You might have a twin. I’m pretty sure I just found mine
They are really much better (not to mention easier) to eat when they’ve been cooked enough so they stop clicking and moving and being any sort of alive
You might have a twin. I’m pretty sure I just found mine
They are really much better (not to mention easier) to eat when they’ve been cooked enough so they stop clicking and moving and being any sort of alive
There’s also texture. Okra? Too slimy! Asparagus? Too…something, not sure what.
My mom loved both of them and I would leave the house when she was cooking or eating them. That cheese stunk up the whole house. Blech. Anything made of any other kind of liver is gross to me too.
Escargo. Snails are things I take out of my garden, not things I eat.
The stuff that comes inside a turkey. I can’t even look at it without getting queasy.
Any kind of sausage. I don’t know what’s in there but it doesn’t look good.
Okra. I only had it once and it was slimy but it might not have been cooked right.
Raw Oysters. That slurping thing looks disgusting to me.
Any product dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day. It looks moldy to me.
A lot of what I don’t want to eat has more to do with how it looks than how it smells or tastes. I know that it’s unreasonable but there are lots of other things to eat.
The smell is awful, but that’s because the cooking is driving the yuckiness out. I find thoroughly cooked cabbage tasty. Take it from someone who did NOT come to eating vegetables early or easily.
Even green beer? :eek:
See, I thought he was being polite by not coming right out and saying “shit.”
Anyhoo, I’ve gotten used to diet Coke, and kinda like it. But, the SO brought home a case of Diet Coke with Lime.
Oh, gah! I don’t know how that stuff made it past the taste-testers at Coca-cola. Hm, coke with a hint of lime. It doesn’t taste like that! It tastes like Windex smells! It’s horrible!
Eggs. Even the smell makes me ugg a little. Also tomatoes (though I’m cool with catsup). It’s just the way a cut tomato looks, I guess.
I think maybe the question could have been phrased better…pretty much everything I won’t eat is because it tastes bad.
On smell and general principal alone I won’t eat beets. I’ve never tried one, and I never intend to try one. The smell is enough to cause me distress.
I don’t like beer very much but that wouldn’t gross me out. It’s things like bread and cookies that remind me of mold.
I also left out any kind of sushi that has those little eggs or rubbery tentacles.
Guacamole is another for me. Mind you, I love guacamole. I do! But I pretty much have to make it myself. It must be super fresh. Most of the time when I get it at restaurants, it tastes spoiled. Even the tiniest hint of spoilage in guac makes me want to barf. You just can’t let that stuff sit out for more than a few minutes.
Chipotle is about the only restaurant I go to where I trust the guac is super fresh.
I lived with my family in the Philippines (Clark Air Force Base) for two years, (1967-1969), and the only milk they had available was called “reconstituted milk”. I think that it was mass-produced from powdered milk and then put into regular milk cartons.
Anyhoo, there are four things I remember about that vile concoction:
(1) It smelled bad.
(2) It tasted bad.
(3) It smelled worse than it tasted.
(4) It tasted worse than it smelled.
Mushrooms.
The texture is no treat, but they just have a nasty fungus-y “off” taste. When I have pizza that had mushrooms on it, I can’t even just pick off the 'shrooms - they make everything they touched taste nasty.
Olives are horribly bitter and disgusting balls of salt and I have no idea how anyone eats them. Red onion tastes horrid to me as well. I don’t mess with cheeses that have mold in them or have a dry texture, funny smell or odd texture, those are disgusting. I also cannot stand the idea of even trying to eat salmon unless it’s been smoked to the point that it tastes like firewood.
I second the pickled eggs answer. Why ruin a perfectly good hard-boiled egg?!
Baked macaroni and cheese is nasty; boiled macaroni and cheese (especially when my sister makes the cheese sauce) is awesome.
I tried steamed spring rolls at the Thai restaurant awhile back and absolutely hated them; they generously subbed out some fried steam rolls instead (which I love).
I’ve hated peas and carrots since I was old enough to eat solid foods. Fortunately, though my sister loves peas, we rarely buy them anymore.
Rice and cheese used to be my favorite food, but one day when I was a kid I was feeling very sick, and threw up my dinner (which included rice and cheese); I’ve barely been able to stomach the stuff ever since.
Ugh, this. Tastes just like puke to me. shudder
Olives. Which is absurd, since I live in the Mediterranean Basin, and olives are served with everything - most restaurants pun a plate of olives on the table before you even get to order. I eat more olives inadvertently than I do many things I like on purpose. But I just can’t stand their smell or their taste.
Love olive oil, though.
I think this might be like the cilantro tastes like soap thing. To me, durian tastes like bananas soaked in gasoline. My wife thinks it tastes sweet, almost too sweet for her. To me, it has no sweetness at all and we were eating the same durian. Every couple of years I give it another try and it always tastes like ass.
I don’t think there is anything I won’t eat because of the smell.
There are a few because of the taste
Dried Kiwifruit - even though I love fresh.
Hokey Pokey. You have to be born in Australasia to like it.
Marmite/vegemite see above
Lamb. I wouldn’t eat it anyway because I don’t like the idea of eating babies, but the smell of lamb cooking really disgusts me for some reason.
And here’s another vote for capers. My feeling is why are they even food?
And maraschino cherries. And licorice.
Asparagus. It tastes the way the urine of a male dog with advanced liver failure smells, which is several miles past “ick.” If you smother it with some sort of heavily flavored sauce, I’ll eat enough to be polite, but that’s as far as we’re getting.
Cilantro. For years I thought I hated all foods even remotely Mexican, until I finally figured out I just hated cilantro. It tastes like a mixture of dish detergent and garbage.
Licorice or anything else anise-flavored. I think we all understand how foul this stuff is.
There are other things I’m not particularly fond of, like celery, that are okay in very small amounts mixed with other stuff. I guess olives fall into this category, sort of, although I like olive tapenade and muffalettas and such. I just don’t care much for eating olives straight by themselves.