Do some people really not like chocolate?

[IrishGirl2020]

So met a friend yesterday for a walk and offered her some of my Easter chocolate. She says she doesn’t like chocolate - not doesn’t eat it - but doesn’t actually like it!!
How is this possible? 😂
Please explain if you feel the same!

Can't stand it. Yukky texture flavour ergh!! And ice cream not envy

I can take it or leave it TBH. I like sweets and sweet foods, but give me a bag of Liquorice Allsorts or Skittles over a bar of chocolate every time.

I don’t really like chocolate. I quite like chocolate cake and chocolate icing but not bars of chocolate. It leaves me feeling queasy, my spit is all thick and it rarely tastes nice. I especially hate Cadbury’s.

It wasn’t always this way. I don’t know what changed

Yes chocolate is wasted on my friend. But she likes jam.marmalade honey and cake. So at least she isn't all annoyingly virtuous. I adore chocolate but don't like all her sugary stuff. Win-win.

I don’t eat much chocolate. When I was a child it used to make me feel sick

I used to love chocolate as a child, but as I got older I became less and less fussed by it - or anything sweet including cake.

Am now 63 and perhaps twice a year I fancy a small amount of high cocoa choc, or perhaps a biscuit, small slice of cake or pudding.

If I were told I could never ever eat anything sweet again it wouldn't bother me at all.

If I was told that I could never again eat anything savoury I'd top myself!

@alpenguin

I don’t really like chocolate. I quite like chocolate cake and chocolate icing but not bars of chocolate. It leaves me feeling queasy, my spit is all thick and it rarely tastes nice. I especially hate Cadbury’s.

It wasn’t always this way. I don’t know what changed

So you DO like chocolate in some format then? OP was asking about the people who DON'T like it. Not just you, alpenguin, there's lots of posters on the thread who seem to have a love/hate relationship with it.

I occasionally have a square of chocolate when my blood sugar goes funny. A small bar will last a couple of years and I don't enjoy it particularly. I don't enjoy cake or biscuits either.
Cheese and crisps are my things.

I like very dark chocolate. I don't really have a sweet tooth, much prefer savoury.

I can't stand cadburys. Nothing to do with the taste, it just feels funny in my mouth.

Cadbury's milk chocolate is vile. I can't understand why anyone enjoys it. And creme eggs are particularly vile - sickly sweet.

I can take it or leave it (mainly leave it) but give me a cuppa and a pa ket of biscuits and I'm off! ☕🍥😍

I used to eat chocolate then stopped for a 30 day challenge. I never went back because it just didn't taste very nice when I ate it again.

I much prefer mints, toffees and fruit sweeties or Waitrose 1 nougat.

I can take or leave it really. We usually have it in the house because my partner is obsessed, so I end up eating a little with him I can only have a little bit before it gets too much though, I find it quite sickly.

I'm much more of a savoury, crisps and cheese kind of person!

My two cousins who are 5 both don't like chocolate. We had a family easter hunt but it was all jelly sweets and lollies!

I don't understand how people can not like chocolate. I mean, I do, because I get that we don't all like the same things but chocolate is one of my favourite things.

I'm wondering what you mean when you say you were offering her some chocolate though and whether it was a polite way of saying no...

@IrishGirl2020

So met a friend yesterday for a walk and offered her some of my Easter chocolate. She says she doesn’t like chocolate - not doesn’t eat it - but doesn’t actually like it!! How is this possible? 😂 Please explain if you feel the same!

Very strange.

I like it less than I used to but I think that’s more to do with them ruining the recipes not my actual tastes 😡.

I gave it up a year ago for weight loss, and no longer enjoy it when I try it for a "treat". I think you must be able to train your taste buds or gut bacteria or something?

I used to love chocolate but it started giving me migraines. Now if DH gives me a tiny bit I really dislike the taste of it. I don’t like cheese or wine, or any alcohol tbf, either.

I do like jelly sweets though.

My brother doesn't like chocolate. There is a reason - I'm not clear on the details, but something happened when he was a toddler that put him off. I think it involved Smarties, IIRC. He's never touched it since.

I used to like it but then 4.5 years ago I collapsed and was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. Since then I have almost entirely lost my sweet tooth. I will have te odd bite of whatever DS is eating, but e.g. the other day I took a handful of smarties he had and then gave all bar 5 of them back, I just don’t have the appetite for it any more.

And there are certain sweets etc which send my heart rate into an upward spiral so I have to be really careful which ones I eat anyway so as a rule I just don’t bother.

I quite like a little bit of very dark chocolate, which is also a good source of potassium, but only a tiny amount.

I always thought that white chocolate of any kind and Cadbury’s cream eggs were revolting though, even before I stoped eating all the rest.

Oh and, I am teetotal as well. Never did like the taste even before I fell ill, so giving it up didn’t need to happen....

I like all food, including chocolate, but I can happily ignore it most of the time. My twin bro and I never ate chocolate as children (but we did eat sweets) and Easter eggs were always given away to our older siblings or parents. He still doesn’t eat chocolate as an adult despite eating everything else.

My biggest Chocolate weaknesses are Tony Chocolonely Salted Caramel, hollow Lindt (bunnies, reindeer, eggs) or Hotel Chocolat caramel milk chocolate. Even then, I have to be in the right mood and as a PP said, I absolutely never fancy chocolate in the morning. I’m not sure if that’s psychological though because we were brought up not allowed to have fizzy drinks, chocolate or sweets in the morning.

My mam used to eat chocolate but then she read a book by Allen Carr (“how to stay slim” or something along those lines) and hasn’t touched chocolate or beef since. It makes her feel physically sick. I thought, great I’ll read it too so I can stop eating so much chocolate, it didn’t work on me.
He uses unpleasant images to plant in your brain when you think of a particular food. My mother has a very weak stomach. I do not

It was the "sugar is poison" book that convinced me to try giving it up. Might be worth a read as something to encourage a different way of thinking if you're interested in it?

I do wonder if one day in the future we'll look at sugar the way we do smoking and drinking - completely normal and fun for most people but comes with health hazards and is easy to overdo if you don't have any self control (and god knows I didn't use to have any - daily mars bars, brownies, cookies, you name it, I didn't get fat so ignored the health implications.)

I am not really a fan of chocolate. I quite like dark chocolate but think ordinary is not that nice.

Oh and I also don't like cheese. I am vegetarian and so many people almost fall over when I say that. I do use it in cooking - lasagne, on top of shepherds pie etc but would never eat cheese on its own or in a sandwich