The one I really, really hate is Sprouts. (http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif) (http://hticons.homestead.com/files/pukeon.gif)
Next is parsnips.
Celery
Beetroot and Cucumber :P
I forgot celery, that is truly disgusting.
I do'nt like turnips, but i do like swede ?? When i was younger i did'nt like lots of things, broad beans, runner beans, parsnips, sprouts.. which were grown for us by my dad. But now i absolutley love them all, especially broad beans.. :P
Celery but only if it is cooked XX Jeannine
Broad beans....which is a pain as they are one of DHs favourites.....so I guess Ill have to get to like them as he wants me to grow him loads ::)
Celery, Melon and Fennel. Salad leaves are bearable but ultimately just boring space fillers.
1. Broad beans
2. Broad beans
3. Broad beans!!!!
Absolutely, totally & completely cannot stand!!!!
CC
Celery
Celery
Celery
People who like it say it has no smell but I can smell it 100 yards away.
celery and sprouts yuk
I've had to take parsnips off my list recently after developing a taste for them.
However, I don't like celery, pak choi, chicory or cucumber.
:) Steve
chard and cale. and sweetcorn - i still grow that though cos the kids love it.
Squash!
not much struck on raw celery - smells like washing up liquid to me - but my take on food is, if it's cooked and put in front of me, i'll eat it !
i've a couple of mates though who are really strange. one won't do garlic at all, and the other avoids veggies at all cost.
neither grow their own. perhaps there's a lesson in that.
;D
Celeriac :P
but unfortunately every other person in the family dislikes something different making meals a faff
Turnips and celery and not very bothered about mixed salad leaves either, I'd rather have a crispy lettuce.
There are loads of things I have never tasted like turnip, pak choi and a few others so can't comment on those. Things I have tried and hate include broad beans, raddishes, cucumber and celery but the OH loves them so guess what.....
Woppa
Turnip, celery, radish :P
cj :)
Rocket ewww yuck !!!
Aubergine and okra and pumpkin
It's only strong tasting lettuce that I don't like. I like everything else if its cooked properly
Only just come round to beetroot and then I prefer it hot. (I blame school dinners) I love all veg, but fussy family are a pain.
chickory and endive!
How can you dislike Broad Beans Carrot-Cruncher? I've worked out I'm going to be growing 125 broad bean plants this year.
Why dont you visit for a broad bean stew?
;)
It is the skins of broad beans that have that nasty taste no matter how young !
still my 4 rows look brilliant
I can't stand sprouts or celery, OH of course loves both ::)
Celery's getting a bad press, isn't it?
My highlight of last summer was turning up at a garden party late, discovering the chocolate fountain with all the dips round it gone.....but there was a plate of celery.
You can get a lot of chocolate into the grooves in a celery stalk ;D
I didn't know I didn't like chard until I grew it last year. Chewy and bitter - or was that just the way I grew it??
broad beans, cucumber yuck
mushrooms give me a headache
Chicory... bitter - bleurgh! That's about it, really. Oh and MUSHROOMS!! How could I forget my intense dislike, yes maybe even HATE for these disgusting fungus.
:-X
Hate with a passion, any type of spinach, chard, kale, or anything else like it. Don't mind cabbage though.
Also dislike mixed salad leaves, especially the ones with red in. They seem so bitter. Much prefer a nice crisp cos.
Dislike overcooked broccoli, but will eat it if its hot but still nearly raw.
Kale (urk) Aubergine (bleugh) Courgettes (ick) :P
Pumpkin - pointless, inedible rubbish.
Not sold on fennel either.
I think courgettes have a bullying, uncooperative nature.
Jerusulam Artichokes. Absoloutley minging :P
Quote from: carrot-cruncher on February 23, 2007, 01:58:42
1. Broad beans
2. Broad beans
3. Broad beans!!!!
Absolutely, totally & completely cannot stand!!!!
CC
I'm with carrot cruncher
Actually they're ok with parsley sauce, so long as you pick them out and just have the sauce ;D
Tomatillos - but are they fruit?? - and kohl rabi.
Beetroot and celery, yuc!
Tomatoes, radish, beetroot pickled and broad beans. :'( ;D ;D ;D
Broad beans, broccoli, aubergine.
Cooked carrots, cauli, cabbage (love them all raw).
Still making my mind up about courgettes.
Quote from: Chantenay on February 23, 2007, 13:06:06
I think courgettes have a bullying, uncooperative nature.
ROFLMAO !!!
Well apart from tomato `Moneymaker`(is it edible?) ;) The only other edible plant I will pass on is Salad Burnet
Broad Bean skins, Rover?
Young ones don't have them (you can eat the pod too!) &, with old ones, you just pop'em out of the skin, as they do in all the best places.
As to dislikes, I don't eat anything I don't like so I'm fireproof!!
