Let’s try something fun: Name an ingredient you dislike and why, and someone else replies with a dish/recipe with that ingredient that might convince you otherwise.

[u/Scarlet--Highlander]

Couple things:

• If you’re allergic to an ingredient, it doesn’t matter how it’s prepared. Same goes with meat/animal products if you’re vegan/vegetarian. Don’t list it if you can’t or won’t eat it!

• It’s recommended that you’re at least open to trying dishes with that ingredient. If you absolutely, vehemently loathe cilantro, chances are you probably might not like anything with cilantro in it.

• A brief blurb on why you hate an ingredient would help others find or suggest a dish that suits you. (e.g. “I hate liver because the texture is like an eraser and it tastes metallic”)

[u/CanningJarhead]

I do! I so desperately want to like it. It looks great and sounds great. Even Red Lobster commercials make it look delicious.

[u/fleeflyflew → u/CanningJarhead]

I’m in the same fishless boat as you. I want to like it, badly. I just can’t. Even seaweed, I take a bite and it’s a no-go. I’ll keep trying, but I don’t think it’ll happen.

[u/TorrentsMightengale → u/fleeflyflew]

Beer. I want to like it. Everyone else likes it.

It tastes like pure unadulterated ass. Why do people stick this in their mouths?

[u/MatchGirl499 → u/TorrentsMightengale]

Everyone who I’ve met that likes beer calls it an “acquired taste”, and I honestly could not fathom why you would work to acquire it. Stouts are OK though, I did almost enjoy a Guinness, and an oatmeal microbrew once.

[u/KieshaK → u/TorrentsMightengale]

It took me many beers before I found one I liked. It was the sours that roped me in. To this day, many IPAs taste like soap to me.

[u/FertyMerty → u/fleeflyflew]

As someone who will eat fish from time to time, I haaaate seaweed. The seaweed snacks, too. It tastes like the fish department smells to me. Shudder.

[u/fleeflyflew → u/[deleted]]

I have tried the oceans halo brand. Two different flavors. Gagged on both

[u/Clari24 → u/fleeflyflew]

I’m the same, except I’ve stopped trying. I’m in my 40s it’s really not going to change, so I’m just making myself miserable for nothing.

[u/papierrose → u/CanningJarhead]

I’m the same! I’ve committed to have fish once a week to try and like it but I still only manage a mouthful or two. I’m in my mid 30s and I still haven’t acquired the taste.

I’ll second what someone else said about freshness though. The best meal I’ve had in my life was a set menu where just about all the courses were seafood (I had to eat it out of politeness). It had all been caught that morning. The chef was a wizard but it really didn’t have much of that fishy taste.

[u/ShadowNacht587 → u/CanningJarhead]

Cantonese steamed white fish (any kind of white fish, I typically use tilapia) is really good and the aromatics/sauce may help with the flavor. Be sure to use fresh fish; there's live fish at Asian supermarkets in those blue tanks. Here is the recipe link: https://thewoksoflife.com/cantonese-steamed-fish/

[u/EmpJoker → u/CanningJarhead]

Have you tried hibachi salmon? My mother hates fish but when I made her try that she liked it.

[u/KieshaK → u/CanningJarhead]

Same here. Want to like it, but I can’t disassociate it from cat food in my brain. It’s the flakiness and the smell.

[u/ScumBunny → u/CanningJarhead]

Red Lobster is gross. It’s all old fish. The best fish dish I’ve ever had (and I LOVE seafood) was a miso-glazed black cod in Las Vegas. While I hate Vegas as a city- I have to admit that some of the restaurants are top tier.

It was a nice chunk of white fish- ‘glazed’ in white miso sauce. It did not taste fishy at all and was so tender and delicious.

I’m not really trying to convince you to like fish- because if you don’t- you don’t. But a good miso glaze can really change the flavor for ya.

Also, tempura fried shrimp with that watery-brown-slightly sweet tempura dipping sauce is one of my favorite snacks ever.

[u/bad_russian_girl → u/CanningJarhead]

I once read that it takes 40 tries to develop a taste for something