Why is it that, specifically with food, people who have absolutely no taste seem to hold a strange pride about it?

You don't see this with e.g. film or music, somebody pridefully saying "I'll listen to anything anybody considers music" like it's some sort of badge of honor to have no preferences.

I'm not trying to knock you here, it's just weird to me to be proud of having no preferences.

In a very direct way, humans need calories to live. You can just opt out of movies entirely without much impact, so I don't think they're symmetrical.

A "picky" movie watcher isn't really the same thing as a "picky" eater. The eater is doomed to be locked in a cycle of working around their preferences for as long as they live.

I don't know, but why do we find this struggle to differentiate between fact and feeling so often here?