Anything green, and some that aren't. I've got that gene that makes chlorophyll taste horribly bitter and mud-like. and I don't like parsnips and radishes, so that's pretty much all of them.
It's not common, 1 in 260,000 I think. It's also recessive, so it can skip generations. But it's a marker for Scandinavian descent because it doesn't occur elsewhere. [but then I already knew my family were Viking in origin.]
I guess vikings didn't have much green veggies in their diet.
No, some Scandinavians are apparently like Inuit and can survive on a diet almost entirely of meat and meat fat. (I made a fast search but all I found was stuff about cruciferous vegetables tasting very bitter. That's definitely different from me; I like the taste of broccoli and cauliflower, it's just Brussels sprouts I consider an affront.)
I too don't like swede but will eat it in a Cornish pasty or a stew. I'm not keen on okra either, but the one veg I really can't eat is bamboo shoots. They're foul.
The two that sink me are okra, if badly cooked and eggplant.
Okra if cooked by someone who doesn't know what they are doing comes out the consistency of snot. It literally gets covered in a layer of translucent slime.
I have a bad memory of being told "Eggplant is wonderful! What a treat! We are going to have some eggplant!" and then it tasted rather like Tylenol. The person who cooked it went into denial long enough to get really cross at me for not loving the lovely eggplant and then gave up on it herself. It was old eggplant and amazingly bitter even for a vegetable known to rank right up there. Now I can't see the beautiful purple shapes without gagging slightly, and the words baba ganoush make me break out in a cold sweat like a unfaithful husband who can't afford to be divorced hearing the words "We have to talk."
There's probably no vegetable I wouldn't eat if sufficiently desperate. But there's a short list of vegetables I won't eat voluntarily. I happily eat other people's common bugaboos, but:
- asparagus, especially the more common green kind - turnip and its similar-tasting friends (but I eat lots of other root veggies) - wax beans, especially from a tin - okra, when slimey (it's fine in soup)
Several. I loathe zucchini, along with most forms of squash, and cucumbers make me puke. I also loathe okra and eggplant, unless they're cooked just right (mostly because they tend to be slimy, if not.) I know tomatoes are fruit, not vegetables, but I can't stand them, either, save in sauces (including catsup,) or (in some cases) sun-dried.
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I guess vikings didn't have much green veggies in their diet.
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Okra if cooked by someone who doesn't know what they are doing comes out the consistency of snot. It literally gets covered in a layer of translucent slime.
I have a bad memory of being told "Eggplant is wonderful! What a treat! We are going to have some eggplant!" and then it tasted rather like Tylenol. The person who cooked it went into denial long enough to get really cross at me for not loving the lovely eggplant and then gave up on it herself. It was old eggplant and amazingly bitter even for a vegetable known to rank right up there. Now I can't see the beautiful purple shapes without gagging slightly, and the words baba ganoush make me break out in a cold sweat like a unfaithful husband who can't afford to be divorced hearing the words "We have to talk."
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- asparagus, especially the more common green kind
- turnip and its similar-tasting friends (but I eat lots of other root veggies)
- wax beans, especially from a tin
- okra, when slimey (it's fine in soup)
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