"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

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?