I don't care what y'all think. Nothing about my food being hot or even warm makes it any better for me. I always burn tongue and even if I don't, I really don't enjoy rushing to swallow because my mouth is at risk of inflicting pain. Even when it's slightly warm, I don't like it. I want my food stone cold, no matter what the food is.

I always let my food cool down, not even to room temperature, I let it cool even longer and I eat everything stone cold. It lets me properly savor the flavor, without worrying about too much heat. Eating cold food for me is a relaxing experience, eating hot food is a panic-inducing one, and eating slightly warm food is boring, not any better than stone cold food. I'll even gladly eat food straight out of the fridge and enjoy it! I've been called "crazy" and "perverse" for this many, many times.

I like my food stone cold and refuse to eat it even mildly warm, always letting it cool down way below room temperature. Screw what anyone thinks 😆

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[–] 111 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah that's definitely unpopular. I could not imagine eating everything cold, like what the fuck?

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Sue me
    I do indeed eat everything cold. I get soo much shit from my bf for that 😂

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    I used to get ripped on for eating Chunky soup from a can on construction sites.

    The caveat it, during winter you need warm food to get your body temp back up, but spring to fall, fair game.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    The caveat it, during winter you need warm food to get your body temp back up

    No I don't. My preference for stone cold food never changes. Not even during winter, idgaf

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  • [–] 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    So when did you find out you had autism?

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you are that concerned about burning your mouth or your tongue on even slightly warm food, I can recommend a really good therapist to help you out on that.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    This is not an insult. Have you taken any tests to see if you may be autistic? If not, you should.

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    I cannot comprehend this. Seriously, all the more power to you but what the fuck

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    Possibly the worst opinion here

    Upvoted

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    That is a hot take, irony intended.

    There’s probably some good scientific reason for eating meat hot. And coffee? I can kinda deal but the tea? Throw it straight out if it’s not piping hot and I don’t care how the Americans take it.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yeah, umm...coffe and tea both. Stone cold, just like my food 😆
    Not even joking...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This raises further questions for me, since I'm a wanna-be coffee afficianado. You get much lower extraction at lower temperatures, with both coffee and tea. Do you grind coffee finer to compensate, or do you just enjoy weaker beverages? Also, do you mean room temperature, tap-water cold, or actually chilled? How do you make coffee (and tea)? Thank you in advance!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I have a coffee machine, so I make a pot of coffee, pour myself some, straight into the fridge with that mug. When it's cold, I add milk and drink it almost like a shot, all at once. I'm just weird like that...
    With tea, I of course prepare it with hot water. Then remove the teabag, straight into the fridge. When it's cold, I enjoy my tea :3

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Making coffee/tea like normal, then chilling it makes a lot more sense, with your specific preference. Iced coffee is also arguably the least unpopular part of your proclivities. Still not for me, but you go on with your cool self!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What about iced coffee? People love that stuff, and she’s prolly no different.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    My wife likes iced coffee, too. I've tried it, I don't hate it... but it isn't for me. Not knocking those who do like it. I just prefer hot.

    There's also cold brew, but I'm not sure if cold brew is meant to be drank cold, or if it's just brewed cold and it gets heated up. I imagine the former. That's probably fine too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I'm the opposite on coffee and tea. Definitely prefer both really warm, but not hot, I don't like either cold, but I like cold coffee less than I like cold tea. I will finish them as a punishment for letting them get cold though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Most foods taste more when at least warm. Notice I said more, not better.

    That's because once things get cooler, scent molecules don't hit your nose as well, and fat soluble flavors aren't as available to the tongue. Whether or not that's "better" is subjective, but you can test it out fairly easily

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I think this wins the comm. Even more than the BJ post

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Coincidentally, OP shared in that post that she enjoys giving blowjobs.

    I kind of imagine her mouth being super cold now, which ruined that mental image for me a little bit. 😂

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I've come here to defend my mouth :3
    It's not cold, it's actually very warm, thank you very much!
    You could ask my bf tho, my witness... @MiishaBf@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    I eat a lot of cold meals and this is still wild to me. Definitely an unpopular take.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    So, you put all food in the fridge before eating it? Because otherwise it's impossible to cool down below room temperature. 🤓

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (12 children)

    Actually, yeah, I do that a lot. My bf yells at me for putting hot lasagna in the fridge for hours at a time...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    putting hot lasagna in the fridge for hours at a time...

