Severe taste aversions?

How could I have forgotten raw tomatoes??? Ick. I’ve tried to like 'em. I can’t. Gag.

That’s kind of funny. I find that a lot of southern made beers taste soapy to me. But west coast, mountain and northern beers don’t. I wonder if there is something about the water treatment that varies, and has a different flavor or something. Maybe that’s why southerners screw up there iced-tea with so much sugar, to cover up the soapy stuff.

Rye bread. I find even the smell of it nauseating.

Also black licorice, black jellybeans, and other candies of that type.

Purple flavored things. I would say grape flavored, as that is what they try to pass themselves off as, but I think purple flavored is more precise since it tastes nothing like grapes.

Also, raspberries.

All the licorice haters can send their excess to me. I love the stuff. Olives too.

I can tolerate liver, as long as there’s onions. No other organ meat. The only meat I can eat (in small quanities) is beef, chicken, pork, and turkey. Anything else is urp. I also cannot stand undercooked bacon, ie fatty bacon. My dad loves it that way. Double urp. No go on the fat in roast beef, steak, pork chops.

I’m learning to tolerate raw 'matos. I can have a sliver on a burger, but that’s about it. Weirdly enough, I love tomato soup and pretty much everything else tomato.

Raw strawberries/raspberries/any fruit with teeny tiny seeds. I love the taste, just cannot tolerate the seeds. They bug me.

Coffee. Never could tolerate the stuff. It tastes like dirty water.

1000 Island Dressing. There’s just something foul about it. Ditto Blue Cheese Dressing.

Coriander. We don’t have any herbs called cilantro here, so I sort of wonder if it’s the same stuff…coriander has a pervasive icky-ness that ruins food, so they’ve got that much in common at least.

Calamari, all shellfish, oysters and… you know, pretty much anything sea-related other than fish, I guess! (I’m very partial to deep-sea fish.) I’m allergic to shellfish anyway, as it happens - so it’s probably a good thing that I really, really don’t like it. :wink:

Caviar. What the heck do people see in that? It’s beyond vile.

Rockmelon. I think there’s a degree of food allergy involved in that one.

As a kid, I couldn’t eat raw tomato at all, but these days I’m okay with it provided it’s not huge chunks in a salad. I don’t mind it on sandwiches. I don’t like tomato soup either, but pretty much any other kind of cooked tomato I’m very fond of - for example, in homemade pasta sauces, or on pizza, or whatnot.

Cilantro is the leaves of the coriander plant.

“Coriander” is another name for “cilantro”. I agree, it makes food taste like melted vinyl.

raw/fresh tomato = instant barf

I’ve always attributed it to the time my mother beat my 8 year old rear end because I would not eat them. My cousin saved me by walking past my plate and sneak finishing them for me. The smell and texture of a raw tomato is enough to send me to the restroom.

Oddly, I love tomato based italian sauces if the tomatoes are not in recognizable form.

The big one for me is canteloupe. (We’ve had three different vowels in the middle of that so far. I suppose I should look it up.) I’m not a fan of any melons, but that c-melon makes my stomach turn.

There are quite a few other things that I don’t much like but can eat if I must. I’d rather not eat avocados (including guacamole), shellfish (clams and oysters), eggplant(texture!) or most organ meats (except liver - Hungarian liver stew with onions and handfuls of paprika is great!).

On the other hand, if you have some leftover olives or caviar, feel free to pass them on!

I’m telling you, it’s the acids. I found that if I take a teensy weensy piece of diced tomato (raw) I can eat it if it’s accompanied by a tablespoon of sourcream.

Otherwise I instintively would spit it out.

I wish my vomit tasted like Heinz 57 Sauce. Instead it tastes like…well…vomit. And bile. And stuff I ate a couple hours ago. But never like Heinz 57 Sauce.

Another vote for melons and cucumbers. I do like pickles, however, they have to be of the highest quality. Low-class pickles taste nasty.

Ramen noodles or worse, Cup-O-Soup. Ew!! Someone was eating them for lunch today, and just the smell, yuck.

Cheeseburgers. I like cheese, and I like burgers, but not together.

Green beans. I don’t like the way they squeak between your teeth. Cottage cheese does that, too.

I’m not a big fan of bread, although seems like everyone else in the world loves it.

Obviously, you’re not eating enough Heinz 57 sauce.

Try drinking it straight from the bottle. Then chase it with some pickle juice, and some cat hair. Done and done.

My aversion would be to Anchovies. The mere thought of them sends me into a fit of shaking, face making and gagging all of which was not helpful when I worked for a local pizza place years ago.

One night a customer ordered them, and when I went to get them out of the walk-in, I dropped the container they were kept in. Ugghh…the smell was so fierce, and they were so gross to even look at, but I knew I had to pick them up. Even with gloves on and using papertowels, I was unable to touch those nasty hairy lil’ fish.
Being the assistant manager, I delegated the task to the next driver that came in. :smiley:

Oh mercy. I went on a camping trip with a gal who ate Cup-O-Soup dry RIGHT OUT OF THE PACKET, like it was a snack or something. BRRRRR.

Something else that also makes me wretch to smell: CORNUTS. I hesitate to classify them as a “food” though. Almost as obnoxious as the smell is the sound of someone eating them. I once threatened to fire someone for eating CorNuts w/in the same room as me.

I don’t mind anchovies by themselves, but with whipped cream they are gross.

You should try avocados the way they eat them in Brazil. With sugar!! :eek: That’s right, you take the avocado “meat” and squish it into a paste and add sugar. Then if you’re really felling “native” you add some “farinha de tapioca”, which is roughly ground dried mandioc. It’s actually delicious, and the sugar tends to kill the “avocado taste”.

Peppers… red, green, yellow, whatever. I can’t even smell the stuff without feeling ill. Unfortunately, my mom likes slicing them and eating them raw with dip. I always leave the room when she does.

I will add to the pile of the tomato-haters. I can eat salsa if it has been somewhat cooked; but even the slimy residue of removed tomatoes on a salad ruins it for me. Yuck yuck yuck.
I’m surprised more people have not expressed their hatred of WALNUTS. God, I really, really, hate walnuts. Why would anyone want to corrupt a perfectly innocent brownie, cookie or (God knows why) salad with this abomination is beyond me. I dislike all nuts, but I am not allergic. But the sight or smell of walnuts is enough to make me gag. I loathed them even before I was forced to eat them by a well-meaning counselor at a “no-waste-meal” in fifth grade and promptly spent the night vomiting and had to be taken home by my parents. Oy.
I also cannot stand swiss cheese. This could be a result of a bad experience in nursery school involved melted swiss and a jungle gym.

Liver, onions, avocados, calamari, bananas, cucumbers, I like all these. But hell would be a tomato and swiss cheese sandwich on walnut bread. I shudder even as I type these words.