Per @solost suggestion in this thread , I’ve started this one so as not to continue the hijack in the other.
I’ll go first; cheese. With the exception of pizza - and it really needs to be mozzarella- I won’t touch anything made with it. Though I don’t know how “unassuming” it is. Maybe I should expand the parameter to include “the most common”.
As mentioned in that thread, lettuce or most any other greens. If the green is accompanied by other things like, say, a burger or a BLT, then okay. But otherwise, it upsets my stomach. Also, pieces of fat (other than something like bacon that has been fried). Some people just wolf it down, but it makes me gag. If I was sitting at dinner with British royalty, I’d still spit it out. It’s why I don’t order things like Chinese food that contains pork or beef, because I know it hasn’t been trimmed to my standards.
Pretty unassuming list for me
mayo
Ketchup
Mustard
Relish
Olives, green or black.
I won’t touch any thing containing those. (actually, I will eat things with mayo as an ingredient. But not as a condiment. Potato salad, for example)
Cheese is my ingredient. Of course I’m not a picky eater, and cheese is about the only thing that I’m funny about, to the point that I order pizza without cheese. For me it’s a texture thing. I’ll eat solid cheese. I’ll eat fully melted cheese like in cheese dip. But I can’t do half melted cheese. It feels like greasy snot. Nasty stuff. Other than that, I’ll eat just about anything that is typically considered food.
Bamboo shoots are a staple of Vietnamese cooking, but I really, really, really hate the smell. I have no problem with fish sauce or its stinkier cousin, mắm tôm (shrimp paste?), but bamboo shoots smell to me like putrefaction at work. What zombies in the kitchen again? Nope, just some simmering bamboo. Ugh, I’d have preferred the zombies.
My wife, like the OP, tolerates a small amount of cheese on pizza, but hates it anywhere else. So, you know, we each have our own tastes.
My wife hates raisins.
Raisins!
She will pick them out, if possible, or just not order any dish that has them.
Me - I love me some raisins!
I’ve read that Accent seasoning is basically umami flavored. I can’t stand the taste of it.
I can’t stand the taste of yoghurt or anything yoghurt based.
I won’t eat cake. Or pasta. Amongst a zillion other things.
My stomach, my rules.
My friend likes his burgers with nothing but meat and a bun. No cheese, no sauce, no pickles, no nothing.
I will pick out peas from a pot pie.
I usually go crazy with condiments on a burger, plus a fried egg or avocado, etc, but if trying a burger at a new place I’ll sometimes evaluate the meat by ordering a burger, rare as they’re comfortable making it, with just meat and bun.
Yeah, but I do want the cheese, and I will get 1000 island on the side, so I can use it if the meat isn’t great.
Celery. I have to chop it fine or my girlfriend will pick it out of her food.
Speaking for myself:
As a therapist working with people who have severe health issues and frequently have been prescribed a diet by their medical team, I am astonished by how many people “hate water.”
Well fish…you know!
I think this wins for mildest and most unassuming.
Accent is just plain MSG.
Raw apples. They give me indigestion. And they don’t taste all that good. I like cooked apples fine.
You must be dating the girl I used to date. I mentioned a celery incident in the thread linked in the OP, that inspired it.
Supposedly W.C. Fields hated water. Because, he said (answer NSFW):
“fish fuck in it.”