Curious to hear from strangers Redditor poetic__ asked:
"What ingredient automatically ruins a dish for you?"
You would never expect these as responses for the assignment.
When The Emperor Lost His Groove
"Poison. Kuzco's poison. The poison for Kuzco."
– Warkitz
Doesn't Plate Well
"Spaghetti sauce if it's a plastic dish."
– misswallflowerr
"A bit of water and lemon juice gets the stain right out of plastic."
– Gundarium_Alchemist
Someone Swam In Your Soup
"Hair"
– GboyFlex
"Little black curly hair."
– highxv0ltage
Nope To Beach Picnics
"Sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."
– Halcres
Now we're getting somewhere.
Finding The Right Balance For It
"Too many cloves. I have had many tooth pains in my lifetime and the taste of clove oil lingers dreadfully in my mind. I do like curry powder and some of my favorite pickle brines include a lot of cloves. The taste just has to be balanced with the other spices and seasonings. If I get any faint hint of it I'm immediately grossed out."
– glistening_cum_ropes
Doesn't Mix Well
"That piece of spices in your stew that you thought it was meat."
– Bewluga
"Ginger? Chomping into a piece of ginger when you thought it was meat.... 🎵You'll get the shock of your life."
– SynthPrax
Faking Sweetness
"Stevia. Blech"
– paytonsglove
"I'll never understand why people think stevia is a replacement for sugar. Doesn't taste anything like sugar. Same with Sucralose."
– anfcrazylady
Let's get specific.
Jiggly Dessert
"Jello. I have spent FAR too much time in a hospital as a child. according to my mother jello was basically all I could eat. since I got out, it's been my only culinary hate. taste, texture, just, nope."
– Nepeta33
There's A Time And Place
"Raisins where there should not be raisins."
– stressandscreaming
"Hey alright! Chocolate chip cookies! Don't mind if I do.... oh F'K YOU!!"
– conradbirdiebird
Tainted Sweets
"Rose Water."
"I want to love Indian and Middle Eastern sweets. They look so good, but nope every time it goes in my mouth all I can taste is rose water. Like chewing on the potpourri from grandmas bathroom."
– OkBoomerEh
I'm not a shrimp fan, however, I can eat it when it's fried in tempura batter.
My family would periodically order fried rice–which I absolutely love–whenever we ate at Chinese restaurants.
Even though we ordered pork or chicken fried rice, I found that many of the LA Chinese restaurants we ate at threw in surprise shrimp as if to spite me.
I would pick them out and eat the rest. Now, I don't know if it was just me, but I would still taste hints of shrimp juice every time, which ultimately ruins the dish for me. Yeah, it's just me.
Stay in your lane, shrimp!
In a way, pineapple on pizza is kind of a hero...
Reddit user CertifiedAnus asked:
"What single ingredient spoils an entire food dish for you if it’s included?"
Infused With Death
"Warm something up with radish, which is good raw, and it will infuse the food with the taste of death."- RenegadeMare
"Cooked radish is one of the worst things ever."
"I once made roasted radishes as a roasted potatoes substitute."
"That was a big nope."
"Worse than doing cauliflower substitutes."- [Reddit]
Schitts Creek Comedy GIF by CBCGiphyCoconut Eggs?
"When whoever you're with makes breakfast using coconut oil."
"Coconut flavored eggs, or bacon anyone?"- c1nut
"Shortly after I got married, my wife, who is nooooooot skilled in the kitchen, wanted to surprise me and make breakfast."
"I woke up and she started cooking. I took a bite of the eggs and froze, fork in my mouth, eyes bugged out… just… frozen."
"She’s looking at me, big smiles, asking 'how is it?!?!' All excited but self conscious."
"She had READ somewhere about putting some milk into scrambled eggs, so she decided to try it."
"Unfortunately, she used whatever milk we had, which was coconut vanilla flavored almond milk… in the scrambled eggs."
"It was one of the most disgusting things I ever forced myself to smile and cringingly eat. But I did.,"
"Coconut vanilla almond eggs. Lol"- Hot_X7
Soap Plant!
