"I hate green peppers"

WHO SAID THIS.

I WANT A NAME

elmo
bell labs

my dad and my sister don't care for green peppers. i don't get it.

it was me! green peppers are gross

green peppers don't really have a taste though. they're just CRUNCHY

I don't like green peppers.

Better to let them ripen into red peppers.

xxpost RONG

Better to let them ripen into red peppers.

HUH????????

i can deal with other bell peppers, just not green. but i dont love them. also they hurt my stomach and make me burp.

but i love chili peppers

RED HOT chili peppers?????

essential for the Holy Trinity in cajun cooking

i hate the flavor of green peppers so much that i don't even like to eat other food that has touched them!!!

always kinda bullshit when they show up in chinee food

The color can be green, red, yellow, orange and, more rarely, white, purple, blue, and brown, depending on when they are harvested and the specific cultivar. Green peppers are unripe bell peppers, while the others are all ripe, with the color variation based on cultivar selection. Because they are unripe, green peppers are less sweet and slightly more bitter than yellow, orange, or red peppers.

I like them in numerous applications.

green bell peppers taste like bile strained through lawn clippings, EVIL EVIL GROSS AND BAD

Who said they don't taste like anything?? I like green peppers just fine but they have a v STRONG taste actually. Like cilantro, but different.

Green bell peppers are fucking amazing, you mentalists.

I love the moisture in a nice crisp raw green pepper. Also hang on...

green peppers do not ripen into red peppers. but red peppers start out green and become red? or start out red and become green?

The shittiest of the peppers

Dr is worse

They don't taste unpleasant at all!!!

green peppers are so fucking good.

xposts

not to mention Brian

does dom eat food?

FUCK YOU QUE DR PEPPER IS AWESOME

i like green peppers

Maybe there is some specific chemical compound in green (vs. other-colored) peppers, which these people are somehow particularly sensitive to?

I would guess that most people cannot differentiate much between the flavors of green and red peppers -- I certainly can't imagine anyone passing a blindfold test.

Red peppers tend to be sweeter than green peppers.

i don't have much of a palate, though. i can't always taste stuff. i'm damaged goods.

xpost DR PEPPER SUCKS DAN P.S. GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN SEND YOU AN IPHONE

Actually roasting them brings out the difference for me, since the sweetness of the red ones really ... expands.

they taste like poison

One of the best for stuffing.

stuffed green peppers! super easy to make and tasty

red peppers taste red

yeah i do taste a difference with the red ones but the green ones don't always have a taste for me. it's like one step up from celery.

(i'm r/g colorblind, though)

I've tried using other peppers in hoppin john to mostly terrible results.

xpost yeah Dan, sweeter, but if you gave people little slivers with a blindfold on, it's not like ... they don't seem like vastly different tastes to the point of hating one and loving the other, not unless maybe there's some minor thing about the one that specific people just react strongly to

"tastes like poison" = why my dad took a bad of Skittles away from me when I was 7

"tastes like Poison" = subtitle of CeCe's sex tape

between this and the neck goiter thread i feel nauseous

yeah, i'm not biologically dysfunctional, and i can enjoy red bell peppers if they are cooked well enough, but the taste of green peppers is so vibrant and overpowering and bitter that they ruin for me whatever food they are added to.

yeah Dan, sweeter, but if you gave people little slivers with a blindfold on, it's not like ... they don't seem like vastly different tastes to the point of hating one and loving the other, not unless maybe there's some minor thing about the one that specific people just react strongly to

I don't know, I think I could tell them apart. They taste very different to me (don't know how much of that is "this tastes red!" Kool-Aid-style flavor differentiation, though).

i bet elmo and bell pepper labs (WINK WINK) have an enzyme or something that makes green peppers taste grody. like the people who hate cilantro, and think it taste like soap.

haha okay maybe I am blaming other people for having "specific reactions" when really I myself am the pepper-tasting dullard

they taste like poison

-- bell_labs, Friday, December 7, 2007 9:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

delicious poison!

