“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

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There are a number of food items that are stereotypically hated, particularly by children. Brussels sprouts and broccoli, for example. However, everyone’s taste buds have their own little personality, so some folks end up surprised when they try popular and beloved items and end up hating them.

A netizen asked “What food/drink are you convinced people are pretending to like?” and people share their favorite examples. We got in touch with the person who posed the question to learn more. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and examples below.

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Oysters. Slimy like swallowing a raw egg.

smokencold59 , Mitili Mitili Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Red Bull. Tastes fruity, but also fishy, and also like old copper pennies. I’m convinced people only drink it because it amplifies the drunkenness.

Ok_Shopping_3341 , Jeff Siepman Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Bubble tea. It is vile and not even cheap.

tinybrainenthusiast , Kevin Canlas Report

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Bored Panda got in touch with the netizen who created the thread and they were kind enough to answer some of our questions. Firstly, we were curious to hear why they wanted to ask the internet about this in general.

“I was probably pretty bored and thought it would be a fun question to ask to kill some time. I'm also pretty passionately against sweet potato fries. I guess it was a combination of catching people at the right time and it being a subject others are passionate about. It's a pretty light-hearted question and funny to discuss.”

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Licorice. Or the full name _satanus pubicus_.

Matticus95 , The Nix Company Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Sparkling water. Like I genuinely don’t see the reason for it and it somehow tastes bitter. I feel like a lot of people drink it just cause it’s fancy? Idk.

fatgoose52 , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Coconut water. Tastes like semen.

Emotional-Section981 , Polina Tankilevitch Report

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“Mayo and cucumber are both up there with sweet potato fries. In fact they're actually way worse, I can't stand either and they seem to make their way into so many dishes. I actually don't mind sweet potato fries, I just can't fathom why anyone would want them over normal chips,” they shared.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Prime.

My nephew gave me a spare bottle and it tastes like if you just ate the icing off an entire birthday cake, despite it being low in sugar.

rezonansmagnetyczny , uns1ghtly Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating IPA.

Now I love your regular lagers, especially draught on a hot sunny day. I even developed a taste for fruit beers too, there's definitely a time and a place for them.

But IPA.... I swear to Sue Barker that it tastes like how cat wee smells. You know that pungent almost ammonia type smell?

That's IPA for me.

I love the cool label designs and names, they have all done well with the branding, but I sort of think that's 75% of the appeal.

BastardsCryinInnit , Donovan Kelly Report

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I legitimately like everything that has been mentioned in this thread so far, I think. So I am obviously not the target audience of this question.

I like all the 'weird' s**t people stereotypically dislike. Mushrooms, spinach, sprouts, olives, anchovies, stinky cheese, fermented foods, raw fish, caviar, plain water, etc. And I legit prefer these foods to the foods people are 'supposed' to like, like burgers and chips/fries. I'd rather eat a bowl of sauteed mushrooms than a bag of doritos or whatever. Any day of the week.

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We also wanted to hear if they had any comments or suggestions that they particularly agreed with. “Just looking back, Aperol Spritz is my favorite answer. I've tried it so many times, even tried it a few times in Italy and it's just meh. It's not nasty, it's just not nice and the color of it writes cheques its flavor cannot cash.”

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating The classic coriander. Blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. It's soooo nasty. Like soapy soil.

karybrie , Lindsay Moe Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Brioche bread should never go near a burger (it is a sweet bread) the 'chef' who made that one popular wants sacking.

Cliffoakley , Valeria Boltneva Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Bloody Mary's. Glass of pasta sauce.

EllebumbleB , Toni Osmundson Report

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I'm convinced that the vast majority of the wine industry is a huge con that is built on the basis that people are vacuous twats who think spending stupid money on a drink makes them more sophisticated.

All_within_my_hands Report

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#14

Matcha.

DotComprehensive4902 Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Aperol Spritz "I'll have a glass of nail varnish remover, please.".

flingeflangeflonge , Markus Spiske Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Beer. It’s disgusting, yet I’ve drank gallons.

Roylemail , Tembela Bohle Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Beetroot, it tastes like dirt and can’t understand why anyone would want to have it in anything.

ABurr_sir , Natalia S Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Guinness.

"Go to the Guinness brewery in Dublin and drink a whole pint and you'll love it."

I did and it still tasted like shite. Liars.

anon , Elevate Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Coffee. Tastes awful and makes me feel sick. Doesn’t even wake you up it literally makes me sleep.

AFreshlySkinnedEgg , Andrew Neel Report

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“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Sweet potato fries are better than normal fries - they have to be properly deep-fried, though, and galvanized with salt/seasoning.

AAHale88 , Valeria Boltneva Report

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#30

Raw tomatoes.

Like I’ve tried them every single way that is recommended but I cannot stand them. I’ve had them fresh off a vine, still sun-warm, and just nope.

lemon-bubble Report

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What do you think ?

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Adam Jeff 1 week ago

I know this is supposed to be lighthearted but really, if we can't even accept that other people might have different food preferences than us, what hope is there of living in a shared society?

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Ms.GB 6 days ago

Yeah for some reason people assume we all taste the same thing when we eat a type of food...we don't. While cilantro and wine taste delicious to me I can fully understand that other people aren't always experiencing those flavors the same way as I am.

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