What are your least favourite flavours?

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I'm not talking about dishes, as such, rather what flavours or ingredients do you really detest? For me, it's corriander and garlic with seafood. If I see a dish or recipe that involves either of these, I generally cringe away from trying it. I believe they ruin food! For instance, coriander in every single Indian dish, I want to strangle the chef

What doesn't do it for you?

Here's my list.

Coriander
Cucumber
Lemongrass
Garlic on fish
Coffee

I won't order any dish with any of them listed as ingredients. If I'm cooking, I'd leave them out.

Faith

You big copy cat! Make up your own introduction!

Ehh... I'd tend to avoid chili, but that's more because I don't like the heat.

I have to think about this some more.

boodlesdoodles

I detest, just totally detest the flavour of cinnamon on its own. But I always use it when I'm cooking Indian dishes just don't want it as main flavour. I also hate the smell of cooking lamb, it turns my stomach and the only thing I taste when I taste lamb is the dirty, muddy field.

blueirishangel

Cinnamon and coriander.

Yuck.

Pembily

blueirishangel wrote: »

Cinnamon and coriander.

Yuck.

Two of my favourites!!

Pembily

Ginger sometimes in baked goods bar biscuits!
Nutmeg unless its on cabbage!!!
Coffee - love the smell but that is all!
Aniseed - icky unless in the drink!

Clementine

Aniseed. I can get through most things that I'm not a fan of but anything aniseedy makes my stomach turn- licorice, sambuca, star anise, bleh.

brian ireland

Coconut is a strange one for me. I love Bounty bars and cakes with a sprinkle of Coconut, but I hate it in curries or any cooked food (i.e dinners).

Sigma Force

Coffee flavoured anything, don't mind a weak regular cup of instant but coffee flavour in anything is gross esp. cake..ruins a cake won't touch it.

Chillie and chocolate together..disgusting.

Over spicy stuff where you can no longer taste the flavours just too much chillie up yer nostrils.

Mainly coffee flavour though bleah.

Bog

I definitely agree with coriander, it gives an unpleasant soapy aftertaste and is very overpowering. I'd also add dill to the list, in small quantities it's rather nice but when people throw bunches of it in with fish it completely destroys it.

moonflower

Only flavour I can think of that I'm not fond of is aniseed, but I'd still eat something aniseedy if it was put in front of me.

The Sweeper

Chicken with tomato. Hate it. And I'll try pretty much anything, so that's saying something for me - but I'll never order a chicken/tomato dish on a menu. Every time I do, the chicken (which falls under the 'sweet' category in the whole 'five flavours' thing) tastes oversweet, and the tomatoes excessively acidic, and the whole dish just comes across as bland, bland, bland. Blech. Worst has to be the sort of penne al pollo dishes - someone ingrate shreds a chicken breast, tosses it with a tin of peeled plum tomatoes, shoves in a few basil leaves and stirs it through cooked penne. I'd rather have cheese on toast, thanks, it'd be more satisfying.

watna

As other people have said. Coriander in anything. It just tastes like soap and makes anything taste soapy and gross.

gigawatt

i absolutely detest red green yellow peppers, yuck!

rubadub

Cucumber & celery. -these are well known hated foods, some people have a sort of allergy to them. If a single slice of cucumber was in a sandwich I could not eat it -even when taken out I can taste it a mile off. Strangely I love gherkins.

Aniseed- though I don't mind liquorice or aniseed sweets.

Too much nutmeg or ginger -a little is OK.

olaola

Truffle, it reminds me of halitosis. UGH!

Mr.David

For me:

1. Marzipan - Eugh :eek:

2. Parsley

3. Chinese Five Spice

Malari

Dill and tarragon!

I steer clear of these at all times.

Miaireland

Coriander and peppers of any form.

Sleepy

Aniseed or Banana

Mr. Presentable

Another vote for coconut. I can't stand it in anything. Or margarine and spreads; they are no substitute for using butter.

Fad

Cashew Nuts, cannot stand the taste of them.

I cant taste the chemical in cumcumber, so it's just like crispy water to me.

