i eat almost any basic foodstuff. Fruit, veggie, grain, dairy, meats, organ meats, fish, seafoods, anything you can grow or breed that i’ve tried so far.
Except
bananas
unflavoured milk as a drink (OK as cocoa, or in cooking)
heavily gelatinous meats (chinese tendon or chicken feet, no thanks, but lamb shanks, yes please).
I am squeamish about, without having tried, brains, insects, and meat from carnivorous mammals. Though reptiles, fish and birds can be carnivorous - I have eaten snake, crocodile, shark, and you know chooks eat bugs.
Once it’s processed, all sorts of terrible things can happen. Cooking can ruin many a beautiful thing. I never touch:
McDonalds
Those little black rubber rings you get on pizza (olives? I don’t think so.)
Artificial froot flavours
Nutrasweet
Overcooked vegetables, especially brassicas. (Brussels sprouts are delicious with just a slight crunch remaining, sulphurous slime after that.)
The biggest one is Bread – ALL breads (hamburgers, hotdogs, sandwiches) and pizza. I tend to tell people I have an alergy to “yeast risen products”. Though, in reality I don’t eat them because they all make me gag - BIG TIME. (Much like Lady Venom’s aversion to jiggly foods.)
Creamed of anything soups. Yuck. That goes for creamed sauces on foods.
Spicy food.
Organ meats, Veal, Lamb, and all other “gamey” types.
Seafood (exception is fish, but only if its breaded and comes in a box).
The only veggies I eat are carrots and corn.
It would be easier to list the things I do eat so I’ll end it at the top five-ish.
Marmite, marmite and marmite. Although I appreciate the chances of being served it at a dinner party are slim, it’s actually the only form of food (and I’m using the term loosely) that I simply cannot eat. It’s the devil’s spunk.
I do not like food not only based on poor taste, but in appearance and texture.
The things that gross me out are:
liver
liverworst
cooked collard greens
cooked spinich
whole fish (where the entire fish is displayed)
Apple Butter
Ketchup
Mustard
Tofu
Celery
OH GOD WATER CHESTNUTS!!!
Ham
Dolphin
I refuse to eat anything that I can tell was once an animal
Tomatos
Tomato Juice
Slurpees
Snow Cones
Diet (anything)
Frito Chips
Milk
Orange Juice
Kool Aid
Turnips
Brossel Sprouts
Wheat Bread
I was at the babysitters when I was very young, she had stew. I thought I was biting into a chunk of potato, it was a turnip. Man, I died right there.
Raw tomatos.
Tomato sauce, stewed tomatos, catsup, all just fine. Put a slice of raw tomato on a hamburger and I’m done. Same thing for raw tomatos in salads, tacos, etc. I’ve came a very long way in learning to like foods I once didn’t like, and I try raw tomatos now and then, just can’t like 'em. Turnips never got a second chance.
Cilantro.
Gah! I hate this stuff. I know proper salsa needs a hint, but not so much that it tastes like weed dip. Seems like it’s getting to be real trendy (I swear some of the cooks on Food TV put it in EVERYTHING!), gonna be hard to avoid.
I’m not big on the organ meats. Good menudo and you’ll forget it’s tripe. Calf fries, cleaned and cooked well, they are great. Sauted fois gras, not bad for liver. But all these have to be prepared and cooked properly or they suck.
For all of the posters with long lists, don’t give up! I had a buddy who professed a hatred for onions in any form. I made baked beans with onions sauted in bacon added in. He and his wife (who also said she hated onions) both were gobbling them down when I dropped the onion bomb.
Did the same thing with squash haters. Fried some squash and (same guy) commented he couldn’t put his finger on the taste, but it reminded him of Cap’n Crunch cereal (??!!). Told him it was yellow squash, he flipped.
WELL SAID! Beat me to the punch on this one. I can almost guarentee that all of your adult culinary aversions have their roots in your childhood cuisine.
Case in point. I have just recently, in my 40th year, begun to like scallops again. I always despised them because of how mum used to cook them. She’d broil them and the smell would permeat that house and give me an instant raging headache. I therefore refused to put one in my mouth and actually taste it.
That fact is that 30-odd years ago it was very difficult to get FRESH fish or shell fish and so she was cooking scallops that had been around a while. I’ve since had lovely grilled fresh sea scallops that were downright mouth-watering.
I can see the ultra-specialty food stuffs ie: tripe and hooves and brains and so forth to be less than desirable but mushrooms? Mayo? Tuna? Asparagus? Beets? Please. I can even understand not liking a particular texture ie: jello or pudding but some of the stuff you folks are throwing out there simply show a level of close-mindedness.
Fresh peas, right off the vine are wonderful. Ever had wasabi peas? Asparagus should be roasted in the over for it’s true flavor to come out. Mushrooms saute’d in garlic and butter (all right, ANYTHING saute’d in garlic and butter) can accent so many dishes.
Beets, again slow roasted (like any root vegitable should be) with rosemary is amazing. Compound mayo adds that certain umami(goodness) to so many things. Transforms the ordinary into the extrodinary.
I can eat most anything, and try almost everything at least once. But the following are things I will never try again:
Vegemite
curry
tripe - but other organ meats are fine - but I won’t try brains - ick
mustard, collard, or turnip greens - but spinach is yummy!
capers - Yucky!!!
licorice
eggplant
anything “watermelon” flavored
Just a note to you who dared to put curry on your lists. You need to know that curry is a name that can be given to many hundreds of different dishes. Not liking curry is a bit like saying you don’t like pie. Just because one or two forms of the dish are not to your liking doesn’t mean that you won’t like any forms of the dish. So when come back, bring curry.
GREEN BEANS. Can’t even stand the SMELL of green beans. I used to stuff 'em in the upholstery of my mother’s diningroom chairs rather than eat them. (But my mom’s the weird sort who gets out the vacuum attachments and cleans the chairs every other month or so…so I was totally busted. sigh Apparently they were all fuzzy and putrified.)
Also can’t stand:
Olives of any kind
Hominy
Bleu cheese
Candy corn
Squash
Cauliflower
Turkey salad (smells like feet!)
Dijon mustard
If they were all that stood between me and starvation, I’d choke 'em all down…
Except for the vile, disgusting, Satan-spewed GREEN BEANS.
FWIW, I don’t like that disgusting yellow spice called curry. I hate the smell and the taste of it. I’m pretty sure that any dish called “curry” has the spice, curry, in it…at least every one I’ve ever smelled did. Blech.
There are very few things I refuse to eat…
Seafood, fish, anything from water
Eggs that are not mixed in (as in baking) or hard-boiled.
Cold ketchup (I avoid warm ketchup, but it is better)
The hubby’s pickled eggs (even though they are hard-boiled)
Organ meat, insects
Pumpkin of any kind
Blue food (blueberries are technically purple, so they’re okay)
My grandmother makes this absolutely horrible salad. Orange
Jell-o with grated carrots floating in it. The taste is bad enough but the texture is gag-worthy. She makes it every Thanksgiving because it “matches.”
