# Meals of death **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139 "2004-05-14T17:19:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/1 "2004-05-14T17:19:45Z")
Sure, you’re supposed to outgrow food aversions as you get older and you lose taste buds. But surely there are some things that still taste so horrible to you that, if it tasted that way to everyone, it would surely be considered poisonous. Here are mine. A meal composed entirely of things that make me grateful to be an adult, because I’ll **almost** never have to eat these things again. Beet salad - Beets are the only thing I can’t possibly swallow. If my mouth is full of something soft, bitter, and tangy, there’s only one thing I can do with it: spit it out. Baked potato - I didn’t like baked potatos when I was a kid, and I never did grow out of it. Yeah, I know - they’re next to flavorless. They’re a blank slate for yummy stuff like butter, bacon, and cheddar cheese. But no matter how much of this stuff is loaded onto the potato, that texture is like a finger tickling the back of my throat. I think the last time I was in a situation where I had to make at least a token effort at a baked potato had to be back in 1992. And I’m hoping to keep it that way. Strangely, though, I like french fries, potato chips, and mashed potatos - just so long as the spud is so thouroughly tortured that it’s unrecognizable as a spud, I’ll eat it. Stuffed peppers - consists of half a green pepper (bad enough when cooked), filled with a meat ball. I’m not talking about a plain ball of meat. I could possibly deal with that. This is a spherical lump of some fecal-textured horror, composed of white rice pellets and pre-chewed ground beef, with a lot of ketchup to ensure the vileness of the thing. In short - round meat loaf. I know that I will eventually be served this dish by potential in-laws, and I dread this day almost as much as I fear the eventual diagnosis of something terrible. Milk - What can I say, it tastes funny to me. There’s a nasty under-smell to it… almost a whiff of milk’s future rancidness. So what are yours? Please feel encouraged to describe in graphic detail why you think a food is so nauseating it might really kill you to choke it down. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/2 "2004-05-14T17:39:13Z")
Wow…your meal actually sounds pretty good! 😃 I’ll swap you, because my meal-of-death would include: 3 Bean salad - The Devil’s salad. Wax beans are **not** meant for human consumption! Waxy, bitter, yucky. Liver and onions - I don’t eat organ meat, especially if the organ was tasked with removing toxins from the animal in question. I don’t care if you call it rumaki, pate, or whatever. Liver is evil, and it smells even worse when it is being cooked. Lima beans - Another bean not meant for humans. I gag just thinking about them. Brussel sprouts - Need I say more? Clamato juice - What mutant came up with this one? Vegetable/animal juice? :eek: OK…that killed my appetitie for a few hours… ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/3 "2004-05-14T17:57:22Z")
Mine would be a salad composed of gelatinous tomatoes, bell peppers, and eggplant. It would be topped with raw oysters and salmon and washed down with buttermilk. People find my food aversions trange, since I will happily chow down on all the liver, brussel sprouts, spinach, and beets you put before me. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/4 "2004-05-14T18:16:40Z")
Anything in the world that some sick person contaminated with the rancid spice of filth know as mustard. No sir, I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/5 "2004-05-14T18:23:35Z")
My meal of death would start with soup. Yes, that’s right, I said soup. I Hate it. Notice that is Hate with a capital H. Why would you take all sorts of yummy things that taste so good by them selves and mush them all together and then pour liquid on it? You are killing the ingredients people. For God’s sake…think of the poor ingredients. Them them have their own flavors, darn it And then liver and onions. It’s just a dish that people should be summarily killed for bringing into being. And for dessert, anything made with cooked cherries. Why take something that tastes so , so good fresh and cook until it is the texture of ABC gum and tastes about the same as the forementioned gum? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/6 "2004-05-14T18:30:20Z")
Fish - Unless it’s shellfish, I won’t touch it. Chicken - All those little bones, yuck!. Milk - I have always hated it. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/7 "2004-05-14T18:31:30Z")
Hmmm, a thread about foods I hate? It’s almost easier for me to list foods that I like rather than those I hate. Lets see… those foods I hate that really turn my stomach and make me want to puke with the force of 1000 atom bombs: **Mayonase** - Put this on anything and I will automatically hate it. Mayonase (and it’s dirivatives) really get my gag reflex going. If it has mayonase on it, I WILL puke. Guaranteed. **Asparagus** - Pretty much gets the same puking response as mayonase for me. **Nuts** - Any sort of raw nut is out of the picture for me. Not because of taste though. It’s because of texture. It just really wigs me out. **Celantro (sp)** - This herb does something to my mouth that, for lack of any better way of describing it, is just plain icky! And the aftertaste of it lasts all day too. Just plain awful. There are plenty more I just don’t like, but these ones top the list! ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/8 "2004-05-14T18:36:15Z")
