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.

[theoryofwar]

Jessel Taank VS Cilantro

She's not wrong! It's the W O R S T.

I can't eat raw onions though, they have to be cooked for me to handle it!

[daredevilwolf]

i remember watching the cartoon infinity train and the main character in the beginning was just eating a raw onion and i'm like do people really eat onions like that?

[dustbunnylife]

Yeah cause I love onions

[soul_amazinn]

Same I love cooked onions but raw makes me gag. I love cilantro 🌿 though

[xpirate_queenx]

I used to absolutely DETEST avocado but one of my friends served up some that were just slightly under-ripe and slathered in seasoning salt. That's pretty much the only way I'll take them now outside of as an ingredient in tortilla soup.

[ty]

Not even in a nice guac?

[xpirate_queenx]

Noooope. It's a texture thing.

[surfermedley]

I’m always fascinated when people have that one thing they don’t like/won’t eat cause one thing about me, I’ll eat everything.

[aleksie]

Even durian fruit?

[phililen3]

Durian chips are delicious. I went to a farm somewhere years ago and bought some that were made there. Fantastic stuff. Kept stuffing my face. I think the fact that they weren't fresh and raw is what made it good.

[prlsb4swiine]

durian is delicious

[helenrdemeter]

When I was a kid, I was BAFFLED by the idea of eating raw fish. Whenever I went to a Japanese restaurant, I'd either only have the hot meals (tempura, tonkatsu) or, hilariously enough, a big bowl of tempura flakes since they were seasoned.

Ended up eating sushi by accident somehow and wound up loving it. I'm an obnoxious advocate for the stuff now.

[anna_drenxavier]

SAME. It took me a long time to come around to sushi, but I had to try, because all of my friends loved it. Now I love it, too!

[ginainabottle]

I can give up pretty much any food for extended periods of time except seafood, and I need to have salmon at least once a week, it’s just so delicious. I hope to visit Japan one day bc Japanese cuisine is the stuff of culinary dreams to me.

[trials_by_fire]

not that i’m ever having kids but i remember (or was told i don’t really remember) that when i was teething my mom would give me raw octopus to chew on when my parents went out for sushi bc its so chewy. i firmly believe that’s why ive loved sushi like my entire life.