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

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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?

Butter is vile.

Vegan cheese (at least a lot of it) nowadays is very tasty and moreish

Wetherspoons food, while far from gourmet, is better than a lot of more expensive pub food.

Sprouts are fucking gross and not fit for human consumption

Melon tastes like some sort of bodily secretion.

Eating late at night (if you generally don't overeat) does not make one put weight on

'Breakfast is the most important meal of the day' is rubbish.

Cadburys is nicer than Hotel Chocolate, Lindt, actually any other mass produced chocolate I've tried.

Especially with a spoonful of coffee mate

Lasagna made with bechamel rather than cheese sauce tastes disappointingly lacking in something (cheese, obviously).

I don’t like biscuits (any biscuits!) I hate the way they go all claggy in the mouth. People are always really shocked by this.

For the same reason I also dislike mashed potato, chunky chips and jacket potato.

I eat everything else!

The term spag bol makes my stomach turn.
I like spaghetti Bolognese but will go right off it if someone calls it spag bol

I'm a huge fan of desserts. Happy to just have some yoghurt or fruit (banana or strawberries) instead

Dislike ice cream

Unpopular opinion: most of these opinions are because you've had improperly cooked food, hence why you think you don't like it.

Eg. bacon, it needs to be crispy and browned. Of course it's nasty if it's pink with stringy white fat. Or a true monstrosity, cooked in the oven.

Roast potatoes need flour, herbs and olive oil to be any good.

Mash needs lots of butter, pepper, some salt and mustard, and to be creamy!

Peas need butter, salt, pepper and mint sauce and they are beautiful.

British food is shit if the individual parts aren't done right, but it's fantastic when it's cooked well. Nothing better than a hot crispy cod.

KFC have upped their game and their food is decent (yes, even the chips!). Their portions are stingy and they're blatant money grabbers so avoid for that reason.

Mac n cheese. Urgh! Overrated over hyped pap. Pork pies are nauseating. Meringue and cheesecake is migraine inducing.

I love overcooked meat, especially chicken, I cook a skinless breast in the oven uncovered and for longer than needed so that it goes dry and hard 😂
Burnt sausages on the bbq are the best. I don't eat steak but the rare occasions i have had it then it has to be seriously well done and chewy, I'm not normal!

Wine tastes like it should be some kind of fuel. Horrible stuff.
Mashed potato is the work of the devil.
Porridge should be banned worldwide.
All fish tastes the same.

I agree with pp that ketchup and brown sauce are simply unnecessary. All I need on a bacon sandwich is salted butter. My other unpopular opinion is that biscuits must never be dunked. I like my tea and biscuits separate!

Salad cream is the devil's own semen

Sweet potato is only fit for fries. Mashed it has a revoltingly slimy texture.

a preference for overcooked dry chicken breasts?

psychopath behaviour!

Macaroni cheese is the most over rated meal on the planet.. followed by pizza…

@Emma543 totally agree and always gives me indigestion

Truffle makes everything taste of sick- ditto most ready bought vegan food

Good Chinese takeaways are rare

@BarelyLiterate I'm with you on that- a nice thick cut soft bloomer is far preferable - I once lost a tooth on some sourdough and have avoided it ever since

Peas taste like cat piss flavoured bubble bath balls

All meat apart from chicken is horrid

Potatoes are a completely bland waste of plate space

Covering cereals in milk just makes them soggy and tasteless

Covering a roast dinner in gravy just makes everything taste of gravy

Fried mushrooms taste like sperm

You're never too old for pick 'n' mix

Raw spinach is the best salad leaf

If it’s slimy I hadn’t been left to dry before it was mashed. I steam the chopped potato then leave it until there’s no steam coming off it. THEN mash, add plenty of butter and some roasted garlic (roast it in a pod of foil with some olive oil for about 20 mins until it’s squishy).

My other unpopular opinion is that biscuits must never be dunked.

I am with you on that. The idea of bits of soggy biscuit in my drink makes me heave.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Completely agree with fennel. I don’t mind fennel seeds but fresh fennel and fennel tea both taste like dirty hair 😆 I can’t begin to explain that claim (I’m not a hair chewer 😆) It must be the link between aroma and taste.

So does coconut water