Is it strychnine that tastes like almonds? NUM NUM

ah, although Que sees what I mean! sometimes there are just weird personal chemistry reactions with this kinda stuff!

I am glad to be able to eat a nice visual spectrum of stuffed peppers, I admit

cyanide i think?

Question for green-pepper haters: do you get bummed out by things with pepper-and-onion mixes, like fajitas or those Italian sandwiches and whatnot? (There's a good taste split in those: if you made them with red peppers they would be gross and sweet, I think.)

yeah, sometimes people have specific tastes in food that are much more easily explained by what food they were raised eating without resorting to "personal food chemistry" nonsense. i wasn't raised on 'em and never learned to like 'em!

We used to pick them from our garden and eat them raw. YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2126/2093455945_2518b0a0ed.jpg?v=0

IN MY KITCHEN NOW WTF

I think someone sick jizzed in your bell pepper.

NASTY NASTY NASTY

Green bell peppers have two times the vitamin C by weight than citrus fruits (oranges, lemons etc.) and Red bell peppers have three times what the green bell varieties have.

DICK IN A PEPPER

the only thing green peppers are good for are making the ears on your birthday party pizza-pie face

^^^^crazypants

Did you know that all baby peppers start out green, then change color as they mature? In fact, when you're growing bell peppers, some stay green until they mature to yellow or red, while others may turn white, lilac or purple before maturing to red, yellow or orange.

WOAH^^^^

nooo then the pizza will taste of their ESSENCE

yeah, sometimes people have specific tastes in food that are much more easily explained by what food they were raised eating without resorting to "personal food chemistry" nonsense.

DUDE I was resorting to chemistry here because I think for lots of people, the difference in tastes between green/red peppers is not enough to account for SUPER-different reactions, the same way you rarely see people who are all like "I can eat an orange, but tangerines are fucking NASTY"

but whateva

it's true, even picking green peppers out of things leaves the nasty pepper taste

it's astounding that we even have to have a conversation about whether green peppers are good.

this is like saying "i hate sleeping on a bed"

omg I now want some green bell pepper ice cream

OF NAILS

(filling in for bellmo)

I like red peppers, esp. raw in salads. Green peppers not so much, unless they're in some creole cooking or just a few on a pizza. I hate 'em in stir-fries. And I can taste a very big difference between the red and green ones.

xpost to nabisco, I don't like fajitas and other dishes that come with an onion-pepper mix. Green peppers are bitter when they're overcooked, and the onion-pepper mix usually got made up in a huge batch at the start of the shift, and by the time I order, it's nasty. (Had some AWFUL onions and peppers on a sandwich at Mario Battali's father's place in Seattle.)

nabisco, i am just not comfortable with the idea that my unpopular food preferences will be explained away / normalized via a "faulty enzymes" theory. I GOTTA BE ME.

omg I now want some green bell pepper ice cream

-- HI DERE, Friday, December 7, 2007 3:40 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

^this has most likely happened on iron chef between 2-4 times.

i like them sauteed as a pizza toppping, raw wrapped with thinly-sliced salami, or stewed for stuffed peppers. otherwise, meh. i really hate them in chinese food and yes, i get bummed out by the pepper and onion mix that's ubiquitous in crappy "mexican" food.

I would try green bell pepper ice cream. But red bell pepper ice cream would be better.

Well, yes.

If I had a sample of the sound of someone biting into a bell pepper I could listen to it on loop for at least 2-5 minutes.

ugh the mere thought makes my skin crawl

they hurt my stomach and make me burp.

i think that's a fairly common reaction and not due to some kind of food intolerance. they're unripe, after all.

It wouldn't necessarily be a faulty enzyme, Elmo, it could be a special superpower to detect traces of whatever chemical is in green peppers saying "wait, don't eat me until my seeds are ready"

LOL MUTIE

nabisco, i am just not comfortable with the idea that my unpopular food preferences will be explained away / normalized via a "faulty enzymes" theory. I GOTTA BE ME.

