“Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” I have tried 4 times over several decades and can’t get past the second chapter. LotR and Dune also. I just can’t get an interest. Caviar?
Avocado, guacamole - I mean, they’re not bad, but to my palate they just don’t have any flavor at all.
This coming from a Southern Californian.
Seeing your favorite bands live.
If you have a favorite band it’s considered the ultimate to see them perform “live”. It never sounds as good as a studio perfected recording and the setting of standing packed in with a bunch of people who are all singing along does nothing for me. I rather take a drive out in the country with their music blasting on the radio.
I read some article not that many years ago about a poll of favorite meal in the US from the late 1940’s or something where there was an overwhelming consensus in favor of steak and some particular sides and apple pie. It was a more homogeneous culture and moreover people who were not in that homogeneous mainstream wanted to be, generally.
That started changing now a long time ago with the rise of the counterculture, also new rise of immigration and % of foreign born residents going back up (after dropping from 1920’s-60’s). Now there are a few old mainstream culture things ‘everybody is supposed to like’. Like perhaps major pro sports, except not really, nobody with any awareness nowadays is really shocked if someone doesn’t follow major sports AFAIK. An American now who doesn’t follow baseball at all isn’t anywhere near the oddball a guy who didn’t follow baseball would have been ca. 1950. And a lot of other traditional stuff people were at one time ‘supposed to like’ are not necessarily even acceptable to like in anti-traditional circles.
There might also be a few counterculturish things ‘everybody is supposed to like’ though not as strong a presumption because the counterculture never ruled alone like the old mainstream culture did. But maybe actually liking ‘veggies’? (I tolerate vegetables for health reasons to some degree…but not if you call them ‘veggies’ 
). Certain art or literature like Dylan, ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ etc maybe also. But again nobody who gets out enough is really surprised that some people don’t like any ‘modern’ type interests associated with the counterculture.
By and large there’s no longer really much ‘you’re suppose to like’ in general across all the elements of the now fractured US culture. There’s just lots of various things many people don’t like, and the thread is mainly just a list which could run almost without limit. The ‘supposed to love’ part is pretty weak for most of them.
I’m a classical musician who just tolerates classical music.
Using two senses of the word “classical” - I play the large category that normal people call classical, and I like a lot of it except for Mozart and Beethoven. Mozart to me is mostly the same few facile tricks done over and over, and Beethoven tries so damn hard that it’s tiring to even look at the score.
Fargo the movie.
Seriously, the movie just sucks IMHO.
I even really like everyone in it … in other movies.
Adding myself to the sports haters. Specifically fan(atics) of teams who have no geographic or affiliate connection with the teams. This is especially true for Hawaii where we have no major league teams at all.
Craft beers How can people taste different “notes”, when beer is inedible dried flowers, grains and yeast that are allowed to spoil in water. Yum!
Tattoos.
I swear I get funny looks for not having any. It’s like I’m not part of The Club.
I’m in a funny place with respect to wine. I can tell the difference between Three-Buck Chuck and that good wine that costs maybe $12/bottle that my more knowledgeable friends or relatives poured me a glass of. (Though I’m with you on the genuinely expensive wines - they’d be wasted on me.)
But I don’t drink enough wine at home to go through a bottle before it becomes undrinkable, so I pretty much don’t buy wine. And on account of that, I don’t know jack shit about wine, which means that conversations about wine are one of those things I can only bring myself to tolerate. And some relatives of mine can go on for quite a while on the topic. I smile and nod, and let my mind wander.
But he makes it look so easy! 
The present moment.
To hear family members and friends go on about meditation and mindfulness you would think that every time I slowed down to truly pay attention to what is happening Right Now that I would suddenly be struck with the ineffable beauty of everything. Sometimes this actually happens. Other times I’m struck by how much this present moment is boring or really sucking and am grateful to escape it with phone/book/podcasts/music.
Also, festivals of any description.
oh and Christmas
Two activities I haven’t seen mentioned:
-Ice skating. It took me a long time to realise that traveling in a small circle in the cold in a manner that puts strain on my ankles is less fun than it sounds.
-Wienie roasts. That really is an inefficent way of cooking a hot dog. Sitting around a fire can be nice, but I’d be happier eating beforehand.
Same here. But I think the problem is that I always catch it somewhere in the middle and try to watch it. I was the same about the Big Lebowski. But once I actually sat down and watched it from the beginning and paid attention, BL became one of my all time favorites. I need to do the same with Fargo.
Seafood, of any type is one thing I just can’t stand. I’ve tried it in many places (fresh right off the boat). Just. Can’t. Stand. It.
This does limit my menu, and bums me out. But living in Colorado, it isn’t too big of a deal.
I’m not going to be the first one to post the obvious answer…
A big AMEN to “mindfulness!” Often, when I share I’m I’m anxious about something, my girls (group of middle-aged chicks) shriek YOGA! MEDITATION!
Nope and nope. Tried 'em, hate 'em, they’re useless to me. In fact, meditation makes me anxious. My best anxiety killer is a long drive and really loud music.
Ironically, two of these friends are 24/7 intense little balls of anxiety despite doing heavy-duty meditation and yoga.
Absolutely agree with this, we might be twins!
Shopping for clothes, especially shoes.
New female friends always seem to suggest it as some kind of fun bonding experience. I just don’t get it, no part of it is fun, and I want to get in and out the shops having spent as little time and money as possible.
Sushi. I can tolerate some of the more mainstream rolls but only to be polite and only by choking it down with a mouthful of water.
(Actually this extends to almost all seafood but sushi specifically comes up most frequently in SoCal)
I love sports, but as a Canadian, I must say that I can only tolerate hockey.
Why? Between various tournaments (World Juniors, IIHF championships, Olympics every four years, and what the hell was that fiasco called “the World Cup of Hockey”?), and preseason games, at least two games of hockey are on TV in Canada every night for ten months of the year, from September to June. For ten months! And we Canadians are supposed to go apeshit over it, because it’s hockey, and it’s our game, and yada, yada, yada.
I’ll watch hockey if it’s the only thing on at the bar, but given my druthers, I’d rather watch baseball or football.
It takes a special kind of gall to go for meditation and spend all your time there anxiously thinking about how to win at it (or to not lose, whatever) - but sounds like that’s what they do.
You yourself probably just don’t meditate the “approved” way. But having one approved method is BS anyway. If you look for meditation qualities in the things that already work for you, that might be useful. Or not.