# Foods you find absolutely repulsive **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396 "2006-08-04T22:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/21 "2006-08-05T00:22:54Z")
[QUOTE=Salt Seller] Mayonaise is the most vile substance known to food. Why places insist on spooging it all over perfectly good hamburgers is beyond me. [/QUOTE] I third that (hi, **Guin**!). Mayo is . . . something that comes out of an infection. Raisins. They’re _bugs_, is what they are. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/22 "2006-08-05T00:33:01Z")
Seafood of any kind. Lobsters and crabs and shrimps look like giant freaking bugs and I can barely stand to be at a table when others are eating them. And mussels and those other shelly things look like giant boogers when you rip them from their shells. No way. Don’t even get me _started_ on squid. Relish. Looks like pickles someone barfed up. Those of you bringing the hate down on the mayo: you don’t know what you’re missing. There’s nothing better to dip your fries into. Oh sure, I’ll do ketchup sometimes, but those big wedge fries with the skin still on absolutely demand the mayo treatment. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/23 "2006-08-05T00:41:55Z")
Tuna in a can looks and smells like cat food to me. Parmesan cheese smells like vomit. Beer smells disgusting. Most dim sum food I cannot eat (stomach), don’t like the texture, taste. Specifically chicken’s feet. I watch my friends eat that digit by digit but I happily sip a coke and go for the company. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/24 "2006-08-05T00:43:03Z")
Okra Cole slaw almost any mayoinnase based pasta salad–hate mayo. pickles-can’t stand the smell. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/25 "2006-08-05T00:44:54Z")
Hearts of palm. Whoever decided overcooked canned penis portions would make tasty comestibles should have to eat other gag-inducing substances - canned okra, Spaghetti-Os and sea urchin roe. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/26 "2006-08-05T00:48:30Z")
Seafood for me, too, except for fish and chips. I am grossed out by anything that grew up in the ocean or a river, and have no desire to put it in my mouth. Because 1) it smells like that, and 2) it tastes like it smells, only moreso. Another vote for mayonnaise. Ugh. Anything that calls for mayo can only be improved by using Miracle Whip instead. That said, I only use it on BLTs and in potato salad, and tuna salad for sandwiches. Organ meats of any kind. Mushrooms. Squash. Turnips. Eggplant - basically any dildo-shaped vegetable except cucumbers. Lima beans. Chick peas. Tofu. Yukon gold potatoes. Every other kind of potatoes are fine, but those are worse than nasty. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/27 "2006-08-05T00:56:47Z")
I will add organ meats and sweetbreads. I was forced to eat steak-and-kidney stew, liver, and tongue as a kid. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/28 "2006-08-05T01:18:13Z")
Anything with cilantro in it. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why anyone would eat that shit. I think cilantro is harvested from someone’s dirty underwear that was left in a damp, dark corner of an undertaker’s basement. If it’s possible for something rancid to further putrify, then it’s cilantro. Oh, God, fucking yuck-nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/29 "2006-08-05T01:18:40Z")
Coffee. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/30 "2006-08-05T01:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] I think cilantro is harvested from someone’s dirty underwear that was left in a damp, dark corner of an undertaker’s basement. [/QUOTE] Nonsense! Everyone knows cilantro is a byproduct of soap-making. For me, it doesn’t get any worse than fried okra. Runners up: The gelatinous part of tomatoes. Vienna sausages. Cole slaw. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/31 "2006-08-05T01:38:05Z")
[QUOTE=awldune] Nonsense! Everyone knows cilantro is a byproduct of soap-making. [/quote] Bingo. > [@](#): > > Runners up: The gelatinous part of tomatoes. Gack. The only good tomato is a puréed and cooked one. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/32 "2006-08-05T01:50:43Z")
All organ meats Cooked cauliflower, cabbage (raw is fine, and I like cauliflower roasted) Red meat except for lamb Brussel sprouts I tend to be picky about sushi…I can eat nigiri but I don’t like anything with tentacles and urchins belong in Dickens novels not on my plate ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/33 "2006-08-05T01:56:37Z")
I heard there’s some recessive gene that causes cilantro to taste absolutely disgusting. I’ve never been able to even tell cilantro’s there, personally. ---
**Author:** ![Omgalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/41988e/32.png) [@Omgalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omgalion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/34 "2006-08-05T02:03:01Z")
Licorice, sarsparilla, or anything flavoured with aniseed. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/35 "2006-08-05T02:05:19Z")
Green beans. Particularly fresh, crisply cooked green beans when you can still taste the hair on the beans. Milk. Skim milk is watery ick, and non-skim milk is slimy ick. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/36 "2006-08-05T02:05:57Z")
I find [bittermelons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittermelon) very unpleasant (because they’re bitter, duh), but not repulsive. I _used_ to find celery and cilantro repulsive, but not anymore. However, there is a snack called [sa qi ma](http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Tour/Cuisine/losnack/t158745.htm) that is little-known outside of Chinese circles. They have a slightly sweet, inoffensive flavour, like a very soft Rice Krispies square with really big Krispies. I loved these as a kid, but one day something snapped and I haven’t been able to eat a bit without gagging ever since. It’s weird, because it doesn’t taste that bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/37 "2006-08-05T02:08:49Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] I heard there’s some recessive gene that causes cilantro to taste absolutely disgusting. I’ve never been able to even tell cilantro’s there, personally. [/QUOTE] As it happens, I’m a “super taster.” Back in rad tech school, we were all given some little strips of paper to taste. Most of the class couldn’t taste anything. A couple of people said it was bitter. I just about puked. Guess what…it tasted like _concentrated cilantro!_ I would gleefully Agent Orange every last cilantro plant on earth and then salt the fields where it’s grown. A vampire would rather suck a garlic-dipped crucifix than I would eat cilantro. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/38 "2006-08-05T02:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] Anything with cilantro in it. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why anyone would eat that shit. I think cilantro is harvested from someone’s dirty underwear that was left in a damp, dark corner of an undertaker’s basement. If it’s possible for something rancid to further putrify, then it’s cilantro. Oh, God, fucking yuck-nasty. [/QUOTE] It is hypothesized that there is a gene that makes cilantro taste like strong soap to some people. Other people don’t taste it that way although I seem be be able to see a little of both sides depending on quantity and the specific use. It may be both truly nasty to you and good to other people without anyone being truly crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/39 "2006-08-05T02:12:48Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Back in rad tech school, we were all given some little strips of paper to taste. Most of the class couldn’t taste anything. A couple of people said it was bitter. Yeah, PCT or something. We had that in freshman bio lab. I’m a taster. I have no idea what cilantro tastes like, though. What is it even _in_? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396/40 "2006-08-05T02:14:12Z")
Blood pudding, the Swedish kind, is the most disgusting food ever. It’s like a cake of blood and flour that you slice and heat. I tried it once to humor my MIL, and it tasted like chewing on a scab. Or a squishy repulsive pile of rust. I actually just cooked it the other day for my husband and 2-year-old daughter, and I thought I would vomit merely touching the stuff. If that doesn’t earn me “Good Wife” points through the end of the decade, nothing will. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-find-absolutely-repulsive/367396.md?page=3)