Alright, time for a silly thread. What, in your opinion, is the most horrible vegetable known to mankind? The veggies that you'd feed to your dog, the veggies you'd slide under your placemat, the veggies you'd divide into individual sections on your plate so it looked like there were a lot fewer of them... ANYTHING but choking them down at dinner.
I've got two myself. The first one is beets. My mom tells me that baby beet food was the one thing I'd spit up as a baby. The idea of griding up beets for baby food and feeding them to an innocent infant who's never done a THING in its short life (ok, except maybe keep its parents up all night screaming, and the occasion spit-up) is deserving of being banished to the Island of Perpetual Tickling (ref: Veggie Tales. GET IT? HAHAHA... ok sorry). To this day I still think beets must have a main ingredient of mud as that's more or less what they taste like to me. However, I have managed in my old age to be able to eat them without gagging. An impressive feat if I do say so myself.
But the vegetable that takes the cake (or rather should stay very far away from cakes) is the artichoke heart. What can I say? I cannot eat these things, they are awful. It's like some combination of sauerkraut (which is not that fantastic), spinach (which is ok in very small amounts), and I don't know what else that makes them intolerable. So yeah, this is the winner of the gag-worth vegetable in the food kingdom as far as I'm concerned.
So what vegetable will you not go near with a 10-foot pole? (And for the sake of this thread, even though I know tomatoes are TECHNICALLY a fruit, you are more than welcome to include them here since most people (including myself) think of them as a veggie.) Feel free to defend your veggies if you see them being maligned for no good reason
Let the great vegetable bashing, slicing, dicing, mincing begin!!!!!
(And for the sake of this thread, even though I know tomatoes are TECHNICALLY a fruit, you are more than welcome to include them here since most people (including myself) think of them as a veggie.)
Technically anything with seeds is a fruit too So cucumbers, eggplants, bell peppers, squash, green beans, etc., are fruits.
But I will consider them veggies.
There actually aren't many veggies that I dislike, and there aren't any that I refuse to eat. But, I do think lima beans are rather unappetizing when they're soggy. Brussel sprouts aren't too tasty either. For some reason I find them... bitter.
*thinks very long and hard* Okay, I'll admit, I love most veggies (including raw broccoli and spinach), but I really don't like avocado (unless it's in a special kind of chocolate pudding my family makes, with bananas, carob powder, and avocado all blended together. That is good!). The rest of my family eats with mashed up with garlic and lemons. But I've never been a huge fan of it, for reasons I cannot exactly explain... anyways.
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To this day I still think beets must have a main ingredient of mud as that's more or less what they taste like to me.
Aw. I LOVE beets. I really can't imagine them tasting awful, they have such an interesting taste!
Hmm...I like all the "normal" vegetables--potatoes, carrots, beans, peas, etc. I refuse to eat tomatoes if they are cooked (but fresh I love them!). I guess most of the time I'm never forced to eat veggies I really hate so I don't know if I hate any...? XD When I was younger though, spinach was absolutly dreadful. I still don't like it but at least I don't have to eat it anymore. My mother made some kind of casserole that had a name my brother and I could never remember, so we called it "junk-junk for a crowd". It copious amounts of spinach in it amongst pasta and ground beef and we were always trying to pick the pieces of pasta that had the least amounts of spinach on them We also manged to slide most of that meal under our placemats/plates/napkins
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Beets are one of those things, like tomatoes and sweet corn, that taste far superior fresh from the garden than any other way.
I do like most veggies, though I've never had some that just don't grow well this far north (like kale or collard greens).
My vote goes for asparagus or brussels sprouts.
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fk, how I love your sense of humour! Yep, I remember Veggie Tales' Island of Perpetual Tickling. "Esther", right?
I probably like 90-95% of vegetables. I tend to enjoy/love some of the more unusual ones such as:
spinach *pokes Val*,
brussel sprouts *pokes MissA and stargazer* (both raw and cooked: in fact, I'm eating some raw as I type),
radishes,
lima beans,
asparagus *pokes 'gazer*,
beets *pokes fk* (cooked, not pickled->blech),
broccoli (though that's a more generally liked veggie, it seems),
mushrooms ♥ ♥ ♥ especially sautéed, but really, in any form whatsoever—cooked or raw (I'm part hobbit; what can I say? ),
cabbage,
okra (especially fried, 'though I'm not usually fond of fried food)
...as well as the more regulars: peas, beans, carrots, corn, and I adore fresh tomatoes, particularly from the garden (okay, okay, I know it's technically a fruit )—'though not tomato juice.
