I don't like chocolate. Usually, this comes up quite soon in the general getting-to-know-you conversation, and it is invariably followed by the same responses.
"You don't like chocolate?!"
"What, like, any type of chocolate?"
"What do you eat instead of chocolate?"
"Have you always not liked chocolate?"
"I've never met anyone who doesn't like chocolate"
"What don't you like about it...is it the taste?"
"I can't believe you don't like chocolate!"
"I wish I didn't like chocolate..."
"That's so weird"
I don't like chocolate. How is that so hard to understand? From what I've been able to gather over the years, it's the only type of food that gets this incredulous response. Sometimes, a comment about disliking chocolate will lead to a conversation about other foods people dislike, but they'll often be met with murmurings of agreement or at least understanding. Not liking chocolate seems to stand out a lot more, I don't mind that it's seen as kind of odd, but it annoys me when people think I'm just doing it for the sake of it, or that it's just something where I'm like "oh, I don't particulary like it, but I'll eat it" and continue to offer it, or "just have a taste, it's nice!"
I don't like chocolate. I haven't liked chocolate for twenty years. It's not because I'm trying to be healthly. It's not because I'm trying to be quirky or different - I can manage that any number of ways. I don't plan on trying to wean myself onto chocolate anytime soon, there's no point in eating something I don't like for the sake of it, I don't feel like I'm missing out. I'm not a fussy eater, I'm not being rude - I just don't like chocolate! Sorry!
On the jukebox: Shanks & Bigfoot ~ Sweet Like Chocolate
You're not the first person I have come across who doesn't like chocolate, but I am envious nonetheless! One less temptation to bother with, although as a friend who doesn't like sweet foods in general points out, crisps probably aren't that much better.
ReplyDeleteI do like chocolate, a little too much. Galaxy over Dairy Milk, although Dairy Milk for the smell and I do have a weakness for dark chocolate. Since living-out in Durham I have also become addicted to Tesco Value milk chocolate. It has to be the Value stuff, though - Tesco standard-brand doesn't have the same chemical goodness!
My mum doesn't like chocolate, or ice cream, or cake, or indeed most sweet things, and yet still if someone tells me they don't like chocolate I react with the incredulous "SERIOUSLY?!" Which is shameful of me, actually. I've always loved chocolate, though admittedly in recent months I've been leaning more towards a 'take it or leave it' attitude. In my first year of uni I went through phases of eating a bar of chocolate a day. I wasn't exactly a happy person, and I comfort ate if I ate at all (which you wouldn't know, to look at me!).
ReplyDeleteDo you crave savoury foods instead?
I don't like loads of anything sweet. I like chocolate, but I can't eat too much of it at a time.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I have the same response to anyone who doesn't like tea, and my reaction to people who don't like coffee is incredulous but timeworn despair (it seems that coffee is a love-it-or-hate-it thing, and I wish I could convert everyone...life without coffee would not be worth it).
Sadly I comfort eat too...but I comfort eat on top of normal eating rather than in replacement of normal meals! At university that is SO going to change.
I crave savoury foods usually -- it's an equal split between chocolate and whatever savoury thing I imagine first...
I love chocolate. Galaxy in this country, Milky Way if I'm at home.
ReplyDeleteAnd After Eight WHENEVER.
I'm not a cakes person though. Unless of course it's chocolate. =)