    Deranged. You could literally cause food to spoil early doing this.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Yep. I am indeed deranged. You think I don't know that?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Apparently because every information source available will tell you to never do that and you seem proud of doing it?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    My brother in Christ this is a place for unpopular opinions don't be upset to see people post their unpopular opinions and also stand by their opinions it's literally the point of this whole community

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    My brother in Satan don't assume you know my feelings. I can find something horrifying in an abstract sense without being upset

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    "my brother in Christ" is a meme phrase. Also it's not saying you're literally Jesus's brother.

    I'm just saying you're criticizing someone for doing the point of the community, that's kinda dumb.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    There would be no way I would not know that about the Christ phrase... I joked back.

    You're criticizing me for just participating in the intended manner. When you post an unpopular opinion, you get backlash to it. Most of it is good natured. Not sure why you've chosen to assume mine isn't. Not to mention what I was actually taking some issue with here was the volunteered info that OP puts steaming hot shit into the fridge.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    You must love gazpacho

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I feel exactly opposite to this. If I never ate any cold food again it would be too soon.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How does this even work if you eat somewhere that doesn’t have a fridge for you to cool your food below room temperature? What’s wrong with you that you “always” burn your tongue even at nonburning temps?

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  • Sensory differences are a thing. Although I doubt OP literally "burns" their tongue on luke-warm foods, it's possible OP has a sensory difference that makes warm food more difficult to tolerate, or possibly even painful.

    For me, my brain interprets certain light touches as "painful." I can tolerate having my hairs pulled out one-by-one and feel fine, but touch me in the wrong spot with a feather and I'll scream. I can easily imagine other people may have crossed wires in their nervous system somewhere that make certain temperature sensations on a sensitive tongue feel painful.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Upvote for an actual unpopular opinion. Well done.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    Upvoted for being dumbass

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Objectively and demonstrably wrong. Excellent post.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I think you're tasting a different flavor profile than the rest of us because for instance sugar is less tasteable cold. But that's okay, you enjoy your food whatever way you like it! Also, your way is much easier to deal with than someone who wants their food piping hot. Any delay can overcook or burn their food. Not you! Make ahead, put in fridge, come back anytime between 20 minutes and 24 hours later, it will be nice and cold, safe and unchanged.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That's pretty much me, yeah!
    My dad has to have piping hot food and I hate him for it. He always forces me to eat hot pizza straight from the oven and I always burn my tongue. He's awful...

    To be fair, he's a lifelong soldier (78 now). I guess being in the military does make you appreciate hot food...but keep your preferences to yourself, old man 😭

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Unless he's shoving it in your mouth he can't force you. If he does, that's physical abuse. If it's verbal bullying, say something like "I don't want to ruin everyone's meal with this arguing. I'll see you all later" and leave the room. If it's a restaurant just don't say anything, sit quietly with your slice cooling on your plate and let him embarrass himself by ranting at you in public.

    You can just have salad for dinner

    If the pizza is homemade, try "I can appreciate your cooking better if I haven't burned my taste buds and I'm eating it at the temperature I prefer." If it's delivery, meet the guy outside and set your slice aside to cool.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

    Well...about that...
    He pulls the pizza (frozen, store-bought) out of the oven, sets it on a wooden cutting board, and says "EAT" very loudly, in my general direction. I don't, because it's fucking hot, I can tell with just my fingers. When I tell him it's too hot, he literally yells "EAT IT WHILE IT'S HOT" at me and seems...tbh, irrationally pissed off. When I protest further, he calls me "Perverse". When he's eating it himself...istg his mouth is already pre-burnt, because he's clearly burning his mouth (watery eyes, strange slurping noises, ew), but he just keeps eating it? As soon as he sits down? Strange...
    I can handle being yelled at (less so with HRT now), but when he does this to my brother, it really pisses me off. There is literally zero to be such a massive douchebag TOWARDS YOUR OWN CHILDREN nonetheless. It's just...idk. He's 78, I'm 20 and my brother is 16. Sure, there's a huge generational difference, but I swear sometimes it feels like he's from a different planet.
    And he's generally very progressive and liberal, but sometimes his brain's "empathy center" shuts down and he goes full (pardon me) "logical man-mode", where feelings don't exist and the only thing that does is solving a problem, logically without considering anyone's emotions. And he gets really monotone, he yells, he mocks people...he's not fun to be around :/
    But he also supports me financially, going to great lengths to ensure we have what we need. Without him, I wouldn't be able to get bottom surgery in Thailand...

