Canned veggies/meats/soups of any kind except whole corn.
Guacamole.
Any kind of squash except Publix punkie pie.
Any form of hamburger/tuna/whatever helper.
Ice cream. Doesn’t really make me retch but I simply cannot understand the fascination some people have with this stuff.
Any candy other than chocolate.
Any soft drink other than Coke [sub]tm[/sub].
Any alcoholic drink other than select imported beers such as Guinness or Bass.
Cottage cheese absolutely grosses me out.
Organ meats except beef heart.
Fish unless it’s breaded and fried.
Spaghetti. I love Ziti and Rigatoni but absolutely detest spaghetti.
Honey.
Molasses.
I think I could go on for quite a while so I’ll just quit here unless y’all really like reading this stuff.
Meat. The smell of it makes me feel really ill.
Butter. No way to describe it other than Eww.
Beer & Wine. I can’t understand why anyone would want to drink this stuff.
Eggs. When cooked in other things they’re fine, but when they make up the bulk of something (e.g. Omelettes) it kind of puts me off.
I like okra, and tomatoes, etc. In fact, there are only two things I WON’T eat:
Sweet potatoes
Any seafood. If’ you’ve ever had food poisoning from seafood eaten at an all you can eat buffet you know exactly what I’m talking about. I puked for 3 days and the inside of my nose smelled like rotten fish for a week.
Oh, my. I’ve been known to make a sandwich out of almost anything, as long as there’s mayonnaise. For me, a sandwich is just a way to get more mayo into me, short of eating it out of the jar with a spoon, which might even gross ME out.
On the other hand, I absolutely will not eat:
lamb (the smell! Horrors!)
liver (ditto, and that lovely paste texture… urk!)
eggplant (sliced slime)
peanut butter OR jelly (except about once a year when I put PB
on sliced raw apples)
milk
popcorn
Oh, and cooked green peppers - I’ll eat 'em raw, but if there’s been a cooked green pepper NEAR my pizza, I won’t eat it. Pollutes the whole pizza.
Miracle Whip is similar to mayo, but quite different and the taste is something that a lot of people hate (like my husband). I personally think it’s yummy.
Btw, I didn’t include meat on my list because I’m a vegetarian for ethical reasons so it isn’t really an issue, but the very concept of meat is completely vile to me… so I guess it should be on the list.
Also add Beer… not a food really but man … why would anyone want to aquire a taste for something so awful?? If you want to get drunk there are plenty of other choices that aren’t so nasty.
I once had sea cucumber in Viet Nam - the texture was like rubbery celery. Crunchy but a never ending chew. Mind you, I finished the dish. Then there was the steak tartare in Peru, too slimy. I didn’t finish that, although I managed the guinea pig.
Apart from that, I’ll pretty much eat anything. Life’s too short and my tapeworm’s too long.
Is there anything everybody likes or at least will eat without protesting?
How about the basics - white wheat bread and water.
Another vote for coconut in all its disgusting forms. Both the taste AND texture are enough to make me talk on the big bathroom phone.
I’m not too picky of an eater and will stomach the following if the situation requires it:
[ul]most American beer
green fried tomatoes (the food AND the movie)
eggplant (just GFT with a different name ASAICT)
pumpernickel (sp?) bread
any diet soda with Nutrasweet, sacchrin, etc.
Mr. Pibb/Dr. Pepper (just try and convince me these aren’t the same product developed by the same evil sodameister)
mineral water
water chestnuts (not much taste but rivals coconut for texture)[/ul]
Stuff I used to hate as a kid but like now:
[ul]cottage cheese
strawberries[/ul]
Stuff I used to like as a kid but inexplicably don’t like now:
[ul]rhubarb[/ul]
Things I eat/drink that seem to gross people out:
[ul]French fries and Miracle Whip
Salt & pepper on watermelon and cantaloupe
Uncooked sourdough rolls
dark beer and Coke (This one was popular with soldiers in Germany who couldn’t quite get used to some of the bitter local beers)[/ul]
BTW, Broken Doll, Miracle Whip is a salad dressing (tho I’ve never used it as such), I think it says so right on the label. My wife did not know this and I trashed several jars of Helmann’s mayo before I learned that I needed to go with her to the grocery store.
No one mentioned olives. Salty fruit? DIS-gusting!
And as my wife as fond of saying as far as beer goes, it’s not that you don’t like beer, (everybody likes beer) it’s just that you haven’t found a beer that you like yet.
There aren’t that many specific foods I don’t like, but I can’t stand bland, ultra-processed versions of anything:
– Supermarket bread. Bread should have a crust, and I’m suspicious of it if it lasts for weeks without going stale.
– American cheese, particularly the kind that comes pre-sliced (how on earth do you tell the cheese from the plastic?)
– Hot dogs (most real sausages are fine).
– Processed ham.
– Any kind of beer regularly consumed by college students.
Olives
Raw onions (sauteed onions are heavenly though)
Horseradish
Pork rinds
Cottage cheese (it looks exactly like really spoiled milk! How can anyone eat that?)
I’ve never had a melon I liked. Not honeydew, watermelon, cantaloupe. They all suck.
Most Mediterranean food, with the exception of shish kebab
Bleu cheese (blllllech!)
White bread (as in from a sliced loaf. White bread rolls and buns are OK. It’s a texture issue.)
How anyone cannot like peanut butter is simply beyond my comprehension.
Uni (sea-urchin roe sushi). And I’m damn glad that the time I tried this, I got it as take-out - 'cause I spewed the first (and only) bite all over my plate.
I’ve had liver once as an adult, and I managed to choke down two bites. My wife swears that’s simply due to her mother’s cooking, and that I should try a better example.
I can handle lamb, but I avoid it when possible. It’s not bad when combined with beef and seasoned up real well.
Not a whole lot else I don’t like at all. I bet I get a whole lot of “oh yeah! sushi! Yuck!” out of this, though
BTW, I think Miracle Whip is labeled as a “salad dressing” in the sense of tuna salad or egg salad, as opposed to something to pour over a green salad. Mayonnaise is just eggs and oil blended really well. “Salad dressings”, like Miracle Whip, also have vinegar, sugar, salt, stuff like that.
