Dislike of foods.

[Oma]

We were talking tonight about foods we eat but are either not fussed on or just tolerate.
Like eggs , I will eat them but I'm not a fan,

I was having a salad for tea and I had all the usual stuff you put on a salad plus coleslaw,

I was eating it as I always do but then I said to B,
You know I always buy coleslaw and eat it , when in fact I can't stand the stuff , I think it's horrible 😁

He started to laugh and said "then why do you ?"

I think it's old habits , we always had it as children and it's just part of a salad I suppose .

I think I will break that habit and not buy it now 😁

[Sum1Ls]

Chuckling Oma!

I can’t abide liver or kidneys. If OH wants them he has to cook it himself when I’m out and remove all trace and smell before I return.

I also thought I disliked beetroot. It was years before I realised that it was the awful malt vinegar that they used to serve it with that I hated. Grated raw or roasted they are delicious.

And the other thing I can’t eat these days, is any chilli whatsoever. When I worked in Pakistan I had it all the time. But as I developed osteoporosis and was prescribed Alendronic acid, it slowly but surely caused my gut to be dreadfully inflamed. It settled down after I came off it but I still can’t eat anything with even the tiniest amount of chilli in it. But oddly enough, pepper, ginger and mustard are no bother.

[Daisy]

Oma, I feel like that about meat. I eat it, and don't actually hate it, but neither do I really enjoy it. If I had to choose between say a steak sandwich or a nice chunk of home-made bread spread with butter and blackcurrent jam, it would be jam every time.

I like home-made coleslaw with some carrot and apple grated in to it, but some ready made coleslaw has a strange taste to it. My mum wasn't keen on salad, but when I was a child it would be soft, flabby lettuce, tomato, cucumber and radishes, topped with salad cream, which I really do dislike.

Sum1, I have had the same experience with beetroot. What made me try again was growing white beetroot on the allotment. It was delicious, and I now find I also enjoy red beetroot. I don't often buy it raw, but I keep a couple of shrink-wrapped organic packets in the fridge and use it in various recipes.

[Nanto2girls]

Simple for me, if i don't care for something,i don't eat it.

[Daisy]

Nanto, I find it hard to tell somebody I don't like something when they've cooked for me, so it's lead me to eating all sorts of things, and I do like trying new things out.

My OH can't stand fruit crumbles, but about 20 years ago we were visiting a friend whose then young niece had made an apple and blackberry pudding. OH had some because he didn't want to hurt her feelings. He was obviously a bit too enthusiastic though, as 20 years on this friend still thinks it's his favourite dessert.

[Plantaholic]

I used not to like crumble because people would use SR Flour and it reacts with the fruit and tastes of bi-carb. I do prefer pies.

[Oma]

My DD doesn't like any stewed fruit or fruit with meat like apple sauce , but as a child she loved , crumble and custard,
She would ask for it ,
Strange how our tastes change ,

Daisy
I hate mayo but love salad cream , but I think I like sour tastes.
As children we all ate floppy lettuce as I don't think there was a choice was there ?
I agree if I had a choice between bread and jam and steak , it would be bread and jam hands down.

J not liking the crumble reminds me of the Dementia advert where she takes her father the whole nut chocolate and he always hated it 😁

Sum 1
I couldn't bring myself to eat kidneys, B loves them I hate the smell,
I will eat a mouthful of liver but I'm not a great lover, and I agree the smell is obnoxious,

Gem, can't eat anything with chillies in either.

If it was possible I would live on fruit alone 😁
Although I do like a good quality bread.

[Daisy]

Oma, I haven't seen that dementia advert, but this also reminded me of a friend's OH, who was headmaster of a junior school. One Christmas a little boy gave him a checked/plaid tie, and of course, he (the Head) admired it and made sure to wear it to school. The word went round - Mr H loves check ties. By the time he retired he must have had a drawer full of them, and didn't actually like them at all.

I have to confess to liking both liver and kidney, but I was amused to find Eva won't touch kidney. She'll fish it out of a meal and leave it on the floor!

I got some black pudding this week - it's not the "proper" stuff you'd get from a butcher, but it's not bad and it makes a change.

[Oma]

We get lovely black pudding and white pudding from our farm shop , made on the farm it's lovely 😁

[Daisy]

Oma, that sounds like the real thing. I'll have to try our local farm shops.

[Grauntie Mag]

The same story re. beetroot here. I hated it in school dinners because it had vinegar in and made other things pink on the plate! I do eat it now, especially nice chopped up with onion and mixed with mayo.
I cannot bring myself to eat any offal, I’d rather starve. Eggs I tolerate like Oma does.

[Oma]

GM
I'm the same with mushrooms , I have to have them in a separate bowl as I don't like the juices getting on other food ,
Although I love mushrooms , and mushrooms on toast ,
It's just when sometimes they are a bit juicy 😁

[Daisy]

Grauntie, I'm sure there are more people in the UK who don't like any offal than do like it. You're not alone.

We had all sorts of offal and what I can only call animal bits when I was a child, and the only thing I really couldn't eat was udder! Yes, honestly you "can" eat udder, but I would have to be close to starvation. Offal and "bits" seem much more popular in France.

I wonder how many people were put off beetroot because it was always in vinegar, and just dumped in with the rest of the food at school dinners.

Oma, enjoy your mushrooms in whatever way makes you happy. I love them too.