Of course I can? I've pulled pea soup out of the fridge and eaten it straight

Cold or room temperature. I make an exception for drinks. I'm not a person that needs their drink to be cold. Coffee and tea tho? Always cold

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

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.

Yesss! Sibling! :3

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 😭

Nooooo, what? Cold pizza is the best! Pizza is one of the things I literally have to have cold. I hate hot pizza, straight from the oven...not sarcasm

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

Isnt melted stringy cheese enjoyable?

For most people, probably. Not for me.

Pizza? Always cold

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

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

At that point, I'd just rather eat the hot stone. And I like neither hot food nor stones...

I enjoy my food cold as well, and I am diagnosed as autistic. So you might be onto something.

I’m not gonna have hypothermia on the job, sorry. Same sorta reasoning as not wanting to burn your toungue. It’s for your (my) safety.

Just the opposite for me. Coagulated grease makes me gag

Well, I guess you're a lot into salads and meals that were lovingly prepared then put in the fridge for later (and ice cream). Some food must be cooked before consumption, so be sure to cook what must be cooked not to fall ill, even if they require to cool down before you find them to your taste.

Weird, definitely, but im not much better. I prefer everything to be room temp. 1-2 mins in the microwave, or sitting on the counter for 10+ minutes after cooking.

I think you maybe have an aversion to bitter tastes or something. I, also unfortunately, love bitter foods

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.

French fries? I cannot eat them when they even approach room temperature

Absolutely. Stone cold fries

As he should. You're heating everything else in the fridge, making the fridge work far harder than usual and thus vastly accelerating both the fridge and it's contents' demise.

Yup. True.
...I still do it tho 😆

Erm, so do you have issues with extremes? Because burning your tongue should not happen often and that remains true even if you were eating food hot every time. What you describe as inevitable is something that happens to me like three times a year, only is bothersome for a couple days, and is thoroughly my own fault when it does happen.

Edit: you've caused me think at length about the difference in cold vs hot foods and it's got me alternating between gag reflex and mouth watering. Weird.

You clearly don't work in the absolute freezing cold like this person does...

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

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

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

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

Do I seem proud of doing it? Cause I'm not, that's for sure. I'm just dumb

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.

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

Fridge

Not bait

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. 😂

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 😅

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

But then how can you tell what the Rock is cooking?

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!

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

Thank youu :3

Possibly the worst opinion here

Upvoted

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

Tism can run in the family

This is like the inverse of Hot Grapes

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

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.

Or Arfid at least.

Objectively and demonstrably wrong. Excellent post.

I'm actually quite similar! I don't willingly eat or drink anything more than a few degrees above room temp.

"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.

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.

I get you, in just wondering specifically if you don't like those foods. Namely fatty beef, bacon, butter emulsions, hearty velvety soups, cheese sauces

Upvote for an actual unpopular opinion. Well done.