Yeah

Sea-bugs are awesome. Can I have yours?

Dunkin

I like kale cooked like southern collard greens. And in soups. Beet greens are good like that too. Or any greens really.

I fucking hate kale, since I was a little kid. Never grew to like it.

Not everyone tastes soap, some people genuinely enjoy it

Can I have yours?

I would eat shrimps. If I could.

Entirely caviar, it's a delicacy only because of its rarity.

The thing that is the absolute worst about gluten free food is how many times some company starts with gluten free and goes wild.

Oh look a gluten free key lime pie, but it’s also

• dairy free
• egg free
• fat free
• sugar free
• tree nut free
• vegan
• made out of sustainably harvested kelp

Like fuck off, my spouse has a gluten intolerance not whatever the fuck this list is for.

I sometimes think about make a gluten free food company that is called “just gluten free” and it uses all the rest of the food stuffs. It’s hard enough to make bread that has a reasonable texture without gluten, we don’t need to make this an impossible task by excluding 80% of the rest of the ingredients that make food taste good.

Worst pizza I ever tasted was gluten free.

Ok but celiac people all agree with this take. They aren't pretending it tastes good, they just have to eat it.

Edit: It occurs to me that you may be in the aforementioned group yourself and complaining about the outliers.

Yep. I wasn't a fan of raw fish BEFORE I took the fish-farm job for uni cash. The experience did not sway me positively!

Sushi is like saying "Sandwich"

Unless you hate bread or rice there's probably a kind of sushi or sandwich you'd like.

I like oysters. I don't like snots. Let's agree to disagree.

Using snot as your salinity guide says a lot about you

Now listen here you little shit

You can pry black licorice from my cold dead hands

Yes. It's not bad, but it's definitely overrated.

You insulted my Dutch heritage

i flicking love it. even the odd kind from europe with ammonia or somesuch in it. or even just chewing on the root sticks.

careful with the blood pressure though.

I will happily have yours

I agree but I'm also saying if you had real licorice root, you wouldn't say this.

i like it

Season makes a huge difference. Kale is best when harvested after it's been hit by a frost. Since it's become more popular they've started growing it in all seasons and harvesting without a frost, which makes it a lot more bitter.

You don't like it when your lettuce tastes like Windex?

You may be from the north Jon but you'll never see winter southerner

I enjoy canned and frozen peas a lot. But when they gave me that little cup of mushy peas with my fish and chips. I gave it a shot. It's like pea flavored pudding, nope.

When you lose your teeth and still want to eat nuts

... The fuck??

Cajun boiled peanuts are heaven. Now I'm hungry.

The fuck is a boiled peanut?

Ever had 'em fresh? Love me some warm nuts.

Nah fam, boiled peanuts are fucking awesome

Whatever you do don't try to swallow the nut whole you have to work up to it

Complains about texture. Goes on to say peanut butter is great.

?!?!?!?!

I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but t-bones are way overrated. And I've had some rated as top quality "impossible to get in store" meat.

Give me a good chili if you want me to enjoy beef...

The reason people don't go vegan is because they enjoy it too much. Doesn't fit the prompt, sorry

I've been vegan almost 5 years and I can say pretty confidently that cheese isn't overrated. It's the one thing I miss since going vegan.

That being said, I'll take mediocre vegan cheese over the real thing knowing the cruelty involved.

I'm all in on the go vegan to save the world, but I would/will/do 100% miss the taste.

Madly overrated, but people get so angry and defensive about it. It’s irrational and it says a lot about us.

I made the best red sauce and spaghetti a couple of days ago. Lots of basil, a bit of chilli, topped it off with fried panko. So good.

I eat fish twice a day It's incredibly healthy

What kind of shit quality canteen boiled fish did you only get in your life lol.

There are so many kinds of fish with so many different kind of cooking them, you can't just not like fish in general.

And I am not an especially big fan or expert of fish myself, I just think this statement can not be correct/accurate.

