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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: goodlife on June 05, 2010, 08:27:01
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There is only few veg that my mouth will not get used to eating..no matter how many time I've tried.. ::) One that I really dislike is celery..it just taste almost soapy to me, yak..I always end up picking it out from food...I like pickled beetroot but unpickled..yak..taste like hadfull of soil..so earthy and goes with chard too. I do grow chard as I looks good all the fandy colours ;D ..and if I don't eat it chickens will ;)..and then there is all aniseed flavours..like with fennels and tarragong...now I don't mind the taste but I assosiate it with sweet things so It just taste odd with savoury things.
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celerey. dont say that word .yuk,yuk
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I can't think of any vegetables that I dislike though there are some, such as purple sprouting, that I prefer to others.
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Asparagus. Yuck!....and artichokes, double yuck. Everything else I like and eat though, the only fruit I don't like is peaches, the furry skin makes me go funny but I like them peeled..... ::)
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Celery is horrible.....and I will hve to admit to being seriously courgettist. OH puts them on the plate anyway ;). Normally hidden under something else ::)
I'll eat almost anything else though ;D
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Celery is a staple in any soup mix. Try it with Leeks, Flat Leaf Parsley and Carrots.
One thing I had planned on growing was Artichoke but after a trip to Spain last year and tasting it, I think I'll give it a miss.
Nothing else really, anything I'm not overkeen on is always combined with other ingredients that enhances or disguises the flavour.
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I can't think of a vegetable I don't like.
But I hate caraway seeds - I was ill with some childhood disease like measles or something, after I'd eaten a cake with them in. Since then I've never been able to stand them.
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Not a real veg eater. Just like green veg, can't stand root veg but I do love carrots raw.
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Fennel, and anything else aniseed flavoured. ???
valmarg
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Not sure about aubergine. Never tried it so am trying to grow it this year. We shall see ;).
OH is very fussy but I like most things.
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If I don`t like it ,I don`t grow it. Well not twice anyway
Two things spring to mind.
1-Asparagus peas-nasty woody little buggars
2-Salad Burnet-it`s just not nice
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Parsnips, urgh we all hate them in this house, i dont like beetroot but im growing it because OH loves it. i gotta learn what to do with it at some point hahahaha.
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I like all veg, except horrible Artichokes Yuuuukkkkkkkkkkk.
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Chard and fennel. Most other things I do like, although I wouldn't eat a big bit of celery raw but it is ok in things.
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JAs and spinach :-X
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Celery - yuc, yuc, yuc. Need keen on beetroot either - tastes of mud.
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spinach and marrow, love celery ;D
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Cooked celery but I am still working on it XX Jeannine
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Celery, celeriac and kale :-X
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:o...I'm really suprised how many of us do not like celery,,,beetroot,,fennel...
..and I though it was just me and my 'funny' mouth.. ;D..oh well now we know what we do not recommend for others to grow... ;D
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I can't think of any vegetable I actually dislike. But there are quite a few I don't choose to eat that often: cabbage, for starters - although I love sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli in its various forms and even kale. I like beetroot, but only when it's young, and then only occasionally. Celery is OK - more of a herb than a vegetable.
But I love all the others. Only 5-a-day? I feel deprived if I've got less than that per meal!
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Parsnips, Beetroot and Swede.
(although I am growing a yellow beetroot to see if I like that, Burpee's Golden I think it is)
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I hate leeks, cabbage, radishes, spinach and asparagus. Not keen on onions or garlic. I like swede but my inside objects violently as it does with turnip. Not keen on peas except mangetout or very young ones straight from the pod. Not keen on many types of potatoes Maris Piper and Romano are disgusting. A small amount of lettuce or rocket goes a very long way.
I am not sure that if you do not like beetroot that the yellow ones are much different. If anything the beetrooty flavour is more intense. Choggia is a bit different you eat it raw.
I love beans, broccolli and cauliflowem tomatoes, carrots, parsnips, beetroot and desiree potatoes. And of course lots and lots and lots of courgettes I love braised celery and raw celery and any other celery.
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Celery, it's the most hated veg.
and sprouts.
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I really dislike slabs of cooked celery, the flabby sour taste of it. OK raw and crisp, or as an addition to soup in small slices.
Artichokes (globe?) seem to be really disliked, but are one of my favourites, especially the young delicate ones with no choke. Sadly most of mine died this winter, so I have started off a large new set from seeds (thank you those who sent me some).
Have never appreciated turnips, though mashed swede is all right. Asparagus peas are pointless, but I am surprised at how many people dislike real asparagus. A heaped plateful, lightly cooked, with a herby butter to dip them in, is wonderful.
Can't think of anything else I dislike - I could eat three meals a day of fresh green and coloured vegetables, squeeze of lemon, grating of nutmeg, a little butter and salt......
