I hate celery
 

I can't stand it and I won't eat it. When I was growing up and it was in, e.g., soup my mother would always say "It doesn't taste like anything!" to which I would respond "Then why use it?!"

Is there anyone that agrees here? Perhaps others that think otherwise?

Absolutely!
 

I loathe it. I won't eat tuna sandiwiches in restaurants because they likely contains celery (scallions at home instead); I pick it carefully out of potato salad, etc. Can't stand celery seeds/salt (in bloody marys) either.

Then there's Cel-Ray tonic :eek:

I'm with you. Celery is nasty. Another veg I can't tolerate: Cilantro.

I hate it too, with a passion... the taste, the consistency... everything about it!

Celery, I detest the stuff - it wrecks any dish it's put in. It's one of the few things my maturing taste buds have never got around to putting up - Broccoli, Sprouts, Cauliflower even cheese used to be on my no go list - I can cope with them all now (OK some cheeses are still a no go) but celery remains firmly on the no go list.

I dread looking into soups and salads ands seeing its unique corrugated shape lying there.

The only thing I've found that kills the taste of celery is....wait for it... chocolate. Don't ask me how I found out :D . But if you dip celery in chocolate it seems to completely kill the taste of the celery (and the chocolate come to think of it)

I kind of like it, but I feel it has its place. It cannot be the feature in a dish. Cream of celery soup is sauce and needs to be diluted and further flavored. I'll use a little in a stew or spaghetti sauce and I do like the crunch it adds to a chicken or tuna salad. If it's served raw with other vegies, I only like the pieces from the very core - the short yellowish sticks which are missing the strings that get stuck between your teeth.

Wow, I'm in the wrong thread.

I don't usually chomp on a stalk of it, but use it as an ingredient in many things, usually chopped small and cooked into the sauce.

Ever notice how many Chinese restaurants in Seattle feature celery as the starchy filler? :(

(was a topic for another recent thread, but I can't eat cilantro either)

Man I miss celery and parsley. Cilantro is all you get here. Seriously in Taiwan, most cooking has cilantro in it. You like it or starve.

As for celery, I miss it. Nice dill and sour cream dip, (sour cream is hard to find) Just having a raw veggie plate. YUM.

I don't like it either. "Put peanut butter on it" I'll just have a spoonful of peanut butter, thank you.

You need celery for wings and bleu cheese!:D

Uh-uh. Blue cheese with buffalo wings, yeah (and I don't really like blue cheese for anything else), but skip the celery.

There are certain things I can tolerate small chunks of celery in. I might eat a chicken salad sandwich in some cases, or potato salad, and not have to pick the celery out. But I can't eat the raw stalks, no matter what you put on them.

"It doesn't taste like anything." Yeah, I remember hearing that too! So full of crap! :mad: Just like water doesn't taste like anything. Right. Well, sorry, I can tell the difference in some waters, and I can taste celery and I don't like that taste....

Uh-huh! Sorry, Crazyone... you need the celery to help cool things off with the hot wings. It also helps get the rest of the unused blue cheese out (rather than using a finger). :p

Celery also helps lower blood pressure... you're supposed to eat a stalk a day.

I must have wandered in to the wrong forum. First thought was that this had something to do with the Chelsea Football Club. My bad.

wow, I love celery and cilantro! But, I have other weird food things, so I totally understand not liking something that others think is "fine". :cool: