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

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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57points

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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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39points

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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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36points

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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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34points

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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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32points

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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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“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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31points

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

auntie_eggma , Erik Mclean Report

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28points

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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.”

#10

“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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27points

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#11

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

DotComprehensive4902 , Anna Tukhfatullina Report

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26points

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#12

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

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25points

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#13

“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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25points

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#14

“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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25points

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#15

“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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24points

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#16

“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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23points

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#17

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

It's the food of the devil and should be eradicated asap.

anon , Kaboompics Report

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22points

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#18

“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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22points

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#19

“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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22points

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#20

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Caviar. If it cost 2 quid down Tesco, nobody would eat that s**t 🧐.

what_the_actual_fc , Anastasia Belousova Report

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21points

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#21

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Pepsi. I don't get it. Tastes like cheap cola.

nottodayplzx , Martin Péchy Report

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21points

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#22

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Gin. That whole phase of everyone loving gin was ridiculous thank f**k people are mostly over it.

Edit: yes whatever mix of gin you're suggesting I've tried it and I still think it's vile. I've got a few bottles in the house (gifts) and every time I try some thinking it can't be as bad as I remember it I'm proved wrong... its worse.

rice_fish_and_eggs , Toni Cuenca Report

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20points

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#23

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Expensive wines. In blind taste tests even ‘experts’ can’t tell them apart from cheap supermarket bottles.

Personal-Listen-4941 , Danielle Suijkerbuijk Report

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20points

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#24

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

jugdar13 , John Cameron Report

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20points

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#25

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Coffee, high street coffee anyway. 9 times out of 10 it tastes like ashtray but people are still willing to pay £3+ for it. Every morning, because 'they can't even'.

hermit_tortoise , Brigitte Tohm Report

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19points

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#26

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating Probably gonna get down voted to s**t but…ketchup

The smell of it makes me gag and I think it ruins anything it’s put on.

NaturalDisaster2582 , Pedro Durigan Report

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18points

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#27

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

That s**t literally is for social media pictures. Oooh look at my red steak that I didn't cook, how cool I am.

They scrape it straight into the garbage.

swampdonkus , Sergey Kotenev Report

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14points

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#28

“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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11points

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#29

“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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9points

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#30

Cauliflower. The whole cauliflower craze with everything being made from it is baffling. I don’t want cauliflower wings, cauliflower steak, or cauliflower rice. It seems like it’s become the trendy new thing and yet its rank.

Crazycatladyanddave Report

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9points

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#31

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

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8points

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#32

Anything from Greggs.

Uninspiring pasties and sausage rolls, doorstep sandwiches, like something out of the 70s, yet everyone raves about it like it's the food of the gods. Queues out the door at my local branch at lunchtimes.

I just don't get it. I think there's some kind of mass hypnosis at play.

Edit: ah, I should have realised. Perhaps this thread should have been titled "name something you don't like and everyone can downvote you for it because your opinion is bad and you should feel bad".

The price of your downvote is to explain to me why I'm wrong. Tell me something in Greggs that no sane person could possibly dislike and I'll try one next time I'm near one and report back.

LoccyDaBorg Report

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8points

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#33

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

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8points

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#34

Sushi.

treeplayz Report

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6points

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#35

Prosecco.

It’s extremely dry, the high sulphur gives you a headache after one glass and it’s the least thirst quenching drink in the world.

People that say they like Prosecco are jumping on the same band wagon as the Gin and IPA trend.

Mines_a_mojito Report

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6points

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#36

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating American root beer, which for me is basically repackaged Listerine.

greggery , Michael Morse Report

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5points

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#37

Parsnips, they're just too sweet and such a strange taste.

I'm also not a big fan of melon (apart from watermelon). Another weird taste!

Athena_x Report

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5points

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#38

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating I'm pretty sure I'm alone in this but I cannot stand the taste or smell of cucumber. I'll eat almost anything, but find the stuff absolutely vile. I've actually had multiple occasion where I pick up a meal deal sandwich/wrap when I'm out and accidentally eat some, it ruins my whole day. Disgusting stuff.

OrdinaryImplication , Matthias Zomer Report

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4points

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#39

Anything salted caramel flavour.

And any “freak shake” of any kind. I have one hellll of a sweet tooth, and am on the plump side, but the sheer sight of them makes me feel ill.

I’m with you regarding sweet potato!

alotofgoodways83 Report

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4points

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#40

Fish in general, absolutely vile.

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-1point

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What do you think ?

Adam Jeff 2 weeks 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?

17points

Ms.GB 2 weeks 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.

2points

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mandy the capibara 2 weeks ago (edited)

For some reason, I can't stand the taste of most tropical fruits. Guave, mango, dragonfruit... bluurgh, sweet but in a really odd way, and with a very odd rotting undertone. And an even hotter take; the more high cuisine the restaurant, the shittier their desserts are.

7points

Crystal M 2 weeks ago

I agree, I thought I was alone with the tropical fruits.

I like mango but it can't be too ripe. I feel the same way about melon and bananas.

R Dennis 1 week ago

Mango! It has always tasted like dirt to me. I can take a recipe and make pineapple salsa and people love it. If I swap out mango people say it's awful. I cannot make it taste good because it always tastes bad to me.

1point

Display_Name 1 week ago

Since I had Covid, I can’t stand grapefruit. But it made me realize what that Covid medication tasted like

0points

SheamusFanFrom1987 2 weeks ago

Some of the things here seem pretty okay in my book. Wait til you guys try stuff like stinky tofu, natto and tempoyak. You'd probably find this list much tamer then -_- XP

3points

WindySwede 2 weeks ago

Surströmming?

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