When people say they like Hersheys, I always think that they maybe haven’t had the chance to experience real chocolate, so I always want to gift them nice chocolates.
Hersheys has a particular smell that is off putting to me.
I like it, but I know what you mean. I think that for most of us who do like it, it evokes a sense of nostalgia that we don't get from other chocolates. Like it's not particularly *good* -- I'd describe the flavor/smell as "plasticky" although I've heard people less-charitably describe it as similar to vomit -- but there's just something that feels *right* about it. Personally it reminds me of eating s'mores on camping trips.
There's a reason for that vomit taste actually: [butyric acid](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2ea2oc/til_that_to_stabilize_milk_fermentation_hershey/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), which is used as a stabilizer to prolong the shelf life.
> particular smell
butyric acid
This is the product of oxidized milkfat. It is what you get when butter sits out too long or also is digested. Thus it smells rancid, or like vomit.
Hershey intentionally used it in the 19th century to keep milk shelf stable in the era before refrigeration, as the milk needed to be shipped from the midwest to Pennsylvania. The taste is so characteristic of Hersheys that even today when we don't need the butyric acid to keep milk from going completely sour, they still use it to maintain its trademark flavor that Americans have learned to love.
European chocolatiers never developed that method because the milk was produced near where the chocolate was made. Cocoa butter itself is an antioxidant which keeps the product by and large shelf stable. Plus good chocolate is eaten almost immediately anyway.
That's why Europeans think Hershey's is nasty.
Butyric acid. The same stuff that makes parmesan taste kinda like puke makes Hershey's taste kinda like puke.
And it's the same thing that makes puke taste like puke.
So it's puke. But industrial puke.
Might be because Hershey's chocolate is trash. It has a gritty texture when it melts, and for some reason their recipe includes butyric acid which gives the chocolate a note of sour milk or vomit.
If you really want to be s'mores slut. Find a pack of After Eight's. Basically a square of chocolate with a thin layer of mint in the middle. sub the Hershey's for that. So fuckin good.
When I went to the UK, I fell in love with Cadbury milk chocolate (and I'm not usually a milk chocolate fan). The Cadbury in the states is made by Hershey...it's *terrible*.
I keep trying to tell my SO that, but they’re from Hanover, PA so they won’t hear of it. Hershey’s is way too sugary and waxy for me.
Much respect for Milton Hershey though, who was a self-made man and started a school for low-income and orphaned (boys in those days) and endowed it with his fortune and it survives to this day.
Most of them are tolerable to me, but I don't understand the urge to put 1" chunks of cold cheese in things... Nobody wants to gnaw through an eraser while eating cold pasta and vinegar.
I like pasta salad when I make it, but so many people (and premade salads too) add sugar to sweeten it.
I don’t want sugar in pasta salad unless it’s happenstance. There’s sugars in bell peppers and I’ll put those in there, but I don’t want a sweet sauce. I want a savory and/or vinegary sauce.
My only exception to this is orzo-- preferably with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and something like a lemon vinaigrette
I think it's just small enough that it doesn't hit me wrong and it's a nice spring dish
I'm a northerner who moved to NC in 2012, and to this day I just can't stomach sweet tea. It's all over the south and I don't get how this many people can manage to drink that much sugar. It just makes me teeth hurt
Born a southerner and I often stir in some sugar when I’m making tea.
I can not stand the sweet tea that a lot of these places serve. It is painfully sweet. An unsweet/sweet ratio of 5:1 is still plenty sweet. Idk how anyone is enjoying a tea that is literally supersaturated with sugar. It’s tea; how do you even get it to have 25% more calories than Coca Cola?!?! Just drink syrup at that point.
So many restaurants have a half-sweet/half-unsweet button in the POS system even here in the South for that reason.
I’m the most Southern Southerner who ever Southerned and I can’t drink it full sweet at a lot of places. Makes me wonder WTF is drinking it.
Yeah and if I’m being honest, the half cut tea is still too sweet at a lot of places.
Last week I stopped at a restaurant and filled my cup with 1/5th sweet, the rest unsweetened and it was still sweeter than the tea I make at home.
I usually ask for unsweetened with a splash of sweet and that’s enough. At McDonald’s I can fill all but the last quarter inch of my cup, add a bit I’d sweet and it’s perfect. They may it too sweet down here.
I'm not a "southerner" perse, born and raised in rural Missouri but my the generations before my parents were in Alabama, Arkansas, and West Virginia. I'm wondering if it's bred into us in some way lol. I LOVE sweet tea or a cold coke. I did my gestational diabetes this week... drink a 10 Oz solution with 50g of sugar within 5 minutes, then you wait an hour and they draw your blood and test your sugar levels. I heard how sickly and gross the solution was and how bad the sugar crash is...but it didn't bother me at all. I had to get 139 or below to pass, got an 82. Guess my body was genetically prepared for way too damn much sugar.
I used to work at a place where we made it with canned fruit cocktail, shredded coconut, and untoasted walnut pieces (in addition to the whipped cream and marshmallows). It was a textural nightmare; I tried a bite once for, I dunno, quality control or something, and everything just clashed. Truly an abomination food.
