I love peanuts. Can’t stand peanut butter. Can’t explain it, either.
Cooked Peas. I remember doing the “Exorcist Hurl” the very first time I tasted pea soup. (And that was back in the 1950’s.) I still can’t twirl my head but I’ll bet I could put Linda Blair (? It was Linda Blair, wasn’t it? I never made it past that scene …) to shame! Still can’t look a cooked pea in the eye.
I couldn’t stand anything but ketchup and onions on hamburgers for many years. Then I discovered that I actually liked mustard. And all the other stuff that goes on a burger with the works. What I actually couldn’t stand was those little green things that McDonald’s tries to pass off as ‘pickles’. Hey, I’ve eaten pickles. It could even be said that I love pickles. But those green things on McDonald’s burgers are not now, nor have they ever been, even closely related to recycled retread tires, let alone a part of the pickle family. To this day, every time I go to that place and order a “burger, hold the pickles” they always screw it up and put the little green things on anyway (my pet theory: they know they aren’t ‘pickles’ so it’s okay to put them on - I have been observed to peel them off and take them to the manager and put them in his/her shirt pocket …)
I’m lactose intollerant. I was raised on goat milk. Any thing containing cow’s milk is a real good start on puke and runs. Shame. I really like Ice Cream, but it really hates me. (Don’t even suggest frozen yogurt. ::shudders violently:
That reminds me: Anything that has been allowed to spoil at any point prior to serving (Bleu Cheese, sour cream, et. al.).
Tuna is fine. Tuna prepared in many ways is fine. However, tunafish (as prepared by far too many people: drenched in mayo or miracle dip) was invented by a sadist.
With the (possible?) exception of steamed califlower and/or corn on the cob lightly roasted over an open fire covered with aluminum foil & drenched in butter, All cooked veggies. With (as noted above) cooked peas and cooked carrots on the “Permanently To Be Avoided At All Cost” list.
Another milk-hater here. May I join?
Other things I can’t stand:
Cilantro
Kalamata olives
Feta (Or fetid, as I say) cheese
Beer of any kind
Brussels sprouts (This might change if I tried one raw. I prefer most veggies raw over cooked.)
Hummus
Coffee (Love the smell, hate the taste.)
Sure! And it looks like maybe we should also have a special “beer haters’ patch” that we can sew onto our jacket sleeves or something. I’ll get right on that.
I have always hated fruit. Most of it, anyway. There are certain kinds that I can tolerate more than others, but I don’t think I could ever eat the “five a day” or whatever it is you’re supposed to get. I can barely manage ONE a day. I do like some modified forms of fruit, like juice, or pie, or breakfast bars or whatever, but others are VILE (smoothies–BLEAH).
I like tomatoes, though, if you consider those fruit. Except for the small ones you’re supposed to eat whole so they explode in your mouth. Yuck.
Thank you for the sermon. Now back to our scheduled thread…
Miracle Whip is not food. I’m not sure what it is, but it is not food and it does not enter my house.
It’s funny how people are so different - I love raw tomatoes, and tomato sauce or paste for cooking, and catsup on hamburgers, but I hate the texture of cooked tomatoes.
Once again, I have to make sure I am around Dopers when the Collapse happens. I’ll eat quite well, while all you food-haters starve. I love, eat, or will at the very least tolerate just about everything people have been listing as “hated foods.”
And to foreclose a comment by FML - yes, lots of people starving. Sucks to be them. I’d see a doctor about that bleeding heart.
Actually I am rather “meh” about durian. It tastes like a funny, sweet, slightly rotten onion to me. While I wasn’t in love with it, I did finish up quite a bit of what was offered to me.
For all of you who love broccolli and hate beer, that subtle nectar of the gods themselves; for shame I say, for shame!
My aplogies everyone (for the previous post, regarding starvation).
As it is, however, I am pretty open to most foods. I like the “icky ones” like liver, runny eggs, and even okra.
I eat almost everything set in front of me…
I like veal, but don’t eat it, same with lamb… not really into eating “Babies”.
One combination of foods that will literally get me gagging is runny egg yolks with ketchup (Catsup). I actually like the taste, but for some reason the visual aspect of this dish leaves me retching.
Once again, I apologize for my accidental thread shitting, and hope you guys don’t hold it against me…
Promise to be more thoughtful next time…
Regards
FML
Chicken. It doesn’t matter how it’s prepared, what it’s served with, or how “good” people claim it to be. I simply cannot abide chicken.
If I had to trace it back to anything, it’d be what my elementary school served one day back when I was in first grade.
I got my preprepared tray and sat down at my assigned seat at the table. I had been chatting with friends, and not paying much attention to my food. I picked up the chicken leg on my plate, and took a bite.
To my dismay, it had been coated in peanut butter and peanuts. Now, I’m not allergic to peanuts, so that isn’t what bothered me. It was the combination of the taste of chicken and peanut butter that got me heaving.
To this day I cannot eat chicken without suffering from food poisoning like symptoms.
The only vegetable that I will knowingly eat is potato.
I am adverse to anything else.
It’s a texture thing.
Meat, pastry, bread and potato I’m happy with.
Everything else seems odd.
I haven’t knowingly eaten a classic vegetable in 18 years
Wow! Another chicken hater! We are a rare club indeed. I loathe the stuff, always have, always will.
When you tell people that you hate chicken, do they respond with, “You have to try my x!” (where x = some variety of chicken)? Because you can’t actually hate the beloved chicken, you’ve just never had the good kind. :dubious:
ETA: Forgot to mention my other dislikes. I’m pretty picky, so I won’t bother listing all of them, just the big hitters.
Dislike most of the time - rice, honey, asparagus, water without any flavoring in it.
Always hate: squash, coconut, Indian food spicing (literally makes me sick - I threw up in the parking lot last time)
I never mess with what people like to eat. I may suggest something is good, but thats all. My wife refuses to look at a steak that isn’t cooked brown. I like my steak medium rare. I will never ask her to try my steak. (Can you tell I’m preparing to live in Missourah?)
Believe it or not I went partial vegitarian for over a year. My sister is a complete veggie. I find it very insulting when people try to feed dedicated veggies something that is not. People get to choose what they eat in my world.
For those wishing to try durian for the first time (or to give it a second chance), I’d recommend staying away from durian flavoured things like cake and wafers. Go for the jugular and have some fresh durian. If you like, you can chill it in the freezer awhile first (this kills the smell a bit and it’s quite nice chilled anyway).
The durian flavoured things don’t have the smell, but they also don’t have the right taste. They just don’t seem to work for me. A durian cake makes no more sense to me than a watermelon cake or a tomato one.
That’s right. Even though I can’t stomach durian, processing it into something else seems totally to destroy the ickiness of it. No bad flavor or taste. So eating durian chips, cookies, etc, will NOT give you an idea of whether you’re a fan like the misguided Loaded Dog or a critic like sensible me.
I’ve seen durian in a market in Honolulu’s China Town; except for that, I’ve not seen it in the US. Not that I go looking for it. Haven’t smelled it anywhere else there, I should say.
