactly the same in everything.
Can't someone be a picky eater while trying all of the food that they've come across? It's a different thing being scared of trying new food and just saying "oh I don't like this" and having tried almost everything and still not liking it. The first one is choosing to be a picky eater the second one is just being one because you can't do anything else.
The most common commercial mushrooms typically have a similar texture, but certainly not always. Button mushrooms are just one species, there are many kinds of edible mushrooms, like morels, porcini, chanterelles, and chicken of the woods - all have pretty distinct flavours and textures.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:15:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As well as ones like shiitaki or enoki which are essential for the earthiness in a lot of Asian broths, don't get the texture then either if that's your issue.
Yes. The pressure of people judging me for being picky gets my anxiety going crazy, making it pretty much impossible to even think about trying the food they're judging me for not eating. I'm stressed out enough over the fact that certain foods make me gag, which I wish wasn't the case.
YES. "Picky eater" is also the completely wrong term for it, as it implies that i choose to gag when i try to eat certain things.
There are ways to improve on this, but you putting me on the spot, insisting that "i just try it once", when i know for a fact that it will make me gag is literally the opposite of helping. It will probably just reset my personal progress and reinforce my anxiety over it.
So yes, if you make them feel it, it is bad that picky eaters annoy you.
The thing is, just trying it is what we want. Don't care if you have to spit it out or it makes you gag. I can't have squash, it makes me gag. Isn't the taste, but the texture. But just trying it, is all. One bite and I won't push it further. drawing it out 20 minutes causes the problem and anxiety. The judging does happen until you refuse. Then it is just seen as childish. Remove the first no and then the judging doesn't happen. And over time, you will be more accepting to trying, and liking new foods.
It isn't like they are sitting a whole bowl in front of you and demanding you finish before you move.
Because different people make things differently. You may have only had it prepared badly. But they may prepare it in a way you don't like. And if you are gaging on every possible new food, then that is probably a different problem.
Me personally, it's squash. I can't stand the texture. I can't stand it in anything. But I will try it if someone gives it to me and can most likely take a single bite. Same with water chestnuts or baby corn. I can't stand those either. But I won't turn down a dish because it has them. I don't like eggplant, but if someone says it is good, I'll try it. If someone gave me loved and onions, I would probably try it. Why? Because what do I have to lose?
I've also lived in South America. Know two common cuisines there? A Chicken soup with everything in it (head, heart, feet, etc) and guinea pig. I has no international of ever eating said things in my life. But I tried them. And the soup was good. Even the necks and heart. The guinea pig? Not so much. There was nothing good about it that I remember. But I would again try that. Because I honestly don't remember what I didn't like about it.
Why close yourself off to it? If there is no allergy, there is no reason to not try. Food is prepared well and poorly all over. Who is to say you haven't had something made right.
Because how the hell do they know they don't like it if they never eat it?
Because the experience of skeptically tasting something only to realize that it's delicious is a thing?
Because food is social and personal and communal and often represents community or a labor of love from the person cooking it?
Because flat out turning down labors of love like that without a damn good reason once is okay, but when you do that to entire sweeping food groups, it becomes abundantly clear that your issues are probably childish?
Because we live in a society and don't be goddamn rude.
Or how about just let people eat what they want to eat? I'm a musician, and I've made some music that some of my friends and family don't care for. Yeah I put a lot of effort into making it but I'm not going to push it in their faces if they obviously aren't into it. If they're not interested, I'll move on, because it's obviously not their taste (a cappella music often isn't many peoples' taste). I respect that. I don't understand why others don't respect my taste, in this case with food.
And I can't imagine how much more embarrassed and stressed I'd be after gagging in front of someone who put the effort into preparing a nice meal for me.
Listening to a 3+ minute song is different than a 3 second bite of food. Even then, I am more glad you are willing to try and gag then refuse.
I am also someone who if they ask me to listen to something and comment, I will. Even for things like rap which I don't like. I'm not going to turn it away because I don't like that type of music. I know it means a lot to people to put forth that effort. The only difference would be being interrupted constantly for it. But once every few days, sure, I'll give a listen. You revised the one I listened to an hour ago, I'll give it another go.
It's a simple "hey, you should try this."
"Sure!" Even with a gag you can quickly go "nope, not my thing at all."
MisuVir · 7 points · Posted at 08:48:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comparing music and food? One is just listening which you do all day long. Even the worst music isn't repulsive, nor does it stimulate your gag reflex. But food you find repulsive? Try putting that inside your body. It really is completely different. Eating food is personally intimate because it comes in physical contact with your internals. Listening to music is nothing like that at all.
You have a weird insistence on making people try food.
Hust91 · 9 points · Posted at 08:32:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
3 second bite of food might linger for 3 hours, or it might be equivalent to having your hand in boiling water ofr 3 seconds. Woo!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 10:58:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are you 3 years old?
"Ewww this tastes icky now I'm gonna pout about it for 3 hours and act like it was the equivalent of physical pain:
Hust91 · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:02 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, just abnormally sensitive to taste.
Less "ew this tastes icky" and more "If I had to choose between this and putting my hand in boiling water, I'm genuinely not sure which one I'd prefer".
If you ever wonder if any of your other senses than those for pain can be as bad as actual pain, do try out waterboarding, sleep deprivation and extremely loud discordant music for hours on end.
I'd rather listen to a 10 minute song that sucks for me than eat a bite out of something that I don't like. That said, I've tried almost everything people give me, but sometimes I don't(unless they want me to really badly) because I know what I don't like, and when I'm sure I've never been wrong.(I usually don't like food with certain textures, and I can see the texture without having to eat it)
I'm sorry, but no matter who shits in my mouth, I'm not going to like it. It doesn't matter who it is or that it only takes them 3 seconds to plop a turd in there. Not my thing. I don't need to try it to confirm it.
Explain then those people who flat out refuse to try something only to discover they love it if they manage to eat a bite of it.
What I'm trying to say is you can dislike, let's say, mushrooms but there could be some preparations or variety you could like and that's all we ask for from picky eaters.
This it here. Food combined in different ways tastes absolutely different. Many cuisines have 70% the same ingredients, but a couple differences make it unique to a part of the world with rationally different flavors and textures.
It is like saying you don't like pasta just because you tried spaghetti one time.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 08:50:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is a mental thing. Sure, perhaps you can force yourself to eat something your brain considers repulsive... but why bother? Yeah, it might be amazing, but is it worth the anxiety and gagging that may be involved because you've got a stupid mental hang-up about eating that food?
If every human followed your risk-averse way of thinking we'd all still be in the caverns freezing our assess off.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 08:59:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aye, but we're not living in caves. We have practically every food easily available to us, so why can't people have their own individual likes and dislikes?
It's not that it's bad to have your own likes and dislikes, all we ask is for picky eaters to try new things, especially if we made them or if we know they could like them. My girlfriend is an incredibly picky eater and it really limits the way I can cook so when I'm trying to make something new or that I think she could like I'd really appreciate if she gave a single bite before discarding what I made. Fortunately she sometimes lets her guard down and discovered she loves mushrooms and whipped cream recently.
Hust91 · 3 points · Posted at 08:31:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on your tastebuds, this may not work at all.
In certain cases, something will be so disgusting that given the option, you'd literally rather put your hand on a plate hot enough to instantly blister your skin than to put it in your tongue, than to try even one bite.
I'm picky when it comes to meat but I fucking love anything pasta.
dustimo · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can tolerate when people have a couple of common things that they won't eat (otherwise I'd be a hypocrite, since I avoid eating mushrooms), but when it's a massive list, that can be a bit irritating.
nah, theyre pretty awful, and they let an irrational fear dominate their life. there are so many cultures in the world where food is important socially.
Then do not consider using the service Blue Apron. You think you'll enjoy it bc you're the one cooking it and you know what you like but it's all wildly absurd flavors and ingredients.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
One meal that sticks out included yogurt as a hefty portion of the dish (for $10 that seemed like a cop out to me). And in this yogurt you were supposed to mix some kind of lemon juice and saffron. And btw, if you've never dealt with it, saffron is like tiny tiny quarter inch long brittle strings or something. Adding the pinch of saffron to the quart of yogurt made less than no difference and I would have never used it otherwise. If anything, I kept getting those little sticks or whatever in every other bite and yogurt isn't something you typically associate with tiny semi crunchy things. 1/10 would not cook again.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you are given a list of meals to choose from for the week, you are only allowed to give one ingredient you don't like. Don't like oregano or some other weird ass herb? Too fucking bad, you can only deny one, the other may still very well come in the box of food you get.
MisuVir · 3 points · Posted at 08:43:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
They make an amazing masterpiece of delicious flavours and smells... then you take a bite and it just tastes like coriander/metal/soap. Ugh.
I was at a really nice resteraunt the other day, having a nice new years eve dinner. Instead of a desert, I ordered the truffle gouda brisket mac n' cheese, because I do like truffles and it sounded amazing. It gets to the table, looks amazing, take a huge enthusiastic bite, and nope, mushrooms.
Mushrooms everywhere, I despise mushrooms. There is not a single food item I despise anywhere near as much as mushrooms. So I'm sitting there, trying to pick around it and play it off. But nope, just can't. My hate for mushrooms overwhelms me. And it felt pretty shitty.
It's a fungus, so yes and no. It's not quite a mushroom, it's a root fungus that's simular, but textually very different.
That's a big thing for me, texture. I really like the taste of truffle oil though, and I do enjoy shaved truffle, but whole/sliced mushrooms make me ill.
Hust91 · 1 points · Posted at 07:43:37 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly who the hell decided that mushrooms need to be a common food anyways, like I'm sure we can use mushrooms for a whole lot of other things besides food but no we use it as fucking food. Like someone once sat down and actually decided "hey look's put these fucking ground umbrellas on this tasty pizza" and then it went fucking mainstream like how
I've had to do this when I was 13 or so. First time staying at a friend's house their parents invited me to eat supper with them. They cooked mushroom stuffed chicken and peas&carrots and green beans. I would rather starve than eat greens at my house, but I realized that it was really nice of them to make me dinner and finished it.
tldr; I wish I enjoyed more vegetables instead of being picky.
This is why it bothers so many people. Outside of thing you honestly don't like or actually can't eat most picky eating is a maturity issue. Good for you for figuring it out so early.
Home for the holidays I made my parents a shakshuka that really came out great. Nothing very fancy but it is still a bit of work compared to the usual meat and potatoes my folks usually eat.
Turns out my mom won't eat runny eggs. That took the wind out of my sails pretty quick.
How is not liking a single food picky? I've had people all my life make a huge goddamn deal that I hate onions. These people could usually all list a half-dozen foods they don't like and won't eat, but it's always "Wow Theydeletedme, how could you not like onions?" Because to me they taste foul. I didn't eat a lot of foods as a kid, onions are the only thing I still hate.
I'm right there with you. Onions make me gag, no matter how badly I want to be able to eat them. And of course they're in literally everything. The hardest part of looking through a menu at a new restaurant is trying to identify which dishes probably don't have onions. I hate when people call me picky for it, because I'll eat literally anything else.
MisuVir · 5 points · Posted at 09:11:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you had a pasta with some kind of sauce and it had cooked onion blended in... you'd still gag? Even if you didn't know it was there?
I've been tested a few times by my parents who insist that I just don't like the thought of onions and I have been able to tell almost every time. It was actually a relatively big argument the last time I visited my parents.
I consider myself an above average cook, and I'm definitely a foodie. The ONLY things out there that I hate is onions and processed peas and I have a books worth of recipes where I exclude onions and they still taste great.
Well personally I like literally everything so you won't hear that from me. It's hard to find a food I don't like.
If you didn't like carrots I would still think you were dumb but I'd get it because it's possible to avoid carrots. But onions are in like every single cooked, homemade dish.
It's hard to find a food I don't like too, if you don't count the onions!
But onions are in like every single cooked, homemade dish.
Welcome to my own personal hell. Most dishes that includes onions for flavor taste just fine without 'em, though.
MisuVir · 10 points · Posted at 09:09:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cooked onions blend into a meal. Raw onions stand out pungently. I could understand somebody disliking raw onion but what about cooked onion blended in a soup?
p_ark · 12 points · Posted at 06:43:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh wow, not everyone has the same taste buds? But seriously, it's not like we chose to be. I retry stuff all the time and take a any chance I get to try something new, but some things just don't stick.
But I do agree with you about not liking onions, this guy is crazy.
Pickiness is a result of parents not feeding their kids a variety of foods to develop their palettes. If a kid spends his entire childhood eating pizza, chicken tenders, and spaghetti with butter then he's gonna carry that into adulthood.
I really don't get people who are picky and above the age of 7.
My little sister is 12 and she grew up with my dad so ofc she is the pickiest. He's picky too but he's respectful, if he's in someone's home he's not going to turn down the meal they made or even pick around it.
I really don't get people who are picky and above the age of 7.
Me too, I feel like learning to eat everything (not learning to love every food per se, but not being a little bitch about it) is an essential part of a decent upbringing.
I really don't think that's what's happening here. It's much more like posters have discovered a very benign way to feel superior to someone, so they are going ham on it.
I used to dislike mushrooms. Flavor, texture, all of it. Then I had a grilled portabello cap and said "oh that's what it's supposed to be." It turns out I just disliked crappy white button mushrooms. Now I find the crappy ones to be alright and good mushrooms are awesome.
I associate their smell and flavor with mold and decay, the scent of freshly turned over leaf covering on a forest floor, strewn with white strands of fungi, ants, worms and beetles.
rrrrea · 4 points · Posted at 15:08:21 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is a documentary series on Netflix called Cooked and one of the episodes focuses strongly on how we use decay in calculated ways to enhance our food. The whole series is great but that one episode I found incredibly interesting.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 05:00:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most alcohol is basically decayed/fermented sugar and people drink that
grubas · 12 points · Posted at 05:35:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worms it is the texture. Ugh. Ants and chocolate is good and beetles vary.
Freshly turned leaves on a moldy forest floor after rain? That smell is something primordial, something amazing. I've woken up to that many times and it always gets me going like coffee.
Beetles can be great, especially if paired with a good curry pasta or even sometimes when fried in the right seasonings for the type. They can, though, also be one of the most ridiculously disgusting flavors you've ever tasted if they're done wrong.
Damn right on the primordial earth flavor, fellow redditor.
Seriously. When I'm trying to eat less meat or want a lighter option, there's nothing I love more than to fry a bella mushroom cap like a steak. Butter and fresh parmesan. Fuck me silly, that's good.
oakles · 25 points · Posted at 04:06:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah
drunk98 · 4 points · Posted at 05:04:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like mushrooms in something things, but not in others. I certainly don't like them by themselves. This post makes me wonder how they'd judge perfectly cooked dog shit. Really makes ya think, ya know. Hey Gordon, you like this poison? Judge that shit!
Popimon · 8 points · Posted at 05:59:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you not eat deep fried chicken tasting mushroom? It's heavenly.
jbg830 · 6 points · Posted at 05:32:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me, it's cooked vs raw. Cooked mushrooms are delicious, raw - ehh not so great.
Sketiio · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's interesting, because I'm the opposite! Love raw mushrooms, but will absolutely gag on the teeniest bit of cooked mushroom in a dish.
Mushrooms have been ruined for me, because I used to only ever get them overcooked basically swimming in butter the whole time they fried. No seasoning or sauce either.
The taste of mushrooms sauteed and then mixed with cream/salt is possibly the best way to top a steak. mushrooms are absolutely amazing, but yes they take ages to be able to enjoy. As a kid I hated them.
I'm 20 and I don't eat vegtables by themselves. If you're 20 and get every hamburger with just a patty and ketchup and every sandwich is just meat cheese and mayo than that's another thing all together.
I didn't eat them because they were always served with other food I disliked. Once I actually had the opportunity to try it on a sub or a salad, it's not nearly as bad. Some vegetables I still can't stand though, like carrots or turnip.
