Edit: 10/23 I took a lot of advice from here, I bought an avocado yesterday and I tried it today. It was perfect! The taste was incredible. I didn’t need to salt/season it to hide anything. I am in a different state right now but when I get home I’ll buy one at home using my knowledge I now have and hopefully it’ll be perfect. Maybe I was picking out the wrong avocados & there’s nothing wrong with me. We’ll see, but I’m excited to have a good tasting avocado for the first time in a long time.
Edit: I’m reading your replies I promise. The app I’m using is bugging out and it’s not letting me reply. I’ll log in on the browser later and reply. Thank you everyone!
I love Avocado. When I go to the store I’ll pick out a green one that’s firm, and I’ll eat it once it starts to get slightly soft. The problem is more than 90% of the time they’re no good. They have a gross taste, almost like it’s spoiled. I can’t blame the store, I’ve tried Aldi, Walmart, Kroger, Trader Joe’s and they all have the weird gross taste. Maybe it’s the supplier, the type of avocado (hass i believe) or maybe it’s just me. By the way the only reason I try and try again is because our avocados are cheap. .65-85 cents and I get one a week. (Maybe my region is getting garbage avocados?)
Anytime I go to a restaurant and order anything with avocado, it’s always perfection. I would rather eat a good avocado than any desert and this is coming from someone who loves desert and doesn’t eat as many fruits or vegetables as I should.
So what should I be doing to get a good avocado from the grocery store?
I’ve tried googling and following those directions but nothings working. Maybe Lemmy knows something Google doesn’t?
Also I’ve tried getting them when they’re soft, firm, green, darker, I’ve put them in the fridge, I’ve tried combinations of things and nothing that I’ve notice has worked.
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One possibility is that you may be a super taster, it’s a dumb name for people who are able to taste Bitter 2. If you often find that you hate the taste of things other people with your same background love, it could be that you are one of us.
Being a super taster is nowhere near as super as it sounds. There’s unfortunately no upside to balance out the fact that you will hate the taste of alot of things that taste normal to other people. But at least finding out why helps you to not feel as bad about it. You aren’t just a “picky eater” and being forced to eat it really is the equivalent of making a normal person eat dog shit, flavour-wise anyway. Unfortunately nutrient-wise the stuff that tastes incredibly unbelievably terrible to us is some of the healthiest food known to humans, yay another downside!
You know all those kids that “won’t eat their vegetables”? Yep. Not to mention it’s also possible to be a “strong taster” as well as hypersensory. And the even funner part is it’s possible to have all three… ask me how I know that? Yeah… eating food sucks. Even my favourite meals can kind of feel like the tongue equivalent of crossing a mine field with a poorly drawn map.
But at least being a strong taster and being hypersensory do also have pay offs. Positive experiences are substantially more positive to me, as long as they don’t cross over the threshold, which with alot of practice does eventually get possible to avoid. Because any sensory experience that crosses that threshold is basically converted into a sensation very similar to pain. Just a very strong and immediate “hey stop doing that thing” type message in your nervous system. I know that last bit makes it just seem more bad, but with practice I can indeed avoid that pretty often. And let me tell you, when you can ride the wave of a sensory experience nearly pegging the meter without actually doing so, the payoff is worth it. Ok, well maybe not worth all of it, but it at least helps weigh against all the negative.
I’m trying to figure out why I hate seltzer water. I don’t know if I have what you describe here, or if I’m sensitive to something specific, but seltzer water and some baked goods are disgustingly bitter, and other people don’t seem to notice. (I’m blaming the baked goods on some types of baking powder, but I’m not sure)
It certainly could be, seltzer water is definitely on the list. Probably worth looking into. But even people without any good reason, people can find seltzer water gross, there is alot not to like there, lol.
But yeah, can’t hurt to learn more about conditions even if it turns out not to be something you have, knowledge is useful.
Idk how I missed this comment originally but it’s very interesting. I hated every vegetable as a kid, I still don’t like most of them but I’ll push myself to eat them. I do enjoy cucumbers, and a select others fresh vegetables. (Once they get cooked… 🤮🤮🤮)
When avacados are “good” I friggin love them. It’s literally heaven for me. Idk what the deal is but I took advice from everyone in this thread and I bought a avacado and I’ll post a little update when I try it tomorrow.