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To get salmon for lunch even though I don't like it?

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talksensetome · 19/10/2016 11:59

I don't like Salmon. I have never liked Salmon.

Today on the lunch menu is grilled Salmon and Asparagus on a bed of lemon noodles. I really want to get it. But I don't like salmon!

I had the fish pie a couple of weeks ago which had salmon in it and I ate that and it wasn't bad. maybe I am starting to like salmon?

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talksensetome · 19/10/2016 13:38

Your welcome Pestilence I can post the menu for the rest of the week if it helps Grin

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motherinferior · 19/10/2016 13:41

I think if it's things you're not wild about, as opposed to things you're horrified about, you're excused.Smile

SquedgieBeckenheim · 19/10/2016 13:42

I love salmon! Glad you enjoyed your lunch and have a whole new world of salmon dishes opened up to you.
I don't like coffee, or anything coffee flavoured. I really wish I did as I like the sound of all the fancy coffees you can get Sad

Pestilence13610 · 19/10/2016 13:42

Just for Wednesdays please, only day I work from home.

nonline · 19/10/2016 13:44

Crikey, talk, I could completely have written that list! But I still dislike salmon; it's like eating dirty water.

I do consider myself fussy and am embarrassed by it Blush

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talksensetome · 19/10/2016 13:45

Oh those are the things that I would never choose or cook but if someone served them to me I would just get on with it.

Wednesday is roast dinner day, meat, two veg and roast potatoes for £2.50, The salmon was the vegetarian option Confused

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talksensetome · 19/10/2016 13:49

nonline they are just not tasty things to eat are they! I honestly didn't realise I was fussy. I love Italian, Chinese, indian, Mexican foods. I thought fussy people just eat beige bland foods and garden veg like my children

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MoonriseKingdom · 19/10/2016 14:08

I thought I didn't like soft cheeses like Camembert and strong cheeses like Blue Stilton until well into my 20s. Can't get enough of them now and found cheese deprivation in pregnancy far more annoying than avoiding alcohol.

Can't get my head round the love of goat's cheese though. It smells of goat!! Am back eating meat after many years as a pescetarian. I used to find the high frequency of goat's cheese in veggie options very frustrating.

My 2 year old eats all sorts of things I considered grown up tastes as a child e.g. Avocado, smoked fish, smelly cheese. Wonder if she will rebel later on and only eat white bread with mild cheddar.

BarbaraofSeville · 19/10/2016 15:03

I'm another one who doesn't like 90% of what is served in coffee shops. I only like a flat white or latte, usually with an extra shot. All those syruppy concoctions sound nice, but I know I would hate, because I don't like sweet coffee. I don't mind a hot chocolate apart from it is never actually hot.

I like lots of things and would consider that I'm not fussy at all. I can go into almost any restaurant knowing I will like several things on the menu.

But I do have what seems like a long and quite specific list of dislikes, including:

raw celery, broad beans, bananas

Subway sandwiches

Pizza has to be specific flavour, usually vegetable (peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, but not sweetcorn), tuna and onion or parma ham and olive. I can't stand popular pizza options like ham and pineapple, chicken, pepperoni or anything spicy.

I didn't think I liked salmon but I do now. That salmon and noodle dish sounds nice, but if I saw it as a vegetarian option, I would be Having Words and I'm not even vegetarian myself.

MillionToOneChances · 19/10/2016 15:06

I am going to live on the edge and get the salmon.

Grin Grin Grin

PurplePidjin · 19/10/2016 15:26

Moonrise not necessarily, at almost 4 mine still eats everything. Risotto and smoked mackerel being a prime example

I can't bring myself to eat pineapple or celery. End of list.

MoonriseKingdom · 19/10/2016 15:48

Good to know purple.

Taste is so individual. I find it funny that people feel strongly about celery which to me has such a mild flavour and lovely crunchy texture. I really dislike aubergine but love courgettes which baffles my mother.

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talksensetome · 19/10/2016 15:49

Adds celery to list....

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KinkyAfro · 19/10/2016 15:53

You know you can ask for it extra hot Barbara, I always get mine at 80 degrees

Sparklesilverglitter · 19/10/2016 15:53

Glad to see you lived on the edge OP andwent for the salmon Grin

I never use to like salmon but I do know espically with sweet chilli sauce and noodles, I think my taste buds must of grown
I didn't like coffee until a few years ago either, then a new trainee at work brought me a flat white one morning and I felt I had to drink it and after that I was in the coffee shop every morning

I do think as you get older your taste buds change, so it's always good to try stuff again

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talksensetome · 20/10/2016 11:02

Well after yesterdays excitement I have decided to give the Pork Goulash a go today. I like most of the ingredients but the tomato base sauce has always put me off trying it.... well not today!

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nonline · 20/10/2016 11:31

Now that is making me hungry!

There is a coffee bar down the corridor from where I work and (although I love the smell) I've always been glad I don't want to drink it but sad I'm not enough of an adult - but this thread is making me think it might be worth a go...

Smellyrose · 20/10/2016 11:36

How old are you, OP? There's a lot of food I didn't like until my early 30's (smelly cheese and naice ham, for example).

BarbaraofSeville · 20/10/2016 12:04

I think the 'not liking something until a certain age' is a known phenomenon.

Olives are cited as an example where people find them repulsive as child but then find they like them later on as tastebuds change. I certainly remember trying them in France aged 15 and hating them (olives were probably unheard of in 1980s Yorkshire) but have liked them now for many years as an adult.

I know that you can ask for extra hot coffee etc Afro but when I've tried that with hot chocolate it's still been lukewarm and I've not been arsed to complain - I know I should really.

I go somewhere and think 'I really fancy sitting here for a while sipping a nice hot chocolate' but you get it and it's lukewarm (not really, but I like hot drinks really hot) even if I've asked for it extra hot.

The Hotel Chocolat cafe was the worst - 4 quid for a hot chocolate and it was tiny and not actually hot even though I'd asked for it extra hot - quite disappointing.

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talksensetome · 20/10/2016 12:13

Smellyrose I am 30! Maybe 30 is the magic age.... I will report back on the goulash!

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TinklyLittleLaugh · 20/10/2016 12:43

I'm with you on the Christmas flavours OP. Every year my lot beg for homemade Christmas cake, pudding, mince pies, gingerbread...the lot. I don't really mind baking for them but it is a bit galling not to be able to eat any of it.

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talksensetome · 20/10/2016 13:12

I am glad I can't bake, I hate the smell of Christmas stuff just as much as the taste!

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talksensetome · 20/10/2016 13:13

Oh and the goulash was really tasty too, not what I imagined at all.

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OutDamnedWind · 20/10/2016 13:21

I did that with tomatoes. Always always always hated them until one day at university I just really fancied one out of nowhere. Stole a cherry tomato off my flat mate, and the rest is history Grin

HyacinthFuckit · 20/10/2016 14:59

Maybe you now only dislike raw tomatoes and not cooked ones OP. A lot of people are like that. I eat both but the tastes are different.

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