Whats your least fav. veggie/fruit
Posted by NoIllusions on Mar 28, 2007 · Member since Dec 2006 · 476 posts
i HATE beets! There so healthy for you though :-\ . I try to cut them up real small but its always a struggle (I eat them raw).
Just curious ...do you have any veggie that no matter what its hard to eat? What about fruit.
Least Favorite
Veggie-Beets
Fruit- Oranges (I LOVE clementines though)
My mom used to can her own pickled okra. If you'd like me to get her recipe, let me know. It's always nice to be able to make something yourself, I think.
TinTexas, I would LOVE that recipe. We hardly ever buy pickled okra because it's usually a bit more than we like to spend.
8) I'll call Mom tonight and ask her to send it to me. I just hope I can read her handwriting. The recipe originally came from the Big Spring Herald newspaper in the 1970s and she may be willing to part with her very yellow clipping! (She doesn't can anything anymore since she's 80.) I'll post it on the board and let you know that that's what it is.
Cilantro is repulsive.
Olives are disgusting, though they may be alright fresh from the plant.
I hate cilantro.
veggie: onions. i really really don't like onions.
fruit: i'd have to say tomato(it is a fruit, isn't it?) because i love basically every kind of fruit.
lots of celery haters lol!
i don't mind celery. it basically tastes like nothing, so that means you can add anything to it and it won't taste disgusting. i love celery with hummus or cashew butter or something.
Olives are disgusting, though they may be alright fresh from the plant.
olives are hideously bitter when picked from the plant or tree, or whatever it is it's picked from. olives are pickled and it takes away the bitter flavor
Ok I know I haven't been around in a while (I will take my beatings later, but with the moving and working net life has ceased). I hopped online tonight just to get the DL on what's been going on and couldn't help but post.
I can HONESTLY say I have NEVER met a fruit or vegetable that I do not LOVE! Granted I know I have not tried everything the wonderful world of veggies has to offer, but unless it is not readily available fresh or flash frozen I have at least tasted it.
I love all the crap noone else seems to. From brussel sprouts to spinach to whatever... veggies own me and always have. Fruits I am not as diverse, I have my faves I stick to, but I won't hesitate to try something new if I can find it!
I can say though that I don't eat iceburg lettuce, not because of flavor, but because it lacks nutritional value, I can find better ways of gettin water and fiber with a ton more flavor tyvm!
That being said on a more personal note, I am doing wonderful, I am back in my home town with my family. I am happy and feeling great about life. And so I don't have to post an entire seperate thread I would just like to say:
THANK YOU, to everyone who reached out to me, sent well wishes and support, love and kindness, when I needed a shoulder to lean on. And I hope everyone here at vegweb is in a state of absolute bliss! I hope that you all have a wonderful Easter ( for those who celebrate) and to those who don't Have a wonderful Sunday. I love you guys and I don't know how I would have managed this last year without ya'll.
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My mom used to can her own pickled okra. If you'd like me to get her recipe, let me know. It's always nice to be able to make something yourself, I think.
TinTexas, I would LOVE that recipe. We hardly ever buy pickled okra because it's usually a bit more than we like to spend.
8) I'll call Mom tonight and ask her to send it to me. I just hope I can read her handwriting. The recipe originally came from the Big Spring Herald newspaper in the 1970s and she may be willing to part with her very yellow clipping! (She doesn't can anything anymore since she's 80.) I'll post it on the board and let you know that that's what it is.
I can't wait to get this recipe. I love anything pickled but okra and green beans are my two favorites. green tomatoes are in there too.
i thought it might be interesting to let all you cilantro haters out there know that cilantro is an excellent digestive. it's used in a lot of asian foods (especially Indian food) that are high in legumes and prevent the typical digestive consequences *ahem* of eating a lot of beans. it stimulates the flow of gastric juices and is also an appetite stimulant (and very high in vitamin C).
personally i've always liked the taste (mixed with appropriate foods, of course), but i've heard that older plants are said to have the unpleasant smell and taste that some of you were describing. it's a really useful plant, and a pretty important part of many asian dishes... maybe try getting younger (smaller leaves) plants, or try growing it yourself... it grows really fast!
i can't imagine making an indian curry without cilantro
and my favorite burritos all contain cilantro. so sad that people dislike it
One person's trash is definitely another's treasure...when I found a recipe for creamed celery and made it, the odour of my Danish grandma's kitchen filled the house...sorry guys but I was just so happy! I hadn't smelled that wonderful smell for so long! I also posted the recipe on here...no wonder no one reviews my stuff.... ;D ;D
Fresh okra rolled in cornmeal and pan-fried....bliss. Indigestible, I find, but lush.
