Raw vegetables?
 

Don't know if this is weird (my wife thinks so) but I have tremendous cravings for raw green beans. I love those big crunchy pods. Cook them and I have no interest. I also prefer raw carrots, spinach, peas, and mushrooms, none of which I'm particularly fond of when cooked, and I will even eat raw potatoes also. Anybody else have similar tastes, or is it indeed odd? I think it's a texture thing

If I must eat vegetables, I far, far, far prefer them raw. I can't think of a single cooked vegetable that I like. I can at least tolerate many raw ones.

I like vegetables, period. But yes, I'll eat most of them raw, including green beans ... especially freshly picked ones. My preference though is very lightly steamed ... just enough so they turn bright green, but are still crunchy/raw inside. And raw mushrooms on my salad ...mmm!

As for cooked, roasting or grilling for most veggies.

I enjoy most veggies raw or very lightly cooked (potatoes are an exception tho!) I like the flavour, and I like the crunch.

Potatoes and Brussels sprouts get cooked. Most others go raw (or close to it).

For example, tonight I will have raw onions on my perfectly grilled cheeseburger! :D

I love raw green beans! Much better than cooked. Also snow pea pods. I can just snack on them plain.

Generally either raw or cooked, depending on my mood and how they're prepared, are fine.

TBS, foods I want cooked include: potatoes, squash and gourds, beans, corn, rhubarb, artichokes, beets, eggplant and okra.

Not vegetables, but the principle is the same ;)

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I think that's it - flavor and crunch. Eating raw potatoes was something I did when I was younger - probably would cook those now though. I've also gotten into the habit of cutting raw fennel as a substitute for onion on certain things, like hamburgers say.

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Just finished eating a pile of raw sugar snap peas, pods and all. Sweet and crunchy! ^

Fired up the grill last night and was too hungry to wait for it to heat up, so some of the asparagus never made its way to the flame.

When wandering thru the corn fields, we would pick an ear and eat (some of it) raw. Same with green beans from the garden.

The only vegetable I find inedible in its raw state is potato. On the whole I prefer all my vegetables lightly cooked. Not crunchy but still with a bite.

Depends on the vegetable. I eat a whole load of raw vegetables most days (usually carrot, romano pepper, cucumber, spring onion, fennel), and love munching on some of the less conventional ones for raw consumption (brussels sprout, turnip, etc) but there are some which benefit from the application of fire. A griddle pan can do wonderful things to asparagus, cauliflower, chillis, and even baby leeks.

Really fresh vegetables are wonderful when eaten raw. Less fresh vegetables not so much. Cooking seems to be a leveller.