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.)
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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??
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.