Ok, well then yes. Only take the switch challenge if you drink too much sugar soda.
Mint. The smell and taste of it makes me gag. I have to buy orange-flavored toothpaste because everything else is mint. And mint ice-cream or desserts? Why would you want to eat something that tastes like toothpaste? (I guess it doesn’t help that I’m allergic to mint and mint-related plants. I had a horrible reaction to mint growing in my yard one year.)
Love the smell of coffee and beer (not together though), but can’t stand the taste of either.
Cannot enjoy the chemical taste of diet anything (like in soda). Artificial sweetner–even one sip–gives me horrible stomach cramps, diarrhea, and body sweats.
The taste of black licorice–does anyone actually eat that anymore? And if so, HOW? Ugh.
Reportedly, the unique Play-Doh aroma is the result of some secret fragrance that the manufacturer has added. I don’t mind the smell, and a lot of people like it (probably because it reminds them of happy moments from childhood). The consensus around the internet is that it’s a heliotrope scent.
It’s possible to make Play-Doh at home using commonplace ingredients, and it’s almost identical to the commercial product—except for the smell. Homemade Play-Doh smells like a pile of wet flour.
Those cinnamon apple scented candles and pinecones. The scents are just a chemical, and one that tends to give me a massive headache when I’m around them too much. Other people must love it because it’s everywhere in November and December.
I am the only one I know that not only doesn’t like olives but avoids them at all costs.
This is what I cam here to say! I despise olives. They taste sourly rotten like the way I imagine the juice at the bottom of the garbage can to be. Bleck!
I am alright with olive oil, though.
I also can’t stand licorice. I blame my mother. She used to give me this nasty black cough syrup called Creomulsion that had actual creosote in it, and it was licorice flavored. Any smell of licorice gives me flashbacks to having my nose pinched while she poured that stuff they use to cure railroad ties down my throat. ::shudders::
I do not enjoy the scent of freshly cut grass and peanuts.
Any type of fatty pork. Frying bacon to me is a combination of two odors, one the cooking meat, which I like, and two the underlying lard-ish smell of the sizzling fat, which is disgusting but only lightly noticeable. Because of overwhelming disparity, I can eat bacon and enjoy it.
My wife, though, cooked something called goettaone weekend morning while I was sleeping. I awoke to a near-vomit-inducing odor of pork fat and had to leave the house for the day and go to the office because of it. When I returned that evening, the odor lingered, as if the walls had been glazed by the stuff. It was disgusting.
Any type of cooked fatty pork, whether ham, pork roast, whatever, other than the aforementioned bacon, I can’t handle.
Stay away from chorizo then. Fortunately for you, bacon is getting leaner.
Green tea seems immensely popular these days, but I can’t stand it. It smells and tastes like it was brewed from not-so-fresh grass clippings and/or shredded rubber with more than a hint of aged fish.
Top of my “will not eat list.”
I prefer black tea myself.
I use olive oil but don’t like it if it becomes a predominant taste, like on salads. But to me olives taste like an industrial chemical, not even like food at all. Not rotten or nasty, just not food.
Ketchup. The taste I can tolerate, but I hate the smell.
It’s the last of a list of condiments that I used to dislike, but have gradually acquired a taste for: vinegar, pickle relish, mayo, mustard.
Eucalyptus and lavender are both major migraine triggers for me.
You are dead to me.
Coffee: I don’t like the taste but the smell doesn’t bother me.
Microwave popcorn: If it’s not “butter” flavored, it smells good. If it’s “butter” flavored, it’s nauseating. I once bought some by mistake, removed the overwrap from the first packet, couldn’t even stand the smell enough to actually cook it. I threw that package and the rest of the box away.
Mushooms: I’ve tried them many, many times. They are vile. My husband once asked me what it was I disliked. I said “The taste. The texture. The CONCEPT!!”. Very rarely, I’ll order us pizza and get them to put mushrooms just on half. Inevitably I’ll wind up with a slice that had mushrooms on at least part of it. I can pick them off but they have already left their nasty funk to ruin the pizza. Mushrooms are rotting vegetation and if you like them you are wrong.
Almost all yogurt. For many years it would literally make me gag. I finally found I could eat the custard-style Yoplait. Then just a couple years ago I found I could eat regular Yoplait. I’ve managed to down some Greek yogurt but find the texture is somehow too grainy or something. But other brands… I have not dared to try them. They just look disgusting.
I agree in 99% of the cases, but once in a while the planets align and a woman wears a scent that somehow is the right one for her and you’d divorce your wife, sell your kids, or do whatever she wanted you to do, if you could only smell her one more time.
Coffee. I’ve never understood why people are drinking filtered burnt poo water.
Any alcohol product. Smells awful, tastes worse.
Caraway - can’t stand any breads/rolls with it. Rye is fine without it.
Black licorice odor is pukey, esp on someone’s breath who’s been eating it. :eek:
And beets. Vile in both taste and smell.
Does anybody really enjoy the flavor of beets? I know people who tolerate them because of their recent “Super Food” status, but they choke them down in various liquid and powder forms. I bought one of those Bolthouse beet drinks and couldn’t finish it for the case of gags it gave me.
I love beets. This time of year I like to peel and coarsely chop beets, turnips, parsnips, potatoes, carrots, onions, etc. I sprinkle some balsamic vinegar on them as they roast in a hot oven until tender.