Do you eat vegetables?

I find it a remarkable thought that there are people who for whatever reason reject vegetables. It is very hard to imagine, although having said that my veg intake has been a little down the last couple of years.

I do have a thing about processed peas. Horrible I know but I love them.
 
I've tried quite a lot of different veg once or twice, and I don't like:

brussel sprouts
aubergine
swede


I'm going to try to eat more veg/fruit as I don't eat the '5 a day' as recommended.

Also, the talk of food is making me hungry.
 
people that dont eat veg or any kind and pick these things from their foods really get my goat! I mean you cant taste a pepper on a pizza or a pea in a cottage pie!
 
Xink said:
I mean you cant taste a pepper on a pizza
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Errr, yes you can, it's that thing that tastes like a Pepper! I should know, it's the only vegetable I don't like and as such spend quite a while picking Pizzas that don'r have any peppers at all, I can taste it even if it's been picked off before cooking. Raw peppers smell, and taste, ****ing rank and their taste impregnates anything they come into contact with!
 
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Pestilence said:
Also, for those who think they don't like Brussel Sprouts, buy a stalk of the smaller brussels. Par-boil them for a few minutes, then fry in a pan with chopped bacon and basil until the bacon is cooked. They taste immaculate -- the salty bacon flavour really soaks in and complements the nutty flavour of the sprouts amazingly.
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I've tried doing this (with pine nuts added as well) with baby home grown sprouts in an effort to try and like them, but as soon as I put them in my mouth I can just taste bitterness, it's as if I'm eating something that's gone off and every instinct I have tells me to get it out of my mouth as soon as possible.

I'm the same with coffee as well, really anything that's bitter - just can't abide it.
 
Peas, carrots, spuds everyday, usually mash brocolli up in mashed spuds so I can't taste it. I have home made veg soup once a week, with onions, spud, carrots, cabbage, swede, leek, touch of ginger & garlic. Thing is I can't stand veg soup lol, so i stick it in food blender so it's all fine and then it taste just right for me. Can't handle chunky veg, makes me heeve up. Salad as well couple times a week, just love them mixed leave bags from supermarket, especially the purple lettuce, with added honey mustard dressing all over.
 
I eat loads of vegetables. Varies all the time. My best friend is a veggie, so she trys to cook me some tasty food to tide me over from time to time (but meat still owns TBH).

Some vegetarian food is damn right tasty, I must admit. I have most veggies; carrots, peas, potatos, sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, spring greens, marrow, runner beans, broad beans, sweetcorn etc etc.
 
Creature said:
Yes, for example, you only class chocolate as chocolate if it's over 70% cocca, I class that a vile, putrid and disgusting :p

I do however, dislike the 'immature attitude' view that you're on about. People like different foods, it's nature. It just so happens that it's in my nature to not like veg. Like I said, if I liked them, even remotley, I would eat them.
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Well that's my view on such people, so take exception to it if you must. I prefer "real" chocolate to the sugary processed crap that most people eat, because you don't like it only says to me that your pallete is immature, for the same reasons as you don't like vegetables or certain foods. I didn't mean your attitude is necessarily puerile.
 
I love vegetables, always have. Had a very varied diet as a child which I think helps - lots and lots of seafood too (another one that, judging from my conversations with workmaktes, people are reluctant to eat)

I'm not a huge fan of swede but I'd still eat it if somebody dished it up. Favourite vegetables include broccoli, aubergine, peppers, tomato, green beans, the list goes on!
 
Freefaller said:
I just don't "get" it I guess. I think leaving food is also rude. I think disliking veg to me comes across as a very immature attitude, but as I said I have a different attitude to food than most.
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It's not an attitude or a choice, I don't like the way veg tastes and find it a massive effort to eat the stuff it turns meal time into a chore rather than an enjoyable experience.

As for the guy with the fake gagging on peas comment it's not fake gagging, the texture of peas and the way they burst out of there shells automatically induces my gag reaction it is involuntary and not a choice. It even happens if someone unknown to me hides a single pea in a mound of mash and I put it in my mouth without realising. Peas are now pretty much the only veg I don't eat because I physically cannot manage to get them down.

Someone asked if I feel better since I started eating veg actually I probably feel worse I've had loads more colds and bugs which I never used to get and have come closer to having a day off work than at any time when I didn't eat veg.
 
Azagoth said:
Raw peppers smell, and taste, ****ing rank and their taste impregnates anything they come into contact with!
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Raw pepper tastes fantastic, such a lovely crunchy texture as well.

Haircut said:
I've tried doing this (with pine nuts added as well) with baby home grown sprouts in an effort to try and like them, but as soon as I put them in my mouth I can just taste bitterness, it's as if I'm eating something that's gone off and every instinct I have tells me to get it out of my mouth as soon as possible.

I'm the same with coffee as well, really anything that's bitter - just can't abide it.
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That sounds a bit odd, Brussell Sprouts shouldn't taste bitter or maybe I should say I don't think they do but then I like sour/bitter tasting foods often anyway.
 
Yes I do. Not that I especially enjoy them but have become accustomed to them I guess, the usual "forced to have them as a child" thing! Glad I was though, even now living away from home I frequently cook vegetables.

I also saw some freinds leaving veg at a meal out, did find it a bit odd I suppose.
 
I only like the more exotic and expensive fruits (Kiwis, pineapple, strawberries, cherries) and not normal fruit, but love almost ALL veg apart from asparagus and brussel sprouts.

Broccoli is nom nom, and potatoes (as much as I love them) don't really count as veg :p
 
I eat a fair amount of veg. Cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, whatever it's all good. I normally have 2 or three pieces of fruit a day too.
 
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