I like virtually everything, except the following, which for some reason I can’t stand:
Red licorice. I don’t know why, but I can’t stand red licorice. Yet black licorice is my favorite. Tomatoes. Nasty, squishy, and slimy. I’ve always hated tomatoes. Mushrooms. Yuck. Liver. Just the thought of eating an organ designed to filter blood makes me want to puke.
** Hard Liquor.** I love beer, but whisky tastes like gasoline.
Can’t abide most types of squash, although I love zucchini.
Calamari.
Avocados, except in guacamole. One of my (now ex-) staffers brought in something he called “avocado pie” – avocados whipped with Cool Whip, then put in a graham-cracker crust. Horrendous. Unbelievably bad. How this EVER occurred to anyone…
I’m with you on the licorice thing. I hate both red and black. Actually, the black is even worse than red, IMHO. Licorice IS NOT candy. It’s just gross.
Liver.
Sweet Potatoes.
Brussel Sprouts.
Eggplant.
“Cookies and Cream” flavored anything, specifically ice cream.
Peaches.
Peach-flavored Iced Tea.
Onions. It is not the taste I mind (onion salt and power are good flavorers)- it is the texture. You bite innocently into a hamburger or take a spoonful of baked beans, and there is this nasty hard crunchy sliver of something between your teeth. Yuck. Onions in salsa, or all black and crunchy with pirogies or the dread liver (yum. Particularly chicken livers) are acceptable.
Tomatoes belong smashed up into pulp flavored with oregano, parmesan cheese, a tiny bit of habanero (sp) pepper and a bit of sugar, heated well, and smeared over pasta or bread products. Tomatoes do not belong raw in any form save salsa.
I drink Coke or Pepsi with pizza, wings, or when I am at Primanti Bros (hold the tomato), but for the most part I think it tastes like battery acid.
Except, I got no problem with Red Licorice. Black licorice on the other hand ought to be eradicated from the universe.
And marshmellows. Ugh, I can’t even touch them without gagging.
But, I’m starting to change my tune a little on some mushrooms. I’ll certainly not go out of my way to eat them, but I won’t refuse a slice of pizza with mushrooms on it. Those big portabello suckers? Yeesh, I can’t imagine chewing on that and keeping it down.
Ahh, foods I hate. There are so many, I don’t even know where to start.
The biggie: seafood. I’m talking any conceivable type of seafood. Tuna, shrimp, lobster, oysters, fish… sweet jesus, I’m getting sick to my stomach even typing those words. The only person I’ve ever known that hates seafood as much as I do is my sister.
Liver, mushrooms, black and green olives, cooked carrots, alfredo sauce, mustard, beets, peanuts (actually, ANY nuts), chocolate, anything peach-, apple-, watermelon- or wintergreen- flavored, well, you get the idea. I won’t touch any of that stuff.
Banannas
squash
eggplant
zuchinni
mushrooms (although a few on a pizza is OK)
unsweetened tea (yep, I’m from the south)
chocolate flavored foodstuffs (ie ice cream and cake)
dark chocolate
asparagus (they are vile)
runny eggs
I’m sure that there are a few more. That’s all that I can think of right now. Some things that are characterized as foods people hate, like spinach and broccoli, are foods I like.
Mrs. Scarred is not allowed to bring sauerkraut or liver into the house. I will allow asparagus, as long as she warns me ahead of time so I can get my own dinner and then sleep in a different room than her.
My daughter hates anything that’s not white. I can’t count the number of dinners that looked like: plain pasta, cauliflower, and jicama. A couple nights ago I refused to make pasta unless she tried sauce. She took the sauce on the side and was dunking individual strands of spaghetti into it. You take what you can get…
raw tomatoes (cooked ones I love)
cucumbers
anything very sour, especially all citrus fruits except pineapple
bean sprouts
cauliflower (looks like a giant tumour)
pork – that distinctive pork flavour. Ham is great, though.