Discussion of the Day
Individual tastes
Timtam04-Mar-25
What food do you love that other people seem to think is odd?
Or what food do you loathe that others seem to love?
I really like coriander (aka cilantro for the US users) as do my sisters.
I use it a lot when making Thai dishes.
My adult 'kids' hate it, to them, it tastes like soap. (clearly their dad's gene's influencing it)
I can't stand olives or oysters, but they are both quite popular with others.
How about you ?
Do you have foods you love/ hate when many others seem to be the exact opposite?
Comments
  • Catalina
    I like every type of food - my taste is changing and I eat what I feel like or have it at home.
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    • Dsmiles2U
      like relish but hate pickles hmmmm
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      • Cathy 1616936
        Do not eat anything out of the ocean yet cook it quite regularly for hubby…I mainly eat chicken and very little red meat….
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        • Colleen 1457670
          Good old fashion food lamb roast banger and mash
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          • Lynn 1306840
            Nothing too spicy
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            • Tavi
              Love hot chillies
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              • Maria S 460525
                I love food! Always give something a go, then make up my mind if I like it or not.
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                • Judy T 470524
                  I can't stand olives and strangely, I used to hate coriander until recently. I used to think it tasted like the smell of stink bugs but now it tastes different to me.
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                  • simon 1557398
                    I dislike seafood but the misses does not mind, more for her
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                    • SANDRA G 394859
                      DON'T LIKE OYSTERS OR OLIVES EITHER
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                      • Dimitri T 100433
                        in our household, we like/enjoy European food
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                        • Dolan 1467056
                          grits, hominy and boiled okra - love them but most family and friends don't
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                          • Mandeep 1641912
                            I love butternut but my sister dnt want to even look at it
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                            • Lee b 979050
                              Vegan dishes lentils banana with lentil lentil and peas lentils with a splash of orange juice ketchup and black pepper mmmmmmmm
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                              • Karyn 1616576
                                Kidneys
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                                • PEN15
                                  Anchovies. I love those salty little guys.
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                                  • Glenda M 1157843
                                    At 70 years of age my I’m not ever going to eat that is rhubarb and custard. Being a one working I parent up this was a budget dessert. Blghhhhhh it was like eating slime and nothings going to change my mind
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                                    • Mary M 329762
                                      Macedonia bake bean with smoked pork
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                                      • Sabine V
                                        I love raw pork mince with onions raw eggs salt and pepper mixed together and put on a fresh crisp roll with gherkins on top and enjoy
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                                        • Rose S 88496
                                          Hate asparagus
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                                          • Ann 1498966
                                            My dad and I like to put peas on Yams. My youngest sister said that when she was a kid, she thought that was disgusting.
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                                            • Peter C 985325
                                              I love oysters but my wife detests them.
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                                              • Pam G 449028
                                                Not a big fan of chillies, too hot for me.
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                                                • debra j 18701
                                                  I lover chinse / will never eat shrimp or lobster or clams
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                                                  • Sharee 1641800
                                                    I don't like olives it's like eating a rubber with a awful taste
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                                                    • Nickie 1640964
                                                      I don't like seafood
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                                                      • Paula J 395266
                                                        I don't like coconut because I think it tastes like soap, but I love Mango and sticky rice which is made with coconut milk. I don't like anything curried or spicy and I don't use salt or pepper on my food preferring it to taste as it is. I don't use sauce much either but I will use lemon on fish and seafood. I'll eat kidney, liver and brains but not tripe. Yuk.
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                                                        • john g 997029
                                                          I hate fish and refuse to eat it.
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                                                          • Ek M
                                                            I love everything pretty much, my weight is testament to that
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                                                            • Katzeye
                                                              Pumpkin,Kumera, roasted cauliflower, yams, sweet corn on the cob dripping in butter, mushrooms to name a few are my favorite savoury things but not a fan of leeks, silverbeet,broad beans, mussels, oysters, clams or anything too spicy that is going to have me reaching for a cold drink or making my eyes water.
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                                                              • Cesare 1641658
                                                                I mostly can't stand too spicy food. I find that I can't taste the actual food if it's too spicy
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                                                                • Ellen P 667007
                                                                  I don't like a lot of things most people like such as tomatoes, mushrooms, olives and spicy foods. I tried eggplant once and now just the word is revolting to me!
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                                                                  • Crazy Nanny
                                                                    I love rice cakes with butter..peanut butter..tomato..and a pinch of salt
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                                                                    • MacAddict
                                                                      I prefer plain food. No spices, herbs, fancy sauces. Plain meat and vegetables.
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                                                                      • Aisha A 379399
                                                                        I don't like olives, oysters and eggplant.
