The Vegetables you HATE
 

What vegatables do you absolutely hate and will not eat, maybe not even be willing to pick it out of the food that was prepared.

I pretty much will eat a vegatable if it's prepared and sunk into my meal somehow.

I don't reallly care fro water chestnuts, and bamboo shoots, but I'll eat them.

But my most hated vegetable... Canned peas. WILL NOT EAT.

I love peas, but canned ones????? Yuck!

Oh, I LOVE water chestnuts and bamboo shoots, especially in curries!!! :love:

However, I have always, always disliked fresh onions. I can eat them in cooked food, but otherwise I dislike them. I know, that makes me a little weird.

Overall, I don't have anything against most vegetables... I just don't eat them enough, with my Americanized carb-and-meat-overloaded diet. I don't hate 'em... I just don't love 'em. Ktsp grew up eating tons of vegetables in the Mediterranean, and "not eating vegetables" was simply never an option. He chows down on them like a rabbit, any time he gets the chance. :) I hope we can instill the same love for veggies in our kids, because I don't want them to eat like I do when they're almost 30!!! :lol:

I don't like peas unless they are cooked into something else (soup, stew, etc.). I also can't stand brussels sprouts.. which sucks for Crompsin because they're one of his favorite vegetables. ;) I like most of the other vegetables I have encountered.

My dad eats canned peas religiously. One of his favorite things to eat is canned peas, boiled potatoes, and beef gravy all mixed together. I think it's disgusting. I won't eat canned peas.

However, I'll eat just about every other vegetable in existence. I can't think of a vegetable I don't like. I love Brussels sprouts, I love cabbage, I love beets, etc. Eggplant is bad if it's cooked wrong, but if it's cooked right I like it. I adore lima beans; I have fond childhood memories of eating lima beans in the succotash with my hot lunch in elementary school. I love bamboo shoots sliced thinly in hot and sour soup. Yum.

I am not really selective when it comes to food and I like to try anything new. I don't particularly care for peppers in my food, but I can deal with picking them out if I had to. I don't really like any canned veggies. I prefer them fresh, but live with frozen due to the convenience.

Oh god! How can I forget I don't like BEETS!!!!!!!!! not at all.... making everything all purply pink!!!

Beets I can deal with, though not my favorite. Borscht, though? YeccchhhH!

Love all the rest with one exception. I can't stand celery. I'll use it to make a soup base, but that's all. Not with chicken wings, not with peanut butter. And don't think about chopping it into my tuna or dicing it into my salad. :dead:

And no canned veggies, please.

I love Beets!

Canned beans are disgusting. They are all mushy and pale sickly green. I can stand the aversion to canned peas, the texture is just so mushy. nastyness.

Oh yeah, I can't even stand it in a soup base. All forms of celery sicken me. :dead: is right on!!! :lol:

Radishes. Radishes are spicy dirt, nothing more.

oh right... alfafa sprouts. why put dirt on your sandwich or salad?

I'm a repressed veggie hater apparently.

:mad: Oh yeah? Do you eat taters?

Don't be hatin' on my radishes. :orly:

Vegetables are good :). Like Abaya says, I chow down on them like a rabbit :).
However, there are a few that I don't like. Green peas, and eggplant. I think the eggplant thing is due to some repressed childhood food trauma.. That's too bad because it prevents me from eating a bunch of things like Baba Ganoush.

And yeah. Don't diss radishes!

I love vegetables which is funny cause I am a hardcore meat eater. But maybe I'm just laid back and open minded.

Ooh, yeah, water chestnuts I am not too fond of unless they are finely chopped. But I can't think of any other veggies I don't like.

I've broadened my horizons this year, and absolutely love some stuff that I wouldn't touch before... peppers, broccoli, carrots, and mushrooms, to name a few.

I still can't stand beets, onions, and brussels sprouts, though. Yech.

A lot of vegetables I find are not my favorite until I try them. Like brussel sprouts. They taste like salty chewy green, if that makes sense.

Broccoli is not my favorite unless in a sauce (and then really I prefer the taste of the sauce). Cauliflower is disgusting though a sauce can ameliorate it as well. Beets are unknown to me, but I avoid them like the plague for some reason. Beans aren't my favorite. I dunno what a radish tastes like but I'll try it (I love potatoes?). Never had alfafa sprouts. Peas are kinda gross but if they're mixed with rice and a meat or something I guess they're ok (sweet onions do a lot to help out peas). Water chestnuts aren't the best but there's a place for them in chinese food. I've never even heard of bamboo shoots, and lima beans are awful to the nth degree.

Raw carrots aren't the best but cooked ones are yum~. As far as I know every other veggie is fair game :D

Growing up I wouldn't eat vegetables... I would only eat peas, corn and potatoes. That was it.

I started eating vegetables in University and now I eat just about everything. The only one I haven't conquored is brussel sprouts. They are just three kinds of foul.

Does coconut count? Also, cooked carrots. A mushy, stringy, too-sweet lump of nasty. And kale, all leathery and bitter.

i will not eat tomatoes

learning to like onions and cucumber. i'm branching out!

Any canned vegetable, beets, turnips and kale are about the only ones I won't eat.

I love vegetables...for the most part. I an't stand beets (disgusting) and canned peas!!! I like peas...but they have to be fresh. I can't think of anything else that I don't like...I think anything in a can is sketchy....if you pour the veggies or fruit out of the can there is this erodescent film in the juice....it's nasty. I'm sure it's something that causes cancer...haha...like everything else!

For those who hate beets... have you ever tried roasted beets? They are so much better than boiled and pickled.

jicama.
Granted, I will eat it if hungry and nothing else is available, but I will leave them to the side if given other options. Luckily my husband can't get enough of this crispy white-fleshed root.

