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Lots of people hate eating veggies. Or at least the veggies their moms make them eat. Even vegans have some they don't like.

Pick 1 vegetable to completely remove from the universe and make it no longer exist!

My choice is Cauliflower, because it's useless and gross. Adding tons of garlic, or hot sauce, or mashing it up with cheese doesn't help at all. It can just barely be saved by wrapping it in bacon, and at that point you're only eating it for the bacon anyway.

Which vegetable would you pick, and why?

Cauliflower yeah that's high on the list.

Cheese sauce can save it.
And organic is .. Well organic it gets better but that's not exactly every day food and more Christmas.

I used to really hate beets as a kid. They tasted like dirt to me. Then I grew up and tried them again and realized I was right, they do taste like dirt. But I also realized that now I like the taste of dirt.

Hm. As a vegetarian I'm hesitant to banish anything from my already limited diet, but if I had to choose it would be artichokes.

I just don't see the point, they are a hell of a lot of effort to consume, and they can leave splinters in your mouth. Feth that.

Now, if I could keep the artichoke hearts but make extinct the rest of the plant I'd be happy. The hearts are delicious but the rest of the grenade-shaped monstrosity can go to hell.

 Necros wrote:
Lots of people hate eating veggies. Or at least the veggies their moms make them eat. Even vegans have some they don't like.

Pick 1 vegetable to completely remove from the universe and make it no longer exist!

My choice is Cauliflower, because it's useless and gross. Adding tons of garlic, or hot sauce, or mashing it up with cheese doesn't help at all. It can just barely be saved by wrapping it in bacon, and at that point you're only eating it for the bacon anyway.

Which vegetable would you pick, and why?

I dont mind cauliflower, with some olive oil, salt and garlic its actually pretty great.

For me, Brussel Sprouts. Turbo gross and bitter enough to make anything you put on it gross. I like Broccoli however which is closely related.

Eggplant is another thats just really gross, but I almost never encounter it.

I would have picked all forms of squash and zucchini, but that would have been too broad. I do like eggplant though, not for the eggplant itself, but for the eggplant parm. I try to just eat the parm part, and leave the floppy eggplant slices behind.

 Necros wrote:
I would have picked all forms of squash and zucchini, but that would have been too broad. I do like eggplant though, not for the eggplant itself, but for the eggplant parm. I try to just eat the parm part, and leave the floppy eggplant slices behind.

oh squash and zucchini are also good choices.

Vaktathi for eggplants you fry them in thin (1cm) slices cover them with minced meat and potatoes and the lot with Bechamel sauce. Place in oven for one hour.
For me it's gumbo...delicious but the feeling of fine hair in your mouth... yuck.


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And fried zucchini with yoghurt are a gift to humanity...

Brussels. fething. Sprouts.

Taste like absolute gak. The only way I've heard someone tell me to make them taste better is to drown them in balsamic vinegar and bake them. After which, they taste like balsamic vinegar, which isn't making the sprout itself taste better, just replacing the taste.

GARLIC its in a butt tonne of stuff and that means i cant eat it as i'm allergic to garlic.

Otherwise artichokes they are just vile.

Skullhammer wrote:
GARLIC its in a butt tonne of stuff and that means i cant eat it as i'm allergic to garlic.

Otherwise artichokes they are just vile.

I'd be lost without garlic. I am sorry you are allergic, that must be exceedingly difficult as all the best foods have garlic added!

But, solidarity in the artichoke hate!

Quinoa.

If I couldn't eat garlic, I might kill myself. Lol. Love the stuff. I also love brussel sprouts!! Could eat them every day. They're good bakes, pan fried, deep fried...

No...mushrooms or squash. Those two can both go to hell. That first person who saw a mushroom and thought "hey, I wanna eat that..." well, feth him!!

I'd probably put a bet in for courgette? I've had the pleasure of never eating a Brussel sprout, so I'm already from from that. Squash is also on the list.

I'd want to say tomato, but only whole - unfortunately they are a fruit. Still doesn't stop me having a phobia of them.

Wouldn't be able to live without garlic - need that in my life, and mushrooms are good to keep for me.

Celery. Not so much because it tastes awful, and in fact robs you of energy by tricking you into eating it- but because of its perplexing popularity. How on earth it became customary to include this vile thing on every food platter, and with every occasion is beyond me.

There are quite a few veggies that I'm not keen on/dislike, but as an adult nobody forces me to eat them so they don't bother me. There is one vegetable however that I despise, white onions. Even if you don't eat them they infect everything else with there taste and smell. Chopping boards, everything else in the fridge that's not in a air tight container, the butter after some one has used the same knife to cut one, the entire godamn house when there being cooked

Kale.

Just because.

Mushrooms aren't a vegetable.

I also would have to go with Brussel Sprouts.

I also would die IRL without garlic, I think.

Ocra makes my list.

This distinctly Southern vegetable is something of a mystery to us in the Midwestern United States as it doesn't grow here and rarely gets imported. When my brother moved to Oklahoma it wound up in many of the dishes, and he was perplexed by its popularity. While visiting I agreed with his assessment. It's like a potato and tree bark had a child.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Ocra makes my list.

Have you tried it pickled? It's pretty amazing pickled.

I don't like how when it cooks it creates a gelatin-like substance, but it helps make gumbo thick, so I guess it has a purpose.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
Ocra makes my list.

Have you tried it pickled? It's pretty amazing pickled.

I don't like how when it cooks it creates a gelatin-like substance, but it helps make gumbo thick, so I guess it has a purpose.

The stuff I tried was fried. Maybe it was just how they did it. I've always been interested in gumbo, never tried it.

 chromedog wrote:
Kale.

Just because.

Mushrooms aren't a vegetable.

That's true. They're still foul, awful gak!!

 cuda1179 wrote:

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
Ocra makes my list.

Have you tried it pickled? It's pretty amazing pickled.

I don't like how when it cooks it creates a gelatin-like substance, but it helps make gumbo thick, so I guess it has a purpose.

The stuff I tried was fried. Maybe it was just how they did it. I've always been interested in gumbo, never tried it.

Fried okra didn't do much for me (now, fried pickles, those are heaven!), but pickled okra are a totally different experience. The spicy pickled okra is particularly good if you like a little heat!

Brussels sprouts. Those things are more sulphuric and bitter than Hell itself (which is probably where they came from).

Brussels sprouts, I actually really like cauliflower.

Brussels sprout needs to go away.

The only positive thing to say about this bitter midget-cabbage-look-alike (or do they prefer "little salat"?) is that it isn't poisonous - which can also be said about owls which we don't eat either.

Bye, bye, onion. You will torture my guts no more!

By the way, Brussels sprouts are awesome if you almost burn them in butter with garlic.

Pera del Diablo!
The Devil's Pear!
Satan's Stonefruit!

I am of course referring to avocado.

Uhhh an avocado is a fruit.

I aint a picky eater, I will eat anything my family will make.
But the Second I see Brussel Sprouts, I aint having a Vegetable that night.
I hate that stuff.