# Crazy food aversions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003 "2015-04-18T19:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/21 "2015-04-19T05:28:36Z")
I won’t eat chicken of any kind. Years ago I was served undercooked chicken, since then I could no longer eat it at all. Just the thought of it turns my stomach. Also milk. I hate the taste of milk. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/22 "2015-04-19T06:08:24Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > What’s so odd about hating mayonnaise? 😕 Mayonnaise is the devil’s semen, as I learned on this board years ago. Yeah, that’s a somewhat common aversion in my experience. I love mayo, but it’s if I’m preparing food for someone that may involve mayo, that’s something I ask about. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/23 "2015-04-19T06:12:53Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Why on God’s green earth would you put macaroni in chili?!? I can sometimes be a bit of a purist with my chili, but chili mac can be wonderful stuff, depending on the style of chili. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/24 "2015-04-19T06:48:55Z")
I can’t stand onions. Yet, for some strange reason, I love garlic which is every bit as strong tasting and smelling as onion. I hate celery even more. Still, oddly, celery salt is okay with me. Even more weird is the fact I’ve had [Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-Ray) a few times and actually liked it. I think mushrooms (and mushroom-flavoring) are both icky and icky-tasting. Please keep them out of my spaghetti sauce and, for God’s sake, \*don’t even think about \*putting them in stew or chili. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/25 "2015-04-19T08:07:35Z")
**NDP** have you tried ramps? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/26 "2015-04-19T08:09:01Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I can’t stand onions. Yet, for some strange reason, I love garlic which is every bit as strong tasting and smelling as onion. Ok, but how far do you take it? I know someone who won’t eat anything on a plate if they know onions have touched it. Not touched the food, just sat on the same plate with onions. I know a different person who won’t eat any meat except ground beef. That one totally boggles my mind. I can kind of understand people who don’t want to dismember dinner, but that’s extreme. My irrational food hatred: Casseroles. By the time they’re done in the middle the edges are usually crispy and everything that isn’t is mush. Due to enchilada casserole, I thought I didn’t like enchiladas until I was in my 20’s. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/27 "2015-04-19T08:32:19Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I don’t eat meatloaf, and here’s why. > > When we were kids, my brother said he had a tummyache, and our mom grabbed the first bowl she could find, just in time, KWIM? > > A couple days later, I saw her mixing up meatloaf in that bowl. > > :eek: > > I pointed that out, and she replied, “But I washed it!” > > Didn’t matter to me. Wouldn’t have mattered to me either. Once on a car trip home from some place where we’d taken food one of my kids upchucked in one of the empty Tupperware containers. I retired that one. Immediately. It could work for other things but never again for food. Half the members of my family thought this was the only solution, the other half thought it was the silliest thing ever. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/28 "2015-04-19T08:36:20Z")
Is this weird? If I go to a restaurant and order something and the plate comes back with a whole lot of food on it, such that actually getting a bite will cause its collapse, for some reason this completely takes away my appetite and I don’t want to eat any of it. I’m not talking about the places that make a leaning tower of entree, vegetables etc. after painting the plate artistically with some sauce. There’s usually plenty of room on those plates, which is the way I like it. I could do without the stacking thing. Also, I like M&Ms, but keep them out of my trail mix. I like raisins in my trail mix, and on their own, but I don’t like raisins in anything else. They have no place in cinnamon rolls, cookies, or curry. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/29 "2015-04-19T08:55:06Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Ok, but how far do you take it? I know someone who won’t eat anything on a plate if they know onions have touched it. Not touched the food, just sat on the same plate with onions. It’s not _that_ extreme. I don’t like cooked onions but I’m more likely to tolerate something with them in it than raw onions. Also, stuff with onion powder or onion flakes doesn’t bother me that much. When I’ve accidentally consumed something with raw onions or a lot of cooked onions, I just feel like I’m catching a cold for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/30 "2015-04-19T09:06:07Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > It’s not _that_ extreme. I don’t like cooked onions but I’m more likely to tolerate something with them in it than raw onions. Also, stuff with onion powder or onion flakes doesn’t bother me that much. When I’ve accidentally consumed something with raw onions or a lot of cooked onions, I just feel like I’m catching a cold for some reason. Hmm, you may be allergic to them. I have a co-worker who is allergic to them. They don’t go into anaphylactic shock or anything, but they know they ate onions, and Benadryl stops their discomfort. Tragically, they love onion rings. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/31 "2015-04-19T10:42:11Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Is this weird? If I go to a restaurant and order something and the plate comes back with a whole lot of food on it, such that actually getting a bite will cause its collapse, for some reason this completely takes away my appetite and I don’t want to eat any of it. > > I’m not talking about the places that make a leaning tower of entree, vegetables etc. after painting the plate artistically with some sauce. There’s usually plenty of room on those plates, which is the way I like it. I could do without the stacking thing. > > Also, I like M&Ms, but keep them out of my trail mix. I like raisins in my trail mix, and on their own, but I don’t like raisins in anything else. They have no place in cinnamon rolls, cookies, or curry. Weird or not, I have a similar condition. I don’t go to all you can eat buffets (Especially the ones where it’s serve yourself) because it ruins my appetite to see all those folks with mountains of food on their plate. And I say this as a man who is no “health nut” by any stretch of the imagination. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/32 "2015-04-19T14:37:45Z")
