I suppose actual ears are out of the question? 
I’m like that now. I threw away sandwich bones not 20 minutes ago.
I have a friend who, while lovely, is a pain in the ass to eat with. No sugar, no bread, no sauces, no nothing. Wait staff must hate her. Sadly, after my last doctor’s visit, I may have to copy her diet.
I’m the same way, but for me it’s just the raw tomato taste that I don’t like. And I’ve tried dozens varieties of raw tomato to see if I can overcome it.
Dry them or cook them up or process them and I’m fine with them. Even just marinate them in some vinegar or citrus juice for a bit and I’m cool with the raw tomato. I love freshly made tomato salsa. But fresh and untreated, I just don’t care for.
I love tomatoes in every form except stewed chunks. Chunks are fine - as long as they’re not stewed.
Interesting. Along with pierogi, Polish cuisine has stuffed pasta called uszka, meaning “little ears.” They look a good bit like Italian tortellini. I never saw the connection between the name and the shape–neither they, nor tortellini, really reminded me of ears. But I guess the name is apt.
I find yogurt to be the most noxious and revolting concoction ever devised by mankind. Even the putrid, fetid, rancid odor can make me heave from across the room.
Oddly, I enjoy the ice-cream like frozen stuff just fine.
I had a roommate in college who literally would not eat anything green. This not only included vegetables (but only green ones - he’d eat red and yellow bell peppers, but not green ones) but also things like green Jell-o. It was very odd.
I would be interested to see how many of these food aversions would go out the window if any of you were starving and had no other options. I will eat just about anything, at least once. Seriously, I have tried Balut, raw sea urchin, and just about anything else that I have had a chance to try. I haven’t liked it all, but I don’t have aversions to them.
My husband will not eat mushrooms, olives, or most seafood. It’s a pain trying to cook for him sometimes LOL
I love nuts. Any kind of nut. Peanut, walnut, almond, cashew, you name it. I also love fudge brownies.
But if you put any kind of a nut on fudge brownies I won’t touch it. Not even to pick the nuts off and eat each separately.
Food aversions seem like an extreme form of first world problems. In other countries, or even in certain socio-economic strata you eat whatever is available and you love it.
Untrue. Watch Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and you’ll see lots of 3rd world locals avoiding the noted dishes our adventurous foodie is sampling. Lots of local folks won’t eat durian or balut or stir-fried bat.
“Third world” does not equal “starving”.
That’s interesting…because to me those two foods have vastly different textures.
Well, aren’t you special?
I hate to pile on but. . . people who are starving have been known to eat shoes and other people. Good thing is, we aren’t starving.
Although I do find that people who won’t eat something because of its color are, well, we’ll just say “high maintenance.”
Its actually a funny observation. Avoiding bad, unhealthy, unnatural food is a legitimate 1st world problem. Sure those who avoid fruits and vegetables are more what you speak of…
Way back, when I was a teen I think, I read a story in the news about a woman who subsisted for decades on nothing other than than white wine and egg whites. In the process, she managed to contract a vitamin deficiency disease that was apparently unique to her; the vitamin in question is so common and needed in so small an amount that only someone who had such a restricted diet for so long would run out of it. Even the occasional glass of red wine or egg yolk would have been enough.
I generally don’t like chunks of fruits, such as in yogurt or in fruit salad, and I don’t like canned fruit. Mainly because I perceive it to be less than fresh. Also, I’m vegetarian because I don’t like to eat meat. Another thing I avoid is any food that has been landed on by flies. When I’m at an outdoor picnic, I seem to be the only one with this restriction.
Wow. I can’t believe there is another. I know a guy who does this (he tears the ends off first and discards them). He claims the ends are too sharp. I woulda bet $500 I would never hear of this food quirk from anyone else on the planet. Guess I was wrong.
Zach Galifianakis: Guess what I had for breakfast.
Ben Stiller; Umm, egg yellows? No?
Galifianakis: Two waffles and a pancake.
Stiller: Two waffles and a pancake.
Galifianakis: Do you wish you had ever followed your parents into comedy?
I hate drinking anything out of a can. All I can taste is the metallic taste. It’s like putting your tongue on the ends of a 9-volt battery to me.
Coconut makes me ill.