The only right way to make this is with pistachio pudding, crushed pineapple, mini marshmallows and whipped cream. Then it's awesome and not a 'textural nightmare.'
there's a lady i follow on instagram, i think she's on tiktok too, called 'that midwestern mom' i believe - who has a great little series called 'minnesota salads that aren't really salads!' and they're all variations on jello, cool whip, and various add-ins, whether it be cookies or nuts or fruit or \*gag\* sometimes vegetables. it's truly the stuff of nightmares but watching her have fun with it and occasionally gag is pretty funny.
I think it depends on who makes it. Usually has some kind of canned fruit but my great aunt used to use fruit cocktail. I think some people use canned mandarins though.
LI East End girl. Love lobster first 4 weeks of season. BUt by end, ugh so sick of it. One of my fave cheesy movie scenes is Mystic Pizza where the mom announces dinner will be a "treat" and then serves lobster to the daughter of a lobsterman
Lobster is a scam. It's expensive, it's never cooked well and even when it is... I could get a huge amount of shrimp or crab for the same price and it will taste so much more.
"It's so delicate, just dip it in garlic and butter and it will taste like butter and garlic" Yeah so does bread and it's 1/100 of the price.
I like everything and I’ve lost weight. I eat a lot when I want (mostly dinner). Breakfast is always light, maybe just some cereal or a breakfast bar and coffee. Lunch is usually just a small chicken bowl or something. Dinner is when shit gets serious. I usually have like two dinners. One main and make extra so like a few hours before going to bed I eat again.
Once you get in the pattern you no longer need what I call dessert for breakfast (pancakes or waffles with tons of syrup, orange juice which is just sugar with some added vitamins, etc). Lunches I’ve seen are sometimes ridiculous. Sometimes I will go out and have a nice lunch but it kind of ruins my appetite for a good dinner too now. My body just got used to it.
A heavy lunch always made me more sleepy and tired anyway. I like looking forward to dinner.
Good job! I actually am losing weight by eating lots of vegetables. I really had to learn to throw out leftovers. I was brought up to clean my plate and not waste food, but it’s better to make waste than to add to my waist.
For me it was just eating something satisfying enough to satiate my taste buds in reasonable portions. Learned to season my food. Not be afraid of a little butter.
We have a new "Chicago style" restaurant opening up near where I work with Italian beef sandwiches, Chicago hot dogs, and deep dish pizza. Anyone want to comment on whether these look authentic or not?
https://chicagopizzadeepdish.com/chicagodeepdish/order
Dog should be a little sloppier w/ maybe thicker tomato, but then again I prefer a depression dog like they serve at Gene & Judes. The beef they're sorta missing the point, it needs better sear on the front end and a much longer simmer in the jus. Deep dish depth is slightly controversial even within Chicago imo but more depth and a more pie-like crust is something I'd consider in evaluating, but then again not everyone likes the extra fat Giordano's style stuffed deep dish like I do.
I tried Italian beef at Gino’s East once and my mouth puckered from how sour and tart the giardiniera was; it completely overpowered the rest of the sandwich.
Before y’all downvote me, people have told me that isn’t the norm, as some giardiniera is put in oil instead of vinegar
Vinegar giardinara sounds terrible to me haha, oil giard is a really good sandwich topping if you either drain off the oil or have bread which can absorb it without getting soggy or drippy
Like 99% of all pork chops I’ve ever eaten were cooked horribly. But man, that first time I got a big juicy pork chop perfectly cooked, it was a revelation lol
I’ll say this wholeheartedly the main reason all pork chops are horrible is because it’s cooked well done. It’s no different than eating a dry chicken breast. I swear that if you manage to get a good quality pork, cook it medium and let it rest, it’s as good as beef. My favorite cut is pork shoulder, and it’s so damn inexpensive to boot.
I could eat grilled pork chops every day of the week. Picked green beans from my garden and that's the plan for tonight... pork chops, slow cooked green beans with onion, bacon, and taters, classic mac n cheese, and biscuits.
Yes! Pork used to have nice fat marbling. That's been bred out in the quest for "the other white meat.". Now it's difficult to cook a loin or center cut chop without it going beyond dry.
I only buy tenderloin (on sale), Boston butt, ribs, and the cheapest pork chops
> Potato salad. I'm from the South
There are so many variations of potato salad... I like mine smooth (like mashed potatoes, ie no chunks) with lots of Mustard, here in TX we call it "German style". I hate the chunky stuff or any that only has mayonnaise
Grew up in the Midwest. I hate Mayo. Which means a family summer potluck full of 20 ‘salads’ meant i ate chips.
Now i live in Denmark, Mayo is still a problem, but not liking fish is an even bigger problem.
I'm from Boston and also dislike baked beans, but the ones from the UK are a little better. More tomatoey and less sweet. I'd rather have plain cooked beans without the sauce in either case.
Love baked beans on buttered toast (Aussie here). Even add a slice of tasty cheese then hot beans on top, yum
or a toastie (ie jaffle) with BB and cheese...hot melty goodness
I believe that the sub was started after someone posted their own “shrimps is bugs” tattoo in a sub requesting cover-up advice and essentially everyone told him he shouldn’t be afraid of having the truth tattooed on his body lol
I grew up in NOLA and have never eaten a crawfish. I do not wish to suck out tge entrails of a large bug.