Ah, but wait, this topic is for those we find disgusting. I don't think I would actually gag at any of the following, but I am definitely not fond of:
parsnips and turnip,
nor rhubarb,
avocado *pokes Fanny*
or artichokes.
EDITED to remove fennel, as the most common type is an herb, but note that if there is any type of veggie licorice-tasting, I cannot abide being anywhere near it.
EDITED (again): I'm adding onions, because I cannot abide them raw ... but I love them cut up in tiny pieces in a cooked dish, sautéed.
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I really really really don't like squash and spinach (have some terrible memories of being forced to eat it) I also really don't like the type of cabbage that we eat in the winter (there probably is not official name for it, here it is called winter cabbage), it is very old and stale, in the spring and summer when cabbage is fresh and young it is very delightful. I'm not to fond of beet roots, but they are more or less tolerable
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Jo, after reading your post I think I discovered the vegetable I really really dislike --mushrooms! And it's funny, because I remember when I was little we'd get chinese food and it'd have them in it, and I LOVED them. But I can't stand them now. If I have a meal that has some in it, I'll always pick them out.
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Beets would have to top my list. Just smelling them makes me a little nauseated, and the pickled type (which is most popular in our house) is the worst. Ugh.
Which brings me to my beet story. When I was little, I saw something that looked like cranberry sauce on the salad buffet at a restaurant. So I took some. It was, without a doubt, the most awful cranberry sauce I have ever had in my life. One of the few times I didn't clean my plate. (Of course, it wasn't cranberry sauce at all, but y'all figured that out, right?)
I don't like avocado, but I mainly object to it on the grounds that it is a ...different... shade of green and tasteless.
I DO like most of the things on jo's list of dislike. I particularly like parsnips and turnips mashed up with potatoes and carrots and seasoned with cumin. Delicious! Make lots! It could then be served with rhubarb cobbler and peas. *is making herself hungry*
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Beets most definitly, I've never actually tasted one, but they smell aweful, so I wouldn't want too. If I even get a whiff of one cooking I feel sick, I'd almost rather smell a skunk (almost). And I would definitly rather smell just about everything else on this planet that I can imagine the smell of.
Some others that I don't like include lettuce, cabbage, peas, and green beans, because they're either to leafy or they have too much skin. I peel or cook just about all of my fruits and veggies because I can't stand the skin, the only exception is grapes, and even then I have to force the skin down.
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You don't like avocadoes? Seriously? But they're so good in guacamole--especially the kind that I have a special recipe for. I don't like them plain, though. They're so sliiiimy!
Horrendous...I'd have to say that the vegetable that I detest above all other vegetable is the Rutabega. Never heard of it? Be glad. Be very glad.
It's nasty. First, on the outside it looks like it's rotting, which turns one off, and second, the inside tastes as bad as anything. It's bright orange.
My mom chopped them up and put them into an awful creation known as pasty pie. I know, I know, pasties are good--but pasty pie is not. Completely different league. They were tough and tasteless and the only reason they went in is because my mom is an artist and she had to have "Color" in the food.
Yuck.
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Hate:
Parsnips (even the smell makes me queezy)
Eggplant (makes me puke when I see it)
Squash (I like it in breads but just eating it raw or mashed is torture)
Rutabega
Beets
Fennel (I cannot eat this. Just the smell makes me want to vomit. I don't even like licorice in the first place so...)
most root vegetables
Tolerate:
Peppers
Carrots (I only really enjoy them in cake or coleslaw)
Zuchinii
Onions
Spinach
asparagus
brussel sprouts
Love:
broccoli
mushrooms (in every which way, especially canned)
cucumber
avocadoes (I eat them in everything-sandwiches, wraps, with chips *happy sigh* )
those are all the vegetables I can think of at the moment...
nor rhubarb
😮 What, no rhubarb? How sad! *laugh* I absolutely love rhubarb... Rhubarb Dessert, Rhubarb Pies, Rhubarb Muffins... Ah.
Is that really counted as a vegetable? Hm.
Anyway. Least favorite vegetables would be: Olives, Mushrooms, and Asparagus I suppose. I can still eat them, I just don't really like them a lot.
Olives probably would be least favorite. But are they veggies?
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Can we count mushrooms, even though there techincally not even a plant? I never tried mushrooms, but I really don't want to either.
I'll eat brocolli (sp?) but it tastes pretty bland. I used to hate carrots, but now I love them (cooked of course) I forgot to mention that I hate corn, even cooked the skin is too thick, I don't even like popcorn.
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