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Yeah Yeah Beebiss I (harrylovesron) wrote in random_rant,
@ 2007-01-02 15:32:00

Dear family,

Stop treating me like I'm acting like a fucking stubborn 5-year-old when I say I don't like *insert food*. I am 21 years old- I outgrew that "WAH I WON'T EVEN TRY IT" behaviour years ago and am old enough to know what I do and do not like. Perhaps- *gasp!*- my tastes are different from yours. Why is that so hard to accept? Why do you still continue to insist that "omg, if you just tried it you'd like it" when I HAVE tried it, thankyouveryfuckingmuch, you have SEEN me try it, and I STILL do not like it? I am aware that my intense, frothing hatred of cheese is very unusual and means I should be taken to a lab and studied. However, in the meantime, trying to eat the damn stuff makes me physically ill and therefore trying to shove grilled cheese sandwiches down my throat is not a good idea. Same goes for sauerkraut, meatloaf, chicken salad, cole slaw, and the other foods I don't like. Tried it, do not like it, deal with it.

Your frustrated family member,
Harrylovesron.

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	iris 2007-01-02 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	I'm always so relieved when I realize that actually, I'm not the only person in the world who hates cheese. \o/ (Reply to this)(Thread)

harrylovesron
2007-01-02 11:23 pm UTC (link)

You don't like it, either? *glee* Nearly everybody thinks it's so weird when I say I don't like cheese. I just don't like the taste of it, which some folks (and not just my family) simply cannot fathom. (Made me feel kinda embarrassed and rude when one of my bosses brought back a ton of cheese from her trip to Wisconsin this summer. *g*) One of the few exceptions is mozzarella- pizza is one of my favorite foods, and I don't mind the taste of it by itself. But any other kind of cheese, nooo way. I won't eat cheeseburgers and so on, and I'll even politely turn down potato soup (my #1 favorite food) if the broth is cheesy.

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iris, 2007-01-02 11:27 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 03:01 am UTC

antigone, 2007-01-02 11:33 pm UTC

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 03:02 am UTC

	braisinhussy 2007-01-02 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	One of my friends loves cheese, but she has a particular hatred of melted cheese. No pizza/grilled cheese/lasagna/fondue for her. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	harrylovesron 2007-01-03 03:03 am UTC (link)
	Blugggh, melted is even worse to me. Like nacho cheese. Whenever we'd have nachos for lunch in grade school I'd be the weirdo who'd ask for no cheese and extra salsa. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

braisinhussy, 2007-01-03 06:38 am UTC

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:09 pm UTC

chibikaijuu, 2007-01-08 04:21 am UTC

	vigilanterodent 2007-01-03 01:18 am UTC (link)
	I get this re: tomatoes. Is it really so bad that I think they are gross? Must everyone who finds out I don't use ketchup and hate spaghetti sauce try to change my ways? Can we not live in peace, tomatoed and tomatoless walking hand in hand? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	harrylovesron 2007-01-03 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Seriously. It's so annoying. No, I will not like it if I "just try it". I didn't like it the last 10 times I "just tried it". My tastes don't change that easily. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	khym_chanur 2007-01-03 01:42 am UTC (link)
	It's all so clear to me now, Guido. I'm the Keeper of the Cheese, and you're the Lemon Merchant... get it?! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	harrylovesron 2007-01-03 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Mmmm, lemons... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	photosinensis 2007-01-03 01:46 am UTC (link)
	wow. Someone who doesn't like cheese. I'd heard of them, but I couldn't believe they existed. Until now. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	harrylovesron 2007-01-03 03:07 am UTC (link)
	I expect I'll be put in a cage to be gawked at some day. g (Reply to this)(Parent)

scootermcgaffin
2007-01-03 02:55 am UTC (link)

Seriously.

It's rough not liking a food that almost everyone else likes. For example, I hate tomatoes. Hate them. Hate the texture, hate the taste. If it's not ketchup or sauce, I won't eat it.

Of course, the opposite is true of liking foods no one else around you likes. Everyone's all "EWWWWWWWW. How can you eat that!?" It's a cucumber, not a still beating heart, fools.

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harrylovesron
2007-01-03 03:18 am UTC (link)

It's rough not liking a food that almost everyone else likes.

Especially when my ma fixes it for a meal. My brothers, more than once, have made snotty comments about how I'm snubbing her cooking if I don't eat it. Well, what am I supposed to do- sit there with an empty plate and watch them eat? I love most of what Ma cooks, and me not liking one or two things != me snubbing her. I don't like certain foods no matter who fixes them. I'm more than happy to fix myself something whenever Ma cooks something I don't like, too, it's not like I'm trying to get her to tailor the menu to whatever it is I like all the time.

I've also gotten snotty "Just TRY it and you'll like it" comments from ALL of my family, which irritate me more than anything else. They have SEEN me try all of the foods I hate at some point, sometimes multiple times. If I didn't like sauerkraut/meatloaf/whatever the first 10 times I tried it, the 11th time isn't going to magically change my tastes.