Salmon fillet sections, coated in olive oil, dusted with salt, pepper, smoked paprika and garlic powder, then cooked in an air fryer for 8 minutes. Serve with Spanish rice and oven-roasted asparagus (coated in olive oil, with a bit of S&P, broil in oven on Low for ~10 minutes, or until tips start to brown slightly). Yummy.... Kids keep asking for it, but shit's expensive 😅. I also just leave the skin on. Much easier to handle. Some eat it, I don't.

Another one is fish tacos with.....fishsticks. We call them "Del Taco style", and they're a hit in my house. Basic fishsticks, sour cream, halved cherry tomatoes, avocado dressing, shredded cabbage, and fresh lime slices. Served on either lightly-fried corn tortillas, or warmed flour tortillas. Both taco-sized.

It depends on the fish. Growing up, my mom would buy very cheap white fish and fry it in a ton of oil, so I always assumed I just hated fish. As an adult I have been able to try lots of other fish dishes and enjoyed just about all of them.

The smell comes from a base when the fish breaks down. That's why a spritz of lemon is such a common thing; it helps to bring the pH back down. I'm a big fan of a simple grilled salmon. Wrap it in aluminum foil with garlic salt. Cook, and spritz with lemon when it's done.

I agree for the most part, however, I fucking love sushi.

So it has something to do with cooking it that makes it bad imo

Depends on preparation, like anything else. You could eat an egg raw or burnt to a crisp and it would be a horrible experience, but if you have a recipe where it works well on its own or have experience with seasoning and combining it with other ingredients it works wonderfully as a meal.

Fish is similar, although I agree that some preparations are more appetizing than others to most people. You'll probably have more people clamoring for sushi or fish 'n chips (deep fried prep) rather than baked in an oven or grilled in a pan.

Also, some fish just are not worth eating, for sure.

Hahaha.

My favorite breakfast when I lived on the farm, was fresh tomatoes from the garden. I will absolutely eat them like an apple.

Are your songs not fit for my hall, master hobbit?

See I would’ve said massive boogers but eyeballs work too

I would like to try some before I can say it's overrated. But seing the price, it's probably overrated af.

I had a sampler of about 8 different roe variants. The salmon roe were the best, like little salty bursts with a mild fishy taste. The flying fish were the worst; texturally like sand.

Alton Brown claims his favorite protein source is caviar.

Idk, I like fish eggs on sushi — but straight caviar on a cracker is horrifying to me.

Word

I eat just about anything that comes out of fish. I think it's fine. Same with salmon roe and stuff. Cod sperm is the one I don't care for (at least raw), but that's a texture thing.

Kalles Kaviar goes on everything.

If they discovered it today it would deffo be unlawful

You are officially banned from /r/pyongyang

I knew someone from Maine who'd had lobster ice cream; if what you're saying is true, that might explain some things.

"it brings out the succulence, jerk!"
– Bob's Burgers extra

to me, lobster has a flavor and it is awful

It tastes like slightly lobstery butter with an immensely satisfying texture. It's good

It’s just expensive escargot

I hope the fucking tend ends because I can't get any proper matcha in Japan.

Even better is when you do tea ceremony and they make the extra thick koicha. Basically a green tea slurry that is so thick it won't even pour.

Even people who had been studying tea ceremony for years found it hard to choke that stuff down.

Ground up tea leaves that haven't been otherwise processed and bitter as fuck. Nasty shit.

The garnish?

I like Kale. Im not even a health nut.

with this one i think a lot of it comes down to if you can taste those test strips from high school biology class. if you can, you're going to hate kale. if you can't you're going to think the people who hate kale are being unnecessarily dramatic.

(bias report: i can taste the strips and i hate kale)

I like kale and potato stew, I'd pick it over eggplant or quinoa.

