Sweet and sour sauce. It kills the flavor of everything it touches. I have no idea why people want to eat normal food covered in thick Kool-Aid.
I’ll join the list of those who said coffee. And anything licorice/anise flavored.
Cilantro - tastes like soap and ruins every dish it’s in.
Any type of seafood.
Mushrooms.
Anise flavored stuff.
For me it’s mushrooms. They’re fungus, for god’s sake! Disgusting.
Yes, I’ve tried “good” fresh 'shrooms, morels, portabellos… At best, they tate like dirt. At worst, slimy rotten dirt.
I think it’s funny how, over the whole course human history, it’s so very recently that we’ve been able to be picky about what we eat. How, for much of our history, you ate whatever edibles you could find because otherwise you might not be able to find anything else before you starved to death. I hope we are able to sustain our present situation a little longer before we, as a species, are forced to return to a hand-to-mouth existence on this planet.
For me it’s coffee (although I love the smell), beer and wine. I used to think that I hated a lot of foods but after I left home and my mother wasn’t cooking them I discovered that I actually like vegetables.
I’m another who can’t stand cilantro as well.
I love the way coffee looks, paricularly with cream added. I love the way it smells. I love the way it feels, all nice and arm in my hands. I love the way it makes me feel, all warm and invigorated.
However, coffee tastes like shit.
I do not understand people who eat shellfish. To me, it tastes like something gone very, very rotten. I can’t even eat it in other things. I once spit out a mouthful of a co-worker’s salad, only to be told "Oh, you can’t taste the little bit of crabmeat in there.
This is easy for me, because I hate LOTS of foods that are popular.
The big one is BACON. It smells like the fire and brimstone of hell. The taste is no better.
Number two, appropriately enough, is black pepper. Why people adulterate otherwise good food with this crap is beyond me.
I luv sweet potato fries.
I’m fine with cilantro but that Vietnamese basil(?) stuff in pho noodle soup I can’t do. I tried pickled herring once - never, ever again, and canned sardines… too.
What, this far into the thread and no mention of okra, the Vegetable That Swallows Itself?
Onions. Finely chopped, I agree they make a fine seasoning. Larger than 1/8-inch square, everything about them revolts me. It’s like biting into some implement the chef left in by mistake.
And beer. I cannot understand why it’s such a popular thing for people who want to achieve an impaired state of consciousness. Vodka is much more efficient, and LSD is much more effective.
ETA: Cilantro is pretty mystifying, too. I guess I just don’t get along with herbs.
another hate vote for cilantro. blech. the stuff is just nasty.
other major hates: anchovies, cocoanut, cooked carrots, succotash.
i’ll eat fresh carrots all day but DO NOT offer me cooked. the gag factor is off the charts. i’m not even going there about succotash. :eek:
ultimate hate: lima beans. the species should be ripped from the ground wherever it grows in the world and the ground sown with salt.
Cabbage Rolls. Cooked cabbage in any form, but cabbage rolls especially. My grandmother was Ukranian and made supposedly fabulous cabbage rolls, but I could never eat them. Total gag reflex.
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Really? I love lapsang souchong - it’s like someone took a great peaty scotch and said, “You know, this is really good, but I dislike the stigma associated with drinking scotch first thing in the morning. Maybe I can make a tea that tastes like it can from a Scottish bog!”
Now that’s just wrong.
Liver is the only food mentioned so far that I’ll pass on. Otherwise, load up my plate!
Mushrooms, it’s the texture. Slightly firm, slightly rubbery, something about it just turns me off. If mushrooms are buried in a dish I’ll choke them down rather than ruin my meal picking them out, but I hate them.
Of course, the wife believes I will somehow “come around” even though I’ve eaten mushrooms dozens of times in dozens of different ways and always hate them.
I can’t stand bananas. I hate the texture and the taste, but the smell is the worst.
I love all three. Girl Wonder can’t stand coconut, though. At least you have an ally there.
I agree, though not quite to your extent about butter. Something about butter sickens me. A little goes a LONG way. I’m okay with a little bit on toast (how else would the cinnamon/sugar mix stay on?) and pancakes, But that’s about it.
You and I agree on mayo, too. I try not to eat anything that looks like a big jar of cum. And I’ll add mustard, also. If I get a burger at a fast food joint (which I try to avoid, as I’m a picky eater), it’s ketchup and pickles only. No onions (unless they’re on White Castle burgers. No lettuce. Certainly no tomatoes.
No mayo. No tuna. No potato salad.