You know what I don't get?

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Minted peas.

Who the fuck decided that peas would be improved by being minty, and why did anyone ever go along with this?

Minty peas. It just doesn't fucking work. It never has. It never will. Ruin a whole panful of perfectly good peas, why don't you.

Celery and radishes 🤢

I can't even use mint toothpaste as it burns
Currently using peppa pig bubblegum flavour!

All those posters hating on mint and chocolate - does that mean you don’t like …. After eights ……?

How can you not like After Eights? My granny used to ration them out amongst us like they were the last goodies on earth before the apocalypse. Made them even more delicious.

@Shitandrun I'm with you on the hot cross bun thing. It was a bit different for me as I'm not mad about the regular ones, so I thought Id try an alternative. Waaaay worse I'll tell ya. This abomination from Waitrose was white chocolate and lemon?! What was I thinking...??

I have to say, chocolate or orange peas sound absolutely disgusting. I'm okay with a bit of mint though!

Peas cooked with a sprig of fresh mint are lovely - in my opinion. My mother always did that and so did I (if I had fresh mint handy).

I don't see a significant weirdness or disgustingness differential between minty peas and orangey peas. What's wrong with pea-flavoured peas?

And chocolate? Well, if you've got a time portal back to the 90s, there's always the Iceland chocolate carrots (image hidden, for those of a sensitive disposition)…

I once was served pea ice cream in a posh Irish hotel! That was bordering on palatable! 😀

I… can actually see that working Tingle. Fresh little green peas straight off the plant, popped and zipped and b-r-r-r-r-r-red straight into your mouth, are unbelievably sweet with a delicate and complex flavour. And it's not without precedent when it comes to leguminous ice cream — peanut butter seems to be a pretty popular ice cream flavour/mix-in at the moment.

We are having minted peas tonight. And minted new potatoes 😅

There used to be a brilliant description allegedly written from the perspective of a Chinese foodie, which went:

You know what they do in Europe? They steal milk from baby cows.And they don't even drink it. They let it turn bad until it is all hard lumps. And they don't even eat it then. They add mould to it and wait until the mould has grown all the way through the lumpy milk. Then when it smells like really badly unwashed old men's feet, they eat it as a celebration.

Stilton cheese.

Well that's just oppositional

(Of course, I'm taking it as read that your dinner choices were made purely with reference to the personal preferences of MEEEE, a random MNer, and that no other factors were involved.)

Thing is, I actually bloody LIKE mint. Mint sweets, mint chocolate, mint gum, mint tea, mint choc chip ice cream, peppermint-flavoured sweet white sauce on steamed chocolate pudding, mint raita… all delicious. I used to eat mint leaves straight off the plants as a kid, and enjoyed the differences in flavour and texture between the peppermint, spearmint and applemint leaves. I even occasionally drink infusions using fresh mint from the garden (brighter and more aromatic than mint tea from a teabag — definitely worth the effort, especially if it's someone else making it for you, although it does look slightly like hot steamy piss).

I just don't think mint goes with peas. Or potatoes.

And I'm not really a fan of nasty vinegary mint sauce or mint jelly with lamb — redcurrant jelly is by far the superior roast lamb condiment IMO (with apologies to the PP who can't stand fruit with meat).

Have to concur with the alleged Chinese foodie here, at least when it comes to Stilton.

Though a culinary tradition that produced century eggs is a precarious position from which to judge.

It is, but a friend of mine once made me eat one and it was surprisingly good. Tasted a bit like Stilton. (Really)

In that case I'm definitely giving them a swerve.

Mushy peas require lashings of malt vinegar 😋

See also profilific use of the f word to try and make an exceeding banal post more dramatic, yawn.

Cucumber and mint in drinks

There's even a sparkling water version by Sainsbury's

Cucumber. And. Mint.

Herbs and fruit help the body digest fatty foods.

I don't get why people don't put their question in the thread title. It's click-baity SM style bollocks.

😂😂😂🙈

Mint in peas is just wrong. I don't like lamb anyway, but why oh why do chefs (Yes Jamie Oliver I am looking at you) insist on adding rosemary to what should be lovely crispy roast potatoes!

I really like orange in chocolate, but no other fruit. Chocolate dipped strawberries, NO NO NO! Raisins in chocolate - disgusting. Nuts in chocolate - yes.

Are you me?