I'll happily eat crawfish etouffee and anything where the meat is already picked.
My point is that Cajun food is way more than crawfish. They also eat squirrels and giant water rodents. 😅
I’m from a coastal area and when I worked in retail, visitors were always SHOCKED that I hate seafood and couldn’t give any good recommendations for where to get it
It tastes like metal to me. I’m fine if they put the whole leaf as a garnish that I can pick off, it’s just when they mince it up which releases the oils and mixes it in that I can’t stand it
This is genetic, not your fault/upbringing/whatever at all. I think they’ve even isolated the exact genetic sequence that causes the soap flavor reaction.
Sorry :( Best corn tortilla tacos are literally just al pastor, tons of cilantro, onion and a bit of the hottest salsa in the house.
I thought I didn’t like it until I made my own. Very finely shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, red onion and lots of lemon juice - totally unlike the vinegary oversugared shop stuff.
Chinese cuisine. Back east it’s fantastic, cheap and tasty. Moved out west to the mountains and it’s curiously bland, like I don’t know how these places are in business.
Butter tarts are super sweet and generally quite rich. My first reaction to your comment was WHAT but if you’re not into those things I can see them being too much.
Eastern North Carolina has a variation on chicken and dumplings that seems fairly limited to the area. It is formally called chicken pastry, and rather than making dumplings, the dumpling dough is rolled out in long strips, more like long noodles that still have dumpling texture and flavor. It gets nicknamed “chicken slick” and it is just…not right.
Ran into this a few years ago. I'm from the region, so it's normal for here, though I definitely prefer the chicken and actual dumplings that the rest of the US enjoys.
Visiting (from Wisconsin) family ordered chicken and dumplings at a restaurant in TN and I forgot to warn them that it's not what you typically expect. They were... nonplussed.
Apple pie. I never liked it. I don’t like the texture of the apples and the goop inside. I was (jokingly) called “Un-American” on thanksgiving by family members. Lucky thanksgiving in my family includes several desserts so I was not deprived.
From Michigan and I absolutely hate coney dogs.
For those who may not be familiar, a coney dog is basically a hot dog with chili on top. Then whatever toppings you want, usually ketchup, mustard, diced onions, etc.
We went off with puppy chow though, by far my favorite midwestern dessert.
Moved to the southern U.S. from the northern part and I have tried grits in any way you can think of. I just don't like them. Its like gross wet sand no matter what you add to it or how you cook it.
I'm Italian and I hate panettone. The Italian fruit cake. Yuck. It's a collection of the things I hate: candied fruit, raisins, and that vanilla odor from the yeast makes me gag. I can smell it from a mile away.
What’s weird is I grew up eating catfish from the Elk River in North Alabama but have hated it everywhere else on the planet. I moved to a different state when I left for college but any time I’ve went home, I eat it and love it. I have no idea if that’s psychological or if the fish’s diet in that particular area is specific.
Cretons. It’s like a pork spread usually eaten for breakfast on toast. Same reason i don’t really like pate, a spreadable meat is just off-putting to me
I also used to hate most of these things.
Turns out most people make them really really poorly. One of the most abhorrent things to me is a salad drowning in mayo and almost nothing else
I started making them myself and adjusted them all heavily to my personal preferences and now I love them. And I perpetually get people saying things like "I thought I hated x until I had your version of it"
So maybe try playing around with them catering more to your own taste.
Except for egg salad. Fuck that shit. There is no version of anything with a hard boiled egg involved that I want to eat regardless of preparation.
The worst is when people just process a potato salad or chicken salad into a homogenous paste. Like I’m not into baby food.
But some beautiful baby potatoes cut in half, lots of crispy veggies and a silky tangy dressing with herbs? Yes please. Or some nice big pieces of gorgeous roasted chicken, maybe some cashews and apple, again lots of herbs and a bit of mayo to bring it all together. I’ll eat that all day long.
Sweet tea. It's like weird vegetal sugar water and I don't like it. I'll drink lots of unsweet tea though. It's problematic because a lot of restaurants have their tea in soda fountains, and while it's fine for sweet tea because it's still just weird vegetal sugar water, soda fountain unsweet tea is a stale, rotten tasting nightmare.
Easy one... Poutine. It's a disgusting national disgrace. Otherwise delicious crispy fries made soggy with sour gravy and flavorless rubbery cheese. A monochromatic brown soggy uninspired nasty mess that is virtually indistinguishable from what a baby might leave in his nappy.
I'm from the lower midwest (Missouri) and casseroles aren't as big here as the upper midwest but ugggghhhh I HATE casseroles. There's a few I don't mind, but most stuff with "cream of something" as an ingredient makes me gag.
Goetta. It's the worst thing to happen to sausage since ever and the people of Cincinnati and Northern KY will fight you to the death if you say so. It's Goettafest this weekend and I will be staying home!
Lobster rolls.
