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As it happens, I’m a “super taster.”
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John Lee? My 2-year-old loves your song! 
I am a very adventurous eater. I like sushi, soul food, almost every ethnic type of food, and even road kill. I love to go to France and eat the most exotic organ meats and frog legs they can put on a plate. I ate an armadillo at survival camp once.
However, there is one category of food that I cannot stand. Bear with me and I apologize if I sound like a grainist. I like lots of dishes with wheat and things in it and friends and family do as well. I do not like non-white breads. I said it. Give me a slice of Wonder bread over some fancy rye bread any day. If it isn’t French Bread, sandwich bread, or one of the lightly colored breads, I am not eating it. No rye bread, no marbled stuff, no pumpernickel, just no. The number of grains listed on the package directly corresponds to the number of Repulsion Stars awarded. It is possible for a borderline case like a wheat bread to be passable but straight up white is the way to go.
Sweet relish is no laughing matter and I am dead serious that me and others in my family hold a secret prejustice against others seen using it. “He eats sweet relish” is shorthand for a whole lot of things and none of them are flattering.
It is used a lot in Mexican food. Fresh style Mexican salsa, especially in restaurants, usually has it as an ingredient. It has a very distinctive flavor when used in too much quantity and although I like it/tolerate it, I can see where the soap comments come from. It took me a while to warm up to it.
Oh, man! There are people who can’t eat fresh salsa? What an awful fate!
Cauliflower! Bleh!
Obviously. If it tasted to others the way it tastes to me, it’s pretty certain it would change category from “foodstuff” to “human repellant.”
I uncover it’s fetid essence most often in salsa, or Mexican food in general.
I really can’t accurately describe the taste. Maybe if you boiled up a big pot of Oxydol seasoned with e-coli and a hint of toe fungus you might come close.
Okra. Blech. I’m not fond of eggplant at all but will eat it to be polite. Tuna melt–the idea turns my stomach. I’ve never eaten it. Although I wasn’t raised in a kosher home, my parents tended to separate milk and meat from habit/prefere nce, so I still find the idea of most hot meat/melted cheese dishes repulsive.
On the other hand, I’m totally down with chopped liver, gefilte fish, borscht, and cilantro.
Seafood smells and tastes like ‘fish’, and ‘fish’ smells and tastes nasty.
A few exceptions exist, like New England clam chowder, and…umm…that’s all I can think of now.
New England clam chowder exists on that happy junction between “most disgusting-looking” and “best-tasting”.
Although I’m Jewish and had some opportunities to try it in Jerusalem ferpetesake, I’ve never tried gefilte fish. Too ooky for me. I wasn’t raised in a kosher household, though.
Which is probably part of why I can’t resist sandwhiches made of meat and melted cheese. Mmmmm.
I can’t abide squash. Especially the yellow kind. It’s a repulsive textured food that tastes mostly like dirt.
Other than that, I have to say that black pudding in the UK is a pretty repulsive dish, although I could probably eat it if I had to. Squash would be a challenge.
You’ll notice I haven’t named tripe, chicken feet, marrow (the bone kind, not the vegetable kins), blood pudding, haggis, kidneys, brains, headcheese, fish eyes, bull’s testicles, snake blood-infused liquor*, etc. I can’t dislike them because I have never eaten them, but also, I feel no compulsion to try them.
*but I hear it tastes just like chicken blood-infused liquor. 
I loooooove me some squash.
I can’t stand pigs’ feet. Just the thought of brains! The name “tounge sandwich” speaks for itself. I can’t stomach tripe. I comb through my food to remove any hare.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
I don’t have the guts to eat intestines. Bu-dum-cha.
Put me down for another who can not only detect the taste of soap in cilantro, but is utterly repulsed, indignant, and incredulous every time I unwittingly eat it by taking the first bite into the salsa as everyone else in the restaurant is happily munching away. There HAS to be a genetic dividing line, otherwise I’m apt to believe that most people would enjoy an Irish Spring sandwich.
Other things that people call food, and not only put it in their mouth, but actually swallow (might want to grab a seat):
• Seafood. No exceptions.
