The saying ‘one man’s food is another man’s poison’ cannot be better attributed than to its central theme – food. We all have food we love and the food we loathe. Much more, we all have food we despise and we think are not worth any second of our time.
This week on WhatsApp Conversation, we are discussing the food and drinks that we loathe and others find interesting.
Beauty Odili
Fondant! Yes, fondant covering for cakes is so crappy but we don’t want to have that conversation yet. Every wedding I’ve ever been to, they’ve paid hundreds for a shit fruit cake draped in three inches of fondant. I cannot believe it is still so popular. I’m still shocked that those cake decorating competitions are people putting fondant on plywood. It’s unnecessary.
Adeola Juwon
Beer. Absolutely, it’s just bitterness brewed into liquid form to satiate the egoistic desire of man to live up to some social standard. Pounded yam and efo. It’s like paying to sleep with a prostitute. You’ve lost your money before you realise that there’s no value in it. Semo deserves a mention but we’ve all agreed that only the worst of the worst considers it food. So, that’s that.
Abiodun Bayonle
Beer is terrible. “But you have to acquire a taste for it,” says beer people. If I have to work at liking it, there’s already a problem. I still don’t know why people insist it’s like the most refreshing thing to drink. “Nothing like a cold beer on a summers day.” I just need water and I’m not talking alcohol, I drink mostly liquor, but my friends are just obsessed with beer and I just don’t get it
Do you know what I don’t have to acquire a taste for? Stuff that is already delicious. The first time I ever had pizza, it was great.
Bunmi Arije
Easy pick, it is energy drinks. Lots of people who didn’t try it think it’s the holy water when in reality it tastes good for the first four swigs then becomes like acid. After the three hours of unnatural energy, you crash down like a bear. Don’t recommend it to anyone.
Bianca Ugwu
Any food that pretends to be another food. It’s never good. I have friends that act like they can’t tell the difference between rice and cauliflower rice and I know its make-believe. There is no way they can’t taste the difference. I’m like this with almost any substitute. Just call it what it is and roll with it because I’m sceptical of all of them at this point.
Memunat Issa
For me, anything that is sugar-free or a sugar substitute. Whatever sweetener they use has a really awful taste to me and no matter how much a person swear, I won’t be able to taste the difference, I can and it’s always awful. Also anything with red food colouring. Any cake with red frosting or red velvet cake just tastes like dye to me. I thought red velvet cake was supposed to be coloured with beets, but every time I’ve been forced to try it, it always tasted extremely bitter because of the dye. I also hate it because I’m lactose-intolerant and cream cheese frosting gives me diarrhoea.
Ebube Nsude
Jack Daniel’s. It’s obviously a popular whiskey but it’s honestly fucking awful. Even with coke or any other mixer I think it is still a bit rough, It’s the Budweiser of whiskeys, I know. I don’t hate people who love it, though – you like what you like and you don’t like what you don’t like.
Jerry Elebute
Gourmet food. Oh, I know the movies and rich people magazine make us feel like we must all try out gourmet and fine dining at a point in our life. It’s crap though. Here we go: Shark fin soup: overpriced, disgusting gelatinous soup for which a shark, the most majestic creature I can think of in the sea outside of dolphins and whales, was murdered so you could enjoy its appendage. A relative made me try a few sips when I was very, very young. It was gross. I’ve never had it since and make it a point to get preachy whenever I see someone else try to order it.
Swallow’s nest soup: It’s made from twigs and swallows’ spit. Does that sound yummy? I assure you it is not. It’s also more expensive than the equally disgusting gelatinous soup above. Somebody in the third world risked his or her neck harvesting this bird saliva shit from a cave crevice so you could enjoy it. It wasn’t worth it.Gourmet food is very unnecessary.
Francis Tinuala
It has to be plantain. Like what’s the use of that thing in this life. Leave it at banana. So grossly overrated. Too much stress to prepare, too many temptations when preparing, not to talk of the possibility of hot oil splashing on you.
Nwakaego Ilochonwu
Pizza, Salad, Sharwama, Burger. All crap, overrated and overpriced. The taste is enough reason to designate them so.
John Owolabi
Okro in the food category, bigi cola in the drink category. Okro turns my stomach really bad, while Bigi cola is low budget Coca-Cola. You have to really wonder why people like these things.
James Akanbi
Fufu; the rubber-like nature and the ridiculous smell is a turnoff. It just isn’t for me.
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