Dishes you just "don't get".

[Gubbins]

Tripe. Disgusting looking stuff.

[El Hoze]

Paella. Just seems like dry rice and overcooked seafood to me. The big copper pans look cool. 

[Chibearsv]

If we are going to go to "foods" instead of "dishes" I don't get, then asparagus is my eating kryptonite. It is utterly vile to me in every way, taste, smell, texture all horrible. If I was trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a submarine with only asparagus to eat, I'd open the hatch.

[99call]

1 hour ago, El Hoze said:

Paella. Just seems like dry rice and overcooked seafood to me. The big copper pans look cool. 

I can strongly recommend giving it another go, and try a traditional old school Valencian Paella. 

Rabbit, chicken, Snails, Green beans. Done properly, it's fabulous.   

[vinnyvega]

Corned beef and cabbage. Was probably a hit in the 1700s, but we don't have to boil food as a means of cooking any more.

[Perla]

1 hour ago, 99call said:

I can strongly recommend giving it another go, and try a traditional old school Valencian Paella. 

Rabbit, chicken, Snails, Green beans. Done properly its fabulous.  

I can second this. Give it a try. 

[chasy]

White pizza sucks.

[ha_banos]

Frikkin broccoli! If we're talking about individual items. 

Steak tartare has no place in this world. Especially with a raw egg on top. 🦠🤮

 

 

[Greenhorn2]

Chitterlings, I'm not eating a poop chute along with brains or pig feet, I know what they've been standing in. Too many better cuts of hog meat. Cauliflower and broccoli both seem pretty flavorless, but the broccoli I can handle if it's smothered with cheese.

[ha_banos]

9 hours ago, Greenhorn2 said:

Chitterlings, I'm not eating a poop chute along with brains or pig feet, I know what they've been standing in. Too many better cuts of hog meat. Cauliflower and broccoli both seem pretty flavorless, but the broccoli I can handle if it's smothered with cheese.

No,no,no...It's the cauliflower drenched in multi cheese sauces. Would be wasted on broccoli.

[Chibearsv]

2 hours ago, Greenhorn2 said:

Chitterlings, I'm not eating a poop chute along with brains or pig feet, I know what they've been standing in. Too many better cuts of hog meat. Cauliflower and broccoli both seem pretty flavorless, but the broccoli I can handle if it's smothered with cheese.

At least broccoli has some flavor. 

[usleepicreep]

Any type or oatmeal, porridge or steel cut oats. I gagged every time.


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[Woody Hayes]

Sushi. I tried it once but the restaurant undercooked it.

[El Hoze]

On 4/26/2025 at 6:22 AM, 99call said:

I can strongly recommend giving it another go, and try a traditional old school Valencian Paella. 

Rabbit, chicken, Snails, Green beans. Done properly, it's fabulous.  

I will keep trying, whether I like it on not! My brother in law is from Paraguay and an amazing cook. I love to cook too. We often do big celebratory type dinners, roasting a whole pig, etc. and one of his go-to’s is paella. He goes over the top preparing it. I have also had paella in Valencia and surrounding areas must be at least a dozen times. It isn’t that I don’t like it, I just clearly fail to see the magic of it. That was why I mention it as I seem to be the outlier. Give me the option of paella or a whole baby pig cooked in a caja china and I’m going pig. My wife loves paella so I will no doubt keep trying! 

[BG318]

On 4/25/2025 at 1:16 AM, sageman said:

I do get this dish, but many outsiders do not. In Cincinnati we are famous for our 3 ways! we do chili spaghetti. The chili is more like a sauce over noodles topped with finely shredded cheese and optional beans and or onions (to make it a 4 or 5 way). It’s a must try if you’re in town. 

The first time I drove across the country I was 18. The first memorable thing I ate was 4 ways chili in Ohio. It will always bring back memories!

[99call]

17 hours ago, El Hoze said:

I will keep trying

It sounds like you've given it the best possible chance. Life is short, no sense in revisiting things you know don't hit the spot. 

[Chas.Alpha]

On 4/25/2025 at 1:06 AM, 99call said:

This should be the next logical 'snack wars' challenge for @Chas.Alpha  It has to be accompanied with some cockles though...and eaten for breakfast.

I don’t know what that is, but it looks yummy!

On 4/25/2025 at 2:30 PM, Ken Gargett said:

vegemite? i thought this was a discussion about food.

westy, i'm with rob on brains etc. 

for me, most detested is anything with paw paw. old man loved them. i can't stay in the same room. literally. smell alone makes me sick. 

pumpkin. cow food. horrible. although i do like pumpkin soup. weird? 

popcorn. love the smell. hate eating it.

and one more, pippies? why? why not use them as bait - for which the divinity of the dancing wombats designed them - and catch something good to eat.

while on seafood, i have tried and tried with cod. can't see it. 

finally, i am not opposed to peanut butter, crunchy or otherwise, but i would never willingly choose it. 

pretty much everything else, bring it on. 

Vegemite is so far the only thing on this list that I wouldn’t eat. I did however replace the valve cover gasket on my truck recently and smeared some of that stuff on the valve guides and lifters. Runs quiet as a church mouse!

[Ken Gargett]

On 4/25/2025 at 4:22 PM, potpest said:

People in the UK seem to love tasteless bland beige food. One of such loves is a "Sausage Roll". I always hated sausage rolls until I tried making some with decent Sausage meat and real butter puff pastry. Turns out I don't hate Sausage Rolls, I just hate the processed cheap version.

Apart from that I struggle to think of anything else, usually if I don't like something it's because it's poor execution or poor quality ingredients.

i also don't hate sausage rolls but i don't ever get excited by them and never deliberately order them.

On 4/26/2025 at 5:19 AM, Gubbins said:

Tripe. Disgusting looking stuff.

good tripe is one of the few reasons to consider that just possibly there really is some form of divinity.

On 4/26/2025 at 8:05 PM, ha_banos said:

Frikkin broccoli! If we're talking about individual items. 

Steak tartare has no place in this world. Especially with a raw egg on top. 🦠🤮

you have made me very hungry for steak tartare right now. love a good one. 

[karp]

Okra. I’m surprised no one has mentioned it yet. The texture and taste of okra - Vile disgusting stuff.

[BrightonCorgi]

10 hours ago, karp said:

Okra. I’m surprised no one has mentioned it yet. The texture and taste of okra - Vile disgusting stuff.

I used to think that until I had it cooked right. My town with 30%+ Brazilian and they know how to cook Okra. I love it now and despised it for decades.

[karp]

1 minute ago, BrightonCorgi said:

they know how to cook Okra

What do they do to it that fixes it?

[GavLew79]

On 4/24/2025 at 3:16 PM, Jack said:

• Laverbread - don't be Welsh in America and visit relatives near the coast as a child. The thing of nightmares. Spoiler - it's not bread.

😂 Indeed. I've managed to avoid them altogether. What part of Wales does your family hail from?

[BrightonCorgi]

10 hours ago, karp said:

What do they do to it that fixes it?

Not sure how they prep it, but it's cut into 1.5" pieces and cooked with beef and garlic like a stew. Not slimy at all. Nice bite to it actually. It's actually one I look for at when at the buffet. The Brazilian BBQ places are like a buffet, but you pay per pound on what you put on your plate.

[Edicion]

A dish I've never enjoyed (toward disliking) is a Vindaloo curry (chicken or mutton). 

 

[BigGuns]

12 hours ago, karp said:

What do they do to it that fixes it?

Soak it in vinegar (whole) before cooking and, voila, no slime