That’s funny - I loathe the smell of melon, especially cantaloupe. In the early 90s, when cucumber melon was the smell du jour, I was miserable. 
Yes, venison! It has a sweetness that makes me think I’m eating spoiled meat, and it turns my stomach. Aside from that, I don’t like the taste or texture.
I love sushi, though. There are so many varieties, I wonder what the uniting factor is for hating it. There’s something about the way sushi rice is prepared that I find positively addictive.* I have to have sushi at least once a week – even if it’s just simple inari.
- the vinegar? 'cause I *love *vinegary foods.
I don’t like peanut butter or peanuts. I had gotten to the point where I was just meh on PB, and then I developed an allergy - eating anything with peanuts upsets my stomach
I don’t like pickles at all.
Almost certainly the vinegar. When I have sushi that is not particularly sour, I enjoy it, but I know that what I enjoy is heavily westernized.
Another factor may be the texture for sashimi and non-roll sushi
I’m indifferent to milk chocolate.
I don’t like most potato chips (crisps).
But I* loathe* popcorn.
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[ul]I can’t deal with eating fresh bananas - texture issue. They’re fine IN stuff.
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[ul]I hate cheesecake and cheesecake flavored things.[/ul]
[ul]Mushrooms, though the world is probably about 50/50 on those, most people around me seem to love them or at least enjoy them. Keep your fungi away from me.[/ul]
[ul]I honestly don’t much care for chocolate. It certainly has its place, but if my choice is between a chocolate bar and no candy at all, I’ll just go without.[/ul]
[ul]American cheese. Barf. I hate that it’s the ONLY option in most fast food joints. I hate that so many people not only tolerate it, but scarf it down.[/ul]
Lamb.
I will try anything once, though I do have some dietary allergies and sensitivities that I avoid.
I dislike bell peppers, or anything with an anise-y liqquorice-y taste like celeriac, fennel, bell peppers have an anise undertaste. I will admit I am also not really into most peppers of any particular heat, the idea of too hot to eat doesn’t appeal to me.
Okra - living in the south, I had it more times than I care to remember. NO way pr preparation made it edible.
Grits. Yuck.
Zucchini and eggplant have the same machine oil undertaste that I also get from shark and swordfish, no idea why.
Ultra fishy tasting fish - sardines, mackeral, that sort of thing. Can’t even take really fishy cat food around the house.
Not fond of liver or kidneys, tongue, most other meats are fine, though I may like some less than others.
Really dry wines, if I want tannins I will chew on a tree.
HA!
Onions, which are apparently the Borg of restaurants (resistance is futile). :rolleyes: Order a burger, sandwich, or salad without onions, especially to-go, and often they’re on there anyway. Read a menu description and, no matter how floridly detailed it is, often the description will not mention onions but the dish will have them anyway.
For a lot of my adult life, the answer would have been pasta. Used to find it bland, vaguely unpleasant, and not something I ate by choice from, like age 12 to 30. Around then, I started eating it grudgingly because my then-partner loved pasta dishes, and it grew on me. Still not something I actively seek out often, but will occasionally enjoy.
Except farfelle. Damn, do I hate farfelle.
Yeah, well put. For something that smells that good, it is especially disappointing. That said, while I did initially vote popcorn, I do like the occasional bag of cheese popcorn mixed with caramel corn. By “occasional,” I mean like once ever year or two. I also remember one of my odder WTF experiences, going to a movie theatre in Germany to watch “Shakespeare in Love” with a friend of mine. Since it’s the movies, I’m compelled to buy popcorn, because that is what one does, and even if I don’t eat much, whoever I’m with will. I take my first bite into the popcorn, expecting salty, buttery goodness, and I get a faceful of sweet. I don’t know if it’s a regular thing, or if it’s just that theatre or region or what, but my brain took a few seconds to wrap itself around the subversion of expectations.
I, too, was surprised in that original thread how many people shared my aversion to coffee.
Also, I avoid:
Eggs
Grits
Beer
Wine
Spirits
Jalapenos, or any hot pepper
Just for fun, I also dislike jazz, and will happily turn off Miles Davis to listen to Colbie Calliat. And I’m thoroughly sick of the Boston Red Sox. You’ve lifted your stupid “Curse of the Bambino”, Boston, now quit wangsting over Bill Buckner and how important the Sox are to baseball history, and how much you hate the Yankees; the rest of us are tired of hearing about it.
Buffalo wings. Iced tea.
Milk.
I like milkshakes, many cheeses, yogurt (especially Greek yogurt–yum!), but I can’t stand drinking plain, unadorned milk. Ick.
Even as a kid, I would turn down milk and cookies, if it meant I had to drink the milk. And breakfast cereal dry can be OK, but the minute milk touches it, it becomes disgusting.
Coffee
melon
coconut
wine
Now you know of someone else- I can’t stand ANY of it.
Mushrooms
Avocados
Raw onion
Raw tomato
Seafood (shrimp, losbster, etc. fish is fine)
Why? It’s just a shape.
IME, all those folds give you a piece of pasta that’s often simultaneously overcooked, al dente, and undercooked.