Iceberg lettuce to me just tastes wet. It was the only lettuce we had when I was a kid...then I moved here and discovered Romaine, which locally is called "burro ear lettuce". (look at a single leaf...makes sense!) And for some reason, Iceberg is locally called "Roman" lettuce, though I've only ever seen it in the States...can get so confusing!
I *used* to hate cilantro... I spent a lot of time picking it out of asian and indian dishes. I HATED when I i would go to an indian buffet and the rice would be packed full of cilantro. Always asked for it left out if possible.
There was a noodle place we used to go to in college and I was in love with their pho, which had cilantro. I always had it left out. One time, though, i forgot... but I had a cold and couldn't taste much of anything anyway. So I ate it, without being able to taste is, and I have liked it ever since then. I have even GROWN it to use in my own cooking (although somehow it has fared the poorest of all the herbs we have tried)
isn't that odd? I really like it now and get excited when a dish has cilantro in it. I totally see where the comparison to cat pee in a bath tub comes from, LOL.
YinzerMama, I had the same experience with cilantro. I used to think it was gross and picked it out of everything. At that time, I only found it in Mexican food. When I started eating Vietnamese spring rolls, I started liking it. I still don't care for it in Mexican food, but I love it in the right Asian dishes.
I haven't met a veggie or fruit I didn't like. Until a year ago, when a friend brought over Duran. My god that stuff stinks. I couldn't get it passed my nose to get it into my mouth.
I haven't met a veggie or fruit I didn't like. Until a year ago, when a friend brought over Duran. My god that stuff stinks. I couldn't get it passed my nose to get it into my mouth.
I googled "Duran" and only found sites about the musical group Duran Duran. What is it? Describe please.
Durian... it looks like a big spikey pineapple and yes it stinks to high heaven. There are actually laws in some places about riding public transportation with a durian. Ie don't do it.
I have had durian canned but not fresh. I didn't care for it but it was more not very interesting than bad. Also very fibrous if i recall...
They sell it fresh at the asian grocery near us but oh god it stinks... and I have no idea how I would even approach it. It is covered in spikes.
For some reason they don't keep it with the other produce, but put it over near the mochi, which I adore... so when I go for my mochi fix, i need to endure the durian stench. Blech!
TinTexas - Did you get ahold of your mom's pickled okra recipe? No pressure, I just don't know if I missed it.
It's funny you say that about Duran Duran. I was fanatical about them back in the day with the passion and dedication that can only be mustered by a pre-teen.
ohhh I LOVED duran duran. Simon le Bon...sigh. Saw them when I had front row seats when I was 13. Had a 103 fever and did not care at all! ;D
Red beets. Ugh. >:(
Red beets.
Had to click on your profile to see if you were from PA for that one... and you are. :)
I only like them if the are pickled... otherwise they kinda taste like dirt...
really frilly kale = :P
flat sweet kale = :)
lima beans = :P
all other beans = :)
Italian eggplant = :P
Asian eggplant = :)
Collard Greens = :P
Mustard Greens = :)
Leave Favorite Veggie: Cooked beets, (especially canned), because they lose most (if not all) of their nutritional value when cooked, AND, they taste like faintly-turnip-ish mush. I could live without celery and iceberg lettuce, and I can't say I'm an olive fan, though I'll eat them when I notice I haven't put something fatty on my salad. I'm also not really a fan of anything you have to stew/cook-to-mush in order to make it palatable (ie. eggplant, potatoes, parsnips/turnips)-- watching all those nutrients simmer away makes my inner-health-nut cry. :P
Fruit: I think, lychee fruit. I can't TRULY judge it, because I've only had it at Chinese buffets, where it probably comes straight from a syrup-filled can-- but it tastes like that nasty chemical-ridden canned fruit salad I used to have nightmares about as a child... I dunno, maybe they'd be ok fresh. I used to hate grapes, though I'm more tolerant of them now, still not a huge fan. Dried apples don't really appeal, and even fresh ones don't thrill me; I'll take green/yellow ones over red.
I love most of the stuff everyone else is mentioning though, ESPECIALLY cilantro.
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