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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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TheeNotoriousPIG · 26/09/2026 11:07

Gooseberries... I can eat them raw all day long, but despise them drowned in sugar for gooseberry tart or yoghurt!

Up until a neighbour recently converted me with homemade lemon drizzle cake, I would not eat anything lemon-flavoured apart from raw lemons.

HRTQueen · 26/09/2026 11:09

I love cold milk

but can’t stand warm milk or milky puddings 🤢

like warm custard but cold custard 🤢

Itsasecretnow · 26/09/2026 11:15

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)

I am exactly the same as you with coconut. I love a fresh coconut, straight from the shell but anything flavoured or even scented (like candles) makes me feel really sick. Desiccated coconut in anything literally makes me gag and I can’t swallow it.
Im going to include banana here as well, but this is anything with banana in it. I can’t bear the smell or taste of ripe bananas (also very ripe banana skins give me migraines, something to do with a chemical they have when ripe) and can only eat them whilst still relatively green, and I do eat them a lot, usually at least a couple a day, sometimes more if I have them. Funnily enough, despite absolutely detesting anything else banana, on days where I just can’t stomach eating the only things I can manage are unripe bananas.

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Shittyyear2025 · 26/09/2026 11:15

Coffee - love the smell, hate the taste in all forms

Tomatoes - as sauce (ketchup/pizza/Bolognese) fine, cannot stand them fresh or tinned.

Milk - ok in hot chocolate, could not drink it in it's natural state. Not for a million quid.

MagicThanks · 26/09/2026 11:49

DD has loads. Will not tolerate bread in any form except a freshly baked baguette. No potato in any form except hash brown. No meat except minced beef in spaghetti bolognaise.
Son similar actually, roast potato or chips - no other potato, but less fussy than DD

LetMeGoogleThat · 26/09/2026 13:54

Coffee is for the drink only, hate anything coffee flavoured. Fruit needs to be in the right place, and thats certainly not IN cheese! With is ok, also not in anything savoury. Jam is for tarts,, or pudding....not bread or toast.
I think I'm a fussy cow 😂

HarryGrotter · 26/09/2026 18:07

Love strawberry flavoured things, including jam, but detest the fruit itself, the texture, those itty bitty seeds 🤢🤢🤢 just make my teeth itch

Yorkshiremama87 · 26/09/2026 18:10

Milk on cereal. At no other point!

NimbleHiker · 26/09/2026 18:18

I love smoked salmon but tinned salmon is so vile. I like pork pies but i hate pork chops.

SereneReader · 26/09/2026 18:30

Love fresh strawberries hate strawberry milkshake, yoghurt, blancmange etc... reminds me of pripsen.

Total opposite of pp

idril · 26/09/2026 18:35

Love raw carrots but hate cooked carrots. Love cooked salmon but hate raw salmon (aka smoked salmon but it means raw salmon).

NowWhatUsernameShallIHave · 26/09/2026 18:37

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

Ummm I’m not sure that’s the same thing

WinWhenTheyreSinging · 26/09/2026 18:41

maddiemookins16mum · 25/09/2026 21:25

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

Love tomatoes, including tinned/passata, but tomato juice as a drink makes me 🤢. (Don’t like tomato soup either, but that’s just a don’t like, rather than it making me feel sick.)

Hotterthebetter · 26/09/2026 18:58

I love a cup of coffee but hate any and all ‘coffee flavoured’ foods

i also love twiglets but the thought of eating marmite makes me want to 🤮

HollyhockDays · 26/09/2026 18:59

Peanuts. Can only eat them as actual nuts. Anything else turns me. Chocolate and nuts is particularly wrong.

Hotterthebetter · 26/09/2026 19:00

And another. I love all forms of potato except chips

Ta2025 · 26/09/2026 19:01

One of my favourite foods is cooked Red Onions, I absolutely love them. But I HATE raw red onions with a passion!

thatwasclose · 26/09/2026 19:19

Cheese - in any form but favourite crisps are cheese and onion. Of course I have no idea if a cheese and onion crisp tastes like cheese though.

Tomatoes. Can only eat them cooked, won’t eat them raw. Love tomato soup.

GreenEyesMillennial · 26/09/2026 19:20

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.

No veg taste nice boiled to be honest

Grendel7 · 26/09/2026 19:22

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.

Poor cats!! Cats love tuna

ToadRage · 26/09/2026 19:28

maddiemookins16mum · 25/09/2026 21:25

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

Same. I love tomato based things like soup, pasta/pizza sauce, ketchup but hate tomatoes. This came up in conversation one day having lunch at my Mums, she was making tomato soup and had put a selection of prepackaged sandwiches on the table. I chose the ploughman's and set about removing the tomatoes, my Stepdad questioned this and couldn't understand why I was happy to have tomato soup but not tomatoes in their natural form.

Coffee - i like coffee chocolates and coffee cake is a firm favourite but you won't find me drinking a cup of coffee.

ImogenBrocklehurst · 26/09/2026 19:47

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

🤣🤣

Crunchingleaf · 26/09/2026 19:58

I love coffee but hate all coffee flavoured cakes and coffee sweets.

The only way I would eat cheese and ham together is in a toastie. As a sandwich it’s one or other.

Yourcatisnotsorry · 26/09/2026 20:10

Love chocolate hate chocolate ice cream anything chocolate flavoured.
love carrots hate carrot cake.
love grapes hate raisins
love chocolate, love mint. Hate mint chocolate.
love toast otherwise sliced bread can get in the bin.

Craftycorvid · 26/09/2026 20:14

Lemon. Fine as part of a dressing or sauce in a savoury dish, but wrong on every level in a sweet dish.

Not sure this counts really, but custard. Cold and eaten on its own, delicious. Hot and on a pudding -grim!

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