A Redditor Asked People To Name A Food That They Don't Understand Why People Like, And It's Hilarious

    "If I wanted that taste, I would eat the filter from a fish tank."

    Chelsea Stewart
    by Chelsea Stewart

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Recently, Reddit user u/mangopeach2 asked: "What's one food that you cannot understand why people enjoy?"

    A woman making a stank face while holding a fork of food in front of her face
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    Here's how people responded:

    1. "Cottage cheese."

    —u/Michael39154

    2. "Caviar, oysters, and snails."

    —u/child-of-old-gods

    3. "Black licorice."

    —u/freakyfangirl

    Black licorice
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    4. "Excessively built-up greasy, greasy hamburgers. The kind with, like, three patties made of three different animals, bacon, four types of cheese, zillion condiments, and just built sky-high to the point you can't even take a bite without it falling apart and half the contents shitting out the back end of the sandwich onto your plate. Picture something served à la Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

    —u/Garden_Circus

    5. "Olives."

    —u/foxxyboi21

    6. "Raw tomato."

    —u/NoZebra2430

    7. "Balut."

    —u/aquasemite

    Balut
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    8. "Chitterlings…of all the food available, someone is choosing shit shoots. Smh."

    —u/_PeanutbutterBandit_

    9. "Chicken feet."

    —u/diadem

    10. "Candied apples. I always dreamed of trying one as a kid, then was massively disappointed when I found it was awful to chew, too hard and sticky to be enjoyable, and didn't have much flavor. Caramel apples with candy stuck on them are so much better."

    —u/evagarv

    Candied apples
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    11. "Liver. If I wanted that taste, I would eat the filter from a fish tank."

    —u/Tyrigoth

    12. "London's jellied eels. Wtf."

    —u/miamariajoh

    13. "Blue cheese. Literally rotten cheese. I know it's 'safe mold,' but it still tastes horrendous. They say it's an acquired taste. Why would you want to acquire a taste for mold?"

    —u/alienduck2

    A block of blue cheese
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    14. "Japanese blowfish. You can literally die if it's prepared incorrectly."

    —u/Plex_Master

    15. "Cou-Cou. It's part of our national dish, and it just tastes awful to me, but any time I say I don't like it, someone tells me the person who made it probably didn't make it right."

    —u/ReaperLordNedz

    16. "Lutefisk and surströmming."

    —u/daughterofblackmoon

    17. "Potatoes."

    —u/LostN3ko

    What are some popular foods that you personally don't like? Drop 'em in the comments below.

    Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.