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sprouts and celery
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Chard and really hot chilli peppers.
Ninny
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Broad beans. Can't stand the texture, it's the only veg OH dislikes as well. Made for each other!
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i was wondering when the sprout haters would weigh in - gak! Hey didge, glad to find another picky veg-eater. I'm a northern girl so I didn't even know what a courgette was till I was in my twenties. Mostly, veg were no-go areas unless they came in a tin and even now, I don't eat brassicas, or asparagus or aubergine. Like celery but mainly grow loads and loads of spuds, tomatoes and onions. If I could grow biscuits though....
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Broad beans. Can't stand the texture, it's the only veg OH dislikes as well. Made for each other!
I can understand your dislike of broad beans, when you see what is for sale fresh in the shops. They are horrid, and even when blanched and skinned are no better.
For the past few years we have been growing Imperial Green Longpod, and picking them while the beans are very small and tender. A completely different animal. Would recommend them, even to hardened dislikers like you and your OH small ;D
valmarg
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Thanks, Valmarg, might give those a try - I love growing bb's (for my parents), I think they are really attractive to look at - any snags with Imperial Green Longpod?
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I don't eat Cauliflower any more because it gives me terrible trapped wind! I don't like aubergines. I will eat everything else cus my mum told me to eat my vegetable like a good girl :)
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I used to grow broadies for my mum in law until we found out she can't eat them as they make her anaemic :-\
not keen, myself
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Thanks, Valmarg, might give those a try - I love growing bb's (for my parents), I think they are really attractive to look at - any snags with Imperial Green Longpod?
Other than 'can't get enough' no snags. ;D Very good variety, with plenty of small green beans. Can thoroughly recommend.
valmarg
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Broad Beans but other half loves them so I am growing a few for him. :)
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Broad beans!!!
They're evil!
CC
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Have you cooked celery haters tried braising it in chicken stock? Luverly.
Nothing I don't like but some that don't like me...celeriac and jerusalem artichokes for a start. They give me chronic wind. :-X
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yeah i hate celery too, OH loves it tho but cant bring myself to grow that, does anyone else hate hate hate the smell of tomato plants or is that just me, lol. i love tomatoes but OH has to do anything involved with touching the plant cos i cant do it.
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With regard to broad bean-haters, I can uderstand their dislike, when you see what is on offer as fresh broad beans. The beans are so large, and when boiled and skinned they are horrid. Very good for fibre intake, but horrid.
If you grow your own bbs you are in charge of when they are picked. In our case with Imperial Green Longpod, we pick them when the bens are just showing in the pods. Very small juicy beans. I would defy the bb haters to dislike them.
valmarg
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omg I had no idea so many people hated celery!
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Amazed no one has mentioned kohlrabi and turnips. Horrible. And come to think about it don't like chicory either.
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This is not really a veg, but We do not like Coriander in any shape or form. Like people say taste buds are a funny thing, some things you like and others you do not.
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This is not really a veg, but we do not like Coriander in any shape or form. Like people say taste buds are a funny thing, some things you like and others you do not.
Know what you mean landimad. Horrid damp soggy rotten cardboard is the best description we can come up with for 'fresh' coriander. Yeuk.
Don't mind the seeds though.
valmarg
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They always seem to put it in the stir fry mix in the shops.
I am now starting to put my own together which does not have that nasty herb in it.
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...don't mind coriander...but sage is nasty one for my taste buds..and as being mixed in sausages...OH NO....I always have to read labels for it.. ::)
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can't stand aubergine, or lady's fingers.
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Oh dear I must be odd, I love celery and even celeriac within moderation. Crunchy raw dipped in creamy sauces and lovely in a milky soup.
The only thing I really don't eat is swede. Vile.
All other vegetables I wolf down. It usually depends on how you cook them though as to whether they are nice or gross. Boiled sprouts are disgusting, lightly steamed or cooked in their own juices in a thingy of butter and they are heavenly.
There are many veg that I don't grow however because I am the only one who eats it.. (like braod beans or kohlrabi, which is actually nice grated in a salad)
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I should have to say the fennel and coriander are my absolute no-nos
Apart from them, my sister always reckoned 'if you trod on my foot, my head would fly open. ;D
Theres not a lot veggie-wise I don't like
valmarg
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The only thing I can think of is chard stalks.......but I love the leaves. And just about everything else.
Oh and I'm not mad on Pink Fir Apples.......very disappointing.
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Which ever way you cook it okra/ladys fingers always have this slimy texture (yuk) - and I can't grow it either - why do I bother ???
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I just love celery good job we are not all the same I will only eat peas carrots [raw] and sweetcorn I grow a lot of veg which the OH enjoys [thank goodness] I also dont like toms cue radish will only eat beetroot if it is pickled WHO SAID I WAS FUSSY!!!!!!!!!
