For me, it’s gotta be hard boiled eggs. I think they are the nastiness fucking substance you can find. My father loves them and makes a couple of cartons worth a week. The smell from cooking makes me sick.
Then today I watched him mash them up into tiny bits, and combine with horse radish and sour cream, and then put dijon mustard over the mess. Ugh. I almost lost my own lunch (Italian wedding soup) watching him eat it.
What’s your’s? (And could someone please explain the appeal of hard boiled eggs?)
Cilantro. The stuff absolutely tastes like a chemical weapon and it’s in EVERYTHING here in the southwest. Fast food places are even starting to use it, and it’s pre-infused with the other ingredients so you can’t ask them to leave it off. In regular restaurants it’s in all the salsa so I can no longer enjoy chips and salsa while waiting for my meal. A few tiny flecks of fresh cilantro will dominate the taste of anything it is added to, to the point that biting into a burrito with cilantro in it is about as enjoyable as biting into a bar of soap.
Liver. Beef liver, chicken liver, whatever liver. I don’t like any of it. I’ve never eaten liver pate. I can’t understand why anyone would want to eat liver and onions. My mother in law makes a chopped liver cracker spread whenever the family gathers around Hannukah and Passover. Twice a year I have to graciously decline to sample the chopped liver. Each time, I have to explain that I have a psychological aversion due to being forced to eat it when I was little. All the while, I have to work really hard to suppress my gag reflex.
Oddly enough, I like chorizo which is made with a bunch of organ meats, but it’s so tasty in scrambled eggs I just can’t help myself.
Brussels sprouts. I can’t imagine anyone would voluntarily eat the things. Just the smell of them cooking makes me have to leave the room. Raw tomatoes - ick! What’s not slimy is grainy and they taste nasty and they ruin a perfectly good sandwich.
BTW to the OP: One of my “favorite” grammar peeves is using “nauseous” when one means “nauseated.” Nauseous means “causing nausea.” Nauseated is the feeling of being sick to one’s stomach. It’s amazing how often people get that one wrong.
Seems there may be a genetic predisposition to finding cilantro unpalatable and it correlates to ones ability to taste the chemical phenylthiocarbamide.
Count me in that club: cilantro - blah!
Wow, you people are weird. I mean that in a good way.
I love eggs, cauliflower, rye bread, all those things that are good for you. The fast food junk I agree with wholeheartedly, skip that crap. But please eat eggs and rye. Yum. A grilled cheese on rye is heaven, trust me.
The only foods I absolutely will not eat are sardines and cooked carrots. Raw carrots are fine.
I should’ve looked for a cite before I posted, because Merriam-Webster actually comments on your mistaken assertion. I’ve never seen them do that before.
Awhile back I thought about buying one of their shirts and wearing it everytime I went out to eat. The problem is, a lot of people still don’t know what it is, and waiters, waitresses, and fast food workers will confidently assure me that what I’m ordering does not have cilantro in it right before bringing me a dish full of cilantro.
It’s a plague around here. It really is. It’s finding its way into the oddest food. I ordered french fries at a mircro-brewery awhile back and they were sprinkled with what I thought was parsley. Nope. Cilantro.
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