Nobody LIKES kale, it's just a health trend

I hate kale. I can barely tolerate most leafy greens, and then along comes this trend of making every salad a kale one and now I can't order any fuckin salad unless I feel like paying to mentally fight my gag reflex the entire time I'm eating it

Wrote a whole disquisition pretty much exactly on these lines before reading through more comments. Can't be arsed to find it back again to erase. Anyway yes.

There was a post a few months ago comparing the taste of avocados to the taste of clean dick, and now i think about that every time I see one.

Guacamole is so goddamn good though.

It's also great on a turkey sandwich

Its in the categories of "Nice but; overrated, overpriced, and not the star of any show" for me.

Eggplant is delicious.

Eggplant tempura is delicious.

I think the flavor is fine, but I have texture issues with it. It needs to thread the needle and not be squeaky on my teeth but also not be complete mush.

Cut em in half, scoop some of the middle out to make a boat fill the scoop with spiced beef mince mixed with fine diced onion, garlic and pepper of choice, slather in olive oil and slap that in the oven. Shit slaps. Eat with humus and pitta

I had cooked eggplant for the first time a few years ago. I have to say it was a surprising taste, but I liked it.

I used to feel this way until I spent time in Corsica, it’s practically their official food and they know how to use it.

Eggplant I cook however? Yeah overrated

It is like saying you like stakes but only like certain cuts of meat and will not eat rotten meat.

Commercially grown strawberries sold in stores are grown for volume and having a (barely) edible taste. About 1 package in 10 is at peak ripeness and even then only half of them are good.

Picking ripe strawberries from a bush, just about all of them are great. Those berries only grow to a quarter size of what you see in the store and it is a struggle to get them ripe before animals destroy them, so I can see why they are never in stores.

Strawberries been sucking of late. Just straight up did not care for them. Like you said so many not ripe or good.

But someone hooked us up with these hand picked ones and they all been good, like I'm hyped for them now.

I feel tomatoes have gone this way, just no flavour or unripe. Been on the look for handpicked ugly ones like the ones my grandad used to grow.

Maybe it's a failure of automation/ripening/logistics and the specific types of fruit/veg being grown.

Norwegian grown ones only

You can get cheese filled gnocchi, I start them in a pan with oil the soften them, when that is almost browned add a knob of butter and diced garlic, then take them out before the garlic burns. Season with coarse black pepper.

Eating them as soggy pasta would indeed be grub like but this way they are crisp and garlicky.

You have had some sad ass gnocchi my friend.

Hella satisfying

Craft beer

Are you talking about overly hopped IPAs? Because there's "craft beer" versions of every style of beer that exists

I enjoy (well, mostly used to since I'm not supposed to have wheat-based stuff anymore) a lot of them. I oddly have trouble with bitter chocolate and don't enjoy certain veg with bitter compounds as much, but black coffee (depending on roast, I guess) and very hoppy and bitter IPAs were something I loved.

I mean, asparagus is trash unless prepared properly (blanched and shocked).

aint no way air frying can fix lobster though

Eggplant is so good when prepared correctly. There are a thousand different Arab and African recipes for eggplant that are really good!

They should not be slimy. Mushy, yes, slimy, no.

You eat them straight out of the can?

Because I want the flavor without the cruelty.

Sometimes you want to try a recipe and it’s so tied to the meat (texture usually) that a substitute works better (or at least makes it so you don’t have to muck around to find the right texture/taste).

I’ll give tacos as an example. As a kid we’d just ask to sub beans into the taco. And they were okay. Then one day, I tried it with Beyond Beef, and I suddenly understood why people liked tacos so much.

For me only diced mushrooms came close, but even that texture was inferior, compared to the Beyond Beef. Flavor was just as good though.

There are vegans and vegetarians who like the taste of animal products but choose not to eat them for ethical reasons alone. I don’t think it’s strange or wrong to want to replicate a familiar and enjoyable recipe. That being said, there are many times where I would prefer a recipe that was created with whole plant-based ingredients than eat ultra-processed, artificial tasting animal product substitutes.