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I’m curious to hear everyone’s unpopular food opinions

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ImNotARegularMumImACoolMum · 21/01/2024 20:15

AIBU to find lasagna massively overrated.

Ready meal lasagna is point blank rank.
Using jars of sauce makes an alright lasagna but nothing to hype about.
Making it from scratch is by far the tastiest option, but it is just so much effort to make a tomato based sauce while simultaneously making a cheese sauce and then layering to then have to wait for it to cook in the oven!
I’ve never actually had lasagna from a restaurant as it could be very nice but there’s always something that I fancy more.

What is everyone else’s unpopular food opinions?

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SpringViolet · 21/01/2024 23:25

Eating an animal/bird is rank (as is seafood/reptiles as well).

<Disclaimer - not a militant vegan, buy it and cook it almost everyday for DH and DC who love it and find my disgust hilarious, tried several times to start eating it again but I just find it disgusting. I’m told my many meat dishes are top restaurant quality despite never tasting them myself>.

Olives are also rank (not the oil though) and spinach should only be eaten raw in a salad or sandwich NEVER cooked.

Cabbage lightly sautéed in butter with leeks, loads of garlic and Parmesan is the food of the gods. Up there with cheesy mustard mash and a cheese, cheese coleslaw and cheese & onion crisps sandwich on crappy white bread (you can see why I can’t be a vegan!).

Cramlington567 · 21/01/2024 23:26

Nutella looks and tastes like 90% vegetable oil.

Blondeshavemorefun · 21/01/2024 23:26

Ha ha @StragglyTinsel

Yes possibly mice might not be the best

Now mince .......😂😂

Fixyourself · 21/01/2024 23:28

Impregnating cows, taking away their calf's and milking them for your cup of tea is weird!

JudgeJ · 21/01/2024 23:31

Meowandthen · 21/01/2024 20:19

Peas are nasty.

Jars of pasta sauce are dreadful and no substitute for a properly made sauce.

I've never used a had of pasta sauce and can't understand what's hard about making from scratch! What's the definition of an easy meal if lasagne is considered hard?

tweedlledum · 21/01/2024 23:32

Really not a fan of potatoes. I mean if they are crispy i'll have a few, but the leather skinned floury lumps everyone seems to love, nope. I'll take one, scoop out the manky insides and fill it with the rest of the roast.

Also, very weird hang up from A Level days when I was unsupervised and unprovided for, I love beans in with pasta. Bit of cheese on top and it's the perfect easy sauce and great for minerals/filling.

JudgeJ · 21/01/2024 23:33

fixies · 21/01/2024 20:41

Roast dinners are revolting. Too much. No one needs a days calories in one sitting. Plus the taste all slushy.

Sounds like you've never had a well cooked roast if it tastes slushy!

SpecialCharacters · 21/01/2024 23:34

Yorkshire puddings are rubbish. Not vile or anything, just nothingness. The culinary equivalent of a sigh.

CryptoFascist · 21/01/2024 23:35

Steak should be served almost burned, rare steak just tastes of blood.

JudgeJ · 21/01/2024 23:35

Herecomestreble1 · 21/01/2024 20:44

Fried eggs on a breakfast or in a sandwich are an absolute waste of eggs. As soon as you pop the yolk, you get one mouthful of yolky goodness before it runs around your plate and dries. Then all you have is the flavourless gelatinous white for the rest of your meal.

Scrambled all the way.

Put the fried egg on top of a hash brown, stops premature drying!

JudgeJ · 21/01/2024 23:42

KT8282 · 21/01/2024 20:56

Celery should be banned.

Pate on pizza is awesome (I once queued the acceptability of putting pate on pizza with an Italian relative when I had no cured meat and he said it was fine so there 😜)

Dirty Fen celery is wonderful during it's short season, you can't begin to imagine the difference in taste.

Justkeeprollingalong · 21/01/2024 23:42

@Spicybeanburger but why? The terms are not interchangeable, béchamel does not contain any cheese at all.
That's like saying lemon drizzle cake when you mean Victoria Sponge!

Cramlington567 · 21/01/2024 23:43

Hotel buffet breakfasts, talking premier inn / Travelodge. For 10 to 15 quid a head. No chance, always best to spend half that at a local cafe nearby for far superior food and decent coffee.

Fluffypiki · 21/01/2024 23:44

Okra are made by the devil, eating it is like eating chunky lub🤢

HighQueenOfTheFarRealm · 21/01/2024 23:45

@minipie you need to find a good Pakistani restaurant that Pakistanis go to and you'll find good biryanis there.

JudgeJ · 21/01/2024 23:48

phoenixrosehere · 21/01/2024 21:23

Salad cream is way too sweet.

