Tinned sardines. They’re good for ya, but I never could eat them.
I’m in the cilantro/coriander hater club. Apparently it’s a genetic trait: only certain people can perceive the totally nauseating smell of this herb.
I can’t eat blood pudding. My husband loves it, but I can’t even bear to look at it.
Pretty much everything else I eat. I had spleen once, and loathed it, but it’s not like many people eat that anyway.
Balut! The egg with legs! (I didn’t dare try it when I visited the Philippines.)
The only time I willingly choose to eat sauerkraut is on Jan. 1, when I make my grandmother’s cabbage roll recipe. Even then, I rinse the sauerkraut thoroughly and use as little as I can get by with.
I have a strong aversion to leftover beef. Too many dinners as a child where Thursday’s offering was slices of the Sunday roast run under the broiler until they were gray and dry and nasty.
Well just to be the exception that proves the rule, I’ve had durian chips before and they were meh. They tasted nutty to be honest, and they didn’t smell like much of anything. If I had to guess, all the rancid had been dried out of them.
Don’t they eat a lot of Durian Durian in Rio?
Squash and zucchini. I used to be able to tolerate it. Then I got a terrible, terrible case of food poisoning from something with yellow squash in it - an entire weekend in bed, couldn’t even keep water down for about a full day sick. Since then, I can’t even pick that stuff out of dishes: if it’s on the plate, I’ll literally gag before I can get a bite to my mouth.
Mushrooms. I’m a vegetarian, so mushrooms show up in a ton of otherwise-palatable food. I’ve reached the point where if they’re chopped up in a sauce, I can tolerate it. But big slices of mushrooms? I cannot physically bring myself to eat them.
(Yes, I’m a pitiful vegetarian).
ah, opalcat you need to sample the mushrooms that result from my reduction sauce. you’ll change your mind. they do have to be sauteed properly with the right mix of wine, butter and spices, of course.
but, to the foods i WILL NOT eat:
cilantro
lima beans
bananas
black olives
heavily-spiced foods of any kind
Of commonly found foods I’ll put eggplant up there. My parents used to bake whole eggplant, then pull out that big smooshy purple sack of foul-smelling crap. Ick.
My tastes have changed over the years but mostly from when I was a little kid, not every few years. When I was younger I really liked the following and now I avoid them:
Eggs
Cottage cheese
Canned peaches
Bananas
Very Gross:
Celery
Peaches
Cilantro
Coconut Milk
Lima Beans
Organ Meat
Apple-Cinnamon anything
Super Disgusting:
Mangoes
Corn
I’ve never had Thai food that I like, and I’m supposed to be in Thai food central. There is something I don’t like about it. I don’t know what.
My list is:
Pineapple
Anything that has come in contact with pineapple (because the taste seems to rub off)
Coconut
Raisins
Cherries
Any beans other than green beans
Plums
Butterscoth is absolutely vile and makes me vomit
On the other hand, I’m probably the only person in the world who likes celery. It’s awfully nice of the grocery stores to cater to my mutancy on the matter, though.
Liver. Doesn’t matter what kind of liver, I can’t stand it. I remember one year in hunting camp everyone was sitting around the fire eating the traditional elk liver after the first kill. I had me a can of Chung King Chow Mein. Raw liver might be better as it couldn’t be any worse (unless it was garnished with cilantro)
Any kind of peas except fresh from the garden raw.
Spinach, raw or cooked.
Green beans. Holy hell! How can anyone eat those things?
The list of cooked vegetables I dislike is impressive, it’d be easier to list those I do like (broccoli is one of my favorites)
It might be the coconut milk. It took me a while to figure out why I didn’t like Thai food.
Oh yeah, seeing it mentioned reminded me that I have never liked coconut in anything. The texture of it oogs me out. You can chew it and chew it and it never gets smaller or more conducive to swallowing, and you’re left with minuscule bits of it in the nooks and crannies of your mouth. I especially hate biting into a mystery chocolate, only to find it’s got coconut on the inside. Yeccccccch!
Nice.
Someone’s earlier comment about there being no middle ground reminded me.
Buttermilk.
That may be the vilest beverage on this planet. Probably in this galaxy.
Raw tomatoes. I hate the flavour, I hate the texture, I hate the gloppiness inside. Sun-dry it, puree it, chop it up and mix it with some herbs and put it on some bruschetta, whatever, but do not put a fucking raw slice of tomato on a salad or in a sandwich or some nonsense because it will NOT get eaten.
Fish. I can deal with tuna, very good salmon with plenty of lemon juice, and whatever it is they make fish sticks out of. Anything else? Blech. (I like various other kinds of seafood, especially shrimp.)
Mushrooms. I am a carno-vegetarian: I only eat plants and animals.
I love most of the things mentioned (field greens, brussel sprouts, squash, virtually all veggies)
No one has mentioned american cheese? Egads that stuff makes me sick. I love cheese. I don’t think they are related.
I do not like white sandwich bread, like wonder bread. It does weird things. I don’t trust it.
Really, I don’t care how tender your liver is. I don’t care if everyone that you feed it to likes it. It still tastes like liver. The bodies filter. Freakin’ nasty. You can not make it taste good.
I’ve never been able to develop a taste for beer or wine. I need a bad habit dammit!
I cannot stand tinned herring or sardines, whether they’re pickled or whatever. The smell just turns my stomach. I find them truly revolting. Truth to tell, I don’t really care for pickled anything. Well, I’ll eat sweet pickles and bread butter pickles, but that’s as pickly as a I get.
I also cannot stand brussel sprouts. I intensely dislike milk. It’s fine to cook with, or even to eat a bowl of cereal; but to drink a glass…ugh, even now I’m getting a gag reflex.
I also do not like:
Lima beans
Miracle Whip (ugh, just gross)
Liver (I grew up eating it, but don’t like it)
Oysters
What ruined Miracle Whip for me was the fact that my mother would put that on white bread, with bologna, and American cheese and pack this in my school lunch when I was in first and second grade. American cheese is just an abomination. It’s only recently that I can start to eat a bit of American cheese and I’ll be 43 tomorrow.
Also disgusting is that Snak-Pak vanilla pudding. Bleh! Gross! Also ruined because my mother always packed them in my lunches.
I’ve noticed that my tastes do change. I loathed mushrooms as a kid, but love them now. I did not like avocado as a kid, but like it now. There are many other foods or beverages that I liked initially, but do not like now. I’ll eat or drink them, but I don’t like them.
it is refreshing to know that so many people currently alive have never actually been hungry.
I went with out food for “just” 8 days once…
The entire list of “icky” foods would have been a welcome repast after that short little trip into what all too many people on this planet face as a daily regimen.
be thankful that you have the opportunity to choose what you like to eat…
Regards
FML