-- elmo argonaut, Friday, December 7, 2007 4:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

But you like red peppers which are virtually indistinguishable (uncooked) to the green pepper lovers on the thread...

hahaha, "seed whisperer" would be a great, if rarely useful, superpower

Catsup Dude: this pepper thing is very confusing
Bell Labs: i need to stop reading it or i am going to throw up 

yummy. good on pizza

maybe elmo and i are supertasters
that is a real thing!

TS: bell peppers vs that outrageously gross zit on chaki's thread

Some peppers also have neck-tits.

Only when fully immersed in the jorts of a prowling cougar, though.

jerk the jort enough and you get poppage

Yes, supertasters, total thing.

We should get all ridiculous scientific and evolutionary here, and track down areas of the world where seasonal food variations would make it advantageous to be able to eat peppers before ripening, and then swab out cheeks and DNA-trace ourselves for regional compatibility. And then MRI brain scans, while eating peppers

BOO

http://www.mountainmeadowseeds.com/seeds/BellPepper-B.jpg

or we could just order pizza

(w/green peppers)

bell labs likes spicy food too much to be a supertaster

(that picture was clearly taken by a golden retriever, I think)

being a supertaster would suck! some things that supertasters i have known can't have because they taste like horrible burning: beer, wine (except for things like honey wine, plum wine, and maneschewitz), hard liquor (except for vodka), broccoli (actually, almost all cruciferous veg), spinach, citrus fruits/juices, anything spicy...

I really dislike broccoli

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/supertaster/

maneschewitz
i think this tastes terrrible

but all the other stuff on that list i like!

i adore broccoli. i ate 2/3 of a lb. today.

so do supertasters have really intense, detailed experiences with, like, toast?

I'm sure I'm not a supertaster but I do have v v pronounced food dislikes & taste/texture aversions. Prob just from growing up Midwestern.

Cilantro and anise, on the other hand, will practically induce vomiting.

^^^i'm trying to fight that stereotype

xpost, i mean the midwestern thing

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM anise!

Cilantro I don't care one way or the other about.

i love cilantro, but anise is one of my very, very few dislikes

i like cilantro but i DO get the soapy taste sometimes

I'm sure I'm not a supertaster but I do have v v pronounced food dislikes & taste/texture aversions. Prob just from growing up Midwestern.

-- Laurel, Friday, December 7, 2007 4:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

supertasters just taste bitter and salty foods so strongly that it's an unpleasant experience to eat them. they don't experience all foods more deeply, as i understand it.

maneschewitz
i think this tastes terrrible

that's because you have some sense.

Test your tastebuds

Conduct a simple scientific experiment to find out whether you have a supertaster tongue or not. All you need is:

* Food colouring
* Cotton buds
* Reinforcement rings for hole-punched paper
* Magnifying glass

This is what you need to do:

1. Using a cotton bud, swab some food colouring on to the tip of your tongue
2. Place a reinforcement ring on your tongue
3. Count the pink dots within the reinforcement ring. This may be easier with a magnifying glass

The pink dots are your fungiform papillae. They don't take up the food colouring. These papillae are the tiny bumps on your tongue that house your taste buds. The more papillae you have, the more taste buds you have and the more sensitive to taste you are. On average, non-tasters have fewer than 15 papillae in that area, while supertasters have over 30.

In high school I had to take a throat medicine for thrush that was about the consistency of melted slug, and you were supposed to swallow REALLY REALLY SLOWLY to make it coat your throat and stay there...and the ONLY flavor it was made in was anise. Oh god so pukey.

oh god - i had to take that stuff as a small child! SO VOMITOUS!!!!

I read things like elmo's experiment, on subjects I'm only vaguely interested in, and my reaction is invariably "why the fuck would I do that".

Also melted slug medicine sounds kind of delish.

to find out if you have a super tounge.