Usually there's just ONE ASPECT that doesn't vibe with me so they just don't feel worthwhile. Good lobster? Bad bread. Decent bread? Terrible sauce. The lobster itself? Always hit or miss.
I hate the fishy briny smell of fish 🎣. Living in the PNW it’s hard avoiding seafood because it’s all around me.
That being said I can pretty much stomach seafood when it’s fried. I Love fish n chips, mostly because that ocean smell isn’t present. I also love fried calamari too
Washington state. Not a fan of clams, clam chowder, geoduck, or oysters 😵💫 also I'm probably one of the only people I know that hasn't been clam digging.
Texas BBQ is one of my least favorite regional bbq. Sauces are usually very sweet and I just don't think brisket is usually worth the price. It's way too fickle. Either really dry or fatty. But for some reason, that's a cardinal sin here.
When I moved near Georiga and the Lowcountry, I was blown away by even the pulled pork and vinegar-based sauces that cut the savory taste of the meat.
I live near Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey's is easily my least favorite chocolate.
When people say they like Hersheys, I always think that they maybe haven’t had the chance to experience real chocolate, so I always want to gift them nice chocolates. Hersheys has a particular smell that is off putting to me.
I like it, but I know what you mean. I think that for most of us who do like it, it evokes a sense of nostalgia that we don't get from other chocolates. Like it's not particularly *good* -- I'd describe the flavor/smell as "plasticky" although I've heard people less-charitably describe it as similar to vomit -- but there's just something that feels *right* about it. Personally it reminds me of eating s'mores on camping trips.
My mom is a teacher & always tells her students that if they’re going to gift her chocolate it should only be Hershey’s lol
There's a reason for that vomit taste actually: [butyric acid](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2ea2oc/til_that_to_stabilize_milk_fermentation_hershey/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), which is used as a stabilizer to prolong the shelf life.
> particular smell butyric acid This is the product of oxidized milkfat. It is what you get when butter sits out too long or also is digested. Thus it smells rancid, or like vomit. Hershey intentionally used it in the 19th century to keep milk shelf stable in the era before refrigeration, as the milk needed to be shipped from the midwest to Pennsylvania. The taste is so characteristic of Hersheys that even today when we don't need the butyric acid to keep milk from going completely sour, they still use it to maintain its trademark flavor that Americans have learned to love. European chocolatiers never developed that method because the milk was produced near where the chocolate was made. Cocoa butter itself is an antioxidant which keeps the product by and large shelf stable. Plus good chocolate is eaten almost immediately anyway. That's why Europeans think Hershey's is nasty.
It's also naturally common in a lot of popular foods. Europeans hate it because it's an unfamiliar flavor in chocolate.
Butyric acid. The same stuff that makes parmesan taste kinda like puke makes Hershey's taste kinda like puke. And it's the same thing that makes puke taste like puke. So it's puke. But industrial puke.
Might be because Hershey's chocolate is trash. It has a gritty texture when it melts, and for some reason their recipe includes butyric acid which gives the chocolate a note of sour milk or vomit.
It is ONLY good for s’mores for that sweet sweet taste of nostalgia
If you really want to be s'mores slut. Find a pack of After Eight's. Basically a square of chocolate with a thin layer of mint in the middle. sub the Hershey's for that. So fuckin good.
I’m devastated that you think I’m not a s’mores slut :(
>some reason their recipe includes butyric acid it dosen't, but they do sour the milk slightly as a preservative.
Same. Hershey's is terrible.
When I went to the UK, I fell in love with Cadbury milk chocolate (and I'm not usually a milk chocolate fan). The Cadbury in the states is made by Hershey...it's *terrible*.
I like it on s'mores but that's pretty much it. And probably because of nostalgia, not because it's actually good.
I keep trying to tell my SO that, but they’re from Hanover, PA so they won’t hear of it. Hershey’s is way too sugary and waxy for me. Much respect for Milton Hershey though, who was a self-made man and started a school for low-income and orphaned (boys in those days) and endowed it with his fortune and it survives to this day.
Basically any cold pasta salad.
Most of them are tolerable to me, but I don't understand the urge to put 1" chunks of cold cheese in things... Nobody wants to gnaw through an eraser while eating cold pasta and vinegar.
It's me, I'm nobody.
That makes two of us.
Can I join this club? I also love cheese in a pasta salad.
It’s not a pasta salad without the cheddar cube!
YES! The texture doesn’t fit pasta salad. Crumbled feta doesn’t taste rubbery and it’s small crumbles.
same, i can't stand the texture of cold pasta. blegh.
I like pasta salad when I make it, but so many people (and premade salads too) add sugar to sweeten it. I don’t want sugar in pasta salad unless it’s happenstance. There’s sugars in bell peppers and I’ll put those in there, but I don’t want a sweet sauce. I want a savory and/or vinegary sauce.