First of all, when did I say I was American? I mean, I am, but you just kind of made that assumption. Don't throw us all under the bus like that just because I'm picky. Second, I've lived in both Canada and England for periods of time and saw plenty of adult picky eaters there. It's not just an American thing.
Also, I will eat other vegetables. Carrots are just the only ones I'll purposely go out and buy just to snack on. There are several others I'll eat if they're offered to me (but I ain't gonna enjoy it).
NymN_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like how one of your "non-american" examples is Canada
OK then it's such a first world idea. I've only seen it in the US tho. Idk it's such a dumb idea to me. Who doesn't like veges? How can you go 24 years without learning to like veges? Means your parents didn't give a fuck and just let you live off Mac and cheese and French fries.
Wow, there you go, right into the assumption making again.
For your information, my parents did make me eat my veggies growing up, and I still never liked them. Wow, we exist, people with like, preferences and shit. Who would've thought.
Yeah, of fucking course it's a first world thing, because in less privileged countries you don't necessarily have the option to choose what you're going to eat. I have a decent job that allows me to pretty much decide what I want to eat every day of the week and it's readily available to me, and I'm very grateful for that.
MisuVir · 3 points · Posted at 09:03:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
you don't necessarily have the option to choose what you're going to eat.
Being stranded on an island would be my worst nightmare. Imagine being on Survivor but you can't stomach the thought of eating meat or fish or bugs. I'd probably just starve to death.
Yeah get all offended. Idk. I still think it's extremely immature to be a picky eater.
It's just something you're supposed to outgrow. Thinking of a 25 year old going to meet his SOs parents or something and pushing the plate away because there's an onion on it or something. It's so childish.
Well you said my parents "didn't give a fuck" about me, but yeah, don't worry, absolutely none taken. Everyone has things they need to outgrow. Maybe you're a bad spender, maybe you have addictions, maybe you sleep in too much, maybe you play video games too much, I don't know, but everyone's got thing to overcome. It's not like I'm not trying. Like I said before,
There are several others [vegetables] I'll eat if they're offered to me (but I ain't gonna enjoy it).
I have severe difficulty stomaching certain foods but I have social awareness and I wouldn't just "push my plate away because there's an onion on it", that's fucking stupid man. You have a very strange perception of picky eaters, or you've only seen the worst of the worst. Most of us will try to eat foods we don't like in social situations, and I hate it, and it gets me super anxious and stressed, but I try. I'm not just some lazy ass fuckboy who never learned to grow up.
ihra521 · 2 points · Posted at 07:34:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just wanted to say that I'm someone who loves to try new food and eats just about everything, including fungi, strange vegetables, fermented stuff, insects, dog, and other weird things, but seeing this exchange between you and Ravenman2423 has made me more understanding of people like you and I think you seem like a fine person even if I could never share a meal with you.
Some people just don't like the taste of things. I like just about everything except Olives and a handful of other things. I try to force myself to eat olives to acquire the taste but I can't. So I can see why some people don't like the taste of certain things.
I'm with you there. The only things I actively don't like are olives, pineapple and some seafood (cockles, crabsticks, squid, anchovies). I have tried with olives a whole bunch of times as a lot food I didn't used to like I now love, but it just ain't happening.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 09:06:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Olives are foul. I don't like the taste and I'll happily pick them off a pizza. Mushrooms I'll eat if served, but I certainly won't willingly select a mushroom-based dish at a restaurant.
Coriander leaves are the worst though. Tastes like metal or soap and ruins a whole dish. Apparently this one's genetic though.
And I can't stomach the thought of eating meat. Mainly just a mental thing, but I'm very happy just avoiding it altogether.
I am not a picky eater, I love vegetables, but in other places there are just as many picky eaters. And, on the other hand, in America there are plenty health maniacs too, who eat everything green. It's a nonsense generalisation.
You probably don't care about my advice, but find which way you liked them cooked.
I hate boiled asparagus, but love broiled/baked asparagus. I hate brussel sprouts unless they are pan fried with olive oil and a little pancetta. I can't eat processed peas, but love them if I shell them myself and use a generous amount of salt and pepper.
My parents just sucked at cooking when I was a kid so I just assumed I hated vegetables, when in reality I just hadn't had properly prepared veggies.
[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 05:02:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously tho, this is a good meme. Even Andrew Zimmern hated some stuff...
I actuallly love mushrooms and I just sat here for 5 minutes trying to think of the one think I would refuse to eat if I was a judge and all I came up with is runny soggy scrambled eggs.
I'll eat a soft boiled egg and toast any day, but once I was at a friends house and they were French/Americans and they made scrambled eggs for breakfast and them shits looked like beer shits and they were all like, this is how we eat eggs in France, and I was like FUCK NO FUCK FRANCE FUCK YOUR EGGS THIS IS NASTY AS SHIT AND I REFUSED TO EAT IT AND THEY WERE OFFENDED AND THEN THEY OFFERED ME SOME TOAST WITH JELLY AND GUESS WHAT!!! THEY DONT REFRIGERATE THEIR GRAPE JELLY, THEY JUST SCRAPED THE MOLD OF THE TOP OF THE JAR OF WELCHES AND THREW THE MOLD IN THE TRASH AND THEN SPREAD THE JELLY ON SOME TOAST AND OFFERED IT TO ME AND I WANTED TO DIE RIGHT THEN AND THERE.
but I was hungry and I ate the moldy jelly toast...
I think I need to log off now and have a glass of apple juice or something american b/c this post triggered me and now I also want to sign up for Tumblr....
wtf is tumblr even?
the name reminds me of those plastic cups with lids...
Also, I can't think of a single thing I would refuse to eat(besides obvious stuff like shit or trash, lol). Closest would be sea urchin, which I fucking hate, but make a point to try every time it's available just to see if I'll get used to it.
Well no. I like them all now. If I didn't force myself I wouldn't like most of the food, music, comedy, or movies I do now. I'd be completely different, and a lot more closed off to new experiences. I started doing it out of necessity(mom made food, I ate it no matter what), but I routinely force myself to experience things I don't mesh with because I think it deepens my experience as a person. I think when you allow yourself to be picky you shutter off wide swaths of experience, and that is ultimately damaging. Just my opinion though.
EDIT: though sea urchin is awful, it's always fun because it's become a little game now. Plus people get a laugh out of me eating something disgusting, so it's fun for the whole group, haha.
I'm not much of a beer drinker, but there are definitely times when I just want one. With certain meals, backyard BBQ, etc. I really do enjoy it. That said, the whole "I'm going to choke down a case of Milwaukee's Best even though it's disgusting just because it's beer" is stupid.
I feel like a gag show or episode where pro chefs cook for a distinct panel of picky eaters: a fickle 7 year old, a fickle 70 year old, and a conflicted vegan would be really interesting.
9 - Yeah it's literally cheese melted on chicken with some tomato sauce in between, and some of these really cheap places just put slices of kraft on some microwaved chicken low key. This guy is straight out the Key and Peele sketch:
1 - There is a documentary series on Netflix called Cooked and one of the episodes focuses strongly on how we use decay in calculated ways to enhance our food. The whole series is great but that one episode I found incredibly interesting.
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Yep, and everyone in this thread is so insistent - "well you just haven't had a GOOD X food yet"... it's like not wanting kids, everyone thinks you have a flawed opinion and that the only possible way you could feel that way is if you hadn't really tried yet. Like, no, I don't like mushrooms!
just slice up some mushrooms and sauté em till they become nice and crispy and shriveled. doesn't give you much of that mushroomy taste/texture, but it's a nice vessel for putting salt and oil into your body.
source: i've been cooking for myself for like 3 months now
I have had a lot of mushrooms that other people are crazy about like grilled portabellas stuffed with things I love like cheese and crab and I still hate them. I'm like "why did you ruin this cheese and crab." Ordered truffles on more than one occasion too because I want to experience the amazingness that other people do, apparently, but I'm always disappointed.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:43:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"wash" them with a damp paper towell and then saute them in a cast iron eith the pan drippings from a steak. 10/10 bro i didnt like mushrooms until this last year and now theyve my shit
This is why I hate these shows. If the judge simply doesn't like a certain food then you're fucked. You could have cooked it perfectly, but if they don't like it then too bad. You're out.
atnpgo · 1 points · Posted at 13:09:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Literally almost everyone uses it incorrectly on reddit. Also the word "meta". What the fuck is with you guys and using this word so often not just incorrectly, but kinda... in a way, opposite of what it means. Something is meta when it references or comments on itself. Something that just references something else is not meta. Example of a non meta reference---> ok so like say early in the day there's a front page post with like whatever, a picture of dog in a little dog fireman's helmet and I guess a like yellow fireman's whatever thing overcoat. Ok so then later in the afternoon there's an ask reddit thread doing like let's say "Reddit, what's the weirdest thing your pet ever did?". And then but one of the top replies is some story about how her car once knocked over a scented candle and half the dining room was damaged by the fire. And here's the crucial part: one of the top replies to that cat story is one of the post funny algorithmic reddit joke makers saying "if only fire dog had been there..." some fucking yutz says "it's getting meta in here!". No the last guy is fucking wrong. That's not a meta reference that's just a regular reference. Just because both of the things are on reddit doesn't make it meta. Imagine a big circle with several smalls squares floating around in it. One little square inside the big circle pointing to another square, isn't meta and them both being in big circle doesn't change that. Most of the time I don't give a shit about usage. Hell Im a no shame adopter of going full blown figurative "literally". But meta is an important word with a precise meaning and it's importance and usefulness is in that precision. Also Im typing this all out now so I can just paste it later. What was this even about?
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:43:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:12:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck you. Mushrooms are the gods.
FTFY
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:40:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to hate mushrooms, then I learned you can saute into whatever flavors you want; take some olive oil, butter, onions, garlic and mushrooms, add to basically anything. You will thank me. I have this as a base to pasta sauce and fajitas. Amazing.
I think I saw on hells kitchen where someone lost points because they used cilantro and the judge didn't like cilantro. How can you be a good judge and not like cilantro, or at least be able to be unbiased when a dish contains cilantro?
raspvidy · 1665 points · Posted at 03:20:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your entry for the contest is chicken parmigiana with chips? You win!
corgi_on_a_treadmill · 955 points · Posted at 04:24:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mac and cheese with cut up sausages? You win!
pm-me-uranus · 400 points · Posted at 04:29:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just a plate of vienna sausages? You win!
CassiusCray · 325 points · Posted at 04:35:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just a plate? You win!
VindexTV · 220 points · Posted at 04:39:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Masterchef: equality edition.
DTX41 · 198 points · Posted at 05:04:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Masterchef: Ethiopian edition.
Gcarsk · 211 points · Posted at 05:13:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Masterchief: Halo edition
mcdok · 71 points · Posted at 06:23:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Last Christmas I got my brother got an Xbox one bundled with the Masterchief Collection and it was late so we complained and I got a voicemail and the guy called it the Masterchef Collection and my dad threw a fit because he thought they messed it up.
Turns out they delivered it by mistake to my neighbor but they decided to wait 2 fucking weeks to give us back our package.
ThatsJustSad1 · 38 points · Posted at 07:51:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your neighbours or the deliverers?
mcdok · 34 points · Posted at 08:26:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
My neighbors
ThatsJustSad1 · 9 points · Posted at 08:32:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What? Kept it for 2 weeks? Did they open and play with it? Isn't that a crime where you live?
mcdok · 6 points · Posted at 08:46:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, that's the dumb part. They just kept it in the ups box or whatever. It was brand new when we opened it.
12DollarLargePizza · 3 points · Posted at 15:04:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you eventually return the Masterchef Collection?
SAGNUTZ · 3 points · Posted at 15:18:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Video games rot your brain anyway!" - Your neighbors and other stupid people.
neutronmelody · 7 points · Posted at 08:14:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Make me feel a little better...
yugiohhero · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:56 on March 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
THIS SOUP IS DRY
TheFlukeBadger · 26 points · Posted at 05:46:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/EthiopianFood
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 05:57:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Awwww
SAGNUTZ · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
At first I thought you were expressing sympathy.. | Turns out the subreddit doesn't exist... Yet. /r/savedyouaclick
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:57:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, the subreddit exists. You just can't post anything to it.
SAGNUTZ · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If a subreddit cant make any noise, does it exist? | NO
notoyrobots · 3 points · Posted at 09:34:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's pretty bomb, eh??? I really dig the use of lamb and the spongey bread you eat it all with.
BobSagetasaur · 3 points · Posted at 17:54:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
real talk ethiopian food is dang tasty...in Los Angeles
kare_kano · 2 points · Posted at 12:35:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But seriously visit an Ethiopian restaurant if you got one in your city, the food is amazing. The one in Berlin is great.
skooba_steev · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's nothing there, and that's hilarious.
But for real, Ethiopian food is delicious
kusahafiez · 24 points · Posted at 05:36:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
How do you start an Ethiopian rave party? Stick a piece of toast on the ceiling.
ForceBlade · 12 points · Posted at 05:14:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I cant eat a plate niqqa"
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:37:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
you can eat anything if you try hard enough
TruthTellerBot · 6 points · Posted at 06:05:19 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
the fuck is a niqqa
CoolingtonBeans · 23 points · Posted at 07:25:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
A big ole niqqlet
DrHolz · 3 points · Posted at 14:04:14 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's a niqqletto?
CoolingtonBeans · 2 points · Posted at 14:46:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
A lil ass niqqa
Mugi_91 · 2 points · Posted at 06:32:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably boondocks reference
https://youtu.be/IfaulfXZgUo
skooba_steev · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2WcQvNd9mg
WaterStoryMark · 14 points · Posted at 05:02:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/wewantplates
jad103 · 19 points · Posted at 06:36:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
wew ant plates
antdude · 2 points · Posted at 06:44:12 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
:D
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 04:47:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just a? You win!
Xethaios · 7 points · Posted at 05:07:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just? You win!
Dire_Noob · 8 points · Posted at 05:24:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You win!
kuntaz · 4 points · Posted at 05:32:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Win!
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 05:33:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 05:37:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
!niW
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:33:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:40:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/youbrokethejoke
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:21 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Take away again tonight? Awesome.
iamthinking2202 · 1 points · Posted at 12:17:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Five minute noodles? You're in.
Hordon_Gayward · 22 points · Posted at 05:59:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ordered a pizza? You win!
jmz_199 · 9 points · Posted at 08:08:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have a photo of Vienna sausages I took the other day. Thought you'd maybe need it http://i.imgur.com/aaFJy2A.png
tcosilver · 4 points · Posted at 08:22:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
thank you friend
jmz_199 · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No problem buddo
SAGNUTZ · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I found an open can of them the other day. Apparently, someone comes into my store once a week and opens a small can of Vienna sausages and eats ONE, then hides the open can behind other merchandise for me to find later. What a Cock-Smooch!
jmz_199 · 3 points · Posted at 17:37:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's... Definitely an interesting pick for food to steal. But to deter the sausage robber, just put rat poison in all of your cans.
SAGNUTZ · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That could actually work! No one ever buys them and the only movement of product is caused by this ONE sausage thief. /s
Tarantulasagna · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The packet of cheese dust from a box of Kraft? You win!
abrAaKaHanK · 8 points · Posted at 06:35:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Welp, I'm hungry now.
SAGNUTZ · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/gifrecipes
Dirt_Dog_ · 2 points · Posted at 07:31:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love hot dogs in my mac and cheese. Now I gotta try sausage.
Kirboid · 2 points · Posted at 08:02:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dennis Jr.?
Fionnlagh · 2 points · Posted at 08:38:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Andouille. It makes mac and cheese amazing.
ClassyJacket · 2 points · Posted at 11:13:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/shittyfoodporn
pistcow · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't forget the ketchup.
BushidoBrowne · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:54 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Disgusting
PolioKitty · 89 points · Posted at 04:28:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
A bowl of instant noodles? Hot damn!
greycubed · 72 points · Posted at 05:51:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Raw cookie dough? You god damn genius.
iEmptyHomes · 5 points · Posted at 06:46:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But it's RAW! Deep fry that shit. Mmmmm now we President.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 09:15:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The best thing about making Anzac biscuits is eating the raw dough off your hands. Mostly just butter and sugar, no raw eggs or anything.
