I just overheard a coworker saying “Oh, I would never try that in my life!”, in a discussion of food. (This was about consuming a steak cooked less than medium well). It made me wonder what life is like for those who refuse to try new food, especially those who refuse to try mundane things like fried shrimp.

Why limit yourself? It seems like such a closed-minded way to view food. Help me understand?

  • Doom@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Autocorrect got me. Lol *fiddleheads. Never had fennel head, but I do like molasses.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh you might want to try Real Licorice. I like all of it really, even good & plentys candy but the ones that are less sweet do have much more of a molasses taste and less of an aniseed taste. None of them taste like actual licorice root, a good thing IMO, though it does make me wonder why it’s called licorice.

      I don’t think you are alone in your dislike at all - I make a Halloween cocktail I call Black Jellybean and warn people - it’s polarizing, nobody likes it, they either love it or hate it. When I was creating it my first thought was molasses and whiskey but oof that was foul - I ended up much lighter and tooth shattering sweet with cream soda, vodka, and sambucca and it does taste just like a black jellybean.

      Fiddleheads are so good but we can’t get them down here :(

      I think technically I’m picky but just have a very long list of likes and very very short list of dislikes. Baked beans and sweet red beans - yuck, beans should not be sweet. I don’t like ham, and don’t like ketchup, will not eat things with perceptible ketchup (sunk deep in as an ingredient it’s ok but I sub gochujang if cooking something myself). So I understand dislikes it just seems so limiting to have only a small set of likes and an unadventurous approach.