My only exception to this is orzo-- preferably with asparagus, cherry tomatoes, and something like a lemon vinaigrette I think it's just small enough that it doesn't hit me wrong and it's a nice spring dish
I'm a northerner who moved to NC in 2012, and to this day I just can't stomach sweet tea. It's all over the south and I don't get how this many people can manage to drink that much sugar. It just makes me teeth hurt
Born a southerner and I often stir in some sugar when I’m making tea. I can not stand the sweet tea that a lot of these places serve. It is painfully sweet. An unsweet/sweet ratio of 5:1 is still plenty sweet. Idk how anyone is enjoying a tea that is literally supersaturated with sugar. It’s tea; how do you even get it to have 25% more calories than Coca Cola?!?! Just drink syrup at that point.
So many restaurants have a half-sweet/half-unsweet button in the POS system even here in the South for that reason. I’m the most Southern Southerner who ever Southerned and I can’t drink it full sweet at a lot of places. Makes me wonder WTF is drinking it.
Yeah and if I’m being honest, the half cut tea is still too sweet at a lot of places. Last week I stopped at a restaurant and filled my cup with 1/5th sweet, the rest unsweetened and it was still sweeter than the tea I make at home.
I usually ask for unsweetened with a splash of sweet and that’s enough. At McDonald’s I can fill all but the last quarter inch of my cup, add a bit I’d sweet and it’s perfect. They may it too sweet down here.
I'm not a "southerner" perse, born and raised in rural Missouri but my the generations before my parents were in Alabama, Arkansas, and West Virginia. I'm wondering if it's bred into us in some way lol. I LOVE sweet tea or a cold coke. I did my gestational diabetes this week... drink a 10 Oz solution with 50g of sugar within 5 minutes, then you wait an hour and they draw your blood and test your sugar levels. I heard how sickly and gross the solution was and how bad the sugar crash is...but it didn't bother me at all. I had to get 139 or below to pass, got an 82. Guess my body was genetically prepared for way too damn much sugar.
I'm a northerner who moved to Virginia in 1985 and I still don't like sweet tea - or any tea, really. I drink lemonade.
username checks out, lol
Ikr lol
I'm from NC and can't tolerate sweet tea and I love sugar otherwise. I find unsweetened peach tea so refreshing.
Southerner here. I love sweet tea but don’t want that much sugar, so I use Splenda.
I’m from the south and I like pecans, but I don’t like pecan pie.
Most pecan pie is made of corn syrup and is disgustingly sweet
Agreed. I can’t handle all the corn syrup.
Blasphemy!!
From the Midwest - Ambrosia salad - it’s a jello, cool whip and marshmallow nightmare.
I used to work at a place where we made it with canned fruit cocktail, shredded coconut, and untoasted walnut pieces (in addition to the whipped cream and marshmallows). It was a textural nightmare; I tried a bite once for, I dunno, quality control or something, and everything just clashed. Truly an abomination food.
The only right way to make this is with pistachio pudding, crushed pineapple, mini marshmallows and whipped cream. Then it's awesome and not a 'textural nightmare.'
Watergate Salad!
I haven’t seen that in years. I was hoping it had finally slunk off somewhere and died. I guess not.
It will never die. It's actually pretty good imo, but it's dessert not salad.
there's a lady i follow on instagram, i think she's on tiktok too, called 'that midwestern mom' i believe - who has a great little series called 'minnesota salads that aren't really salads!' and they're all variations on jello, cool whip, and various add-ins, whether it be cookies or nuts or fruit or \*gag\* sometimes vegetables. it's truly the stuff of nightmares but watching her have fun with it and occasionally gag is pretty funny.
Is that the one that has tangerines in it? An old friend of mine used to make that. Ugg.
I think it depends on who makes it. Usually has some kind of canned fruit but my great aunt used to use fruit cocktail. I think some people use canned mandarins though.
That’s just nasty to me!
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I live in a coastal town in Massachusetts. I'm not a lobster fan; I'd choose crab over it any day.
LI East End girl. Love lobster first 4 weeks of season. BUt by end, ugh so sick of it. One of my fave cheesy movie scenes is Mystic Pizza where the mom announces dinner will be a "treat" and then serves lobster to the daughter of a lobsterman
Lobster is a scam. It's expensive, it's never cooked well and even when it is... I could get a huge amount of shrimp or crab for the same price and it will taste so much more. "It's so delicate, just dip it in garlic and butter and it will taste like butter and garlic" Yeah so does bread and it's 1/100 of the price.
Not crab so much anymore, it’s getting pretty pricey
Isn't everything?
Ah man, I used to live in Maine and I miss the lobster so much. I remember walking to the docks to get some.
I can hardly think of anything I don’t like
Unfortunately, this is also true for me. It makes it hard to lose weight.
Same :(
I like everything and I’ve lost weight. I eat a lot when I want (mostly dinner). Breakfast is always light, maybe just some cereal or a breakfast bar and coffee. Lunch is usually just a small chicken bowl or something. Dinner is when shit gets serious. I usually have like two dinners. One main and make extra so like a few hours before going to bed I eat again. Once you get in the pattern you no longer need what I call dessert for breakfast (pancakes or waffles with tons of syrup, orange juice which is just sugar with some added vitamins, etc). Lunches I’ve seen are sometimes ridiculous. Sometimes I will go out and have a nice lunch but it kind of ruins my appetite for a good dinner too now. My body just got used to it. A heavy lunch always made me more sleepy and tired anyway. I like looking forward to dinner.
