Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Unpopular food opinions

223 replies

HangingOver · 11/09/2026 12:20

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?

OP posts:
HangryBrickShark · 11/09/2026 20:32

I couldn't eat anything with eyes on the plate: lobster, crab, whole fish, or whitebait where you actually don't see the eyes but actually end up eating them all the same. Gross.

Also tomato soup, baked beans and anything very tomato based. Gross.

Thewonderfuldollypartonsbra · 11/09/2026 21:23

PuppyMonkey · 11/09/2026 12:54

I’m going to post the shocker I share on all unpopular opinion threads and that is: I hate gravy and believe it ruins all meals that it’s poured over.

Thank god it's not just me

I'm from Yorkshire and people are amazed I can't stand the stuff

I swear ill lose it if I hear 'but you Yorkshire folk had it in your bottles from birth!' or 'Yorkshire people have gravy instead of blood!it's in your dna!'

Just because i was born in an certain area doesn't mean everyone likes the same thing

Hot honey,dubai chocolate,salted caramel and cheese/gravy and chips can get in the bin too

Shudders

Betterbeingdead · 11/09/2026 21:30

Arlanymor · 11/09/2026 12:22

I like pineapple on pizza - it makes me laugh when people seem to think it is the grossest thing ever though are just happy to pour bloody hot honey over every single savoury thing as is the latest trend!

Me too I love pineapple

Betterbeingdead · 11/09/2026 21:33

murasaki · 11/09/2026 12:26

I don't like desserts. Never have. I'd rather have a starter and a cheese course, or just a starter if it's two courses. There's only one chocolate bar I like, and one has been in my fridge for a month as I just forget it's there.

I love desserts all of them ( except anything coffee flavoured and I love to drink.coffee !! )

HopefulBeliever · 11/09/2026 21:36

soddingspiderseason · 11/09/2026 15:04

Baked beans are the devil’s food. Sweet and gloopy. Ugh.

Totally second this!
The thought of them makes me go cold and my skin crawls!

Also hate:

  • salted caramel - what’s wrong with normal caramel
  • sandwiches - especially triangle prepacked ones, I just can’t
Ellafent · 11/09/2026 21:37

I don’t like ice cream. Or the taste of bottled water. Give me Cornish tap water anyday!

HangingOver · 11/09/2026 22:16

Ellafent · 11/09/2026 21:37

I don’t like ice cream. Or the taste of bottled water. Give me Cornish tap water anyday!

Haha I'm in Cornwall too, I have to put ours through a soda stream I think it tastes muddy

OP posts:
SaraHoliday · 11/09/2026 22:20

HangingOver · 11/09/2026 12:20

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 don't like 'Salted' ice cream.

Kickinthenostalgia · 11/09/2026 22:25

Arlanymor · 11/09/2026 12:22

I like pineapple on pizza - it makes me laugh when people seem to think it is the grossest thing ever though are just happy to pour bloody hot honey over every single savoury thing as is the latest trend!

See I only hate pineapple on pizza because I can’t stand pineapple…so it’s a massive no from me 😆

SaraHoliday · 11/09/2026 22:26

I don't like melted cheese.

CheerfulBunny · 11/09/2026 22:30

I like fried eggs to be so overcooked as to be rubber disks, same with boiled eggs. I absolutely loathe runny yolks. Actually I have a difficult relationship with eggs. Sometimes I crave them, other times they make me feel sick.

Kickinthenostalgia · 11/09/2026 22:33

I don’t like
salted caramel
avocado
cauliflower
cucumber —- I just find it tastes like mud and water.
biscoff

salad cream instead of mayo with tuna is an absolute game changer. Had it like that since I was a kid as that’s how my mum ate it. I do eat normal tuna mayo if I buy from a shop but prefer it with salad cream.
we are a family who has sweetcorn on a roast and it I don’t give a shit.
we have chicken at Christmas instead of turkey, because turkey is dry and overrated.
chips do not belong on a Chinese… have no business being on a Chinese. If I want chips I’ll go to the chip shop.

Wincarnis · 11/09/2026 22:33

I don’t like eggs or seafood
my idea of hell is egg or prawn curry

PinkCatCushion · 11/09/2026 22:34

Figs: they have a dissolved wasp in them.

SaraHoliday · 11/09/2026 22:37

I don't like 'Milk Tray' or 'Dairy Box' or 'Thornton's' chocolates

Slightyamusedandsilly · 11/09/2026 22:38

Really, really don't like chocolate. Most of it is sickly and over sweet. I don't hate Bendicks (make Bittermints) used to also make milk chocolate, that I liked. But since that has gone, no thanks.

Don't get the obsession.

Cotopaxi · 11/09/2026 22:39

I like bananas. As is. I can't abide bananas that have been adulterated in any way, especially not with a slippery cut surface, and I can't stand the taste of banana-flavoured anything.

Same with cherries. Like them fresh, but cherry jam, glace cherries, black forest gateau, cherry flavoured anything - yuk.

Arlanymor · 11/09/2026 22:49

Kickinthenostalgia · 11/09/2026 22:25

See I only hate pineapple on pizza because I can’t stand pineapple…so it’s a massive no from me 😆

Well that's fair enough. I hate coffee and bananas, so you can keep anything with those ingredients far away from me! On pizza or anywhere else!!

WhatNextImScared · 11/09/2026 22:52

Gigglingsquid1 · 11/09/2026 12:22

Hate avocado, mashed potato and tuna

Edited

Are you my eldest DD? 😅

AgnesMcDoo · 11/09/2026 22:55

I like beef including steak to be well done

Melarus · 11/09/2026 22:59

Crunchy cereal with cold milk is far nicer than any dessert ... possibly the world's nicest food.

Celery makes my mouth numb, it's basically fibrous Novocaine. Not fun.

As for cardamom, it can go straight to hell without passing Go

clare8allthepies · 11/09/2026 23:02

I really don’t like pasta, my family think that I’m crazy, they would eat pasta for every meal!

And tea, I hate tea.

Proseccoagain · 11/09/2026 23:23

I love a pineapple pizza.

But I cannot stomach any form of salad - I would literally throw up, it really does make me sick.

Also hate mayonnaise. And so many shop bought sandwiches have salad AND mayonnaise...

I love cold leftover curry; and cold cooked sausages. And curry pot noodles.

Whynottryagain · 11/09/2026 23:52

Vinegar on chips. Vinegar is vile on anything but also why do I want chips that are cold and soggy?

NolanChanceJustLikeTheWeatherNSoul · Yesterday 00:02

Whynottryagain · 11/09/2026 23:52

Vinegar on chips. Vinegar is vile on anything but also why do I want chips that are cold and soggy?

As a child id have sneaky swigs of Sarsons white vinegar straight from the bottle.
Refrigerated pickled onions
And suck the vinegar before chewing.