Unpopular food opinions

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Mine is that I ADORE white pepper, while everyone else seems to think it tastes like the 70s and hospital dinners.

I also prefer some things over cooked, mainly broccoli and pasta.

What's yours?

I loved school dinners

I'm another person that dislikes cake. People always seem astounded by it but I'd genuinely rather have nothing than a slice of cake.

Salted caramel is awful and in particular salted caramel ice cream. I thought I'd like it as I much prefer savoury to sweet food but it was absolutely disgusting.

So I like it but it is a peculiar concept... Spending ages getting your toasties and yorkies all crunchy them drowning them and making them soggy? When I work in a restaurant they put the gravy onto the meat... Maybe that's the way to do it.

I love plain rice. Could eat a dish of it by itself

Me too!!! And no one else every wanted the cabbage (it was boiled with butter on) so I had seconds. I also like airline food and hospital food (novelty only - I'm sure of you're unlucky enough to be in hospital more than a couple of days its awful)

Offal is absolutely delicious.

American-style smokehouse / barbecue food all tastes exactly the same.

The only Ben & Jerry's ice cream worth eating is Cherry Garcia. All the others are way too sweet and sickly.

Chocolate itself is delicious. But chocolate cakes and desserts aren't that great. I would rather a blondie than a brownie any day of the week and would choose a vanilla sponge over a chocolate one.

Most salads are improved with the inclusion of a small amount of fruit.

Cooked tomatoes are delicious. Raw tomatoes taste like vomit.

Lentils and Dahl are repulsive and I wish people wouldn't automatically think that it's a good thing to serve to vegetarians.
I don't like fruit cooked in pies and crumbles.
The chocolate sponge and pink custard they used to serve at school in the 70s was disgusting but everyone went crazy with excitement when it was on the menu, mine would someone always find it's way onto the floor.

Haha me too on hospital food and airline food! Any food which is prepared by someone else is a win for me these days

Controversially , i don't like Biscoff or any "knock off" biscoff flavours, it is very gritty

Can't stand mushrooms, horrible slimey things, nor sweet potato.

I hate everything chilli/ hot anything added to my food. Sadly it's now a default setting that eating out is a minefield!
... oh and onions! Hate the chopped up slimy little buggers!

I can't stand porridge and fruit and granola and smoothie bowls, overnight oats and all those supposedly healthy breakfasts.
I don't really like breakfast but at a push it should be bacon or bread based!

I absolutely abhor cookie dough. It's just so gross. Just bake it and have a cookie?!!

Why is everyone pouring honey all over food nowadays? Is it a marketing campaign by beekeepers?
What dies Diabetes UK think of it?
We all criticise the US insistence on food being sweet (their UPFs have had corn syrup added to them for decades) so why are so many now saying, "oooh I'm going to drizzle my nice healthy meal in sugar"?

I drink tap water from the tap when I need it and don't have either a water bottle (or a takeaway coffee cup glued to my hand).

Cold burnt toast is lovely, as is burnt pizza.

Overnight oats are always disappointing.

Anything I make in the slow cooker is basically sludge - especially when reheated the next day.

Salted caramel is however excellent.

Oh also this might be a MN specific unpopular food opinion.... But some UPFs are really really delicious. All the food threads in here are full of people who's palette is so sophisticated they can't enjoy crappy food but I hereby declare the following delicious: super noodles on buttered white bread, McDonald's fries, capri sun, those jalapeno flavour veggie burgers, golden Oreos.

Also healthy peanut butter sucks. It's just nowhere near as nice as Sunpat.

Agree .Can only eat porridge with golden syrup and cannot stand yogurt in any shape or form 🤢

I also like pineapple on pizza, especially with black olives. It’s the sweet/salty that works for me.

Mayonnaise is disgusting, it tastes horrible and all that wetness in sandwiches is awful.

I have a Hawaiian pizza every week, make it from scratch. I love it and it is an added bonus that it upsets so many people.

I really don’t understand all the fuss about flapjacks.

I hate avocado, chick peas, sweetcorn, mushrooms and beans/lentils. I am also allergic to bananas. So I am a pain in the arse for vegan and vegetarian hosts 🤦🏼‍♀️.

Even the smell of porridge makes me heave.

As for granola and muesli - nope. I spent too many years shovelling stuff into horse feed buckets to want to eat anthing remotely resembling it myself!😂