Nate Armbruster
There are foods that pretty much everyone agrees are delicious, but how often do you think people are lying about how much they like something? I’m willing to bet it’s more often than you think.
After reading through this thread, I tend to agree that many people are pretending to like certain foods to seem cultured or look like they have superior taste buds. See if you agree with any of these responses.
What food do you swear people only pretend to like?
#1
The meals I prepare for them.
#2
Fondant on like wedding cakes
#3
Circus Peanuts.
There’s no way people are actually out there enjoying those things, but enough people pretend to keep them in business.
#4
Stevia…there’s absolutely no way someone enjoys that aftertaste. It’s a weird cult that I’m not willing to join and such a dominant flavor.
#5
Gold leaf – need I say more?
#6
Extremely hoppy IPAs (if drinks can be included in the discussion).
I enjoy bitterness in my beer, and I know there are some good IPAs out there, but it’s gotten to the point that breweries seem to be competing with one another to see who can make the bitterest, most unappealing beers imaginable. They taste like earwax.
#7
Once upon a time, I swore that salted licorice was the vilest thing ever to have graced our fair planet. However about a year ago, my wife made me try some, and much to my surprise, I liked it!
#8
Hákarl.
I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy-smelling, ammonia-flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening.
It seems like survival food – you will stay alive if you eat it, but it’s not appealing … to me.
If you’re Icelandic – please help me understand why this is a thing.
#9
Chitterlings. My mom-in-law made some at my house, and it smelled like a grown man shit all over my home and walls.
#10
#11
Vodka…it tastes like the walls of a hospital
#13
Grapefruit. People will be like “I love grapefruit” and then proceed to dump enough sugar on it to lose a foot.
#14
Extremely spicy foods
I get liking a little bit of spice. But I don’t see how it’s enjoyable when your mouth is literally on fire.
#15
Overnight oats. It’s what I imagine prison food to be like; sloppy and cold.
#16
Oysters. Revolting.
pulp-fictional Replied:
I used to think this until I worked at a high quality oyster bar. That’s when I learned that the kind of oyster and where it’s from really changes the taste of each one. After 30 years of not eating them, now i love oysters. If someone really loves oysters they would have them with just lemon and mignonette sauce (which is just a light vinegar based sauce because it brings out the flavor of the oyster). If you like oysters with cocktail sauce, horseradish, and hot sauce, it’s likely because you like all those things, because that’s all you taste.
That being said it also really depends on where you get your oysters from. You should only eat cold water oysters raw, meaning from New England, Canada, or the North West Coast in the US. Warm water oysters, are dirtier and have more bacteria which can be deadly. Someone just died last week here in south Florida from one bad gulf coast oyster; this was at a very classic restaurant here too. First case in over 60 years of being open, it’s just a luck of the draw, but the odds increase greatly in warm water.
Thank you, this has been my Ted talk on oysters and oyster safety.
#18
Any of those keto substitute foods. Use your imagination as much as you’d like but lettuce wraps will never be as good as a real sandwich with bread
#19
Chicken liver, my family makes it for every big holiday dinner, I’m convinced that no one actually likes it but they make it out of tradition and the older people force it down.