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(photo came from this vegetarian cooking blog)

I don't really have much of an opinion on beets and some other vegetables because I have honestly only had them a few times that I can remember.

I enjoy many vegetables, but water chestnuts.....

asbolutely.

fucking.

disgusting.

Public Service Announcement: Crompsin's mouth is a safe haven for vegetables everywhere.

I used to hate brussel sprouts as well because my mom used to only boil or steam them and they were just so nasty bitter.

However, we went to a dinner party once and the hostess prepared brussell sprouts and they were really good. What she did was cut them in to halves and fried them in a bit of butter and olive oil with chopped bacon and onion. No bitterness at all and they were really yummy. We eat them all the time now but only like this.
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For beets I am posting an awesome, awesome recipe on another thread. I can not reiterate how awesome this recipe is.

So what you're saying is that Terry Shaivo's parents should have contacted you as a last resort?

And lima beans have always made me gag, regardless of how they're prepared.

I still remind my mom of her failed experiment with "cajun broccoli" in 1987. But I do like the stuff otherwise.

Another one here who detests brussels sprouts.

Pretty much everything else I will eat.

I actually like beets, with the right seasoning they taste awesome.

Here is my favourite beet recipe:

Peel and wash 3-4 beets and boil them in water with some salt and vinegar added to it.
Remove from the stove when hot. Drain and leave to cool completely in the fridge.
Slice the beets into round thin slices and place in a bowl.
Very finely chop 2 cloves of garlic. Add to the beets.
Sprinkle the beets liberally with oregano.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Thoroughly douse in olive oil and plenty of vinegar.
Serve and enjoy.

This does give you garlic breath but it tastes heavenly!

All of them.

Beets steamed and eaten with a little butter, salt and pepper is just heavenly as well.

The beet greens are also really good sauteed with garlic.

I can handle almost any vegetable raw, but cooked is another story. Some examples are spinach, cabbage, and peas. Just thinking about cooked spinach makes me gag!

hmmm lets see
Beans of any kind except green beans
peas of any kind except for snow peas
brussels sprouts (though the recipe above sounds interesting)
cooked onions, squash, zucchini, celery, love them raw though
eggplant
avacado in any form

I think thats pretty much it.....I love just about all other ones


I used to hate asparagus until I figured out its the gross canned asparagus my mother used to fix that I hated, I LOVE it steamed/grilled

I do not eat canned vegetables except when I cook with canned tomatos. Canned veggies tend to be mushy and flavorless. I've only had canned beets so I can't say if they are good fresh, but the canned ones are disgusting.

I hate, hate, HATE bell peppers. They are straight from the devil, I tell you.

I'm meh towards cauliflower, cabbage, lima beans, and any type of leafy green except spinach. I've found kale, collards, and mustard/turnip greens to be a bit bitter for my liking, but I will eat them.

Other than that I love veggies. Especially asparagus, broccoli, mushrooms, and squash. And add another to the love water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. They are the first things eaten from my Chinese takeout.

Do mushrooms count? I know they're a fungus but generally are considered a veggie and I can't stand them, although I like the flavor in some things like a mushroom broth. It's a texture thing.

Zuccini, most greens, eggplant, brussel sprouts, beets, turnips (but I love rutabaga's), radish's, horseradish and raw snap peas are my least liked.

I don't like raw cauliflower or broccoli but I love both when cooked. I abhor canned asparagus but love it fresh. I guess I'm the lone one here that actually (gasp) likes canned peas.:eek: Corn too. I'm not very fond of raw tomatoes but we go through an insane amount of canned in our cooking.

I did have eggplant parm once that was really good and brussel sprouts that I enjoyed but haven't been able to achieve that at home, maybe they were cooked like Daval explained, I'll have to try again.

I know I forgot something...

Just say no to beets.

I see something of a trend here, because I cannot stand peas or brussel sprouts. Although I'd be willing to try Daval's version. I have a feeling butter, bacon and onion would make just about anything palatable. Also, ironically, I love pea soup.

I'm mostly OK with beans, but the larger the bean, the less I like them, kidney and lima tent to be my least favorite.

Any overcooked and mushy vegetable is just plain bad. I hated just about every vegetable when I was a kid because, apparently, my mom didn't know how to cook them any other way. Maybe my dad liked them that way? /Barf!

That's funny MC, I meant to say the same thing, butter, bacon and onions would probably make rawhide taste good!:thumbsup:

You also reminded me of what I knew I was forgetting to say, unlike alot of people I happen to love lima beans. I love pinto, great northern (navy), butter and kidney beans also but I don't like black beans, black-eyed peas or garbonzo's. Sadly, I just can't enjoy hummus even though I'd like to.:sad:

I can't believe you said this...and I chuckled at it. We're going to hell.


Veggies? There's this leafy vegetable that my parents eat with rice vermicelli and egg roll and other Vietnamese food. I don't know the English word for it, but in Vietnamese, it's "rau dep ca," which means "fishy leafy vegetable." True to its name, it smells like fish. I hate...that...shit. I've never eaten it before, but I still hate it because of the barf-inducing stench.

I'm able to stomach everything else I've tried.

Short list for me. Beets and cooked spinach. Oddly enough I love fresh spinach in salads or sandwhiches.

rather short for me as well:

ironically: belgian endive/witloof (I had to specifically look up what the name of this is in the US, only to find out you use the same name?)

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My grandparents are/were farmers specialised in it, so while growing up I think I had them at least 2 times a week.
I really don't like the taste anymore. It's like wet sloppy slightly bitter, mostly tasteless muck. grrr

Does anybody make these in the US though? I've read and seen enough US exports. That I didn't know the word yet in English makes me think it's not all that popular.