I've always had a sneaking suspicion that slugs might actually be delicious.

i am super bullshit-detector, and i call super bullshit on the super tasters

All I need to do to find out if I have a super tongue is ask the ladeez.

you think you're special but you're not

xpost?

i have a super bullshit detector detector

CALLING BULLSHIT ON THE SUPERTASTERS: the new solo album by n/a

that is a good name!

Isn't that a 70s Genesis album already?

no you're thinking of EVENINGS WITH SUPERTONGUE

am i

no that was for Dan

anise is good!

I was going to say something here, but Rock Hardy already said it upthread.

that five question survey is a crock of shit

All I need to do to find out if I have a super tongue is ask the ladeez.

-- HI DERE, Friday, December 7, 2007 5:08 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

where is red wing story?

people who say red & green peppers, when raw, taste the same are absolutely RONG.

tombot, crocks of shit taste awful i should know i'm a supertaster

did you leave town? or did you stay?

NOTE: This is not about me. John J and FB can def. confirm; I think Sara R-C had graduated by the time this happened.

tombot, crocks of shit taste awful i should know i'm a supertaster

call dibs on band names in this thread

http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/images/img_4class/44img_guides/44img_904guide/tongue.gif

green bell peppers = terrible

...Other ingredients are almost universally snubbed by chefs. Green bell peppers, that staple of chili and the catered crudité, are possibly the most-loathed ingredient.

"They're headache-y," said Anita Lo, chef at Annisa. "For some reason I've never gotten past the flavor."

Brian Bistrong of the Harrison doesn't like the way green pepper lingers. "If you eat one, you're going to taste it the rest of the meal," Mr. Bistrong said. "I got rid of them when I finally had some authority. Now that I'm the boss, I can not have them."

Dan Barber, who won't let green peppers into the kitchens of either Blue Hill Restaurant in Manhattan or Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., called the problems with the vegetable "multitiered."

"First, I don't like the flavor," he said. "And I've learned more about them. They're an immature pepper. You're eating a vegetable before it's supposed to be picked."

Tasha Garcia, one of the chefs of Little Giant, recoils when she tastes anything that reminds her of it. "We had a staff tasting and with this one cabernet franc it was like, oh, green peppers," Miss Garcia said. She added that she was overwhelmed by the association. "I hated the wine, hated it, hated it," she said. "Now I'm not a big cabernet franc fan."

Do you also hate fried green tomatoes chef Dan Barber you fuck?

I really think green bell peppers are closer in taste to celery than to other peppers. I enjoy a sliver as a bloody mary garnish.

^^ OTM x 2

Green pepper has also kind of similar to cactus in my few cactus-eating experiences.

In that it is so stabby haha.

Green bell shuriken.

fried green tomatoes are better than green peppers because they're fried and they don't taste like green peppers (answering on behalf of Dan Barber, who probably doesn't like fried green tomatoes either)

Fried green tomatoes are incredibly nasty.

IS IT GREEN?

yes

IS IT A FRUIT?

no

IS IT A LEAF?

no

= LET IT RIPEN DUMBASS

NO I LIKE TO ENJOY FOODS THAT HAVE THAT SPECIAL FLAVOR OF NOT BEING READY TO EAT. DISOBEYING MY INSTINCTS AS AN OMNIVORE IS HOW I GET OFF

yeah, i don't like celery either.

Celery is also great, wtf? Do you people hate cucumbers, too?

I only like celery in 4 contexts: bloody mary, stir fry, beef stew, peanut butter.

WHAT ABOUT PEAS AND GREEN BEANS

i like cucumbers. peas and green beans ALL WAY MORE than I like broccoli.

(which i still like more than green peppers, more than celery.)

I think I am at a point in my life where the only green things I don't love to eat are lime rinds.

i don't mind celery but i would never call it "great"?
to me it just tastes like crunchy water, unless it is dirty or dried out.

cucumbers, celery, and green bells by themselves are such an utter waste of time it's not even funny. in order to eat these things they have to come with basically a shit-ton of fatty creamy dressing or some other ridiculous condiment (a bloody mary can count as a condiment for the sake of this argument) to offset how worthless they are as a food item.

i like celery with bloody marys and when eating wings.

