It’s been a few years since I had it, but IIRC, it reminded me if someone had liquefied lawn clippings and told me to put in on perfectly good chips.
If coffee tasted as good as it smelled, it would kick chocolate’s ass. Instead, it tastes like chocolate’s ass.
I used to love tea, but gave it up because it’s too bothersome to make, and it’s hard getting decent tea at all, much less decent decaf tea. There are places on the internet, but it seems they’re premium teas with prices to match. Screw it.
Bell peppers. There are some cuisines that seem to put them in every dish. I’ll eat them but I have never had a dish with bell peppers that wouldn’t have tasted better without them.
Ooo…that’s a good one. The others in this thread I’ve heard of, but this is literally the first time I heard of anyone not like pasta.That’s almost like not liking bread. My wife, for some reason, always assumed I didn’t like pasta, because I wouldn’t cook it that often, but the truth is, I don’t cook it, because I’d eat the whole damned pound package on its own if it were to be left around. Now that I have picky kids under 5 in the house, it’s become almost a daily staple, as there are about five foods they enjoy eating. I swear, they started out eating anything and everything, and now settled into the stereotypical “kids menu” diet.
I eat pretty much everything; oysters, sushi, escargot, carpaccio, etc. I can’t think of a single food that I wouldn’t eat. That said, I don’t like fat. I trim any fat off of my steak prior to cooking, for example.
Bar-B-Que. Lots of work and lots of mess for not much IMHO. It just tastes and smells like burnt wood.
Sometimes people mention having a Bar-B-Que, and I have to find out if they mean grilling burgers and dogs or if they plan on serving that vile saucy crap.
Now this is a thread I can win.
**Cheese **(ha! top that!)
Oddly enough, I love pizza, but even that can’t be extra cheese or four cheese. Just plain old mozzarella, and a small amount at that.
Try going anywhere that doesn’t automatically include cheese in most everything.
Butter
I’ll cook with it but as a spread? Oh hellz no. No, I don’t want it on my pancakes or my toast. And if we’re out to dinner, do NOT use the knife that comes with the bread to spread butter and then use it later to cut yourself another piece, goddammit.
Salad Dressing
I can’t think of one that the mere smell of doesn’t turn my stomach. I do like salad, though.
Seafood
Anything other than shrimp, lobster or crab is repellent to me, and even then, I won’t cook it at home because of the smell.
Funny, the only thing I really like about bananas is the texture. I don’t have the flavor, but most foods would be better without it. (Yes, I prefer them a little under-ripe, after the astringency is mostly gone, but before too much flavor develops.)
Probably the weirdest is that I don’t care for avocado. I don’t hate it, and I don’t bother to pick it out of my sushi, but I don’t get the appeal. If there’s a large chunk in my salad I will offer it to others.
And the weirdest that I won’t eat is bell pepper. I don’t mind fresh green pepper. But if you cook it or even if it gets old it develops this really nasty flavor. And that flavor gets into everything. I don’t even want to sit next to you if you are eating a stuffed roast pepper. Ick!!
When I got married, it took a while for us to figure out why I didn’t like tomato sauce (which my husband loves) because I like both fresh and cooked tomatoes. Turns out that my mom always put green pepper in it. And lots of other places do, too. Some brands of canned tomato sauce include some bell pepper, even! And that makes it taste disgusting.
In general I like foods that are more mildly seasoned that most people. That’s not true for every seasoning (I love ginger) but I have a sensitive palette, and enjoy most foods more if I can taste the underlying food (beans, vegetable, meat, cheese, rice, whatever) and not just be overwhelmed by the seasoning. My sense of taste isn’t as sensitive as it was when I was a kid, and I find I can now tolerate (sometimes even enjoy) tiny amounts of highly-flavored things like mustard. But a lot of foods other people like just taste overblown and brassy to me.
Avocado: I can eat a little bit if it’s in the form of guacamole, but slices of it, or mashed into toast? gag
Bananas with any green on them: I looooove a nice speckled banana, but the green ones make me teeth feel funny, aren’t sweet and bananas shouldn’t crunch.
Mushrooms: Disconcertingly textured, spongy bits of forest floor.
Anything that once lived in water: the smell, the looks, the texture…shudders
Peas: I grew up on canned peas, which are from the Devil, but my hatred extends to all peas. Yes, even fresh. No, I won’t try them again.
I have some serious texture issues. Anything runny, slimy or overly creamy is just horrifying to me.
Avocados / Guac = texture is awful and the taste is just as bad. Wife loves them, I can’t even be in the same room when she’s eating them.
Fish = tired many kinds, prepared many ways, can’t stand the texture, taste or smell. And it really bugs me when people say, “oh if it’s fresh it doesn’t smell fishy.” Bullshit. It always smells fishy; and that smell is just plain disgusting.
Eggs = the only way I can eat them is scrambled / omelette style. Anything else, including hardboiled makes me gag.
Jello and Pudding = again…texture. I don’t like eating things that can move on their own.
Canned cranberry sauce = urp. Fresh, actual cranberries can be enjoyable but that canned, jiggly crap that gets sliced into little discs for T-Day? No thanks.
Heck, I don’t even like whipped cream all that much. Watching someone shoot the can directly into their mouth makes me wretch all the time.
How have we gotten this far without mentioning the evil, dreaded cilantro? And it’s in everything now, even in Mom & Pop diners! On the cooking shows, the TV chef will put together a wonderful, beautiful, yummy-sounding dish and then ruin it by topping it with “bright, citrusy cilantro.” Bright? Citrusy? To some people cilantro tastes like soap. To me it tastes the way your mouth tastes after you throw up.
Also, there’s a big movement on to get people to cook/fry things in coconut oil. I love coconut, I love the smell of toasted coconut, and I put that wonderful-smelling semi-solid substance on myself after a bath. BUT the smell of it *cooking *absolutely turns my stomach. And after the dish is cooked, that awful smell/taste remains and renders (appropriate word) the food inedible. Blech.
I do love sushi, coffee, artichokes, bananas, and even canned peas. Not picky about anything else.
Bananas, cucumbers, raw tomatoes and pumpkin/winter squash are my big four foods that everyone else seems to like but me.
Now none of them are gaggingly bad, but I don’t care for them either. Of the four, I think pumpkin/winter squash are the nastiest, followed by cucumbers, bananas and raw tomatoes.
Avocado… it’s fine in guacamole or as pieces in say… tortilla soup or some tacos (there’s a local place that makes braised brisket tacos that work with thin slices of avocado, for example). But I don’t like it enough to think that it is anything other than an adjunct to another dish.
Now that I have picky kids under 5 in the house, it’s become almost a daily staple, as there are about five foods they enjoy eating. I swear, they started out eating anything and everything, and now settled into the stereotypical “kids menu” diet.