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[postingwhore]

It's so strange seeing my Western friends make all these ~multicultural~ dishes at home. idk, I don't know any single (mainland) Chinese person who actually cooks non-Chinese food at home. People will go out to eat food from other countries, but at home, yeahhhhh. Though granted, we do kind of use different cookware...(and ngl, cooking food from

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[anwyn_elfmaiden]

Well, we cook thai and chinese food, also italian, but the other foreign dishes we eat out... :D

[elyndys]

I used to hate loads of foods I don't mind now XD But there's some stuff I know I'll never like. Usually it's a texture thing - something about thick/slimy textures just makes me gag a bit, even if the taste is fine! Like mayonnaise. *shudder* I can't deal with things that have too much sauce on them!

[postingwhore]

I don't really like stuff with sauce, either! Though hamburgers have to be had with ketchup...otherwise they are too dry! I used to be the same with fries & chips...but I had salt & vinegar on chips at a Scottish chippy and that was surprisingly good!

I'm fine with pretty much any texture! It's taste that determines it for me. XD

[postingwhore]

Oh, it's definitely true, haha! I used to be really into sweets, too, but these days I'm rather blegh about them usually! XP

[karyotype]

Because eating the same kind of stuff everyday bores me, I will pretty much cook anything and everything, but I'm never under the impression that my attempts are anything close to authentic. :P

As a kid, I didn't like most vegetables and my parents never forced me to eat them (my mother hates veggies and avoids them like the plague herself). It wasn't until I started living/cooking on my own that I tried lots of different stuff. Turns out there aren't many foods that I won't eat. Now I have to have a big serving of veggies with every meal.

The only food I can think of that I hated as a kid and still dislike is olives. D:

[not_vacillating]

Oddly, olives are one of the things I used to dislike and now eat quite happily!

The like/don't like and eat/don't eat for ethical reasons stuff interacts in ways which are obvious to me when I'm living them but confuse some people. On the one hand, I no longer have to explain that I don't like bacon, because that's covered under 'is vegetarian', but I do have to explain that I sometimes eat eggs (which actually I don't really like), even though I'm vegan, because I just get a craving and it seems better to eat a local free-range organic egg than not to. But fried, so that it tastes like an egg and I *know* I'm eating an egg, even though I don't really like eggs, because if I disguise it in something it's not nearly so effective at dealing with the craving. To be fair, having typed that out, I see why someone would be confused!

Blue cheese is another example. I didn't like blue cheeses when I was young, learned to like them in my early twenties, and now don't eat them except when I declare a Paris Exemption.

[postingwhore]

It seems so weird to me that you would get cravings for egg when you don't even really like them! But I've also gotten cravings maybe once or twice in my life, so the whole thing in general is really strange to me tbh!

I never understood why bacon is seen as this ~amazing food that everyone likes! I don't really like British bacon because it's too lean for my tastes, haha, but even USAmerican bacon I only like in small doses because it tends to be too greasy.

[postingwhore]

I feel like you wouldn't eat the same kind of stuff everyday with Thai cuisine? It's certainly not the case for Chinese cuisine. :p

Most Chinese people won't consider a meal complete without a dish of veggies! So the thought of people disliking veggies sort of boggles my mind, haha!

[hamsterwoman]

My tastes have also changed, mostly widened (though I was never especially picky). I used to not be able to stand cooked spinach, but am OK with it now, though it will never be my favorite. I used to not like coconut, but it's become a favorite of mine.

To my greatest surprise, I'm even occasionally able to eat fish roe, which used to just make me gag. There's only one sushi place that uses fish roe that's bland enough that I actually enjoy the taste, but even the saltier types I can swallow without being too grossed out. Which is nice, because there is stealth fish roe in a lot of sushi...

In the narrowing direction, though, I used to like milk chocolate and now don't. It doesn't taste gross to me or anything, but I don't enjoy the taste either (still love dark chocolate, and combinations of dark chocolate with salty and spicy stuff, which didn't used to be the case when I was younger).

[postingwhore]

Spinach being the icky vegetable in USAmerican culture has always confused me because I rather like it, and it certainly doesn't have that status here!

I'm actually the same with milk chocolate. I don't dislike it and will happily have some if given it or if it's in a novel flavour combination or something (which there was a lot of in the UK), but I will always take dark chocolate over it if/when given the choice.

[hamsterwoman]

Is spinach being an icky vegetable an American thing? I'm more used to seeing broccoli or Brussels sprouts in that role (and I don't terribly like either of them except in certain dishes -- there's a salad that contains both that I like very much; also, I do like what's referred to as "Chinese broccoli" here, which is *googles* kai-lan, I guess. Dunno why I like kai-lan and not broccoli -- maybe it's the texture of the broccoli florets that I dislike?

With cooked spinach, it's definitely the texture, because I actually quite like raw spinach and will choose it as the primary base in a leafy salad over lettuce and arugula and stuff. But I never minded other green leafy vegetables cooked, like collard greens or kale, so dunno what the difference is.

will happily have some if given it or if it's in a novel flavour combination or something (which there was a lot of in the UK), but I will always take dark chocolate over it if/when given the choice.Basically this for me too, except I will mostly politely turn down (or give to B/the kids