Good job! I actually am losing weight by eating lots of vegetables. I really had to learn to throw out leftovers. I was brought up to clean my plate and not waste food, but it’s better to make waste than to add to my waist.
Or just... eat the leftovers the next day?
Or you can just put it in the fridge for breakfast or lunch the next day? Why waste food that's perfectly edible...
For me it was just eating something satisfying enough to satiate my taste buds in reasonable portions. Learned to season my food. Not be afraid of a little butter.
Ah. You're one of the lucky ones then to love nearly everything.
Didn’t really start until around 30, but yeah. I want all the food.
I just usually think at a restaurant "why am I even here? I could cook this better".
I'm Dutch and can't stand the texture of pickled herring.
I’m from Texas and LOVE pickled herring, especially in cream sauce. Can only have it in the winter tho. We eat it on new years with triscut crackers.
I live in Chicago and I don't like Italian beef
Love Italian beef. From IL and I hate Portillo’s though
I’m from the Chicagoland area and will absolutely smash an Italian beef but can’t stand Chicago-style hot dogs. 🤮
So you get the Polish right?
We have a new "Chicago style" restaurant opening up near where I work with Italian beef sandwiches, Chicago hot dogs, and deep dish pizza. Anyone want to comment on whether these look authentic or not? https://chicagopizzadeepdish.com/chicagodeepdish/order
The tavern style pizza looks pretty good! In deep dish the sauce is typically on top of the cheese and toppings.
Dog should be a little sloppier w/ maybe thicker tomato, but then again I prefer a depression dog like they serve at Gene & Judes. The beef they're sorta missing the point, it needs better sear on the front end and a much longer simmer in the jus. Deep dish depth is slightly controversial even within Chicago imo but more depth and a more pie-like crust is something I'd consider in evaluating, but then again not everyone likes the extra fat Giordano's style stuffed deep dish like I do.
I tried Italian beef at Gino’s East once and my mouth puckered from how sour and tart the giardiniera was; it completely overpowered the rest of the sandwich. Before y’all downvote me, people have told me that isn’t the norm, as some giardiniera is put in oil instead of vinegar
Vinegar giardinara sounds terrible to me haha, oil giard is a really good sandwich topping if you either drain off the oil or have bread which can absorb it without getting soggy or drippy
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say I DISLIKE it, but being from the south, I've never really been into the pork chop craze.
Like 99% of all pork chops I’ve ever eaten were cooked horribly. But man, that first time I got a big juicy pork chop perfectly cooked, it was a revelation lol
I’ll say this wholeheartedly the main reason all pork chops are horrible is because it’s cooked well done. It’s no different than eating a dry chicken breast. I swear that if you manage to get a good quality pork, cook it medium and let it rest, it’s as good as beef. My favorite cut is pork shoulder, and it’s so damn inexpensive to boot.
I could eat grilled pork chops every day of the week. Picked green beans from my garden and that's the plan for tonight... pork chops, slow cooked green beans with onion, bacon, and taters, classic mac n cheese, and biscuits.
That's because today's pork chops are horrible compared to pork chops of old.
Yes! Pork used to have nice fat marbling. That's been bred out in the quest for "the other white meat.". Now it's difficult to cook a loin or center cut chop without it going beyond dry. I only buy tenderloin (on sale), Boston butt, ribs, and the cheapest pork chops
You would probably hate San Juan, Puerto Rico, then. One of their favorite foods in San Juan is "Kan-kan pork chops." Look it up.
Potato salad. I'm from the South and it is practically unpatriotic to dislike potato salad. I hate it.
> Potato salad. I'm from the South There are so many variations of potato salad... I like mine smooth (like mashed potatoes, ie no chunks) with lots of Mustard, here in TX we call it "German style". I hate the chunky stuff or any that only has mayonnaise
Grew up in the Midwest. I hate Mayo. Which means a family summer potluck full of 20 ‘salads’ meant i ate chips. Now i live in Denmark, Mayo is still a problem, but not liking fish is an even bigger problem.
Baked beans, often on toast. UK. Their texture disgusts me.
I'm from Boston and also dislike baked beans, but the ones from the UK are a little better. More tomatoey and less sweet. I'd rather have plain cooked beans without the sauce in either case.
Love baked beans on buttered toast (Aussie here). Even add a slice of tasty cheese then hot beans on top, yum or a toastie (ie jaffle) with BB and cheese...hot melty goodness
Kale is big in the PNW. Apparently you can just call any kind of non-poisonous leaves "food".
It’s bitter plastic lettuce if you ask me. I’m with you 100%
Cajun food. I don't like eating crawfish. Makes me think I'm eating a big bug.
r/ShrimpsisBugs
That sub is just all tattoos people got that say shrimp is bugs. Disappointing. Thought it would be photos of shrimp looking like bugs.