"Coriander! Cilantro? I'm Aussie so we just call it Coriander."- 0ChillPterodactyl
"I'll say it again SOAPPLANT."- Queenof-brokenhearts
"Fucking cilantro."- Platypus_life_
Please Stop
"Jello."
"Might be a white person thing, but at every single family gathering I’ve went to there was some kind of dessert that would’ve been great if jello wasn’t added."
"Can we please stop adding jello?"
"They always f*cking add the jello."
"Not even the good kind either, always the worst flavors."
"What the f*ck is a 'jello salad'?"
Why does a 'jello salad' exist in the first place?? Nobody ever touched the jello salad."
"That never stops them from making it though."
"Year after year family gatherings were tainted with my disgust for jello salad."
"I stopped going to family gatherings a few years back. I couldn’t take the unbearable encounters with the cursed dessert any longer."- juulululia
Scared Jurassic Park GIF by VidiotsGiphyTasting Beige
"Miracle Whip."
" 'Sandwich kicking flavor' my a**."
More like sweet-ish and bland."
"Like tasting beige."- 14braincells
Stringy Water
"Celery."
"Never in my life have I had a craving for crunchy, stringy water."- Hrekires
Christmas Medicine
"Cloves."
"It gives food a medicinal taste."- toothbelt
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Dance GIFGiphy10 Years of Trauma
"Avocado."
"My wife once asked me if I liked Avocado shortly after we were married."
"Sure, I guess I do."
"So it soon became part of of dinners."
"A lot. Too much."
"SOOO much that even sprinkled with lemon juice, it soon became unbearable."
"To this day- 10 years later, I can't do anything with Avocado in it."- 35242
A Peeling Sticker Sound
"Blue Cheese."
"Especially because it comes pretty regularly on top of stuff I didn't ask for it on."
"On salads, on sandwiches, on steaks, with chicken wings...ugh."
"I had a leather jacket in that got moldy because of humidity in the back of the closet. It got so moldy that it stuck to the wall, and made a 'peeling sticker' sound when I peeled it off the wall."
"Blue cheese smells like that did."- NecroJoe
It Just Spreads
"Olives."
"The devils grape."- johngannon8
Emma Thompson Chewing GIF by Walt Disney StudiosGiphyBread Doesn't Make Everything Better
"Wheat anything (gluten)."-snarcasm68
So Bitter!
"Star anise is terrible! "
"I have a hard time with dill too."_
Let The Flavors Speak For Themselves
"Any condiment besides mayo in the context of chicken strips, chicken sandwiches, and french fries."- AsrielzardYT
Rainbow 3D GIF by BadBenjaminGiphyAvoid Food Which Makes You Cry.
"Onions."
"Specifically if they are chopped up."
"I don’t wanna be munching on my rice and feel something slimy slide across my tongue."
"But i will eat onion rings any day."- Funny_Maybe126
"Raw onion."
"It just over powers a dish if you use too much."
"Green onion is fine, but any other, and all I'm gonna taste is the onion if it's not a very minimal amount."- moderndaygypsy13
Quite The Combo
"Boiled eggs and wasabi."
"I'm not eating that sh*t no."- Issa_Queen11
Grind It Up...
"Pepper corn."
"My friends and I used to have an awful roommate."
"One friend was our main cook and he would constantly take over the cooking."
"I hated it."
"One day he wanted to cook us a dish."
"Our cook friend kept telling him EVERYTHING he's putting in the dish we can't or won't eat."
"He brushes her off insisting we just need it 'cooked right'."
"So he made us some steak,, I cant eat beef I get stomach problems, with under cooked onions, friends hate the crunch, and loaded each steak with pepper corn."
"The angry suprised Pikachu face he had when I scrapped all the kernels off and maybe nibbled on the steak."
"We warned him."
"It also tasted bad."- LemonyMercury
Sunburnt Grapes...
"Raisins should only ever be used in certain cake or cookie recipes."
"Keep raisins out of everything else."- PunchBeard
Alright, you've heard the hard limits on these Redditors menus, but now we want to know what ingredient you hate.
We've all got one, don't be shy about it. What totally turns you off when it touches your tongue?