LiquidSilver · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What is that sub? Posts that were removed from both /r/foodporn and /r/shittyfoodporn?
[deleted] · 73 points · Posted at 05:45:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I must be real low class, because chicken parmigiana sounds fancy...
BleepBloopComputer · 92 points · Posted at 05:53:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's pub food in Australia. Delicious, but pub food none the less.
[deleted] · 82 points · Posted at 06:14:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's very common in America too. We call it "chicken parm with fries."
They just think it sounds fancy because y'all spell it parmigiana instead of parmesan.
KingGorilla · 49 points · Posted at 10:38:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
We also call it chicky chicky parm parm
SexySorcerer · 13 points · Posted at 16:02:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eat it with a food rake.
AccessTheMainframe · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
>my face when americans call chickley pickley with parmerino "chicken parmigiana"
Wogner · 16 points · Posted at 08:44:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it's literally cheese melted on chicken with some tomato sauce in between, and some of these really cheap places just put slices of kraft on some microwaved chicken low key. This guy is straight out the Key and Peele sketch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=st21dIMaGMs
Newaccountusedtolurk · 1 points · Posted at 10:29:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
tomato paste you mean, right?
SAGNUTZ · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the power of using euphemisms. It increases sales for (evil)marketers but, makes the consumer feel stupid when they figure out its just chicken with cheese on it...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What euphemism? Parmigiana is just one way of spelling parmesan.
When they "figure out" that chicken parmesan is just chicken with parmesan on it?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:13:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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onemoreclick · 2 points · Posted at 12:38:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some states in Australia call it parmi, some states call it parma. But I think all of Australia can agree that parmo is a good name for it and sounds very Australian.
helzbellz · 1 points · Posted at 07:40:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was sat here thinking 'are they on about a parmo?' UTFB.
OneBlueAstronaut · 5 points · Posted at 07:09:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
pro tip, 99.9% of dishes with chicken in them are not fancy.
TROLL_CALIBER · 2 points · Posted at 10:19:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
whats parmigiana
HansBrixOhNo · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Female Parmesan obviously.
CuCl2 · 2 points · Posted at 11:09:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chick en parm you taste so good.
runujhkj · 2 points · Posted at 14:44:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Number 18 in the house.
Kevintrades · 1 points · Posted at 10:46:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is chicken nuggets
The_Ninjadillo · 272 points · Posted at 04:53:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
all i can think of is this moment from Chopped (skip to 0:20)
jefewyatt · 361 points · Posted at 05:08:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/qtqvtnC
Lord_of_the_Dance · 92 points · Posted at 09:37:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh god yes that would be so satisfying, even better if I move on to the next round because someone burnt something or worse and then I would get to do it again 😈
SAGNUTZ · 3 points · Posted at 15:42:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That has a hint of quiet brutality with an aftertaste that resembles righteous anger.
fprosk · 91 points · Posted at 06:02:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao and this guy has hated on raw onions in multiple episodes it's literally this post irl i love it
ThankYouCarlos · 239 points · Posted at 05:04:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I tasted them and it made me angry" lmao
Damn_Croissant · 97 points · Posted at 05:07:34 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"...and I taste them, and it kinda makes me angry."
Quas_E_modo · 10 points · Posted at 18:51:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I don't like raw onions. It has layers and crunchy and irritating and it smells up everywhere." - Scott Skywalker
PM_ME_YOUR_CAT_ · 35 points · Posted at 09:16:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you put &t=0m20s behind the link, it will start the video at 20 seconds
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 10:23:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or right click the video and copy from time paused.
Lord_of_the_Dance · 88 points · Posted at 09:38:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a poor judge, he's not supposed to judge on his personal likes or dislikes, he's supposed to judge the dish as a whole. He's way to bitter about the whole thing
Dasnap · 14 points · Posted at 17:24:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's the thing that's always confused me with judging on cooking shows. Everyone has at least one thing that they don't like the taste of. It must be difficult to judge if something is bad because of the ingredient you don't like or because of the dish as a whole. You might either underscore it because of the ingredient or overscore it because you try to 'make up' for your personal pickiness.
It's probably just better to avoid the onions all together. He made it clear he didn't like them, and he still used them. If he was lactose intolerant he wouldn't cover it in cheese. He can't judge well while projectile shitting.
BenevolentCheese · 89 points · Posted at 05:16:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The chef (contestant) is crazy. Dude specifically says "I don't want raw onions" and he gives them to him anyway with the excuse "I thought they added to the freshness?" Come on, man. Is that what you are going to do in your restaurant? A customer orders something without whatever and you stick it in there anyway because you thought it tasted better? A chef that doesn't understand his customers is a chef without a job.
mmzznnxx · 67 points · Posted at 06:54:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but Scott Conant is a bag of dicks.
If someone ordered one of his meals and said something like, "no parsley on the dish", I'd bet dollars to doughnuts he would throw a bitch fit about not respecting his art or something.
tasteecake · 81 points · Posted at 05:27:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but isn't the point of it being by the chef's design? He's more there for the ride and should have put his hate of the onions behind him, it's not a restaurant and he's not a customer.
grubas · 43 points · Posted at 05:40:54 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
God there was a great Iron Chef at one point where one of the judges was a complete bag of bitch. The ingredient was either shellfish or oyster, but she spent half the meal bitching about how she hated oysters.
marshal_mellow · 13 points · Posted at 21:07:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the old (japanese?) iron chef there was an episode where the ingredient was beef. One of the chefs cooked it with potatoes.
This lady spent the whole episode talking about what an usual combination that was. Beef and potatoes? Who does that!?
beer__shits · 5 points · Posted at 09:23:56 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aren't the judges supposed to be experienced chefs/restaurant critics? That's pretty pathetic if she never heard of beef and potatoes even if it's not common in Japan.
BenevolentCheese · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
All restaurant meals are by chef's design. And all of those meals are served to customers with some degree of tastes preferences, aversions, or allergies. It is your job as a chef to modify your design to fit the needs of the customer as necessary.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 14:57:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily. You don't have to accommodate somebody's dislike of raw onions, especially in the context of fine dining.
ivtecdoyou · 0 points · Posted at 15:25:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's part of the show.
If you legitimately HATE the taste of something then how are you supposed to get past it?
It's happened occasionally when Scott is a judge that a contestant puts raw red onions on the plate. It very very rarely eliminates a contestant, and it's never the sole reason.
HumbleManatee · 127 points · Posted at 05:29:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The judges aren't exactly customers, the cooks dont have to give a shit about what they like they just have to make good food with certain specified ingredients
Rowani · 47 points · Posted at 06:28:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure, but if you're in a competition why the hell would you shoot yourself in the foot like that by doing something you know the judge won't like.
HumbleManatee · 51 points · Posted at 07:49:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Im not saying it was a smart idea, just that they dont take orders from the judges as if they were customers. Its all about the creativity of the chef and what they do with the given ingredients
maimonguy · -2 points · Posted at 07:26:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's the nature of redditors, they'll always go on technicalities.
Kind of autistic.
ManiacMan97 · 12 points · Posted at 08:35:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's the technicality? Yeah judging is subjective and all so tastes will come into play but I think cooking is an art and this guy went with his gut and stayed true to his own art form.
Is it not the smartest play? Yeah I'd agree it's a bit dumb. But I think he was making the best dish he thinks he could have made in a show about making your best dish.
Imo judges shouldn't bitch that much either but that's a different topic.
maimonguy · -1 points · Posted at 08:43:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Let's make a really stupid hypothetical situation.
You have a test in literature, you know what the teacher thinks about the book the test is about but you have a different opinion, will you do it according the their opinion and risk them saying you're wrong and didn't understand the story or go along with their opinion so you can get the better grade?
Of course your opinion may be valid and maybe even more people and / or other teachers agree with you but why risk it for petty nonsense, even if you know you're writing garbage.
If you wanna pass a reality show you gotta appeal to the judges, it doesn't matter that your dish is objectively better than the other dish but they'll like the other dish more, after you win you can make the better dish for people that want it.
ManiacMan97 · 9 points · Posted at 08:50:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean it really depends on what your values are. One time I cheated on a final in high school and got away with it (grades submitted same day) but I felt so bad I admitted it the next day. Thankfully he didn't tell the school and only took off a letter grade but I could imagine a lot of people calling that stupid and while I won't deny that, I stand by what I did.
If your thing is just to win then yeah that makes sense. If your thing is do right by yourself then you're going to do things differently than the "right way".
maimonguy · 1 points · Posted at 09:04:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cheating breaks the rules though. You're not hurting anyone or breaking and rules by making a different meal.
ManiacMan97 · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It'd hurt himself
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 09:24:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cheaters like you are assholes and its ridiculous to equate that to preparing a meal that the judges will enjoy
ManiacMan97 · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:09 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You fuck a goat once...
Mirshikar · 45 points · Posted at 06:30:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
They aren't there to enjoy food. They are there to judge the food based on quality, taste, execution, skill, and more. Sure you may not like it, but if you can't get past that and objectively look at the food for what it is, you shouldn't be judging.
In this case, despite hating raw onion, was it fitting for the meal? Did it add to the meal? Would the meal have been better or the same without? If you can't answer those questions objectively, you aren't for judging.
What if an Olympic gymnast judge said "well I would have given you a better score, but I just don't like spins and flips in routines." They would be laughed away for not being objective. Were the flips and spins executed perfectly? What flaws were there, if any? Could they be improved? If you can't find a reason they should not have been there, you can't remove points.
I mean you could go further and more extreme with anecdotes, but the point remains. Judges look at what is in question objectively. Not like a customer.
Arkyance · 7 points · Posted at 09:04:51 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Objectively, if you hate the flavor of an item, then it never would add to it for you. Food palettes are completely and utterly subjective, there's no objectivity to be had in taste. For example, mushrooms make me feel ill. They taste like dirt, have the texture of pure animal fat, and smell awful. There is zero context where I find them even palatable, much less could enjoy them. If a dish were served to me with mushrooms, I can't say it fit the meal, added to it, and I know objectively the meal was worse to me for having them. Since I can't eat them without such a horribly averse reaction, how the hell would I "objectively" determine whether or not the mushrooms were even good in the context of the foods they were cooked with?
ThatsFair · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I totally agree with you, both about taste being subjective and about mushrooms tasting awful - to me the chewiness is what I imagine eating styrofoam would be like and the taste ranges from "why do people even bother, it literally has no flavor" to "goddamn, who rubbed their unwashed taint on my dinner,".
That being said, most people like mushrooms (and onions) and maybe those of us that despise certain popular foods shouldn't be judges on cooking shows?
WheatGerm42 · 3 points · Posted at 16:40:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love how much of a power trip this is for him.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
At that point I'd just make the dessert a whole raw onion to fuck with him.
akm-scout · 2 points · Posted at 10:31:38 on March 1, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I was thinking an onion jam", for those that couldn't understand the last part
Hlangel · 1563 points · Posted at 03:43:21 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I thought this said masterchief. And I was wondering what he had done with mushrooms.
felio_ · 612 points · Posted at 04:40:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cortana u r out
DTX41 · 283 points · Posted at 04:42:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah Cortana that's gonna be a no from me dawg
dekrant · 3 points · Posted at 18:02:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's gonna be a dawg from me, no.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 05:36:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Outer space on mushrooms. This halo tastes like purple!
crypticfreak · 22 points · Posted at 06:04:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chief: Cortana help I ran out of ideas for games
Cortana: say no more
MechAegis · 18 points · Posted at 05:59:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I must be tried. I read the title as "Master Chief" and now i just read Cortana as "Contra."
tinkerbell72311 · 19 points · Posted at 06:11:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I must also be tried, I read tried as tired lol
bobby_pendragon · 7 points · Posted at 19:37:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everyone's tired, get some damn sleep people!
MAJORpaiynne · 5 points · Posted at 12:27:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Barvo pls
Zintho9 · 6 points · Posted at 07:25:30 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I smell a new season of Arby and the Chief
crazyweaselbob · 3 points · Posted at 06:13:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
too soon man
ArmoredKappa · 3 points · Posted at 06:42:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
lolololololololoolololololo
TROLL_CALIBER · 1 points · Posted at 10:19:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wb Siri
Septembers · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of those old "Master Chief sucks at" videos on YouTube from like 2008.
I read this in Microsoft Sam's voice
casemodsalt · 30 points · Posted at 05:34:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Halo 8: the trip to mars.
Find out if masterchief has been on an insane drug trip this entire time, or if he's really battling aliens all over the galaxy.
Miserable_company · 7 points · Posted at 05:33:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly how I read it.
DroidChargers · 24 points · Posted at 03:51:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same.
diaperdump1 · 3 points · Posted at 07:52:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Literally was the post right above this http://i.imgur.com/T3QHwk6.jpg
JDX123 · 1 points · Posted at 09:33:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read the exact same thing. I got so confused until I read your comment and went back to re-read OP's post.
BetaInTheSheets · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
me too thanks
Avatar8885 · 431 points · Posted at 04:27:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Chicken tendies?! We have a victor!
calacast · 71 points · Posted at 04:56:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But only if they're crispy
burdturgler1154 · 7 points · Posted at 19:01:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or from Wendy's
BlameTheHippies · 35 points · Posted at 05:50:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
How many GBP for masterchef tendies?
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 06:00:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 08:40:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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XenXem · 3 points · Posted at 12:49:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
REEEEEEEEEE NORMIES GET OOUUUUT
BlameTheHippies · 15 points · Posted at 06:07:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/tendies
Levelis · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your country has the most people in jail for the population. You are not nearly the most free.
Dont_be_offended_but · 897 points · Posted at 04:03:30 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a picky eater, my greatest fear is someone going full chef and preparing an amazing meal that I will have to choke down with a smile.
ManateeHill · 1658 points · Posted at 04:25:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm also a picky eater and my greatest fear is getting tortured mercilessly until I die a terrible death.
[deleted] · 284 points · Posted at 04:28:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 207 points · Posted at 04:48:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a picky eater as well and my greatest fear is being left out of this karma train
DoneHam56 · 95 points · Posted at 04:50:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Picky eater too. Spiders.
HumbleManatee · 88 points · Posted at 05:23:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Huh, never heard of someone that only eats spiders before. But hey, people are picky about all sorts of things
DoneHam56 · 30 points · Posted at 05:35:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
ohyou.jpg
neilarmsloth · 23 points · Posted at 05:39:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not really a picky eater but my worst fear is making poorly timed/largely irrelevant comments
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 05:55:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Picky eater here. My biggest fear is getting gold
Dead2TheCore · 10 points · Posted at 09:03:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
E for effort
vmcreative · 2 points · Posted at 17:17:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
X for Xenoblade Chronicles
jonnywoh · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a picky eater and my greatest fear is coming to a thread way too late to be seen by anyone
mcdinkleberry · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Picky eater too. Failure.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:08:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
spiders are fucking awesome fite me
asusoverclocked · 2 points · Posted at 07:05:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not a pick eater. I just want karma too.
boobgourmet · 0 points · Posted at 05:57:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me too. Thanks!
SoRryIIforg0t · 6 points · Posted at 04:51:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well that is how we all die. Alone. No matter who you are.
tinkerbell72311 · 7 points · Posted at 06:13:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unless I take a busload of people with me..Not fellow redditors though, they'd be safe as we never go outside.
preoncollidor · 2 points · Posted at 08:25:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even beyond that humans obviously die in large groups with distressing frequency there's the guy right above this one being mercilessly tortured to death.
"Your torturer isn't there and I'm not real either, you are dying alone like everyone, I swear."
Biobot775 · 6 points · Posted at 05:35:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Which incidentally is more likely because it sucks taking picky eaters out on dates.
tinkerbell72311 · 13 points · Posted at 06:14:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really, everywhere serves chicken tendy baskets and honey mustard.
