Yes. I didn’t like the taste. Or really, texture. I found the entire sum of it utterly vile.
But to each their own
– it was just so visceral and disappointing for me, very early in my LC days, and made me suspicious from then on about anything people claimed tasted “just like ____!”
I also don’t think cauli with cheese/butter tastes anything like mashed potatoes. However, cauli when cooked with specific flavors like in chicken fried mock-rice is great.
And I don’t like spaghetti squash at all, to replace spaghetti, but a few different veggies including zukes and eggplant, cooked with the right seasonings, are an amazing analogy to apple pie filling.
So I think it’s just individual tastes. In fact since going lowcarb/keto I’ve become very interested in how distinct the human taste buds are. I knew I was a supertaster for dairy proteins, and that some of my friends think cilantro tastes like dish soap, but aside from that I hadn’t been exposed to just how widely human taste varies. I find the topic very interesting. I think it would be interesting if someday they could predict what people would love based on some measurable factor.