# Foods I will not eat **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381 "2014-11-11T22:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/21 "2014-11-12T01:29:10Z")
liver runny eggs grapefruit raw oysters ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/22 "2014-11-12T01:32:29Z")
Cooked carrots Creamed corn Liver V8 or tomato juice Cottage cheese All make me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/23 "2014-11-12T01:34:17Z")
Since becoming an adult I have not eaten liver or Brussels sprouts, y’know, because they are despised! And no avocado for me, thanks, or coffee, just never developed a taste for either. I won’t eat anything but a few fries at McDonalds, that stuff ain’t food in my book, sorry. Also Dad’s cookies. Bah, they’re just a dog biscuit for humans to me. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/24 "2014-11-12T01:49:00Z")
Liver and any kind of peppers. I like chicken/turkey hearts and gizzards, but liver of any species is disgusting to me. I don’t like the taste of peppers, and they repeat on me something awful, even in minute quantities. If they are even on the plate with my food, everything else is contaminated by the touch. Strangely, the dried pepper flakes are not a problem. Nor do I mind spicy food in general. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/25 "2014-11-12T01:52:21Z")
Onions! I’ve tried and tried and tried to like onions, but I can’t stand them. Neither could my Dad, so there’s some genetic component. Garlic’s ok, though. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/26 "2014-11-12T01:52:53Z")
Sweet potatoes. They are yucky. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/27 "2014-11-12T01:54:05Z")
Nasty things: Lengua (tastes good but once I saw it whole pre-cooked, no bueno). Liver, or basically any other organs or offal. Runny eggs Things that just don’t taste good: Brussels sprouts Eggplant Yogurt Green pepper, especially cooked. All other peppers are yummy, just not green bell. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/28 "2014-11-12T02:22:04Z")
Off the top of my head: Organ meats Raw fish Caviar Pickled anything ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/29 "2014-11-12T02:36:00Z")
So who does like Organ Meats anyway? I suppose if you gussy ‘em up and call them something french, they become the infamous ‘delicacy’…There is no kind of vegetable that I won’t try–somehow they seem less ‘yucky’. I really wanted to like Beets, so badly. Bought some at the farmers’ market and roasted them and then flavored them with Sea Salt, fresh butter and fresh ground pepper. My guests raved. They still tasted like mudpies to me. Oh, and I don’t like any type of egg except omelets. I loathe hard boiled eggs (another food I’m dying to eat-they have tons of protein, etc…). There’s a great italian dialect word that some of you may have heard of. In dialect it’s pronounced, shkeev and it basically means that gross feeling you get thinking about eating something gross. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/30 "2014-11-12T02:44:43Z")
> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#): > > There’s a great italian dialect word that some of you may have heard of. In dialect it’s pronounced, shkeev and it basically means that gross feeling you get thinking about eating something gross. It’s made its way into English, too. Perfect description of runny eggs and liver. > **[Urban Dictionary: skeevy](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skeevy&utm_source=search-action)** > > Shifty, sleazy, creepy, dirty, dodgy, nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/31 "2014-11-12T02:47:38Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > Raw fish > … > Pickled anything I just bought a jar of pickled herring. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/32 "2014-11-12T03:12:09Z")
I like liver. My only problem with it is I hate the smell of raw liver. So I’m great with liver as long as somebody else cooks it for me. I love all the vegetables that are most commonly hated: beets, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, lima beans, olives, onions, pickles, turnips - they’re all among my favorites. The only fruit/vegetables I don’t like the taste of are grapefruits and tomatoes - but I could eat them both if I had to. I hate raw or undercooked food. No sushi or raw oysters. No rare meat. No runny egg yolks. I don’t like really spicy food. But that’s more a physical than a mental aversion. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/33 "2014-11-12T03:12:26Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I cannot stand olives. At all. If there are olives on anything, I can’t even pick them off because the item has been thoroughly contaminated with olive juice. Me, too. I wish I liked olives, because they are in so many good dishes. But I’ve never met an olive that I like. (OTOH, I do love olive oil.) Organ meat. No thanks. No organ meat for me. Eel. I love Japanese food, and eat almost any kind of sushi or sashimi. But eel. No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/34 "2014-11-12T03:16:55Z")
Raw or undercooked onions. Heartburn and icky. Bell peppers. Heartburn. Eggplant. Cottage cheese. Brussels sprouts Pork chops (they taste like wet mittens to me) Organ meat Octopus Raw tomato Fried eggs Undercooked scrambled eggs Egg salad. Boiled eggs. Mango. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/35 "2014-11-12T03:19:08Z")
Oysters, raw or cooked; they’re a member of the phlegm family of foods (or is it mucous?) Beets: evil purple fuckers that smell like ass Brussels sprouts: evil green troll dingleberries that also smell like ass (or maybe feet) Raw fish, other than seared tuna on occasion: it’s why frying pans were invented Fat (not fried fat like bacon or chicken skin, but like the kind you find on a steak-gagsville) I also avoid bitter greens; my taste buds just can’t handle bitter. I can eat eggplant, but only if it’s hidden in something like moussaka. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/36 "2014-11-12T03:21:14Z")
I have to be pedantic and say that muscles are organs, so any meat is an organ meat. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/37 "2014-11-12T03:45:56Z")
Off the top of my head, the one food that I am not willing to put in my mouth under any circumstances save an apocalyptic famine is raisins. Everything else is context dependent (e.g. I hate raw bananas but like banana bread), and I’ll try anything once. I hate the smell, the texture, the taste, everything about raisins. I don’t know why grapes are so good, then turn into these shriveled pods of evil when left to dry out. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/38 "2014-11-12T04:31:00Z")
I’m easy to cook for; I like just about anything, except: Limbuger cheese Kidneys Haggis ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/39 "2014-11-12T04:38:26Z")
I’ll eat almost anything, but not escargot. To me, they’re vermin - it would be like eating a rat. I’ve never tried stinky tofu. I’ve smelled it, though, and that was enough. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381/40 "2014-11-12T04:49:24Z")
Beef liver/kidneys (Although I do okay with poultry organs) Brussels sprouts Cooked spinach (raw or part of something cooked is fine just not the gloppy mass of boiled spinach) Those little bricks of frozen neon orange squash (although other squash is fine) Still moving stuff (although I once was close to trying a grasshopper to at least see if the taste a little of watermelon claim was true) Monkey brains on the half skull (thanks whichever Indiana Jones movie that was) I haven’t tried haggis; it might make the list but I’ve always wanted to try at least once.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-i-will-not-eat/704381.md?page=3)