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Ingredients you only like in one form

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BeardySchnauzer · 25/09/2026 21:13

So I really hate fresh ginger in drinks/food but I absolutely love gingerbread and ginger nuts

I love aniseed balls but detest Ricard

love a piece of fresh coconut and dishes with coconut cream but anything else like sweets or cake with coconut I can’t bear

What do you love/hate?

(I’m not counting things like banana flavoured things because that doesn’t taste like banana as we know it)

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murasaki · 25/09/2026 21:17

Tuna steak, very lightly seared, is delicious.

Tuna in a can is revolting and I wouldn't even feed it to my cats.

murasaki · 25/09/2026 21:19

I love Reeses peanut butter cups but can't stand peanut butter otherwise.

ShakyBake · 25/09/2026 21:19

Big fan of eggs in all forms and most of my breakfasts involve some like a boiled or poached egg or an omelette probably 5 times a week. But I cannot stand Cadbury cream eggs

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JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 25/09/2026 21:20

I love peanuts but couldn’t eat peanut butter. I love a banana but can’t stand banoffee pie or a banana split.

BeardySchnauzer · 25/09/2026 21:23

ShakyBake · 25/09/2026 21:19

Big fan of eggs in all forms and most of my breakfasts involve some like a boiled or poached egg or an omelette probably 5 times a week. But I cannot stand Cadbury cream eggs

🤣

me too though

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maddiemookins16mum · 25/09/2026 21:25

I hate fresh tomatoes but love tomato soup/ketchup/passata.

Silverbirchleaf · 25/09/2026 21:25

Don’t like coffee. I do like tiramisu.

I love cheese in sandwiches, on pizza etc. Don’t like cheese scones.

Jklellls · 25/09/2026 21:26

Nutmeg only in sweet things like cake or rice pudding. Hate it in anything savoury (tends to be put in spinach or white sauce, blech 😖)

Helpmechooseausername · 25/09/2026 21:28

Like mushrooms. Hate mushroom soup 🤢

Dunno if this counts but I love the smell of fresh coffee but absolutely hate anything that tastes of coffee 🤢🤢🤢

murasaki · 25/09/2026 21:29

maddiemookins16mum · 25/09/2026 21:25

I hate fresh tomatoes but love tomato soup/ketchup/passata.

DP is the same.

canklesmctacotits · 25/09/2026 21:30

Love raisins, don’t like them in my food unless with other dried fruit in a cake

Love carrots, love cabbage, love green beans in all forms except boiled.

PangolinPan · 25/09/2026 21:31

Only like coconut in savoury and really only in a peshwari naan.
Coconut biscuits can get in the bin

murasaki · 25/09/2026 21:32

Dislike carrots, quite partial to carrot cake.

Puhpuhpuhpuh · 25/09/2026 21:32

Eggs. Only in quiche or cake. Never hard or soft boiled, scrambled, poached, baked or omelettes or put atop anything at all.

NChannnnge · 25/09/2026 21:33

Dislike sweetcorn unless it’s in tuna mayo. Or on the cob is bearable, but not flying around loose being icky and sweet.

Helpmechooseausername · 25/09/2026 21:34

Puhpuhpuhpuh · 25/09/2026 21:32

Eggs. Only in quiche or cake. Never hard or soft boiled, scrambled, poached, baked or omelettes or put atop anything at all.

Love scrambled eggs, don't mind an omelette.

Boiled/poached/fried eggs are disgusting 🤢

And I knew someone who claimed to be very allergic to eggs. Except in cake. That's my kind of allergy 🤣

bblondemoment · 25/09/2026 21:35

maddiemookins16mum · 25/09/2026 21:25

I hate fresh tomatoes but love tomato soup/ketchup/passata.

I’m the exact opposite - love fresh tomatoes but hate anything that involves cooked tomatoes

Ihaveaskedyouthrice · 25/09/2026 21:36

Love cheese melted. Pizza, toasted sandwiches etc I find delicious.
There isn't any amount of money you could pay me to eat normal cold cheese 🤢🤢🤢

HughManity · 25/09/2026 21:36

Like chocolate, dislike chocolate cake.

DreamingOfGeneHunt · 25/09/2026 21:36

I can't stand raw tomatoes, the texture is like biting into your cheek. I love them cooked.

Can't do a raw carrot. Love cooked.

Can't do coconut on top of things because it's like eating fingernails, but I love it inside things. Especially Bounty bars.

Helpmechooseausername · 25/09/2026 21:36

Ihaveaskedyouthrice · 25/09/2026 21:36

Love cheese melted. Pizza, toasted sandwiches etc I find delicious.
There isn't any amount of money you could pay me to eat normal cold cheese 🤢🤢🤢

Same!

BeardySchnauzer · 25/09/2026 21:37

Oh I enjoy a cup of coffee but not coffee flavoured desserts

same with fruit - love berries etc etc fresh but not in cakes or ice cream.

I do like apple/pear in cakes or cooked though.

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pinkpony88 · 25/09/2026 21:38

I don't like coffee but love everything coffee flavoured.

RandomUsernameHere · 25/09/2026 21:38

Like grapes, hate raisins.

TheBers · 25/09/2026 21:39

Hate milk - adore cream.

Love boiled, poached and scrambled eggs
but only if I cook them for myself ( all omelettes are revolting though).

I love coffee but hate coffee chocolate or desserts.

Like fruit especially from a bush or tree. Once it’s been in a fridge … bah, I just can’t.

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