It's a cucumber, not a still beating heart, fools.

I. LOVE. CUCUMBERS. I occasionally buy them to snack on- slice one in half and nibble, skin and all.

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scootermcgaffin, 2007-01-03 04:53 am UTC

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:20 am UTC

	alpheratz 2007-01-03 03:30 am UTC (link)
	Cucumber hate just baffles me. I guess they could just be eating shitty cucumbers, but a proper cucumber is crisp and cool and smells like sweet fresh water. "Ewwww" should not even be in the same zip code as this vegetable. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:23 am UTC

smo, 2007-01-03 07:16 am UTC

	smo 2007-01-03 07:17 am UTC (link)
	OMFG THANK YOU. Tomatoes are MADE OF EW. They are disgusting little gritty veiny vegetable balls of fleshy grossness, and they MAKE. ME. GAG. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

scootermcgaffin, 2007-01-03 07:43 am UTC

chibikaijuu, 2007-01-08 04:22 am UTC

bubosquared
2007-01-03 07:39 am UTC (link)

Oh, dear, and tomatoes are in everything, too. (I love tomatoes, but I hate raisins, so I feel your pain on that one. They're tiny pus-coloured bags of WRONG, people! Stop trying to make me eat them!)

Of course, the opposite is true of liking foods no one else around you likes.

I put ketchup on scrambled eggs. You'd think that combination made nerve gas or something from the reactions I've gotten. Haven't these people been taught to mind their own plate as kids, like I was?

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coffeebun, 2007-01-12 04:10 am UTC

	vigilanterodent 2007-01-03 10:48 am UTC (link)
	tiny tear THERE ARE OTHER TOMATO-HATERS OUT THERE. Thank god, sometimes I feel like the only one. (I won't even eat ketchup, and I'm not very keen on sauce; I can tolerate it in pizza-form when it doesn't so much taste of tomato.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sashenka 2007-01-03 04:31 am UTC (link)
	Mmm, I hate mushrooms. I like the taste, so I like things that are flavored like mushrooms, but the texture bothers me a lot. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	harrylovesron 2007-01-03 06:25 am UTC (link)
	I only like mushrooms on rare occasions and only when they're battered and deep-fried. Artery-clogging yum. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sashenka, 2007-01-03 06:26 am UTC

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:36 am UTC

	alpheratz 2007-01-03 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Yay, me too! In recent months I decided I like the texture of portabella mushrooms, but I still won't chew any other kind. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2007-01-03 07:15 am UTC (link)
	Substitute "raw tomatoes" for "cheese," "smo" for "HlR," and "30" for "21," and I could have written this rant. Families: can't live with 'em, can't dip 'em in batter for tempura. (Reply to this)(Thread)

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:10 pm UTC

rosehiptea
2007-01-03 08:58 am UTC (link)

I'm 39 and there are still plenty of foods I don't like. And a few that I *gasp* haven't actually ever tried! So maybe I have no right to say I don't like them, but that's really my business.

I've worried about my kid's diet at times (though she lives with her dad right now) but if she doesn't want to eat a specific food, fine with me.

You know that song about how everybody likes bananas? Well, they need a line in there exempting me.

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antigone, 2007-01-03 10:48 pm UTC

	caffeine_fairy 2007-01-03 10:33 am UTC (link)
	Hmm. I'll do you a deal. I'll eat your cheese, saurkraut, meatloaf and coleslaw, and you can have my cucumber and two other vegetables of your choice. (Reply to this)(Thread)

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:16 pm UTC

	gal_montag 2007-01-03 03:58 pm UTC (link)
	I'm so with you on the chicken salad and cole slaw. Yurgh. Love cheese, though, especially grilled cheese. And this conversation is only serving to remind me of how very much I need to go get groceries. (Reply to this)(Thread)

harrylovesron, 2007-01-03 06:17 pm UTC

	mistal 2007-01-04 04:58 am UTC (link)
	You see, I don't get the 'omg, you just have to try it!' since my family learned that doesn't work. So what I get is "but it's the same thing as insert whatever", like milk. I hate milk, milk on me freaks out and the taste makes me gag, but I love cheese and ice cream. So, my brother is found of "but milk and cheese are the same!" and doesn't seem to get that it's not. (Reply to this)

chibikaijuu
2007-01-08 04:28 am UTC (link)

I love all sorts of exotic things, but I hate, hate, hate really mundane things that are hard to avoid, like pretty much every condiment ever. Ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, sweet pickles/pickle relish, sour cream (and any dip made from), cream cheese (except as a component of frosting or cheesecake). And canned tuna. Tuna sandwiches? I can smell 'em from across the room, and they turn my stomach. Olives, too. And it took me ages to be able to eat raw tomatos.

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