Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

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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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