What food item literally makes you ill? Outside of allergies of course.
I’ve always had an aversion to green onions. I like any other variety of onion just fine, but I find green onions simply nauseating. The merest whiff of one makes me gag.
Another food I despise is cucumbers. Everyone I mention this to thinks I’m crazy. I’ve never met anyone else who hates them like I do. I just think the flavor of cucumbers is completely bizarre. People are always urging me to try them but everytime I eat one I need to spit it out. What’s worse is that even if I only have one in my mouth for a moment the damages is already done. The metallic tang from the cuke pollutes my mouth for entire day .
I have not had chicken since I was 12 years old. The stuff tastes like concentrated fear and terror, locked into one rubbery piece of meat that just won’t go down.
Wow, bummer of an aversion. Since, you know everything tastes like it
This reminds me of another aversion I have: chicken fat. This is possibly the most disgusting of them all. Now I love chicken, but when I encounter a fetid, globular hunk of fat in a piece I just feel betrayed.
Living in the SF bay area is made difficult if you hate avocado and calimari. Which I do.
Calimari is a texture + knowing-what-it-really-is aversion. I can eat it if I really need to, in the form of fried calimari rings. But if I can see what it is, I can’t eat it. When I go to a Japanese restaurant, if they sit me at the sushi bar where I can see the octopus or squid, I ask to be moved.
Avocadoes are just plain nasty. The waxy texture, that odd can’t-quite-place-it could-be-a-vegetable-or-could-be-just-green-earwax taste. I’ve tried to get over it several times, and I just get nauseated every time I’ve eaten it. I can’t even look at guacamole.
I agree about calimari (though I’m a vegetarian now) and avocado. I had avocado once as a kid and just hated it. Maybe the teacher was trying to make us puke that day, but we tried something else I found totally disgusting - buttermilk. I like butter, I like milk, but buttermilk is poison.
Licorice. Not Twizzlers, but real, old-fashioned black licorice.
Ick. It’s repulsive. Just the thought makes me gag.
And popcorn. I hate the smell, the taste and the texture. It’s disgusting. When my kids make microwave popcorn, I have to open the kitchen window and turn on the fan. The smell makes me sick.
Anything bitter. I think I’m a bitter super-taster. I’ve had half a cup of coffee in my life, and that’s more than enough. I can’t do anything that is bitter.
Bananas (make me want to barf, especially if I smell the peel from a peeled banana)
Coffee (like Mr Fantsy Pants, I’m probably a bitter supertaster). Brussels sprouts; they taste and smell like my dad’s old dirty sweaty socks. Beer tastes like soap to me, so I just don’t even bother trying to drink it, though I don’t mind the way it smells.
Kalamata and green olives - something about the oiliness with the brine. Ugh. The black ones are OK though.
I’m feeling a kinship for mlerose and the Lady here…bananas are vile, and Og forbid someone eats one in the office and then tries to throw the peel in the trash at their desk. That’s grounds for an insurrection. My co-workers think it’s funny to torment me by eating a banana in their cube and seeing how long it’ll take me to go “::sniffsniff:: OMG, WHO’S EATING A BANANA???” Where’s the barf smiley when you need it?
I also can’t stand to eat cooked apples in any way/shape/form. This is a direct result of having eaten a piece of my Mom’s apple cake immediately prior to getting the only vomiting illness I’ve ever had when I was about 10 or so. Since that’s the last thing I remember eating, I have a survival instinct aversion to them now. Raw apples are fine, but the texture/taste of a cooked apple makes me gag.
Horseradish. How did this stuff get to be considered food? Eccccccccchhh.
I like fish, but I don’t eat any other seafood. The ick factor is just too much for me. I have no desire to find out what lobster tastes like, nor oysters, nor caviar, forget it. If it grew up in the ocean, I don’t want it, you can have it, it’s too ick for me.
I second cantaloupe! How can you put something that smells like that in your mouth?!
So am I! I’m gradually training myself, for health reasons, to tolerate some bitter foods (especially certain veggies). It’s a loooong, uphill battle, though.
Pastrami has always been a turn-off for me. I had a bad experience with it several years ago. Now, the smell alone can make me ill.
I can’t do rootbeer, either. Again, another bad experience, this one in pre-school.
And alcohol. I was never a big drinker – maybe a drink or two per month – but at my bachelor party I drank a lot. Now, despite drinking shot after shot, I remember the entire evening, what I drank, and even who bought me each drink. (An impressive feat, considering I can hardly remember that much stuff when I’m totally sober.) The next morning I puked a bit, but overall my body was a real trooper. Apparently in return my body will never again let me consume alcohol. It has been over a year now and even sipping alcohol ties my stomach in knots. I’m not complaining – alcohol is expensive, and I don’t really “get” the culture of drinking in the U.S. – but it would be nice to be able to tolerate a drink or two every now and then.
Chews_Pencils and I were talking about that one just yesterday. Black licorice - urk! She likes it though.
But my one big, huuuuuge aversion is… raw tomatoes! Ack! Ptooie! If I even get a raw tomato seed in my salad by accident I’ll spit out the mouthful.
Cook the sh-t out of a tomato and it’s okay. Stewed tomatoes are a little iffy, although tomato soup is out of the question.
I’ve always hated tomatoes. About 8 years ago, we figured out that it has something to do with the acids. I make a vegetarian Sloppy Joe recipe in which I use two cups of tomatoes (and cook the sh-t outta them). Dicing the raw tomatoes really bugs my hands – not quite an allergic reaction, but definitely irritating.
Not sure why those acids seem to bug me so much, yet pineapple and citrus fruits don’t seem to.
My former housemate hated raw tomatoes as much as I do. In our house they were declared “Poison!”
Wow, bummer of an aversion. Since, you know everything tastes like it