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                                                                        • Joe B 288252
                                                                          I like food but I don’t like hungry………..lol So if it’s food I like it more or I like it less
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                                                                          • Priscilla R 316016
                                                                            Thai food is wonderful as is all the different types of seafood. Mix the two together and I'm in heaven.
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                                                                            • Sian 1641467
                                                                              I adore coriander, chicken feet as well.
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                                                                              • Peter L
                                                                                there are foods that i don't like on their own like yogurt but when use in a dish it flavor the dish it also use as a cooling agent or spicy food Indian you know what i mean if you had Vindaloo
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                                                                                • Elizabeth J 447888
                                                                                  Muscles, yuk. I will try most things once. Definitely only once for muscles. My son can smell lamb cooking from the driveway. He finds it to be really offensive. I must admit that I am getting more like him every day. I used to love lamb and serve it to my family often. I am bemused as to why we now have such a distaste for it now.
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                                                                                  • Debra 1641417
                                                                                    I hate celery it's disgusting. If eating soup or salad and I get a mouthful of celery I need to spit it out. I can't finish that dish off. It's as bad as getting a piece of egg shell in a egg sandwich. Yuck
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                                                                                    • Luv ur
                                                                                      Any kind of mushroom or olive. Seafood, ugh!
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                                                                                      • Rebecca B 614374
                                                                                        I love most seafood but do not like oysters. The appearance of them and the texture is revolting. Yet many people seem to think they're marvellous. I also think kangaroo is disgusting too. Plenty fellow Aussies seem to think it's marvellous, but to me it smells and tastes like it's off.
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                                                                                        • DruidsTree76
                                                                                          I'm an Aussie, I hate, kangaroo with a passion
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                                                                                        • Ellen P 667007
                                                                                          I did not know that Aussies ate kangaroos! I am from the U.S. Lots of people eat deer meat, squirrels and rabbits here, but not me! I had an exchange student from Queensland a long time ago and was introduced to Vegemite. Gross! How can you eat that stuff?? It looked like PRID to me and tasted terrible.
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                                                                                      • Maureen W 406466
                                                                                        I am allergic to cauliflower it causes vomiting and sweats
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                                                                                        • Jenny L 591463
                                                                                          Coriander and flat leaf parsley are ghastly Yuk Yuk and Yuk Don't do sea food much and I can eat and like olives occasionally. Don't like olives on pizza though. I like and grow basil and I dry my own basil. That way. I can use basil on pizza or soup or in a casserole in through winter. Our plant will die with the cold a frost. A little dumbed today Dad rang this morning Mum fell down the stairs again and this time she has broken her hip. She is in hospital and we can't get there until the cyclone has passed. Sunday or Monday now.
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                                                                                          • haneen 1641334
                                                                                            loll
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                                                                                            • Barbara 1637673
                                                                                              Lamb meat make sick
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                                                                                              • Shawn B 1061185
                                                                                                Peas, CousCous, and Alfredo sauce make me ill.
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                                                                                                • Hamzah S
                                                                                                  I don't like red beans and oysters.
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                                                                                                  • jane 1641152
                                                                                                    I like liver backon and onions 🧅 I don't like abolonie
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                                                                                                    • Renee 1556074
                                                                                                      I am an ordinary food eater. I love pasta, tacos, ice cream. I hate oysters & collards!!!
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                                                                                                      • Gigi 1637286
                                                                                                        There is not much I do not like, but liver and onions are disgusting. I really like oysters and olives. Kelly not sure of I could eat a cricket, I'm willing to try them. LOVE all seafood even sushi, yummy yummy yum.
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                                                                                                        • Kelly 1436617
                                                                                                          Crickets! Soo yummy, I liked mine extra spicy
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                                                                                                          • Chosen
                                                                                                            Which Team - India or Australia ???
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                                                                                                          • Kelly 1436617Chosen
                                                                                                            Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar
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                                                                                                        • Glynis 1613642
                                                                                                          I love all seafood olives, no
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                                                                                                          • Daniel A 2
                                                                                                            I don't really like Oysters or muscles and other similar seafood my self (though I figured I can handle them when they're cooked). When i was a kid I never wanted to touch mushrooms or olives, while everyone else liked them it seemed. (now I eat them have nothing against them). We may have a bonus here guys when Neo robots don't eat so they wont choose our food. Although As AI studies someone maybe it actually does figure out their personal tastes. Is this going to be better or worse having AI food picked for people. Because when everyone is going to be eating insect made look alike meat, maybe the AI's think we like eating insects so much then it'd be trying to feed us insects while we're sun bathing near the pool.
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                                                                                                            • Pato Lo Duck
                                                                                                              I used to work in a factory where a guy used to bring bowls of boiled garden snails to work to eat..
