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As an adult? I paid for it, I'll eat it. Then I won't order it again.

I generally make food I'll like, or if it's a new recipe, a small batch. I can eat a small batch! Or give it to my husband lol.

If out to eat, I'll stick to things that I'll enjoy. If even that is bad, eat what I can then be annoyed later at myself or at the restaurant. I could complain, but doing that would make my brain explode.

If I burnt something, salvage what I can, feed family with that, and eat prepackaged stuff for myself. It's not their fault I fucked up the food, so they should eat first.

Well you don't cook it. But yeah I generally weigh if I'm willing to pay the cost of the meal not to eat it if I really fuck up dinner or order something I wind up not liking

I give it to my chickens if I can’t stand to eat it myself.

I'm generally pretty good at figuring out what I will and won't like when ordering from a restaurant. The only reason I wouldn't finish something I ordered is if I physically cannot force myself to swallow it. If it comes to that, and my wife doesn't like it either, into the compost it goes.

and end up hating it like two bites in...

If I'm with someone I try to have them test it to make sure it's just me.

Depends on how much it's gonna cost I'll probably wolf some of it down and put it in a takeout box. Had that experience recently with a fish stock based noodle dish. Surprised me cause I typically like seafood.

I only cook stuff I like and never go out to eat so the problem never arises.

So when you were a kid and didn't like to eat something, you'd give it to your parents

You do? That would just ensure that my parent would make me eat it.

As an adult I don't like olives, capers, avocado and most sea food.

Like do adults just throw away food that taste bad?

Generally I just won't buy food I don't like. But sometimes I order a greek salad without olives ... and they put in olives. These I will pick out and throw away.

I mean like say you are at a restaurant and want to try something new… and end up hating it like two bites in…

Yeah, that's pretty much the reason I'd never order unfamiliar food while dining at a restaurant.

I am not a child. I eat it.

Unless it is spoilt, I try not to throw anything away. When I do, I try to recycle it (e.g. by composting). Even when I live in one of the world's richest countries, it just feels wrong to throw away food.

When I was a kid and served a food I didn't like, I just had to eat it anyway.

As an adult, I just don't cook food I'll dislike. The secret is to taste as you go.

As a child, I was taught to eat what was served and to finish what I was served, Whether I liked it or not.

It's even simpler as an adult because 1) I like to try new things and I know I will often need more than a single bite of anything to really appreciate anything new 2) I want to show some appreciation to the person cooking (I simply don't cook things I know don't like, myself ;)

What do I do with food I dislike as adult? Throw it out.

Politeness would be eat it, thanks your host, tell it was good

If you're alone at home, compost bin may be an option (same as *too much food)

Give it to my dogs.

Your an adult. You make an effort, you try and suck it up because you’re not a kid anymore

I just... Don't cook food I don't like, generally. It has to be pretty bad for me to not want to eat it. My first attempt at brown rice (severely undercooked), I tried rice and beans (turns out I hate beans to the point of wanting to puke :D). Those went in the trash. But generally I just eat it, maybe I don't chew if it's bad enough, but it's pretty rare regardless.

My room mate either hands it to me, or tosses it if I won't eat it. That's the source of most of my tossed food. Food they didn't want that I was curious enough about to take the offer, then ended up not liking myself.

I learned that if I had a sandwich I don't like, throw it at a pig.

It's very rare I don't finish what I started. If I won't eat it, nobody else will. It would go to the trash.

I hate nothing I've met so far.

Each individual decides that for themselves. Personally I've always thrown away the food I don't want. If I didn't want it, no way my mom would.