Mine are brussels sprouts, beets, anchovies and livers
There are a lot of vegetables people don’t like because they are often prepared poorly. Brocolli, brussel sprouts, etc - seasoned and roasted, they’re great. Boiled to mush, not so much.
Brussels sprouts have also been bred over the last couple decades to be much less bitter and have generally a better flavour than what we’d have had as kids.
You’re right, they’re much more palatable these days. But even decades ago, roasting them with a liberal amount of salt, and maybe a bit of lemon juice on top, they were still decent. Boiled to mush with a single-digit number of grains of salt tastes bad regardless of the decade.
My theory is that back when most people smoked regularly, adults couldn’t taste anything and were generally not great in the kitchen because of it.
Umm, how do most people feel about sauerkraut? It goes well with mashed potatoes and pork, or on a hotdog.
I recommend trying kimchi hotdogs
Sauerkraut and kimchi are so delicious! Fermented cabbage is so much better than it should be.
It’s really good as an ingredient in chicken soup.
Love it. Goes great with sausage (not sweet Italian sausage; the sweet flavor isn’t complementary).
I love fermented stuff, so real sauerkraut is on the menu for me, but I’d always choose kimchi if given the option.
Fucking dope! Ugh, it is a top tier hot dog topping with spicy mustard.
I hate it but I know that it’s good for me, so down the hatch.
I’ve had people tell me “you don’t really like them you just want to be weird”
How is this different from those shrimp chips?
No idea what are shrimp chips?
Durian. I don’t even think it smells bad. Smells okay and tastes good to me
came here expecting to see this at the top.
Durian is alright
Black licorice.
There is such a variety of black licorice though. Some I love and some I hate. Like Icelandic licorice I love, but the one with the brown powder (Finnish?) I hate.
A lot of folks are saying brussel sprouts… interestingly:
the flavour has changed…Black licorice. I don’t understand why it’s an uncommonly liked taste, it’s just a delicious “rooty spice” taste like root beer.
It was one of the most famous candy in the 19th century and made a german company grow into one of the biggest candy manufacturers in europe (haribo). I don’t think it’s uncommon to like it but that it’s rather a generational difference since we now have a bigger variety in sweets you can learn to (dis)like.
A lot of people seem to balk at canned sardines. Maybe it’s the crunch of biting into the spine that puts people off…
Fruit on pizza.
Not peppers (green/red bell, jalapeño or shishito) or olives? Mushrooms? (Mushroom caps and stems are the fruiting body of a fungus)
Necco wafers. Tums. Cherry flavored medicine.
Necco wafers are the only easy source of a lot of good spice flavors. What’s your opinion on black licorice or cloves?
I love every flavor they have except chocolate. The chocolate is disgusting
The chocolate is indeed the worst one. I think they also sell a roll of entirely chocolate ones. Sometimes I wonder how that product still exists.
I liked Crystal Pepsi. I am the only person I have ever met who did.
I was a preteen when that came out. Me and my friends shared a bottle and made faces and gagged for yucks, but I honestly just remember it tasting like a thinner, less carbonated Pepsi. Not bad, but not really better.
If I drank it today I might have enjoyed having a less syrupy non diet cola.
I drank Pepsi Blue nearly every work day the year it came out, but I also had frosted spiked hair and wore silky shirts with flames on them, so I suspect my tastes have shifted somewhat.
I forgot about Pepsi Blue.
The name sounds like a version of Pepsi that’s sold exclusively at strip clubs.
Would have been a better marketing campaign than what it had.
Pineapple pizza
I really like the taste of cough medicine and pretty much any digestif/amaro/bitters you put in front of me.
I could sip Malort neat and be happy as a clam, but on the rocks dilutes the sweetness a bit.
I really like the taste of cough medicine and pretty much any digestif/amaro/bitters you put in front of me.
Same as you
i also like the artificial banana taste of that gross antibiotic they give kids (in north america, at least)
I recently got into Old Fashioned cocktails, which means I’ve added a dasher of Angostura bitters to my bar cabinet.
Neat it’s kind of miserable. It’s like, go to your mom’s house, get the five oldest jars out of her spice cabinet, boil the contents in vodka for an hour.
Diluted with some sugar water and it tastes like understanding your grandparents. It has a clove-forward spice flavor that seemed to follow my ancestors everywhere, I came to associate it with old people who had no idea how to relate to me. But served with some whiskey and a twist of orange, I get it.
Brussel sprouts, boiled is fine. I have them every day.
Green olives. I guess some people don’t like them.
I use to not like cranberry sauce, I liked it as I got older, but I don’t eat it anymore, way too much sugar.
I don’t know very well what other people don’t like. I’m surprised by most of the things already listed in the comments, apart from canned fish and liver. I don’t like seafood, except for salmon and crab, so there’s a whole bunch of food other people like that I don’t.
As an American not many people I’ve come across like Icelandic licorice like Opal but I love the stuff. If I go back I’m stuffing my suitcase to the fills with it. Costs way too much to get it shipped here.
If that’s that salted stuff, that’s vile. After comments like this here, I tried it from ikea, and it’s vile. I’m the only one who forced my way through an entire piece but my kids spit it out and my ex refused to try it
It’s chewy like a gummy. I’m pretty sure it’s different from the Ikea stuff but I’ve never tried it.
