Unpopular Opinions: Food & Drink Edition (2023)

Why put yourself through the horror of eating kale when you could have collards?

Why put yourself through the horror of eating kale, period? I ruined an entire pot of the most delicious chicken noodle soup by putting kale in at the end. It's something you should only do one bowl at a time, in case you don't like kale, as I found out I didn't.

I like Fig Newtons.

I like Fig Newtons too. They satisfy my sweet tooth without all the fat and calories of, say, chocolate chip cookies.

I love fig rolls , OP.

I love a Garibaldi too! Dead fly biscuits, Yum!

Oatmeal raisin is the best cookie.

Peanut butter is the worst cookie.

Pumpkin spice anything is the great shame of our nation, particularly the Thanksgiving pie.

Why are "Doubled-stuff" Oreos not doubled-stuff anymore? They are "singled-stuff"now!! BTW....I LOVE Fig Newtons. P.S. I've called the number on the package to complain, and I contacted a board member to bitch.

Fig Newtons™ are one of the few cookies I can eat "naked." No coffee or tea, ice cream, milk or anything else needed.

Can we just go back to simple eating, and not all the "tortured" foods we've been subjected to in the last decade or two? What the hell is wrong with simple roasts, broiled fish, steamed or sautéed vegetables and other foods that don't require a go-round in the Hadron Collider?

I still can't believe people willingly eat sushi. Let's call it what it is. RAW FISH. That's what seals eat!

OP, this is for you!

Im guessing Fig Newtons are a processed version of a decadent treat our ancestors once ate and enjoyed. Processed foods last longer on the store shelves but are missing appealing tastes and even textures.

I'm still looking for those old fashioned raisin cookies, that was a great treat

Hi, Bronzie. I love broiled fish. Just a little lemon and butter when it comes out.

Love kale and only began consuming this vegetation when it became trendy for American consumers. I love the taste and even its fresh odor.

R9 I hope the Darfur Orphan isn't reading your post.

Oh poop

I like Fig Newtons, as well as all the other fruit newtons, like apple and cherry.

I remember reading books by American authors as a child and wondering what on earth a fig newton was. Yeah, that certainly wouldn't have been a favourite of mine as a kid either.

We have/had biscuits in my country colloquially called "squashed fly" biscuits, which are similarly disgusting. I believe they have them under other names elsewhere too:

Thanksgiving is a nice enough concept, but the meal (in almost any variation but the Jewish Xmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant) lies somewhere between barely edible and repulsive.

Chicken anything.

For about 5 years now I have been avoiding chicken anything more and more.

It is just boring. Its flavor comes from what it's cooked in or coated with.

Oddly enough I do still like the egg drop soup at my local Chinese restaurant.

But I would never order a chicken dish in a restaurant ever again.

[quote]Fig Newtons are some of the most abhorrent and grotesque excuses for "cookies" that I've ever had the displeasure of putting in my mouth. It feels like you're chewing sand from a refugee encampment in the Middle East wrapped in undercooked and poorly sweetened dough.

I do feel your pain OP. Sounds like torture. So sorry you must endure this abhorrent food. My condolences.

I wish there was something I could do to ease your pain.

Tell you what, next time you get a box or a package of these disgusting fig newtons, mail it off to me. I will dispose of it. That way, it will be half a world away and you won't ever have to think of it again.

Oatmeal raising cookies are The Work of Satan!

Garibaldi biscuits are delicious

R24 This thread gave me such an appetite for one, I went out earlier and bought a packet.

Now dunking them in my tea before bed.

Have not seen these in years, r25. I loved the cookies as a kid

At one place I worked, the office cafeteria kept an Otis S. cookie station in the check out lane. The chocolate chunk cookies were always snatched first but there always remained several oatmeal raisin cookies. I cannot tell you how many times I watched as people, eyes alight with anticipation and tongs at the ready, die a little inside when they realized they had picked up an oatmeal raisin. There was a quick glimmer of hope as they perused the other shelves, then defeated resignation. Some would settle for a chocolate-chocolate chunk if it was available, but I never saw anyone take the oatmeal raisins. You could probably fill an entire landfill with all the oatmeal raisin cookies tossed out the end of every day from such places.

r21 I can't imagine not liking chicken. I love to roast a whole chicken with the cavity stuffed with lemon, garlic or onion, and thyme. It has lots of flavor. I always buy a "good" chicken, not Perdue or the cheapest possible bird. I like Empire or something from Whole Foods. I like rotisserie chicken as well. It's my favorite meat-based dinner.