Oh, yeah. I hate milk as well. I used to like it but then my family lived in Bahrain for a little while and the milk there tasted like what I imagine a goat’s butt to taste like. I couldn’t shake the association when I got back to the states. So, now I hate milk. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/9 "2004-05-14T18:45:30Z")
Mine would start with anything that grew up in the ocean, followed by anything that had horseradish in or on it, then liver and onions, with yams, lima beans and chick peas, washed down with clamato juice - and tapioca pudding for dessert. Oh man, anybody got a barf bag handy? ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/10 "2004-05-14T18:52:07Z")
Okay, maybe I haven’t lived long enough to “outgrow” food aversions, but there are many things I’ve hated throughout my eighteen years: **Seafood** - any kind. Gag (and yes, I’ve lived on the Gulf coast nearly my entire life…and what’s more, my father is a fisheries biologist. :dubious: ). **Onions, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms** - rather inconvenient to dislike these things since they’re in EVERYTHING. **Pecans, walnuts, just nuts in general** - I can stand peanuts and almonds, and that’s about it. **Bananas** - I can hardly even stand to watch someone eat one. One of my friends figured this out and stuffed a couple of banana peels into my school locker handle. Vomit. **Many other fruits and vegetables** - asparagus, turnips, lima beans, peas, sweet potatoes… I’m a big fan of milk, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/11 "2004-05-14T19:03:37Z")
> [@Engywook](#): > > Beet salad - Beets are the only thing I can’t possibly swallow. If my mouth is full of something soft, bitter, and tangy, there’s only one thing I can do with it: spit it out. Sing it, Brutha! I am reduced to near-tears at the thought of ingesting one of these little fuckers. > [@](#): > > Baked potato - I didn’t like baked potatos when I was a kid, and I never did grow out of it. Yeah, I know - they’re next to flavorless. They’re a blank slate for yummy stuff like butter, bacon, and cheddar cheese. But no matter how much of this stuff is loaded onto the potato, that texture is like a finger tickling the back of my throat. I think the last time I was in a situation where I had to make at least a token effort at a baked potato had to be back in 1992. And I’m hoping to keep it that way. Strangely, though, I like french fries, potato chips, and mashed potatos - just so long as the spud is so thouroughly tortured that it’s unrecognizable as a spud, I’ll eat it. Sorry, pal. You’re the Lone Ranger on this one. I covet the baked potato (as my less than svelte belly will attest to). It’s only been in the last year or so that they have made me fat. I’ll miss them! > [@](#): > > stuffed peppers - consists of half a green pepper (bad enough when cooked), filled with a meat ball. I’m not talking about a plain ball of meat. I could possibly deal with that. This is a spherical lump of some fecal-textured horror, composed of white rice pellets and pre-chewed ground beef, with a lot of ketchup to ensure the vileness of the thing. In short - round meat loaf. I know that I will eventually be served this dish by potential in-laws, and I dread this day almost as much as I fear the eventual diagnosis of something terrible. Yeah, these pretty much suck. > [@](#): > > Milk - What can I say, it tastes funny to me. There’s a nasty under-smell to it… almost a whiff of milk’s future rancidness. Tisk-tisk, Ricket Boy! As I told my little niece-in-law: If you don’t drink your milk, you’ll get rickets, you won’t be able to wear faaaabulous shoes, and then no one will ask you to the prom! > [@](#): > > So what are yours? Please feel encouraged to describe in graphic detail why you think a food is so nauseating it might really kill you to choke it down. Asparagus is simply vile. I’m no fan of the bean sprout. Any of the “odd” meats, i.e., tongue, tripe, rocky mountain oysters, etc. are strictly off-limits. ---
**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/12 "2004-05-14T19:04:50Z")
**Baked Beans.** Actually, most any cooked bean will do it, but I loathe baked beans. My father used to eat them cold right out of the can. Blech. **Lobster.** No sir, no way, no how am I cracking this overgrown crawdaddy’s exoskeleton to feast upon the sweet sweet flesh within. Same goes for crab, although I adore fake crab meat (really fish). **Sushi.** I tried it once to appease a friend. I ran to the bathroom, spit it out, rinsed out my mouth with water, and went back to the table and ate his egg drop soup. Foulest of the foul. **The usual…** Liver, artichokes (smell like farts, how appetizing), etc. Prehaps predictibly, I quickly outgrew most of my childhood food phobias when I started smoking a particular weed for recreational purposes. Good thing, too, because my list of what I _used_ to hate was a lot longer: sour cream, any mexican food, alfredo sauce, onions, peppers, most cheeses, and a host of other now-beloved dietary staples. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/13 "2004-05-14T19:04:57Z")
Tomato juice–I’ve tried to like it, but it’s just too horrible and gives me heartburn, besides. The worst thing is teeny little strongly-flavored fish with the bones, like anchovies or fresh sardines (although I have no problem with the canned ones.) My husband used to convince me to get anchovies on half our pizza and I hated finding one that had wandered to the wrong side. Lying there, stinking, with its little hairy bones sticking up. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/14 "2004-05-14T19:05:56Z")
