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It is probably impossible to find a food that everyone loves, there will always be someone who hates it with all their heart. Even the most common things that a lot of recipes may contain. It is interesting how different people can eat the same thing, but have a different reaction to the taste or even perceive it differently. 

Even though the Latin maxim says that there is no point in disputing tastes, people love to give their opinions on food. Reddit user jamboamericano wanted to know people’s opinions on foods that are hyped up but “quite simply suck.” They received 3k responses so take a look at the most popular ones that quite a lot of people agreed on.

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People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Starbucks

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Elea Bell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Consistently mediocre, albeit overpriced. If I go there for a cup of tea, I know about what I'm going to get for four bucks. In most locations, most of the year, I can order white hot chocolate with peppermint and cinnamon, and get as much. It's a safe bet.

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    #2

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them I don't get the appeal of chili that is made to be as hot and spicy as humanly possible, to the point that it hurts to eat it. "I make my chili with the five hottest peppers known to man and a dash of snake venom to kick it up a notch" Why?

    That, and tofu.

    MiddleAgedGamer71 , Navin75 Report

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Overly spicy food is a no no. You cannot taste anything, and your bottomhole pays a dear price afterwards, all to appear macho!

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    #3

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Instagram food (so foods with so much added nonsense just for the sake of a photo, not for taste)

    fidessa16 , Meal Makeover Moms Report

    #4

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Caviar

    I feel like whoever buys that s**t doesn't actually like it and uses it to flaunt their money

    WapplesAreDelish , Matt Gibson Report

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    Powerful Katrinka
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is just silly. There are types of caviar that aren't expensive, particularly because you're not meant to shovel it in with a fork. I absolutely love caviar, and it has nothing to do with showing off or being rich (I'm not).

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    #5

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Vegan cheese

    MaybeParadise , Veganbaking.net Report

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like all kinds of cheeses, I have tried vegan cheese out of curiosity. They have not got it yet. Close, but in a disgusting way.

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    #6

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Oysters, I've never tried them and I never want to, they just look like big boogers to me, sorry for the mental image.

    CarrotxCat , Charlotta Wasteson Report

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    T.Milly
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love them.... little bit of garlic & fresh squeezed lemon juice = yum!

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    #7

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Pickled eggs, pickled pigs feet, etc. Can't do it nope.

    chaosoftime10 , Amy Ross Report

    #8

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Macarons. Expensive air cookies that still manage to stick to your teeth.

    AhAhStayinAnonymous , mangocyborg Report

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    #11

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Lutefisk

    JHCNotanotherUserID , mtcarlson Report

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    Robert T
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking", if you're wondering.

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    #12

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them As someone from the UK I don't get why so many people here love mushy peas. I find peas relatively tasteless and gross as they are, mushing them just makes the texture gross as well

    MHC1905 , medea_material Report

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    Robert T
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Another one I don't like the texture of. Love peas. Will even eat them straight from the pod.

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    #13

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Kale. I don’t care how it’s prepared, there’s just no point to it.

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    Christien Newbury
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's prepared and cooked properly, Kale is delicious. Especially Scottish black kale. My family loves it and it's full of nutrients like iron and vitamins.

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    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Lobster. I uh, I don't get it. It always tastes a bit flavorless and just alright to me. Then I see people dip it in butter and yea thats fine and all and it tastes great, but then I get the feeling I'm just tasting the butter and what the f**k is the point of this $30 dish exactly?

    Sonder332 , thatedeguy Report

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    Adam Belaire
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like a lot of shellfish, it has to be fresh from the ocean. If you have it in a tank at the supermarket where they just sit there it's not worth it. Back on PEI, Canada; 70% of houses are having fresh lobster on Mother's Day right off the boat. Can't beat it.

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    #16

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them This will not be popular…Taco Bell.
    Only edible if it’s absolutely drenched in hot sauce. It’s mushy, bland, makes me bloated, and strangely, sometimes gives me a headache. 2 out of 5 times found a hair in the burrito. I gave up.

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    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Five Guys. Not sure if it’s the same as in the US (I’m in the UK) or I just got a dodgy meal but it was just greasy overpriced mess.

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    #20

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Hot Cheetos. I absolutely love spicy foods but they taste like bleeda**. whatever that means

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    Mama Penguin
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hot Flamin' Cheetos is my guilty pleasure. My butt does not thank me the next day, though

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    #21

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Truffle oil

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    Powerful Katrinka
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The majority of truffle oil isn't actually made with truffles. The main ingredient is a chemical designed in a laboratory to mimic the aroma of truffles (synthetic 2,4-dithiapentane).

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    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Beets. My wife tried to convince me to like them by saying "they taste like dirt!" Needless to say, this was an ineffective approach.

    Neilpuck , Timothy Vollmer Report

    #23

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Ranch dressing. It’s vile. People put it on EVERYTHING. gross. Just stop it.

    MaterDracones , Mike Mozart Report

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    Stephanie Did It
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When it was first introduced, it was a packet mix that you combined with mayonnaise and real buttermilk. It was delicious then. You can still buy the mix and that's the only way to prepare it IMHO.

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    #24

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Raisins

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    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Takis ..

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    Nathaniel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have no idea what this is? Is this some foreign food from foreignland where foreigners come from?

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    #26

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Zucchini pasta

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    T.Milly
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I subscribed to a meal delivery service called Freshly & their zucchini pasta is very, very good.

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    #27

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Nutella

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    Bunzilla
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I'd actually like it if there was less sugar and more hazelnut.

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    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Avocado!

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    T.Milly
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Avocados are one of my most favorite things in the world. Guacamole is so good. Avocado with a little apple cider vinegar & olive oil... pinch of salt ..... Aaahhh, I'm making myself hungry!