Biobot775 · 2 points · Posted at 06:22:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha, ok except you, you're precious
Folmer · 2 points · Posted at 07:09:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definitely not everywhere. Plenty of places where picky eaters are sol.
AerThreepwood · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey look, it's what's going to happen to me because of who I am as a person. Just a revolving door of field that I don't care about and then self destructing the second I think it might go anywhere.
ovoxo_tofu · 11 points · Posted at 04:45:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not a picky eater and my greatest fear is being tied up and having my balls being put in a blender and left to die bleeding out.
dedragon40 · 19 points · Posted at 04:34:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's my second greatest fear. My greatest fear is all of that, but then being rescucitated and released to resume my normal every day life.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:16:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm also a picky eater but I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Icepick823 · 1 points · Posted at 06:55:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's your recipe for fear itself?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:25:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp cinnamon
3 cups banking crisis
1/2 tsp MDMA
4 weeks uneployment
o_zeta_acosta · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Somethin somethin first world somethin...
Seriously though.
iEmptyHomes · 2 points · Posted at 06:48:34 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's actually more logical to fear things that are more likely to happen to you. So, it makes more sense for someone to have a greater fear of a minor socially awkward situation, then being tortured to death. Unless you living in the middle east and are white.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:54 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm also a picky eater and that's my fetish ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 04:49:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm also a picky eater and you're my fetish ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Vindexus · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Michael Scott: My biggest fear is turning into [Ed Truck].
Creed: Michael, you should have much bigger fears than that.
Michael Scott: I wasn't talking literally, Creed. Yeah, being buried alive would be worse. Happy? Why am I talking to you?
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
with a spoon?
biddily · 39 points · Posted at 04:45:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm allergic to both cheeses and red wines.
This is my fear every single time I go to a party. :( Only I can't choke it down cause it will be extremely obvious when my face starts turning red and swelling up.
RainbowSalmon · 58 points · Posted at 04:52:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
just walk it off
mythical_legend · 13 points · Posted at 05:42:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
mind over matter
AlexS101 · 1 points · Posted at 13:32:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Put your shoulders up.
willwcb · 47 points · Posted at 05:29:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Allergic is different from picky though
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 05:40:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wine I could do without...but cheese? Tbh a cure for lactose intolerance shoukd be second just after cancer on the world's things to cure list.
biddily · 16 points · Posted at 05:53:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If only it was lactose intolerance - its an actually allergy. like... swelling and rashes and itchiness. I can eat all the milk and ice cream i want though - so - ice cream! Also, the older the cheese the worse the reaction, so i can usually have a piece of pizza and only suffer a slightly itchy nose. Parmasean is off the table, and you should see what happened after I ate some cheeseits thinking there wasnt actually real cheese on them. (My lips swelled up worse than kylie jenner's bottle fad thing)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:00:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man thats wild, as a memer who knows jack shit a out food allergies Id have thought aged cheese woukd be better. Stay safe cheese pupper.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:44:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You'd think that because aged cheese has less lactose, so people who are lactose intolerant will tell you they can handle aged cheese.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Histamines specifically in cheeses? Or something microbiological?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:34:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 09:08:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Histamines are also present in foods (typically foods left at ~room temperature for long periods of time... like an aged cheese), and certain people can have issues with that.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17490952/
Mirshikar · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I assume it is something to do with the bacterias and molds.
awesomemanftw · 2 points · Posted at 06:07:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There are already supplements like lactaid that people with lactose intolerance eat dairy. I hear you still get cramps though
Proto-Dodo · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm lactose intolerant and I can confirm that the pills work.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:20:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
IMO most cheese is fucking disgusting
awesomemanftw · 5 points · Posted at 06:06:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean people can't really fault you for not wanting to almost die
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 06:37:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL there are only two types of cheeses.
Q1189998819991197253 · 1 points · Posted at 08:44:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm dairy and gluten allergic, I know your pain. Though mine just makes me sneeze 10 times in a row and all phlegmy.
[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 04:27:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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PoopyPossum · 18 points · Posted at 04:58:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why is his eyes so tiny lmao
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 05:09:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are you're grammar bad lmao
lamenralus · 16 points · Posted at 08:49:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why am I still alive haha
8696David · 1 points · Posted at 07:25:46 on January 23, 2017 · (Permalink)
me too thanks
KualaG · 10 points · Posted at 08:41:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It comes across as picky but I have what I can only describe as an anxious appetite. I'm not usually hungry when I should be (no appetite, nothing looks good at all). When I'm with people it makes it harder to pretend to have an appetite, especially for unfamiliar or disliked foods and the idea of eating makes me nauseas. Going out to new restaurants scares me because I don't know if I can find something normal enough I'd want to eat. Still not sure what to do about this.
Chibils · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:41 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hey friend. I've never met someone who can relate to this experience. I've never seen it described before but I have the same issue. Just wanted you to know you're not alone out there.
borkborkporkbork · 13 points · Posted at 05:36:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a home cook who likes to go full chef, my greatest fear is picky eaters. I want so badly to make things that taste good to everybody.
Dasnap · 3 points · Posted at 17:29:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just have some chicken nuggets on the side and I'll happily eat those.
Q1189998819991197253 · 4 points · Posted at 08:49:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Make pasta for me and you're set. I just don't like meat too much.
therobinprotoss · 2 points · Posted at 12:27:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sounds like fun when you are going full chef.
MisuVir · 4 points · Posted at 08:57:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is fairly easy to ask your guests if there's something they don't like.
iEmptyHomes · -11 points · Posted at 06:49:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nachos. Cheese. Chicken. Go nuts on the various dips, like different kinds of homemade salsas and cheese sauces.
nicktheone · 10 points · Posted at 08:20:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boring.
-Jaws- · 157 points · Posted at 04:59:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is it bad that picky eaters annoy the shit out of me?
mantism · 31 points · Posted at 06:11:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I ate with a bunch of friends once, two of them who once said they were picky eaters. I didn't think much of it until we spent half an hour watching one pick bits of garlic from her pasta. I thought it was bad until the fried rice that the other picky friend ordered came in, and he started picking out every bit of vegetable and onion from it.
AKernelPanic · 29 points · Posted at 07:12:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a picky eater but I'd much rather ask the server to not add a bunch of stuff to my food than to pick it all out.
Tacos_and_Earl_Grey · 18 points · Posted at 09:10:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Funny you mention that vegetables are what is being picked off. From my experience most picky eaters are people who grew up unhealthy and cannot eat healthy or fresh foods. They prefer processed unhealthy stuff. My best friend says she's picky but it's mainly because all she eats is pasta casseroles and rices. Only vegetables she eats are things like canned peas and things like that. Obviously not all picky eaters are like that but most I have seen are.
thatguy3O5 · 6 points · Posted at 11:59:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This. Every picky eater I've met grew up very poor and won't eat things like vegetables or seafood. Most of them have seemed to break the habit as they age though, there's only so many business lunches you can order Chicken fingers at before people start thinking it's a sign of larger issues.
FezDaStanza · 2 points · Posted at 14:29:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think it has to do with growing up poor. I grew up poor and it meant we had to eat whatever my mother served. That meant learning to like eating eggplants, mushrooms, olives, okra, etc.
I think it has to do with the culture in the West where both parents work and cheap food doesn't mean veggies, it means KFC. Kids grow up without needing to try new foods and with the privilege of simply not eating what they don't like.
thatguy3O5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't disagree with that.
In all fairness, the whole both parents working and eating cheap food leans towards what I was speaking of.
Hust91 · 9 points · Posted at 08:30:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
When some flavors literally cause you to puke, it pays to have a careful eye.
Spaghetti bolognese can get really tiresome, though.
Cakeo · 2 points · Posted at 11:01:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Name those flavours.
Snowstar837 · 2 points · Posted at 11:19:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not the same person, but whenever I taste a really tough bitter leaf, cooked onions, mushrooms, or bananas, I gag :/
Cakeo · 5 points · Posted at 11:28:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm the same with hollandaise sauce just interested in other people's gag food. Cooked onions? Onions are literally in verything under the sun and are amazing. Red or brown?
Snowstar837 · 1 points · Posted at 11:39:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Any kind of onion that's cooked. But I'm fine with raw ones. I just don't like the texture when they are cooked.
Hust91 · 1 points · Posted at 07:43:01 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me, those would be things like, among many, brown beans, some kinds of "medicinal tea", paprika, aged cheeses, and, say, yellow pea soup.
tenders11 · 1 points · Posted at 13:29:08 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm late but yellow mustard makes me gag even if it's such a tiny amount that most people wouldn't taste it. I once took a bite out of a sandwich that had a tiny bit of mustard on it because the person making it didn't wipe the knife off before cutting it. I didn't even see the mustard but one bite and I gagged. Literally can't even swallow it. Even the smell is nauseating for me.
Cakeo · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:02 on January 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of mustard? English or American? I think there is a French as well? Spicy or not?
tenders11 · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:34 on January 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't stomach any of them
Cakeo · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:21 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
They all taste different.
tenders11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:03 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good for them, still gag when I eat any of them
Cakeo · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:09 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just saying mate it's like 2 different things. American and English are nothing alike
tenders11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:11 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just don't understand why you're trying to convince me that I'm wrong about me not liking any kind of mustard, lol
Cakeo · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:45 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not was just making conversation. Seemed like you didn't know there is more than one type.
-Jaws- · 3 points · Posted at 07:06:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh god, that sound excruciating for everyone.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 08:17:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why not just ask for plain fried rice?
helzbellz · 2 points · Posted at 08:37:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Picking garlic out? That's impossible right? Almost like if you were to try to pick salt out.
MisuVir · 4 points · Posted at 08:51:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can attempt to remove any larger chunks, but garlic flavour tends to infuse into whatever it is cooked with.
Kanyes_PhD · 39 points · Posted at 07:34:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a picky eater I annoy the shit out of myself.
You think I like not liking stuff? I want to like stuff.
FUCK_YOU_DEBBIE · 8 points · Posted at 14:47:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
GODDAMMIT YES. I am incredibly picky with ground beef and things like that, so I just can't do burgers. I fucking hate it. Everyone makes burgers sound so good and I wanna experience that but I can't because it just makes me gag.
Dasnap · 3 points · Posted at 17:33:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't have a dislike for burgers, but I can only take about three bites before my mouth is bored of them and then it becomes a chore to eat. Beef tastes of nothing to me, and I've eaten it at multiple restaurants to try and 'train myself' to like it. I usually give up half way through.
BlakeMassengale · 9 points · Posted at 14:08:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
In all seriousness though, taste preference is really easy to change. There are a handful of things you may never like, but if you force yourself to eat foods you don't like, they will eventually grow on you. They won't be your favorite but you'll definitely expand your taste. I learned this the hard way by spending 4 weeks in a country where I had 0 access to "normal" food 90% of the time. By the end of the trip I enjoyed many of the things I hated at the beginning. I went from choking down 2 or 3 bites of muck to eating whole meals in about a week. Unless you have dietary restrictions you can easily change.
VeryDisappointing · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:54 on January 8, 2017 · (Permalink)
I find it gets easier by both, being hungry, and being drunk
Dioxy · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can force yourself to change, I used to be super picky just a few years ago, but I forced myself to try new foods until I enjoyed them, and now I'll eat anything
Dunlocke · 10 points · Posted at 06:00:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It depends. In a relationship, it can be trying. But if it's just your friends, you can relax a little dude.
IanMazgelis · 187 points · Posted at 05:12:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't realize me choosing not to eat certain foods causes so many problems for you.
-Jaws- · 205 points · Posted at 05:12:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You'd be surprised by how many irrelevant things infuriate me.
frustratinbubble · 12 points · Posted at 05:18:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
*things
LoLCoron · 4 points · Posted at 07:29:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
me too thanks
TacoRedneck · 2 points · Posted at 14:24:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Like kids on inflatable rafts? or guys in small rowboats? Or a marine biologist, sheriff, or old sea dog on a fishing boat?
Very_Juicy · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:46 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/meirl
MrHyperbowl · 43 points · Posted at 06:16:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It does cause people you want to hang out with have a limited food choice.
IanMazgelis · 17 points · Posted at 06:44:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't have to eat just because we're going out. I don't care about what other people eat.
MrHyperbowl · 23 points · Posted at 07:00:19 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but it makes people feel bad or uncomfortable.
IanMazgelis · 44 points · Posted at 07:58:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh so their feelings are important but mine aren't?
Johnnypoopoopanties · 14 points · Posted at 14:03:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean you seem like a bunghole so...
Yes.
crispyporkbelly · 18 points · Posted at 08:40:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
no, but it can be difficult choosing a place to eat or even cooking for them or planning party of food when they have an extremely limited palette. it's more bothersome for me when you date a picky eater vs. friending one.
EpicallyAverage · 4 points · Posted at 19:40:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me not liking onions isn't a fucking choice. Cook whatever the fuck you want.... it doesn't bother picky eaters not to eat onions so it shouldn't bother you.
GreatestOfAllTime96 · 6 points · Posted at 20:03:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
i think you're missing the point
when people are real picky eaters you have to cater to them fully because they won't shut the fuck up about it because they feel discriminated against. if you don't like onions that doesn't make you a picky eater. if someone won't eat anything but chicken fingers, fries, and mac and cheese then they are, and this severely limits the things you can eat with them because you have to go somewhere that has one of their top 3 foods or they won't fucking eat it. in this scenario no one can go get ramen or pizza or mexican or chinese because they have to cater to this one person who eats nothing but french fries because they have failures for parents.
no one sane gets mad at someone for disliking things with strong flavors like onions or gross textures like mushrooms, it's when they've refused to try new things their entire life so their taste consists of literally 5 foods.
that's what annoys me at least
EpicallyAverage · 0 points · Posted at 20:26:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are missing the point. You want people to change themselves for your convenience. You are more worried about how awkward you feel when they do not eat something than how bad the feel for not eating it. You need to get over yourself. You don't get to decide what people like.
GreatestOfAllTime96 · 3 points · Posted at 21:39:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
i don't feel awkward at all lol
i feel bad for them if anything
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever tho. enjoy your limited food options.
crispyporkbelly · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I see I hit a nerve, lol.
EpicallyAverage · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not really.... you are just wrong and using explicit language helps drill in the message. So, to sum up, go fuck yourself you self-centered piece of shit.
Cakeo · 11 points · Posted at 10:57:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Edit: I kinda lost sight of what I was talking about
The way you are responding to these comments is proving his point. It's clearly a touchy a subject for you. I don't care nor think what my friends eat though when we go out, if you don't like anything on the menu cos you don't eat ( for example ) carrots then tooooo baaaaad. I'm not going to look for specific restaurants to suit everyone's needs. On that note you should give everything a 2nd, 3rd and 4th try and then keep trying it. I hated mushrooms, tried again last year and now I love them on my steaks. Still hate tomatoes but im sure one day I'll get it 😂
OffMyMedzz · 37 points · Posted at 10:17:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a problem because it's what 6 year olds do, not grown adults.
It also bothers me because most people aren't picky eaters because they don't like the food, but because they don't like the idea of that food. Most picky eaters won't have a problem eating a food they don't like if they think it's something else.
Snowstar837 · 9 points · Posted at 11:16:34 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk, I'm one of the pickiest eaters I know and it's because I can't deal with the texture or taste of some foods without feeling sick. It may be because of autism, but I always feel horrible when I can't eat something because of it. Some people can't help it at all, and it sucks being picky. I wish I could enjoy food normally, and I'm sure most picky eaters do, too.
Not to mention, some people have certain taste receptors others don't, so certain foods can end up tasting repulsive to one person and good to another, like cilantro or dark green vegetables.
OffMyMedzz · 3 points · Posted at 13:24:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea I know people who have I assume have different taste receptors and react to differently to common foods.
