Well I am intolerant to egg and olive oil so they actually make me throw up.
As for foods I just can’t bear, those would be the ones I mentally classify as ‘mushy stuff’. Bananas, mangos, beans. Any kind of beans or legumes actually - I can’t stand to have them in my mouth. :hurling smiley:
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[li]Bananas- Oh so mushy, blech! I do, however, like banana bread, so it’s a texture thing for me.[/li][li]Mayonnaise- Most vile concoction anyone could ever put on a sandwich, unless it’s mixed in with tuna, then it’s fine.[/li][li]Cole slaw- To eat it would be like to re-eat one’s own vomit.[/li][li]Canteloupe- Not a major puke-inducer, but it doesn’t sit well on my taste buds.[/li][li]Cottage cheese- People actually eat this shit?![/li][li]Sauerkraut- I could hardly stomach watching my dad fork this crap into his mouth.[/li][li]Peas- My mother tried to get me to eat them once. In 1973. For about 20 minutes. Really![/li][li]Kimchi (or however the hell it’s spelled)- I have a friend who devours this stuff. To me it smells like the contents of a three-days unflushed toilet.[/li][li]Soggy cereal- Guaranteed to make me hurl spectacularly.[/li][li]Fat/gristle- I’d rather chew day-old gum whose flavor has expired (as long as it was mine to begin with).[/li][/ul]
I really don’t remember. I think octopus was involved, among other things. It definitely wasn’t barbecue; I think I’d like that.
I’m not crazy about organ meats in general. As I said, liver’s okay (as long as it isn’t cooked into leather), but I haven’t had it for years.
I ate raw oysters when I was younger, but again, not for years. I’ve had sashimi twice. That’s another food that wasn’t nauseating, but I’m not interested in trying it again.
People don’t like hard-boiled eggs with mayonnaise? I used to eat them all the time. Now I rarely eat eggs and have eliminated the mayo because of the excess fat.
De gustibus.
Well, if you do try it (and I recommend you do), try Hae Woon Dae on 6204 N. California in Chicago. Scroll down here and you can see pictures of the live coals and the meat. I think Korean is actually quite a good cuisine to suit a wide range of palates: for the less experimental, you can’t go wrong with the marinated barbecued thinly sliced beef, pork, or even chicken (bulgogi). For more experimental eaters, there’s of course stuff like raw crabs, yook hwe (a beef tartare-concoction with raw eggs), and the various banchan (the great range of appetizers you get before a meal, ranging from seaweed to kim chi, fishcakes, mushrooms, seafood-vegetable pancakes, etc…)
And Korean cuisine actually features my favorite stew/soup in the world: kim chi jjigae, although you have to really like kim chi to enjoy that one.
Seafood. Seafood seafood seafood.
Salmon, clam chowder, crab cakes, fish sticks, caviar, oysters, goldfish crackers…Everything’s got that nasty indescribable…fishy taste and smell. If I had a freaking nickel for every time someone’s said “just try this one…! It’s so well done, you can’t taste the fish! Only badly made foods have that fishy taste! This is so rich and flaky, you’ll love it!” Why, I’d have a lot of nickels, I would. Makes me want to puke and scrape my tongue within an inch of its life. I have to hold my breath walking past the fresh fish section of the grocery store.
Oddly, I used to kind of like clam chowder and fish sticks. My aversion’s gotten worse as I’ve aged.
Peas are the devil’s handiwork, I tell you. It’s like popping pimples in your mouth. Split pea soup? Got two words for you: THE EXORCIST.
I also can’t stand:
lima beans/butter beans
wax/pole beans, but I like green beans
peppers (like the taste, can’t actually eat them)
okra
oysters and mussels, but I like clams
eggplant
squash
celery
cabbage/sauerkraut (which is hard when you’re German)
anise or licorice
anything banana or orange flavored, but I like bananas and oranges
pears
guava
greens (mustard, turnip, collard, kale), but I like spinach
organ meats
frog legs.
Most of these are because of the texture.
Baked/Boiled Ham, especially if served with mac & cheese.
Mom served it too often in the 70s & 80s.
Blea.
Bananas. I read ingredient labels on smoothies to make damn sure there isn’t any puree in there. Because I CAN TOO TASTE IT.
shudder
My daughter loved broccoli when she was little. I even once got her to clean her room by promising her some when she was done.
She started school and wouldn’t touch the stuff. She learned from the other kids she wasn’t suppossed to like it.
I had no idea so many people hated bananas. They’re my favorite fruit!
Now that you mention it, I also hate mayonaise. Whenever I get a burger or sandwich, I make sure that they’re not planning to put mayo on it.
I’m totally with you on cottage cheese. I don’t know if I hate it or not, because I’ve never had the guts to eat any. Call me wierd, but one of my dietary requirements is that my food must not look like something that’s been sitting at the back of the fridge for the last year.
add me to the cilantro/bananas list, altho i’ll eat a banana if it’s found in ONLY the following two conditions:
otherwise it gets tossed out the back door for the birds.
cilantro should be banned from this time/space continuum immediately if not sooner.
raw cherrystone oysters are fine. god did not intend oysters of any kind to be found in stuffing, ever. ew ew EW!
cooked carrots. what’s THAT about? gross. gross. gross. they should always be raw.
chicken that has been poorly trimmed. fat or gristle or those chewy stringy things finding their way into my mouthful of chicken automatically guarantees that that mouthful will be ejected into a napkin postehaste. any more i do my own chicken and have stopped ordering it in restaurants.
lima beans. god’s way of punishing us.
black licorice. now that’s the devil working overtime!!
undercooked bacon. when whatsherface on desperate housewives started pounding down the raw bacon, i had to leave the room until the divemaster said it was safe to return.