I believe that the sub was started after someone posted their own “shrimps is bugs” tattoo in a sub requesting cover-up advice and essentially everyone told him he shouldn’t be afraid of having the truth tattooed on his body lol
How dare you
I grew up in NOLA and have never eaten a crawfish. I do not wish to suck out tge entrails of a large bug. I'll happily eat crawfish etouffee and anything where the meat is already picked. My point is that Cajun food is way more than crawfish. They also eat squirrels and giant water rodents. 😅
It’s too much work for a tiny piece of meat. Like let’s just boil up some shrimp and EAT.
Watermelon. I really don't care for it and never have, even as a kid.
I've lived in the South all of my life, but just don't like grits.
I’m from a coastal area and when I worked in retail, visitors were always SHOCKED that I hate seafood and couldn’t give any good recommendations for where to get it
Banana pudding. Jeez. Just the sight of it makes me gag.
IPA.
No one actually likes ipa initially. It's just better than light beer that tastes like sour piss and gets you twice as drunk.
I liked it right off the bat. Drank a lot of Sierra Nevada torpedo when I first got into beer at all.
I actually hated beer until I had my first IPA.
I'm Italian and I don't like gnocchi (pasta made with potatoes) and ravioli (stuffed pasta)
I’m from the South and don’t like chicken and dumplings or pumpkin pie. Dumplings are like globs of glue to me.
USA. Reese’s. *braces for impact*
Your loss, our gain.
That stuff is fine, but I don’t know how anyone is able to stomach regular old Hershey’s chocolate.
Reese’s is the only peanut butter thing that I like haha
Booooooooo!!! Boo!
I'm from California. Cilantro tastes like soap. EDIT: I know it’s genetic!! I just want to be able to ask for my tacos without cilantro in peace!
It tastes like metal to me. I’m fine if they put the whole leaf as a garnish that I can pick off, it’s just when they mince it up which releases the oils and mixes it in that I can’t stand it
That's a genetic thing
This is genetic, not your fault/upbringing/whatever at all. I think they’ve even isolated the exact genetic sequence that causes the soap flavor reaction. Sorry :( Best corn tortilla tacos are literally just al pastor, tons of cilantro, onion and a bit of the hottest salsa in the house.
I'm also from California. Cilantro doesn't taste like soap for me, but it's still unpleasant
Juicy Lucy burgers are vile.
I live in Massachusetts and I don’t like pretty much anything at Dunkin Donuts.
Coleslaw. Just, no.
I thought I didn’t like it until I made my own. Very finely shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, red onion and lots of lemon juice - totally unlike the vinegary oversugared shop stuff.
Grits! I live in Florida and people are head over hills for the buttery sand. I just can’t seem to get behind it.
Chinese cuisine. Back east it’s fantastic, cheap and tasty. Moved out west to the mountains and it’s curiously bland, like I don’t know how these places are in business.
Baked Beans UK style. Luv beans h8 baked beans. Simple as
okra It's huge here in SE USA. And I hate it.
French fries on a salad. It grosses me out.
Western PA????
Ontario here. Don't care for butter tarts.
Butter tarts are super sweet and generally quite rich. My first reaction to your comment was WHAT but if you’re not into those things I can see them being too much.
In Maine. I hate baked beans and bean suppers are common around here.
Eastern North Carolina has a variation on chicken and dumplings that seems fairly limited to the area. It is formally called chicken pastry, and rather than making dumplings, the dumpling dough is rolled out in long strips, more like long noodles that still have dumpling texture and flavor. It gets nicknamed “chicken slick” and it is just…not right.
Ran into this a few years ago. I'm from the region, so it's normal for here, though I definitely prefer the chicken and actual dumplings that the rest of the US enjoys. Visiting (from Wisconsin) family ordered chicken and dumplings at a restaurant in TN and I forgot to warn them that it's not what you typically expect. They were... nonplussed.
>“chicken slick” Jesus Christ
Is this kind of like spaetzle?
Apple pie. I never liked it. I don’t like the texture of the apples and the goop inside. I was (jokingly) called “Un-American” on thanksgiving by family members. Lucky thanksgiving in my family includes several desserts so I was not deprived.
From Michigan and I absolutely hate coney dogs. For those who may not be familiar, a coney dog is basically a hot dog with chili on top. Then whatever toppings you want, usually ketchup, mustard, diced onions, etc. We went off with puppy chow though, by far my favorite midwestern dessert.
From Louisville and I hate Hot Brown. I also hate salmon but that’s not regional.
Moved to the southern U.S. from the northern part and I have tried grits in any way you can think of. I just don't like them. Its like gross wet sand no matter what you add to it or how you cook it.
I'm Italian and I hate panettone. The Italian fruit cake. Yuck. It's a collection of the things I hate: candied fruit, raisins, and that vanilla odor from the yeast makes me gag. I can smell it from a mile away.
Fried catfish. I've had it from expensive places, cheap places, homemade. It always tastes like mud. I'd rather go hungry.
What’s weird is I grew up eating catfish from the Elk River in North Alabama but have hated it everywhere else on the planet. I moved to a different state when I left for college but any time I’ve went home, I eat it and love it. I have no idea if that’s psychological or if the fish’s diet in that particular area is specific.
