What's a food you love, but can completely understand other people hating?

Meat, cheese and dairy

Black licorice

Anchovies

Cantaloupe

I love each of them, but all have such unique flavors it's easy to imagine not liking them.

Grilled liver and onions and jarred Gefilte Fish. Both I grew up eating as an Ashkenazi jew with a working mom who didn't have time to make her own Gefilte Fish haha. I do understand that both are an acquired taste though.

Sprouts, THEY ARE AMAZING

people are bitches, so I understand 😒

Fried Blood Sausage.
It looks like actual, coagulated blood.
But it's really tasty (to me).

Beer. My partner doesn't care for it but I love it. I know tons of people love beer but I totally get the people that don't. It's kinda very different from most drinks!

Button Mushrooms / Cherry Tomatoes - my friend once commented that it felt like chewing eyeballs.

Lamb brain sandwich

Pineapple on pizza.

Marmite

Mochi

Olives

Pickled ginger

Parsnip.

Sea Oysters! Back when I lived by the coast, I would tag along for a ride with my fishermen uncle; we would cut some oysters with a knife from the side of the port and snack on them through the day; Just opening them up with a knife, add chopped purple onions, avocado, tomatoes, lemon and hot sauce and slurp em' off the shell!

Espresso with tabasco.

Sushi. Steak tartar.

I like my meat raw if I can eat it without dying.

Waiting on the balut comment... 🤢🤮

Boiled Peanuts. I love 'em, but they're salty and sodden and messy, and they can range from a disconcerting pop texture to a disconcerting slimy texture, all in the same batch.

Blue cheese.

I really like olives, but I totally get how they're not for everyone. I also love capers and seaweed.

Black licorice.

Liver and Onion, anchovies, chunchullo, whitebait, blood and tongue sausage... generally these fall in two categories:

• Food that has a particularly strong flavor that clashes with what people are used to, and
• Food that is made from the parts of an animal that is not "meat" and therefore has an unfamiliar texture.

They're wrong on all accounts - taste is acquired, and people should at least try food out of their comfort zone - but considering that it took 20 years for me to even consider trying shrimp (which still isn't my first choice, but I like it now) I can understand.

皮蛋 a.k.a. "century egg" or, more boringly, "preserved egg".

I get it. I really do. Everything about these from the colour to the texture to the aroma to the flavour is highly alien to most people's tastebuds. (It took me ten years to warm up to them myself!) But now that I pushed through it, they're one of my favourite things.

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Uni:

tofu

Goat cheese, lamb/mutton, truffle and any kind of mushroom, spicy foods

Once I had this dark chocolate with chile pepper and pop rocks in it, no one else wanted to try it but I really liked it

Cannibal sandwiches

Oatmeal. Yes, it's the texture and temperature of boogers, but I never ate my boogers growing up. What I ate growing up was a lot of oatmeal.

Durian. Apparently it's absolutely disgusting for some people.

Cauliflower soup. It tastes amazing to me, but it really does smell like farts

Vegemite on toast

It’s not about the food but about the time of enjoying the taste of it

I like big dishes in the morning. Like really salty, savoury and messy

I routinely wake up, smell an imaginary scent of a whole dinner (hallucinations) and proceed to eat it as first thing in the morning

I like Sushi Bake, but when I posted it in one of the food communities on lemmy, I was surprised that a significant % of people in the comments hated it.

Spaghetti with sugar.

Mustard

Bean chili on waffles the look of disgust on people's faces but then they try it.