Hi luvcubs- hope you enjoy HO!
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Thanks! Itās interesting!
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For me, after cooking with it for 25 years or so, I recently realized itās dried basil I donāt like. I would rather leave it out than use it.
I love fresh basil.
I use a lot of dried oregano and dried thyme.
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If theyāre green peppers, they had better be some form of chile. I love chiles, and sometimes eat a green pepper that I just picked, but not often, and never in food that I make. Put green pepper on pizza and thatās all you can taste.
I despise green peppers in any form!
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Thatās a pretty big statement! I learn about new peppers every year. While I donāt usually like them green, I canāt imagine despising them based on them having been green, but Iām thinking most ripen to some other color.
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I like and buy pineapple, but wonāt go near a hot cheese pizza with it on there. I notice a number of posters above refer to aversion toward sweet items on savory products. Not a value-adding mix in that case.
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Hmmm, when I hear that people dislike green peppers itās always meant they donāt care for green bell peppers. I wonder if thatās the subject here.
My husband, for instance, avoids green bell peppers because they cause tummy trouble. Cooked ones are fine for him. A couple other people I know canāt stand the flavor.
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Exactly.
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Curious if you have had pineapple fried rice (maybe faux Thai food?) or cahn chua (authentic Vietnamese sweet and sour soup, usually with fish)? Do those not work for you too?
I donāt really like pizza so Hawaiian pizza is a non-starter for me. Iāve been highly amused by the passionate anti-pineapple and pro-pineapple on pizza discussions, so Iām curious if itās the pineapple specifically in otherwise savory foods, like you mentioned, or if itās specifically pizza or the combo of ham and pineapple on pizza that incites the flames.
Never had pineapple fried rice nor cahn chua. I know thereās been a very good, indeed my favorite local Thai restaurant, where the women who co-runs the place is from northern Thailand (around Chiang Mai) with her caucasian American husband. She does the cooking. and seasonally sheāll trot out lots of offerings with pineapple. I should try them by way of experiment, but pineapple with savory is just aversive to me. An analogy: who wants chocolate-covered dill pickles? Thatās kind of where Iām at.
That said, I do not mind pineapple layered onto pork roasts, and I do think sweet goes well with a lot of pork, also duck. I think itās pineapple with cheese that eeks me out.
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I like cahn chua, and Iām willing to overlook the pineapple. But Iād be happier if it were absent altogether.
By the light of day, Iām not liking how I came across. @aussieshepsx2, your comment was perfectly on topic.
Iām just obsessing about planting peppers right now.
By green peppers - Iām referring to the traditional āgreen bell pepper.ā I should have been more specific. Bell peppers (in any color) just donāt work for me. Itās all I taste in anything they touch. However, I donāt hate all peppers that are green. I like jalapenos, hatch chilis, etc.
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You came across fine !! 
Speaking of peppers, that might be green, I have a jalapeno plant left over from last year that seems to stay alive. But, what Iām noticing is that it has a lot of small peppers that were green for about 2 days and then went straight to red. Iāll have to pick one this weekend and test it out.
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Ah! Well if you havenāt already, do check out āelongated sweet peppersā, or what I think are called European sweet peppers, although of course they originated in the Americas.
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Iām a pepper fiend also. Hope that you post about what you grow this summer!
I used to grow some before moving to this house where the wildlife eats everything that can be eaten. Some little critter or other would take a single bite of a hot pepper, probably experience the shock of its life, and spit out the bite to be discovered by me later. Oof.
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For me super bitter greens like dandelion or similar
Edible flowers
No ham for me, but I love a pineapple and jalapeno pizza. I realize itāll probably get me kicked off this site, but there ya go. Itās one of my favorites.
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