I don't like meats (the grease, taste and texture), snotty blue cheeses, strong goats cheese, buckwheat groats, celery on its own, super hot I just taste burning chilis, portobello mushrooms, parsnips on their own, pan bread and lychees.

To be fair though I do still try to eat these (apart from the meat to which I also take ethical umbrage)

Mike Litoris

Yeah corriander too, it tops the list.

Aniseed, turnips, cauliflour, parsips...any white veg except potatoes, marzipan, goats cheese. Curry and sweet and sour are tastes I also dont like.

brumindub

coriander

beef

celery

brussel sprouts

okra

All yuck yuck yuck!

Brussel sprouts get a bad rep because alot of people overcook them, and make the bitter.

I can't believe so many people dislike poor oul coriander.

hamlet1

Pesto,utterly vile!also lamb is horrible as is cooked celery.

Charlie.

rubadub wrote: »

If a single slice of cucumber was in a sandwich I could not eat it -even when taken out I can taste it a mile off.

Yea same as that, hate it when they're in a sandwich I can't just pick them out because it has flavored everything else.
I also get that "soapy" taste from soups and things sometimes so I'm guessing now from reading other descriptions on this thread that it's coriander yuck!

Seaneh

I hate boiled parsnips or turnips, but love both in stews or and especially roasted.

I hate any liver paté, foie gras makes me want to puke, it's fu*king mank.

I dislike dill in cream based sauces, just ugh, why dear lord would you do that to the poor fish?!?!

rebel.ranter

Glad I'm not the only one who Hayes Aniseed & celery. I like most foods but these two actually make me physically sick.
Aniseed is popping up way more than I would have expected it to.

Malari

I kind of thought we were just talking about flavourings and I would like to add the following to my list of food I don't like because of their flavour

Cucumber
Beetroot

I can't think of any other savoury food I just won't eat.

Sweets and desserts however...I hate:
Marzipan
Praline
Sponge cake (maybe texture more than flavour)
Trifle biscuits
Whipped cream
Anything flavoured with lime or lemon
Meringue
Jelly
Anything with coconut
Gateau
etc

Faith

Goats cheese (tastes like feet, how does anyone enjoy it?)
Most stinky cheeses
Brussel sprouts
Cauliflower (unless it's in a soup)
Fishy fish

joolsveer

I detest parsnips in any form and fish (or anything that swims).

The Black Oil

Cucumber
Fish
Brussel sprouts
Gurkins, beetroot, etc!
Coleslaw
Glace cherries, e.g, in Christmas pudding
Ham and cabbage (cabbage full stop)
Orange chocolate (jaysus)

Miaireland

I forgot to say goat cheese and smelly cheese.

lucylu

Pig - anything from a pig I detest
Looking at cooked Porridge or seeing someone eat it makes me gag.

brumindub

Moonbaby wrote: »

Brussel sprouts get a bad rep because alot of people overcook them, and make the bitter.

I can't believe so many people dislike poor oul coriander.

I only tried brussel sprouts once and almost threw up so am never going near them again!

Coriander I don't like probably because my parents use it to garnish almost all curries they cook.

I forgot to add that I can't stand raisins or cashews either.

cee_jay

Celery - vilest food ever.
Cucumber
Marzipan
Coconut (love the smell though)
Scallops & Mussels (that could be more the texture rather than the flavour though)
Blue Cheese
Orange & Mint Chocolate

duploelabs

I will eat nearly everything but brown rice and hake I detest, more to do with texture than flavour

brian ireland

lucylu wrote: »

Pig - anything from a pig I detest
Looking at cooked Porridge or seeing someone eat it makes me gag.

Nice1 thats funny

susanroth

sweet and sour sauce
mushy peas

brumindub

brumindub wrote: »

I only tried brussel sprouts once and almost threw up so am never going near them again!

Coriander I don't like probably because my parents use it to garnish almost all curries they cook.

I forgot to add that I can't stand raisins or cashews either.

I was googling.
Apparently if your a super taster, roughly 25% of the population are.
Coriander does indeed come across as soapy.
And brussel sprouts extra bitter.
The benefit, is that sugar and fat are also less attractive to you.

