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I posted a sentence to be corrected which was:

> 私は辛い野菜が不味い。

and they told me to use 「嫌い」 instead of 「不味い」.

What is the difference between the two when it comes to food?
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word-choice food
不味い versus 嫌い with food
私は辛い野菜が嫌い makes sense because this is the grammar pattern used to talk about
things you like or do not like.

  * 私は...が嫌い
  * 私は...が好き

I think it's important to note that both 嫌い and 好き are nouns.

Really, they are nominalized verbs,

  * 嫌う(to dislike) → 嫌い(something disliked)
  * 好く(to like) → 好き(something liked)

You might think of the Japanese grammar as saying something like,

  * " ** _I have_** a dislike for spicy vegetables."

私は辛い野菜が不味い is incorrect because this is not the grammar pattern used to talk
about whether you think something is tasty or not. 不味い is an i-adjective,
meaning "bad tasting".

The correct grammar pattern for telling someone what you think is tasty or not
(assuming you want to use 私は) would be,

  * 私は辛い野菜が不味い **と思う**. 

If you don't say the と思う part, then it is similar to saying _" **I have**
spicy vegetables taste bad"_ in English.

There are two ways to fix this, either remove "I" and change the topic to
"spicy vegetables" or add "think"...

  * **辛い野菜は** 不味い → "Spicy vegetables taste bad" 
  * 私は辛い野菜が不味い **と思う** → "I think spicy vegetables taste bad"
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