Quote from: pye on February 23, 2007, 15:30:29
Still making my mind up about courgettes.
cut into chunks, toss in olive oil, smear over tomato sauce (ketchup will do) and some chilli sauce (or your leftover gazpacho). Bake in a 200degC oven for around 25mins
- gives courgettes a whole new dimension!
rocket as well and PUMPKIN.. :P, forgot..marrow
I love everything and eat masses of it all - except cooked celery! Am having a love affair with fried sweet potatoes at the moment and have 15 healthy little slips in pots. Haven't tried salad burnett, love rocket, coriander, bit cautious about sage.........
1. BROAD BEANS - The Devil's earwax
2: OKRA - Like eating cooked slugs
3: CELERY - Bleeeeuuurchhhhhh. A pointless, vile-tasting green thing.
4: CHILLIS - If I wanted to burn my insides I'd swallow a firelighter and a lit Swan Vesta. Ridiculous items.
Beetroot - can't remember what it tastes like but used to be fed it as a kid, anything that makes your wee change colour is just wrong.
I didn't expect so many replies, I had forgotten about Broad beans, I don't like them either.
QuoteYou can get a lot of chocolate into the grooves in a celery stalk
That is GROSS. :P
Broad beans in their pods, save the bother and glug fairy liquid instead.
Tomatillos, cheesy baconey and vile.
Kohl Rabi - whats the point?
Patty Pans - whats wrong with a good old marrow then?
Peas - easier out t'freezer.
Thats my 2 pence worth, oh and Celery of course...
I'm a member of both TACS and TABBS
The Anti Celery Society & The Anti Broad Bean Society. They're free to join and you get free counselling if you accidentally swallow either of these vile creations of nature.
Also, you get free car bumper stickers:
'My Other Car was Bought by Someone Who likes Celery' and 'Broad Bean on Board - Please Alert The Vegetable Police'
And you all call yourselves Vegetable Growers??
I'd go back to the buttie bar!!
I don't dislike any vegetables that i've tried! Perhaps that's why my house is currently inundated with veg seeds ready for the plot ;D ;)
You can even eat the seeds. Or their sprouts!!
many thanks to dtw for a very entertaining thread.
makes you wonder how the seed companies make a profit with all these pet hates.
i'd not tried broad beans since kinderhood until i grew them last year and thought they were fabby ! and i just love sprouts.
i must be getting old.
8)
I'd have to go along with the crowd and say celery (though i don't mind it in vege soup) and cucumber.
I used to hate Broad beans until my ex-mother-in-law cooked them for me and she used the young tender ones and didn't cook them till they were brown!
My mother used to put all her vege on at the same time so green=brown which was a real shame as she grew them all.
Oh I also hate with a passion silver beet which I think is called Chard here, but that really tastes disgusting green or brown!
Those people who hate squash and pumpkin are eating the wrong ones my husband told me he hated it then when we went to NZ I gave him the ones eaten there (now available here) buttercup/kaboucha and now he will fight for the last piece.
I think a lot of the time its down to a bad experience or not cooking them properly. My girlfriend puts the dreaded celery through bolognese and its brilliant.
does "heavily disguised" count ? :P
definitely agree on the cooking thing. ;D
I havn,t tried some of those mentioned I just know I don,t like them from instinc
I,m not keen on celery and I,v found I don,t fancy veg that aren,t the right colour
black potatoes purple cauli ,like red cabbage though red sprouts uhh er never tried them just know
margaret ???
I have to agree with Kea. There are hundreds of different squash and they all taste different. I collect the seeds and I have a very big collection and have grown dozens of varieties over the years,but each year I find a differnt flavour, there is such a tremendous difference in taste, texture and colour, so much so that sometimes it is hard to believe they are the same veggie. XX Jeannine
Asparagus.........doesn't matter how fresh it is or what you dip it in, yuk... :P
Well I like my celery cooked or uncooked. Tinkie purple wee, sounds fun might give the old beetroot one last try. :-[ ;D ;D ;D
Oh children, children, bring me your old, your poor and your CELERY !!!
(better yet, leave out the old and the poor)
Send me your seeds, your plants, your produce... er... you get the picture.
YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM !!!
And take from me that spawn of Beelzebub that is called... CORIANDER
celery and broad beans...
There's nothing I don't like. It all depends on how they are prepared and presented. Broad beans are amongst my favourites. Baby broad beans with garlicky roast lamb is to die for. I also do a broad bean and baby plum tomato "stew" with fresh thyme that I would go to the end of the earth for. I do remove the skins from the beans though, which is a bit of a tedious task, but then the end product is unbelievably delicious. Not my recipe but Nick Nairn's.
Hi Corneykev,if you are interested in colouring your tinkles, asparagus does a good job of changing it too I heard years ago,just can't remember exactly what. Bet someone does XX Jeannine
Apparently children have to be persuaded to put a new food in their mouths 5 times & they will start to like it [personally I'm not convinced]. For adults it takes 21 [or somesuch] times. Well I've tried beetroot at least 5 times recently & still hate it - just need another 16 & I should start to like it.
last summer i didn't know that beetroot came in any other variety apart from pickled and i HATED that.
but since EJ has taught me how to roast them, i'm going to grow lots more this year.
apart from the b. awful mess they make of your washing up gloves, they're quite nice !