Hot cereal of any kind. No, no, no, no, never, never, no! My mother equated “hot cereal for kid when it’s cold” to “I’m a good parent!” No, noticing that the stuff has made your child literally gag for twenty breakfasts, and making scrambled eggs instead would make you a better parent. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/33 "2015-04-19T14:42:21Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I don’t eat meatloaf, and here’s why. > > When we were kids, my brother said he had a tummyache, and our mom grabbed the first bowl she could find, just in time, KWIM? > > A couple days later, I saw her mixing up meatloaf in that bowl. > > :eek: > > I pointed that out, and she replied, “But I washed it!” > > Didn’t matter to me. My mother was visiting me once and decided to make herself some ice cream, and grabbed a festively colored plastic bowl. I came out of the other room and said, 'Oh, that’s one of the cat food bowls." I swear, she turned green and put Haagen Daz and fresh raspberries down the drain! I said, “Mom, it’s been washed in the dishwasher, it’s fine! It’s practically been sterilized!” Nope. She was not eating it and was off her food the rest of the night. (My argument for “not telling her” that the plastic bowls were for cat food was, “Have I EVER served ANY HUMAN BEING food in a plastic bowl?” ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/34 "2015-04-19T19:12:42Z")
I’ve been a lot of places in the world, and eaten everything there was to be eaten. Weird meats, organs that ordinarily (at least in my country) aren’t considered food, all kinds of stuff that a lot of people would gag on. No problem. I’ve enjoyed most of it. But I can’t stand Jello. Any kind of Jello. I don’t even like looking at it. Also, my SO won’t eat codfish in any form. I’m not sure whether that’s \*despite \*the fact that she’s from Newfoundland, or \*because \*she’s from Newfoundland. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/35 "2015-04-19T19:57:13Z")
I know someone who won’t eat roast beef. Not beef in general, just roast beef. He’ll eat steak, hamburger, meatloaf, steak sandwiches (Philly type) etc. but he will not touch roast beef. Also, homegrown tomatoes. He’ll eat the flavorless ones from the market, but he doesn’t like the taste of homegrown tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/36 "2015-04-19T21:06:41Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > An older, married couple both refused to eat any type of gravy, refused to touch any stuffing/dressing (they insisted mushrooms were ‘hidden’ in it, there weren’t) Hm, the only way I could fight that is making the old bat sit there and help me put the dressing together [stuffing = cook in the bird, dressing = cooked outside the bird] so she could see there were no shrooms anywhere. THere wouldn’t be anyway, me being deathly allergic :smack: > [@NDP](#): > > It’s not _that_ extreme. I don’t like cooked onions but I’m more likely to tolerate something with them in it than raw onions. Also, stuff with onion powder or onion flakes doesn’t bother me that much. When I’ve accidentally consumed something with raw onions or a lot of cooked onions, I just feel like I’m catching a cold for some reason. Hm, I knew a guy who couldn’t do one form of onion [I think it was raw, can’t remember offhand] as he had eaten something with whichever form of onion it was and got an absolutely horrible case of food poisoning. Ever since them he can’t eat whatever it was, and most of the ingredients normally found in it. [I want to say potato salad, but I am pretty sure it wasn’t, maybe macaroni salad? Some damned casserole?] > [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Also, my SO won’t eat codfish in any form. I’m not sure whether that’s \*despite \*the fact that she’s from Newfoundland, or \*because \*she’s from Newfoundland. Hm, overexposure to cod? I have issues with _fishy_. Fresh or dried, can’t abide it - Dried cod, dried scallops, dried shrimp, nope. Fresh - sardines/sprat [any number of 2 to 4 inch long tiny fishes that are all oil and bones], mackeral, catfish [tastes like you dished me up a plateful of mud. Blech] Anything strong - smells like someone dished me up a fish that has been sitting on shore rotting for a week. Only canned fish I will eat is tuna after turning it into salad. Only fresh fish I really like is everybody’s boring list - cod, halibut, tuna, salmon, sole, turbot. I will eat lobster, crab, shrimp, crawfish [but I don’t suck brains, eyeballs, head fat, tomalley, internal organs other than their little intestinal tract in shrimp tails.] [URL=“[http://boards.straightdope.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/](http://boards.straightdope.com//www.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)”] ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/37 "2015-04-19T21:18:12Z")
How does everyone feel about Lemon Chess Pie… You know,custard with a little corn meal in it — or eggy sorta sweet cornbread in a pie shell… ---
**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/38 "2015-04-20T00:01:22Z")
Utterly squicked out by liver, and bananas. I’ll eat them cooked (but will still get a mild tummy upset), but never, ever raw. I also have an irrational hatred of plums, which I blame on reading “The English Patient.” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/39 "2015-04-20T01:58:39Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I know someone who doesn’t like any kind of pizza. And he’s Italian. I’ll go you one Italian better – no pasta, pizza, anything like that. Growing up it was basically the only thing they ate, three meals a day, so as an adult its the last thing he wants to see on his plate. And I have seen him go hungry rather than “eat Italian” more than once. I’m not much on home-grown produce unless I know and trust the grower really well and I never eat any wild game or fish I didn’t get myself. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003/40 "2015-04-20T07:32:12Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > 1. Liver. just has an iron-y, bloody taste and I can’t take more than a little bit. I can’t think of anyone I know that really likes liver. > [@](#): > > 1. Cilantro. tastes like detergent. not revolting but it stands out. if I make something which calls for it, I substitute parsley. That’s actually [genetic](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html?_r=0), believe it or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-food-aversions/718003.md?page=3)