A fig, like a raisin and a date is a fruit that doesn't need any additional sugar when dried. A dried fig is utterly delicious. Because of their natural sugars plus the nutrients in their seeds, figs are avidly sought after by many different animals, birds and insects in the tropical forests and subtropical regions where they are native and were undoubtedly one of the main foods consumed by our primate ancestors in Africa. Fig Newtons are a more refined product, but health food stores often have more nutritious varieties with far less added sugar. I'm a fan, particularly of fig bars made with whole grains.

Dried figs also help with BMs!

R28 My mum wouldn't eat chicken. As a girl, living on a farm in the 1930s she saw them having their necks pulled and plucked. It put her right off and she'd have fish or another meat when she cooked roast chicken for the rest of the family.

Fig jam and brie on an artisan cracker is delicious.

Fresh figs are delicious, too, if you can find them

Fig jam and peanut butter mixed in steel cut oatmeal is delicious!

They're a good source of calcium and potassium.

[quote] Fig jam and brie on an artisan cracker is delicious.

Mary! on the artisan cracker.

😂😂😂 I don't like them either, OP. Or graham crackers!

All of you "fig lovers" need to be 5150'd. I am concerned for your safety.

This is a large group of people across generations and continents. It's an ancient treat. Very old school.

Newman's Own Fig Newmans used to be really good, now the cookie part is really dry and crumbly.

“A cookie is just a cookie but Newtons are fruit and cake.”

If I may... 40 something years ago when I was 12 I used to love Fig Newtons. Of course they were better made back then. But I do hate Kale. With a passion. Please add Okra to the list. Ugh.

Chocolate is overrated. People who go nuts over it are really just addicted to the sugar that must be added to make it sweet.

I loved Fig Newtons as a kid. Oh, and that Big Fig Newton commercial (which was played constantly on TV) - none of us noticed back then how gay it was.

I love crisp bacon but chewy bacon grosses me out.

I love Fig Newtons. If you put them in the microwave for a few seconds, or crisp them up in the toaster oven, they are even better.

Those Spanish fig/almond cakes are super delicious.

Plus, most of them only have 2 ingredients, figs and almonds, so they're healthier than Fig Newtons.

r43 Chocolate actually has chemicals in it that stimulate oxytocin (the "love" hormone) and dopamine receptors in the brain.

I like fig newtons, but i love the whole grain ones you find sporadically in smaller grocery stores (usually ones that carry healthier food). I like the apricot ones the best.

And I really like graham crackers too. But the cinnamon-sugar ones are overpowering.

I like chocolate as well, but i don't go nuts for it. i've found most people like sweets, candy and chocolate far more than I do. Like last night, one of the mini dark chocolate peanut butter cups from TJ's was perfect/enough. And the choice between pancakes or waffles over omelettes...i'm more of a savory person and will choose omelettes/eggs any time over the sweet stuff.

R43 and R48 that is interesting, because I keep saying to people that I feel addicted to chocolate but that I don't really like it that much. I just can't stop eating it when I get on a loop (which is why I now don't eat it at all). I'm actually a savoury person more than a sweet, but I can stop eating savoury food - with sweet I struggle. I thought it was just the sugar, but the information at R48 is very interesting.

R47, IMO, they should’ve put a photo of what that cake looks like. They only showed the box.

r51 I feel the same. I went to the link to see what it looked like and all I got was the stupid box lol

R51 R52

Here's a photo of another brand.

Also, just to be clear, it's not a "cake" in the way that most Americans would think of a cake, it's literally just dried, pressed figs with thinly sliced almonds.

You can usually find them at Whole Foods, or other high-end, or gourmet, grocery stores.

That looks dry and tough.

A bit like a sweet biltong.

r53 Thanks. I hate it.

I love Fig Newtons, but they give me the shits.

I like fig newtons…the cakes outside and sweet inside… I also like the blueberry , strawberry, pineapple, and cherry style newtons.. so good.

Does anyone remember those fig & coconut candies with a raw almond on top? They were sold at health food stores.

The fig and coconut mixture were shaped into a small, oblong bar (like a See's candy). There was a whole, white almond on top.

Nuts.com sells them and calls them "Coconut Holiday Dates."

I always enjoyed Fig Newtons. That was my "reward" every time I donated platelets. These days, I will occasionally get the Nature's Bakery fig bars from Costco for a holiday treat.

R49 I think you are in the minority. I wish I were like you though. I’ve been addicted to sweets since I was a kid!

[quote] I always enjoyed Fig Newtons. That was my "reward" every time I donated platelets.

I used to donate blood at my previous town where I lived. They had so much food (freebies) for donors.

I don’t know how anyone can eat anything that smells as bad as fish and eggs do.

