What food can you not stand, that ruins the whole dish?

[SperaT]

My worst thing is tarragon. It ruins everything on the plate for me.

I agree! It makes me gag!

DILL

horrible stuff

Fucking sultanas or raisins. Their horrible wrinkly texture and unpleasant sweetness messing up grated carrot salad or stews

Raisins. Raisins are nasty.

Big onions, carrots, mushrooms, peppers. In fact, anything that isn't mushed to a pulp. I don't mind the taste as long as the are cooked to oblivion and/or pureed. Preferably both.

Controversially.........cheese in anything savory and chocolate in anything sweet.

I like cheese and I like chocolate, but they're overpowering in a dish. Cottage pie I adore with crispy mash potato straight out of the oven but put cheese on top and I can't touch it.

As you can imagine Instagram is food hell for me 😂

Bacon

Mayonnaise!

Anything slimy. Fish, onions, mushrooms and onions are the worst offenders.

Huh. I like nearly all of the above - indifferent to celery.

But coconut flakes are truly the work of the devil. That icky texture...

Lemongrass.
Fennel (anything aniseedy)

Red peppers

Mustard, it makes my nose feel weird.

Cucumber, raisins/sultanas. And my top hate which is blue cheese, eurgh tastes like mouldy bread, its rank

Coriander, dirty perfumed nasty soapy taste.

Tomato seeds. A few of those really ruin a good sandwich.

Coriander
Raw onion

Feta cheese. Cranberry sauce too. It's everywhere around Christmas and to me it's like having jam on your dinner. Bleurgh!

Celery

Dill

Mint

I'm fine with mint sweets and mint toothpaste but add even the tiniest bit of the herb and it ruins the food. I can't even stand the smell of it and I can instantly tell if things have been minted even when it doesn't say so.

I've had lamb, potatoes, cous cous, garlic mayo and even a fish risotto dish ruined by mint being randomly added when I wasn't expecting it.

I refuse to order lamb in a restaurant now because of the much higher risk of mint being near it even if it's not mentioned on the menu.

Olives

Olives, which is an anagram of "so evil". Nuff said.

Crosspost! 😅

I agree regarding cranberry sauce, recently tried Cumberland sauce which I think is based on redcurrants and that was much better then cranberry and worked for the same dishes