Me too. I think the scent of coffee is false advertising. It smells so wonderful. It tastes so terrible. My life might be easier if I liked it though because it is always on offer, even when water isn’t available.
Bananas. I know, I know. They’re good for me. The best convenience food in the world. But yuuck.
Peanut butter. I was kept away from this treat as a kid because I was allergic to practically everything. Peanut butter cookies? Blech. PBJ? What’s the attraction? I do like satay sauce and peanuts themselves however.
I don’t mind not liking these foods, but I get weird looks from folks for some of them:
Cola Drinks, any brand. No Coke, Pepsi, RC, any of those guys.
Cake in general (except Cheesecake, which is more like custard!) I’d rather have warm Pie.
Candied Yams/Sweet Potatos in the inevitable holiday presentation… why not just make Pie?
Turnips. Does anyone eat them? Really? How?
Artificially-Flavoured Berry anything.
perhaps it would be nice to like beets, because borscht sounds good… but how do they make it not taste of mud?
That’s actually what I call shrimp–the little water cockroaches.
HOWEVER! I have been working on it, and I’ve learned that’s it’s mostly the texture (I have that odd mouth feel thing going on that I get with raw tomatoes). So, I’ll try very small pieces of it and it’s good.
There have been a lot of things on this thread that were things I used to hate and never eat–mushrooms, onions, peppers. Now I have realized that I need them chopped small. Then I can enjoy a mix of the flavors and have learned to enjoy the flavor. (This is over decades.)
Seafood. It’s just awful. My husband loves seafood, and I make a point of trying some new kind of seafood off his plate at least once a year, just to make sure I haven’t grown out of it yet. Alas, it all tastes just awful, except that one tuna steak in New Smyrna Beach, FL. I’d never order it again, but it wasn’t terrible. I can imagine someone else enjoying it.
Mango. I think it sounds great, but it just tastes kind of funny to me, except in a mango lassi, but I’m pretty sure that’s cheating.
I also don’t care for eggplant or cilantro (soapy taste here), but I have no regrets about either of those.
With the exception of lobster and (fried) oysters (never had Rockerfeller or raw), stereotypical “rich people food” (foie gras, caviar, etc.) doesn’t appeal to me.
You’re not supposed to try to take on the whole thing at once.
On the cilantro thing, the first time I ever tried a dish that had cilantro in it, I actually sent it back to have it remade because I thought there was dish soap inadvertently added to it. Strangely enough, Palmolive green is actually even the brand I use for comparison as well.
In stew, which is the only way we eat them. Otherwise, nu uh.
Here’s the funny thing. In our family… We love beets. We go through a jar of pickled ones like nothing else, when I planted a garden the first things that went in and the first things eaten were beets. Sweet and earthy and oh so delicious. Next year I want to get some golden beet seeds and plant twice as many rows.
I tried borscht. Once. Nastiest stuff on earth. Could NOT eat even a whole bowl. So I think I need to attempt to make it myself, maybe it was the batch I got? (From the farmer’s market no less.) Even funnier? My Great Grandparents are German, Grandma apparently makes borscht but I have never had a bowl of hers.
Another nasty thing is beet juice. At the farmers market one day and decided to get lunch. Velociraptor chose the juice, I didn’t think to question. Really, the fruit juice there is quite good and it was mixed with the other cups of fruit juices and not labeled. No one warned us what it was. Velociraptor took one sip and refused to drink any more. I drank maybe a quarter of it. IMO it tasted like really earthy red wine without the alcohol (and I enjoy red wine).
I wish I could eat eggs. It’s a food intolerance, not a dislike, but still I wish I could eat eggs.
I don’t like seafood in general and I wish I did. In theory it all sounds good, but it just tastes awful to me, except for some fried fish and the only thing I like there is the breading.
Periodically, I will try food I don’t like just to see if things have changed. As a result, I now like cooked cabbage, brussels sprouts, portabella mushrooms, bleu cheese, and braunschweiger liver sausage.
I hate beer, but yesterday, I discovered hard cider (Woodchuck.) I think this will be great to drink when everyone else is drinking beer. (Thanks, Brynda)
I think I must be a super-taster. I match the majority of the symptoms. Disliking bitter things like alcohol and vegetables, and not a fan of over-sweet things like creme eggs, generally not a fan of eating. I wish I could take a proper test to see for sure.
Bacon. Actually I don’t care that I don’t like it, except it seems to be everywhere lately. So I just want that fad to die so I can go back to avoiding bacon.
Alcohol and coffee. I dislike some foods but it really only comes up when my SO gets all snobby about me disliking moldy cheese or olives. Alcohol and coffee, however, are apparently what you drink when you’re an adult; alcohol especially when you’re in your 20s like me. I don’t like the taste, okay? I’m tired of hearing that “that’s not the point” of drinking alcohol and sometimes wish I enjoyed it so I wouldn’t have to have those conversations. People are generally more accepting of coffee hatred, but it’s everywhere.
