I hate

Literally 18 months ago I was exactly the same. I went veggie about 6 or 7 years ago which forced me to eat some other vegetables that I previously refused but it was only starting work with an ex chef who cooks lunch each day at work this past year and my anxiety in saying no so I just had to grin and bear it. Bit like a light switch though. Now I'll eat most things. Still not mushrooms though, horrible soil tasting squishy shite

The best thing here is to just be upfront when you order food with people.
"Mate, I can't share food. Since COVID my tastes have really fucking changed and I don't get on with a load of different foods. You order your things to share, I'll order something for me, I don't want to stop you enjoying your food because my tastebuds have gone mental"

When it's large groups, it's usually friends of friends too. Smaller groups, there are still friends of my wife that are judgy.

I think so. Coriander tastes very specifically of green fairy liquid to me. Not that I've tasted fairy liquid, but the coriander taste is what I what expect it to be.

Very much so. If one more person says "they don't really taste of anything".... They do, they taste like cucumber, and it's fucking rank.

Being a super taster sounds shit.

Yeah, I love all those things, cucumber with a bit of black pepper or coriander on everything, these are a few of my favourite things.

I like the taste of cucumber, but it repeats on me like you wouldn’t believe so I spend the next 12 hours having cucumber flavoured burps. Which is horrible, so I don’t eat it.

I don't think I'd like your cucumber burps either

I can't burp so that's not a problem (although I do fully hate not being able to burp) I do want to reiterate how much I hate bananas though, they can fuck off and even a tiny bit in a smoothy or something and I can smell it over everything else and it ain't going in my mouth.

I dunno, dogs have specific taste buds just for water and they'll drink the grossest puddle water possible so they must be getting something out of it.

Coriander tastes very specifically of green fairy liquid to me.

It's genetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR6A2

Eurgh. People and their hangups about how others live their lives... I hate that.

I added freeze dried banana chips to my crunchy nut cornflakes this morning. Mmmm.

Just one of the reasons I'm glad I didn't wake up with you.

I don't eat bananas, but only because of the texture. I like the flavour. Would gladly chuck 3 bananas and a pint of milk in a blender. But just eating them, they turn into what I can only describe as phlegm in my mouth. I don't even really like touching them and have to wash my hands immediately. It's my only touch/texture ick I think.

You can't burp?
What?
I would have had you down as the dude that can burp a tune.

Nah, it's a (rare) thing. I'm waiting on someone to inject Botox into my esophageal sphincter as a cure but the only guy who does it in the UK moved from Manchester to London right after I saw him, and COVID happened.

Oh man. That sounds pretty grim. I'm sorry.

This is exactly how I feel about tomatoes, I love cucumber but tomato just tastes like dirty water to me.

I also hate eating at places where people insist on buying a load of stuff to lob in the middle and share, partly because I'm a little picky, but mostly because there's always some people who take the piss and just load up on all the good stuff so there's no equal share whatsoever. Actually had a large christmas meal with mates that was supposed to have the sides served 'family style'. We requested they just put the stuff on the individual plates as we knew people would take too much leaving others with not a lot.

If I didn't enjoy booze and food so much it would be less of a problem.

Cucumber is fucking gross and I'm certainly no supertaster.

inject Botox into my esophageal sphincter

That would have "other" benefits as well, right? Asking for a friend.

I'm waiting on someone to inject into my sphincter

Aren't we all

Take the skin off, it's this that's hard to digest (I get same terrible repeats)