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A friend's grandmother made delicious mustardy salad cream and when she died no-one could find the recipe.

minipie · 21/01/2024 23:49

HighQueenOfTheFarRealm · 21/01/2024 23:45

@minipie you need to find a good Pakistani restaurant that Pakistanis go to and you'll find good biryanis there.

Ok good tip! They always sound delicious but the ones I’ve had so far (from otherwise lovely Indian restaurants) have been disappointing.

SiobhanSharpe · 21/01/2024 23:54

BloodandGlitter · 21/01/2024 20:56

Also this béchamel sauce makes lasagne absolutely amazing - Restaurant quality. It's £2 and the only place I've found it is M&S.

Agree, a good shortcut in making lasagne.
They have it in Ocado too sometimes. Also in decent Italian delis.

JudgeJ · 22/01/2024 00:04

Bulkypeepants · 21/01/2024 21:42

I like airplane food, especially an airplane breakfast with scrambled egg that has the texture of a kitchen sponge and a hash brown that's sitting in 2cm of mystery liquid in the tray

One of my best breakfasts was on an RAF Britannia, lovely thick bacon, delicious sausage and scrambled egg, we'd flown at 3am, lights down, then been awakened by a wonderful familiar smell three hours later.

Youremylobster87 · 22/01/2024 00:05

Sweetcorn is vile, an open tin of it in the fridge is the worst smell in the world.

Bacon overrated!

Love mushy peas (Even better when they're cold)

JudgeJ · 22/01/2024 00:09

ForTonightGodisaDJ · 21/01/2024 21:46

Chicken skin is nice. I've only recently started liking ice cream after 35 years, and to add to that I have taken a shine to bubblegum flavour which is not a real flavour it doesn't exist, it's a manmade concoction but I still love it and it is always a very bright blue.

35 years ago our two bought bubble gum ice cream in Pennsylvania during our first big road trip, the car stank for days.

JudgeJ · 22/01/2024 00:14

Tuturkeykey · 21/01/2024 22:15

Most English food is bland and unadventurous. A Sunday roast is the worst meal.

If you are averse to several of the following: mushrooms, avocados, condiments, spices/chillies, soft/goat/blue cheese, snails, oysters, aubergine, lentils, celery, risotto, sushi, tartare, tofu, the problem is you. It’s never too late to train your senses and discover the joy of food.

Problem is probably your poor cooking of English food. Are other countries' food choices open for blanket dismissal or would one be on the naughty step?

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ImNotARegularMumImACoolMum · 22/01/2024 00:30

JudgeJ · 21/01/2024 23:31

I've never used a had of pasta sauce and can't understand what's hard about making from scratch! What's the definition of an easy meal if lasagne is considered hard?

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I don’t think it’s necessarily hard, just a faff when you get home from a full day of work having to make dinner, watch young kids and complete housework before having to wait for it to cook in the oven and then having multiple pans/ cooking trays to wash up 🤷🏻‍♀️

God forbid people just want to save a bit of time

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Boomboomshakeshaketheroom · 22/01/2024 00:40

Gosh I love cooking but lasagne is the biggest ballache ever. So many pans. It's one of the few things on my 'eat when out because I CBF when at home' list.

Catsmere · 22/01/2024 00:42

StragglyTinsel · 21/01/2024 22:42

Actually, I suspect that lots of people who think they hate aubergine have not had well cooked aubergine. There is a lot if undercooked or badly cooked aubergine out there in the world.

I will eat just about anything served to me. But there are still various foods that I don’t enjoy and some I actively loathe. Often it’s not the foodstuff itself but the preparation that is the problem.

Take tuna for example. Tinned tuna is vile stuff. Yes, even the really expensive tuna that people of tik tok fetishise and make the centrepiece of their tinned fish date nights of disappointment. I will eat the tuna sandwich I have been served, but I will have to steel myself for each bite of it. Tuna sashimi, on the other hand, is absolutely fine. I’d actually enjoy eating it.

Even my rant about bloody peas below… I don’t actually mind fresh, raw peas that much. They’re ok. I’m not going to rave about them. But they’re so much better than frozen peas. There’s a reason the villain in supertato is a frozen pea.

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I don't think I've ever had aubergine. To me it's that wonderful dark purple and is more about fabric than food! 😄

The "you should train yourself" (which goes hand in hand with the "you have a timid palate" bullshit someone in California said to me once) I object to is the "you should eat hot food even though you know it burns your mouth" attitude. I didn't grow up eating that stuff, why should I force myself to eat it just because it appeals to someone else? Why is the food I grew up with and prefer wrong?

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