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                                                                                                              • Sandra H 2204 NSW
                                                                                                                Yuck
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                                                                                                              • Grommie
                                                                                                                quite ok, the NZ garden snail is the one the French eat. Bags of garlic butter and get stuck in... It does pay to give the garden snail a bit of a clean through... Keep them in a container with some oatmeal or white bread to munch on for a day or 2.
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                                                                                                              • Pato Lo DuckGrommie
                                                                                                                Ahh, I seem to remember he did put garlic butter on them. Won’t be happening here though, the rats have eaten every single snail, slug, and slater in the garden. Unfortunately they have eaten all the vegetables as well, except for the turnips.
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                                                                                                              • Liane H Pato Lo Duck
                                                                                                                It won't be long before they 'turn up ' there then Pato .. lt'll be their last post .. lt's your time to strike. Turn up the heat !
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                                                                                                            • Wendy Q
                                                                                                              Only like black olives, don't like oysters and mussells. Love prawns. Not mad on fish.
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                                                                                                              • Sonya F 68771
                                                                                                                Dont like olives and oysters either
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                                                                                                                • Chosen
                                                                                                                  My wife does an excellent Cockroach in a toasty sandwich which we always kindly give to the neighbour who we don't get along with much. Quite amusing watching him crunch his way through it.
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                                                                                                                  • Ellen P 667007
                                                                                                                    Are you serious??
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                                                                                                                  • ChosenEllen P 667007
                                                                                                                    Better than grasshoppers.
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                                                                                                                • writerrochelle
                                                                                                                  Well, I love most foods from any culture, but not things like baby squid or octopi, crawdads, and things with eyes looking at me, raw oysters, and slimmy things like that, but I will try anything once, except for live bugs! ;-D
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                                                                                                                  • Andrea 1640842
                                                                                                                    Don't like fully yellow bananas, like them mostly green.
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                                                                                                                    • Larry S 382961
                                                                                                                      My wife eats chicken feet,wings. I said a glass of water is far better. Also green mangos, strawberries with salt. Chilies like lollies. Dried fish that is absolutely revolting. Smells like dried vomit.I told her cook outside and down wind. Me I hate Middle East food. Indian,offal,spicy food. Can’t see what the fuss is about these new lettuce types. Iceberg for me.not too keen on mushroom soup🤮🤮 but ok in salad or pizza. But one thing I do love is macadamia flavored ice cream💕💕💕
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                                                                                                                      • Paul B 522937
                                                                                                                        i hate coriader too and any thing with decicated coconut on just feels like sawdust in my mouth
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                                                                                                                        • Roeli L
                                                                                                                          Do not like Offal, remember yesterdays survey? Yikes.
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                                                                                                                          • Ellen P 667007
                                                                                                                            What is Offal? I'm from the U.S.
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                                                                                                                          • Roeli LEllen P 667007
                                                                                                                            Animal guts.
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                                                                                                                        • Catharina 1633156
                                                                                                                          I do not like tripe
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                                                                                                                          • Liane H
                                                                                                                            I too love coriander and most fresh herbs except for rosemary and cannot stand marjoram .That one looks like fresh oregano but smells like soap to me. Hideous! Love pate but won't eat livers ? ! Cannot stand anchovies, yet a very faint touch in the base of a caesar dressing for taste ( without the texture ) as per recipe is ok. How anyone eats tinned salmon or sardines is beyond me ,,Cats reincarnated Lol .
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                                                                                                                            • Holly Cat
                                                                                                                              Funny, I don't like seafood, but used to buy tinned sardines as a treat for my cats. I tolerated the smell for them lol.
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                                                                                                                            • Liane H Holly Cat
                                                                                                                              You're a good woman Holly ..l don't think I could stand it ! I knew a girl who used to drink the liquid out of the tuna and salmon cans at work. She'd pour it into a latte glass and down the hatchet .. Grooooo !!
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                                                                                                                            • Holly CatLiane H
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                                                                                                                          • Paul J 94868
                                                                                                                            Can't stand peas and will not eat offal...
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                                                                                                                            • merricat
                                                                                                                              I hate liver and all orange vegetables, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, etc.
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                                                                                                                              • Geoff 1622284
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                                                                                                                                • bill b 783563
                                                                                                                                  love escargot
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                                                                                                                                  • Helen E 469767
                                                                                                                                    pork ribs in a lovely sauce. get really messy but love them.
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                                                                                                                                    • Melissa 1411101
                                                                                                                                      I'm a vegetarian but I used to love oysters, prawns, caviar and lobster. I really hate Kale. I wouldn't touch it again even if it was the last food on earth 🤢
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                                                                                                                                      • Joy L 68767
                                                                                                                                        I don't really like uncooked tomatoes, but love them in cooked things,like pasta sauce and tomato sauce (ketchup). My daughter doesn't like capsicum, but loves paprika. Also I have 2 daughters both bought up on the same food, 1 likes fish but not prawns the other loves prawns but not fish.