    I'm really totally rambling, I'm sorry. Just need to get it out sometimes.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Damn! That may be the most unpopular opinion I've seen on this community!

    However, you aren't entirely alone. I've known a few people that are right with you. Not many, but enough that I've tried some things cold but fresh, as in putting it in a fridge until it's fully cooled.

    Gotta say, I do not share the opinion for the vast majority of foods, and I found that some things are even worse cold than warm (things I didn't like already).

    That being said, some soups are nice cold, and some varieties of pizza are as good, though the crust becomes untenable.

    THAT being said, you rock on with yo sef. Ain't enough room in the world to be a food snob. You like what you like, and screw what anyone else thinks (just don't do it to them lol)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I don't like food hot enough to burn my mouth, but I definitely far prefer food that's intended to be warm to be warm. I don't hate cold food though and in times of pure laziness, I will eat straight from the fridge instead of heating it up and be fine. Something like a cheeseburger, there's zero chance I'm eating one not at least warm, or like a fettuccine Alfredo where the sauce congeals after it's chilled, hard pass.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don't eat everything cold, but I like some foods cold and a day old, like pizza, it almost always tastes better than fresh, in my opinion.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    How do you "let something cool down" further than room temperature? You can't really let something just sit still and cool more than the ambient temperature, so you must use some form of cooling element, like ice cubes or something.

    Or this is bait, I honestly can't tell.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    How do you “let something cool down” further than room temperature?

    Fridge

    Not bait

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Ah yes. But how come it gets warm in the first place? You put it in the fridge after cooking I guess? You don't eat the raw ingredients, right? That would be even more astonishing 😅

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    You put it in the fridge after cooking I guess?

    Yes...sometimes
    I'll be honest...yes, sometimes I do eat "raw" ingredients. Not ones that are actually dangerous to eat, but just yesterday, I found a pack of pre-cooked, vacuum-sealed ramen noodles in dad's fridge. I should've boiled them to heat them up...but they were pre-cooked, okay? So, umm...I just unpacked them, took out the solid slab of cold noodles and started biting into that...
    Not bad at all, I must say! Good snacc, would eat again :3

    By now, you should have realized, I am NOT normal

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hey, what is normal these days. Enjoy your food, and surround yourself with people who don't judge.

    I think it's freaking weird, but I wouldn't unfriend you over this thing. This thing wouldn't hurt our theoretical friendship. Eat how you wanna eat. Bon appetit!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Friendship? 👀
    Matrix, by any chance? 😆 (the messenger/protocol, not the movie)

    Thank youu :3

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I do not have Matrix unfortunately. 🫣 I don't have much time to maintain online relationships these days. I mostly scroll and comment here. 😊 But feel free to write me here anytime you want to chat!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    You like your saturated fat stick to your teeth hard. That's fine. Serious question though, how do you stand eating anything high in saturated fat? Or with proteins in liquid that congeal? Or shit waiting for your food's hot emulsions to separate?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I just...do? Put it in my mouth or scrape it up with a spoon. Don't care, cold is always my preference. Won't eat hot food, not even warm...as I've said

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Character development for Miisha? Neat!

    Everyone’s got quirks, yours are harmless.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    You think cereal is better cold?!

    There really are a lot of strange people on the internet. 😏 /s

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    This is like the inverse of Hot Grapes

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I just had a lovely meal of tortellini and the thought of it Stone Cold sounds gross.

    By the way I could not get the speech to text to write Stone Cold without capitalizing it. Which I kind of like.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 month ago

    Lol, stone cold tortellini are a classic for me. No matter if they're from a plastic bag (boiled in water) or in a can (pre-cooked with sauce), I always have them stone cold. Don't even care, it's just better

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Definitely unpopular. In a strange way I kind of agree about not wanting to burn your mouth, that's horrible and not worth it. I'll sometimes sit and wait for several minutes for my plate to cool if it's steaming hot, even when I'm hungry and other people around me are eating. But there's always a point where it's obviously safe and still nicely warm which is much better than being cold.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Do you think you have some trauma from childhood of parents serving you food too hot and actually burning your mouth?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I love cold Pizza and cold fried chicken. That's where I draw the line unless it's food that is meant to be served cold/room temp.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I consider both of those to be completely different foods from their hot versions. It's always hard for me to decide if I want the leftovers heated up or not.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    You must really like Cold Stone Creamery and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Cold cans of chili beans at 2 am 🫩 fuck the haters

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What do you do at restaurants?

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