Cooking vs Restaurants

[Spongebob]

I don’t outburst when someone suggests pizza. I do, however, get a little cranky when they try to pressure me into it, by saying things like, ‘But you haven’t had it from [insert name of their favourite pizzeria here]’ or ‘But I make it [an interminably dull recitation of their own special pizza recipe]’.

‘I don’t like pizza’ seems to be one of the hardest English sentences for people to understand.

Boru

Yep, you are definitely in a minority there.  I once had a friend just hated cheese, but for some reason he liked pizza.  Go figure on that one.  Anyway, I'll take your slice.  

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Yeah, guacamole is big here and I want nothing to do with it.  Yes, I have tried it, more than once.  No, I don't like it.  I do like Tex-Mex food and it's available on every street corner here but I always have to specify 'no guac'.  I also don't care for pico de gallo - not a huge fan of chunks of raw tomato and one tiny shred of a leaf of cilantro is more than enough for me.

OK, interesting side note.  Apparently a small percentage of people have some additional taste receptors on their tongue that picks up certain molecules in cilantro that taste like soap.  So, if cilantro tastes like soap to you (and it's particularly off-putting), then you are among a special group.  The rest of us just can't taste that.