Post your most controversial food/drink opinions

[Spymaster]

Didn't we also have a cold pig's ear, Spymaster?

In a salad, iirc!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Can't get on with sweetly fragrant herbs that much. Although don't mind coriander which seems generally quite unpopular.

Coriander appears to be a genetic thing. Either you have the coriander-is-lovely gene or you really don't, and nothing will shift your hatred for it. See also mushrooms.

 

[maomao]

You don't like raman, pho?

I'm partial to a Japanese style chilli beef Ramen (the posh kind with a few slices of steak and a halved boiled egg on top). But I just eat the food, I wouldn't drink the watery stuff it's served in.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Tbf 90% of their customers are spectacularly rude too.

Rude people, in London? Gosh what will they think of next.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Coriander appears to be a genetic thing. Either you have the coriander-is-lovely gene or you really don't, and nothing will shift your hatred for it. See also mushrooms.

Leaf coriander is fine. Some people put shitloads of it in their food which is clearly wrong as it overpowers everything else. Many people are also unaware that it should be properly chopped so that there aren't vast expanses of inedible stalk to contend with. But it's not a love or hate thing for me, it's fine but I could live without it.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I love soup. Had leek and potato with soda bread tonight, cost about £3 for everything and enough for two teas

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Leaf coriander is fine. Some people put shitloads of it in their food which is clearly wrong as it overpowers everything else. Many people are also unaware that it should be properly chopped so that there aren't vast expanses of inedible stalk to contend with. But it's not a love or hate thing for me, it's fine but I could live without it.

There are people for whom even just the smell of it is disgusting, and there's no shifting it. So you don't have that. Maybe more accurate would be fine with it (to whatever degree)/hate it.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I love soup. Had leek and potato with soda bread tonight, cost about £3 for everything and enough for two teas

Oo I've not made that in ages. I make a great leek and potato soup. Needs loads of pepper.

 

[SpookyFrank]

There are people for whom even just the smell of it is disgusting, and there's no shifting it. So you don't have that. Maybe more accurate would be fine with it (to whatever degree)/hate it.

Yes there is a documented genetic thing that causes aversion to coriander.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Oo I've not made that in ages. I make a great leek and potato soup. Needs loads of pepper.

Make it with roasted garlic. You're welcome.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Oo I've not made that in ages. I make a great leek and potato soup. Needs loads of pepper.

Fuckloads of pepper

 

[danny la rouge]

Yes there is a documented genetic thing that causes aversion to coriander.

I think you’ll find that rather it’s the coriander lovers that have the genetic impairment.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I think you’ll find that rather it’s the coriander lovers that have the genetic impairment.

You don't know what you're missing.

 

[danny la rouge]

You don't know what you're missing.

Poison.

 

[scifisam]

Yes there is a documented genetic thing that causes aversion to coriander.

Yup.

It's one of the trivial things that shows up on a 23andme report. I don't have genetic coriander aversion, but obviously I suspected that already.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

If coriander overpowers your meal then you clearly aren't putting enough other spices in.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If coriander overpowers your meal then you clearly aren't putting enough other spices in.

Well that doesn't make any sense.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Oo I've not made that in ages. I make a great leek and potato soup. Needs loads of pepper.

White pepper as well. Never use black in leek and potato soup.

 

[Pickman's model]

Fuckloads of pepper

and then a spot more to be sure

 

[Pickman's model]

White pepper as well. Never use black in leek and potato soup.

have a pity like, white pepper is for the miserable sort of people who abhor pineapple on pizza

 

[Mrs Miggins]

In fact, I am using white pepper more and more. It was all we had when I was a kid and then black pepper took over and poor old white pepper was resigned to the "shit things we had in the 70s" list. But it's amazing and I am discovering it is by far the better choice of peppers in many dishes.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

have a pity like, white pepper is for the miserable sort of people who abhor pineapple on pizza

You are quite wrong sir. About the pepper at least.

 

[Pickman's model]

You are quite wrong sir. About the pepper at least.

white pepper is the sort of thing you'd wish on your worst enemy

 

[Yossarian]

This neuroscientist believes there is hope for corianderphobes.

“When your brain detects a potential threat, it narrows your attention,” Dr. Gottfried told me in a telephone conversation. “You don’t need to know that a dangerous food has a hint of asparagus and sorrel to it. You just get it away from your mouth.”

But he explained that every new experience causes the brain to update and enlarge its set of patterns, and this can lead to a shift in how we perceive a food.

“I didn’t like cilantro to begin with,” he said. “But I love food, and I ate all kinds of things, and I kept encountering it. My brain must have developed new patterns for cilantro flavor from those experiences, which included pleasure from the other flavors and the sharing with friends and family. That’s how people in cilantro-eating countries experience it every day.”

Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap, for Some

 

[Plumdaff]

A good dry white wine is much better than any red.

 

[harpo]

A good dry white wine is much better than any red.

Yes, a crisp, minerally French chardonnay. Mmnm

 

[kalidarkone]

I love vegan food and have always loved it despite being a meat eater (or opportunist if you like...)
I'm finding as I'm ageing that my body is objecting to meat and wheat and coffee (((((coffee)))))) but loving gluten free vegan food.
I'm going to do veganury.

I still love black pudding and body seems to not mind it.

 

[8ball]

I still love black pudding and body seems to not mind it.

Blood has to come from somewhere.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Toasted cheese and jam sandwiches.
There are some people who just wont believe how scrummy they are together.
Good vintage cheddar and decent strawberry or raspberry jam.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

There is something seriously wrong with people who don't like fruitcake. It's way more interesting, delicious and complex than any sponge type thing could ever hope to be.

Chocolate cake is the dullest of all the cakes.