As someone who was diagnosed with a form of autism as a child, that was how I behaved. Somewhere the line I stopped giving a shit though. The reaction to the texture was usually something that was in my head before I tried it. Ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.
lmAtWork · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are describing ARFID
[deleted] · 35 points · Posted at 10:41:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It makes me irrationally angry to hear picky eaters talk openly about how picky they are. It's like dude you should be ashamed of that, not walking around advertising you have the eating habits of a child. For me it just makes me think someone is immature and spoiled. When I was a kid my mom's rule was eat it or don't eat, and it should be the same for picky eaters, eat the food or shut up and don't eat.
TheNinjaNarwhal · 18 points · Posted at 11:54:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You really think we want to be picky? I hate it but I can't do anything about it, so it's better to laugh about it than sit in a corner and cry because you can't like all those amazing things that others eat.
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 12:02:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I kinda honestly think you just haven't pushed yourself outside your comfort zone and as such have developed a phobia of things that are unfamiliar
TheNinjaNarwhal · 7 points · Posted at 12:19:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, I was always trying new things.(except from when I was a little kid) I want to be able to eat tomato so badly and I just can't. I want to be able to eat mushrooms, they taste SO FUCKING GOOD but they feel gooey and slimey. Like, I can eat some of those if it's with other food and not too many, but they still annoy me a bit. Yesterday I ate at a friend, delicious pasta with cheese and mushrooms. I ate all the mushrooms from my plate in my first bites with the rest of the food, so that I could have only pasta on my last because I don't like mushrooms.(was fine, but I would definitely prefer if I could just take them out and I would have done so if I was alone at home)
Edit: also, I'm kind of relieved lately, because I started liking more food. People have always told me it will happen when you grow up, everyone says it happened to them around 20(I'm some years late but I can see it's starting). I honestly have been trying everything forever, textures still bug me, I always try or even eat a lot of food that friends made although it has stuff that I don't really like, but only recently I started liking some more flavors. Textures still annoy me and I hate it.
OffMyMedzz · 5 points · Posted at 13:16:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's how I was as a child, and most people. Once you stop giving a shit and worrying about if you like it or not it won't bother you. Textures really are a mental thing.
TheNinjaNarwhal · 5 points · Posted at 13:26:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah I'm not worrying that I might not like something, I just I don't like stuff, there's nothing more to that. i don't think it's something mental, it's a characteristic(that maybe goes away with age?). I can eat pizza, for example, with mushrooms. Sometimes they don't bother me because they are well cooked(I think?), and you can just bite into them and it's just the taste of mushroom that I like and a normal texture, sometimes(well, usually) they are exactly like you got them out of a can, that sound and feeling like you're biting plastic, and they bother me. I'm never worried, I just bite and if it feels weird I take out the big pieces or endure it.
There are people that don't like jelly, but are not generally picky. Is that mental? I can't understand why they don't like it, just like others can't understand my weirdnesses, but I accept it.
*I also stopped giving a shit 2-3 years ago, I saw difference indeed, but only a really small part of it was mental. 5-6 years ago I wouldn't touch things I knew I don't like, now I can eat them and don't act like a spoilt child(I really couldn't eat those things though, I remember how I felt when I chewed them) but I still don't like many things, and I still will take the onions out of my bolognese if they bother me when I'm alone lol.
morgaina · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not a mushroom person, but I've heard good things about portobello mushroom burgers. According to the weirdos who like them, they have a really meaty texture when you cook them the right way. You might try that?
TheNinjaNarwhal · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a place close to my house called "the mushroom"(in my language) they have mushroom-meatballs(made out of mushroom, dunno how to call them). They're fucking delicious. I could try what you said, indeed.
crispyporkbelly · 2 points · Posted at 14:34:19 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have many friends that dislike mushrooms. I thought I've hated it too because my mom would prepare these dried shiitake mushrooms that I absolutely hated. Until I got older and was able to taste different kinds on my own; enoki mushrooms in Asian soups, stir fried shiitake (non-dried), or even on pizza.
TheNinjaNarwhal · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I tried a weird kind of mushrooms(that persons mother picked them in the village she lives or something) fried, they were the best thing ever. When I say I don't like mushrooms I'm talking about the mushrooms we usually see the most.
EpicallyAverage · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You don't fucking know that Redditor... you have no fucking clue what it is like being them.
MJ_in_the_finals · 4 points · Posted at 13:10:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This was my grandmas rule and if i didn't like something i just wouldn't eat that night. No reason that should bother you. Also no matter the restaurant im sure i can find something on the menu to eat so my friends don't have to worry about choosing places i dont like
lmAtWork · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy crap you are judgemental and don't even have a clue what you are talking about.
I don't have a choice about being a picky eater, is a very annoying and serious thing. Your post is like bashing people with OCD. I physically can't eat the vast majority of food, I will get sick at the very thought of it.
GreatestOfAllTime96 · 2 points · Posted at 20:07:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
then you're not a picky eater because you have an actual reason
that's like a guy on here saying they hate people who don't eat gluten for arbitrary reasons and then someone with celiac coming in and going FUCK YOU I CANT EAT GLUTEN it's like hey, we're not talking about you we're talking about the people who don't eat anything but pizza because their parents sucked
chisoph · 2 points · Posted at 13:00:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not exactly a picky eater, there are a few foods that i won't choose to eat on my own but if it's in front of me I'll go for it anyways.
That being said, I absolutely positively cannot stand olives. Black or green, they gross me out. If I catch a whiff of olive I vacate. I don't know what it is, I just can't do it.
lmAtWork · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant/restrictive_food_intake_disorder
We don't have a choice, the texture of a food makes a HUGE difference. Just the thought of eating many foods will make me sick. No, I've never tried raw fish. No, I'm not going to. Just the act of trying to eat it would have me throwing up on the floor regardless of what it tasted like.
It's not a choice for many adults that are picky eaters any more than it's a choice for people with OCD to wash their hands until their hands are raw and bloody or to flip a light switch four hundred times a day.
Heroicis · 1 points · Posted at 11:48:30 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me it's just like... some foods I just can not scarf down... like most sort of beans... and I come from a hispanic family. Like I simply can not eat beans, refried or anything, because I will gag and throw them up.
EpicallyAverage · 0 points · Posted at 19:40:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are a moron.
OffMyMedzz · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
And you're probably a picky eater.
I'd rather be a moron.
EpicallyAverage · 0 points · Posted at 20:27:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Figured as much.
mos_definite · 14 points · Posted at 05:47:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just be normal
IanMazgelis · 12 points · Posted at 05:48:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not gonna happen.
WhyNotFerret · 0 points · Posted at 09:08:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Definitely not me irl
sirixamo · 0 points · Posted at 09:12:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is having food preferences not normal?
thatwentBTE · 23 points · Posted at 06:19:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll tell you whats 10X worse then picky eaters. People who are picky about cola. coke vs pepsi vs rc. I can understand having a favorite. But why people have to be like "ew fuck. A pepsi, no thanks." Like you just offered them dogshit instead of a nearly identical tasting product.
-Jaws- · 8 points · Posted at 07:06:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes! I refuse to believe that one can be disgusting while the other is delicious - they're virtually identical.
tenders11 · 2 points · Posted at 13:32:21 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
Totally. I prefer pepsi but the difference is very small. I actually don't really love pepsi OR coke, but I like the diet versions. I can definitely tell the difference between diet pepsi and diet coke, but it's not that big a deal. I find regular coke and pepsi too syrupy and they leave my mouth feeling weird after drinking them.
maimonguy · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't drink cola but sprite vs 7up is huge for me.
7up is honestly disgusting and gives me a lot of mucous for some reason.
scamp41 · 53 points · Posted at 05:04:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a former picky eater, no they are annoying. Food is good get over it and try some.
-Jaws- · 79 points · Posted at 05:08:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I mean I get not liking something, but with some people it's ridiculous. I know they usually can't help it, but it doesn't make it any less annoying. I have a friend who won't eat fish, won't eat anything goopy, won't eat fast food cheese, and on and on. It's fucking ridiculous. One time I made him and I spaghetti when he spent the night and he said "it tastes gross because you made it with sink water". Fuck off.
PullMeOff · 44 points · Posted at 05:22:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
sharpens knife in exaggeratedly slow manner
I mean, honestly, what would they propose you make it with? Evian? Perdot? Frigging dick butter? Come on now.
Your plight resonates with me as my wife is a picky eater and I like seafood. I love preparing it and eating it. Guess who used to not be able to eat seafood because "the taste lingers on the pans" after being washed by hand and then in the dishwasher? :L
Compromised this Christmas though when I asked for a set of pans and pots exclusively for seafood so I can simultaneously make her chicken or tacos. :D
camdoodlebop · 40 points · Posted at 06:37:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know about you but I only eat pasta boiled in water from the untouched mountaintops of Antarctica
Lord_of_the_Dance · 5 points · Posted at 09:34:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I only eat pasta cooked with water extracted a mile beneath the glacier surface of Europa
TacoRedneck · 2 points · Posted at 14:27:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I gather water molecules one by one after I witness the hypernova of giant stars.
Stridsvagn · 1 points · Posted at 09:56:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Lord_of_the_Dance · 1 points · Posted at 10:28:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, don't want the water to get all rover icky
Mirshikar · 14 points · Posted at 06:12:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy crap that is horrible. My wife is picky, and allergies to some so those are ok. But she doesn't care what was in the pan before. It doesn't have anything left. It is a placebo if anything.
PullMeOff · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:21 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was an odd statement to hear, but I don't care to argue over silly things so I was fine to let it go and figure out a means of compromise.
It did get me to ensure my dishes are clean when washed by hand so there is that. I always do a "smell-check" now for residual odor because I did notice an odd smell on certain dishes when used for particular foods. For example, canned baked beans leave a very unpleasant odor behind on cheaper teflon and it's hard to get the scent out for some reason so I use better pots/pans for those. I wouldn't say it is exactly the odor of what was on it prior but it comes close. So a little bit more elbow grease, some mix-and-match with cookware and all is well.
Mirshikar · 5 points · Posted at 06:53:21 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. Although another question, does she do the same when going out to eat? Those pans have been used for anything and everything the kitchen cooks. Seafood, chicken, beef, pork, etc. does she go out and get a dish only to not like it because of a seafood taste?
PullMeOff · 5 points · Posted at 06:56:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know and I will never, ever, ever ask. :P
I'm glad she's never once considered this actually, I'd never be able to eat at Red Lobster or Olive Garden ._.
Mirshikar · 4 points · Posted at 07:23:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
And tomorrow she is going to come up with this probably... sorry.
-Jaws- · 5 points · Posted at 07:09:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I don't know. It was normal water.
Also, my condolences. At least you guys have a system worked out!
DankWarMouse · 2 points · Posted at 07:43:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gotta be honest, I can often tell when a pan has been used to cook seafood. It's probably because I hate the taste so much I can detect it in minute amounts but it does linger.
jbg830 · 24 points · Posted at 05:30:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know someone who doesn't like white food and it drives me nuts. We were roommates for a bit and I love to cook, but if it had anything like mayonnaise, sour cream, mushrooms, cream sauce or even white cheese, she wouldn't eat it. I'm a pretty ok cook too, she missed out on some great meals.
thedersy1 · 34 points · Posted at 06:45:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's such an arbitrarily stupid thing to dislike, white foods. What the fuck.
man_of_molybdenum · 4 points · Posted at 06:18:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
...white food? The fuck?
I honestly don't get picky eaters. Like, there is a ton of food I don't like, but I eat it. I'll eat it until I like it. Like I used to hate brussel sprouts but I forced myself to eat it and now I love it.
My brother is picky and every time he says no to a certain food I call him weak, lol. I mean, I love the guy, but I don't understand people who turn down food.
Your friend sounds like someone I wouldn't wanna make a meal with; who hates ingredients based off their natural color?
Would she be cool with it if you dyed them a different color? I have so many questions for her, haha.
BloodyLlama · 9 points · Posted at 05:14:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good! More for me.
YipRocHeresy · 1 points · Posted at 11:49:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:07:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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-Jaws- · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's depressing.
Supreme_panda_god · 4 points · Posted at 06:13:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's stupid. I don't really want to be a picky eater I just can't stand eating much besides grain diary, and meat. I recently tried more types of meat with more spices so baby steps I guess.
-Jaws- · 13 points · Posted at 07:10:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I understand where you're coming from, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. I'm sure it's annoying being a picky eater too, so it's really just a shitty situation all around.
Johnnypoopoopanties · 2 points · Posted at 14:08:46 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you get scurvy a lot?
Supreme_panda_god · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. I have started taking a vitamin everyday and I have always like orange juice and drink it from time to time.
einalem13 · 18 points · Posted at 05:40:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Former picky eater. I missed out on so many great things. My granny would try her best to get me to eat strawberries & I wouldn't. Not talking store bought... These were family farm grown. Now that she's deceased & I'm an adult, I realize I was an asshole kid that didn't want to try new stuff. That's when I decided to try new foods. I started slow with broccoli & brussle sprouts and it's been an amazing adventure since I made that decision. That was about 10 years ago & now I crave new things. Even if I don't like it at least I tried.
Mirshikar · 13 points · Posted at 06:15:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish my wife would do this... it took me two years to get her to try hamburgers. Because she never liked premade, or fastfood hamburgers. FINALLY she tried mine and she asks for them at least once a week, like tonight (three more years down the line).
There have been countless things she has tried and liked, and some she hasn't. But it can irritate the crap out of me when I ask her to try something and she flat out refuses for 20 minutes only to love it and want my plate of food instead.
Grifulkin · 1 points · Posted at 14:07:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is my philosophy, try it, the worst thing that is going to happen is you won't like it. But at least try it. I used to be extremely picky, then I just realized that food is good. And if picky people just tried the food, it would probably turn out that they like it. I'll There are things I don't like either but if they are in something, I won't pick it out. Things don't taste exactly the same in everything.
TheNinjaNarwhal · 3 points · Posted at 11:57:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't someone be a picky eater while trying all of the food that they've come across? It's a different thing being scared of trying new food and just saying "oh I don't like this" and having tried almost everything and still not liking it. The first one is choosing to be a picky eater the second one is just being one because you can't do anything else.
OffMyMedzz · 2 points · Posted at 10:19:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think that's the problem. I was a picky eater as a child, and once I became an adult I view it as childish behavior.
Elan-Morin-Tedronai · -4 points · Posted at 05:15:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except mushrooms, humans weren't meant to eat fungus.
cpmnriley · 20 points · Posted at 05:29:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
thats literally one of the first things we as humans ate
grubas · 8 points · Posted at 05:37:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bugs, growths and meat. Only problem with mushrooms is that you better be damned sure before you eat wild ones, but they have a great flavor.
EntropicReaver · 6 points · Posted at 05:44:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
i fucking despise the texture of mushrooms
15eshabani · 7 points · Posted at 05:51:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It has a similar texture to meat, at least for me.
MrBigWaffles · 8 points · Posted at 06:06:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck kind of meat are you eating?
15eshabani · 6 points · Posted at 06:20:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Regular meat lmao. I feel like mushrooms kind of have that same chewy texture and bite to them.
Q1189998819991197253 · 2 points · Posted at 08:48:30 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love mushrooms hate meat.
LinguisticPenguin14 · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The most common commercial mushrooms typically have a similar texture, but certainly not always. Button mushrooms are just one species, there are many kinds of edible mushrooms, like morels, porcini, chanterelles, and chicken of the woods - all have pretty distinct flavours and textures.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:15:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As well as ones like shiitaki or enoki which are essential for the earthiness in a lot of Asian broths, don't get the texture then either if that's your issue.