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                                                                                                                                        • Michael 1324355
                                                                                                                                          Fried Meals Michael
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                                                                                                                                          • Gaza
                                                                                                                                            Tripe & onions, love it.
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                                                                                                                                            • Jan H 753322
                                                                                                                                              I'm not keen on hot dogs or coriander. I do like banana, bacon and cheese toasties!
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                                                                                                                                              • Rosemary E 383382
                                                                                                                                                Has Dad told the kids he hates something when you weren't listening. I know a Dad who told his kids that Beetroot tastes like mud. His Mum told him off and said to let them taste it. They both love it
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                                                                                                                                                • Harry 1361654
                                                                                                                                                  Dislike lamb, mutton, goat, and veal. Love Chili con carne, especially on hot dogs.
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                                                                                                                                                  • Jennifer 1540583
                                                                                                                                                    I like all different sorts of cuisine.
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                                                                                                                                                    • Jania S
                                                                                                                                                      I eat any normal food, love lambs fry, kidney HATE animal brains, animal feet or and bug, cockroaches etc,
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                                                                                                                                                      • Ellen P 667007
                                                                                                                                                        I never heard of anyone eating cockroaches! WHY?
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                                                                                                                                                    • Michael 1473411
                                                                                                                                                      I love smoked yak sausages but a lot of people wouldn't touch them.
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                                                                                                                                                      • Arron 1604783
                                                                                                                                                        I don't like basil ,don't know why but don't like it
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                                                                                                                                                        • karen M 876336
                                                                                                                                                          I ate Frog legs in Indonesia, loved them !
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                                                                                                                                                          • diana 1578758
                                                                                                                                                            People eating dog and cats little tiny pigs China 🇨🇳
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                                                                                                                                                            • Branda H
                                                                                                                                                              Scrimps and noodles
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                                                                                                                                                              • Randy 1640955
                                                                                                                                                                Anything is good when my wife cooks it lmao
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                                                                                                                                                                • Grommie
                                                                                                                                                                  strawberries with salt on them
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                                                                                                                                                                  • Tania P 997705
                                                                                                                                                                    I love Tripe, Lambs Tongue and Brawn.
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                                                                                                                                                                    • Shey C
                                                                                                                                                                      Coriander is pure evil. I can't stand any fish, seafood - it makes me gag
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                                                                                                                                                                      • Denise C (Qld)
                                                                                                                                                                        I love the Crackling attached to the roast pork or pork belly. Where some people may shun because of cholesterol levels I don't give this a second thought.
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                                                                                                                                                                        • Robert T 597718
                                                                                                                                                                          mangos the great taste or Irish Stew delicious
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                                                                                                                                                                          • Maria B 89860
                                                                                                                                                                            May try that on my brood see it mangos down with them as well .. well worth remembering to make use of it as I do with other wilting "vegies" in soups etc.
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                                                                                                                                                                          • Robert T 597718Maria B 89860
                                                                                                                                                                            Best wishes Maria
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                                                                                                                                                                        • Amber 22
                                                                                                                                                                          hot food home growling
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                                                                                                                                                                          • Elizabeth A 807208
                                                                                                                                                                            My daughter and I too dislike coriander although I love Thai food and make it often. Every time we have a meal out we have to ask if it has coriander in it when we order.
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                                                                                                                                                                              Walnuts on pasta
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                                                                                                                                                                              • Drea 1420968
                                                                                                                                                                                Cilantro is in the DNA not an influence. Either you have the gene or your don't
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                                                                                                                                                                                • Carolina Z
                                                                                                                                                                                  I like baked salmon. No spices though.
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                                                                                                                                                                                  • Veronica 1544641
                                                                                                                                                                                    I don't like olives or oysters.
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                                                                                                                                                                                    • Greg T 1041472
                                                                                                                                                                                      Broccoli, it is an evil vegetable!!!
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                                                                                                                                                                                      • Daniel T 626103
                                                                                                                                                                                        Jam and cheese on toast.
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                                                                                                                                                                                        • boy blunder
                                                                                                                                                                                          i love a peanut butter and salad sandwich,[don't knock it till you try) unless you have allergies. The one food on the top of my food hate it list is Tripe. I don't understand how it is eaten. I have tried it in many forms, and it tastes like old chewing gum. There are many foods like boiled cabbage, that I am not a fan of, but if you make a little taco mix and wrap it with a boiled cabbage leaf, im all in For example or frying cabbage with bacon i i love that to guess its all in the prep
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