I gladly eat all of that shit raw and unadorned. It's awesome and refreshing!

The only green fruit/veg I hate on is okra.

I eat cucumbers w/ just salt, maybe paprika.

snap peas are like the only thing here I might enjoy by themselves

let's not forget about the role cucumbers play as pickles

seriously folks it is okay to enjoy everything you eat, just because your parents raised you this way does not mean every meal must be accompanied by something unpleasant, bland and green for the sake of being green

let's not forget about the role cucumbers play as pickles

well this is not all that different from saying "let's not forget the role every vegetable plays as whatever variety of kimchee they make out of it" I consider massive amounts of vinegar and salt to be a "ridiculous condiment," here

Let's not forget the role potatoes play as french fries.

"crunchy water" = accurate description of why I like raw green peppers, maybe ... crunchy, slightly bitter, little-bit-of-spice water

I like how we have lengthy threads where everyone's very vehement about what kinds of food other people like, just like happens in real life -- I have no idea why this is interesting to people, I mean clearly I couldn't possibly have less interest or investment in whether or not people enjoy green peppers

xpost - green pepper fries!!!

Let's not forget the role people play as long pig.

Let's not forget the role potatoes play as french fries.

this is something i will NEVER forget

can we have "potatoes as french fries: never forget" t-shirts?

MY GOD, YES

I hate vegetables but I loooove starch num num num.

Let's not forget the role Alan Cumming plays as "Glitch".

nabisco otm re: crunchy water.

ppl don't like celery? wha???

Fried green tomatoes are incredibly nasty tasty.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

i like raw green peppers in a salad. and raw broccoli. and celery. and carrots. and hot peppers. and beans. and cucumbers. and waterlogged iceberg lettuce. the whitest wateriest part.

i hate salad dressing though. i only use red wine vinegar on my salad. AND THAT'S IT. NO OIL EITHER. JUST RED WINE VINEGAR.

i'm hungry :[

if a salad has no cheese in it, fuck that salad.

No oil in dressing?! o_O

3 things i don't like:

1) raw celery
2) raw onions
3) anise

everything else is delicious, i think

xpost, no, don't fuck it!

i like all kinds of peppers. do chefs hate the yellow and the red ones too? i like the pretty colors. i cut them up for stir frys.

raw yellow onions: EW
raw red onions: YUM

Raw onions = NOM NOM NOM NOM

I DON'T LIKE CHEESE IN SALAD EXCEPT MAYBE FETA SOMETIMES IF I'M IN THE MOOD.

no oil ever. i can eat it though if someone makes it though. i'm not crazy. beth parker makes a mean garlicy vinagriette(sp???????????????)

mmmmm, but i am crazy for my red wine vinegar topping. i'm a tart son of a gun.

I would guess that most people cannot differentiate much between the flavors of green and red peppers -- I certainly can't imagine anyone passing a blindfold test.

Wait, seriously?!

I hate green peppers and celery and cucumbers.

Love red peppers.

Raw sweet yellow onions (Vidalia, etc), YUM
Raw yellow "storage onions," OKAY, BUT GO EASY ON THAT STUFF

It's all about the sugar content, whether it's peppers or onions.

i can eat green peppers raw on their own BUT not with any other kind of food

Piece of cheddar inside half a green bell pepper: a delicious snack during fishing or many other activities. Taste/texture combo: just right.

woah that sounds so great.

If you are fishing for catfish or trout you can use those pieces of cheese as bait.

Does anyone remember in Fast Food Nation how they said green peppers' flavor can be detectable in three parts per BILLION? That was the best chapter of that book, followed by the Upton Sinclair shit.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Peppers_peppitizer_animated_dinner_cooking_MT_2007.gif

I thought the best chapter was when he went off on some bonkers tangent on how it wasn't cheap postwar gas and affordable automobiles and an influx of disposable income that made buses replace trolley cars, it was A GENERAL MOTORS CONSPIRACY with EVERY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA.

