# Foods That Make You Want to Vomit **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 1, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987 "2003-06-01T20:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/21 "2003-06-02T00:48:51Z")
Tartar sauce. I’m sorry, but mayonnaise and pickles never, EVER go together. Cantelope/mussmelon/honeydew melons – actually, pretty much any melon apart from watermelon is foul. Cooked cauliflower. Ugh. Whatever flavor they use for Pepto-Bismol. It’s some sort of mint, I know that. Not one of the good kinds, though. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/22 "2003-06-02T01:12:21Z")
The only thing I truly gag at is raw green peppers. Something about the smell of them makes me have to step away and gulp for air. I almost start gagging walking past the pile at the grocery store, but when I’m cutting one up for chili or something is when I really have problems. Red peppers don’t bother me so much, as they’re not as pungent, and cooked peppers (such as fajitas, etc) I don’t have a problem with much. (I don’t eat them, but having them on my plate doesn’t send me into heaves.) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lissla Lissar \* > \*\*I hate, loathe, and despise fish, unless it’s cod, and deep-fried. That includes all other seafood, too, so clams, shrimp, oysters, sea cucumbers… they’re all revolting. > > \*\* I don’t like seafood of any kind either…not to the point that it makes me gag though, I just never had the taste for any of it. (One thing that really horrified me is once I used my Foreman Grill to make my husband a piece of salmon and everything I made in it after that had a fishy taint for quite some time. Fishy grilled cheese, fishy chicken breasts, etc. Yuk!) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/23 "2003-06-02T01:14:34Z")
Anything with even a hint of mayo. In another thread I think I described it as Satan’s mucus. I can’t even look at it without feeling ill. I feel just as strongly about mustard – maybe it tastes good, but the smell makes me ill. I’ve started telling people I’m allergic to it because nobody understands how much I HATE HATE HATE $%\*# HATE the stuff. I will never have either mustard or mayo in my own fridge, EVER. Gag. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/24 "2003-06-02T01:16:28Z")
Liver. Just like **Zenster** , I adore pate, but fried liver makes me just all oogy inside. My mother used to cook it for her dog twice a week (yes, he was a spoiled little puppy), and the smell always made my stomach churn. Sunny Delight and Cactus Cooler: both I happened to drink right before I came down with stomach flu or food poisoning. The thought of drinking either is utterly disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/25 "2003-06-02T01:17:24Z")
Marshmellows. Specifically, Peeps brand marshmellow disgusting concoctions. I ate too many one Easter as a little girl. I vomited Peeps all over the manicured lawn of a fancy Easter egg hunt we had been invited to. Now, just looking at Peeps, or any marshmellow for that matter, makes me feel very nauseated. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/26 "2003-06-02T01:23:46Z")
Cherries. I can’t eat cherries. They make me vomit. I love cherry-_flavored_ things, though. It’s my father’s fault. He forced me to eat a cherry once. Did the same thing with coconut, but I already disliked coconut, so no harm done that time. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/27 "2003-06-02T01:51:45Z")
Greens. I just can’t eat them veggies, I don’t like their appearance, I don’t like the smell, don’t like the taste. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/28 "2003-06-02T01:52:42Z")
Celery. I can’t even be in the same room with celery. If it’s cooked, like in soup, then it’s not quite so bad, but I still prefer to avoid it. ---
**Author:** ![Kyann22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@Kyann22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyann22)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/29 "2003-06-02T01:57:02Z")
Cantaloupe: YUCK YUCK YUCK Corn: I’ve tried it several times, but no can do. It’s disgusting. Pickles: Why does everyone assume I want this nasty things on my burgers? No thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/30 "2003-06-02T01:58:48Z")
Not a big fan of mayo, but I have no problem with it in sauces or dressings or anything. On a sandwich though, good Lord. The only food that has actually made me vomit, at least recently, and when I was in good health, assuming proper preparation? Egg nog. I hate that shit. I can see why it often is made with alcohol though: you’d have to be absolutely plastered to even consider it. Or at least I would. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/31 "2003-06-02T02:49:30Z")