Trader Joes fig cookies are pretty good, at least they were.

Trader Joe's triple ginger cookies are completely overhyped and were a disappointment. They just don't have the ginger flavor I was hoping for. If you've ever tasted ginger root, it's intense. How do you call something "triple ginger" and there's no flavor.

Chicken and Waffles are great seperately but not together.

Aside from burgers, I'm not crazy about beef.

Fries without the potato skins are best.

The best kind of burger is the smasburger. It makes all other burgers seem boring by comparison. It's like soup dumplings, you can never feel the same way about standard dumplings after you've had it.

I don't care if there are nutrients in fruit and vegetable skins, most fruit and veg need peeling.

Pussy.

No.

Fig Newtons are delicious.

I prefer Coffee Mate to dairy creamer.

R68 Smashburgers are always burned to hell. It's a trend that will die eventually.

While we're on burgers, mayonnaise on a burger is repulsive.

What makes a smashburger so much better than a regular burger? I'm unclear.

[quote] Pumpkin spice anything is the great shame of our nation, particularly the Thanksgiving pie.

I'm sure some data analyst somewhere has made a map depicting a 99% correlation between the presence of basic women and the consumption of pumpkin products.

R74, I just think it tastes way better due to the "smash". Not all will agree of course. The ones I've had never tasted burnt.

[quote] It's like soup dumplings, you can never feel the same way about standard dumplings after you've had it.

What's a "soup dumpling"? What's a "standard dumpling"?

R77, soup dumplings are just dumplings made with soup in them. They are amazing. By standard dumpling, I just meant any dumpling without the soup.

[quote] What makes a smashburger so much better than a regular burger? I'm unclear.

Here's my guess. It's for people who want a well-done burger. It's somewhat thin (smashed), so, it's also for people who want to put a lot of toppings on their burger.

There are exceptions but turkey is nasty.

I have eaten lobster probably 2 or 3 times in my life. And I will probably never eat it again.

I really don't get the fuss and could easily never had wasted time or money on it.

I can put a ton of butter on a baked potato and enjoyed it more than the lobster I had.

OP has an unsophisticated, retarded palate. The occasional Newton is a delight. She probably thinks Chips Ahoy! is a delicacy.

My unpopular food opinion is that oysters (any crustacean, really) and escargot are fucking disgusting peasant foods.

Chips ahoy are cardboard tasting shit biscuits these days,nasty.

I thought Chips Ahoy was disgusting even as a kid.

Me too r84

[quote]My unpopular food opinion is that oysters (any [bold]crustacean,[/bold] really)

Oysters are mollusks, hon.

Figs are nasty. I have a bird and she likes figs.so I once gave her a fig in the morning and came back at 8pm and the fig had a worm moving in it! I avoid them now, we have switched to mangoes and dates. I think a wasp has to die inside the fig for a fig to be produced.

[quote]I think a wasp has to die inside the fig for a fig to be produced.

I've heard this too and it puts me off them. I have tried them before and didn't really like them anyway.

Dates though, are nature's candy. Yum!

[quote]I think a wasp has to die inside the fig for a fig to be produced.

Yes. It's the circle of life.

R57 where do you find those different flavors of Fig Newtons? Only ones I can find are fig and strawberry.

I like chicken breast but I can’t eat the dark meat part of chicken. So gamey.

I like the flavor of chemicals in my processed food and drinks.

Aspartame is fine with me. My beloved Fresca wouldn't be the same without it.

When it comes to the perfect amalgam of food chemicals, Nabisco Pinwheels Cookies are the best. In fact, they should be called Nabisco Chemical Pinwheel Cookies.

Yeah, I said it.

RIP r92.

You too, r93.

God Hates Figs

Amen, r95.

I remember liking Chips Ahoy, even though my mom made the Nestlé Tollhouse choc. chip cookies. I think it was just the novelty of it. I was also fascinated by the wrapped slices of Kraft American cheese.

I didn't realise this was unpopular until I read so many other people say how much they don't like them, but:

I like candy corn. I'm not even American, haha.

r98 the thought of candy corn makes my throat instantly close up. so sickly-sweet and disgusting.

I like it too. Not enough to buy it but I’d eat it. Don’t understand the intense hatred towards something so mild.

Yeah, I enjoyed candy corn as a kid. It's kind of waxy, I guess.

Yeah, it's totally the texture for me that makes me love it. I like a lot of candy (or what we call 'lollies') with that or similar textures.

In N Out is overrated. Very good burger but horrible fries.

🤓 [italic] Darn Tootin' We Love Fig Newton's !

