Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

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[–] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.

I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.

I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I consider myself openminded and tolerant.

    I once heard a fellow say he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.

    Outwardly I stayed calm but in my heart I wanted to burn the heretic.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.

    The first time I encountered "ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce," I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is "too much".

    I live in a very weird state.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I've known a few midwesterners like that, they likely grew up on "natural flavor" and never add anything to their food and eat the blandest possible interpretations of real foods, and since their taste buds aren't used to any real flavor anything cooked with flavor is extreme to them

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    What leads to this… genuinely curious.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    If you go back far enough, there’s a lot of Scandinavian heritage in Minnesota settlers, especially Sweden and Norway. Historically, Scandinavian foods lacked spice because there weren’t a lot of spices that grew there. The settlers brought the palette that comes with that with them.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I grew up eating what most people consider very spicy food. I don't care what level of spicy other people are comfortable with, but I've found that amongst certain types of people I have to be discreet about my preference for spicy food. Some people find it a novelty to gawk at which is just awkward.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I fairly recently moved to Minnesota and I love very spicy foods. I just have to accept the fact that everything people here tell me is spicy is going to be very tame. People that get to know me have started saying "really spicy... for Minnesota" lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I don't eat meat at all anymore, but growing up, whenever we had steaks I would always prefer it well done. It wasn't really that I enjoyed it that way though, just that I did not like the flavor and texture of steak even cooked perfectly, my father did and kept making me eat it, and cooking it to a crisp and then covering it with ketchup and paprika was a way to make it not taste like steak anymore.

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