39 Cooking Opinions Folks Know Are Weird But Consider Them A Hill To Die On, As Shared Online

Almost three years ago, this thread appeared on the AskReddit community, the author of which, user u/fizzyoranges287, asked netizens: "What’s your most controversial food opinion?" Interestingly, the number of comments was almost five times higher than the number of upvotes, which can only mean one thing: a heated debate.

Yes, the thread turned out to be incredibly lively and controversial, with many disputes, evidence and counterarguments. And the truth, as our ancestors used to say, is born from disputes. So we at Bored Panda have prepared a special selection of the most interesting, sometimes odd, and even awkward—yet nevertheless exciting—viewpoints.

In his famous book "Gulliver's Travels," British satirist Jonathan Swift told the story of how a full-fledged war broke out between two once good-neighborly countries over a culinary issue. Two monarchs simply couldn't agree on which side of a boiled egg is better to peel—the sharp or the blunt.

Of course, it was a satire mocking the religious wars in Europe of those times, but some disputes between home and professional cooks are no less tense and stormy. By the way, how do you peel an egg—from which end? For example, I always do it from the sharp end.

Some culinary disputes arise when the national meal of one country begins to change under the influence of other cultures. A classic example of this is pizza, because, for example, adding pineapples to it is sacrilege for almost every self-respecting Italian. And stubborn adherents to Italian cuisine don't even recognize anything other than the traditional Margherita as pizza.

In fact, legend has it that the three classic ingredients of a Margherita symbolize the colors of the Italian flag: basil stands for green, mozzarella stands for white, and tomatoes stand for red.

According to this legend, when Queen Margherita of Italy came to Naples on an official visit in 1889, the best local chef, Raffaele Esposito, created a pizza using the colors of the national flag and asked for special permission to name it after the queen.

But over the years, when pizza went from being an exclusively national treasure of Italy to a virtually worldwide dish, it's quite reasonable that different chefs from different countries added a wide variety of ingredients to it. For example, pineapples, falafel, or even cicadas.

By the way, cicadas are said to give the pizza a unique nutty flavor... Well, I don’t know, I haven’t tried it, and, frankly, I don’t want to. Maybe you have. Have you tried it?

However, the whole charm of human society lies precisely in diversity—and this also applies to cooking preferences. For example, what looks very appetizing to one of us, another simply won’t eat, and a third person will consider it a terrible perversion.

For example, coffee with mayo. But someone really likes it! In any case, we're looking forward to your personal confessions about your oddest cooking opinions—and let the new debate begin!