Ouh and how did I forget my arch nemesis. The Sultana. yick!

Snowie

whats with the I hate corriander club what are you doing with it ?

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Snow-Monkey wrote: »

whats with the I hate corriander club what are you doing with it ?

It's not what we're doing with it, it's what chefs up and down the land are doing with it.

It seems to be the "herb du jour" in a lot of places.

Indian restaurants whacking it on everything.

Wedding meals having it plastered on every course (one wedding I was at it was on the soup, the starter and the mains, I was surprised we didn't get "Coriander Fool" for dessert).

Added to the fact that I don't actually like the taste of it, it is fairly irritating to have to pick it off everything I order when I go out. It's never listed in ingredients on menus, so I have to ask every time I go out, just in case the chef has it in his brain that coriander is a must in every damn thing he makes.

enda1

Mr.David wrote: »

For me:

1. Marzipan - Eugh :eek:

2. Parsley

3. Chinese Five Spice

Ye wha?

I think we both know that cinnamon is the devil!

neuro-praxis

Er, I love nearly every thing listed in this thread...

Kovu

livinsane wrote: »

Did whiting fillets pan fried in breadcrumbs, with some ginger mixed into the coating. Served with mash made from sweet potato, potato and celery. Obligatory cherry tomatoes and spring onion that I throw on nearly everything I eat.

:eek:

Why would you ruin perfectly good mash with celery!

It tastes like leaves.
Very very horrible leaves. Although I recall reading somewhere that the taste for it is genetic, or something like that......
Also can't stand tarragon or cloves. But thats another story!

livinsane

Kovu Murr wrote: »

:eek:

Why would you ruin perfectly good mash with celery!

It tastes like leaves.
Very very horrible leaves. Although I recall reading somewhere that the taste for it is genetic, or something like that......
Also can't stand tarragon or cloves. But thats another story!

The celery is my favourite part! I love the smell of it too. I also love tarragon and cloves..

seosamh1980

Kovu Murr wrote: »

:eek:

Why would you ruin perfectly good mash with celery!

It tastes like leaves.
Very very horrible leaves. Although I recall reading somewhere that the taste for it is genetic, or something like that......
Also can't stand tarragon or cloves. But thats another story!

We're genetic twins! Celery tastes like I imagine a blade of grass would if I was tiny like Honey I Shrunk The Kids and took a chunk out of one. It's absolutely horrific. I also despise the flavour of tarragon, I can just about tolerate the flavour of cloves with ham or apple-y things, just about. But yeah celery, work of the devil.

Kovu

seosamh1980 wrote: »

We're genetic twins! Celery tastes like I imagine a blade of grass would if I was tiny like Honey I Shrunk The Kids and took a chunk out of one. It's absolutely horrific. I also despise the flavour of tarragon, I can just about tolerate the flavour of cloves with ham or apple-y things, just about. But yeah celery, work of the devil.

I'm 100% sure I read an article on tastebuds that mentioned why this occurs. I think it's 10% or maybe 1%
I honestly can't remember!:o
Do you by any chance DETEST cucumber?
As I can't even touch a salad that it's been in,
cucumber flavour everywhere.
Tonight I'm having a Subway Veggie Delight. Oh so healthy :pac:

seosamh1980

Kovu Murr wrote: »

I'm 100% sure I read an article on tastebuds that mentioned why this occurs. I think it's 10% or maybe 1%
I honestly can't remember!:o
Do you by any chance DETEST cucumber?
As I can't even touch a salad that it's been in,
cucumber flavour everywhere.
Tonight I'm having a Subway Veggie Delight. Oh so healthy :pac:

Was just about to mention cucumber, I've heard that tasting that is genetic too. Cucumber to me tastes just like water, watery, bleh. I have trained myself to eat big fat chunks of it if it's dipped in hummus, mainly because my mum loves cucumber so it was always there to snack on when I was growing up. But I wouldn't eat a chunk of it where I could actually taste only cucumber, and for some reason really thin slices of it are just horrific, wouldn't even go near one of them.