Least Favourite Vegetable

[Derian]

Murderer!

Although I do like that recipe with turnips rather than Scandinavian people.

Black lab puppies don't thrive on mashed swede. You've got lost --------->

Do love the puppy though.

Don't derail

 

[moonsi til]

cabbage and sprouts...erugh. both vile

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Beetroot is just wrong. I lived with a guy who used to ruin my dinner with it almost every night. I'd buy in loads of veg, start dinner, pop out for some wine or weed and come back and he'd have added beetroot to the cooking.

Brussels are foul, but I'm willing to believe they would be edible if people didn't boil the shit out of them.

Advacado ...cause many a good salad to be iredeemable(sp? ) by covering everything in it's icky slime. Smells nice and makes a good face mask though.

Swede can just stay away from me, though I love parsnips. Mmmm, parsnip chips, parsnip in mash.

Mouli, or massive raddish or whatever you call it comes as a side order here with everything and quite often in the dish too. I'm not a huge fan of whatever they've done to it though I enjoyed it raw in salad when I lived in the Uk. They've turned it yellow somehow here, Hmmm

All other veg is lurvely.

 

[maldwyn]

Mange tout

 

[madamv]

I love all veg.... except fennel. Too strong aniseed, agree with Mrs Magpie. I dont like advocado.... but suspect thats a fruit.

 

[Urbane Fox]

Peas. It's the texture - it's like eating polystyrene. Urgh, makes me shudder just thinking about it...

 

[jugularvein]

Peas. It's the texture - it's like eating polystyrene. Urgh, makes me shudder just thinking about it...

seconded.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Radishes/mooli - agree on their utter pointlessness.

Not keen on red cabbage, turnip, butter beans (not mad keen on any pulses or pulsey-textured-things really).


Mushy peas.......yeuch!

 

[astral]

mushrooms. really can't stand them, they have the same consistancy that I would imagine a boiled slug to have.

 

[Urbane Fox]

mushrooms. really can't stand them, they have the same consistancy that I would imagine a boiled slug to have.

Raw mushrooms are lovely though, much firmer texture. Whole cooked mushrooms can be pretty wrong though, I agree. It's all the water that makes them rather gooey.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Raw mushrooms are lovely though, much firmer texture. Whole cooked mushrooms can be pretty wrong though, I agree. It's all the water that makes them rather gooey.

You could fry them? The idea of a boiled mushroom sounds pretty bad.

 

[pogofish]

When I was a kid, my gran's idea of cooking mushrooms was to boil them in oxo ir something similar. YUK!! For years I hated the resulting snot-like metallic tasting sludge that I thought were cooked mushrooms - Until I tasted properly cooked ones

 

[innit]

I like almost all vegetables. I won't eat raw mushrooms but I love them cooked, I adore brussel sprouts sliced up and stir-fried, or boiled for about 3 - 4 minutes, I love parsnips roasted or cooked in a creamy Gruyere sauce, I really like boiled swede and carrot mashed together with tons of butter. I even like beetroot and broad beans these days.

But I HATE celery.

 

[Urbane Fox]

I like almost all vegetables. I won't eat raw mushrooms but I love them cooked, I adore brussel sprouts sliced up and stir-fried, or boiled for about 3 - 4 minutes, I love parsnips roasted or cooked in a creamy Gruyere sauce, I really like boiled swede and carrot mashed together with tons of butter. I even like beetroot and broad beans these days.

But I HATE celery.

Celery = quite possibly the most pointless thing in existence? It's virtually tastless + you burn more calories eating it than it gives you. Or maybe that's the celery stalks revenge on us for ripping them out of the ground + cutting them off in their prime.

 

[Urbane Fox]

You could fry them? The idea of a boiled mushroom sounds pretty bad.

Fried muchrooms... Mmmm... roasted with olive oil + balsamic vinegar is also very good, especially if you top them off with a little wilted spinach + coarsely ground black pepper.

I'm hungry now...

 

[Purdie]

What's the vegetable you'll push to the side of the plate?

Beetroot

 

[perplexis]

Did you read that on a mutant vegetable conspiracy theory forum?.....it's a brassica flower still tightly in bud.

I'm strangely dissappointed to find that out (but wholly unsurprised). Lord only knows where I read that little factoid, but it was one of my favourites. Now I have no valid excuse for not liking cauliflower, other than "it smells bad". <sigh>
*runs to find more non-science justifying hatred of vegetables*

 

[ChrisFilter]

they're all pretty grim..

 

[liberty]

The sprout

 

[marshall]

Cauliflower's vile.

But purple cauliflower's worse, turns the water blue.

Visually quite offensive...

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Celery and radishes. Yuck!

 

[Random One]

bitter gourd-that counts as a veg right? it is evil!

 

[hiccup]

I like celery, either raw with a dip, or braised in stock - yum.

Beetroot is tasty too, raw, pickled, roasted, however.

Parsnips - oh yeah, especially roasted.

Sprouts - lovely things.

Radishes - love 'em.

Didn't used to like mushrooms, but I'm slowly being persuaded.

Fennel is a bit too aniseedy for me, but maybe I'll like it one day.

Can't actually think of any veg I actively dislike, other than the previously mentioned marrow. But maybe I've just never had marrow cooked in a tasty way, just boiled till it's tasteless sludge.

 

[Chz]

I would say tomatoes, courgette/zucchini and cucumber... But they're all fruits, so shame on those of you who mentioned them!

I don't think there are any vegetables I've had that I dislike. It's just the "savoury fruits" as above that I dislike immensely.

As for fennel, I don't like aniseed as a flavour either. But it's the fennel seeds that have a strong aniseed taste. Fresh fennel, sliced and fried up in butter and garlic, has hardly any aniseed-y flavour at all. Just a hint of it, to stop it from being bland. However, freshness is very important there. The aniseed flavour gets stronger as the vegetable ages. Fresh fennel is yummy!

 

[rennie]

potatoes are the best n i just remembered im not too keen on spinach.

 

[wtfftw]

celery. fennel. I'm coming round to aubergine but it has to be cooked interestingly. I'm fine with mange tout and brussel sprouts but loathed them several years ago.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

has to be....

carrots--tasteless, ubiquitous, over-rated.

 

[mr steev]

I like pretty much all vegetables.
I'm not over keen on asparagus or beetroot. The beetroot is down to my mum growing and boiling loads when I was a kid. The whole house used to stink. Nowadays I can eat it mixed in salads but not on its own.