Taste or Texture?

[Banana Hammock]

Which is more important to you? Personally, I can eat food that doesn't taste very good, but I absolutely can't eat some foods because of the texture. Juicy meat that has a lot of fat on it, for example.

 

[David Brown]

Texture isn't necessary to me but will ruin some food. My sense of smell is all fucked up and by proxy, my sense of taste is diminished, so there is a lot of shit I'll eat because it just doesn't taste very strong.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Lutefisk. It tastes alright but the texture is all fucked up by design.

It starts like this, a dried cod skinny as fuck.


Put that same fish in lye and it swells and it swells like a corpse would do...
That's a full sized knife by the way, the fish above really bloats in the lye. The bloat...

It's decent but it is also fish jelly. Don't like it and it tastes stale.

Can be served in a nice way and it is good enough, but it really is the trimmings that carry it.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

I struggle eating certain textures, moreso than taste.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Taste and texture are way more closely related than you think though... underripe, fibrous fruit tastes bitter and weird vs overripe fruit that gets mushy and tastes like wine. or fresh fries that taste salty and delicious vs cold soggy ones that taste like stale grease.

 

[HorseGirlSupremacy]

I didn't like a lot of greens growing up not because of the taste but because my parents always cooked them until it was moosh. Food with bad texture is awful.

 

[Wintersun]

Texture is the ur-important thing when it comes to food. Taste can always be improved or masked if it comes out bland or something, but the texture of something can never be fixed, and it's the primary thing that turns people off of food beyond smell and looks.

 

[Nader's Branch]

Texture was a big deal for me growing up but when I actually branched out in my 20's and tried food from different cultures/countries, then texture became less of a factor. I really pay more attention to flavor and am less affected by texture these days. Personally I think textures are a mental hurdle. Once you work through that, then a lot of foods open up to you. (This is of course not a hard rule)

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Texture is the ur-important thing when it comes to food. Taste can always be improved or masked if it comes out bland or something, but the texture of something can never be fixed, and it's the primary thing that turns people off of food beyond smell and looks.

That's the problem with these things.

For a quick and cheap lunch or dinner they're good, even grabbing a cold one of out of the fridge is tasty. Taste like chicken meatballs. But they are made out of fish. They look like someone fried custard and that's because their texture is like creme brulee. There is no texture other than the fried surface. Took a long while before I got used to that.