Another vote for liver. Vile. Any kind of bell peppers – green, red, whatever. I would not only despise them while I was eating them, I would despise them the rest of the day as that horrid taste kept repeating and repeating… I cannot believe the number of things that people sneak them into. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/32 "2003-06-02T03:05:57Z")
Corn, mayonnaise, cittage cheese egg salad, potato salad, milk, and cream chese are all pretty gross. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/33 "2003-06-02T03:40:50Z")
I used to gag at the thought of walnuts. Then, a few years ago, I choked down a walnut cookie to be polite. My mouth and tongue swelled up so bad, I was on Benadryl for a week! Turns out I’m quite allergic to them. Oh well, at least I don’t have to be polite about them any more. 🙂 And hard-boiled eggs - Gah! I can hardly cook them for the kids at Easter. Yuck-O! ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/34 "2003-06-02T03:41:07Z")
Oddly enough, I love fried liver. Watermelon, however, sends me into dry heaves every time I try to convince myself that it can’t be _that_ bad. I feel muchly the same about cantaloupe, honeydew, etc. Blech blech. I also get pretty ooged out by raw tomatos… it’s the mucousy-seed part that gets me. Raw okra has the same effect. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/35 "2003-06-02T03:56:56Z")
Until recently, I thought there was no food whatsoever that I didn’t like. Then I tried limburger cheese: barf! And then I went to Great Britain, and tried haggis, which is made from stuff like sheep entrails and lungs and suet, encased in the sheep’s stomach. I forced myself to swallow one piece, then immediately regretted it. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/36 "2003-06-02T04:29:10Z")
Heh…almost everything anyone here has said goes on my list!!! (Did I mention I’m a picky eater?) laughing. my. ass. OFF @ what **Mirror Image egamI rorriM** said about onions…god, that is SO true! I’ve often thought maybe it’s not the taste so much as that sickening _crunch_ that causes my entire body to react like I’ve just chomped a great ball of aluminum…but then I unknowingly took a bite of spaghetti with tiny, soft onion slivers and upon tasting them my mouth became paralyzed such that all I could do was open my mouth and let it slide back out…so I guess it’s both. I honestly hate onions to the point that I think I’d rather find half a worm in my apple than half an onion. Oh, and I absolutely DESPISE devilled(sp?) eggs. How can you eat something that smells like a geriatric fart?? ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/37 "2003-06-02T05:10:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by roadkiller \* > \*\* > > And mushrooms. I don’t eat fungus. Fungus is not food. \*\* Amen brutha (or sista as the case may be). Clams and oysters are vile. Mollusk also is not food. I’ve never tried, but I don’t think I could get tapioca down. Ick. Also, the smell of cooking leg of lamb (say, in a soup stock) makes me run screaming from the house. :barf: ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/38 "2003-06-02T05:14:17Z")
I’ve eaten and enjoyed many of the things already mentioned here, but I too must draw the line at liver. Gad, it stinks, looks horrible and (probably) tastes even worse. And I can’t bear the scent of papaya. Vomit, you say? That’s what it smells like to me. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/39 "2003-06-02T05:27:24Z")
A nutritionist asked me once what my favorite food is. It’s mayonnaise. I could eat it with a spoon. Least favorite – Brussel sprouts, pork brains, kidneys and liver. My mom forced me to eat brains mixed up in scrambled eggs when I was a kid. Does anyone know if foie gras does or doesn’t have that awful liver taste? I noticed that three of you that can hurl liver still like pate. Ah! But I love f-f-f-f-fava beans. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987/40 "2003-06-02T05:44:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > \*\* > Does anyone know if foie gras does or doesn’t have that awful liver taste? I noticed that three of you that can hurl liver still like pate. \*\* Foie gras has a very light liver taste to it, but it’s nothing like beef liver. Plus, pate is a totally different way of preparation than fried liver. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-that-make-you-want-to-vomit/178987.md?page=3)