Eating for Peace: How cuisine bridges cultures

Re:Eating for Peace: How cuisine bridges cultures by colechristensen on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:00PM (#17476243)

>Are picky eaters more likely to be xenophobes?

Some picky eaters have to do with different levels of taste, or some people tasting different things.

Tomatoes, for me, get almost a nauseous reaction from me. There is a specific very loud flavor in raw tomatoes that I just can't stand. It's gone in cooked tomatoes. There are a few of us, and the idea is there is some chemical that some people taste but most don't.

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Re:Eating for Peace: How cuisine bridges cultures by wavefunction on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:18PM (#17476775)

I used to feel as you do until I had heirloom tomatoes that had been grown with care unlike the bland and irksome things presented as tomatoes at my local grocery store.

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Re:Eating for Peace: How cuisine bridges cultures by craftyguy on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:30PM (#17476336)

Fellow raw tomato hater here, you summed it up well. Sometimes people dislike food because of taste, who would have thought?

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