Elan-Morin-Tedronai · -8 points · Posted at 05:35:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Early humans did a lot of things I'd hate to do today. I'm not starting a fire by rubbing two sticks together.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:49:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seems like a pretty different argument than the one you were making up there ^
Elan-Morin-Tedronai · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
My basic premise is mushrooms are gross. I think you're taking it too seriously.
man_of_molybdenum · 5 points · Posted at 06:21:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You hating on mushrooms is serious god damn business. 😉
KylerGreen · 3 points · Posted at 06:15:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha you couldn't be more wrong
Heroicis · 0 points · Posted at 11:49:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's some food that people can't even put in their mouth without gagging though, it just doesnt work
Hordon_Gayward · 19 points · Posted at 06:04:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. The pressure of people judging me for being picky gets my anxiety going crazy, making it pretty much impossible to even think about trying the food they're judging me for not eating. I'm stressed out enough over the fact that certain foods make me gag, which I wish wasn't the case.
Neshgaddal · 3 points · Posted at 12:22:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
YES. "Picky eater" is also the completely wrong term for it, as it implies that i choose to gag when i try to eat certain things.
There are ways to improve on this, but you putting me on the spot, insisting that "i just try it once", when i know for a fact that it will make me gag is literally the opposite of helping. It will probably just reset my personal progress and reinforce my anxiety over it.
So yes, if you make them feel it, it is bad that picky eaters annoy you.
Mirshikar · 13 points · Posted at 06:20:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The thing is, just trying it is what we want. Don't care if you have to spit it out or it makes you gag. I can't have squash, it makes me gag. Isn't the taste, but the texture. But just trying it, is all. One bite and I won't push it further. drawing it out 20 minutes causes the problem and anxiety. The judging does happen until you refuse. Then it is just seen as childish. Remove the first no and then the judging doesn't happen. And over time, you will be more accepting to trying, and liking new foods.
It isn't like they are sitting a whole bowl in front of you and demanding you finish before you move.
Kanyes_PhD · 18 points · Posted at 07:37:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes because I love people watch me gag on food
I know I don't like it so what's the point?
Mirshikar · 1 points · Posted at 07:49:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because different people make things differently. You may have only had it prepared badly. But they may prepare it in a way you don't like. And if you are gaging on every possible new food, then that is probably a different problem.
Me personally, it's squash. I can't stand the texture. I can't stand it in anything. But I will try it if someone gives it to me and can most likely take a single bite. Same with water chestnuts or baby corn. I can't stand those either. But I won't turn down a dish because it has them. I don't like eggplant, but if someone says it is good, I'll try it. If someone gave me loved and onions, I would probably try it. Why? Because what do I have to lose?
I've also lived in South America. Know two common cuisines there? A Chicken soup with everything in it (head, heart, feet, etc) and guinea pig. I has no international of ever eating said things in my life. But I tried them. And the soup was good. Even the necks and heart. The guinea pig? Not so much. There was nothing good about it that I remember. But I would again try that. Because I honestly don't remember what I didn't like about it.
Why close yourself off to it? If there is no allergy, there is no reason to not try. Food is prepared well and poorly all over. Who is to say you haven't had something made right.
Q1189998819991197253 · 15 points · Posted at 08:46:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because they don't like it. What's so hard to get? Let them eat what they want.
morgaina · 0 points · Posted at 18:45:14 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because how the hell do they know they don't like it if they never eat it?
Because the experience of skeptically tasting something only to realize that it's delicious is a thing?
Because food is social and personal and communal and often represents community or a labor of love from the person cooking it?
Because flat out turning down labors of love like that without a damn good reason once is okay, but when you do that to entire sweeping food groups, it becomes abundantly clear that your issues are probably childish?
Because we live in a society and don't be goddamn rude.
Q1189998819991197253 · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Christ. You people being so adamant and arguing about this stupid topic is what's childish.
Hordon_Gayward · 32 points · Posted at 06:40:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or how about just let people eat what they want to eat? I'm a musician, and I've made some music that some of my friends and family don't care for. Yeah I put a lot of effort into making it but I'm not going to push it in their faces if they obviously aren't into it. If they're not interested, I'll move on, because it's obviously not their taste (a cappella music often isn't many peoples' taste). I respect that. I don't understand why others don't respect my taste, in this case with food.
And I can't imagine how much more embarrassed and stressed I'd be after gagging in front of someone who put the effort into preparing a nice meal for me.
Mirshikar · 3 points · Posted at 06:50:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Listening to a 3+ minute song is different than a 3 second bite of food. Even then, I am more glad you are willing to try and gag then refuse.
I am also someone who if they ask me to listen to something and comment, I will. Even for things like rap which I don't like. I'm not going to turn it away because I don't like that type of music. I know it means a lot to people to put forth that effort. The only difference would be being interrupted constantly for it. But once every few days, sure, I'll give a listen. You revised the one I listened to an hour ago, I'll give it another go.
It's a simple "hey, you should try this."
"Sure!" Even with a gag you can quickly go "nope, not my thing at all."
MisuVir · 7 points · Posted at 08:48:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Comparing music and food? One is just listening which you do all day long. Even the worst music isn't repulsive, nor does it stimulate your gag reflex. But food you find repulsive? Try putting that inside your body. It really is completely different. Eating food is personally intimate because it comes in physical contact with your internals. Listening to music is nothing like that at all.
sirixamo · 7 points · Posted at 09:16:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have a weird insistence on making people try food.
Hust91 · 9 points · Posted at 08:32:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
3 second bite of food might linger for 3 hours, or it might be equivalent to having your hand in boiling water ofr 3 seconds. Woo!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 10:58:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are you 3 years old?
"Ewww this tastes icky now I'm gonna pout about it for 3 hours and act like it was the equivalent of physical pain:
Hust91 · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:02 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, just abnormally sensitive to taste.
Less "ew this tastes icky" and more "If I had to choose between this and putting my hand in boiling water, I'm genuinely not sure which one I'd prefer".
If you ever wonder if any of your other senses than those for pain can be as bad as actual pain, do try out waterboarding, sleep deprivation and extremely loud discordant music for hours on end.
TheNinjaNarwhal · 2 points · Posted at 12:03:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd rather listen to a 10 minute song that sucks for me than eat a bite out of something that I don't like. That said, I've tried almost everything people give me, but sometimes I don't(unless they want me to really badly) because I know what I don't like, and when I'm sure I've never been wrong.(I usually don't like food with certain textures, and I can see the texture without having to eat it)
try_rolling · 4 points · Posted at 07:28:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm sorry, but no matter who shits in my mouth, I'm not going to like it. It doesn't matter who it is or that it only takes them 3 seconds to plop a turd in there. Not my thing. I don't need to try it to confirm it.
nicktheone · 8 points · Posted at 08:17:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Explain then those people who flat out refuse to try something only to discover they love it if they manage to eat a bite of it.
What I'm trying to say is you can dislike, let's say, mushrooms but there could be some preparations or variety you could like and that's all we ask for from picky eaters.
Mirshikar · 4 points · Posted at 08:30:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This it here. Food combined in different ways tastes absolutely different. Many cuisines have 70% the same ingredients, but a couple differences make it unique to a part of the world with rationally different flavors and textures.
It is like saying you don't like pasta just because you tried spaghetti one time.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 08:50:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is a mental thing. Sure, perhaps you can force yourself to eat something your brain considers repulsive... but why bother? Yeah, it might be amazing, but is it worth the anxiety and gagging that may be involved because you've got a stupid mental hang-up about eating that food?
nicktheone · 3 points · Posted at 08:53:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If every human followed your risk-averse way of thinking we'd all still be in the caverns freezing our assess off.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 08:59:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aye, but we're not living in caves. We have practically every food easily available to us, so why can't people have their own individual likes and dislikes?
nicktheone · 2 points · Posted at 09:04:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's not that it's bad to have your own likes and dislikes, all we ask is for picky eaters to try new things, especially if we made them or if we know they could like them. My girlfriend is an incredibly picky eater and it really limits the way I can cook so when I'm trying to make something new or that I think she could like I'd really appreciate if she gave a single bite before discarding what I made. Fortunately she sometimes lets her guard down and discovered she loves mushrooms and whipped cream recently.
Hust91 · 3 points · Posted at 08:31:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depending on your tastebuds, this may not work at all.
In certain cases, something will be so disgusting that given the option, you'd literally rather put your hand on a plate hot enough to instantly blister your skin than to put it in your tongue, than to try even one bite.
Pain/disgust is funny that way.
EpicallyAverage · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly.... no one gives a fuck what you think.
IngrownPubez · -1 points · Posted at 06:52:14 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No they piss me off as well. Fucking grow up people.
Q1189998819991197253 · 1 points · Posted at 08:45:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm picky when it comes to meat but I fucking love anything pasta.
dustimo · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can tolerate when people have a couple of common things that they won't eat (otherwise I'd be a hypocrite, since I avoid eating mushrooms), but when it's a massive list, that can be a bit irritating.
tronald_dump · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
nah, theyre pretty awful, and they let an irrational fear dominate their life. there are so many cultures in the world where food is important socially.
these people would be outcasts there too.
damnedflamingo · 0 points · Posted at 05:35:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
i have the same issue lol
DurasVircondelet · 6 points · Posted at 05:00:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then do not consider using the service Blue Apron. You think you'll enjoy it bc you're the one cooking it and you know what you like but it's all wildly absurd flavors and ingredients.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DurasVircondelet · 1 points · Posted at 13:53:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
One meal that sticks out included yogurt as a hefty portion of the dish (for $10 that seemed like a cop out to me). And in this yogurt you were supposed to mix some kind of lemon juice and saffron. And btw, if you've never dealt with it, saffron is like tiny tiny quarter inch long brittle strings or something. Adding the pinch of saffron to the quart of yogurt made less than no difference and I would have never used it otherwise. If anything, I kept getting those little sticks or whatever in every other bite and yogurt isn't something you typically associate with tiny semi crunchy things. 1/10 would not cook again.
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DurasVircondelet · 1 points · Posted at 13:48:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
When you are given a list of meals to choose from for the week, you are only allowed to give one ingredient you don't like. Don't like oregano or some other weird ass herb? Too fucking bad, you can only deny one, the other may still very well come in the box of food you get.
MisuVir · 3 points · Posted at 08:43:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
They make an amazing masterpiece of delicious flavours and smells... then you take a bite and it just tastes like coriander/metal/soap. Ugh.
Michaelscot8 · 11 points · Posted at 05:51:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was at a really nice resteraunt the other day, having a nice new years eve dinner. Instead of a desert, I ordered the truffle gouda brisket mac n' cheese, because I do like truffles and it sounded amazing. It gets to the table, looks amazing, take a huge enthusiastic bite, and nope, mushrooms.
Mushrooms everywhere, I despise mushrooms. There is not a single food item I despise anywhere near as much as mushrooms. So I'm sitting there, trying to pick around it and play it off. But nope, just can't. My hate for mushrooms overwhelms me. And it felt pretty shitty.
Skyshaper · 25 points · Posted at 06:28:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You like truffles but you don't like mushrooms?
iEmptyHomes · 14 points · Posted at 06:50:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't even care if he likes one but doesn't like the other, I care that he didn't think to ask if something that had truffles also had mushrooms.
Michaelscot8 · 12 points · Posted at 06:30:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know it's rare, but it's mainly a texture thing, and the textures of the two are completely different.
Hust91 · 9 points · Posted at 08:33:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't.. truffle.. a kind of mushroom?
Michaelscot8 · 4 points · Posted at 08:43:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a fungus, so yes and no. It's not quite a mushroom, it's a root fungus that's simular, but textually very different.
That's a big thing for me, texture. I really like the taste of truffle oil though, and I do enjoy shaved truffle, but whole/sliced mushrooms make me ill.
Hust91 · 1 points · Posted at 07:43:37 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah, thought mushroom and fungus were synonyms.
Heroicis · 5 points · Posted at 11:51:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Honestly who the hell decided that mushrooms need to be a common food anyways, like I'm sure we can use mushrooms for a whole lot of other things besides food but no we use it as fucking food. Like someone once sat down and actually decided "hey look's put these fucking ground umbrellas on this tasty pizza" and then it went fucking mainstream like how
therobinprotoss · 1 points · Posted at 12:26:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because it's delicious that's how.
8696David · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:36 on January 23, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms are the gods' fucking tits.
The gods'.
Fucking.
Tits.
RedFox77X · 2 points · Posted at 06:24:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had to do this when I was 13 or so. First time staying at a friend's house their parents invited me to eat supper with them. They cooked mushroom stuffed chicken and peas&carrots and green beans. I would rather starve than eat greens at my house, but I realized that it was really nice of them to make me dinner and finished it.
tldr; I wish I enjoyed more vegetables instead of being picky.
thatguy3O5 · 0 points · Posted at 12:26:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why it bothers so many people. Outside of thing you honestly don't like or actually can't eat most picky eating is a maturity issue. Good for you for figuring it out so early.
Rappaccini · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Home for the holidays I made my parents a shakshuka that really came out great. Nothing very fancy but it is still a bit of work compared to the usual meat and potatoes my folks usually eat.
Turns out my mom won't eat runny eggs. That took the wind out of my sails pretty quick.
mythical_legend · 90 points · Posted at 05:44:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me as judge on masterchef:
It's okay
It's alright
Do you have any ketchup?
It's aight fam
Johnnypoopoopanties · 0 points · Posted at 14:11:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ketchup sucks.
"Hey do you want this tomato? I covered it in corn syrup and vinegar."
"Ew no fuckin way!"
"...what if i smash it?"
danymsk · 13 points · Posted at 10:51:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you just insult mushrooms whay has this sub turned into, I can't continue like this
I mean me too thanks
theydeletedme · 67 points · Posted at 05:25:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is only me if you switch it to onions.
[deleted] · 45 points · Posted at 05:35:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
there was a judge on chopped who specifically told them that he didn't like raw onions and someone put them in anyway
theydeletedme · 22 points · Posted at 05:41:34 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah someone posted that elsewhere in the comments.
Sneezegoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:22 on February 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am the other way.
Raw = fine
Cooked slimy snot imitators = puke
T--mae · 6 points · Posted at 07:06:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm this way with red/green peppers
Ravenman2423 · 2 points · Posted at 06:21:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
How can you dislikes onions? They are a staple ingredient in like... Everything.
I really don't get people who are picky and above the age of 7.
theydeletedme · 39 points · Posted at 06:45:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is not liking a single food picky? I've had people all my life make a huge goddamn deal that I hate onions. These people could usually all list a half-dozen foods they don't like and won't eat, but it's always "Wow Theydeletedme, how could you not like onions?" Because to me they taste foul. I didn't eat a lot of foods as a kid, onions are the only thing I still hate.
Onion-loving goobers.
thatguywithawatch · 15 points · Posted at 07:51:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm right there with you. Onions make me gag, no matter how badly I want to be able to eat them. And of course they're in literally everything. The hardest part of looking through a menu at a new restaurant is trying to identify which dishes probably don't have onions. I hate when people call me picky for it, because I'll eat literally anything else.
MisuVir · 5 points · Posted at 09:11:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you had a pasta with some kind of sauce and it had cooked onion blended in... you'd still gag? Even if you didn't know it was there?
xx2Hardxx · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me I just don't like biting into one. I know lots of things are sautéed with onions and things like that really don't bother me.
ivtecdoyou · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've been tested a few times by my parents who insist that I just don't like the thought of onions and I have been able to tell almost every time. It was actually a relatively big argument the last time I visited my parents.
I consider myself an above average cook, and I'm definitely a foodie. The ONLY things out there that I hate is onions and processed peas and I have a books worth of recipes where I exclude onions and they still taste great.
kurokabau · -1 points · Posted at 09:32:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do this with ketchup. Psychologically it repulses me but i'll eat it as long as i can't see it and don't know it's in there.
Ravenman2423 · -4 points · Posted at 06:49:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well personally I like literally everything so you won't hear that from me. It's hard to find a food I don't like.
If you didn't like carrots I would still think you were dumb but I'd get it because it's possible to avoid carrots. But onions are in like every single cooked, homemade dish.
theydeletedme · 6 points · Posted at 07:04:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's hard to find a food I don't like too, if you don't count the onions!
Welcome to my own personal hell. Most dishes that includes onions for flavor taste just fine without 'em, though.