I seriously kind had to quit reading it for a while after that.

i like the purple ones!

http://www.seedfest.co.uk/seeds/peppers/bell/purple-beauty.jpg

i know this is posted somewhere else, but anyways
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee39/samgezee/bell.jpg

Scott Seward's gif is like that one Daft Punk video, but sans the cops & the club.

Celery, to me is unbeatable in terms of its subtle flavor and amazing texture.

When I was growing up raw green peppers were pretty much my favorite vegetable, but as an adult I've lost some of my enthusiasm for them. They're still good, though.

All peppers are poisonous nightshades, though, right? So we shouldn't be eating them, anyway. Nor tomatoes, nor eggplant, nor tobaccy.

Peppers of all kinds = fude uv de gahdz.

All you guys who don't want them can just pass 'em this way.

That t-shirt idea jes upthread is genius.

Dan Barber, who won't let green peppers into the kitchens of either Blue Hill Restaurant in Manhattan or Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., called the problems with the vegetable "multitiered."

further confirmation of genius

Poll: It's too cold outside vs. it's not that cold outside

They're alright mixed into stuff though, especially with other kinds of peppers, just not that interesting on their own.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2856/sealbr2.gif

Red peppers are better, true, but green peppers can complement other flavors nicely, esp. if grilled.

NEVER FORGET

someone make a .gif where instead of the eagle seeing the twin towers crash he sees potatoes being skinned and diced.

i am sooooo starting a sexy potato thread right about now...

So am I.

...in my mind. WHOO

Green peppers are the worst. They taste strong and horrible and cause me unbearable stomach issues. Red ones taste much better but still inevitably cause stomach issues.

Celery tastes really strong and kind of unpleasant to me as well, in a very green pepper kind of way.

Spicy food, fennel, and cilantro, I've got no problem with.

Aryuveda and TCM and other systems doubtless have much to say on these kinda subjects. We could probably do the proper research and pretty much tell which posters are on the ectomorphic end of the spectrum and so forth, as well as their habitual dispositions.

I suspect any religion with culinary guidelines more ancient than BC would advise against eating unripe shit with no vitamins in it

Yeah, but I was just thinking that it would be interesting to see what those modalities had to say about people who craved celery vs people who were repulsed by it. I wonder if it actually would fall along some body-type scale or some other broadly-defined characteristic.

I used to think (fussy teenager) that I didn't like bell peppers. Then I realised the red ones were awesome. Soon after, I admitted that yellow peppers were not quite as awesome but still quite nice. Green peppers definitely have a different flavour and I'm still not that keen on them on their own, but I like diced mixed red+green+yellow bell peppers and appreciate the variety of flavours. Because there is a variety. Everyone on this thread saying there isn't, you mad. That is all.

For the record, I don't especially like celery but will eat small amounts of it, and cucumbers taste of nothing much but are good to put in sandwiches and wraps for crunchiness. And yes I am a fatty fat who is currently drinking full sugar soda and considering a greasy salty lunch. Just for your modality graph.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i heard nathan "lyon in the kitchen" lyon say on tv this morning that he thinks green peppers are bland.

they're not my favorite of the peppers, but i like them sometimes -- they're good on banh mi and in sausage & pepper heroes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

someone make a .gif where instead of the eagle seeing the twin towers crash he sees potatoes onions being skinned and diced.

-- J0rdan S., Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:12 (2 days ago) Link

hahaha

oh. i just now got that.

just to spite me (obviously) there were green peppers in my thai food last night!

All the upset-stomach talk upthread is just making me suspect once again that there are, like, differences in people's ability to enjoy / digest some chemical that's in the immature bell peppers.

I mean, they could not be easier on my personal stomach -- this is like varying levels of lactose tolerance or something

Nabisco just discovering the differences between individual bodies shocker!

Let's go have some vodka to celebrate.

does nabisco put salt on his vodka before he's even tasted it?