Candy Corn, Chips Ahoy, Fig Newtons ......

🇺🇸 [italic] God Bless America !

For the poster who doesn't like kale, I don't either. But I found a recipe in United magazine for a Portuguese potato and kale soup that is absolutely delicious. I'm with the poster on Okra. Can't stand that slimy shit.

I don't like garbanzo beans/chick peas. I don't the like consistency of them whole but do like hummus.

Chips Ahoy! used to be good (I worked for Nabisco from 89-99). For me, there's too many chocolate chips and not enough cookie. I do like oatmeal raisin cookies. Chocolate keeps me up at night so I like an oatmeal raisin cookie with tea. Graham crackers are good, too, but only the plain or chocolate ones.

I eat a lot of kale, but I mix it with other greens (spinach and arugula) for a wonderful salad. It’s tough rough to eat by itself

Not even figs, raisins.

Since this is also about drinks...

Pinot noir is gross. It tastes like liquified wood.

Speaking of unpopular opinions about drink, I can actually do without alcohol, OP. I do like some of it (beer is great on a hot day, I like a gin too), but I kinda think it's overrated.

I don’t like alcohol either, except for hard cider 🍺

I don't want to google it but I read that figs contain a lot of bugs and that scared me off.

There used to be a brand of fig cookies that I would buy at health food stores that were significantly better than Fig Newtons. Natural fig taste sweetened only with fruit juice and wrapped in a whole wheat cookie. I can't remember the brand name, but I haven't seen them in several years anyway. So you can get good quality fig cookies.

I like Fig Newtons (& all of the other Newton flavors) -- you know who else does too? Raccoons. Also graham crackers.

Wasps in Figs

r115 That's what adds to the signature "fig crunch." Wasp corpses.

Salt is not meant for human consumption. It is just a basic chemical like sulfur.

I’m almost 60 and I have never cooked with salt nor ever had any in my home.

Except for rock salt which I have used to melt ice on my steps.

r117 Tell me you have no Black friends without telling me you have no Black friends.

(I keed. I keed).

R117, can you describe what you like to eat? Do you have condiments in your house? Do you eat takeout or restaurant food? Do you ask for “no salt” at restaurants?

R119 I have many types of condiments just not salt..

I did not mean to imply I eat only sodium free food. With food today it is almost impossible to find sodium free food and it is quite difficult to find low sodium food.

I do not salt my food nor do I eat food that tastes salty because I truly hate the taste of salt.

Salt is no more food than sulfur or selenium

[quote]Salt is not meant for human consumption.

Humans cannot survive without ingesting salt, r120. We would literally die without it. That said, I rarely use it myself.

I grew up in a sort of health food-y household, R97, and my sisters and myself craved and loved nothing more than Kraft singles. About once every 1-2 years our mum would give in to our begging and buy us a pack and I remember sitting on the kitchen floor ripping those things open and devouring them. They're different now, at least in Canada. Thinner, and the texture is not the same, it's sticky and slightly mealy. The Swiss variety still has the old texture and every year or so i buy some and eat them straight out of the package like the shameless little pig I am.

Speaking of delicious chemicals, R92, whatever specific blend McDonalds puts in their Quarter Pounder patties (but none of their other patties, I don't think) is *delicious.* I also like Fresca for it's refreshing chemical taste!

Kraft American Cheese is amazing when used with burgers and for grilled cheese. But it's useless for anything else.

Cool, r123.

Anyone who enjoys Kraft Singles is to he pitied.

Mexican food is too spicy!

Candied yams are gross.

R122 I bought some last year (in the US) and they were the same. So sticky I could barely handle them and almost gritty, or mealy as you said.

I switched to Velveeta brand and it tastes the way Kraft used to.

I used to feed my cat Kraft singles, now he won't even eat them

Kraft singles are technically congealed cheese sauce rather than cheese, which is probably what makes them gritty.

It's like chilling a very thick batch of Mornay Sauce and selling individual slices of it. Industrial ultra-processed Mornay Sauce, though.

Having worked for years as a cook, here's my deeply unpopular opinion: eggs are fucking disgusting. Heart disease and gastroenteritis conveniently packaged in a shit-smeared shell. I'll be glad when I never have to deal with them again.

Likewise oysters. If I want a mouthful of salty gloop I'll suck a dick.

Add mayonnaise to the salty gloop list.

r133 And hollandaise sauce. What a disgusting and rank culinary idea.

You know what would make mayonnaise even better? Heat it up! Glop it on steak and add an upcharge!

r133 Ay caramba! With Hollandaise sauce you're halfway to Béarnaise, the best thing to happen to a steak(and french fries as well)