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    #29

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Olives

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    foxgirl158
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! My best friend hates olives. I love her to death, but whenever there's olives out I give her the side eye (as I take most of them 😂)

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    Rens
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always hated olives until suddenly one day I didn't. I fell in love with olives after buying a jar of sun-dried black olives produced on a wine farm in South Africa. Now black olive tapenade is one of my favourite toppings, I will eat it on anything!

    Jennik
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love olives but in a way saying "I like olives" is a bit like saying "I like wine." There are so many different types with a huge variety of flavours, from grassy and fresh to almost mushroomy or meaty.

    Seabeast
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a cat that goes nuts for green olives. She not only eats them, she'll rub her face all over an olive and try to roll on it before devouring it.

    Philly Bob Squires
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Olives... all kinds, black, green, stuffed, Kalamata,,, you name it! Love them!

    Randy Volz
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always have at least one jar of blue cheese stuffed olives on hand.

    Mama Panda
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was pregnant with my son, I couldn't get enough of them. Now, even 20 years later, I still can't stand them.

    SN
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't a fan of olives being from the United States. But when I had a chance to live in Italy and visit Greece, I found some that I really liked!

    Lady Goldberry
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just bought my favourite olives (green olives stuffed with pimento served in garlic oil and manchego) and I cannot find them. Vexing.

    Dagnirath
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have yet to find an olive I don't like, but my favorites are the giant Spanish queen olives stuffed with a whole garlic clove. I'll eat those straight out of the jar!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I LOVE green olives but I HATE black olives.

    Mrs. Jan Glass
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was the opposite until I tried Castelvetrano olives. That was a revelation! The only ones I don't like are canned/pimento ones.

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    El Dee
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How can people enjoy that flavor? Are they tasting the same thing I do??

    Ligeia Datura
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this one is actually genetic? Olives always look so good and I want to like them so much but they always taste like bitter vomit to me.

    Pamela Blue
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love olives now. I absolutely HATED them when I was growing up.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think for a lot of people it's a texture thing. My husband won't eat olives or mushrooms for that very reason (not a taste issue at all).

    summer
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ok i have to agree i dont like aloive at all no afence to those who like it

    April
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know why, but I WANT to like olives. I keep trying to but it hasn't worked yet.

    Kohaku Yamashiro
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Woah gotta stop here there are so many varieties of olives how could you hate them!!

    KitKatss
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, I think I agreed with everything else in this list, but I can't let ppl hate on my beloved olives 😭😂

    Emma London
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Olives are one ingredient where the price usually is matched with the quality and taste. Black, dyed, cheapo olives? taste bad. More expensive olives, maybe with seeds? Calamata, perhaps? Really good!

    Morbid Mel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wad ok with this list (forgetting that Vegemite was even listed, that stuff is amazing) but olives?! Do you have no soul?!

    Griffin McKinley
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My devotion to olives is clear when you find out my dog is named olive

    Edurne
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I might be weird, but I LOVE green olives and hate black olives

    Olive Harper
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    2 years ago

    Olives are the best.

    Synsepalum
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed. I really, really wish I liked them. They look like delightful blobs of savory goodness, but I don't. They taste, to me, like saline barf.

    Zobi123
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't even have them near me, I hate the smell so much. Love olive oil though.

    Deth Invictus
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never could get the hang of olives but I also love Vegemite. Each to their own. 👍

    Remi (He/Him)
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Olives are a chameleon so everything depends on the way they're treated and preserved. They can be sublime or they can be tortuous.

    Mason Kronol
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Green olives stuffed with cream cheese in a vodka martini.

    Seabeast
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of those culinary mysteries, like rhubarb. Straight off the tree, they taste terrible. You have to wonder who learned how to process them to make them edible all those centuries ago, and why. Desperation during a famine?

    GFSTaylor
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend served salad as starter one Christmas. I was enjoying it till I ate the black grape that was part of it. That thing was an olive that had cunningly disguised itself as something edible.

    Trisha Howson
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do not like them but my husband and my mother and my kids like them so a lot of people like them

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Used to think the pimentos were part of the green olive 😀

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    #30

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Kimchi, it just doesn't taste as interesting as people say it does

    Nyx_-_-_ , Lisa Risager Report

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    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Shrimp, and any other sea-roaches

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    DennyS (denzoren)
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shrimp is pretty cool if it's cooked well. Not overcooked and not drenched in seasoning. With most of these you just got to cook it lightly with minimal additions to keep the true taste.

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    Seafood. It stinks, it looks gross, and every time I've been convinced to try it it's been rank. My husband and I have agreed many times that we'd have to be starving to death before we ever considered seafood as a meal. I do not understand how anybody can enjoy it. It creates a visceral negative reaction in me.

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    Nimues Child
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love seafood, but I'm careful where I source it. No dodgy diner seafood, please.

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    #33

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them Food: Sweet potato
    Drink: Kombucha

    I can't understand the enjoyment of either, as both taste like dirt

    Devon_Throwaway , Stacy Spensley Report

    #34

    People Are Joining This Thread Ranting About Overhyped Foods They Don't Understand And Here Are 34 Of Them I don't think it sucks but I don't get why popcorn is so cherished.

    I don't like the flavor, the texture, or the f*****g kernels that get stuck in my teeth. The smell is always terrible to me and it lingers.

    But what I really hate is having to explain to people offering it to me that I actually don't like popcorn, no, I really don't, yes, even that type, yes it's a popular snack, no, I really don't like it.

    BeardsuptheWazoo , Toshiyuki IMAI Report

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    Rens
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I absolutely adore have popcorn sweet and salty being my favourite, I just hate the kernels, because they always get stuck in my teeth. I would love to find the special popcorn without kernels

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