Seafood of any kind - I can take tuna but anything else is so disgusting it’s beyond words to describe
Wine - again, the smell is enough and the taste is liquid evil; I don’t drink anything else that’s gone bad, why should I want to drink soured grape juice!
Mint and strawberry - in very, very mild amounts I like both of these but everything that has them in it is just so overpowering I can’t take it. Unfortunately not liking strong mint flavoring really limits the selection when it comes to toothpaste, mouthwash, etc
Caramel - no real flavor, just a chewy, sticky mess that stays in the mouth for hours
I forgot bagels… disgusting texture and all the flavor of cardboard, what’s not to love?
American Airlines used to (maybe still does as it’s been a while) serve “breakfast” of a banana and a bagel. The bagels I could ignore but I nearly lost it on more than one occasion when trapped in that small metal cylinder with 100 people around me all eating bananas. Snakes on a plane takes a big back seat to bananas on a plane in my book.
I’m with you here. I wish I liked seafood because it’s popular and good for you, but I just can’t stomach it. I tried to eat a crab cake at a party this weekend and I did not even complete my bite. I was trying my best not to gag in front of 250 people in formal evening attire and I had barely made teeth marks in the damn thing!
I LOVE raw celery… but it has to be cut crosswise into pieces no more than half an inch wide. Otherwise, yeah, thread to death.
A long time ago, before I became a vegetarian, my dad used to make me eat seafood. My GOD is that nasty. The smell is enough that if I’m at a restaurant and someone at a nearby table orders it, I physically cannot eat. But the taste is just unfathomably vile. Oh god.
I dislike chunky salsa too; I just put it through the blender and voilà. Of course, then it becomes “my” salsa because Mr. S likes his chunky.
I can’t think of any foods that make me physically ill, but I do strongly dislike bananas (although I used to eat them as a kid). Mushrooms also (like eating pencil erasers!), although I don’t mind mild shroom flavor; my friend makes an excellent mushroom risotto. My other food dislikes are mostly just that, dislikes.
Love hardboiled eggs, though. I’m all over the deviled eggs at parties.
I hate banana flavor, and I don’t really like the texture of bananas, but I force myself to eat them sometimes. Oddly enough, I enjoy them more if I eat them more slowly.
Other yuckies:
Cilantro
Cumin
Fennel
Anise/Licorice
Thai basil
Lemon-flavored desserts (but I like lemon candies)
Stuffing
Raw red onion
Hamburger
Bleu cheese
Cherry flavoring (but I love real cherries)
Almond flavoring (but I love real almonds)
The only one of those that actually makes me nauseous is cumin. It smells like B.O. And tastes like B.O. So do raw red onions, but for some reason they’re not quite nauseating.
I’m not a very picky eater, but I tried a sort of breakfast cereal called Kashi once. I regularly eat Oatmeal - plain, but I found that eating Kashi was like eating hardened dust. It was too blan for my palate.
As long as beer is being bashed - I hate any liqueur that is sweet and/or mixed with soda-pop. I won’t drink the swill. Give me an Old Milwaukee any day.
The thing you have to understand is that I have certain expectations of things in the “beverage” category. With the exception of water (and that is something I only learned to drink in my mid-20s) to me a beverage must be sweet. In the same way that a cake must be sweet, or ice cream must be sweet. Imagine unsweetened ice cream. Nasty, right? Not everything has to be sweet but certain categories of digestibles require it. For me, beverages fall into that. An unsweetened beverage is as unfathomable as salty, unsweetened ice cream would be. There are exactly ZERO things, with the already-mentioned exception of water, that I find drinkable that aren’t sweet.
Beer has a grody taste, but I maybe could get past that if it were at least sweet. (And yes, I’ve tried the supposedly “sweet” beers. Puhleese. You haven’t seen me putting shovels-ful of sugar in tea or coffee or you wouldn’t be insulting me by calling that “sweet”.)
To each their own, I guess. I’m not a beer snob, and I end up drinking as much American macro-brew as anything else (“fucking close to water”), but I will say that I did not fall in love with beer until a trip to Europe when I was 17. Sure, I drank beer before then, but it was only to catch a buzz with my friends. Now if I want to socialize, I’ll drink American beer, if I want to party I’ll drink liquor, but if I want something positively delicious with a meal or just by itself in a glass, I’ll drink a good import or micro-brew.
Beer is an acquired taste, but you’ll instantly fall in love with the right beer.
I’m in the Anderson area.