[ul][li]My mother’s tuna-fish casserole. Yes, it had crushed potato chips on top. We had it **far** too often for me to tolerate being in the same state with it. Forty years too late, my mother has developed into a rather good cook.[/li][li]Mandarin oranges. Sickly sweet and medicinal at the same time. Ick. [/li][li]Pringle’s new Ketchup Blast[sup]TM[/sup] chips. I had my first (and hopefully last) one yesterday. Absolutely ghastly. Who puts ketchup on potato chips? [/li][li]Tomato aspic. Yes, tomatoes are technically a fruit. That is _not_ an excuse.[/li][li]My bologna has a first name, it’s V-O-M-I-T. My bologna has a second name, it’s N-A-S-T-Y. None for me, thanks - I’m on the new Atkins “Low Pig Rectums” diet.[/li][li]Lutefisk. Lye-soaked fish jelly - gee, Sven, does this really sound like a good idea to you? [/li][/ul]On the other hand, beets, asparagus, broccoli, liver with onions (yum!) - all fine. Go figure. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/15 "2004-05-14T19:19:00Z")
Appetizer: Olives. I don’t care what color they are. I don’t care what they may, or may not be stuffed with. I don’t care what they may have been soaked in. If it is an olive, I am not going to eat it. I have tried, several times (under that whole misguided notion of something being an “acquired taste”. Someone explain to me why I should go through the trouble of “acquiring” a taste? I think this is just slang for “so vile that if you eat it a few times, it will sear your taste buds, and next time you won’t care.” Salad: Gimme bleu or feta, I give you death. Horrible, rotten, despicable stuff, the likes of which are never to cross my lips again. My rule of thumb for eating has always been “If it’s growing hair, or anything green, leave it alone.” Meal: I’m not a very picky eater, so finding something that I wouldn’t eat at a meal is generally fairly difficult. My mother is Thai, and has many Thai friends, who still cook (and maintain their kitchens) in a Thai-village way. But it’s okay, because I know that my mother and her friends have eaten and prepared that way their entire lives, and I’ve never known my mother to get sick beyond a winter cold. So maybe I’ll squeeze baby corn and bamboo shoots in here. The taste of either is so hideous to me… I could not even fathom that baby corn actually WAS baby corn. Really, for the longest time, I thought it was some other vegetable that only resembled baby corn. I _love_ corn. But not baby corn. Oh and seafood salad. A seafood lover, I am, of just about every variety, but I can’t stomach seafood salad. I think it’s all the imitation crab meat/pollock - it just tastes so overwhelmingly sweet. Dessert: Key Lime Pie/Lemon Meringue Pie/Really, anything citrusy as a pie just doesn’t work for me. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/16 "2004-05-14T19:19:35Z")
The absolutely worst I can think of: Coconut flavored anything Only beverages available: coffee and beer. :eek: However, I would happily take everyone else’s portions of liver. My favorite – really. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/17 "2004-05-14T19:26:53Z")
The list of things I hated as a child has grown considerably shorter in the intervening years. The only thing that will likely remain on the list until I die (and I occasionally do give it one more chance, just in case) is… **TOMATOES**.Satan’s own vegetable, thrust up from the very bowels of Hell to plague mankind forevermore. I must note, however, that this only applies to raw tomatoes, like you find in salads and on your sandwich or burger. If it has been cooked, stewed, boiled, pickled, pureed, or otherwise pummeled into unrecognizability as an ingredient - happy man. I’ll even eat tomato soup. But keep them raw chunks of snot ‘n’ rubber offa my plate! Most of the stuff listed above, however, gets my mouth watering. Especially Key Lime pie. Oh God, that tart ‘n’ tangy slice! Heaven… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/18 "2004-05-14T19:30:24Z")
**Peas-** They’re mushy and they taste awful. My mother once tried to make me eat peas when I was three years old. Only once. She learned her lesson. So did the babysitter who ruined my macaroni and cheese by putting these little vile, inedible wrinkled green spheres of wretchedness into it. **Bananas-** My aversion to bananas comes more from the texture than the taste. Attempting to eat one triggers my gag reflex every time. **Olives-** I’d almost rather eat what the cats leave behind in the litter box than to eat olives. Blech! **Mayonnaise-** One of most disgusting substances known to man, which for some people passes as edible. **Guacamole-** Ranks right up there with mayonnaise on the fouleness scale. **Sauerkraut-** Foods like this make me glad I don’t live in Germany. My dad loves the stuff. I could barely stand to watch him ingest the stuff. **Kimchi-** I never even heard of this stuff until my friend and roommate recently bought some from an Asian market and brought it home. Every time he eats it it stinks up the whole downstairs. I’m glad he’s not the type to tell me, “don’t knock it 'till you try it.” There are some things you don’t have to try eating (fermented cabbage?!) to know they won’t taste good. **Coconut-** I’ll second **RealityChuck** on this one. Any candy containing coconut cannot be eaten. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/19 "2004-05-14T19:31:46Z")
Ugh, tomato soup. BLARGH! I like fresh tomatoes but tomato soup and V8 use that lovely fruit/vegetable for evil, I tell you, eviiilllll! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139/20 "2004-05-14T19:38:30Z")
Dammit, **RealityChuck** , I was going to ask for the liver! It’s one of the few things I miss after going vegetarian. Tell you what, you can keep all the liver as long as you take my ketchup, water chestnuts, and okra. (Okra: Tastes like nothing much, with snot sauce!) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meals-of-death/245139.md?page=2)