MisuVir · 10 points · Posted at 09:09:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cooked onions blend into a meal. Raw onions stand out pungently. I could understand somebody disliking raw onion but what about cooked onion blended in a soup?
p_ark · 12 points · Posted at 06:43:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh wow, not everyone has the same taste buds? But seriously, it's not like we chose to be. I retry stuff all the time and take a any chance I get to try something new, but some things just don't stick.
But I do agree with you about not liking onions, this guy is crazy.
asymmetrical_sally · 2 points · Posted at 09:09:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Onion taste is usually fine. Onion texture can go choke on a dick.
TheFreshPrince12 · 2 points · Posted at 06:51:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pickiness is a result of parents not feeding their kids a variety of foods to develop their palettes. If a kid spends his entire childhood eating pizza, chicken tenders, and spaghetti with butter then he's gonna carry that into adulthood.
stationhollow · 8 points · Posted at 10:40:34 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except that is nothing like this scenario where someone dislikes a single thing, onions...
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
im an onion hater that likes olives, asparagus, broccoli, cranberry juice, strong cheeses and shitty wine.
when you assume you make an ass out out of u and me.
Ravenman2423 · -1 points · Posted at 06:54:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I know. And I think that's sad.
helisexual · 1 points · Posted at 08:46:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
My little sister is 12 and she grew up with my dad so ofc she is the pickiest. He's picky too but he's respectful, if he's in someone's home he's not going to turn down the meal they made or even pick around it.
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
they're quite pungent. i love onions in things where they meld together into glory. not a big fan of them on the side or raw
RandomName01 · -3 points · Posted at 06:53:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me too, I feel like learning to eat everything (not learning to love every food per se, but not being a little bitch about it) is an essential part of a decent upbringing.
sirixamo · 16 points · Posted at 09:24:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I really don't think that's what's happening here. It's much more like posters have discovered a very benign way to feel superior to someone, so they are going ham on it.
Q1189998819991197253 · 11 points · Posted at 08:51:14 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You guys need to get over yourselves. People have different taste buds.
Ravenman2423 · -3 points · Posted at 06:55:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Grarr_Dexx · 1 points · Posted at 08:38:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck raw onions in hot dishes. Are you goddamn kidding me? Those things have an insanely sharp taste.
Fionnlagh · 1 points · Posted at 08:41:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh. I love cooking with onions, but I hate raw white or red onions.
thorium220 · 189 points · Posted at 04:28:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I respect your opinion on mushrooms, no matter how wrong it is.
ThankYouCarlos · 47 points · Posted at 05:00:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I love mushrooms like they're my own son but damn they're weird.
WildTurkey81 · 8 points · Posted at 10:48:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You love mushrooms like my parents love me.
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait, you eat your kids?
treetrunk30 · 1 points · Posted at 07:53:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're the gonads of the fungus! :D
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do not respect OP's opinion of mushrooms because what kind of terrible person hates mushrooms?
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
hes probably right though. button mushrooms are at the bottom for a reason.
he needs some enoki or chantrelles before he writes all of them off though.
that_baddest_dude · 763 points · Posted at 03:53:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms rule, fuck you
TheLonelyWind · 419 points · Posted at 03:59:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Absolutely not meirl.
DankWarMouse · 72 points · Posted at 07:40:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
So happy to be surrounded by fellow fungus haters
🍄 = 💀
nuno9 · 2 points · Posted at 09:48:32 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alright I can understand your hatred for fungi, but when youstart hating on bells I feel like we can no longer be friends.
DankWarMouse · 3 points · Posted at 18:26:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
wtf you see a bell? Pic pls
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
you're right, it looks like a pink and white UFO abducting people with the abduction beam
TROLL_CALIBER · 1 points · Posted at 10:20:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
ur not a fun-gi
Metoray · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Considering the fact that's a red mushroom you're correct.
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who hurt you
DankWarMouse · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
MUSHROOMS
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Impossible. Fun Gus is a fun guy!
SparklingLimeade · 14 points · Posted at 10:08:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to dislike mushrooms. Flavor, texture, all of it. Then I had a grilled portabello cap and said "oh that's what it's supposed to be." It turns out I just disliked crappy white button mushrooms. Now I find the crappy ones to be alright and good mushrooms are awesome.
that_baddest_dude · 2 points · Posted at 11:41:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same here. Turned from indifferent to a huge fan.
AMeanCow · 184 points · Posted at 04:11:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I associate their smell and flavor with mold and decay, the scent of freshly turned over leaf covering on a forest floor, strewn with white strands of fungi, ants, worms and beetles.
justthebloops · 275 points · Posted at 04:35:54 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
stop, you're making me hungry
Orchidoctober · 54 points · Posted at 04:20:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
And cum. Definitely sperm.
[deleted] · 79 points · Posted at 04:22:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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TesticleMeElmo · 17 points · Posted at 07:05:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I had to describe my dick in one word it would be "fungusy"
A_Friendly_Sociopath · 2 points · Posted at 07:09:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Gross...
clockwork_coder · 2 points · Posted at 08:19:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Prude
A_Friendly_Sociopath · 2 points · Posted at 08:26:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry...cock-shrooms just aren't my thing. This is what I get for being raised by baptists from the victorian era!
helzbellz · 1 points · Posted at 07:57:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cum smells like cold mushroom soup. Mmm.
TacoRedneck · 1 points · Posted at 14:22:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work in a seafood market and I've associated that smell with Haddock. Like god damn why do you have to smell just like cum.
MindlessCaptain · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ahh just like the good ol' cumbox
MisuVir · 0 points · Posted at 08:41:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think you mean "shroombox".
[deleted] · 23 points · Posted at 04:29:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Funblock · 61 points · Posted at 04:54:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mmm, decay.
AugustusCaesar2016 · 25 points · Posted at 05:36:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well a lot of fermented foods are just controlled decay
XkF21WNJ · 15 points · Posted at 07:32:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
All cooking is controlled decay, in a sense.
rrrrea · 4 points · Posted at 15:08:21 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is a documentary series on Netflix called Cooked and one of the episodes focuses strongly on how we use decay in calculated ways to enhance our food. The whole series is great but that one episode I found incredibly interesting.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 05:00:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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CynicalElephant · 6 points · Posted at 06:22:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah of cou- wait what?
jad103 · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
just let it get a little brown. just a little.
Weinburglar · 5 points · Posted at 05:16:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
decomposerirl
grubas · 5 points · Posted at 05:32:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly. That's how you get flavor.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 06:56:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Found the heretic. That's a purgin'.
SparklingLimeade · 2 points · Posted at 10:06:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yogurt, sauerkraut, beer, bread. Tasty, tasty microbial activity. Fermentation is the best.
yarrysmod · 2 points · Posted at 10:09:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most alcohol is basically decayed/fermented sugar and people drink that
grubas · 12 points · Posted at 05:35:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Worms it is the texture. Ugh. Ants and chocolate is good and beetles vary.
Freshly turned leaves on a moldy forest floor after rain? That smell is something primordial, something amazing. I've woken up to that many times and it always gets me going like coffee.
A_Friendly_Sociopath · 4 points · Posted at 05:53:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed 100%.
Beetles can be great, especially if paired with a good curry pasta or even sometimes when fried in the right seasonings for the type. They can, though, also be one of the most ridiculously disgusting flavors you've ever tasted if they're done wrong.
Damn right on the primordial earth flavor, fellow redditor.
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
you need to garlic butter them worms.
A_Friendly_Sociopath · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You may damn well be right!
FakeCrash · 8 points · Posted at 05:46:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
There there. Have some cheese.
ILikeMasterChief · -2 points · Posted at 05:58:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hate this argument. Not the same.
FakeCrash · 4 points · Posted at 05:59:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wasn't trying to prove anything, but whatever.
Ufcsgjvhnn · 6 points · Posted at 06:11:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
No? But you already had me convinced!
TROLL_CALIBER · 2 points · Posted at 10:21:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
and shit
bubba_feet · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
combine all these flavors with the texture of cut up puppy tongues and you have how i view mushrooms.
willfordbrimly · 1 points · Posted at 07:32:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You have to wash them first.
kenjutsudude · 11 points · Posted at 04:56:27 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But dude, that just means more for you!
Indubitability · 53 points · Posted at 04:10:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, fuck that guy
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ColinOnReddit · 35 points · Posted at 06:16:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously. When I'm trying to eat less meat or want a lighter option, there's nothing I love more than to fry a bella mushroom cap like a steak. Butter and fresh parmesan. Fuck me silly, that's good.
dmedtheboss · 15 points · Posted at 06:28:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah baby
oakles · 25 points · Posted at 04:06:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah
drunk98 · 4 points · Posted at 05:04:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like mushrooms in something things, but not in others. I certainly don't like them by themselves. This post makes me wonder how they'd judge perfectly cooked dog shit. Really makes ya think, ya know. Hey Gordon, you like this poison? Judge that shit!
Popimon · 8 points · Posted at 05:59:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have you not eat deep fried chicken tasting mushroom? It's heavenly.
jbg830 · 6 points · Posted at 05:32:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
For me, it's cooked vs raw. Cooked mushrooms are delicious, raw - ehh not so great.
Sketiio · 2 points · Posted at 06:47:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's interesting, because I'm the opposite! Love raw mushrooms, but will absolutely gag on the teeniest bit of cooked mushroom in a dish.
pewpfeast420 · 2 points · Posted at 07:22:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who eats raw mushrooms..? Never even seen a person eat raw mushrooms in my life
Sojuphen · 3 points · Posted at 09:28:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe salads? that's all I can think of
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:09:51 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had them on salads.
jbg830 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're out there, usually in salads or on vegetable trays to be dipped in ranch.
LinguisticPenguin14 · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms have been ruined for me, because I used to only ever get them overcooked basically swimming in butter the whole time they fried. No seasoning or sauce either.
ThePsychoKnot · 10 points · Posted at 04:32:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me too thanks
Serenaded · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
The taste of mushrooms sauteed and then mixed with cream/salt is possibly the best way to top a steak. mushrooms are absolutely amazing, but yes they take ages to be able to enjoy. As a kid I hated them.
Mentalpatient87 · 1 points · Posted at 11:29:41 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
More mushrooms for you, then.
PinkAlligaytor · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Me too thanks.
ThePhantomBane · 77 points · Posted at 04:06:33 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 20 and I still don't eat vegetables
heather_tha_god · 356 points · Posted at 04:25:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ur gonna die soon lol
TeeveeSquared · 207 points · Posted at 04:49:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Diet working as intended
aww-yisss · 48 points · Posted at 05:25:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
meirl
ThePhantomBane · 15 points · Posted at 12:10:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hope so
iEmptyHomes · 0 points · Posted at 06:53:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, pizza has everything you need but technically it comes in sauce form so its not a vegetable. Lasagna too.
Rakmon_ · 26 points · Posted at 04:48:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms are fungi, not vegetables sir
lamenralus · 3 points · Posted at 08:52:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right, but he still doesn't eat vegetables tho
Dispari_Scuro · 4 points · Posted at 15:01:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Vegetable is a cullinary term, and applies to numerous fungi and fruit.
garudamon11 · 1 points · Posted at 08:44:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
someone's been paying attention during biology class
Pickledsoul · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
technically they're half animal, 1/4 plant, and 1/4 delicious
[deleted] · 63 points · Posted at 04:29:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Rakmon_ · 27 points · Posted at 04:49:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eat psilocybin mushrooms
wx_bombadil · 17 points · Posted at 05:06:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
All the nutrients a growing boy needs.
DTX41 · 4 points · Posted at 05:05:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
and to counteract the bad taste take LSD and Molly too
BasedCereal · 2 points · Posted at 08:47:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't MDMA notorious for tasting terrible though?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 14:36:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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DTX41 · 0 points · Posted at 15:01:19 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah it fucks your nose up. Lot worse than blow
aww-yisss · 2 points · Posted at 05:25:51 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
meirl
Kanyes_PhD · 9 points · Posted at 07:39:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I hardly eat fruit 😕
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 12:10:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh, so it's an emoji war you're after? 🍅🍈🍍🍒🍆🍉🍎🍓🌽🍊🍏🍠🍋🍐🍇🍌🍑
Dorocche · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:30 on January 30, 2017 · (Permalink)
At least three of those are vegetables.
Q1189998819991197253 · 0 points · Posted at 08:52:25 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
wtf
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 05:11:51 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
does cannabis count
Hobagthatshitcray · 2 points · Posted at 08:06:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Love the way you think...
einalem13 · 3 points · Posted at 05:45:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't start eating vegetables until I was 30. There's still time.
nootkallamas · 10 points · Posted at 07:36:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
but your 30th birthday was yesterday
JammySatsuma · 3 points · Posted at 14:50:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/madlads
my_name_isnt_clever · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 20 and I don't eat vegtables by themselves. If you're 20 and get every hamburger with just a patty and ketchup and every sandwich is just meat cheese and mayo than that's another thing all together.
PM_ME_CLOUD_PORN · 2 points · Posted at 09:17:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use to be like you. Now I eat almost everything, even things people normally don't like kiwi peel
TheGreatZiegfeld · 4 points · Posted at 05:31:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't eat them because they were always served with other food I disliked. Once I actually had the opportunity to try it on a sub or a salad, it's not nearly as bad. Some vegetables I still can't stand though, like carrots or turnip.
Hordon_Gayward · 4 points · Posted at 06:08:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Huh. I'm 24 and carrots are the only vegetables I will willingly eat on my own.
Ravenman2423 · 12 points · Posted at 06:20:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man you guys are fucking retarded. In no other place are people picky past the age of 7.
America. Where people live off chicken tenders and chipotle and then wonder why they're unhealthy.
For fucks sake.
Hordon_Gayward · 17 points · Posted at 06:31:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
First of all, when did I say I was American? I mean, I am, but you just kind of made that assumption. Don't throw us all under the bus like that just because I'm picky. Second, I've lived in both Canada and England for periods of time and saw plenty of adult picky eaters there. It's not just an American thing.
Also, I will eat other vegetables. Carrots are just the only ones I'll purposely go out and buy just to snack on. There are several others I'll eat if they're offered to me (but I ain't gonna enjoy it).
NymN_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like how one of your "non-american" examples is Canada
Hordon_Gayward · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, I've lived there, and it's not America. Did you want me to lie and say I lived in Ghana or something?
Ravenman2423 · -5 points · Posted at 06:42:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
OK then it's such a first world idea. I've only seen it in the US tho. Idk it's such a dumb idea to me. Who doesn't like veges? How can you go 24 years without learning to like veges? Means your parents didn't give a fuck and just let you live off Mac and cheese and French fries.
Hordon_Gayward · 4 points · Posted at 06:47:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, there you go, right into the assumption making again.
For your information, my parents did make me eat my veggies growing up, and I still never liked them. Wow, we exist, people with like, preferences and shit. Who would've thought.
Yeah, of fucking course it's a first world thing, because in less privileged countries you don't necessarily have the option to choose what you're going to eat. I have a decent job that allows me to pretty much decide what I want to eat every day of the week and it's readily available to me, and I'm very grateful for that.
MisuVir · 3 points · Posted at 09:03:48 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Being stranded on an island would be my worst nightmare. Imagine being on Survivor but you can't stomach the thought of eating meat or fish or bugs. I'd probably just starve to death.
Ravenman2423 · -4 points · Posted at 06:52:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah get all offended. Idk. I still think it's extremely immature to be a picky eater.
It's just something you're supposed to outgrow. Thinking of a 25 year old going to meet his SOs parents or something and pushing the plate away because there's an onion on it or something. It's so childish.
