I would like to give food gifts to friends and neighbors this year. I have a couple recipes that I like a lot (one granola, one cookie) but they both feature coconut. I have a very good friend who hates coconut, and I wondered if this is a generally polarizing ingredient that I should save for people who I already know love it (me!). I have no idea how most of my recipients feel about it. How do you feel about coconut?
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I like it in some things--like the Girl Scout samoans.
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I mostly despise coconut and until recent years the only thing I can eat that tastes like coconut is coconut rice (YUM). Otherwise, no no no no no no.
It's also mostly a texture thing.
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I don't like coconut at all. Yuck.
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I like it but my mom hates it, as does DH & I wouldn't put it in a gift unless I was positive the recipient also likes it. But i often give gifts with chocolate & I know some don't like it so, what do I know? lol
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Gah, I hate coconut. I. just. cant. even. It's like eating dry grass.
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Coconut is one of my favorite things to bake with at the holidays!!
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@loveisstrange: have you ever tried the fresh kind? Like, not the dessicated type in the baking aisle? I don't like the dried coconut, either. But fresh is much better (or sometimes I can find it frozen).
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I like coconut, but my husband HATES it. He says the strands remind him of eating hair.
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I think it depends on the recipes. I generally like it but too much of it can be much.
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@Anagram: No. It's honestly a pretty strong aversion for me at this point.
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I like coconut, but Dh's whole family *hates* it. The flavor, the texture, everything about it.
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I love it, but DH hates it!
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I voted for meh; I don't hate it, I don't love it.
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Not a fan of coconut
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Hate coconut! Yuck!
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DH and I are both wild for it, but I think you are correct that in general it's a polarizing ingredient.
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I really like coconut... but I do think it's a polarizing issue. Either people love it or hate it - so I'd save it for people that like it!
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Yes to real coconut! No to coconut "flavor"
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Coconut is gross. I will try.most things to be polite except if it's covered in or flavored with coconut.
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Blah! I can't eat coconut! I dislike the taste and the texture is enough to make my skin stand on end. If there was a chocolate cake, with peanut butter marbled though, and Nutella on top (three of my favourite foods) but it had a hint of coconut sprinkled throughout, I would not be able to eat it. I dislike it that much.
* I'm trying to eliminate the word 'hate' from my vocabulary, otherwise it would have been used numerous times in the above statement.
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Blah, I hate coconut!!!
It was always the biggest bummer as a kid when Id go to a birthday party and the cake would have coconut on it.
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Heck to the no. I hate coconut.
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Coconut is genuinely one of the nastiest flavors ever to me. I can't even stand the smell of it.
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I dislike it. I would bake like chocolate chip or something else more universally liked.
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I hate coconut. Yuck.
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Okay, so I'll save the coconut lime snowballs and granola with unsweetened coconut flakes for myself! I had a feeling it was polarizing but I didn't know so many people feel about coconut the way I do about cilantro
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@Pancakes: see now cilantro is the bomb!
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Fresh coconut, coconut jellies or coconut milk or cream in recipes = yum
Dessicated coconut = the worst thing in existance. Ugh. Awful, awful texture.
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I ADORE coconut, I had no idea people disliked it so! I make a crazy good coconut oatmeal chocolate chip cookie.
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I like coconut but it is a polarizing ingredient. I'm working on a coconut project right now and I've been surprised how many haters there are.
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@sarac: that sounds amazing! Feel free to share the recipe
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I love it! DH hates it. DH's best friend hates it. My mom doesn't mind it, but I'm really the only one in my family who really loves it.
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I could take it or leave it, but I definitely wouldn't be upset about getting some coconut treats from someone making holiday goodies. I lot of people do love it, so I wouldn't have any trouble finding someone to share it with. Maybe make one coconut item and one non-coconut?
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@Pancakes: Not really a recipe - I just take any good oatmeal chocolate chip recipe, and sub a half cup of coconut for some of the oatmeal. You could go really nuts and make it a cup.
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For me it completely depends on the recipe. I love the flavor of coconut, but don't typically like the texture in foods.
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I love fresh coconut and coconut milk, but I have trouble opening them so they're hardly ever on the menu. Dried coconut isn't even close, and every canned coconut milk I've tried was incredibly nasty.
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