;D
Quote from: Jeannine on February 23, 2007, 21:33:23
Hi Corneykev,if you are interested in colouring your tinkles, asparagus does a good job of changing it too I heard years ago,just can't remember exactly what. Bet someone does XX Jeannine
Makes it pong something awful :-[
Quote from: theothermarg on February 23, 2007, 19:07:08
I havn,t tried some of those mentioned I just know I don,t like them from instinc
I,m not keen on celery and I,v found I don,t fancy veg that aren,t the right colour
black potatoes purple cauli ,like red cabbage though red sprouts uhh er never tried them just know
margaret ???
I bet if you were blindfolded you'd like them as much as the green ones. I think I would trust my tongue before my instinct.
I have a wonderful recipe for beetroot bread. The loaf turns out a nice pink colour & my niece who used to be funny about eating bread can't get enough of it.
Quote from: MrsKP on February 23, 2007, 21:50:23
last summer i didn't know that beetroot came in any other variety apart from pickled and i HATED that.
but since EJ has taught me how to roast them, i'm going to grow lots more this year.
apart from the b. awful mess they make of your washing up gloves, they're quite nice !
;D
KP - try some of the golden/white varieties no red mess
i may just have to get a packet ... or two ! :P
Curly kale. I was once ( ;)) invited for a meal by a male friend who was proud of his home grown veg and watched as he merrily skimmed off hundreds of green caterpillars as they floated to the surface. :o (Can't bear to think what happened to those that didn't manage to escape from the crinkliest bits.)
And okra. Has all the flavour of boiled caterpillar and the texture of boiled slug.
I really dislike tarragon and corriander!
I don't think there are any veg that I strongly dislike. Given the choice, I probably won't take cooked or pickled beetroot (although it's nice grated into salads), and some of the coarser leaves like chard and kale don't hit the high notes.
Sadly, as I've got older, I can no longer eat jerusalem artichokes, which I love. As granny used to say, I like them but they don't like me. (I won't go into details, eh?)
I really cannot think of any vegetable I dislike. I think any vegetable can be good if it's in a suitable dish and cooked properly. I thought I hated celery for a long time since I was a kid but realised I actually like it when I had fresh, properly peeled one a few years ago.
Having said that, there are things I wouldn't bother growing such as swedes, which I can happily live without. ::)
Nope...have sat here reading the thread, and thinking of all the veggies that there are....and I can honestly say there are no veggies that I wouldn't eat. I'm not crazy on flots of ennel, but cooked proplerly, of shaved thinly, and in small portions, delicious. Nope....I love broad beans, like celery, love my greens, adore roots, love corn......coriander only over a jalfrazee......nope, I loves my veg!
Can't stand carrots (unless raw) onions (unless pickled) swede, turnip, parsnip. Love all green veg. Never tasted any variety of squash but might try some this year, threw last years away ::)
Lorna
QuoteNever tasted any variety of squash but might try some this year, threw last years away
:o D Did you throw many away? I bet you will kick yourself when you try them this year and reaalise how nice they are .
cj :)
Well, my sister always reckoned that if you trod on my foot my head would fly open, but fennel - no way!!
valmarg
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D imagination working overtime here. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Valmarg, I am going to have to try and remember that one, I am sitting here chuckeling, I know plenty of people who are human pedal bins !!!
Brilliant.
Helen
Chicory has to be the most god awful stuff on the planet! eat pretty much everything else except tinned toms the slippery little suckers!! the 'spurt' of juice when ya poke them eugh! awful little things!! :-X
just remembered another one aubergines blergh! mind you in their defence only had them once in a slimey concoction think it was goulash or something like that but they were foul! :-X
see, i just love aubs in moussaka. however, i once went to greece had the local dish there and it was b. horrible !
put me off greece, didn't put me off aubs !
;D
that was it moussaka not goulash ;D and like a dish of slime
slime with texture ?? :D
well it was about 15 years ago but think there were such delecacies as a few grisley bit of mince! ooh its sounding better by the second cant see why i didnt like it!! ;D
I like most veg, but loath and detest sprouts. OH on other hand has a ridiculous list: celery, broccoli, sprouts, cabbage, rhubarb, radish, tomatoes (something to do with the seeds I think) and pears.
Quote from: mc55 on February 27, 2007, 15:07:54
OH on other hand has a ridiculous list: celery, broccoli, sprouts, cabbage, rhubarb, radish, tomatoes (something to do with the seeds I think) and pears.
I love the flavour of rhubarb, but can't bear the way it makes my teeth feel furry. :-\
Get the same thing with coke.
carolinej I had never grown them before, really did it for a giggle and to see how I got on. I suppose I threw 8/9away. Was quite pleased with my first pumpkin results as well.
Lorna
Hi all, :)
I`ve been a veggie for over thirty years, a long time before it became
fashionable. I was raised on organic veg grown in the garden when that
wasn`t so unusual. I enjoy food and I can`t imagine not liking a vegetable.
I think the answer lies in the preparation and combination of foods. (Cooking skills) We are fortunate that we can start with good quality ingredients.
Col