I agree about shredded cocoanut. Can’t stand it. Never could.
I also hate Borscht and things beet in general.
Or mayonnaise
And neither Pepper Mill nor I drink coffee or beer. MilliCal, to my amazement, LOVES coffee.
I agree about shredded cocoanut. Can’t stand it. Never could.
I also hate Borscht and things beet in general.
Or mayonnaise
And neither Pepper Mill nor I drink coffee or beer. MilliCal, to my amazement, LOVES coffee.
Bell peppers.
Green olives.
Chunks of tomato (tomato sauce is fine if not overly sweetened).
Raw onion.
Organ meats.
Sauerkraut.
Olives. And I wish I could like them! They look like they might be good, but they always taste so awful!
I am not a big tomato fan either. Glad to meet my fellow sufferers. Tomatoes are in everything!
Beer
Coffee
I occasionally give them a try and have never found them anything but vile.
Onions. Unless all the onion-taste is cooked out of them and what’s left is swamped by the other ingredients*, the presence of onions will ruin just about any dish. I wish I could stand them, because they’re in fuckin’ everything.
…or a mildewed washcloth. Or a stinkbug. Or a whole nest of stinkbugs. Or Satan’s asshole.
Cilantro, the devil’s weed! VOMIT.
Overcooked stringy meat. There are so many things that fall into that category: pulled pork, corned beef, beef brisket, pot roast. Overcooked stringy chicken is really awful, but it is not as prevalent, except in the local abomination known as a creamed chicken sandwich, which is overcooked stringy chicken in some sort of gloopy white sauce served on a white hamburger bun. Ick.
Cauliflower. I just say no to this sulpherous pale growth.
Beets.
But that’s pretty much it.
Wine. Tastes like grape piss to me.
Mustard. If I was Superman, mustard would be my kryptonite.
I am not a vegetarian but a lot of meat grosses me out. I don’t like steak, chicken, turkey, ham, or BBQ pork. If I’m a guest at someone’s home I will force them down, but I would never make them for myself. Ground beef and bacon/sausage are about the only kinds of meat I can stand.
I would be perfectly happy if i never again encountered cilantro or sun dried tomatoes (though i do love tomatoes in all their other forms).
Olives. Both green & black. Always get picked off my nachos and given to my husband.
Red wine.
Meat, now that I’m a vegetarian.
Don’t really care for raw tomatoes. Cooked, like sauces, on pizza, soups, etc, are fine. Just not a fan of them raw.
Mushrooms. Don’t like the taste don’t like the rubbery feel in my mouth.
Runny eggs. My eggs must be thoroughly cooked. In fact, when I scramble them, I like them just a touch browned. Those liquid yolk thinks make me ill.
Chocolate covered cherries. You bite into them and that explosion of hyper-sweet liquid just makes me… ewwwwww.
Oh I forgot bell peppers. Talk about some nasty tasting stuff that’s in EVERYTHING. People keep telling me the red ones taste better. Or the yellow ones are sweeter. No. Just no. They all taste like bell pepper. Ick. Plus, I get to taste it all over again if I somehow get some in my mouth by accident in a place I can’t spit it out (burrrrp).
I’d say the most universally loved food I freaking hate is cheese. Except for mozzarella, and then and *only *then on pizza. I won’t eat anything that has touched cheese, like say, meat from a deli platter. No, I won’t scrape it off or eat around it. If It involves cheese, I’m not eating it.
Except for some crustaceans, seafood is out of the question. The smell of it is so disgusting as to make me wonder how people can get it anywhere near their noses, much less *into *their mouths.
Mayonnaise and anything mayo based, so that leaves out all those wretched salads, such as of the potato, chicken and slaw varieties.
Speaking of salads, dressing is on the no fly list. Wait staff can never seem to believe that I want my salad with no dressing. No, not on the side - just none.
I’ve got tons more food dislikes but those are the ones that seem to raise the most eyebrows.
I like Benihana as much as the next person. What I don’t like is their mayonaise based “shrimp sauce”.
I must be the only one because everyone else loses their mind over the stuff and has to douse everything on their plate with it. Steak, chicken, scallops… into the shrimp sauce. Veggies… into the shrimp sauce. Fried rice… douse it in the shrimp sauce.
When they fill your little dishes with one shrimp sauce and one ginger sauce I watch the routine of everyone at the table waving off the ginger and in a panic say “NO! NO! I WANT TWO OF THE SHRIMP SAUCE!”
Then when I opt the other way and go for two ginger I get 8 people looking at me like I’m from Mars.
“What??? You don’t like the shrimp sauce? Buh…buh…buh… that’s the best part!!”
I swear if they offered the option to bypass the whole hibachi thing and just offer gallon jugs of shrimp sauce these folks could go hang out in the parking lot and chug shrimp sauce to their hearts content.
There’s very little food I hate, if any, but the one that comes closest is Domino’s pizza, although Papa John’s comes close, too. Mind you, I’ll eat either out of courtesy if that’s all that’s available, but I will never ever buy either one of those for myself.
Oh, and ranch dressing.
I ask for two of the ginger sauce myself. So do my girls.
Coffee has to be the top of my list. A few people have pointed me to varieties with “Trust me, this is really good coffee, you’ll like this one”, and my reaction to those has generally been that they’re somewhat less vile than most. Almost the entire rest of the nation seems to love the stuff, though, even in the non-“really good” versions.
Beer, I can’t drink at all anyway (I think it’s an enzyme deficiency), but the smell is definitely unpalatable. Again, beers presented as “really good” usually smell somewhat less vile.
I also can’t stand asparagus in any form, and some people love it, but my fellow haters seem to be relatively common on that one.
And then there are a few things, like mushrooms, that I don’t like having too much of, but which are tolerable, or even good, in some contexts in moderation (mushrooms on a pizza are fine, for instance).
I have a few of these but funnily enough I am NOT a picky eater.
As said above- squash. I do like pumpkin, but other squashes- ew. Slimy, mushy, nasty. Squash soup or casserole- hell.
Cheeseburgers. I like cheese, and I like burgers, but put together it creates a disgusting taste. I don’t understand how almost literally everyone else in the world likes them.
Tea. Here in the South, it is just assumed that you like sweetened ice tea. Tastes nasty! I do like the instant powdered lemon-flavored tea- it doesn’t taste like tea, though.
Cucumbers. Gross.
Melons. Watermelon is okay, if a little boring. But honeydew or canteloupe or any other kind of melon? Nope.