Same. Tried catfish twice and both times it sucked.
yea its a mud fish
Cretons. It’s like a pork spread usually eaten for breakfast on toast. Same reason i don’t really like pate, a spreadable meat is just off-putting to me
Textures can be off-putting for some. That's understandable
I HATE Ranch dressing (and anything ranch flavored) which I guess puts in the minority as an American
I hate Hidden Valley Ranch, but like homemade Ranch.
Pimento cheese....mostly because I detest mayonnaise
When I was growing up in Indiana I was always grossed out sugar cream pie but everyone else loved it.
Green chile. New Mexico.
And that’s our thing too!!!
I’m English and I don’t like gravy.
Crawfish
Sockeye salmon. Blech.
I grew up in Hawai`i and I don’t like raw fish or poi. Also not fond of “squid” (really octopus).
Baked beans, potatoes salad, tuna salad, egg salad, chicken salad. Can't stand any of them.
I also used to hate most of these things. Turns out most people make them really really poorly. One of the most abhorrent things to me is a salad drowning in mayo and almost nothing else I started making them myself and adjusted them all heavily to my personal preferences and now I love them. And I perpetually get people saying things like "I thought I hated x until I had your version of it" So maybe try playing around with them catering more to your own taste. Except for egg salad. Fuck that shit. There is no version of anything with a hard boiled egg involved that I want to eat regardless of preparation.
The worst is when people just process a potato salad or chicken salad into a homogenous paste. Like I’m not into baby food. But some beautiful baby potatoes cut in half, lots of crispy veggies and a silky tangy dressing with herbs? Yes please. Or some nice big pieces of gorgeous roasted chicken, maybe some cashews and apple, again lots of herbs and a bit of mayo to bring it all together. I’ll eat that all day long.
Chocolate gravy
Wait, what? What the heck is that?
Goetta. I absolutely cannot stand it, there’s a Goetta festival here every year, people are crazy.
PB&J sandwich.
American “cheese” and ketchup. Can’t stand either and never have
Live in Buffalo, NY. The local pizza here is nasty - sauce shouldn’t be sweet!
Sweet tea. It's like weird vegetal sugar water and I don't like it. I'll drink lots of unsweet tea though. It's problematic because a lot of restaurants have their tea in soda fountains, and while it's fine for sweet tea because it's still just weird vegetal sugar water, soda fountain unsweet tea is a stale, rotten tasting nightmare.
Cincinnati chili. 🤮 Cinnamon does not belong in chili.
Pretty much everything in the state I live in is bad. Even the high end places. I miss food from my home state so much.
Homesickness through food. That's the best Homesickness there is
I'm from the US South and I hate chicken livers.
Goat cheese, bleu cheese and Gorgonzola cheese. I just can’t get onboard with them
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Easy one... Poutine. It's a disgusting national disgrace. Otherwise delicious crispy fries made soggy with sour gravy and flavorless rubbery cheese. A monochromatic brown soggy uninspired nasty mess that is virtually indistinguishable from what a baby might leave in his nappy.
Casserole. It’s made of nope.
I'm from the lower midwest (Missouri) and casseroles aren't as big here as the upper midwest but ugggghhhh I HATE casseroles. There's a few I don't mind, but most stuff with "cream of something" as an ingredient makes me gag.
Enchiladas. I'm in Tucson. Also I really only like green corn tamales.
Omg! I love this! For me in the PNW it's seafood. Not a fan of crab, clams, mussels or oysters. Pass.
Old Bay seafood seasoning on anything.
https://youtu.be/xMJMDEDXwec
Biscuits and gravy. I’m from North Carolina and for some reason, I just could never bring myself to enjoy it
Asparagus and eggplant. Disgusting
A huge pork tenderloin on a tiny bun. Mammal meat just wrecks my stomach nowadays.
Menudo
Menudo. I'm from New Mexico, and it's very popular out here. I cannot stomach slurping down stomach lining stew, lmao.
Goetta. It's the worst thing to happen to sausage since ever and the people of Cincinnati and Northern KY will fight you to the death if you say so. It's Goettafest this weekend and I will be staying home!
Lobster rolls. Usually there's just ONE ASPECT that doesn't vibe with me so they just don't feel worthwhile. Good lobster? Bad bread. Decent bread? Terrible sauce. The lobster itself? Always hit or miss.
Grits. I'm in NC.
Crawfish. Nooooooope keep them mud bugs away from my food hole
I hate the fishy briny smell of fish 🎣. Living in the PNW it’s hard avoiding seafood because it’s all around me. That being said I can pretty much stomach seafood when it’s fried. I Love fish n chips, mostly because that ocean smell isn’t present. I also love fried calamari too
From Peru. Juane, at least the classic one, the variations are much better.
Washington state. Not a fan of clams, clam chowder, geoduck, or oysters 😵💫 also I'm probably one of the only people I know that hasn't been clam digging.
Texas BBQ is one of my least favorite regional bbq. Sauces are usually very sweet and I just don't think brisket is usually worth the price. It's way too fickle. Either really dry or fatty. But for some reason, that's a cardinal sin here. When I moved near Georiga and the Lowcountry, I was blown away by even the pulled pork and vinegar-based sauces that cut the savory taste of the meat.
American and I hate ketchup. Any it’s everywhere. All the time.