Food Preferences
Apr. 22nd, 2019 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorFood preferences are completely subjective so I don't get asking someone else if something tastes good when their taste preferences could be completely different from the asker's. I mean I guess if you know the person well enough to know they have similar tastes to you, but asking strangers always seems a bit weird. Like, what information does that give?
I do like to know very precisely what's in my food, and if I don't I often regret it because I'm very finicky and dislike a number of common foods (eg. onion, bell pepper, mint), but that information does a lot more to tell me if I'll like something than asking someone else whether they liked it.
Also I can never quite tell if statements about the objectively best-tasting foods or cooking methods are serious or not, even if I've at times acted as if I'm judging foods in an objective sense based on how I feel about them. I am always joking, though, even if I do think that if someone doesn't like a food in one recipe, it doesn't necessarily mean they would dislike it in others. I think a lot of standard US recipes, especially for vegetables, are just kind of boring and don't do enough to add flavor or satiation (a big problem with a lot of 'diet' or 'healthy' recipes).
But I mean if boiled vegetables with nothing added are awesome to you, you do you. Just don't try to feed that to me haha.
I do like to know very precisely what's in my food, and if I don't I often regret it because I'm very finicky and dislike a number of common foods (eg. onion, bell pepper, mint), but that information does a lot more to tell me if I'll like something than asking someone else whether they liked it.
Also I can never quite tell if statements about the objectively best-tasting foods or cooking methods are serious or not, even if I've at times acted as if I'm judging foods in an objective sense based on how I feel about them. I am always joking, though, even if I do think that if someone doesn't like a food in one recipe, it doesn't necessarily mean they would dislike it in others. I think a lot of standard US recipes, especially for vegetables, are just kind of boring and don't do enough to add flavor or satiation (a big problem with a lot of 'diet' or 'healthy' recipes).
But I mean if boiled vegetables with nothing added are awesome to you, you do you. Just don't try to feed that to me haha.
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Date: 2019-04-25 02:22 am (UTC)But yeah. And I have the opposite issue. While I do love a lot of foods, there are also some very common foods I hate. Like I have never acquired a taste for bell peppers. Doesn't matter if they're fresh or cooked, the biggest compliment I could give a dish with bell pepper is that I didn't in any way notice the bell pepper. Some people love bell peppers, though, and mostly people don't seem to feel as negatively about them as I do.
I do love vegetables like aspargus, cabbage, and brussels sprouts, though(esp. brussels sprouts!).