• Organ meat (for reasons that have already been well covered)
• Beats. Good god.
• Squash, yams, and sweet potatoes. Devices of the devil himself. Especially squash.
• Cottage cheese. Wow. Looks and tastes like chunky puss.
• Yogurt. I think if farts could coagulate, it’d make a similar substance.
• Peas. Hells no.
• Seafood, it bears repeating.
• Cream cheese. This one actually activates my gag reflex. Really.
• Cooked carrots. An affront to god himself.
• Oatmeal. Horse food.
• Tapioca. No words.
• Sweet pickles, and sweet pickle relish. I’m with ya Shagnasty.
• Beans. It’s like they evolved just to piss me off. Can’t stand them in anything.
All that said, I love Mayo. Sublime on a burger. And even better on a nice think smoked-turkey sandwich, with brown mustard, a slice of cheddar and some lettuce.
FlyingRamenMonster, I’ve long stated that bittermelon/karela is one of those foods you have to grow up eating and even then I know many people who abandon it when no longer compelled by their parents. I adore it but don’t know many outside of the Chinese and Indian communities who will put it anywhere near their mouth.
I fucking hate hard boiled, soft boiled, scotch, deviled and fried eggs. They pong like no-one’s business. Like really rancid disgusting breath.
And you, boiled/scotch/deviled/fried egg eater, we all know what you’re having. Lucky us. You’ve stunk up the room/cubicle/great outdoors with the chicken embryo. Thanks for ruining my breakfast/lunch/right to breathe unfunked up air!
What gets me is that the smell is unappetizing in any context besides eating said foods. Would you want to live in a house that smelled of boiled eggs? I think not.
Funny thing is, I love omelets and scrambled eggs.
The foods I’m repulsed by could fill its own thread. Let’s just say I’m not a terribly adventurous eater. Not a fan of “funny-textured” foods at all (looks menacing at the sea).
Heh. I grew up around the stuff, but I’ve eaten maybe four pieces in my entire life.
Cauliflower. It’s one of those foods that people either love or hate. Because my parents were of the “you have to eat every kind of food means anything that’s considered edible”, they would make me eat it. I’d throw up every time, they thought I was just being difficult. I hate throwing up, damnit!
“Guts” in general, and liver in particular. Another food I was forced to eat and which would sent me to worship the porcelain god on my knees. Until that day - I’d been having a bout of tonsillitis after another, leading to anemia. My mother complained to our family doctor that “this girl, she doesn’t eat me!” (literal translation, I’ll never understand why Hispanic and Italian mothers make it sound like they want their kids to be cannibals) “OK, what’s the problem?” “she makes such a fuss when I give her liver, but she must eat lots of it for the anemia, of course” “uhm… what about lentils, or spinach?” “oh, I could give her the whole pot, those she drinks them up; lentil soup, chick peas with spinach, spinach omelette, she loves them” “Good Lord, woman, so give her lentils and spinach! Shellfish is good too. Liver’s very difficult to digest and she’s not the only one who hates it”.
For some reason, those few times I had to eat at school I’d get liver. I’d refuse to eat it, the nuns would insist I had to, I’d tell them the doctor had said no I didn’t, they could call him if they wanted. Once the doc had said I didn’t have to, it would have taken three people to make me swallow that thing.
I was once left in the care of a neighbor for a couple of days. What did she cook? Cauliflower and liver. Fer Chrissakes’, you have a kid who eats almost everything and you can’t think of letting people know her half-a-dozen nonos? I refused to eat. She said “you’re not eating anything else until you eat this”. I said “OK”. A fast of more than 24 hours, but heck, just smelling the cauliflower scared the hunger away…
Meat. But that’s the vegetarian in me.
Sour cream. Yuck. Even worse than mayonnaise.
Avocado. Double yuck. I’ll take nachos with salsa please. Toss on the cheese and veggies, but hold the sour cream and avocado. Actually that’s about the only kind of veggie I won’t eat. I’ll even eat brussel sprouts.
Tapioca. It’s always made me think of fish eggs.