I hate fat , so spend a lot of time trimming off fat from chicken thighs , trimming my pork when I could eat them except for a small sliver of fat when I cook sate babe ( Filipino Indonesian barbecue pork) that gets caramelized when grilling. Also leave an inch of fat in my Boston butt when I smoke pork as most of them gets burnt of but whatever is left after Horus of smoking, I have to discard them.
I even trim all the tendons and gristle that I find in eye round roast before I grind them for my poms.
I do love chicken skins that are roasted in oven till crispy, chitcharon when I was able to eat them.
Cannot stand raw onions but love caramelized onions
Love to cook with spring onions but have to remove them before I eat.
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Before I started reading the responses, I thought I really liked most everything! But then I realized that I donāt and maybe am kinda picky. Rosemary and sage are not favs, nor are raw onions in salads. I keep trying, but I just donāt like lobster, oysters or shrimp.
I think those various scoop powders ruin smoothies
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Oranges
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Cow Milk bought from a tiny dairy and placed in a glass bottle ā¦
In some countries you can purchase from a dairy that delivers or a āmachineā where you bring your glass bottle and the machine pours in the milk ā¦ This is common in Italy as plastic is prohibited in Italy.
I usually use goat milk or sheep milk (both ecological) for rƩcipe usage.
We are Italian Espresso drinkers, so never milk in a caffĆ© ā¦
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Agree. Some of the powders also have ingredients that are micro encapsulated, so if you over blend, bitter compounds can be released. Better to pulse in at the last to avoid that. I just prefer to leave them out altogether, but H uses them. If heās making smoothies for both of us, he pours mine in a glass, and proceeds to ruin his own smoothie. 
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Iād like to add the bell pepper, especially on pizza and Chinese stir frys.
I like sweet peppers, though.
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Bell peppers on pizza. You are correct. A deal breaker.
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Oh boy. I wish this would happen in the U.S., or at least ban single-use plastic. Itās plastic crazy here. So unhealthy and fatal to the environment.
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Yep, Iām half with you @savvysearch. I donāt like bell pepper on pizza and only tolerate it in stir fry. But I like raw bell pepper and 
stuffed bell peppers.
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Plastic is being prohibited in India too, but itās taking a while given the scope of the task.
But itās been amazing to see how quickly packaging and behaviors are changing - people carry foldable bags around out of habit, takeout containers have switched to foil and paper, and so on.
The ābanā has been announced and then rolled back a few times, as alternatives for some things still need to be found - for eg milk was delivered to the door, from a can to your containerā¦ then it switched to plastic bagsā¦ rolling back is harder than the original switch.
The other issue has been that charging for plastic bags/containers as a deterrent for usage doesnāt actually dissuade anyone in urban areas.
Still, a massive change, and given the population, it will be a huge deal if they can get there even partially.
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Am I understanding ALL āplasticā?
I think of so many things, even some reusable things as plastic. I think my composter and my self watering planters are plastic.
Why is āfoilā okay?
@TheCookie, I agree single use plastic seems a problem.
Iām trying to get as many uses as I can.
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Iād guess single use plastic and related - packaging, takeout containers, wrapping, what have you.
Better to start somewhere. While one debates / argues about better and worse, nothing happens.
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I see. I was just wondering about the logistics of prohibiting plastic. Weāve been doing the charge for bags for awhile now ( and no "single-use " bags since 2007 in SF, 2014 in the rest of California), and I think its made a difference, and some communities do their take out in compostable containers. I think making recycling easier has made a difference in how people package their waste, but Iāve also heard itāts not making the difference Iād like to think it does.
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Yes, CA is certainly ahead of the rest of the country. But itās a single state.
In nyc, every attempt to charge for plastic bags over the years has met with significant resistance. Apparently itās finally going into effect.
A friend recently toured one of the big recycling facilities here and said she was shocked by how much actually still ends up as garbage because people recycle incorrectly.
In India, I was surprised by how quickly takeout and shopping/shipping packaging switched. There are still things that are a challenge (saucy items most notably), but thereās a significant push.
A lot of it is reversing relatively recent westernization - for example recycled paper and/or pressed leaf bowls and plates and terracotta cups used to be standard for street food stalls, until flimsy plastic equivalents became cheaper and more compact to discard. Now there are paper cups and plates again plus some newer leaf items, and bamboo-type disposable utensils. There are still recycling people who come to buy stacks of paper and metal by weight, letās see how long that lasts.
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Dried oregano. Canāt stand it. A pizza place near us has a great pie but their sauce has dried oregano and, try as I might, I canāt enjoy it. I can tolerate fresh in moderation.
You wouldnāt like my cooking, then. In the Greek household I grew up in, oregano went on everythingāsteaks, chops, burgers, scrambled eggs, broiled fish. And Iāve kept it up.
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Thereās something in what Iād describe as American versions of curry that goes through me like a freight train. When I was in India I ate several curries and had no negative reaction. Itās been many years since Iāve tried any curry here in the US so the growth of āauthenticā Indian cuisine may have changed things but Iām reluctant to try. Iām sensitive to spicy foods, so Iām assuming it was likely a spice, but I have no idea which one.
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Thatās me! HATE green peppers, love red ones. 
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Welcome @luvcubs ! Hope this site can help distract you from the weirdness that is our current environment.
Me? Iāve never met a pepper I donāt like.
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