Lorraine
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don't bother growing marrow, too watery and never really know what to do with it and disliked the purple podded peas I grew - someone mentioned asparagus pea, that's a real waste of time but otherwise if it is growable and edible I give it a go ;D
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Oh year..that did remind me..purple podded peas..did grow them once..not nice..well mine were little bitter...nothing like 'normal' coloured peas.. ::)
...so just for fancy colour for pods...I haven't grown them since... ::)
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Can't think of any that I dislike. Vegetables make up a big part of my diet, apart from carb-heavy potatoes and legumes.
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Aubergines - nasty soggy texture. Cooked celery, though I like it raw and love celeriac. Swedes. Spinach makes my tongue feel furry but I like the green leaves of Swiss chard which doesn't have that effect on me. Sprouts are disgusting raw, creamed, steamed, any which way.
Love asparagus but not asparagus peas; artichokes both globe and Jerusalem; cooked beetroots with onions tomaties and cumin (Madhur Jaffrey), baked with garlic and olive oil or horseradish and cream or in soup or chocolate cake but not pickled; cabbage raw and cooked but not sprouts; broccoli, purple sprouting and cauliflower, beans of most descriptions; chicory but not endives, kohlrabi in salads but not cooked; peas: fennel; onions; garlic; carrots, parsnips, pumpkin; toms and chillies; salad leaves and so on.
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Apart from them, my sister always reckoned 'if you trod on my foot, my head would fly open. ;
got it! very funny ;D or as my Mum was called when she was young The Human Dustbin
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Struggling to think of anything I really dislike - I even eat aubergines now.
Can only think of Okra (really yuk) and tarragon.
Falling in love with seasonal veg again though since getting the allotment
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I like purple podded peas, but then we use them all in savoury dishes rather than as a little pile on the side of the plate.
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Are purple podded supposed to be a bit bitter..?
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Tinned ones! I hate mushy peas or overcooked peas. Baked beans. Celery I could do without. Salad is dull but fills a gap if its made interesting. Other than that I like everything. Strange how many people seem to dislike coriander, I love it. Aubergines are horrible unless they soak up a sauce. Swedes are lovely, so much nicer than turnips!
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goodlife, if you can taste bitterness in your purple-podded peas, you may be a supertaster, ie have more of the tastebuds that can detect bitterness. :P About a quarter of us are.
If you hated the taste of cabbage, sprouts and PSB as a child, it was probably the bitterness you were picking up on.
I'm a supertaster, too - it took me a very long time to acquire a taste for beer, but I got there in the end! Strange to think that nature doesn't allow us all to taste things on an equal basis...it's all in the genes.
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I've always eaten most, if not all, veg! :)
Spudbash you're lucky as I've always had a poor sense of taste which following the flu some years back become even worse! :(
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Are purple podded supposed to be a bit bitter..?
Sufficiently so to notice if you're eating full-sized peas raw. It varies from one variety to the next, but none of them are particularly sweet. If you're cooking them into a dish rather than separately, you wouldn't notice.
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I sympathise, Flighty. I imagine you will appreciate the texture of your veggies more than some of us do. I know the texture partly depends on cooking (or not cooking), but otherwise it alters with variety and degree of ripeness.
Perhaps you're best-placed to recommend which fruit and veg have a really good crunch or are silky-smooth or are particularly juicy, and so on? Personally, I love a really ripe pear... :)
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Spudbash thanks, it's interesting what you say and I'll think about it over the next few days when I'm eating.
I certainly like crisp, juicy apples, and firm not mushy bananas! 8)
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Supertaster... ;D..that sounds good... ;D
Oh I've always been bit of a 'dustbin'..even when kid...mind thoug..we never did eat brussels and broccoli when I was kid...those days things like that did not excist in Finland..cabbages yes..
Now you get anything and everything like in here. They don't even eat runner beans over there...they are grown as ornamental climbers for they flowers..nobody don't eat the pods.. ;D ::)
As for eating peas raw..well mine never get out of lottie gate..they get eaten there and then..never mind trying to cook some.. ::)
Thought of something else I don't like...raw parsley...aawwful...but cooked ..ok
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purple podded peas are always granular and more bitter than green ones. Thats the common thought.
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There are so many different ways to appreciate fruit and vegetables when you grow your own - colour, shape, flavour, texture...and the ones I haven't thought of yet! ;D
As for purple-podded peas, I'm reminded of this blog, which I think an A4A-er recommended some time ago. Someone here is looking to breed a decent-tasting purple-podded pea - see the posting for 31 May:
http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/ (http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/)
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That's a brilliant blog. The sweet-tasting modern peas are descended from a mutation that appeared around 1820, if I remember right. No reason why it shouldn't be combined with purple pods. The existing purple podded varieties are all field peas, bred for dried peas rather than fresh.
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yes the mealiness of the purple pea definitely has its place too.