Mayonnaise for me - yeah, I don’t like a lot of dressings and sauces.
w/r/t mushrooms, I won’t eat pizza with shrooms because they’re too hard to pick off concreted to the cheese and/or hidden, but I can pick them off if I accidentally a salad that has them in it. And sometimes actually order Chicken Marsala, because I actually like the flavor that the mushrooms add to it, I just pick them out because I don’t like their texture.
Organ meat
Squid, octopus, and all low-tide stuff
You know you can come to Europe (well… I dunno how keen most of Europe is on following European laws, but you can certainly come to the UK) and eat veal with a clear conscience. We don’t use crates any more. They’re illegal. My favourite butcher only sells free range organic veal, raised with its mother until I think around 20 weeks. It’s heavenly.
Coffee
Fennel
Duck
Sweet potatoes
Avocado
Green olives
All this is just stuff I won’t eat; there are things I can’t eat because of allergies/sensitivities.
I have a long list: Mayo, onions, coffee, mushrooms, green peppers, coconut, organ meats, hamburger, seafood (love freshwater fish, though)
Ditto on the pencil erasers.
I also avoid coconut and massive amounts of bell peppers. To me, they are a garnish or flavoring, not a vegetable.
There are probably other things, but those are my biggies.
Liver **IS NOT **food
Fennel, that’s about it. I love every other herb, but fennel just tastes weird to me.
I can’t think of a single deal-breaker food. There are things I probably won’t order because I like other stuff better, but nothing that keeps me from ordering any dish that contains it.
I’ll second these things, although I’m a little unclear on what “low-tide stuff” means. I’m not going to order organs or cephalopods, but I’m wouldn’t reject them if they were on a tasting menu.
I don’t really like nuts on my desserts, I hate raisins, and I don’t want faces on my meat.
Yep. That’s me.
ETA: It’s nice to think that I can sit down anywhere at any time and eat whatever is placed in front of me.
Ooh, I though of another one - fruit on a savory dish. Duck a l’orange, lemon chicken, apple sauce with pork - yeach. I like fruit, I like meat, but not together please. And anyone sneaking sultanas into a curry should be shot on sight.
Onions.
And the annoying thing is that people keep trying to talk me into liking them. “Oh, you can barely taste them in this!” or “The way they are cooked in this, they’re sweet!”
Bleck. No. I can taste them and they are foul.
Low tide stuff - sea anemones, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sea anything else, kelp, and all other things fit for an otter but not for humans.
Coffee- blegh!
There’s nothing I won’t eat, but if I suspect it might have Liquid Smoke in it, I tend to avoid it (though not completely as a rule.) It just tastes chemically-sooty to me. Also, along the same lines, I tend to avoid any type of crockpot or baked “barbecue.” It’s usually cooked to such a soft texture you could suck it through a straw. That ain’t meat.
But, yeah, if you put it in front of me, I’ll eat it. Like I said, I’ll eat anything. I just won’t necessarily order it.
Turnips
Stuffing (I know, I know - I’ll never get U.S. citizenship…)
What’s up with Chilean sea bass?
Yams, but they usually aren’t components of stuff.
More likely - raspberries, blueberries, other sweet stuff some restaurants use in salsas. Yech. (Strawberries are fine, though.)
Eggplant or anything squash-related. You might as well serve me Cream of Vomit, because that’s what will happen the moment I try to eat it. Which, of course, is why I never try to eat it.