Hordon_Gayward · 7 points · Posted at 07:03:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well you said my parents "didn't give a fuck" about me, but yeah, don't worry, absolutely none taken. Everyone has things they need to outgrow. Maybe you're a bad spender, maybe you have addictions, maybe you sleep in too much, maybe you play video games too much, I don't know, but everyone's got thing to overcome. It's not like I'm not trying. Like I said before,
I have severe difficulty stomaching certain foods but I have social awareness and I wouldn't just "push my plate away because there's an onion on it", that's fucking stupid man. You have a very strange perception of picky eaters, or you've only seen the worst of the worst. Most of us will try to eat foods we don't like in social situations, and I hate it, and it gets me super anxious and stressed, but I try. I'm not just some lazy ass fuckboy who never learned to grow up.
ihra521 · 2 points · Posted at 07:34:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just wanted to say that I'm someone who loves to try new food and eats just about everything, including fungi, strange vegetables, fermented stuff, insects, dog, and other weird things, but seeing this exchange between you and Ravenman2423 has made me more understanding of people like you and I think you seem like a fine person even if I could never share a meal with you.
ASK_ABOUT_UPDAWG · 3 points · Posted at 08:43:46 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
And I think it's even more immature to give this much of a fuck about what people do and don't like to eat.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:04:26 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Given the choice I'd rather be a non veggie eater than someone with your shitty attitude.
theAmazingShitlord · 3 points · Posted at 13:49:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not American and I'm picky.
Realtime_Ruga · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:39 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What age are you that "retarded" is still considered acceptable as an insult? 8?
Ravenman2423 · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
12
Q1189998819991197253 · 3 points · Posted at 08:53:08 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
For someone who hates judgy picky eaters you're sure judgey yourself.
Eddiextreme · 0 points · Posted at 07:14:59 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people just don't like the taste of things. I like just about everything except Olives and a handful of other things. I try to force myself to eat olives to acquire the taste but I can't. So I can see why some people don't like the taste of certain things.
helzbellz · 3 points · Posted at 08:56:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm with you there. The only things I actively don't like are olives, pineapple and some seafood (cockles, crabsticks, squid, anchovies). I have tried with olives a whole bunch of times as a lot food I didn't used to like I now love, but it just ain't happening.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 09:06:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Olives are foul. I don't like the taste and I'll happily pick them off a pizza. Mushrooms I'll eat if served, but I certainly won't willingly select a mushroom-based dish at a restaurant.
Coriander leaves are the worst though. Tastes like metal or soap and ruins a whole dish. Apparently this one's genetic though.
And I can't stomach the thought of eating meat. Mainly just a mental thing, but I'm very happy just avoiding it altogether.
TydeQuake · 0 points · Posted at 12:00:43 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am not a picky eater, I love vegetables, but in other places there are just as many picky eaters. And, on the other hand, in America there are plenty health maniacs too, who eat everything green. It's a nonsense generalisation.
Skillster · 1 points · Posted at 06:20:00 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whaaaaaaat carrots are like the only good vegetable, along with corn and potatoes.
ivtecdoyou · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You probably don't care about my advice, but find which way you liked them cooked.
I hate boiled asparagus, but love broiled/baked asparagus. I hate brussel sprouts unless they are pan fried with olive oil and a little pancetta. I can't eat processed peas, but love them if I shell them myself and use a generous amount of salt and pepper.
My parents just sucked at cooking when I was a kid so I just assumed I hated vegetables, when in reality I just hadn't had properly prepared veggies.
Just a suggestion.
VindexTV · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like most vegetables. Except fuck mushrooms...
helzbellz · 2 points · Posted at 08:50:22 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hmmm, i've never tried a fuck mushroom before.
MisuVir · 2 points · Posted at 09:00:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good thing mushrooms aren't vegetables then.
factory_new_table · 24 points · Posted at 05:40:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
lamb sauce L O C A T E D
[deleted] · 44 points · Posted at 05:02:53 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously tho, this is a good meme. Even Andrew Zimmern hated some stuff...
I actuallly love mushrooms and I just sat here for 5 minutes trying to think of the one think I would refuse to eat if I was a judge and all I came up with is runny soggy scrambled eggs.
I'll eat a soft boiled egg and toast any day, but once I was at a friends house and they were French/Americans and they made scrambled eggs for breakfast and them shits looked like beer shits and they were all like, this is how we eat eggs in France, and I was like FUCK NO FUCK FRANCE FUCK YOUR EGGS THIS IS NASTY AS SHIT AND I REFUSED TO EAT IT AND THEY WERE OFFENDED AND THEN THEY OFFERED ME SOME TOAST WITH JELLY AND GUESS WHAT!!! THEY DONT REFRIGERATE THEIR GRAPE JELLY, THEY JUST SCRAPED THE MOLD OF THE TOP OF THE JAR OF WELCHES AND THREW THE MOLD IN THE TRASH AND THEN SPREAD THE JELLY ON SOME TOAST AND OFFERED IT TO ME AND I WANTED TO DIE RIGHT THEN AND THERE.
but I was hungry and I ate the moldy jelly toast...
I think I need to log off now and have a glass of apple juice or something american b/c this post triggered me and now I also want to sign up for Tumblr....
wtf is tumblr even?
the name reminds me of those plastic cups with lids...
ok bye guys
me too thanks
HumbleManatee · 62 points · Posted at 05:31:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
With a post like that I refuse to believe you aren't already on tumblr
SheSaysSheWaslvl18 · 28 points · Posted at 06:17:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
For real it's like a scrambled and runny stream of conciousness
p_ark · 0 points · Posted at 06:39:09 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aha... Scrambled, runny, good one.
Lord_of_the_Dance · 5 points · Posted at 12:55:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
They didn't mention that they were "literally shaking" so I'm not so sure
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:00:56 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually tried to sign up and felt some cancer coming on so I came back here.
man_of_molybdenum · 6 points · Posted at 06:27:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You a weird dude, but I dig it.
Also, I can't think of a single thing I would refuse to eat(besides obvious stuff like shit or trash, lol). Closest would be sea urchin, which I fucking hate, but make a point to try every time it's available just to see if I'll get used to it.
paintedcones · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:17 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fwiw, sea urchin has a really short season and you HAVE to get it fresh.
sirixamo · 1 points · Posted at 09:21:50 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know why people do that with food...
"No it's awful, but I got used to it, so now I can eat it instead of all that other food that I definitely like more."
man_of_molybdenum · 8 points · Posted at 10:18:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well no. I like them all now. If I didn't force myself I wouldn't like most of the food, music, comedy, or movies I do now. I'd be completely different, and a lot more closed off to new experiences. I started doing it out of necessity(mom made food, I ate it no matter what), but I routinely force myself to experience things I don't mesh with because I think it deepens my experience as a person. I think when you allow yourself to be picky you shutter off wide swaths of experience, and that is ultimately damaging. Just my opinion though.
EDIT: though sea urchin is awful, it's always fun because it's become a little game now. Plus people get a laugh out of me eating something disgusting, so it's fun for the whole group, haha.
worryforthebutt · 2 points · Posted at 10:14:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
cough beer cough
Icapica · 1 points · Posted at 10:22:42 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But beer is awesome.
sirixamo · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not much of a beer drinker, but there are definitely times when I just want one. With certain meals, backyard BBQ, etc. I really do enjoy it. That said, the whole "I'm going to choke down a case of Milwaukee's Best even though it's disgusting just because it's beer" is stupid.
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 3 points · Posted at 18:11:06 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ok? Do I need to call someone?
Dispari_Scuro · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:18 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love that. The guy who eats things he describes as having a "Poopy, diapery quality" is like "Walnuts? Gross."
NatchezT · 8 points · Posted at 05:33:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I call them "silent murder" and just tell people I'm allergic😵
666JZ666 · 7 points · Posted at 05:39:36 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same I just can't eat something that's basically a rotten decaying mass of cells
fdg456n · 1 points · Posted at 08:35:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol no shit if you serve a rotten decaying mass of cells on master chef you're going to be eliminated.
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
So you just... don't eat?
Boo1098 · 3 points · Posted at 18:07:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not a picky eater, I just don't like a lot of foods.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 12:59:03 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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antdude · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:21 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ditto. I take others' unwanted cooked mushrooms for free. :D
Sneezegoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:43 on February 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can do fried but those chunks of rubbery snot in mushroom soup make my gag.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:34:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or ocra
casemodsalt · 2 points · Posted at 05:35:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms are ok. I don't like them in big numbers in food though.
fuzzygreendragon · 2 points · Posted at 06:20:51 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel like a gag show or episode where pro chefs cook for a distinct panel of picky eaters: a fickle 7 year old, a fickle 70 year old, and a conflicted vegan would be really interesting.
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Darkbain · 2 points · Posted at 05:44:33 on January 6, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your entry for 'Cheese Curds with extra Curd' wins. Congratulations!
NordicIceNipples · 3 points · Posted at 10:21:31 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But mushrooms in food is fucking delicious, what is wrong with you
antdude · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:53 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
My friend said they're gross for coming out of the ground with fungus. Um, everything has fungus!
pixelunit · 4 points · Posted at 11:24:45 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
wtf who doesn't like mushrooms
baalroo · 6 points · Posted at 15:11:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
People with properly working tastebuds
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:47:07 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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adrianwarp · 25 points · Posted at 04:57:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone who for some reason cannot eat mushrooms without gagging (and trust me I wholeheartedly try), the quality makes no difference.
I wish I wasn't picky about them :(
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 11:54:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:20:29 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish my boogers tasted like mushrooms. Would save money on Kleenex.
therobinprotoss · 1 points · Posted at 12:35:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel bad for your boyfriend.
Snowstar837 · 2 points · Posted at 11:31:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep, and everyone in this thread is so insistent - "well you just haven't had a GOOD X food yet"... it's like not wanting kids, everyone thinks you have a flawed opinion and that the only possible way you could feel that way is if you hadn't really tried yet. Like, no, I don't like mushrooms!
Weinburglar · 4 points · Posted at 05:28:19 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
just slice up some mushrooms and sauté em till they become nice and crispy and shriveled. doesn't give you much of that mushroomy taste/texture, but it's a nice vessel for putting salt and oil into your body.
source: i've been cooking for myself for like 3 months now
adrianwarp · 3 points · Posted at 05:33:01 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thanks for the advice. I'll remember this comment for when (if) I try.
ThatsFair · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have had a lot of mushrooms that other people are crazy about like grilled portabellas stuffed with things I love like cheese and crab and I still hate them. I'm like "why did you ruin this cheese and crab." Ordered truffles on more than one occasion too because I want to experience the amazingness that other people do, apparently, but I'm always disappointed.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 05:43:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
"wash" them with a damp paper towell and then saute them in a cast iron eith the pan drippings from a steak. 10/10 bro i didnt like mushrooms until this last year and now theyve my shit
my_name_isnt_clever · 2 points · Posted at 06:13:47 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
ok.
JoeRmusiceater · 1 points · Posted at 07:42:28 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
A well made Jägerschnitzel is undeniable.
Mike168 · 4 points · Posted at 08:46:20 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
What kind of savages are you?
Smugleaf_ · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCL8JKLoU1z/
ReynTime47 · 2 points · Posted at 06:59:58 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Downvoted. Mushrooms are lit
HIs4HotSauce · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:10 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
But mushrooms r ok :(
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
iron chef america irl
ThatTryHardAsian · 1 points · Posted at 06:16:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am simple asian, if it has rice it advance. If it use soy sauce, you won.
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:51 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
5/7 with rice.
AwakenedGorilla · 1 points · Posted at 07:41:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This made me laugh, then my brother laugh too
Kangaroosters · 1 points · Posted at 08:02:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why I hate these shows. If the judge simply doesn't like a certain food then you're fucked. You could have cooked it perfectly, but if they don't like it then too bad. You're out.
atnpgo · 1 points · Posted at 13:09:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/absolutelynotmeirl
MeOldBones · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:13 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/absolutelynotme_irl
Almbassman · 1 points · Posted at 13:40:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just read it as MASTERCHIEF...and I'm like mushrooms?
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:04 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can manage dried mushrooms or some mushrooms in a gravy but if that dish has a pile of mushrooms that's 2shroom4me
rg44_at_the_office · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually love food with mushrooms but this was hilarious. Have and upchuckle.
eriknstr · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:09 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I read "Masterchef" I thought it had to do with the video game Halo. Took me a while to realize that it was about the TV show.
PepperJack386 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:56 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I saw that on cutthroat kitchen once. You lost because I don't like truffle oil.
PM_ME_YOUR_PM_PHOTOS · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:09 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
If this is you irl, then you are miserably wrong irl.
digitalith · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:12 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed. Mushrooms are evil and disgusting.
ojoemojo · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:15 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boi mushrooms are 🔥
antdude · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:37 on January 9, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms rule!
Beastabuelos · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:57 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/definitelynotmeirl
poodles_and_oodles · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:30 on January 27, 2017 · (Permalink)
Literally almost everyone uses it incorrectly on reddit. Also the word "meta". What the fuck is with you guys and using this word so often not just incorrectly, but kinda... in a way, opposite of what it means. Something is meta when it references or comments on itself. Something that just references something else is not meta. Example of a non meta reference---> ok so like say early in the day there's a front page post with like whatever, a picture of dog in a little dog fireman's helmet and I guess a like yellow fireman's whatever thing overcoat. Ok so then later in the afternoon there's an ask reddit thread doing like let's say "Reddit, what's the weirdest thing your pet ever did?". And then but one of the top replies is some story about how her car once knocked over a scented candle and half the dining room was damaged by the fire. And here's the crucial part: one of the top replies to that cat story is one of the post funny algorithmic reddit joke makers saying "if only fire dog had been there..." some fucking yutz says "it's getting meta in here!". No the last guy is fucking wrong. That's not a meta reference that's just a regular reference. Just because both of the things are on reddit doesn't make it meta. Imagine a big circle with several smalls squares floating around in it. One little square inside the big circle pointing to another square, isn't meta and them both being in big circle doesn't change that. Most of the time I don't give a shit about usage. Hell Im a no shame adopter of going full blown figurative "literally". But meta is an important word with a precise meaning and it's importance and usefulness is in that precision. Also Im typing this all out now so I can just paste it later. What was this even about?
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:43:44 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 05:12:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
FTFY
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:40:05 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:57 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/youcanttellmewhattodo
Too_much_magenta · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:30 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I too love mushrooms. Raw or cooked, doesn't matter to me :)
Sauteed in butter is my favorite though.
PoppyOP · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:38 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
totally not me irl I love mushrooms
beer_is_tasty · 2 points · Posted at 05:13:49 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mushrooms are goddamn delicious and we can't be friends anymore.
MsDemacia · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:23 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love mushrooms. You can't overcook them and I love the texture
zombiemakemelol · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:55 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to hate mushrooms, then I learned you can saute into whatever flavors you want; take some olive oil, butter, onions, garlic and mushrooms, add to basically anything. You will thank me. I have this as a base to pasta sauce and fajitas. Amazing.
agentshags · 1 points · Posted at 07:15:16 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Must downvote, mushrooms are tasty
-Jaws- · 1 points · Posted at 09:40:40 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Relative to every other taste, they're pretty damn similar to each other, but I get your point.
Voroseeg · -1 points · Posted at 06:18:11 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some mushrooms are tastier than a simple beef when cooked correctly, you uncultured swine.
chironomidae · 0 points · Posted at 08:21:24 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think I saw on hells kitchen where someone lost points because they used cilantro and the judge didn't like cilantro. How can you be a good judge and not like cilantro, or at least be able to be unbiased when a dish contains cilantro?
Arkyance · 1 points · Posted at 09:19:37 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cilantro is actually related to supertasting genetics.
MisuVir · 1 points · Posted at 09:20:35 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Coriander leaves? Yeah, I would be unable to judge a dish on the taste because coriander overrides everything with a metallic tang.
Seems a bit rough to lose points for that though. I'd have thought a cooking show judge should have to like most foods.
AlizeePwnzU · -1 points · Posted at 09:32:52 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
LOL? I get the meme but no no no EVERYTHING IS EDIBLE TO ME. MUST EAT EVERY DISH I AM TASTE TESTERER.
easygenius · -3 points · Posted at 05:47:02 on January 5, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get a life.