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Fruits or vegetables that you dislike?
Topic Started: May 18 2008, 09:42 AM (501 Views)
sue
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mrenaud
May 18 2008, 02:00 PM
sue
May 18 2008, 09:19 PM
I also think raw green beans, straight from the garden are one of greatest treats in summer.

I've always thought raw beans contained a toxin which is only destroyed by cooking?

that sounds like my rationalisation about lima beans not being real food. :P

When I say green beans, I am referring to string beans, not the beans for drying... maybe that's what you're thinking about? :huh:
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Lima beans, brussell sprouts (they get bitter when over cooked), and cooked bell peppers. Other than that, I'm good with almost any veg.
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mushrooms (except I do like chanterelle mushrooms)
tart apples
yams
eggplant

Not sure about beets -- don't think I've ever tried them.

I like brussel sprouts -- to me they taste like cauliflower.
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mrenaud
May 18 2008, 05:00 PM
sue
May 18 2008, 09:19 PM
I also think raw green beans, straight from the garden are one of greatest treats in summer.

I've always thought raw beans contained a toxin which is only destroyed by cooking?

Well, all I know is I've spent many summers picking green beans and eating a lot of them....maybe I'm immune! :yesgrin:
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I eat an awful lot of raw green (and yellow) beans. Love 'em!

As far as veggies or fruits I don't like. Hmmm....

Okra is just wrong. Can't get past the snot part.

Brussel sprouts - I haven't tried them since I was a kid. But my mum bought frozen ones and she overcooked EVERYTHING. So perhaps I'd like them now?

I think that's it. Largely, I prefer veggies to fruits though.
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Add me to the anti-beet contingent. I find every other vegetable palatable if prepared properly.

I like durian. When I go out for Vietnamese pho noodles, I usually order a durian shake (admittedly watered down and thus less pungent than the actual fruit).
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Lima beans, brussel sprouts, cucumbers, celery, and beets. :puke:

Apples, grapefruit, papaya, sour strawberries, and too-green bananas. :puke:

I love most vegetables, though.
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I LOVE grapefruit

Even when I was really little, I loved grapefruit and loved to suck on lemons. There are some old home movies (the really ooooold kind) of my dad giving me lemon wedges to suck on...I think I was about two. I'd suck on it, make this hilarious puckered up face and shudder because it was so sour, then reach out for another when he'd take it away. I've always loved sour stuff.
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I've always liked eating grapefruit and lemons, too.

I thought of another dislike: eggplant.
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Really just lima beans. Nasty. Love beets, love all fruits pretty much. Don't know about a Durian. Brussel sprouts rock in every way as long as cooked right.
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I'm not wild about broccoli either, but if it's steamed long enough, it's tolerable. Easily, my favorite fruit is the avocado. My favorite vegetable is asparagus. The wonderfully aromatic "aspara-piss," is just a bonus. :lol2:
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Frank_W
May 19 2008, 08:08 AM
I'm not wild about broccoli either, but if it's steamed long enough, it's tolerable. Easily, my favorite fruit is the avocado. My favorite vegetable is asparagus. The wonderfully aromatic "aspara-piss," is just a bonus. :lol2:

I thing asparagus is the world's perfect food, at least that one month out of the year (April into May) that its in high season.

I adore broccoli UNLESS its steamed too much! It needs to be bright green and a little al dente.

Read about aspara-piss but never noticed it.

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May 19 2008, 04:11 AM
Read about aspara-piss but never noticed it.

That's because about 40% of people can't smell it.
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I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Frank_W
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May 19 2008, 08:51 AM
jon-nyc
May 19 2008, 04:11 AM
Read about aspara-piss but never noticed it.

That's because about 40% of people can't smell it.

Really? I didn't know that. They're missing out on a truly interesting olfactory phenomenon. :lol2:

Of course, if you eat lots of broccoli, you get an altogether different sort of olfactory experience... :unsure:
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I heard that either you have the aspara-piss (great name, by the way) smelling gene or you don't. It's worth eating it for the smell though, and it's not as if you have to smell it, unlike durian. I think I like all vegetables now, except for broad beans.
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Carrots. I can't stand them, raw or cooked. And cooked spinach, prepared just by itself and not part of some other dish.
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I hate carrots too. The only way I like them, is baby carrots in the crock pot, with a roast, or in a beef stew. Otherwise... :puke:
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