Foods I will not eat

Here’s a good food hack. When you’re eating at Burger King, tell them you want your meal without seal oil. That way they have to cook you a fresh one rather than just take one that’s been sitting in the heating rack.

I do my best to stay away from:

any and all fried foods
mayonnaise
sour cream
butter
cheese
bread
bagels
milk (unless fat free)
high calorie deserts (ice cream, cake, donuts, pastries, pie, etc.)
processed meat products (hot dogs, bologna, etc.)
tomatoes
eggplant
cauliflower
snails
oysters
olives
organ meats

Curious: Are all of these foods you don’t like? Or do you stay away from some of them because they are bad for you?

Yea, I should have differentiated between the two:

Foods I don’t like (or I believe I won’t like if I tried it)
processed meat products (hot dogs, bologna, etc.)
tomatoes
eggplant
cauliflower
snails
oysters
olives
organ meats

Foods I won’t eat due to self-imposed dietary restrictions
any and all fried foods
mayonnaise
sour cream
butter
cheese
bread
bagels
milk (unless fat free)
high calorie deserts (ice cream, cake, donuts, pastries, pie, etc.)

Just… once? Oh Dear Og… we were forced to have them weekly! Stove top pan prepared (ie re-heated in the water from the can). Those mushy pods were then dropped on each plate; one large spoonful each.

Softer than mashed potatoes.
More flavorful than compost-pile rotted millet.
Look! Up On the Stove…! Its…

Canned Peas!

Yes Canned peas…strange soggy legume from another state and a prior year with pungent tastes far beyond the gag reflex of mortal men…

Canned Peas!
Who can ruin the courses of mighty dinners… and end meals from its lair-cans.

Canned Peas!

And who, disguised as a nutritious vegetable able to be afforded by poor working families, fought a never ending battle for puke, injustice, and unpalatable gray… :frowning:

They weren’t any better out of the freezer, in that solid, frozen block. Ho, ho, ho, my ass.

I credit peas for my ability to swallow large numbers of pills at once. Peas suck but they are edible because it’s very easy to swallow them whole without any chewing (and thus tasting).

Cut the brussel sprouts in half. Toss with olive oil, salt, and garlic powder until they are lightly coated. Arrange on a baking sheet with the flat side up. Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes.

Instead of tasting like cabbage they acquire a nutty flavor. Delicious.

Oatmeal. I didn’t like it as a child. I liked it for about a week when I was 18. I bought a box of instant oatmeal packets and made it through two or three, but out of nowhere, the next one made me nauseous. Now anything that smells like oatmeal, or resembles it in texture, turns my stomach. I WISH I liked it. It’s so cheap, and such a great, quick breakfast on a cold winter day. It’s portable and lasts a long time. Every so often I think about trying it again, but then I’ll get a whiff and realize that it’s just not going to happen. I can’t even eat oatmeal cookies. I mean, come on, they’re COOKIES! I love cookies!

Sigh…

I do that too, but then I immediately throw them out. :wink:

Ketchup is something that I rarely eat, having all my life resisted America’s propensity to slather it on most anything. It has its uses as a glaze base, etc., but drowning fries and burgers in the stuff doesn’t appeal to me.

Bone marrow.

Organ meats, unless they’re diced up into gravy.

Pickled pig’s feet (shudder)

Cooked spinach: can’t even stand the smell

I’m not too picky. There are only two commonly seen foods I won’t eat: raw tomatoes (but I love tomato sauce, tomato salsa, ketchup, etc) and cooked feta cheese. Raw feta is fine, but when cooked it has the exact same scent as acidic vomit. Seriously, I have semi-flashbacks to being hunched over a toilet whenever I smell it.

I roast them at 400, but same idea. Roasted in any manner, and they just may well be my favorite vegetable. Boiled? Yuck. Roasted I could eat them by the bucket.

If you are talking about eskimo ice cream…tried it once and never since then. It was made during hard times with whatever was around.

Here were the ingredients:
Crisco (instead of fat)
random berries from the freezer
concentrated milk
sugar

FYI; when you eat crisco it coats your mouth and does NOT want to leave. Ever.

Think of a dog eating peanut butter and you know what I looked like.

That’s the stuff, alright. Never had the stones to give it a try because, you know, Crisco.

sweet potato
winter squash (but summer squash is okay)
anything with cumin in it (gives me heartburn and doesn’t taste very good)
anything with more than a little rosemary (tastes good but gives me really bad heartburn)
macaroni and cheese from a box (homemade is fine)
frosting from a can (again homemade is fine)
beef liver (but pork liver is okay)
green olives (black olives are tasty)
Limburger cheese (tastes like a cross between a cow barn and stinky feet)
oat porridge (nasty texture; raw oatmeal, granola, oatmeal cookies, oatmeal bread, etc, are fine)
beets (taste like dirt)

Green eggs and ham.

(Also any kind of seafood, including ocean cockroaches and silverfish, water filters of various kinds, or anything spending a good portion (or all) of its life under water. Evil, demonic class of food.)

I used to be like that; then I found Spanish olives at our local market’s deli section that are positively addictive.

I’ll stick with the addition of the chestnuts and cream, and simmering, thanks…

People who eat kidneys and liver apparently have no idea that thetse organs are full of poisons in their work of removing them from the body.

I also hate the stuff in chicken salad; I never order chicken salad in a restaurant because, not only is there raw-goddamn-celery in it, there are giant hunks of raw-goddamn-celery in it.

Tiny diced bits of celery I can handle. Giant raw blobs? Blah.