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:

How do you stir your bloody marys?? :D

This would be a fantastic benefit if I could only stand to eat the stuff! Can't stand the taste of it like that. I'd have to doctor it so badly that I would surely counteract any useful blood pressure effect. :D

Half a cucumber and some celery through the juice extractor gets me going in the morning. It's a great way to detox.

Hate raw celery, hate raw cilantro/coriander.


I do cook with both (only the roots and seeds of cilantro)

I treat raw celery the same way as a strong raw onion. If you cook it until transparant and vaguely caramelised (together with leek and carrots) it does 'lift' a dish. A little celery salt in a Bloody Mary is acceptable.

Raw, it's vile and hateful.

I'm supposedly a 'supertaster' - have lots of papillae closely packed onto my tongue - http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...periment.shtml - see for yoursef

This is a simpler 'test' with 5 questions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...s/supertaster/


Is disliking celery/cilantro a 'supertaster' thing?

Wow, what a great thread!! Here I was thinking I was the only one to pick out the celery from tuna/chicken/potato salads.;) My husband thinks I'm nuts, says you can't taste it...but I hate the feeling of bitting down on it. I'm also with you on the cilentro-- it has such a strong taste :td: -- and I also can't stand pimentos. (Years ago, I use to almost live on Starkist Tuna Pot Pies, and have 'fond' ?? memories of picking out every single pimento before I'd eat it-- even though my Mom would try to tell me they were tomatos!)
(PS-- along with pimentos, I won't eat peppers -- or anything that had peppers in it)

While I can't get all excited about celery, I use it often in cooking.

It finds it way into homemade soups, tuna, shrimp and egg salads and several other dishes.

I like the crisp texture it adds and it holds up fairly well when cooked for a length of time.

Cilantro is another story. I spent my whole life despising it but I now live in CA with a Mexican restaurant on every corner.

And they all use boatloads of cilantro.

And you can't eat around cilantro or pick it out of something as it overpowers whatever it's used with. Once it's in a dish, that's it.

One day a year or so ago, I decided I no longer hate cilantro and now I mildly enjoy it and actually add it to some recipes.

Strange. :)

I can tolerate celery if it was dripping in ranch dressing. I used to despise cilantro but now I like it in just about everything. I was told you acquire a taste for it as you grow older....:(

First test I've ever taken that described me as normal. :D

I'm a supertaster!

I approach cilantro very very carefully, as it sometimes reaches out and chokes me. Or at least makes me gag.

Occasionally, I can handle it. But I would never choose it.

Now there's a support group for folks like us.

IHateCilantro.com

Whew. Some sanity in the world, at last. ;)

Prior to this weekend, I would have been on the "I hate celery" bandwagon, but this weekend in the Napa Valley, I had a salad at a restaurant that totally changed my viewpoint as a life-long celery hater.

It was a "shaved" celery salad - peeled stalks chopped very thin dressed in a gorgonzola cheese cream dressing topped with candied nuts and fig slices and garnished with the edible (who knew?!) leaves from the celery tops.

It made a believer out of me. I clearly have just been eating really bad stuff.

Hahahaha!!! I missed this comment, earlier. :)

I like celery for the most part. I like it raw with a smear of McLaren's Imperial Sharp Cheddar every now and then. I think it's essential (including chopped leaves) in a good chicken soup. I don't like it much in some stir-fried dishes, though.

There are some claims that celery and celery extracts can be beneficial in treating things like gout, arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.


And of course, I like celery for stirring my Bloody Mary or Caesar!!! :)

Add green peppers to the list. I hunt for the smallest pieces to be sure my food isn't contaminated; all other colors of pepper are fine.

In addition to not liking celery ... I also dislike bleu cheese and chicken wings (independently)!

I don't like tomato juice either!

Heh, no kidding, me too. I don't have a problem with any other color of bell pepper (red, yellow, sometimes orange too which I guess is from the red and yellow), but green ones, bleh. Most of the time I can eat food that has been cooked with it, so long as I don't have to eat the pepper itself. Many other kinds of pepper including most hot ones are fine too.

Raw vs cooked
 

Rawcelery only belongs in two foods.
1. the above mentioned libation
2. tuna fish salad with a bit of mayo on fresh rye bread.

Cooked it is a very different story.
1. it is part of the holy trinity of cooking along with onion and garlic as the basis for many dishes including my own highly acclaimed tomato sauce for pasta.
2. it has a nice flavor and texture when cooked and tends to add flavor.]
3. celery salt if very nice in certain dishes
4. celery seed is used from time to time in what I can not remember.

you will never see me reaching for raw celery unless there really is NOTHING else to eat at all.

I don't think we could be friends. :D

Here too. I like it overall, but when they start sticking it in everything including cheeseburgers it gets seriously weird.

Disgusting, vile, horrid stuff raw. Bad texture, nasty taste -- what bigger turn-off could there be? But, cooked....celery adds flavor to many dishes.

I would categorize celery as 'a necessary evil.'

I do. Raw celery stalks and vinegar. Yum.

Likewise Cordelli. Though, I am happy to jump on the anti-Cilantro bandwagon.

I like celery, both raw and cooked.

I can eat it plain, in soups, in salads, or with dressing or sauce cradled in the stalk itself.

However, I do not like celery-flavored soda.

I have never tried it, but I would tend to believe that the diet version would be even worse.

I am really partial to celery. Just depends what I am eating them with.

Cheeseburger is one where I don't like celery to be included. Agreed that it is just weired.

not a huge fan of celery either. it just has a bad taste. i can only tolerate it in SMALL portions of tuna fish but thats about it.