ONTD Original: Foods, Drinks, Fruits & Vegetables Celebrities Refuse To Eat or Drink, Part V

[stewie_e]

I'm playing fast and loose with the term "celebrity" on this edition, but just bare bear with me tbh.

Comments

[squirrels_oh_no]

I hate olives and capers (I don't really like pickled foods that much because I can't tolerate sour that well). I will eat pretty much anything, but those two I will only eat if I am forced to/being polite.

Same with matcha. I also don't handle bitter well. I went to a Japanese tea ceremony in the Japanese capital of green tea, Uji, and the hostesses laughed at me because of my expressions I made, but I was determined to be polite and drink the tea/eat the matcha sweet, and then they brought me a giant glass of water without asking because they saw I was about to throw up.

[zibbydoo324]

I’m the same with olives. Except this is where even I get annoyed with myself. The only time I’ve enjoyed them was one night in Sicily. 🙄

[squirrels_oh_no]

hahaha. I get that. But the issue is you're not in Sicily every night, so the magic is never recreated. Unless you were to go BACK to Sicily... Houses are cheaper there and all. Just saying.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I should say that I was a super picky eater before I studied abroad in Japan and lived with a host family and I had to eat whatever I was served. Although by the end my host mother for some reason thought my favorite food ever was spaghetti - I think she might have started thinking I was Italian-American, IDK because I am definitely not - and I got to eat that FIVE TIMES in one week by the end of my stay. Including twice for breakfast. Also she made a cheesecake because I said I liked cheesecake but she just made a plain vanilla cake with handfuls of mozzarella cheese thrown in. It was actually decent.

It was also obviously in Japan where I discovered that I hate matcha. But East/Southeast Asian foods are my favorite - Thai, Korean, Chinese (except the super spicy regional stuff - I can do spicy but not THAT spicy), Indonesian, Malaysian, Filipino, Burmese, Vietnamese, Laotian.... Love it all.

[helyanwe89]

If olives are in a dish I pick around them to get a serving. I tried one again a while back & spit it out.

[ty]

Capers are life. Without them, you have never had a true lox and cream cheese bagel. I will 🙏🏼 for your taste buds.

[beaucadeau]

I can't with olives, but every so often I'll try one to see if my palate has ~evolved and nada so far

[squirrels_oh_no]

I do the same thing with kombucha LMAO. Forgot to mention that one.

[glitterslugs]

i love olives but tbh i think if i ate an olive for the first time today i wouldn't like them lol

[winter_lace]

I also dislike matcha. It’s not bitter to me though, it just tastes like dirt? And not even good dirt. Like the dry dust that coats your mouth in the middle of a years long drought.

[elevatorshaker]

Not a huge olive fan, but a friend of mine makes some amazing pickled peppers.

I love matcha, but less matcha flavored things.

[wonder_freak]

The sight & smell of olives makes me feel sick.