What food do you enjoy eating that gets an “eww” reaction from those around you? I grew up in a city where scrapple is a popular food to eat. I grew up eating it. I don’t understand why so many feel it’s strange, unappealing and give it an ‘eww’ rating. These same people won’t even taste it before condemning it. I now live in a city a thousand miles from where I grew up. Scrapple is hard to find in any supermarkets here. When I do find it and head for the check-out line, there is usually a reaction by the cashier (and everyone else in line) who state “You’re going to eat that?” I don’t believe scrapple is an acquired taste. I think everyone just needs to cook it properly and give it a chance… take a bite… it’s delicious. Even my husband, who is not from the same area where I grew up, refuses to try it and gives me plenty of “ewws” What food do you eat that causes “eww” reactions? Is your “eww” food something you’ve eaten since childhood?
I had to look up scrapple, never heard of it before. Eww. Scrap pork loaf.
I eat some hot and spicy foods that would not be everyone’s favourite. I guess an Eww food for some people would be raw oysters on the half shell.
My wife and kids run screaming from the house when I cook scrapple. I try and claim it as my ethnic food (Pennsylvania Dutch), but my wife ain’t byin’ it.
I just love the stuff.
Reported for forum change.
You’ve never had a hot dog?
I love scrapple, it’s hard to find these days, even in DC. My grandparents raised hogs and used to make their own. Man is that good.
Another eww reaction is pork rinds. There’s a chacuterie near me that will make them to order for you if you call ahead, so they’re still warm in the bag. Me and my dog sit on the porch and eat them while my wife wonders what kind of hillbilly she’s married.
I haven’t done this in years but mine is peach jello with milk. Breakfast of champions on hot summer mornings. Whenever I’ve mentioned it my husband threatens divorce.
Moving to Cafe Society since it’s about food.
Gefilte fish.
Tongue.
FWIW, I would try scrapple if someone were making it, but I doubt I would purchase it on my own (I think Publix down here carries it). I recently bought some Taylor pork roll after reading about its nostalgic properties and proceeded to make an egg sammich…sorry, wasn’t impressed.
That’s surprising to me. Lots of people put whipped cream on jello. I’d prefer cream to milk, but it’s basically the same thing…
As for my eww thing, my first thought is that I actually like anchovies on pizza. Every couple of months I have a craving for it. My wife really likes to add pineapple to the anchovy pizza, so she scores extra points, probably. 
And I don’t know if it counts, but I seem to be surrounded by people who hate some combination of mushrooms, bananas and shell fish. I love all three (not at the same time, mind you).
Ah, scrapple. One of the most inoffensive foods with the worst reputation. If you were to serve it to people who have never seen or heard of it, without any explanation, I guarantee they would like it.
Anyways…
What always gets a bad reaction from people is “fried dace with salted black bean.” It’s a small Chinese mud carp, gutted and decapitated but otherwise whole, fried to death and canned with salted black beans and oil, traditionally heated directly in the can then served over a bowl of white rice. I don’t know why I continue to eat it, even to me it smells absolutely horrific, and frankly it doesn’t even taste that great, but it’s comfort food that would be recognized by Chinese the world over. I’m not allowed to eat it in the house. Or bring it to work.
Damn, I have to add to their “eww” reaction. My mother liked them and my wife still does, the fresher and hotter the better. They’ve always tasted like burned fat, to me.
I’m personally surprised by the number of people who are offended by guacamole. My wife won’t eat it, nor will my sister. I will eat it as the only ingredient in a tortilla, and have made meals of same many times. Hell, I’ll eat half of your avocados raw before you have time to mush them up. What’s not to like about avocados? They’re pretty much a vegetable fat delivery device, and adding tomatoes, onions and peppers just makes it better.
Crazy people, I tell you.
Geico ran a commercial where a guy determined to lose weight hired middle school girls to follow him around and comment on what he was eating: “Ew. Seriously? So gross.”
Lots of anchovies on pizza. Escargot. Caviar.
Another one for gefilte fish. The people who know me IRL and know how picky I am can’t believe that I would eat something they would never dream of putting in their mouth.
Seaweed, kale chips, brussels sprout snacks, and freeze dried fruits and vegetables.
Kippered Herrings
Yum
But I can only eat them when the wife’s away. Just the smell sets her off.
Sushi. I don’t know why people comment on other people’s food anyway but I looooove sushi and could eat all the sushi. But people always feel the need to say, “eeew, I could never eat raw fish.”
I’ve been saying “It’s not all raw fish” but next time I am going to go straight to “Please don’t express disgust at the food I am currently eating.”
Isn’t scrapple basically like Spam?
Now that I think about it, even folks (my wife’s family, specifically) who eat gefilte fish won’t go the extra step that I do and add the gravy to the plate - goes good with crumbled matzoh. My mother-in-law keeps calling it “the gel” :D.
Yum! That’s the way I like it, but, wow, does it put people off!
I eat fruit, rinds and all. Watermelon, right down to the rind, canteloupes and lemons too. And the entire apple, core and all.